auntie bells

After Flora Fluss burns down the kitchen, her son insists she is too old to live alone. She's got two choices. Either move into a retirement home or spend the rest of her life within a virtual reality game governed by society's most advanced artificial intelligence. When you've worked a lifetime as an engineer for home appliances, naturally, you go with the option that has more toasters. Soon, Flora finds out that the virtual world is more familiar than she thought. Though, it takes her a while to get used to the idea that tanks don't hold water or oil but the aggro of mobs. Auntie toasts the VRMMORPG contains cute crafting, complicated game-mechanics plus how to exploit them, unconventional training methods, and a lot of toasters. Release: Mondays and Thursdays You can find the tables (stat-tables, this is LitRPG) and additional pictures, videos and information at my Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/Joanninjahen Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/joanninjahen Discord: https://discord.gg/hX8gWPE My HP (a few pics for ATTV are there too): https://joanninjahen.com/ Glossary: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G328koRfV-lxk-uSx1BYY9DMrvh349l3h8bqjA5xb1k/edit?usp=sharing

Once a devoted monk, now exiled and nameless, Sanwu walks through the ruins of a world he helped break. Branded The Unbound, haunted by dreams that aren't his own, he alone hears the bells that no longer ring. When a girl with a cursed spirit crosses his path, and a child who whispers to ghosts begins to follow, Sanwu finds himself at the heart of a growing storm. Relic hunters chase echoes of power. A death cult rises in the ashes. And the War God he once released threatens to rise again. To stop it, Sanwu must sacrifice more than his past. He must decide if redemption is worth becoming no one at all. A quiet, spiritual fantasy about memory, guilt, and the weight of names. When the bells call again, will he answer? A Korean-inspired dark fantasy.

Imagine you're a guy who's about to graduate from college, but when you're nearing the end of college your life changes around because you've just broken up with your girlfriend who you've been with for over three years. For the city people, this might be a common story, but not for Joseph, 22 years old guy who was born in a not-so-old-school village, but this virgin guy has never experienced heartbreak. In the end, he decided to go to the city to find a new atmosphere, how common is that? But when he reunites with his aunt, who is only seven years apart in age, Joseph feels the love in his heart again. His aunt is an introverted woman who used to be a professional writer. She hasn't been writing for two years due to the past. This story brings together two people who have both lost their passion because of past traumas and also brings them together to tell the story of their relationship in the past that was stopped but now finally blossoms again. This story will be told from the first point of view of each character, with Joseph as the main character.

Max Futé and Avery “Smitty” Schmidt are both doctors who work for the Washington Bureau of Intelligence and Security. They’ve settled into a comfortable relationship, and although Max assures him otherwise, Smitty is waiting for the other shoe to drop. That will be when Charles Browne, Max’s former lover, realizes what he’s let slip through his fingers and comes to take Max back.<br><br>Although Charles had enjoyed having Max in his bed, he’s always declared he wasn’t gay. And finding solace with other men after Max left him had nothing to do with ... anything. Now, however, he’s found a woman who ticks all his boxes in spite of her somewhat kinky tastes.<br><br>Will Santa give them each what they want most this Christmas?

The Dark Cycle: Li Nanfang's Rebirth Introduction In a world where the line between reality and myth is blurred, Li Nanfang is born with a rare and mysterious condition known as "dark cycle aging." Unlike normal aging, Li Nanfang rapidly deteriorates, aging decades within a few years. By the age of 5, he appears to be an old man, frail and decrepit. The setting is a dystopian world filled with supernatural forces and ancient curses. Society is divided into powerful factions, each with its own agenda. Li Nanfang's parents, desperate to save him, seek help from a mysterious sorcerer who reveals that his condition is tied to an ancient curse. The sorcerer warns them that Li Nanfang's fate is intertwined with the fate of the world.......

When you hear a bell, what comes to your mind? A joyous and exciting celebration, right? But what if it turned the tables upside down? Run! Before it catches you, hide when the bell starts to ring or else, you'll face the tragic ending of your life.

When twenty-four-year-old Ethan Crawford loses his job and faces eviction from his modest apartment in New York City, he turns to the only family he has left—his enigmatic and wildly successful aunt, Vanessa Whitmore. Vanessa is a stunning, fiercely independent billionaire who made her fortune in fashion, and though she’s always kept her distance, she offers Ethan a luxurious place to stay in her penthouse overlooking Manhattan. But nothing prepares Ethan for what one night under her roof will reveal. What starts as an innocent dinner turns into a seductive dance of secrets, desires, and blurred boundaries. Vanessa is elegant, commanding, and unapologetically sensual. Ethan is young, curious, and overwhelmed by the magnetic pull between them. When a moment of vulnerability leads to a passionate night neither of them expected, they must confront the truth: are they simply satisfying a forbidden craving—or awakening a love they’ve both denied for far too long? A Night with My Billionaire Auntie is a sizzling, emotionally intense tale of desire, power, and taboo love set against a backdrop of wealth, loneliness, and unexpected emotional connection. Every page is a mix of heat and heart, pushing the limits of love and morality.

Thomas dies under the Paris Métro—Subway-kun, as the internet would say—and wakes in Lutetia Parisiorum, a city of bells, bones, and living myths. The river Sequana offers terms: take the power, keep the ledger, pay the cost. With a fused core of shadow (his Confluence), Thomas binds fallen foes as Umbrae, fights with stealth and precision, and braves Catacomb penalties when quests go wrong. In this city, every choice is priced—Credit for clean saves, Debt for collateral—and the ledger quietly changes his odds. Family comes first: Christian, Patricia, and big brother Thibault. And a sharp, skeptical girl named Michelle might, eventually, matter too. Progression fantasy with status panes [SEQ], Parisian myth, capture mechanics, and a rule-bending trump card. No harem. Just a cold mind learning where mercy beats math.

In 1719, the pirate age is dying and the island of Veyra is running out of borrowed time. Eighty years ago, shipwrecked survivors made a secret bargain with the sea: land, water, and life in exchange for returning a stolen sacred zemí when the debt came due. But the truth was buried, the idol was broken, and Veyra grew rich on piracy, lies, forbidden desire, and blood-soaked freedom. Now Benjamin Hornigold arrives under a new flag, warning that Nassau has fallen and the old pirate world is over. At the same moment, a bell rings from beneath Fort Gracia, a bell no living hand has touched. Mariana Corda Ward, trapped between her powerful husband and his dangerous brother, discovers that her family's secrets may be tied to the island's curse. As forbidden love, political betrayal, hidden sins, and restless dead rise together, Veyra must face the truth it buried.

"Sign the papers. You are infertile and useless." Kicked out by her husband and his pregnant mistress, Aria Lin turns to the only man who can help her exact ultimate revenge: Julian Qin. He is a ruthless billionaire, the city's "Demon King," and her ex-husband’s youngest, most powerful Uncle. Aria proposes a contract marriage: "I get revenge; you get a wife to stop your family's nagging." She thought it was just business, but at the next family banquet, Julian shocks the world. When her ex-husband sneers at her return, Julian pulls Aria into his arms. "Mark, is this how you speak to your Elder?" Julian’s voice drops dangerously low. "Kneel down and pour tea for your new Aunt." From discarded wife to the family's most pampered matriarch—revenge has never been this sweet.