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【Gunfight + Mystery-solving + Decisive Killing】 I had already been backstabbing the underworld, and now you're telling me I was planted as an undercover cop??? Dean looked at the boss with eyes that would not close in death, scratched his head, and could only take the opportunity to transform into Los Angeles' five-star good citizen—Detective Dean! Ps: There's nothing supernatural, but there is a dark world out of our ordinary reach, filled with assassins, thieves, and all kinds of bizarre cases...

Zhang Jian crossed into a world of immortals... So do you think that the next thing that will happen is that the protagonist will go through a life and death duel and eventually become a dominant party, or some other cliches growth plot? No. Although this is a world full of cultivators and demons, Zhang Jian always thought he lived in an ordinary world. In the eyes of others, he is a hidden master who doesn't like to fight, a compassionate person who doesn't want to see killing. Outside, his partners have already been in wars with the enemy, while our protagonist is still in sweet dreamland. As the saying goes, the storm's eye is the most peaceful location, and the protagonist is in this.

Quinn is everything I’ve ever wanted and never deserved. She’s the best friend, the best person, I’ve known in my entire life. Problem is, there’s always someone between us: Nate, our other friend. I know Quinn's heart is mine, but she cares for him, too. Oh, and then there’s my other love-football. With all of these obstacles, sometimes it feels like Quinn and I will never find our happy ending. But I’m not giving up on us. Contains sexual scenes and explicit content; recommended for those 18 and over. KEEPING SCORE is created by TAWDRA KANDLE, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

Experiment Z_0:00, a human weapon created for war, was killed by his creator who regrets not giving him the peaceful life he deserves. He finds himself back to the day of his first mission, he already knew how it was going to happen. Things don't go the way he was expecting them to and he is captured by the enemy with his creator giving him a chance to live peacefully. But that proved to be impossible after the first month or so, and his creator decided to enroll him at a military academy. Maybe he'll fit in more there. Unfortunately, things don't always go as planned.

Ethan Yip was the sergeant detective of the Homicide Unit with the Hong Kong Police Department. With the sudden disappearance of his girlfriend of two years, Anita Mak, he became emotionally unavailable and was often unable to control his temperamental mood. That was until a clinical psychologist, Gillian Chan, came along. Over a course of events, the two eventually developed a close and intimate relationship. After dating for a couple of years, Ethan finally proposed to Gillian. Just when he and Gillian were making plans for their big wedding day, Anita resurfaced and was rescued from the abductor at large. When the truth about how Anita had sacrificed her life to save Ethan’s life over the last 3 years by pretending to be in love with her abductor, Gillian felt her future with Ethan as husband and wife was once again on rocky ground. Thinking Ethan would never be able to live with himself if he were to leave Anita after finding out the truth behind her 3-year disappearance, Gillian felt she had to be the one to make the difficult choice in severing from this somewhat triangular relationship. In order to detach her feelings for Ethan, she kept telling herself that he had never truly let go of his hope of finding Anita from the start of their relationship; even during the time when they were together as a couple about to be married. Gillian convinced herself that Ethan was still in love with Anita after all these years. Finally, she made a decision to move on and told Ethan that they would remain friends forever. She decided heading oversea was the best course of action to take. Total 45 Chapters

“You want me to study, Tutor? Simple. Score a goal on me. If you miss, you leave and keep your mouth shut.” Roxy Brooks is the smartest student at Kingston Academy, a school for the ultra-rich. She isn’t there to make friends or find love. She is on a strict scholarship, working hard to save her family from heavy debt. Jaxon Montgomery is the school’s golden boy—the rich, wild captain of the hockey team who is about to ruin his own future. He is failing his classes, and his coach gives him a final warning: get a tutor, or get kicked off the team. Roxy needs the high-paying tutoring job, but Jaxon doesn’t want her help. To scare her off, he locks her on the cold, empty ice rink. He tells her she has to score a goal against him to make him study. She fails completely. But instead of letting her quit, Jaxon is excited by how she refuses to back down. So, he offers her a new, dangerous deal. Every time she fails to score a goal, she has to pretend to be his girlfriend to trick the school board and keep his strict family off his back. In return, he will let her tutor him so she can keep her paycheck. But as their fake public kisses start to feel very real, the game changes. They are supposed to be acting, but behind closed doors, things are getting fast, intense, and deeply personal. Roxy wanted to save her future—but she might just lose her heart to a rich jock who plays dirty on and off the ice.

Detective Emma Reed moves to the quiet town of Lakeview for peace — and finds ritualistic murder instead. Elderly residents are turning up dead, each body carved with a precise musical symbol. Not random. Not chaotic. Part of a composition. As Emma investigates, she uncovers whispers of a forgotten cult that believed music could purify the soul — a cult that vanished decades ago, but never truly died. The killer’s messages grow bolder. Notes become motifs. A pattern begins to form. Then Emma meets Adrian Hale — a brilliant, enigmatic pianist whose music feels hauntingly familiar. Drawn to him against her better judgment, she doesn’t realize she’s stepping into the center of the symphony. Someone is composing something in blood. The anthem is almost complete. And Emma was never just the detective — she was always the final note.

The world indeed is a dark place... Humans mind is just like an egg which the inner part cannot be seen to know if it's either good or bad

Late that night, I was scrolling through an anonymous forum called "Gotham Gossip" when a post titled "How a Wall Street Elite Played Me for a Fool" caught my eye. [I’d been with my boyfriend for eight months when he dumped me out of the blue, saying I was “eliminated” from his “wife trial.” I found out it’s some kind of sick game his whole Wall Street circle plays. They date a bunch of women at the same time, give them scores, and cut whoever “underperforms” until they pick a winner to marry.] It sounded absolutely absurd. I couldn’t help but rip into the scumbag in the comments. Then I saw a reply from my boyfriend's assistant, Elise Pierce. [Well, for a guy with his status and wealth, it makes sense. A high-value man like him needs a vetting process.] I rolled my eyes in disbelief. Just as I was about to fire back, I heard the front door of the apartment open. I had been with Dorian Hawthorne for five years. He had always been gentle, considerate, and doted on me. I had already decided that the moment he proposed, I would confess my true identity—that I was the heiress to an East Coast shipping empire. I never imagined a single glance at a screen could shatter my world. But as I watched, a message notification lit up the living room’s massive TV. [You hooked up with Elise again today? And you gave her that high of a score? Keep this up and Juliet’s gonna be out of the running!]

Yunyun is reincarnated into a post-apocalyptic novel with a powerful female protagonist. Unfortunately, she isn’t the heroine. She’s just a minor cannon fodder character… destined to die early. But after awakening memories of the novel, Yunyun accidentally reveals the future through her thoughts— [Mommy, boohoo… your scumbag husband has been cheating on you for years and even has a child with another woman. In the end, they’ll join forces to cripple and torture you to death!] [Uncle, you’ll be betrayed by an ungrateful subordinate and driven out of your own luxurious home, left to freeze to death in the snow!] [Grandpa… Grandma…] In the original story, only her young aunt—the novel’s female lead—survives to the very end, killing her enemies with her own hands… only to live on as something neither fully human nor a ghost. Before they can recover from learning their fates, another thought leaks out— [Sigh, the apocalypse is coming soon. As a three-year-old cannon fodder, can I go offline early? I don't want to suffer through the end of the world…] Looking at the little milk dumpling in their arms, pretending to be silly just so she can laze around… What else can the Bai family do but spoil her? They hoard supplies, renovate and fortify their home, and prepare in advance for the coming apocalypse. Meanwhile, little Yunyun follows her protagonist aunt, accidentally kicking off the base-building plot and helping create a super base where food and clothing are abundant, even in the apocalypse. Step by step, the Bai family rises to power. In the end, Yunyun is dumbfounded: [Wait… wasn't I supposed to be cannon fodder?! Why does this feel like a "pampered lucky baby" story?!] The Bai family: Their little Yunyun is, indeed, their precious lucky baby.