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by: 내츄럴향기 『Pressing this button will transport you into the world of the genre I write. (You can leave once the story is finished. But if it’s not completed, who knows.)』 A silly post that appeared on my social media timeline. The problem was that anything seemed interesting during exam period. I quickly pressed ‘Share’ and called my friends to chat, then I must have fallen asleep… I should have fallen into a deep slumber just like that. “Chirp.” What? “Cheep!” What?! Where am I?

“Thank you for calling Centerburg Bank and Credit account management. This is Leigh, how may I help you?!” For the millionth time since I started this job, I wonder how I got stuck here in my hometown, when all my other high school friends, even my old crush Donovan, managed to go on to do so many more cool things in way better places. “Hey, Leigh, how was your weekend?” A voice like smoke and velvet flows through the headset that soothes my Lycan ears. Butterflies and sparks make my cheeks flush. How is it possible for a Lycan to fall in love with a voice? *** Mackenzie thought her life working at the local bank was boring and simple until, suddenly, it wasn’t. Can such a simple love survive the return of an old flame, brutal fights with Shifters, and a violent mystery that rocks a small town? It will be a close call, but for Lycans, you can always press one. For Lycans, Press One is created by Meg Carlyle, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

# SURVIVAL # MATERIALIST # HUMOR When Su Yan woke up, he realized the zombie apocalypse had arrived. His door was about to be broken down by zombies and he wasn’t armed with anything. He quickly picked his keyboard up to try and defend himself. It was then he noticed something written on his keyboard. [F1: Move-through-wall] [F2: Invisibility] [F3: All Weapon, Infinite Ammo] [F4: Automated Lock] [F5: See-through Sight] [Ctrl + C: Copy Everything] When Su Yan finally got to the last line of command, he was shocked. [F: World Destruction]

-- CAPÍTULOS TODOS OS DOMINGOS ÀS 18:00H!! -- (Obra pausada por algumas semanas!! 09/05/2021) Sinopse: Jhin acorda e percebe que está dentro do primeiro jogo de realidade virtual lançado há pouco tempo, no qual conseguiu ser selecionado para adquirir uma das cópias. No entanto, o que ele não imaginava é que fosse ficar preso dentro deste mundo perigoso e mortal, tendo que lutar por sua própria vida na esperança de zerar Adventure World Online...

Player 2: Press Start For a cynical 35-year-old gamer, real life was a never-ending 'Game Over'. Until Bangkok's most chaotic CEO kidnaps him at a bus stop to win a ridiculous family bet, forcing him to finally press 'Start'. Phab is thirty-five, built like a brick wall, and stuck in the world’s most depressing tutorial. Bouncing between dead-end temp jobs, he hides his massive imposter syndrome by leading high-stakes virtual raids on his PC at 3 AM. He’s a respected Level 80 Tank online, but an absolute NPC in his own reality. Then a massive glitch crashes his system: Win. Brilliant, impeccably dressed, and unapologetically unhinged, Win is a young nanotech CEO who desperately needs a "miserable-looking guy" to win a daily challenge in his eccentric family’s group chat. For triple his daily wage, Phab agrees to play along, unknowingly entering the chaotic world of "The Court of Miracles". Suddenly, the solitary gamer is dragged into a whirlwind of ridiculous co-op missions. From surviving a LARP battle with foam swords to stealing a giant, creepy fiberglass bubble tea mascot in broad daylight, Phab realizes his life will never be the same. But behind the tailored suits and relentless optimism, Win hides a deep vulnerability and scars he refuses to face. Forced to team up, Phab discovers that his strategic gamer mind might just be exactly what Win needs to navigate the real world. Meanwhile, Win’s chaotic light might be the only thing that can pull Phab out of the dark. Two broken players. One unhinged family. It's time to stop hiding in the shadows and play the game on the main server.

Because some Cinderellas wear boots. And some princes are just okay with that. "You're not a man," they all say and they're right. She isn't, and she wasn't trying to be. University isn't university when there isn't some drama involved, right? So, in comes Zenjee, a third-year university student whose sole objective was to graduate comfortably without shedding any light on her mundane existence. But things never go as planned, and she soon finds herself the centre of attention as a result of one unlucky encounter. Everything in her life comes crashing down the pit when she meets Raine, an obnoxious, homophobic disaster sent from hell, who just so happened to mistake her for a gay. The wheels of fate turn slowly, first comes hate, and what follows next is blatantly obvious. One is stubborn, and the other in denial, yet the two misguided souls can't escape from each other. "What's the cure for homophobia?" "Falling in love."

Minjae is just another otaku — a quiet seventeen-year-old who finds comfort in anime, manga, and the safety of his small circle of friends. His days are filled with school, gaming marathons, and avoiding reality. But when his mother’s hidden debts catch up to them, Minjae’s peaceful world shatters overnight. With loan sharks closing in and threats piling up, Minjae is forced into a brutal world of street fights, school gang wars, and underground politics — a world he’s painfully unprepared for. Surrounded by danger, Minjae is never truly alone. His best friend Hyunwoo, a loyal gym rat with dreams of becoming a street wrestling legend, and Jisoo Han, a lazy but sharp-witted fighter known for her deadly kicks, stand by his side. Later, they’re joined by Tuah, a charming and unpredictable Malaysian senior whose elegant Silat flow hides his lethal potential. But the streets aren’t forgiving. The four regional school representatives — Seok Jinwoo, Ryu Jaeho, Kang Dohyeon, and the legendary Choi Gyuhwan — dominate the city’s fight scene, and Minjae’s name is barely a whisper among giants. As Minjae fights his way up from the bottom, he discovers his family’s buried legacy: Subaekgyeon, a forgotten martial art that could change everything. Driven by guilt, friendship, and a desire to break free from his crushing fate, Minjae must rise — not as an anime hero, but as a street legend forged in real pain. But in a city where debts, betrayal, and power rule, can Minjae survive long enough to write his own story?

Hoshino Kaito wakes up in an unfamiliar world with no memory of how he got there—only to realize he's inside Love & Lies: Fateful Bonds, which is a high school romance visual novel he once played. But instead of being the protagonist, he’s just a minor side character: the main character’s best friend. In this world, he enrolled in Shirakawa Academy. This academy enforces a Prestigious Partnering System, where every student must find a romantic partner by the first semester of their second year—or be randomly assigned one. With only few weeks until the deadline, Kaito must navigate this system, trying to find loopholes in the system, and maybe he also find his partner. But when Fujimura Ren, the protagonist, receives a letter from Ayane, one of the main heroines, Kaito realizes that the world isn’t the same as the game settings anymore. If things keep changing, how much of the original story can he still rely on? And more importantly—what happens to a side character when the game starts breaking? With his future uncertain, Kaito must decide: will he simply follow the script, or will he carve out his own path in this new reality?

Mc and his friends get stuck in vr but the ending is just dumb (or that’s the plan) Year 2045 Updates on Saturday and sometimes on Sunday with weekdays at 6:00 These three weeks I’m in London so time is mixed up! XD

Stella Sterling, born into wealth, had always followed the rules. Jaded by the hypocrisy of high society, she suddenly had a whim one day to have an ordinary romance. Thus, a fabricated rumor that Stella Sterling had spent a fortune to hire a Matchmaker from a dating site to find her a partner quickly spread through her circles. Those on good terms with her teased and watched the fun. Those on bad terms with her waited to see her become a joke. Later, an employee from the dating website revealed, "The company was acquired with an investment from a Vicenzan tycoon, and the profile of a certain female member with the surname Sterling was hidden overnight." The public speculated wildly about the identities of the Vicenzan tycoon and the female member with the surname Sterling. - Later on, a candid street photo that was accidentally captured went viral. In the dense night of The Spire on Vesper Island— Beside a Benz, a handsome, composed, and dignified man lifted a striking beauty in a red dress with one arm, pressing her against the car door and lowering his head for a deep kiss. In the faint light and shadow, the woman's flowing hair was swept by the wind, wrapping around the man's finger, which wore a pinky ring. Like a footnote to a romance, and even more like a vintage film frame etched into the axis of time. Someone immediately dug up the man's identity based on clues from the photo. The eldest son of Vicenza's Rhodes Family—low-profile and inscrutable, cold and untamable, and also the powerful contemporary authority of The Vesper Circle. And the alluring, glamorous belle by his side was none other than Stella Sterling. When the street photo spread to the mainland, everyone excitedly exclaimed: "The case is solved, the case is solved—"