damn, that's one of my worst mistakes you pointed out so far <_< aaaand its gonna be a pain to edit, because it persists for ages. but i will, anyway. ty U_U
thank you for pointing this out. although, ah, i wish it was in a manner that made me less anxious
i have edited parts of the chapter to clarify the vision of Tristan's thoughts on the matter. which were, to put it briefly just for you, "yeah, i know that b*tch despised me and tried to turn her boyfriend of me with jealocy, but I didn't know she ALREADY succeded!"
[Ding!]
[Your pickpocketing skill increased by 5. Reward: your PP increased by 50.]
“System, use my Pop-star Points to increase my singing skill!”
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[Ding!]
[You had won 1st place in the Californian Young Star contest. Reward: your CP increased by 400!]
“System, put all these Criminal Points into my martial arts skill. Now I will crush anyone who stands in my way!”
Tristan was born with everything he needed to become a star: rich parents and musical talent. However, after a car crash destroyed his handsome face and voice, everybody turned away from him.
With his dreams burned, Tristan ran from home and became a small-time criminal to survive. Then, his own gang mates betrayed him, throwing him to the cops.
But Tristan is saved by a sudden stroke of luck.
[Congratulations, Tristan Hayes! You won the Heavenly Lottery. Your prise is ‘Second Identity System’.]
[Increase skills and status of one identity to obtain 10x rewards for the other one.]
Mafia and showbiz may appear far removed from each other, but both are united by money and ruthlessness within.
Now it’s Tristan’s time to navigate both realms to become the world’s first mafia superstar!
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No romance. All bitches want Tristan, but Tristan needs no bitches. #bros_before_hoes.
There will be mafia and showbiz related stuff in equal proportions.
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Unbeknown to all, in his past life, Ru Yujin was the most powerful cultivator of humankind.
But when he was reborn, he lost almost all memories of his past life. Now, although Ru Yujin still had his extreme talent, because he was from a poor peasant family, he could never hope to achieve high status in his cultivation sect. In this unfair world ruled only power and prejudice. While those helpless and wronged died, people above only laughed.
Ru Yujin wasn’t going to let this stop him. He was going to return his memories, his power, and his empire. No matter what trials and monsters waited for him in the vast galaxy and beyond it, for him, they were opportunities.
When you could create a technique to solve every problem, anything was possible!
“Huh? Learning techniques is supposed to be hard? Maybe this technique was just too easy. Teacher, can I have another one?”
Dimensions of Light and Dark had crashed upon Earth. Demons and natural disasters threatened to destroy humanity, but angels stood in their way. They united humanity under their wise guidance and taught them how to use a new power of Psionics that had awoken in their souls.
400 years later, there was a boy called Zemin, who thought that he would become a farmer after he grew up—until his parents were killed by a demon. He was saved by a divine miracle—a Void System that appeared in his soul.
It was a weapon that could consume anything, even the Earth itself—but it could also let Zemin use his own crippled talent.
To protect his sister and Holy Dominion, Zemin would wield the Void System and Psionics to destroy every single demon on Earth.
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No NTR, or incest. Yuri in FMF threesome.
Even people who love those novels don’t want to get transported into a world full of danger. But that’s exactly what happened with Shin.
Without warning, his soul was sucked into the world of his own horror short stories. There, monsters roam on every corner, and even main characters rarely have happy endings.
Shin, who was hunted by an evil god of his own creation, has even fewer chances.
Now he, together with other unfortunate transmigrated souls, has to play a terrible game of survival with demons and dark deities. He will have to lie, cheat, murder and bring forth the destruction of his own world in order to stop the ascension of the Fourth God and return home.
Meanwhile, all Shin has to help him is his knowledge and a Contract with one of the (formerly) most powerful demons in existence.
[She] adores you.
[She] will be beautiful for you.
[She] will kill for you.
[She] will be with you forever. No matter what.
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Warnings: gore, suffering, yandere.
No smut & no harem.
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(I'm using it without the author's permission, but if he sees it, I hope he will be forgiving)
In this world riddled with strife, where even kids know spells, and powerful mages are nobility, Cael was born with no mana at all. An heir to the family of mages, he was his father’s disappointment, and his city’s laughingstock. But who knew that he had a much different destiny? To prevent a looming catastrophe no one else knows about—to stop the Starspawn.
“Blood Mage System activated. Greetings, user. I am your Blood Mage System. Consume the blood of powerful creatures to purchase new abilities.”
With that power, Cael will become a hero able to stand against the fate that crushed countless others—even if the world will call him a demon instead.
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Although the novel has a harem and r18, neither are the focus of the story. Cael only has very few (2 right now and at the moment I don't plan on increasing this amount) girls, and there aren't that many r18 scenes. Take that as you may~
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He is a dark abyss—it should not be so tempting to fall in.
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To be a Lock is to be a conductor between ordinary and abnormal, between reason and insanity. It is to be a keyhole that lets one peek into the Great Beyond, and a part of the door that opens the world. It is to be sought, and hunted, and seduced by all who crave power.
The magic is unnatural to this world, yet humans still fly towards arcane knowledge like moths towards a flame. Creatures of nightmares prowl just beyond the veil that protects the fragile minds of mortals, taking their pick of helpless prey.
Maya Alvarez has no reasons to think she’s different from other people. No reasons, except for a single incident in her past. All she wants is to write her books and one day, maybe, become famous.
Until her best friend goes missing, and Maya has no choice but to admit—she’s not insane. The world is.
The pair of eyes darker than a starless night falls on Maya, and shadows surround her to never let go.
The most powerful demon of Hell reduced to a mere slug!
Thanks to his unique ability to absorb abilities of the creatures he ate, Voren became the strongest demon in Hell. But just when he was ready to relax and enjoy the luxuries he conquered, gods descended from Heaven to take him down.
One against many, Voren fought valiantly, but in the end, he was defeated. Still, the gods couldn’t break his spirit. He lost all his demonic powers, but even all of gods’ efforts couldn’t wipe out Voren’s memories—and his unique ability.
As a last attempt to destroy him, gods made Voren reincarnate as one of the lowest creatures there is—a slug. But even that won’t stop Voren from taking his immortality back and getting his revenge.
He will reach Heaven… through violence. And enjoy everything the mortal realm can offer on his way there.
Warning: contains bloody violence, crimes against animals, crimes against humans and what else you can expect from an evil protagonist.
(please, read the prologue)
“A boyfriend in a box. Do not keep under direct sunlight.”
After the death of her father the antiquarian, Diana Daraeva struggled with the debt he left her together with his antiquities shop. Her dream of becoming a famous antiquarian was ready to be shattered by reality.
Only a miracle could save it, but Diana didn’t believe in those. Not until she accidentally released a centuries old vampire from a sealed coffin in the store’s basement.
Jean-Jacques, an embodiment of dangerous allure and mysteries, all hiding behind his suave smile, was Diana’s miracle. In return to Diana’s help, he offered Diana to help fulfil her dream—and she agreed. A best helper there could be—someone who was alive (or undead) when the antiquities of today were made.
But when old and new enemies appear, crazy exes compete in the madness of their stunts, and hidden truths unveil, will Diana be able to grow into her heritage and find her place between the two worlds? And how long will she be able to escape Jean-Jacques’s temptations?
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I stared at him like he just grew another head. “So basically, you chose to pursue me of all people because I'm so impossible for you to seduce, is it? You do realise that you only make your task harder right now?”
“But that’s the whole point, ma chèrie! The longer the chase, the sweeter the prize.” Jean-Jacques’s smile turned positively sly, but damn if it didn’t make butterflies fly in my stomach.
“What I will keep refusing? Forever?”
“Well,” he clicked his tongue, “then this will be a first.”
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Eve Ziffer always believed that one day her nano-machines would save humanity. It needed to be saved—from pollution, from the climate change, from the wars. Yet in the end, her research instead turned out to be the thing that pushed it into the very abyss.
After surviving an attack and waking up from a six-years long coma that followed, Eve opens her eyes to see the world changed beyond recognition. Walking corpses roam the streets, and humans fight them with swords and superpowers.
Now Eve is the only person able to finish her own work and fix the nano-machines that brought this devastation. Whether the last vestiges of mankind would disappear, or would the human race rise like a phoenix from the ashes—all lies in hands of Eve and the people she will meet along the way.
They will fight and they will scheme and they will talk, because human vices are adversaries as bad as the zombies; and trials of friendship and love can be as perilous as any battle.
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Victor leaned towards her face, burning her with his glare. “No.”
“I’m doing this for myself, for you and for science. Any single one of these reasons is enough to keep disagreeing with you.”
Victor’s eyes dropped to her lips. ‘There is more than a single way to dominate a person…’
Before he could even try to stop himself, he dived in, pressing his lips on hers. His hand grabbed the back of Eve’s head, another fell on Eve’s thin waist and followed the alluring lines of her figure to her hip. His body was burning with inner fire.
Eve was too shocked to think. She never expected for this standoff to end like it did. Victor kissed her as if he wanted to eat her. His bites stung, but his lips soothed. The heat of his hand burned her skin even through clothes.
Then Eve finally regained her sanity. She drove her knee into Victor’s groin. He gasped and bended in pain, letting Eve go. Before he could resist, she continued the combo with a strike to the back of his head and a submission hold on his arm.
“What are you doing?! I should’ve listened to Xia better. Men really are worse than dogs! How did I miss the moment when your brain had turned into mush, Victor?”
“I didn’t think that I would need to spell it out, but there can be no romantic interactions in work time, and no romantic relations between researchers and test subjects. More than that, I’m not interested!”
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[Status: completed]
Warning! May contain darker themes, mentions of rape, descriptions of gore, etc etc etc.
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