the forest of fireflies

After successfully graduating with a master's degree and passing the civil service exam, Chen Ying returns to his hometown's Forestry Bureau to become a wildlife rescuer. He thought his daily work would just involve saving animals and petting all sorts of furry creatures, but ever since he saved a leopard and her two cubs, his life has become incredibly busy. No one told him that the leopard's best friend was a giant panda! And that giant panda was pregnant with twins and couldn't eat bamboo because of inflamed gums. Chen Ying had to call a dentist in the middle of the night to help the pregnant panda with dental fillings and cleaning, also providing a prenatal examination. After that day, word spread among the animals in the mountains that a bipedal vet had arrived who could solve all kinds of ailments! Hold on, being single isn't a sickness and can't be cured! What's that, you wish to arrange a meeting with domesticated animals to fix your single status? Well, that might be worth considering. Unbeknownst to Chen Ying, the animal community throughout the country came to know that the bipedal vet from the Apmu Township rescue station could help solve the problem of being single. Seriously, can't we keep this on the down-low? He's a vet, not a matchmaker!

WINNER: 3rd Place, 2021 Werewolf Competition [Mature Content] After escaping suicide forest, August Moon finds that she has only gone deeper into the mysteries it holds. Lycans exist. But maybe she is something even stranger... With a clandestine experimental pandemic, a decade-old murder mystery, and a timeless prejudice against strange members within the lycan community all simmering in the periphery of her newfound surroundings, August must fight to discover her own truth alongside a fierce and possessive male who claims to be her mate.

As an ordinary wildlife rescue worker, Chen Yuan's dream was very simple: to have three meals a day and a good sleep. But when continuous heavy rain brings a Spiritual Energy Tide, and all the creatures in the world begin a whole new evolution, Chen Yuan knows it is impossible to lead an ordinary life. Fortunately, Chen accidentally awakens a system which gives him rewards when he rescues animals. 【Detected Extraordinary Creatures, Source Points can be obtained】 【With enough Source Points, a new advancement path can be unlocked】 【Chinese Village Dog】→【Condensing Wind Dog】→【Wind-controlling Dog】→【???】

They say that 90 percent of the world's oceans have been unexplored, due to just how much floor there is to cover. Imagine a world where, instead of deep trenches of water, our oceans were filled with forests—endless forests—where the further you go, the stranger, and larger the creatures become. The air growing thicker, and heavier, with the stinging sharpness of ozone; trees that stretch into the stratosphere, or bottomless muddy quagmires that are so deep that the bodies claimed can never be discovered; deer the size of whales, or bigger still, with an anomalous number of legs; the oppressive daytime darkness, never ending, due to the boundless appetite of the trees. Who knows what untold methods of ravenous mutilation might be discovered in the great beyond; or what unfathomable treasures lurk just beyond the shadow's edge. We find ourselves marooned in little islands of flat plain in the midst of miles and endless miles of oppressive wooded wilderness. Do not let the sunlight fool you. There is nothing keeping the terrors of the depths from venturing into the light.

My current situation for writing in RL is a bit chaotic. That means I might not update as quickly as I would like to, but I'll post at my usual pace of one part every other day and hope that my schedule will become more stable over time. Though if I'm late on updating, please be patient with me. It's likely because of the chaos in my life that's causing the delay. Vol 1: The Unicorn's Forest Charlie Rivers is a 14-year old girl who is trying to get through high school without being noticed when she finds herself hearing a voice asking for help when she is only one of two who can hear it. She agrees, despite the fact the other person is someone she doesn't like. When she meets the 'voice' that needed help, she learns that it's a unicorn, yet she's the only one who seems to be able to see the horn. Everyone else thinks it's a horse. Charlie also learns that by having agreed to help the unicorn, she'd gotten herself involved with a group of friends, including the other person who can hear the unicorn, that she hadn’t been really involved with before. Not only is it changing her normal schedule drastically, given she hadn’t hung out with anyone before, but even her personal space seems under attack at times. As she continues to help the unicorn, she funds that going back to how she was isn’t as attractive as it had once been, before she was helping the unicorn but also she wonders if she really would want to. *Minor spoiler in the synopsis for vol. 2 if you haven't read vol. 1* Vol 2: Tip of Other Worlds Charlie and her friends begin traveling to other worlds in search of the world that the griffin canyon connects to. While they do that, Charlie finds herself torn with wanting to grow her relationship with Alex and beginning the expedition through different worlds. Then as the expedition begins, she finds more than she ever expected to find on other worlds, but ever in the back of her mind is the dream she had in which Beth, her best friend, dies in. A dream she's determined to keep from happening, even if she has to sacrifice the friendship that's come to mean so much to her. *Minor spoilers in vol. 3 synopsis* Vol. 3: Acclimating to a New World Charlie leaves her friends and is taken by The Lost. Her friends continue on and encounter a family who has the same disease they had just recovered from. While helping them, they learn about how this world is that of a matriarchal society and has been since ancient times. What that means they can't say, only that it's going to be awkward. Charlie comes to after a while, feeling like her brain had been I'm a fog and that she had been in a waking dream, only to find she's naked and in a kind of cage where she learns she's been taken as a slave. While she has no idea how this happened, she's determined to find a chance to successfully get out of that situation. Mature content will be either through implications or will only extend to the edge of it. The cover art was ai generated. If anyone has any thoughts or comments about this book they'd like to say, but not leave a record of it here, I can be contacted at [email protected]

Karina menunggu pacarnya hampir 4 jam untuk merayakan tahun baru bersama. Namun, pacarnya tak kunjung datang dan tiba-tiba menelepon untuk meminta putus dengannya. Sumpah serapah terus keluar dari mulutnya dengan wajah berlinang air mata. Namun, alih-alih basah oleh air mata, hujan malah mengguyur Karina seperti disengaja. Lalu, seorang cowok tampan menghampiri dan memberikannya payung serta satu cup hot coffee. Tanpa berbicara apa pun. Kebaikan kecil itu membuat hatinya berdesir. Dan tanpa mereka sadari, benang takdir sudah terikat di antara keduanya. Membawa berbagai rasa, serta kenangan yang akan segera terukir. Lewat kepolosan cinta masa SMA yang penuh dengan drama dan juga ke-absurd-an teman-temannya yang juga ikut menghiasi kenangan. Ikuti kisah penuh warna mereka di sini!!

Simon merasa tak pernah merasakan cinta sekalipun dirinya telah banyak berpacaran dan tak jarang berhubungan intim dengan wanita bahkan yang umurnya jauh lebih tua darinya. Ia selalu merasa hampa dan tak mengerti apa itu cinta ? kasih sayang ? mungkin tak hanya sebatas itu. Ia menjadi dingin dan tak berperasaan. Ia telah mati rasa. Namun semua berubah saat seorang pemuda yang adalah adik tingkatnya datang untuk memintanya menjadi model majalah kampus. Pemuda tinggi dengan rambut cepak yang suka sekali membawa kamera ternyata adalah anggota club jurnalistik. Di balik lensa kamera itu, hatinya berdebar. Mungkinkah ia sedang jatuh cinta ? Pada lelaki juga ?!!! "YANG BENAR SAJA !!" "sebaiknya kau terima saja jati dirimu sebenarnya~" "Pergi atau sepatu ini akan masuk ke mulutmu !"

Zayra Choi Yaritú thought she had left Bolivia behind, until the people who raised her fall under threat. Back in Besoró, Indigenous communities and agricultural families face growing illegal land seizures tied to powerful political forces and to former president Ivor Amaro, determined to return to power. At the same time, Zayra is pushed into a strategic marriage with Ryu Kang, heir to a Korean jewelry empire seeking access to rare stones. Neither of them wanted the marriage, but the alliance may be the only way to face what is coming.

In the blood-soaked chaos of the South's Dark Forest—where Ethereal Beasts reign supreme and humans are mere prey—an undefeated professional fighter from Earth awakens in the body of a slaughtered tribe's last newborn. Betrayed by the very monsters she once protected, the Shadow Sovereign Nyxara, Apex of the forest, discovers the infant survivor. Consumed by guilt, she claims him as her own, naming him Kael and raising the boy with her own savage blood. Fed the essence of slain Ethereal Beasts, Kael's body awakens to primal power. His modern knowledge—lethal fighting techniques, tactical cunning, and forbidden wisdom from a civilized world—fuses with the forest's merciless laws. What begins as a helpless child's desperate struggle for survival slowly transforms into something far more dangerous. As Kael grows from feral boy to battle-scarred warrior, he masters the art of no-mercy combat. He hunts the hunters. He breaks the strong. And when Nyxara falls protecting him her sacrifice ignites a vow that will shake the entire South: End the chaos. Unite the tribes. Civilize the untamed.

“The forest was never silent… it was watching.” Aren Voss is nothing more than a low-rank forest ranger—tasked with patrolling the edges of a dangerous wilderness most people fear. No power. No talent. No future. At least… that’s what everyone believes. But one day, deep within the forest, a beast doesn’t run from him. It watches. And somehow… it listens. Aren soon discovers something impossible—he can communicate with beasts. Not control them. Not command them. Understand them. But in a world where beast tamers dominate through force, Aren’s ability is different. Strange. Dangerous. Because the strongest creatures in the forest aren’t looking for a master… They’re looking for someone worth acknowledging. And if he fails? The forest won’t let him leave.