One choice decides your friends.
One choice defines your beliefs.
One choice determine your loyalties - forever.

Scooping a food to his mouth, a child with slightly chubby-rosy cheeks start chewing food and exclaimed seconds later, "Your food is delicious as always, mom."
Wearing a small-sized cartoon printed shirt, the child had beautiful violet pupil and natural blondish hair. Without a doubt, in the future, the kid would turn into a handsome man.
"Is that so? I'm glad you like it, Kael." A woman with her blonde hair tied in a bun answered happily. Her face pretty much looks the same as Kael while still retaining her youthful appearance. The only different things were her eyes that blue-ocean color. Currently, she wears an apron to prevent her sleeve shirt from getting stained while cooking.
"By the way, where is dad, mom?" Little Kael inquired. He hasn't seen his dad since this morning. Hence, he was curious about his whereabouts.
Glancing at the clock, Kael's mother propped her face with both her hands and muttered while pouting in dissatisfaction, "He's been busy lately with his work as a new academy is about to establish."
"Academy?" Kael lifted his head in puzzlement.
"Oh? Haven't I told you about it?" Seeing Kael shakes his head, Kael's mother elaborated, "You do know the Meteorite Calamity that befalls on us dozen of years ago, right?"
Little Kael nodded in enthusiast and replied, "Yup, father often tells me the story related to it. He said many people were dying that day, including children like me."
Approaching her son, Sophia couldn't help but pinch his cheek lightly, "That's my boy. After that incident, animals such as ant, flies, even chicken begin to evolve."
Gulping down his food, Little Kael chuckles nervously, "Is mother referring to the chicken I just ate?"
Staring at her son's jittery expression, Sophia replied vaguely, "Guess?"
"Mom!" Little Kael bawled at his mother's teasing.
"Alright, alright," Sophia coaxed Little Kael before adding, "I'll tell you the answer, but first, rinse your hands and mouth."
Nodding his head obediently, Little Kael pushed his butt forward and landed on the floor with his little feet before walking toward the sink.
After executing all his mother's orders, Little Kael went to the sofa where her mother was already waiting for him.
"Okay, now, where should I start? Hmmm..." Sophia contemplated for a moment before continuing, "Let's begin with answering your question. The answer is yes, many animals, including chickens, are evolving into monsters."
With a horrified expression, Little Kael hesitantly asked, "Then why does the chicken I ate previously is looked normal and tasty? Shouldn't they taste awful if they were monsters?"
"That's because not all animals turned into monsters, dear. Same as Divergent,  just a few who are going to evolve. Did that answer satisfy your curiosity?"
"Yes, then, what about the Academy?" Little Kael asked another question.
Clearing her throat, Sophia explained, "Academy is the same as regular school, but with a different purpose. Instead of offering regular educational programs, they will teach you how to use your power properly."
"So, basically, it existed for nurturing Divergent?" Little Kael asked after fell into deep thought for a while.
"More or less, and your father works as the supervisor on the construction site. Hence, that's why we were seldom seeing him these past days." Sophia answered  before adding interestedly, "Are you interested in attending the Academy your father partake?"
"Not slightest." Little Kael answered immediately. He has seen a lot of news regarding Divergent who teamed up and travelled to the other continent intending to explore and reclaim the continent. However, in the end, rather than bringing a joyous victory, they return as corpses.
Being naive as he was, he didn't wish to die early. He just wants to live a long happy life as his father and mother did.
Hearing Kael's answer, Sophia stunned a bit before letting out a chuckle, "Well, well, aren't you a weird one, Kael? Everyone dreamed about becoming a Divergent, and here you are, trying to become a normal citizen."
"It's not weird. It's called logical move. It's them who are weird, who on earth wants to die early?" Little Kael refuted.
"Now, where did you learn such a nasty assumption." Sophia shakes her head in disbelief before stroking her son's head, "Anyway, your decision is all matter. Mom and dad would always support your decision, no matter what it is. If you want becomes Divergent through the unconventional way, then tell us in advance, okay?"
After years of research, humanity finally discovers another method to turn someone into Divergent. By using specific meteorite characteristics, the scientist will forcibly transfer the radiation to destined persons and make them acquire a unique power like Divergent. From it, Unconvetial Method was created. However, since it consumed many resources, the price is high as well. Thus, only rich people able to afford it. 
Since Kael's parents financial neither rich nor poor, if Kael didn't get enough luck to be chosen by fate to be Divergent and want to become Divergent by another means, his family needs to prepare a certain sum of money to do it.
"Okay, mom." Little Kael replied, and they continued to chat until Sophia feels sleepy.
Urging his mother to sleep, Kael then goes upstairs because he had no desire to watch TV anymore.
Sitting on the chair just ahead of his study desk, Kael switched on his computer intending to play some games. As he waited for the computer's booting process, his eyes fell upon the window that displays the view of the night sky.
Just as he about to retract his gaze, he noticed something strange happening on the outside.
"What's that?" Kael rubbed his eyes several times to confirm what he saw was not a part of his imagination.
Leaving his chair, Kael stride toward the window and opened it to see the phenomena more vividly.
Revolving at a slow pace, a violet whirpool was floating quietly above the sky. If it weren't by chance, Kael would not have noticed this phenomenon because of its small size. 
However, unlike typical whirlpool that sucked everything into its mouth. This whirlpool didn't even devour the bird who flies past by it. This makes Kael frown his eyebrows in confusion as he did not know what that purple whirlpool purpose appearing there.
Suddenly, his eyes saw the vortex increase its rotational rate as if he wanted to vomit something. 
Then, as he had guessed, something was thrown out of the wormhole. That thing moved in a flash toward his direction. 
Because Kael's mind was still processing about the phenomena, he can't move his limbs in time and ended up getting hit by whatever struck him.
At the same time Kael gets hit by the unknown object, a man dressed in somewhat fancy mage robe stepped out from the vortex. Glancing at Kael's direction, his face is void of expression. 
He remains motionless for a minute before muttering faintly, "The future is on you."
After saying that, he directly went to the vortex and vanished along with the vortex. The skies retain its serenity once again.
Meanwhile, Kael, who had been hit by the object, passed out instantly. The only thing he remembers was, an apathetic voice that ringing inside his ears, "Assimilation process now begins."

Kael is supposedly lived his life normally. But before he was born, a tragedy took place on Earth. Meteorites abruptly descend from the sky, devastating the majority of the world. As if this were not enough, the animals begin to evolve uncontrollably into monsters.

On the verge of despair, humanity suddenly found a light of hope. People with extraordinary powers emerges, and expel the monsters out of their lands.

Kael Lys, born as a person with innate ability to control several elements. However, those powers were so trashed that his fire could only ignite a cigarette, water to flush his face, and electric that could charge his phone battery.

Suddenly, on the same day he admitted as the Bintang Academy student, he received a mysterious message ringing inside his ears.

[Assimilation is complete. The host will now begin to retain his memories.]

  "Puppy, what should we do now?"
  "Return and wait, let them come for us. Just let me do something before we leave." Well, I guess it is a joyful thing that the beasts were so trustful and straightforward, especially when I knew very well how humans were more than just unreliable.
  Walking to the center of the battlefield and searched for any trace of wolves that weren't burned down to the ashes. Few drops of blood that didn't evaporate rose into the air and floated around him.
  "Change!" The drops gathered in the air and slowly grew in volume before I touched my choker. I didn't noticed before as there were many things in my mind, but I had a familiar feeling towards the crimson choker I wore, it reminded me of the silver immortal bracelet I wore.
  "No way, maybe?" I started to think of something, but then I decided it was best to finish dealing with this first.
  All the drops of blood he gathered in the air were sucked into his hand, replenishing the blood he consumed in order to create that fire.
  "Welcome back, King Nomad!" Returning to the tribe, we're welcomed by the hundred plus Darkmoon wolves with a huge banquet. I couldn't help but find cute they waving their tails so excitedly.
  At first, I was eating the many dishes they prepared for me when I noticed the many wolves were staring at me as if they wanted something, but were too scared to ask. "There is no need to act this courteously with me, I don't bite. You can ask anything you want to know..."
  "What was that element you used before? Was it water or fire?"
  "No way that is water, right? The way that you used their own blood against then isn't something water-elemental beasts can do."
  "Really? Would you accept my daughter as your mate?"
  "Wait, who said the last one?" All the wolves immediately surrounded me started bombarding me with questions. However, as a former god I felt having living creatures, treating me like that made me feel like when I was a god.
  The banquet continued without any large problems, and because of the help I gave them as well as the fact they believed I was an elementary king, I knew it would be truly vicious of me to leave them and go to the capital by myself.
  It was pretty late when Liena came closer and whispered to me. "Boy, the tribe chief pretty weak right now, and she asked me to call you for her. She is in the larger hut behind the village."
  "I see." I nodded with my head and followed the path she pointed to me, hiding behind the village, I saw a large wooden hut. This is the place Liena told me about, I guessed.
  "It's me, Nomad. Liena told me to find you." Announcing my identity before coming in, I stepped forward and found an old wolf lying on a bed made from a soft by dense material I never heard of.
  "Oh." Struggling to open her thin eyes, the old wolf scanned his body and sighed with admiration. "Good really good, Liena didn't lie to me. You really are a Divergent Master."
  "Divergent Master?" In my entire life as Roderick Graham, i never heard anything about a Divergent Master.
  "Hoho, I mean those who wield powers that most cannot. Beasts or humans who can control elements that aren't part of the four primal elements are called Divergent Elemental Beasts/Masters. You must have met one before."
  "Sky!?" I suddenly seemed to realize something. The primal children, the first human elemental masters to exist, including Mel's father. From what the chevalier told him, Darkness who had the power of shadow was also part of the twelve great primal children and Sky was one of the.
  So the twelve thrones in the temple underneath Eden is not just for show, it means what Sky said about being the last of the twelve left was also a big fat lie. 
 "Don't be so surprised that I know so much. It's just I lived long enough to understand things others cannot. A Divergent like you is something really rare, for your information there has never been a divergent beast king that succeeds in becoming a saint. Only the twelve big Saints within Eden could reach that level." The old wolf reached with her paw and threw an old photo towards me, and I quickly caught it.
  "This!" In the picture, he saw the photo was taken in what seemed like an underground research center. Sixteen children standing next to each other when the picture was taken, but what surprised me was that one of the children, a little girl standing behind the others had a pair of wolf ears.
  "Yeah, you must've guessed the girl in the photo is me. The others in there are all the primal children, I was one of them. A thousand years ago, other than the elemental serum, there were many experiments with elemental beasts. One of the early ones were to fully inject an elemental beast's core into a human child, from the thirteen hundred subjects only I survived, but because of the mutations I suffered this method was dropped by them."
  Hearing her story, I seemed to understand how horrible it must have been when remembering the scene I saw in that underground laboratory where I found the elemental serum.
  "A few years later, the group of scientists finally got the final product. Twelve children with power and potential far above others, so powerful that they butchered all the humans who did horrible things to them and their brothers and left that place. I was with them at that time, but the core of the beast inside me started to mutate, and my whole body started to show changes as I grew older."
  "The core injected into me was a concentrated formula made with the blood essence of a Water-element wolf. Facing the fact I was bound to become some sort of monster like a Werewolf, I run away and lived my life in seclusion until I met this Darkmoon Tribe five hundred years ago and became their chief."
  "Yet, even after living so long, my talent and strength isn't that strong and I managed to only become a first stage elemental king, I think this body of mine can't even handle another day. Like my brothers and sisters, I noticed you have a unique element of yourself. I saw your battle with the Magma wolves, and the power you have really scared me and gave me hope. I know your potential is even greater than them, and before I leave this world, I just wanted you to promise me to take care of this little tribe of mine as they are everything I have." 
  "Hmm..."Having felt the slight amount of life within the old wolf lady, Roderick, who kept silent the whole time seemed to finally reach a decision and spoke. "If you are so sincere towards me then I guess I should be honest as well. There is no need for you to compare me with that asshole Sky, because now that I'm awake no one else will stand above me. As for your tribe, I swear by my true name... That I will protect those of your tribe."
  "Ohh..." Hearing my words, the lady finally seemed to have solved all the worries in her heart as she closed her eyes for the last time. Patting her head, I sighed while I draw a rune in the air with my blood. "Have a fine journey to your next life. I'm not a god of this universe, but I give all the blessings of a former god to you."
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(This story is a work of fiction, any similarity to real life is just a coincidence) In the year of 3399, The entire planet was taken over by Elemental Beasts and in their last attempt to survive, humanity ran away to the mysterious island of Eden. A strange place where no beast would dare approach.

 Nearly a thousand years later when humanity has started rising once again. The story follows Roderick Graham, the adopted son of a famous explorer and a genius of swordsmanship before the discovery he's allergic to the four primal elements and even slightly contact with it could kill him. Roderick is broken upon discovering his inability to become an Elemental Master in an incident that made him lose his ability to fight. Follow this fallen genius in his journey as he discovers greed, hatred, love and slowly uncovers the secrets of his past.

[Hello, I'm StormEliteVII. This is my second work and I hope it is an advance compared to my first novel, Supreme Origin: Time King. This story is just a test for now and I'm not sure if it shall be continued as my first novel is still ongoing, but I hope you enjoy it. I expect this story to NOT have more than a hundred chapters]

Gu Xiqiao was already used to reactions on Weibo, or more accurately, even if there was a big reaction, she wasn't really concerned anymore. But the system was too bored today, and gave a live broadcast of the happening of Weibo's grand occasion to Gu Xiqiao, showing her all the relevant information.
The reason was because of two Weibo posts that had been posted. Thanks to Yu Ning and his team's effort, 'River's Lake' had been completely edited. Even though they hadn't scheduled the premiere, Cheng Zhou had sent the film to the film festival. Adding on 'Empire Under Siege', Gu Xiqiao was nominated for two awards.
One nomination was for Best Newcomer Award, and the other was Best Female Supporting Award.
When the news came out, Gu Xiqiao's fans exploded. A newcomer who performed in two movies, and was nominated for two awards in both in the film festival. This was a testament to her talents. The news announcement coincided with a popularity poll on Weibo, in which the winner would receive an invitation to the New Year's Eve party of Mango TV.
Since Gu Xiqiao had not shown her face for a long time, her fans saw the opportunity to cast their votes. They were extremely hardworking at it, and her rank quickly surpassed the top ranking popular star, a female in Chinese opera, occupying the top spot with a large margin. 
This made the fans of the young female Chinese opera unhappy. Where there were fans, there were ponds, and you could never have too little trolls.
"Here I was thinking what kind of famous person it was, but Gu Xiqiao? Who the heck is she? I've never even heard of her! The votes are rigged for sure, I strongly request the official Weibo to clear it!"
"Yo, let me explain the comment above. She's someone who specializes in acting as supporting female roles, third female leads and n numbers (smiley)"
"No matter how high the votes are, she's just a support! (smiley) (smiley) (smiley)"
"I heard that she was nominated for best supporting actress, it really suits her."
"If you have the ability to take first place, then use your ability and be a female lead in a movie!"
The trolls and keyboard warriors were in full swing with their ridiculing, and the more they talked, the more sense they made. To the point that there was a topic named 'Let's talk about that actress who only played a third female lead and is winning the popularity contest' that made it to the hot topic list. Some had even commented on Gu Xiqiao's Weibo, and her fans were in a frenzy, not knowing what to say to stop the slew of insults.
Just as the trolls were having the time of their life, the official Weibo of 'Divergent Paths' posted a Weibo.
(Verified) Divergent Paths Official Crew: Feng Qiqi, please take care of us too. @ (Verified) For A Millenium [JPEG] [JPEG] [JPEG]
'Divergent Paths' was a movie that was adapted from a game that had been popular on the internet. Cheng Zou had bluntly said before that 'Divergent Paths' would be an amazingly expensive Xianxia movie, as he wanted to make sure that the scenery from the game was as close to the original as possible, and was also diligent in choosing his cast. The male lead and supporting roles in the movie were all top tier actors, and while the second female lead fell a little short, the third female lead was Song Guanjing!
The line up of the cast was not in the least inferior to 'Empire Under Siege' and 'River's Lake', and had even far surpassed the two movies. It was also an anticipated blockbuster film by millions of netizens.
Only, the female lead had yet to be decided, and the netizens were also anticipating the news. Everyone had voted for who they thought was the most suitable candidate, but most of the votes were almost equal. Because the role was difficult to play, the netizens couldn't think of anyone who could actually take on the role.
The crew released three pictures. The first one was her in plain clothes, with white fox fur wrapped around her. Sunlight shone on her snow-white face, and her chin was lifted slightly, a malevolent gaze in her eyes. Her lips were curved upwards in a sinister smile, which was extremely attractive.
The image of both righteous and evil was portrayed perfectly by her.
Li Yu and Song Guanjing both reposted this Weibo silently.
(Verified) Li Yu: @Cheng Zhou Remember to leave me a role, otherwise we're no longer friends! // @ (Verified) Divergent Paths Official Crew: Feng Qiqi, please take care of us too. @ (Verified) For A Millenium [JPEG] [JPEG] [JPEG]
(Verified) Song Guangjing: My Beauty Gu's movie, please look forward to it ^_^ // @ (Verified) Divergent Paths Official Crew: Feng Qiqi, please take care of us too. @ (Verified) For A Millenium [JPEG] [JPEG] [JPEG]
After these Weibo posts, the clamoring of those trolls and keyboard warriors came to an abrupt end.
Gu Xiqiao's fans immediately gained confidence from their silence. As expected from Beauty Gu, to be able to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat!
To those who said Beauty Gu didn't have a single leading role, was the weight of 'Divergent Paths' enough? Isn't it stronger than you Huadan? Do you have anything better to say? Oh, that's right, isn't your Chinese opera girl a second female lead in the movie? Are your brains alright?
The trolls wanted to continue, but they couldn't find a single thing to refute it. They didn't think that Gu Xiqiao would be able to become the female lead of 'Divergent Paths' without saying anything, and even if they wanted to slander her, they couldn't say that the weight of 'Divergent Paths' wasn't enough. How could they say that? It was more than enough!
They wanted to try to slander Gu Xiqiao's acting, but looking at the three pictures, there was hardly a thing they could criticize about. From her pose to her face, every single thing was flawless and made people's heart beat while looking at it, what was there to say about it?! Also, can you not be so beautiful, they had to resist! They were here to slander her! As the troll silently tried to calm himself, his fingers had already tapped the 'follow' button.
The system gave Gu Xiqiao each and every one of those comments, laughing joyously in the void space as it did so. [Beauty Qiao, these comments are making me laugh so hard. Your fans really have such venomous mouths. Those pitiful trolls, they were clearly here to slander you in the beginning hehehe!]
[But everything really is going viral. Both your films have been nominated. Look at this Weibo, it's a famous international judge at the International Film Festival. He's quite a queer person, and he's the one who announced the news of your nomination. He also admires you alot, being that he watched 'Empire Under Siege' a few times.]
'It's only a nomination, not that I've gotten the award." Gu Xiqiao swiped open her phone to look at Weibo, after silently staring at the panel in front of her for a while.
The latest Weibo on the homepage has reached nearly two million comments, and the number of her fans had increased by two hundred thousand, and was continuing to increase.
(Verified) For A Millenium: … // @ (Verified) Divergent Path Official Crew: Feng Qiqi, please take care of us too. @ (Verified) For A Millenium [JPEG] [JPEG] [JPEG]
She didn't bother typing any comments while reposting, but just '...'.
And the comments to her post was like this:
"I think I cried at the last picture. Can you not tease me like this every time 😥"
"I'm licking the screen, don't disturb me!"
"I don't care, when I saw this, there weren't any comments!"
"Although I'm happy that beautiful, you're acting once again, why the h*ll is it another tragic film! 😭"
"D*mnit, I foresee another death scene that will start the waterworks. When will you stay alive, beautiful?! 😭"
"I'm definitely not normal, even my phantom limbs are hard after seeing the first picture 👋"
"... silently +1"
"+10086"
The list of hot topics on Weibo was firmly dominated by Gu Xiqiao, and it wasn't like the other topics were not related to her either! This kind of limelight overtook every other artists and crew who were becoming popular in the same timing as her, and it felt like sh*t. Could you at least leave one hot topic spot for them!
When Cheng Zhou saw the popularity it had garnered, he felt like he was on cloud nine. It was nice to have Little Gu. Apart from having fantastic acting skills, he didn't even need to buy any spots on Weibo, or hire any Internet Water Army for the movie that he was making.
***
Du Yixin was off today, and he was home, reading over the script in hand. Trying to sort through his emotions, he even gave Li Yu a call, wanting to ask advice from the other on ways to deal with the fighting scenes with Gu Xiqiao. That's right, after yesterday's blunder, he already knew that his acting skills were not up to par. She was the one who was leading every time they shot together, and she had even made him stumble more than a few times!
He was still an actor at the end of the day, and although his acting skills were not as great as Li Yun, he wouldn't be suppressed by Li Yu. If someone had told Du Yixin a few days ago that he would meet someone who could shock him and made him screw up, he would have laughed them off. But after going through yesterday, he believed that he really was being pressured, and that was after the other party had deliberately held back.
Du Yixin knew that something was wrong with himself, and so he gave a call to Li Yu for advice on how to overcome this. Li Yu was overjoyed when he heard.
"Sigh, if you can't do it, then let me do it instead. I actually sparred with her everyday…"
Before he could finish speaking, Du Yixin hung up the call. He opened Weibo and stared at it blankly, and then he remembered that Cheng Zhou had mentioned that he would be releasing some makeup photos today. But when Weibo loaded, he was taken aback. Why were there so many comments tagging him?
Before he could collect himself, he was once again shocked at the hot topic lists. The first thought in his mind was that Cheng Zhou had bought an Internet Water Army to bump the topic up to the hot topics, but when he scrolled through the comments, it was all discussion of the fans, and there were even popular bloggers among them.
At this point, you can clearly tell that these were all legit fans, and not Internet Water Armies that have been paid!
And then he turned to the official crew's Weibo, reposting the post immediately before tapping into the profile of 'For A Millenium'. After silently clicking 'follow', he was surprised once again by the number of fans in this account. He knew that the other was just a newcomer, and this was the first time they were working together. However, looking at the number of fans that were close to twenty million, his cold facade almost cracked under the revelation. Was this really a newbie's Weibo?!
There were so many other first-rate stars that didn't even have as many fans as her, right?
Everyone in the crew had reposted this Weibo, and only a few were unable to. Du Yixin studied the list for a while, and noted that Sheng Yin was one of them that had not reposted it. Her last logged in for Weibo was three days ago, and he frowned. But he didn't concern himself with it for long.
***
Gu Xiqiao didn't pay attention to the happenings in Weibo, but the system kept broadcasting everything to her, and up till they reached home, it had yet to stop.
Mrs. Zhang had already returned, and was cleaning up the house when the two came in. When she saw them, she immediately brought out a plate stacked with fruits.
Jiang Shuxuan took off his coat, silently sitting down on the sofa as he reposted the same Weibo post that she had done, and continued down to read through the comments.
His own Weibo had reached nearly a million fans, and he was considered to be a small internet celebrity. Gu Xiqiao was once again hot, and as soon as his Weibo had been posted, it received dozens of comments.
Gu Xiqiao brought the laptop down from upstairs, and was typing away on it with Jiang Shuxuan by her side. His hand was on the sofa, his head lowered and his attention on his phone. His lips were pursed, as he swiped on his phone. The dim yellow light from the window reflected on his white shirt, making it look slightly golden.
After typing a page, she raised her head suddenly, looking at Jiang Shuxuan. Then she took her phone, sneakily taking a picture of him.
The next day morning, when Gu Xiqiao woke up, Mrs. Zhang had yet to. Only, Jiang Shuxuan had already left.
It was still early, the sun had yet to rise, and even the street lights were still on.
Gu XIqiao couldn't go back to sleep, so she decided to just wake up. She turned on her phone, and found the picture that she had taken yesterday in secret, and posted a Weibo.
(Verified) For A Millenium: Harmonious passing, silent mountain rivers. [JPEG] (T/N: It's a Chinese saying that vaguely means the good years have passed and the mountains and rivers have returned to silence. It means to describe how youth has gone and life has lost its color and passion.)
The figure in the picture was a bit blurry, but you could still see his outline. Fans who woke up early in the morning were immediately stunned by the picture.
"F*ck, what is this? Did you find this picture on the net, Beauty Gu?"
"Although I can't see it clearly, with my professional eyesight, this guy is really really handsome!"
"Harmonious passing, silent mountain rivers. This is the most sadistic saying in 'Divergent Paths' 😭"
"The person in the picture should be a male model, he really has the feel! I can also feel the mysterious aura radiating from him, but I just can't see his face clearly! Bad one!"
"Am I the only who thinks that it's @ A Flowing River?"
"Up there, you're not the only one!"
"There should be some photoshop masters around right @ psgreatgod 😀"
There were also photoshop masters among Gu Xiqiao's fans, and for the sake of seeing who the person in the picture was, they immediately downloaded the picture and made to sharpen and clear the filter on it. They had accepted the task with confidence and said that they would immediately restore the picture for the other fans to see.
A few minutes later, the photoshop masters came back with a comment.
"Goddess, you're actually the real photoshop great god, right? What kind of blur filter did you use, that none of us are able to remove it with the various methods that we tried using? ┭┮﹏┭┮"
This comment made it to the top immediately.
***
On the set of 'Divergent Paths', Gu Xiqiao walked towards Cheng Zhou once she was done filming a fight scene with one of the other male supporting roles. "Director Cheng, my next scene is scheduled at after two in the afternoon. I have something to do at noon, so I will leave for a while."
"Go ahead." Cheng Zhou was tolerant of Gu Xiqiao. He knew that while she was lazy, she was also very responsible. She wouldn't ask to leave if it was just for something minor. "Remember to come back on time."
Having said that, he smiled again. If even Gu Xiqiao wasn't on time, there wasn't anyone who would be more punctual than her in this world. 
After getting the permission, Gu Xiqiao immediately went to change out of her clothes and makeup.
Du Yixin, who was holding the script in hand and was about to ask her something: "..."
It wasn't until she left for her dressing room that he silently looked at Cheng Zhou and asked, "Li Yu told me yesterday, that he sparred with Miss Gu every day, was that true?"
"Yes." Cheng Zhou sighed when the matter was brought up, and he sighed again. "Little Du, you have to work hard."
Du Yixin went silent for a moment. Li Yu's acting skills were at the pinnacle of the entire entertainment industry circle right now, and his talent was way too high. He initially thought that Li Yu had been joking yesterday, but he didn't expect that there was no exaggeration to his words at all.
He looked at the direction of the dressing room, and let out a deep sigh.
***
Sheng Yin was also in the dressing room, touching up her makeup. When she saw Gu Xiqiao coming in and removing her clothes and makeup, she was surprised. "Miss Gu, you still have some scenes in the afternoon, right?"
"Yeah," As she let the makeup assistant remove her makeup, she replied faintly. "I'll be back in the afternoon."
"I see." Sheng Yin smiled, but said nothing.
After Gu Xiqiao went out, only did Sheng Yin's assistant speak, " What the heck, she only got two nominations, and that's not even the awards yet and she's being so big-headed. Even Brother Du stays with the crew during his idle time, can't she wait also?"
The costumes and makeup for this movie were extremely cumbersome, and it took at least two hours to put on. The artists would come in the morning and put everything on, and go through the entire day without removing it to save time. Only when everything was done for the day did they change out, and so none of them would leave the set during the day.
That was what prompted Sheng Yin's assistant to say those words when she saw Gu Xiqiao's behavior. With such a self-important attitude, they wouldn't receive any favors no matter which crew they were placed in, especially towards the makeup artists. However, the crews were still all smiles as they said goodbye to Gu Xiqiao, some also telling her to be careful and remember to come back early and so on.
Sheng Yin studied the makeup artists' face closely, noting that there was no discomfort or unhappiness on her face. However, although there was none on her face, it didn't mean that she didn't feel anything on the inside. Thinking of this, she chastised her assistant, "Enough, stop it."
The assistant felt indignant, but she held it in, turning the topic to something else. "I haven't seen Miss Fu today, I heard from the others that she's quite the crew. But that can't be, right?"
"It's about there." Sheng Yin looked at herself in the mirror, a cryptic flash in her eyes. Outside, the director was calling for her, so she stood up and left the room.
***
On the other side, Gu Xiqiao had already reached Nine Heavens.
At this time, Luo Wenlang was meeting Fu Dongyi in the parlor. Fu Dongyi didn't know why Luo Wenlang was looking for him, but it was for the sake of Fu Enterprise, so he came.
"Mr. Luo, why in the world are you looking for me?" Fu Dongyi asked the question for the hundredth and one time.
Luo Wenlang was about to explain again, but then he raised his eyes, seeing a figure slowly approaching through the glass door. He stood up with a bang, and exclaimed, "Coming!"


She was the illegitimate daughter of the Gu family from N City, and a gloomy coward in everyone’s eyes.
She was an unparalleled genius in the finance world, controlling the market as if she could foresee the future.
She was an inheritor of ancient medical arts, healing wounds and growing flesh on bones with a single golden needle.
A legend in the ancient martial artist world, the goddess of the entertainment industry, a master of Chinese arts…
She was dazzling and talented, but also cool, calculating and aloof!
Her origins were a mystery…
As her origins are slowly uncovered, see how she takes up responsibility, and writes a brilliant page in history!
In her past life, she was reduced to an abandoned daughter by her family, and now that she was reborn, she’ll do all she can to change the fate of her and the ones she cares about, showing off and dealing with her enemies like flies on the way.
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He was mysterious and dignified, an enigma who was the strongest in the ancient martial arts world.
He was the leader of a mysterious organization in China, killing cold-bloodedly without batting an eyelash.
When the cool and enigmatic meets the cold-blooded, watch the show unfold!
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“Miss, I see there is a shadow on your forehead, and there shall be misfortune in your future.”
“...Let me tell you now, that is my mommy and not yours, so you better not appear in front of her! It’s extremely easy for me to make a person disappear in this city….”
Not soon after, a certain beautiful Miss Gu stood in front of her with a smile. “I’ve never even looked that family of yours in the eye, but...This Imperial Capital is my territory!”
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Mr. Jiang’s quotes:
You’re in charge of being pretty and having a good time, I’m in charge of providing for the family.
I like her, not someone that looks like her, nor someone that acts like her. I won’t like anyone if it’s not her!
If you bully her, I will...Destroy this world…
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TLDR: The female lead’s road to greatness after getting a system by accident.


The story has been updated. Now I apologies in advance that I didn't write clearly what did change from the first version to this one. So I would highly recommend re-reading it over. 
I went through all the paragraphs. I think I kept about half the story the same, while the other half got edited. Some parts on a smaller level got changed too. The way things were worded to be made more clear and understandable with the over all change.
I will keep this here as an update for a few days or until I write the divergent. Which for those might not have seen, I had to scrap. The reason due to that was because of the mess I made by releasing that previous version of the story.

So I'm going to do a whole new take on the divergent as it got ruined for me. Starting over from scratch even with the whole idea. Hope you all like it when I get it out there.

Have a great day and thank you for bearing with me! Enjoy!

Brahk, a man forced into a harsh life. He finds the things he can do and remembers the past that was taught to him. Thinking of those that made it possible. That past caught up to him as he did the same as those who helped his mother.

After his introduction, I write different ideas and throw Brahk in those situations. I wanted to give myself a place to write random ideas that come to mind. I might have cross overs with my other stories, but most are just self contained.

So Ziv has been fun to write small starter ideas that have popped up. I want to do something similar with another main character, so I plan on writing a new one. Similar to how Divergent Stories - Ziv has done it, but someone new. 

So I thought up a basic outline for this new character. A woman, roughly 20 years or so, originally lives in a fantasy world. I'm not sure what it will all be yet, but that is my idea. Ziv starts out in a futuristic society after an apocalypses. Then I started thinking about what I could do differently. Age being a big one that stood out. After writing the Divergent - Mother story, that was necessary. I wanted to explore things as a child with Ziv and how he might take it and how others might see him, but if I need to explore an idea with a child character, Ziv will be the one I use.

Then I thought about a few other things, like Ziv was a boy. So lets go the other way and make this character a woman. I had some fun with Language of Happiness, so this is just an extension of that essentially. Sure I plan a gender bender at least once, but with a female main character there are new options available. 

Of course the last part that I needed. The future route was cool for Ziv, but what about a fantasy? The new main character will take place in some fantasy world. Idk if mc will even have magic yet. Most likely, but I want to keep it somewhat vague (In the intro story) like I did with Ziv so I have many options available. However I make that original world, will be something I'm going to work on.

Hope you all find it interesting and enjoy it!

This story is about Ziv. A boy who has lived with technology, his parents, and lots of reading material.

After his introduction, I write different ideas and throw Ziv in those situations. I wanted to give myself a place to write random ideas that come to mind. I do have cross overs with my other stories, but most are just self contained.

Some ideas that I have made so far:

The two cross over stories, LoH and EMW.
Ziv has control over two bodies
A time travel story. 
A grid like world.
A one shot based around fighting/combat.
Ziv takes over a body on an injured person - though there is a warning for that chapter. Nothing bad, but there are implications that most people (myself included) find disgusting. I wrote it in good faith though.
Ziv becomes an AI.
A combat Story.

After all my experiences in the 1900 beginning journey ,god sent me back to my original world.It was unbelievable together with amazing experience ,It was the same place and same day where god fortuned me and I really used it well .Divergent changes Iam waiting to see still it was nothing new.Later on when I went to my home ,first thing ,I gave a huge hug to both of my parent .In the oppose they gave divergent looks stil I was so happy to regain my future . subsequently when I foraged for both world war one and two books ,really they were missing .ensuing about the books to mg parents my parents replied that what are those books . Continuation of that I equally asked about The Great dictator of Germany Adolf hitler, they replied by saying that who is that person and having strange name.More over you know I started behaving like the German people together with my parents found a lot of divergence in me.Neverthe less to me God gave me a precious gift that no one else can give me in my upcoming life 😀.  



  By the story I really want to convey that when a person dearly together with heartfully wants something then the nature will help him getting that .


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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters  Rick Riordan and JK Rowling
PERCY POV
10000 chaos years later AKA 10 Earth's year later
I woke up to a soft hand on my face, which was my girlfriend's hand. Oh sorry I forgot to tell you my name or *title*. I am Omega Prince of the universe,boyfriend of knowledge, son of chaos, brother of bolt and scar, leader of The Banished Ones. Here is the whole team =
Omega =Percy
Superman = Jason
Scar = Harry
Knowledge = Hermione
Star = Zoe
Confutare  = Ginny
Arrow = Michael
Beauty = Piper
 Death = Hazel
  Warrior = Reyna
 Animal = Frank
Disguise = Silena
Charles =Forge
Bianca = Huntress
Nico = Blood
Castor = Vines
Leo = Flame
Calypso = Fire
18. All 18 of us Betrayed by Camp Half Hell and Ares and Athena. If you didn't guess the ships in the army here they are
Permione, Hinny, Jasper ,Zuke , Frazel , Reco , Charlena , Castelle, Lalypso and Biancael.
Anyways back to the present, Knowledge woke me up. I pecked her on her cheek and asked , " what is it hermione ?". She replied by saying, " We have a mission from Chaos." I vapor traveled there and saw that Chaos was frustrated, He told us ," I'm sorry but you have to fight another war on planet 777 in Galaxy 007." If you don't know that is planet Earth." WHAT!!!" we all said together. I said ,"I hope they are not there." Chaos sighed and said ," After you went Camp Half blood. The gods made them immortal so that they can train other campers." and "betray their closest friends." I muttered under my breath.Chaos lost his all-is-well mood and said," We leave after lunch so get ready to go to E-A-R-T-H.
After lunch
All of my army members had mixed emotions consisting of Anger,worry,confusion,or sadness on their faces. So we boarded The Demiwizard and were off to EARTH. We went to the Empire State building and from there we went to Olympiss, could you guess what happened there,The gods were arguing . It looked like there was a fight between dad and Ares and Athena. All the Olympians were with dad and the other side was of Ares,Athena and Zeus AKA drama queen.
I'm dividing them into 2 sides - Divergent and Twilight [My dad's side is divergent and the other is Twilight]
So divergent was saying that the camp full hell and twilight banished us from Earth and now we cannot be found. I MM ed my army to reveal themselves to the gods.So we did and  when our parents saw us they had tears in their eyes each parent came to meet their child. But when Athena and Zeus came to meet their child Harry, Hermione and Jason turned to Poseidon and Hestia and asked them if they would adopt them. So Poseidon adopted Jason and Harry, Hestia adopted Hermione. So basically Harry and Jason became my Half brothers and Hermione my cousin. Zeus and Athena were gonna kill my dad and Hestia but I made a force field around us then Chaos  came and told us Poseidon should be the king and Zeus was the weakest god but wanted to be the strongest so he took some powers of the other gods and made them weak but made himself the strongest.After that dad was made the king . 
After that dad said, "I Poseidon wish to call campers here ." In a moment the campers were here and we had are cloaks on. Then SHE and HE came forward and asked ," What are they doing here and why is Poseidon on the throne of the king?". " To answer your dumb and idiotic question Lord Poseidon is the king of the gods and we are here to save your lame butts." She looked like she was going to transform into a tomato she said ," How dare you talk to me like that I bet you haven't done 1% of what I've done. I have defeated Kronos,Atlas,Hyperion and Gaia." Poseidon roared," Percy did that you blithering idiot." "Oh but Percy's forgotten and banished."With that said Annabeth got yeeted by a hand of water.I could see my army trying to control their laughter but they miserably failed. Athena had a purple face and so had Ares.
Oh and I forgot to mention they were married.So what happened was Ares had given Aphrodite a love potion and Hephaestus had found out so he asked Hecate to make a reverse potion. Hecate willingly helped and the potion was given to Aphrodite. Then Ares went into depression and was broken. So Athena took pity and married him. Personally this was the worst wedding in Olympus. 
Next we went to Camp full hell.
Haha cliffhanger 
Can you guess what will happen when they go to Camp half blood?
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Harry Potter and his closest friends are recognized as a threat to the wizarding world and are banished.Meanwhile,Percy is betrayed.Now a big threat is coming and the The banished ones can only stop them will they come and rescue the wizards and demigods or will they join the enemies read to find out

Tina Roxley searched for Alchemist Scythe for a while, but she was unable to find him. Then, to pursue Alchemy and escape from being scorned as a father-killer, she had to leave. Besides, she didn't want to stay anywhere near the detestable Roxley Family anymore.
She had further told Elder Seylas to contact her if Alchemist Scythe ever appeared, but even till now, she has yet to receive any word. She was completely unaware that the young man had intimidated Elder Seylas into keeping his mouth closed.
She was unaware that even if she waited for a hundred years like this, she would still not be able to meet or hear about that young man.
"The only way to find out is to divine your future again!" Aurelius suddenly said, but his expression was scrunched up in hesitation.
Tina Roxley instantly asked, "Will I know what happened to that young man if I-"
"That depends on your future." Aurelius raised his hand.
Tina Roxley was about to agree when Brandis Mercer widened his eyes and reprimanded, "You can't! You will not use your blood essence again!"
"I have to!"
Tina Roxley retorted and cried as she clenched her small fists, "Otherwise, I would never be able to calm myself down."
Brandis Mercer became alarmed and enraged, but looking at her desolate expression, he was unable to become angry at her for becoming foolish. If he stopped her, he became afraid that she might manifest a heart demon.
A hand suddenly grasped his shoulders, "It's fine. My divination technique has improved, and it only requires three percent of her blood essence to divine right now. Her blood essence can be replenished with time as long as you can buy enough resources. If you're unable to purchase, I'm willing to help."
Aurelius said, causing Brandis Mercer to sigh, "Are you sure that the skies won't change colors again?"
Aurelius nodded his head, "Last time, we've seen too much. I got carried away as I've never been able to project too many scenes from the future, but this time, I'll end it with just a few. Don't worry, this time, there will be none of those mythical tribulation clouds. Heh, only the legendary Immortals are worthy of them."
Brandis Mercer nodded his head as he took a deep breath.
In a few minutes, everything was ready within the hall.
Looking at Brandis Mercer and Tina Roxley, Aurelius nodded his head before activated his technique.
The earth trembled, and space shook! The time flow became erratic before all the surrounding energy poured into the Divine Heaven Mirror Water!
"Heaven's Divination - A Glimpse into the Future!"
*Boommmm!~*
The rectangular basin exploded, and the Divine Heaven Mirror Water directly burst apart! Aurelius directly spat a mouthful of blood as he collapsed.
"Brother!"
"Uncle master!"
Brandis Mercer and Tina Roxley became aghast as they saw Aurelius collapse.
"What happened!?" Brandis Mercer echoed, panicked as he supported Aurelius from falling on the floor.
Aurelius held his chest while his eyes were wide. He looked at Tina Roxley incredulously before he shook his head, "Nothing, it's just a backlash. Something must have gone wrong."
"Enough, there's no need to divine anymore, just rest!" Brandis Mercer yelled.
"It's not like I can try it anytime soon with this backlash exhausting me..." Aurelius weakly smiled.
"Uncle master, I'm sorry. It's all because of me. It's my fault..." Tina Roxley bit her lower lip and whimpered.
"Sigh, it's not your fault. Your uncle master is just useless. I..."
"Don't talk anymore! You will rest and suppress your injuries!" Brandis Mercer urged.
"Then... I'll take you up on your offer..." Aurelius closed his eyes and fainted. It was as if he really could not handle the mental stress that echoed from the backlash.
Indeed, Mystic Diviners can also be called Suicidal Diviners. They often witnessed what they shouldn't and ended up dying because of it. Compared to them, Aurelius's case could be seen as a normal and harmless one.
Aurelius was carried away by Brandis Mercer. On the way, Aurelius kept his soul force undulations as stable as possible. Yes, he had not fainted! Instead, he was acting!
He was in absolute disbelief! He could not believe his own discoveries!
'Divergent! She's a Divergent!' Aurelius inwardly screamed.
He was in doubt how her path determined by the heavens could've changed. He had a vague inkling before, but with this, he had practically confirmed it! Otherwise, there was no way his divination would've failed before it even started!
It wasn't that the heavens didn't acknowledge his interference in divining Tina Roxley's future. It was that even the heavens didn't know what would happen to Tina Roxley, making her a divergent, greatly diverging from the fate that had been bestowed to her.
However, he still couldn't understand.
He had once been able to view her future, her fate. If that is the case, he should be able to view it again though it would require more sacrifice on his part. However, he was unable to even activate the divination technique on her. 
The Divine Heaven Mirror Water is said to be in harmony with the heaven and earth energy, making Mystic Diviner able to communicate with the heavens to see one's future, past, or even the present affairs. If he was unable to activate such a divination technique on her when he was at his peak, it clearly meant that something had changed in Tina Roxley!
What was it that changed her fate, making her become a Divergent?
He didn't know, but he could guess with the current knowledge he possessed!
'She has a Fate Discarnate Soul!!'
Aurelius's soul almost fluctuated in greed! He knew this because of the inheritance he had chanced upon in his early years. He made an immense effort to become a Mystic Diviner. However, the inheritance he obtained was an unorthodox one. It contained evil and cruel methods to divine, one that just didn't use blood essence to divine.
However, it wasn't full of unorthodox methods and techniques. Otherwise, there was no way he would've been accepted into the Heaven Gazing Sect as an outer disciple.
Aurelius's thoughts churned.
Right now, he felt like he had hit the jackpot! He never even once thought that he would encounter the host of a Fate Discarnate Soul. He didn't know how Tina Roxley came to possess a Fate Discarnate Soul, but he felt something could've happened in the time he was away, causing her soul to mutate.
But how her soul mutated didn't matter to him!
In his inheritance, there was a method that enabled him to use the Fate Discarnate Soul in his divinations, effectively allowing him to get scot-free of the divinations he performed. It didn't matter if he divined a small matter or a greater affair that changed the whole world, he would still be able to get scot-free from heaven's retribution!
He would also be able to divine his own future and escape from heaven's retribution! After all, Mystic Diviner's weren't supposed to peer into their own fate since that would not end well. The chances are that they would easily die if they were to divine their own future.
Mystic Diviners often suffered from the retribution of the heavens for peering into the secrets of the heavens. Peering into people's fate is the same as peering into the secrets of the heavens since it is the will that has ordained the lives of people.
Hence, possessing something that veils him from the heavens, such as something discarnate, in this case, a Fate Discarnate Soul, will enable him to soar in the world of divination! 
It was his dream!


Tian Long, an orphan without much of a life in both his thirty year long life and lifespan!
To him, a single opportunity was displayed to transmigrate into another world with his Death Book!
"What's this? Is this the body of a three year old? Davis? Is this my name from now on?"
Finding himself possessing a small child, he becomes inwardly conflicted before he faces the truth and his reality! 
Young Davis finds himself as the legal heir, the Crown Prince of the Loret Empire in the Grand Sea Continent, becoming a powerful cultivator in a short time...
However, is that all?
Follow his journey as Young Davis becomes a full fledged death's advocate while embodying into the Divine Emperor of Death in the world of cultivation!
"Mn? The route to become the Emperor is a given? Nah, I still don't want it..."
"Oh? I'm courting death you say? Unfortunately for you, death is already my woman..."

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Year 998 after j.c
 
Rosa:
 
Everybody was gathering in front of the house next to the tavern in which I was working, not long after I heard a woman screaming from the house's direction, my curiosity was peaked so I got closer to take a look but I bumped into a man by mistake.
"F#@k off, I don't want you to stick your filthy scent to me, " he yelled as he pushed me onto the ground.
To be honest, I wasn't angry.
I was used to it since it was the only way I was treated since I was born when a female infant is born to this world a demon comes crawling from the depths of hell to place a curse on her chest that forbids her from ever using magic.
And let me tell you something, magic means everything in this world, if you don't have it you're basically useless, trash, like all women in this unjust world, since you're forced into a life of bullying and swaggering.
A lot of girls take their life as soon as they are old enough to see the world as it is, and some don't even get to see the world, they are called the tainted, girls whom the demons couldn't place the seal on them, the elders execute them not even a day after they're born.
It's tragic life.
"Sorry Sir, I didn't mean to touch you with my dirty hands. " I said as I was getting dirt off my clothes.
"Sorry won't do you sh@t, useless trash, "he yelled while turning around.
"Don't mind him. Are you okay? " Said Charly
"I'm fine"
Charly is one of my coworkers in the tavern and also my best friend, she has gone through much sh@t as I have been.
 "What is going on anyway? "
"I heard the lady next door having a child, one of the elders is coming here in the flesh to oversee the birth."Charlie
"I hope it's not an divergent! "
"Me too, I'm sick of seeing innocent kids dying. "Charly
I know she means those words many of our friends left this, they were either killed by men or bullies or they took their own lives since they couldn't take it anymore.
We call girls who aren't cursed divergent, because it's kind of harsh to insult them even after death, not be lying being killed before you see this f#@ked up world is kind of mercy, you can't even imagine the hurt we've all been through. Being worked like horses day by day, being treated like sexual objects that every man can have a taste of. Killing us because we are alive. Raping us because to them that what we are for. Tormenting us just because we exist.

Demons have more mercy.
No, I wasn't angry at that man at that moment, I'm always angry toward all men.

1800 Hundred years ago, the God of all magic Heka fell in love, and as a gesture of his new found love, he created a whole new world filled with magic and so his feelings were answered for…
But not long after, the goddess Hekate left for the underworld and left him with a broken heart. And from that day he despised all women and to show his he ordered all of his servants to place a seal on the chest of every female infant upon birth to forbid them from using any kind of magic.
Until...

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