MATURE
C.71 extra threeThere is always such a person in the world, his family background is better than yours, his status is higher than yours, while you work hard and think all the way up, but with just a wave of his hand, you are wiped out. What is even more sad is that he doesn’t even know who you are.
Zheng Jue met Han Jin like this but he didn’t realize this truth until he died. In the end, he had found the wrong opponent and ultimately lost his life.
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C.568A young man with an extraordinary mind is off on an exciting adventure when he mysteriously wakes up in the body of a feeble slave-guy in a different, rich in quirks world.
The main character, a selfish jerk, would use extreme means to achieve his goals. However, he never allows his base instincts to overrule his sense of decency. He always pays back both good and bad deeds.
Will his (terrible/excellent) mentality help him make a fresh start? Will he get through misfortunes and hardships of the new world?
C.131: No matter what you do, you will die.Wu Chen traveled to a new world, but he is trapped on July 7, 2020!
He indulged himself, did all kinds of evil things, ran away in despair, and even committed su*cide hundreds of times in all kinds of ways. But when the day ends, everything goes back to the beginning.
While getting stuck in the repetitive days, he spent countless days learning and studying. And so, he has mastered hundreds of languages and can communicate with 99.9% of the world’s population. He is also proficient in all mainstream musical instruments, arts, dancing, performances, shooting and martial arts… In fact, he is comparable to a master in any and every one of them.
In this way, he lived for a thousand years.
However, when a new day dawns and the sun rises as usual, the date is… July 8, 2020!
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C.4Book 5: -1: FarewellA genius magician, to fight against his fate to die a natural death from old age, grasped at the truth of magic to allow himself to reincarnate with a power he created himself.
The cycle of reincarnation is repeated multiple times and in his 31st reincarnation, the magician became a boy named Syril who lives in a village of elves.
However, that village is ruled by Humans, and the Elves are treated as livestock.
After becoming 14 years old, Syril, who regained his past knowledge and experience, stands up to help a girl, who is his childhood friend.
The story of the creation of an ideal country begins in that one village, a place where all races can coexist. Elves, Fox-girl, and various other Heroines.
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C.1378: RebirthLi Xiao Yao left S.W.A.T to become an ordinary security guard. While working, he happened to enter the VIP room and found Lin Wang Er still in the middle of changing. As revenge, she took him on a ride and kicked him out of the car.
After hours of walking, Li Xiao Yao finally managed to get back home just to be kicked out of the house. He then got an offer from his previous supervisor to become the bodyguard of the Tian Xi group CEO’s daughter both in game and in reality. But unknown to Li Xiao Yao the girl was actually…
C.312 - Bingling’s Life Or Death! Returning To Northwest ContinentFreshman student Yang Dingtian possesses the Nine Yang Body, found only 1 in million. His Yang Fire is incomparably vigorous and thus, he cannot be near a female’s charms for his entire life. On the night of his 19th birthday, he decided to bid farewell to his virgin life. After stealing and tasting the forbidden fruit, he spontaneously combusted as the result!
C.54 - V3C28: My Girlfriend Was a Savior (2)That day, my head was struck by an unknown object, and after I woke up, I realized that I’m able to, through titles, understand a person’s truest side.
C.1901: Go on A Long JourneyLong ago, there were people who stood upon the earth with their heads held high. They never bowed to anyone because of their indomitable spirit. They were capable of controlling wind and lightning, and conquering dragons and serpents. They seemed strong enough to split the earth and shatter the stars with their fists. They traveled throughout the land and called themselves Magi. Eventually, one of them would become a Supreme Magus! These men are the ancestors of human beings. Their blood is what we all share today.
Qing Long is the former strongest man in the world. He traveled through space and time and was reborn as Ji Hao in the Fire Crow Clan of the Southern Wasteland. It’s a complicated world. Forces from both inside and outside of the clan want this young and talented boy to die. Under great pressure, Ji Hao makes a deal with a mysterious man, who resides in his spiritual space, never showing his real face. He gains two drops of blood from a dragon and phoenix. Afterwards, Ji Hao becomes increasingly more powerful.
C.772: Filial Piety (1)Demons, devils, ghosts and monsters
Plunge the mortals weak in horrors;
Arms of gods and blades of devils,
Shroud the world in untold evils.
Lu Sheng was an ordinary civil servant in the modern world. After waking from a drunken stupor one day, he found himself trapped in a dangerous world where demons, ghosts and supernatural monsters terrorize the land.
In this world, ordinary mortals live in dark fear and helplessness, without any means to fight against the supernatural.
As Lu Sheng struggles desperately for survival, he stumbles upon a game mod he had designed for a mobile phone app in his previous life. It unexpectedly becomes his special ability, which enables him to instantly level up any skill he learns, albeit at a cost.
Thus, Lu Sheng begins his journey, striving for power beyond the reach of a mortal as he treads the way of the Devil…
C.1470I fell in love. Her name was Shirasaka Yukino. I could only look at her from a distance. However one day I heard that she already had a boyfriend. Even if I love her, I can’t have her. The devil sent me an invitation. I can make her mine!
Volume 5 C.3 part2Junpei Takeda, a high school student, is childhood friends with Noriko Tatsumiya and is bullied by Kido Shouta. One day, while bullying Junpei, they (Junpei, Tatsumiya, & Shouta) were suddenly summoned to a different world by the whim of “God”. Summoned Heroes with cheats, or so he thought. But it turns out Junpei’s stats were even worse than an average farmer. Tricked into a deathly labyrinth by the only one he trust, he walks the journey for revenge.
C.864 FinaleWe attend school, find love, work, buy a house, pay our housing loans, insert weird faces in WeChat, watch movies… do any of you find anything amiss? One day, a group of strange people entered this world, equipped in strange clothing and possessing extraordinary powers, cold-blooded killers! They call themselves [Players].
C.127 Persuasion to go“But he is a good man,” she argued to see his eyes narrow at her words.
C.211 (END)“Miss, since you came back, every three days there will be someone who start a rumor to slander you……”
C.153 (END) - Extra 2
C.530 - The Rise (7)He doesn’t know why his mind has been transferred into that of a petty thief named Soran within the VRMMO . The new ‘Soran’ though possesses both the body’s previous occupant’s memories and his own. Using his experience as a Legendary Rogue who had reached the apex known as the Realm of Legends, he will now have to survive in this world which had once been a game to him.
C.566“Hey, hurry up and massacre those bandits!”
C.143The notorious firearms crime lord Chen Zhang An a.k.a Old Fox was placed under house arrest by the very successor he groomed.
C.125.1Yamagata Tatsumi and his family were traveling in their car when a wild truck smashed into their car. But wait! The MC wasn’t dead yet, his entire family was though. With his entire family dead and relatives abandoning him, the only one remaining by his side was his pet cockatiel. For a year he lived only with his pet, who had been with him since childhood. But finally, her lifespan reached its end and she died in his arms.
C.289 - Down"Be my son's mother."
C.1333 The EndI was a genius in the Earthen Plane.
C.224: I can offer you a princedomTake a look at the cover. Now take a look at the synopsis. Now take a look at the cover once again. Did you manage to see anything else outside of two big plots on it already? Then let me tell you this - if I'm willing to use this great cover for this novel, then surely as heck I am confident in the first chapter making you read more!
C.263: Man Who Has Done Nothing For Ten Thousand Years (1)Enemy of the world, cursed by all, Kim Sungchul goes on a quest to prevent the ‘prophecy of the end’ from coming to pass.
But no matter how much he raised his strength, there were still some things he could not achieve with physical strength alone.
Resolving to obtain the power of magic, he goes into hiding to learn magic from his most hated of enemies, The Mages.
C.294The witch, Elonora Asil, has fifteen previous convictions.
And the transmigrator, Noah Park, had no intentions of being involved in the novel’s original plot of the dragon beheading the villainess. With that thought in mind, she abandoned her titles as The Wicked Witch and sought to live a long and peaceful life.
So she heads down to the countryside wrought with deep remorse for all her misdeeds. And all should be happy… or she thought.
“Please raise me!”
And so it would seem that she stumbled upon the heroine’s pet dragon — the black-haired kid that would turn ballistic and obsessive later on — imprinted the villainess as his mother. And to make matters worse, the male lead suspects her as the prime culprit of stealing the dragon.
“How long should I keep up with you?”
She thought he’d arrest her right away, but seems like the male lead was slowly becoming the dragon’s butler.
“Can I hug you?”
“No.”
“Then… can you hold me?”
The villainess believes that the dragon needs a bit of taming.
‘Oh, male lead, won’t you sign a life contract as a real butler?
C.152: Blood Covenant“I, Evelyn Felice will abdicate as the Empress.”
“You’re giving up your fortune without my permission, and you’re happy at will.”
But a year later, like a coincidence, Fabian appeared again.
“Our relationship is done…Please stop.”
“I seemed to be the one who would do that. Everything…I decide.”
The relationship, which was thought to have been neatly arranged, began to get entangled again. Fabian’s indifferent eyes were burning hot toward Evelyn.
C.192: Letting Go of Her Inner DemonsCrying blood and tears, she pledged a poisonous vow. The gods did not fail her. She was sent back to a decade ago. The legitimate daughter of Jiang family returned from hell.
Forget it, whatever! Since they already claimed that she was a temptress that wrecked the country, she shall overturn the world into complete chaos starting with her beguiling sister, her malicious stepmother, her cruel lover and her heartless family. Let her end the lives that Yama refused to end.
She was a pawn in her past life. In this life, however, the world was her chess board. With an alluring smile and a charming figure that enchanted the entire nation, the red-clothed woman wrecked chaos among the lands. She was a vengeful spirit from hell, determined to make those who wronged her pay in blood.
“I want those who owe me a life debt to hold their hearts out in front of me. I want those who looked down on me to only be able to admire me. I want Lord Zhong Zi to shiver when he sees me. I want to step on this splendid river and mountains!”
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“You are a temptress and I am a thief.” His robe was as dark as the night and his gaze was as cold as the Northern Star. “A perfect match.”
Her red dress was akin to fire, but her heart was the coldest ice in the winter.
He was stoic in his black robe, yet he was willing to warm her frozen heart.
In this life, the elegant man seemed like a snowy bamboo grove with tall, chilly mountains, walking step by step towards her like an unstoppable force.
“Ruan Ruan, if you hate the world, then I shall conquer the lands with you.”
“What if I love the world?” She asked.
“I am the world, so you can only love me,” he answered.
C.38 This script was originally supposed to be about a Scum Gong x Cheap Shou — the Scum Gong abuses the Cheap Shou, the Cheap Shou became hopelessly apathetic, the Scum Gong became a Cheap Gong, and the Cheap Shou abuses the Cheap Gong.
That should have been the case!!!!!
But the script began to unfold—-
The Scum Gong was reborn to the past, and encountered the Cheap Shou who also got reborn.
The Scum Gong was horrified to discover that the Cheap Shou had changed his job and became a beast-like, ruthless, blackened Gong, ahhhhh help!
The f*cking miserable Scum Gong was taken and defiled, then defiled and taken, then after being taken from the front he was taken from the back, and finally he was taken into a loyal dog, sensual, tsundere Shou!
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C.667 Time and space demon bookThe formless ancient world was infested with despicable demons. They hunted and feasted on mankind, keeping the human civilization constantly in a weak and suppressed state.
During the first known year, a magical mountain descended into the world from the realm of the Gods. Carved on this enormous mountain was a message: ‘Heaven Prevails’…
After the Grand Descent, a name that was given to the descending of the mountain, the Three Great Sages made their ways to Mystic Mountain where they learned to harvest what we now call magic, establishing the Mystic Cults and eighty-one sacred shrines to help aid mankind with the cult’s mystic powers against the eternal fight to the death with demons.
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C.106 ExtraordinaryThe frail and sickly Wen Jiexi had always wanted one thing: a healthy body and like a dream come true, one day, she was selected by the system!
System: The amazing me shall grant you a strong physique and divine strength! However, you have to maintain your health through monthly missions! If you fail to complete them~well, then you’ll stay as a female King Kong, forever~
Wen Jiexi: What?! Will I no longer be able to live my life freely again?!!
Mother with an alarmed expression: My frail daughter is actually trying to do the most sit-ups possible?!
Father made a strange face: My delicate daughter ran on the treadmill for an hour?!
Brother’s expression crumbled: Can anyone tell him how his cute little sister who is as precious as a delicate white flower…was actually able to use one punch to break a sandbag and smash a hole through the wall!!!
Through a series of unexpected circumstances, she was pulled into the entertainment industry and became a female martial artist!
Female Fan: Our darling Wen is the most awesome! She’s even more handsome than a man!
Male Fan: The girls today are so domineering! To be able to throw away all of one’s shame, I want that feeling too!
The frozen expression after being hugged by the princess from behind: …..
Wen Jiexi held up a hand: No, no, no! It’s not like that!
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C.56 [Fan articles] Zhao Yuxiang's diary (four) ordinary dayShi Qing Xia is practically an angel.
Kind, sweet-hearted, and good at her studies, she was admitted to the top university in Taipei.
However, the living expenses for the metropolitan city were far greater than she had ever imagined, so she started to work as a private tutor for wealthy families to make ends meet.
On her first day of work, she met Zhao Yi Bo and Zhao Yi Xuan, a pair of neglected 16-year-old genius twins whose prosperous and wealthy parents heartlessly abandoned in Taiwan. Shi Qing Xia found them to be gentle, compassionate, friendly, clever, mysterious, pitiful and attractive.
But appearances can be very deceiving…
Because behind those sweet smiles…
Deeply twisted and cruel demons lurked, waiting to rip apart the wings of this angel, condemning her to an eternity of conflicted bittersweet suffering — a rollercoaster ride of a heart-wrenching, twisted, and tragic romance more extreme than what someone so innocent could possibly imagine.
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~ Section)Lu Zixin has a Black Technology Chat Group of the Ten Thousand Realms , and the group members are the science and technology giants of the world.
Tony Stark : “Group owner, I will send this War Machine Mark II Armor to you!”
Red Queen : “Group owner, do you want to try the latest T virus ?”
Skynet : “Group owner, where is your world? I am going to destroy it.”
Bruce Wayne : “The Batmobile is simply used to pick up girls and today I have a great girl. Do you want to see it ?”
Vega Punk : “Recently synthesized a new demon fruit, does the group want to try an experiment ?”
Little Spidey : “I don’t care, I don’t care, do not send me the red envelope, I will retreat!”
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Lu Zixin : “A group of lawless people, be careful with me!”
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C.1622 Supreme honor (end)Zhuang Feng is in his last year of high school, and he’s just moved to the city. He lives with his good-for-nothing cousin, who’s always on business trips falling for get-rich-quick scams, and his Saozi (sister-in-law), who tries to make his life miserable as much as possible. There’s one upside, though; she. is. freaking. hot. But one day, he found a piece of her underwear in the bathroom…. And unfolded a series of events that will turn his life upside down.
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~ The daily life of an ordinary person (8)In the waves of steam and machinery, who could achieve extraordinary? In the fogs of history and darkness, who was whispering? I woke up from the realm of mysteries and opened my eyes to the world.
Firearms, cannons, battleships, airships, and difference machines. Potions, divination, curses, hanged-man, and sealed artifacts… The lights shone brightly, yet the secrets of the world were never far away. This was a legend of the “Fool”.
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v6 C.1158 redemptionA relaxing story of a business tycoon who, sick of machinations and struggle, returned to the medieval world and married into a merchant family to become a “zhui xu,” a husband that lives in the wife’s home. Even though his intentions were not so, he could not avoid the matters of family, country and world.
“There was once a person that stood at the top of the golden pyramid,
with the innumerable cheap jealousy and envy of people,
he walked this road escorted by tens of thousands of people,
yet he could not escape the long and lonely sleep under the gravestone. ”
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C.135 Fanwaidi HouxinfanOne morning, after being bound to the system, MC started his routine of always being captured/ attacked by the ML.
It doesn’t matter if he transmigrated into the ML’s little brother (TN: Here I think brother disciple) or master or opponent, but in the end he is still forcibly taken by the ML.
After transmigrating to many worlds:
MC: Come out system!!! The heck?! Why do these MLs not love their female goddesses, but insist on doing it with me! Aaaaahh!!!
System: …. __(:3」∠)_ Don’t ask me, I also don’t know.
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C.582 Reincarnation and death fist [full book]Master martial artists were beings that no one can obstruct. A martial arts expert has been reborn into the body of a genius whose cultivation has been abolished and has been abandoned by a woman. Therefore, he starts cultivating the art of Xing Yi Quan, producing a solar system within his dantian. His innate talent tramples over all the geniuses, and even the geniuses among geniuses.
His powerful spirit and ruthless and ambitious nature, no matter who he is reborn into, will never change! Slaughter is instinctive, being cold-blooded is his personality, exterminating an entire family is only a means towards a goal, cruelty means infamy, and chasing after women… is just an interest.
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v2 C.3 He Zhongqiu · Frost in the Moon and Moon in the Doo Juan · Next · Ancient Chapters · —Autumn Festival · The Complete Text—In the year of 2013, the tide of zombies outbreak exploded in everyone homeland, humanity launches a large-scale battle in the endless nights awaiting for the arrival of the dawn.
The end is approaching, is there going to be a way out for them?
Their faiths were shattered into pieces and buried in ashes in the raging fire.
But within the blazing fire, a newborn hope arise once again.
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AfterwordPain, Pain, Go Away is a novel by Sugaru Miaki, also known as Fafoo, author of Starting Over and Three Days of Happiness. Unlike Miaki’s previous two books, Pain, Pain, Go Away is not a rewrite of any story posted to 2ch, but an entirely original one.
The plot involves a young man who becomes a killer (by accident) – but his victim has the power of “postponement,” temporarily delaying her death.
C.726 Make it right (below)A lowly child beggar, a noble prince, a monster viewed as the enemy of the entire world. If you possess all three identities at the same time, which identity would you choose to help you earn a better ending?
Thales did not have the answer.
He only knew that he came to a different and magnificent world, and he had to face a future that was as difficult to handle as a nightmare.
The glorious Empire had already been destroyed for one thousand years, the dying royal family suffered many problems, the legendary sacred battle had plenty of conspiracies, the divided world was in chaos.
But Thales had nothing.
The only thing he had left was an unswerving determination to preserve his own identity, bravery which would allow him to survive in a perilous situation, and a belief that he would never submit to principles he did not believe.
“A King does not gain respect by virtue of his bloodline. The bloodline’s glory rests on the deeds of the King.”
Darkness will baptize light. Fire will create true steel. The forbidden prince’s story starts here.
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~ Happy lifeThe enchanting and beautiful big brother’s mouth lifted up into a demonic smile, spitting out cruel and sorrowful words. “Take it out, don’t leave an intact corpse!”
The cold second brother with the icy eyes continuously bled alongside the dying and suffering man.
Their eyes were purple and enchanting. They were this world’s devils, banished by the people.
When they gained strength, they retaliated by destroying the heavens and exterminating the earth.
She was a girl who mistakenly entered another world. She’s their salvation and is the only one that must be obtained at all costs.
Overbearingly possessive and absolutely unrestrained indulgent pampering as long as she stayed by their side.
A gentle as jade man, a faint and dedicated guard.
There were those who liked it silent.
What is the type of love?
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AfterwordAnother entry in what you can call the Proto Harem Series: the books written before the Harem Series that take place in the same world.
It’s about a swordswoman whose student is captured, so she goes to rescue her.
C.242Will, an aspiring director and a college student was busy dreaming about becoming a successful figure in Hollywood when he found himself on an alternate earth.
The world is almost the same, but wait... all the celebrities, brands, and even renowned works from his world are no more!?
Armed with the Hollywood System, Will Evans will rise to the very pinnacle of stardom.
MCU and DC? I will create them!
F.R.I.E.N.D.S and the Office? I will write them!
Harry Potter and the Lord Of The Rings? I will direct them!
v6 C.3299 The Secret of Breaking BarriersThe status of a wizard is transcendent in all continents and in the universal plane.
Mysterious, wise, cruel and bloodthirsty are synonymous with wizards. But what does a real wizard look like?
After coming into contact with the world of wizards, Angel came to the conclusion:
Wizards are a group of people who illuminate themselves with intellect-driven ideas, but are in a dialectical world with a materialistic attitude.
In other words, this is a group of alternative scientists who walk alone in a rigorous manner in the pursuit of understanding reality.
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Multiple worlds, boundless overlap. Under the guidance of intelligent creatures, they have walked out of their respective paths of civilization.
Among them, the wizard world, with its unique cultivation of civilization, runs through the endless plane.
Even if the wizard world is so strong, the reality of the universe, is that the mysteries of the dimension are still unbreakable.
Until, a multiverse traveler, visited this side of the world. (The traveler is not the protagonist, the traveler is not the protagonist , the traveler is not the protagonist, things that are important are said three times!)
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C.1702 Menacing (7) (2)The celestial celestial beings who lived for more than 100,000 years were born and reborn in a small monk in a human world.
His motto: “It’s not as good as a medicinal medicine for ten years of hard work.” “Even if you practice a copper-iron bone, it’s not enough for my soldier’s attack.”
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C.773 Luan Hualie is just too pitiful! She was just playing a game when she was suddenly transported into another world to become the Young Miss. Just this is okay, but she actually doesn’t have the slightest bit of power!
However, at this moment she had long stopped being the originally powerless eldest young miss. Mythical weapons and pets in her hand, what is there to fear underneath the heavens?
She rose above the mountains and brought down the oceans, and even more so subdued great amounts of devil beasts and holy beasts!
When she swept away the entire continent with her powerful and imposing manner, who could tell she was originally that ridiculous eldest young miss of Lu Family?
He, the prince of Qin, a black-bellied little shotacon, played the pig to eat the tiger. In the midst of the collisions and crossing of swords, how did his mind and body fall into enemy hands?
He, the spawn of the devil, slaughtered and felled the whole world. Without heart, without emotion, without desire. A long contest, countless fights. Why did a brilliant ray of light start to penetrate that frozen world of his?
He, the beautiful man saved from the slave market, obviously had excellent martial arts. Yet, how was he reduced to the most inferior slave? Faced with her salvation, why were his thoughts in a whirl?
And there was still him!
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C.2049 Eternal Kingdom (the finale)Jiang Bai woke up one day and found with shock that he had transmigrated to a parallel world that is similar to Earth. There, he was granted a cheat system to help him forge the path of a tyrant in this new world. He was now stuck in this parallel world body, the body of a weak and cowardly person. Join Jiang Bai as he rose to the top in this new world!
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C.171 Wei Shao’s part.
At first, Marquis of Yan, Wei Shao, was advised to marry the Qiao’s daughter : “The Qiao’s family has been in the Eastern County for three generations, although declining, but deeply honored, like the hundred-foot insects that die but not stiff. My Lord is majestic and powerful. The family of Qiao has begged the Lord, so why not take the daughter of the Qiao family and use her?”
Later, Wei Shao finally understood and hit his own face. It’s hurt, really hurt.
Xiao Qiao’s part.
Hmm, men are indeed cheap bones. The Emperor is the same.
……
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C.319‘Lil Schweiz’, a famous pirate in the southern seas.
While on a smooth voyage, shocking news fell upon her.
“The Admiral is coming.”
Despite the hot weather, chills ran down her spine. Lil took her eyes off her hands and looked up at Alain, the boatswain.
Not that she didn’t hear him, but she wanted to check again.
“Who?”
“The Admiral of the Peninsula! That madman! Admiral Retiro!”
That infamous admiral, known for skinning the heads of pirates he captured and throwing their limbs as food for the cannibal fish, the one with an eccentric and bizarre reputation will come to the South.
“It will be for the best to not cross his path. We should get out of here before he arrives!”
But there’s one thing that Lil doesn’t know…
[I, Lil, are notifying you, Ed, that you’ve been punished respectfully according to the Sesbron etiquette.] …It’s a setup!
“I’m glad I have a role in this interesting play.”
He briefly looked up at the sunlight passing through the huge veil. The sky above his head soon became covered in several ivory lights.
“It’s a good one, it’s going to be a lot of fun.”
A marine romance fantasy between a pirate captain and the admiral!
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‘Forbidden romance on the high seas!
It was all smooth sailing for Lil Schweiz, a famous pirate captain, until some shocking news almost threw her overboard. The notorious Admiral Retiro, known for scalping and feeding his pirate captives to flesh-eating fish, is on his way… And he’s coming for one thing only.’