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Return of Black Lotus system:Taming Cheating Male Leads

WARNING: ITS A 18+ BOOK Heena stretched on the warm sand, sipping coconut water. Finally, peace. No scheming heroines, no brooding male leads—just her and the ocean. “HEENA! MOTHER! I FOUND YOU!” Her eye twitched. Not now. Floating above the beach was a golden lion with sparkling wings. “System 547,” she said, gritting her teeth. “I’m on vacation.” “But the worlds are collapsing! Male leads are going crazy! Villainesses are dying! White lotus heroines are ruining everything!” “Not my problem.” “You’re the Black Lotus! Only you can fix this!” “Exactly why I deserve a vacation.” “No rules! Slap them, seduce them, team up with the villainess—anything!” Heena sipped her coconut. “If I say yes, triple points, rare items from every world, and six months vacation after.” “Done! Anything!” the lion shouted, tail wagging. Heena stood, brushing sand off. “Fine. Show me these broken male leads.” Her smirk was dangerous. . . . The portal threw Heena onto cold marble floors. Her head spun as чуж memories flooded in. Empress Celeste Ravencourt. Five husbands. A dying empire. “Great,” Heena muttered. “I’m the villain.” A tiny golden lion appeared beside her. “Welcome to World 12! You’re married to five powerful men who all hate you. They’re meeting tonight to poison you and crown the heroine instead.” “Let me guess,” Heena sighed. “White lotus?” “Lady Seraphina. Sweet, kind, system-backed. They’re all in love with her.” Heena rubbed her temples. The body was weak, starved, exhausted. No wonder Celeste died so easily. “Fine,” she said, pulling off the heavy jewelry. “That empress is dead. I’m not.” She chose a simple dark dress, tied her hair up, and met her reflection. The sadness vanished. Confidence took its place. At dinner, five men waited—cold, powerful, deadly handsome. Warriors, priests, generals, spies. Every one of them wanted her gone. Wine was poured into her glass. Poisoned. Obvious. They watched her closely. Heena lifted the glass, smiling lightly. “To new beginnings.” She drank it all. The silence cracked. Nothing happened. Their faces changed—shock, fear, disbelief. Heena leaned back, calm and smiling. “Now,” she said softly, “which one of you thought killing me would be that easy?” AUTHORS NOTE: Thank you so much for all the support! I love writing for all of you, but balancing work and writing is quite challenging. If you want me to keep updating consistently, your support really helps. Castle: 10 extra chapters per week Gacha: 20 extra chapters per week Thank you for reading and supporting my story!
K1ERA · 793k Views

Interstellar Era: My Ex-Husband Chases Me Everyday

The Interstellar Era brought a new reality for humanity. Pollution and space pirates became the latest problems for the government. To Mu Ning, however, things weren't simple. At the height of her career, she got in an accident and ended up becoming a task executor. After completing countless missions and finally returning to her own world, she was greeted by two adorable twins… glaring at her. The worst part? They looked an awful lot like her. After digging deeper, Mu Ning almost wanted to beat herself up. Six years had passed since her accident, and another soul had taken over her body, leaving chaos everywhere. Bringing down her parents? Check. Ruining her sibling’s career? Check. Forcing a marriage with her long-time crush and earning the worst impression possible? Check. Mistreating her own children? Check. Destroying her entertainment company? Check. The checklist went on until Mu Ning’s head throbbed. Her only comfort was that she still knew tons of Earth recipes and had the spirit farmer to purify the land she owned. With danger hanging over her like a blade, Mu Ning had to fix everything and survive... while swearing to find the soul that messed up her life. And at the same time, she had to deal with her husband’s scheming white moonlight, an adopted daughter trying to steal her place, and a mother-in-law who couldn’t stand her! Rolling up her sleeves, Mu Ning let out a cold laugh. After living in so many worlds, very few things could truly scare her. ......................................................................... Extract 1: "Sign this divorce paper, if you still have even a little shame left." The cold, distant crown prince of the empire, Liam, looked at Mu Ning with complete indifference. Mu Ning felt her heart twist painfully. She had liked this man for more than five years. But some relationships simply couldn’t be forced. With a quiet sigh in her heart, Mu Ning signed the divorce papers. .......................................................................... Extract 2: [Alert! To survive, you must kiss Mu Ning within 10 seconds!] Liam blinked at Mu Ning with an innocent expression and blurted out, "Wife, my system is asking me to kiss you 10 times." System: "..." Liar! Mu Ning smirked coldly. "Get lost."
LittleRabbit1111 · 376.1k Views
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Reborn as the Genius Son of the Richest Family

After 600+ chapters, here’s what to expect. First of all, throughout this novel, I have learned and improved in my story-making ability. Sadly though, you could only see this improvement about several hundred chapters in, like in the upper 300s and early 400s. And this change comes before a story arc that is bad compared to my recent story arcs. You may feel inclined to stop before then. You may feel inclined to stop even before you reach a hundred chapters. You may think, “Oh, there’s no action, it’s boring, and everything is easy for our MC.” But if you persist, you will see the true vision I have for the novel. Kingdom building, action-packed, and enough slice-of-life to warm your hearts into overdrive. If you hear the words, DIVA, AUBILITIES, and METROPOLIS, then you are about to enter, what I think, is my best major story arcs I have written so far. The Metropolis Arc is peak. Here’s what to expect: — Action: Yes. There’s a new and exciting change in the latter chapters that allowed for a lot of action. — Kingdom Building: Absolutely. I’ll admit that in the earlier chaps, there’s a lot of need for improvement. But I think that I was able to remedy most of them in the recent chaps. — Slice-of-life: Yes, sir. If you loved the novel for its slice-of-life, then you can rest assured that it would continue on even in the most latest chapters. — Romance: This one, I’ll admit, needs a lot of improvement. But it’s because they are still kids in the novel so I still stray away from something truly romantic. However, romance in this novel could be attributed to the romance of family and of friendships for now. I hope that I was able to convince you to start reading my novel. If you read it before and want to start reading again, you can message me on Discord for questions regarding plot points, characters, or anything you forgot and I can remind you. ——————— Michael was suddenly reborn into a another world by a God because of an accidental death. To make up for this fact, the God gave him another life in a fantasy world of swords, magic, and monsters. Unfortunately, it turned out that the world he was reborn into was still stuck in the medieval times. It didn't have electricity, it didn't have proper plumbing, and it didn't have any technology that he was so used to back in his old world. But thanks to the God's blessing and an AI assistant called ChatJK1, he was given the power to MAKE his life comfortable. Slowly, Michael transforms this new world into a place even better than his previous one by taking ideas from the modern world and putting it in this world, with the added bonus of magic.
KangarooCruz · 6.3m Views

I reincarnated as an elf .......and married the yandere villainess.

Dr. Killian spent his life mentoring unstable minds, until one of his patients killed him. His next life begins in a fantasy world he vaguely recognizes from the same patient’s ramblings about a novel Killian never bothered to pay attention to. Reborn as Atheline Sunblade, a high elf noble from a family second only to the throne, Killian discovers his original role in the story was insignificant: he was simply the man sent to capture the villainess runaway fiancée. Determined to avoid the plot entirely, Killian plans to live quietly. Unfortunately, fate seems to have a twisted sense of humour. Instead, he casually befriends what he assumes is a normal dark elf soldier visiting the elven kingdom. She’s intense, strangely curious about him, and appears far too often for his liking , but Killian doesn’t think much of it after all every Dark elf he heard of was pushy to begin with. Until a cultural misunderstanding and several extremely unfortunate assumptions lead to one catastrophic realization. The “soldier” he’s been talking to… is actually the Dark Elf Queen. And somehow, he accidentally proposes. To make matters even more fucked up, he got a system that basically gives him useless things. ..... It will have smut scenes and I will mark them for those who don't want to read them. AUTHORS NOTE. It's wise that you read it, you might get transmigrated into the book one day if you ignore it.
Blank_eyed · 1.6m Views
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SAMBALETA

In Hell, a demon lord reaches for the throne of Lucifer, and a bolt of light that belongs to neither of them casts him across the wall of the universe. In a valley too small for any king to name, a boy carries a pie through the rain. When Etreuf, proudest of the fallen, wakes inside sixteen-year-old Elliot's body, both of them learn the terms at once: no door out, no way to part, your death is my death. The demon knows nothing of this world, its monsters ranked by letters, its seven kings crowned by strength alone, its guilds that vault weapons too dangerous to sell. The boy knows nothing of his own inheritance: an unreadable iron coin left by a mother who fled something no one remembers, and blood that two god-forged blades have been waiting eleven years to answer. Together, hostage and host, arithmetic and heart, they walk out of the valley and into the ladder of the world: a gravedigger who buries the dead for free until he owns everyone who ever handed him a body; a strongman with twenty-two years of monsters written on his skin; a courteous hollow man who plays a sleeping god like an instrument. Behind them, a company is born with a ledger anyone can sign and a name kings will laugh at. Ahead of them, a bounty with no reason on it, a temple that is a door, and a stranger with a flaming greatsword who weeps at a boy's promise. And far above all of it, something has begun, very quietly, to conduct. SAMBALETA is an epic fantasy web serial about the ladder of power and the cost of climbing it kindly.
Lazaro_Martin · 40.5k Views

One Piece: Starting Out as the Monkey King

Stranded on a deserted island as an eight-year-old boy in the brutal, monster-filled world of One Piece? Definitely not an ideal start for a transmigrator. However, fate had other plans when a careless birthday wish was granted. Armed with meta-knowledge of the future and a god-tier Devil Fruit—the Mythical Zoan: Monkey-Monkey Fruit, Model: Monkey King—the boy, now named Bardock, refuses to be a mere background character. With an indestructible body, Fiery Golden Eyes that can perceive the microscopic, and the Flying Nimbus, he tames the savage island and dives into hellish training to survive. His journey truly kicks off when he manages to hitch a ride on the Red Hair Pirates' galleon. There, he not only becomes Shanks's favorite barbecue chef but also unexpectedly awakens his own Conqueror's Haki (Haoshoku Haki) while witnessing a sky-splitting duel between Shanks and "Hawkeye" Dracule Mihawk. Now, Bardock has dropped anchor at the Sabaody Archipelago—a chaotic hub crawling with wanted pirates and corrupt World Nobles. Crewless, completely broke, and blocked by World Government bureaucracy from returning to the West Blue, Bardock has to get creative to make some quick cash. And so, an absurd legend is born. Hidden behind sunglasses and a familiar blue hat, Bardock starts cleaning the streets of low-bounty pirates in the dead of night with nothing but a metal baseball bat. Concealing his true monstrous strength, he cashes in his targets at the Marine Base under a pseudonym that will one day make a certain reindeer doctor cry in absolute frustration: "Tony Tony Chopper," the infamous bounty hunter dubbed "Blackjack Chopper." With no cheat system to hold his hand and no powerful patron to protect him, Bardock is determined to assemble his own crew and carve his name into the annals of the sea. This is the story of a boy wielding the power of the Monkey King, ready to turn the Grand Line upside down in his pursuit of absolute freedom!
lestusk · 600.7k Views

The Anti-Villain King

In 1983, the world lost its nuclear teeth and found its claws instead. Every warhead on Earth vanished overnight, leaving humanity terrified, defenseless, and desperate for a scapegoat. They found it in the NovaBreeds. Ninety-six years later, World War III is in a perpetual, bleeding stalemate. In a world where the war never ended and "heroes" traffic NovaBreeds for profit, the cost of survival is paid in blood. Governments conscript superpowered children as weapons. Corporate "heroes" smile for the cameras while secretly backed by the Big Boys—a shadow syndicate orchestrating the global trafficking of human lives to the highest bidder. Enter the Renegades. Operating from the dark edges of New Kong, this rogue unit is ready to tear a corrupt empire apart from the inside out. But lines blur, and saving the innocent in a rotten world demands crossing them. It demands killing the "untouchables"—becoming the monster everyone already fears. The heroes preach that killing is always wrong. But some evil cannot be reformed, only eliminated. Mercy has its limits. The villains claim that only power matters. But power without purpose is just destruction, and strength without conviction is meaningless chaos. The system dictates that anyone outside the law is a criminal. But when the law serves corruption, when justice is bought and sold, when the innocent suffer while the powerful profit—then the law itself is the crime. There's a space between these absolutes. A gray area where the desperate operate. Where hard choices get made, and the burden falls on those willing to carry it while everyone else debates philosophy. Because sometimes, the world doesn't need saving. It needs someone willing to burn down the parts that are rotten. Updates: Wednesday and Saturday
midmanstudio · 127.9k Views

NYXION:BLACK STAR

Long before Ilyan Corven was born, humanity nearly destroyed itself in the Destiny War. At its center were three legendary machines known as Seraphs, Frames built from a mysterious material no one has ever been able to reproduce. Their pilots changed the course of the war, but the Seraphs ultimately consumed them, and all three vanished before the conflict ended. What remained was a wounded Earth, shattered colonies, and a generation terrified of what humanity had become. In the aftermath, new treaties banned nuclear weapons, further Seraph development, human weapon experimentation, and eventually the construction of new combat Frames. Earth rebuilt beneath the newly formed Solar Federation, whose leaders believed humanity could survive only by remaining united. But as decades passed and entire generations were born in space, that unity began to feel more like ownership. Colonies became nations. Earth recovered. The Federation began calling for humanity to return home, while spaceborn societies increasingly answered that space was already their home. That divide became the Horizon War. The Ardent Coalition emerged to defend the sovereignty of the spaceborn nations, while the Federation fought to keep humanity from fracturing again. Old treaties collapsed, combat Frames returned to the battlefield, and another generation inherited a war built from memories and grievances older than they were. Fourteen-year-old Ilyan Corven grows up inside that world without believing he has much to do with it. He is far more interested in particle science than soldiers or Frames, and his talent earns him a place among five gifted students invited aboard the Federation’s newest experimental command carrier, Black Star. He is supposed to study its technology. Instead, Nexus steals the ship. Nexus is barely forty people—a scattered family of refugees, deserters, mechanics, medics, and survivors who intervene wherever the war has abandoned civilians. With Federation forces closing in and their only exceptional pilot badly wounded, Ilyan is forced into Radian , an unfinished prototype Frame built around an experimental particle-distribution system. He has never piloted a Frame before. Yet Radian moves as though it has been waiting for him. His first battle reveals a talent no fourteen-year-old should possess, and his first kill leaves him determined never to enter the cockpit again. But Black Star is damaged, its particle reserves are limited, the Federation wants its stolen weapon back, and Nexus is about to be dragged into a conflict between the independent cities of Veyra and Caldris that will make their name known across the Solar System. A war that began generations before Ilyan was born has finally reached him. And before it is over, he will have to decide whether he can remain only a boy who understands machines—or become the pilot everyone around him is beginning to believe he was meant to be.
Firedoubt12 · 18.6k Views