sinking in mud

"There is only one happiness in this life and that is to be loved" - George sand Aurora has always been the 'unattractive, unattainable' girl throughout her whole life. No man has ever approached her with the intention of courting her, rather they approached her to learn more about her best friend. She was better known as a 'DUFF'. But now with her best friend dead and a baby depending on her, she finds herself trapped in a loveless marriage that will test and strengthen her character. Like most 21st century women, she views herself as a feminist. One who doesn't believe in love. She views love as a Capitalist movement created to control unsuspecting minds while breaking their bank accounts. But she finds herself falling in love with a man. Not just any man, her friends boyfriend who also happens to be her husband.

The soul of a detested girl, Yu Xuelan, gets drawn back into a body of an ex-slave eight years after her death. She becomes entangled with the people of her past, noticing their behaviours and attitudes had all changed. It also appeared that the one was behind her death had grown even crazier during those eight years. ---- YXL: "Trust me, we will all be fine." "How are you so confident?" YXL: "Because when times get tough, denial is all we have." "........." YXL: "Or maybe I should just head straight to the dying part." ---- "You kill humans. You kill demons. You absorbed my demonic energy. Yu Yang wants you dead. You got stabbed and died. And now you're in the demonic realm with another Demon God? But you're still human?!" YXL: "Whose life is that? That sounds sad." "It's yours!" YXL: "Oh." ---- "Wait, um... You, you died! YXL: "Yeah, well it didn't stick." "But you just died twice!" YXL: "That little? Wait, did you include the part where I mentally died too?" ---- Summary of characters: Uhhh cheerful/aloof female lead who is a bit two-faced and a caring/innocent male lead who has nice hands and likes birds :)

In a kingdom choking on its own decay, Ethan Ardent claws his way from the gutters of Roudnam, armed with nothing but a rusted blade and a spark of defiance. When he discovers a lethal secret—the Eldertrees, ancient sources of magic, are being drained by a corrupt crown—he becomes an unwitting pawn in a war between royal siblings vying for a crumbling throne. Guided by Varyn, a disgraced noble with a bloody past, and Lira, a sharpshooter hellbent on vengeance, Ethan’s rare gift to wield elemental auras draws him to a legendary weapon: the mythril blade, forged from lightning and the dying heart of an Eldertree. But the sword hungers—for power, for chaos, and for him. As rebellion ignites and Vostra’s armies gather, Ethan must master the blade’s volatile magic before it consumes him. With allies fracturing and enemies closing in, his choices will decide whether Roudnam rises from the mud… or drowns in it. A storm is coming. Will he be its savior—or its weapon?

At twenty-six, Chen Mo had 187.3 yuan to his name. His family was drowning in debt. His parents worked themselves to the bone. He'd spent years doing every low-wage job in the city—telemarketing, insurance, delivery, street vending—and had nothing to show for it. Then he saw a news headline: South City Wholesale Market vendor makes 3 million yuan monthly selling live on TikTok. That was the moment everything changed. "Against All Odds" is the story of one man's relentless climb from absolute rock bottom to the top of China's business world. From street stall to livestream empire, from being looked down on to being the one everyone looks up to. But the real story isn't about money. It's about one principle that kept Chen Mo going when everything was against him:

Genesis knew what she wanted since she was a kid: to serve God. She achieved it. She was happy with it. She loves her family, her friends and the community so much that she was willing to give all of her to them. She believes that to serve God is to serve the people around her. But something has changed. Job didn't believe in God. He didn't believe in anything. His outlook in life is so simple, but almost lack of color. Until someone came and everything has changed. Who are they? Genesis and Job. The Beginning and The Faithful. The Start and The Suffering. The Alpha and The Hardship. Genesis and Job. The start of suffering? The beginning of the end? Are they willing to be drowned in everything? Sinking deep?

Young Celeste Grace came to Sinking Town to attend her best friend Rosa's wedding, along with her friends Aretha, Nora and Meira. But she didn't know that her fiance, Avin was also coming to Sinking Town. Soon they realize that coming to Sinking Town was the biggest mistake of their lives which led them to their deaths.

The Empire conquered the world. The mercenaries took his family. Now, he will burn his own path. In a continent-spanning era of iron, blood, and forgotten magic, the peninsula lies broken—crushed beneath the heel of a ruthless, expansionist Empire. For most, the conquest means a life of crushing poverty and quiet submission. But for one young farm boy, the true nightmare begins not with the Emperor's armies, but with the lawless dregs left in their wake. When a roving mercenary band reduces his home to ash and slaughters his family, the trauma shatters his innocence. In the blood-soaked ruins of his old life, a dormant and violent power awakens within him: the Life Force, a rare martial energy possessed by only one in ten thousand. Armed with a newfound, terrifying strength and driven by a singular, hollow purpose, he embarks on a brutal odyssey. His hunt for the mercenaries plunges him into a grim, unforgiving wilderness teeming with grotesque beasts, cannibalistic villages, and the most twisted, deceitful remnants of humanity. As he stalks his prey across the continent, whispers spread of a new, apocalyptic war brewing across the sea—a savage threat that could wipe out both the Empire and the peninsula alike. But the young knight pays the rumors no mind. He is a ghost haunting the shadows, a monster hunting monsters. Yet, in a land defined by brutality, vengeance is rarely a clean kill. His bloody pursuit is about to drag him into the dark heart of a rebellion, forcing him to choose between the revenge that keeps him alive, and the shattered world that desperately needs a hero.

Sometimes the strong can be weak and the happy can be sad it's okay to cry and share your problems

In her past life, Tang Mo accidentally lost her own Space Jade Pendant when the apocalypse began, losing her biggest golden finger. Afterwards, her superpower training went awry, she lost her loved ones, suffered from ostracization, and utterly ruined the good hand she was dealt, ultimately dying at the mouths of mutant beasts. Opening her eyes again, Tang Mo was reborn one week before the start of the apocalypse. None of the tragedies has happened yet! How will she seize the opportunity and walk her own path to becoming a powerful figure in the apocalypse?

Married to Mason Crawford for two years, Summer Thorne became the city's notorious jinx. As the legitimate Mrs. Crawford, she could only watch helplessly as her own family went bankrupt and her father was convicted, with no one willing to lend a hand. Mason Crawford looked at her coldly: "Summer Thorne, do you think anyone in Valois would dare to help you if I didn't give the word?" Everyone watched her hit dead ends everywhere, bruised and battered, standing by with cold indifference. Until that snowy night in the deep mountains, she was tricked by others and left to walk alone in the snow, when a man on horseback galloped over, pulled her onto his steed, and wrapped her in his embrace. * The first time they met, she lit a cigarette for him; The next time they met, he said, "Miss Thorne, how much are you planning to spend to buy me?" Timothy York, a gentleman from a prestigious family—upright, dignified, aloof, and noble, a man who had never made a single misstep, praised by everyone in Valois. Yet, on that one day, Summer Thorne was photographed leaving Timothy York's residence early in the morning. The entire city was in an uproar. The most unattainable flower of Valois had actually stolen another man's wife! * Everyone said Summer Thorne was a master of seduction, but they received Timothy York's four-word reply— "I initiated it." The wind rose in Sombren Forest, and snow fell into his arms. From the very beginning, it was he who initiated it.