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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.

Energy-Substrate Scaling is a unified theory of complexity. The law states that complex systems rise by discovering energy accounts, flourish by spending them, and fall when the balance diminishes, with the height of their flourish determined by the size of the accessible account. Energy-Substrate Scaling: A Unified Theory of Complexity Core Axiom: The scope, structure, and lifespan of any complex system are dictated by the characteristics of the energy substrate it can access and exploit. This is not merely a theory of resource use. It is a theory of metabolic fate. It posits that the story of any complex structure, from a bacterium to a civilization to a star, is prefigured in the relationship between its hunger for order and the fund of useful energy it can consume.

# 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...

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

Flora Bloom, who was betrayed and killed by her boyfriend in her past life, is reborn with a peerless spatial dimension back to the time before the crisis, hoarding food, raising a child, and tearing apart scumbag men and manipulative women. Originally, she just wanted to raise a child and low-key fight zombies and level up together with her family. But she discovered that she was unexpectedly falling step by step into a tender trap meticulously designed by a certain sly and scheming man. Flora Bloom looked at the vast space within her sea of consciousness; it had a farmhouse courtyard, fields, and a Spirit River, but it just lacked a bit of vitality. So, a fat, sky-flying mantis? Collect! A rare little white tiger that can discharge electricity? Collect! A behemoth spirit crocodile with its young? Collect! As long as it's alive and edible, collect, collect, collect them all! Endless scumbags and vile women, a shameless and deeply scheming leader, all wanting to use her to attack zombies and obtain more Crystal Cores for their own gain? Your shameless, worthless life? Hand it over.