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In a martial world ruled by rigid sect hierarchies and Heaven-approved cultivation laws, strength is inherited, techniques are hoarded, and obedience is mistaken for balance. Li Shen, a low-class warrior with no lineage or backing, should have lived a short and forgotten life—until he reveals a terrifying talent: the ability to understand, master, and improve any martial technique after seeing it once. Rather than stealing techniques, Li Shen corrects them—exposing the flaws hidden beneath sacred manuals and inherited traditions. Labeled an Anomaly, he becomes a threat not because of overwhelming force, but because his understanding makes authority obsolete. Walking a self-made philosophy known as the Unchained Path, Li Shen teaches mastery through comprehension, freedom through choice, and growth through error. At his side stands Lin Xueyi, a disciplined swordswoman shaped by betrayal and sect politics. Bound by shared ideals rather than fate, the two challenge a world that fears independence more than evil. As Li Shen’s influence spreads, cities close their gates, sects issue kill orders, and Heaven itself begins to observe. What begins as a wandering heresy grows into a movement that destabilizes the foundations of cultivation. Survivors, outcasts, and broken cultivators gather—not as disciples, but as people choosing freedom. Li Shen rises from hunted nobody to feared teacher, strategist, and finally the patriarch of an independent sect that threatens the heavens themselves. In the final arc, the true enemy is revealed: the ancient First Corrector, the being who bound cultivation into rigid systems to preserve cosmic stability. Nearly impossible to defeat, this antagonist represents enforced balance itself. Li Shen’s ultimate battle is not to conquer Heaven—but to break its monopoly on choice, freeing the world to cultivate without permission. When the laughter fades and the heavens fall silent, Li Shen and Lin Xueyi choose peace over legend, standing together in a world finally allowed to decide its own path.

She was an immortal who had long since grown bored of gods, wars, and eternity itself. To escape the weight of everlasting existence, she condensed her power into a sliver of essence and descended—reincarnating as a mere mortal girl in a fantasy world built on magic, status, and… romance? Now born as Irisphilia, the Third Princess of the Empire, she finds herself in a setting eerily similar to those so-called "otome games"—complete with a Saint blessed by light, handsome heirs, and scripted destinies. But Irisphilia does not care for love routes or happy endings. She’s here for one thing only: entertainment. Cold, brilliant, and utterly out of place, she watches the world with quiet amusement… until her very existence begins to unravel the fates of those around her.

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Aki was always a problematic kid, running around doing whatever he wanted, leaving it to his brother to pick up after him. But then one day he gets himself into a situation that no one but he can solve. Who would've thought the good-looking guy he saw at the bar, who he later sleeps with that night, would be the son of his rival clan's leader? And to top it off, a new life begins to grow in his stomach. Aki couldn't curse being an omega more than now. --- Credits to respectful owner of the photo being used in the cover. If requested by owner, it can be removed immediately.

The Lockwood mansion was a gilded cage. Marble floors and crystal chandeliers couldn’t mask the suffocating weight of expectations. Zane sat in his dark room, the quiet hum of his guitar the only sound in the vast emptiness. He was born into a life of privilege, destined for medical school or a corporate throne. But that world felt cold and hollow. His heart beat to a different rhythm—the pulse of a guitar, the rush of a stage, the freedom of music. Yet in this family, music was nothing more than a childish hobby, a distraction from the "real future" they had planned for him. Every note he played felt like rebellion, but the walls around him only closed in tighter. Soon, he would have to choose: the life they wanted for him, or the life he dreamed of. But in the Lockwoods household, dreams were meant to be sacrificed.

Enslaved from birth by a power that can control him with just a thought, Gale must cope with the reality that he may never fully understand or enjoy the mysterious world he lives in. This story is submitted into the public domain through the CC0 License: creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ But we hope you support us on patreon to fund the continued production of the web novel and its comic adaptation. https://patreon.com/studiohighsea

A soul full of wounds

A legendary pop rockstar from Earth dies suddenly and is reborn in a magical world ruled by gods and monsters. A Goddess recruits him to restore music — lost for centuries — to this world starving for joy and hope. He’s given a mysterious, hooded bodyguard with deadly skills and glowing eyes — she’s both protector and enigma. Together, they face dragons, goblins, and dark forces while uncovering ancient secrets about music’s true power.

"Some shadows are born from the light we never knew." Logan Ellison arrived in Detroit as a blank page, a boy with no history and a future he thought he owned. But in the city’s cold embrace, he finds Joel, a man who doesn’t just walk in the dark, he is the dark. What follows is not a romance, but a slow, poetic erosion of the soul. A dance between the hunter and the haunted, where love is a razor thin line and every touch is a step closer to the abyss. In this garden of thorns, Logan will learn that the most dangerous secrets aren't the ones we forget—they are the ones that find us.

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—"