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For basketball fanatic Ryan Wang, life is pain. Watching his national team lose the championship by a single point is heartbreaking. But what’s worse? Being a 5'10" armchair fan with zero athletic talent, knowing his dreams will only ever be dreams. Until they’re not. A miracle happens. Ryan wakes up, not as a heartbroken adult, but as his eight-year-old self. A mysterious voice echoes in his mind: [Basketball Superstar System Activated…] [Dribbling: 15. Shooting: 10. Speed: 20. Overall Rating: F-Rank Trash.] Even a magical system thinks he’s hopeless. But Ryan refuses to accept that fate. This is his second chance, and he’s going to forge a new destiny with nothing but sweat, grit, and intelligence. His path is a grueling climb from the very bottom: From F to E-Rank: Thirty days of hellish training until his hands are blistered and bloody. The D-Rank Trial: Three humiliating failures before a single success. The Elite Academy: Overwhelmed and outclassed by the nation’s top young prospects. But the real challenges have just begun. A genetically gifted rival with stats that dwarf his own. The hostile courts of American high school ball, where prejudice echoes with every dribble: "You think an Asian can make it here?" The brutal battleground of the NCAA, where every opponent is a future legend. And the ultimate question before the NBA draft: Can a Chinese player truly handle the world's most intense league? With the System as his only ally, pushing him to the brink of human limits, Ryan faces a constant barrage of warnings: [WARNING: MISSION FAILURE WILL RESULT IN A RANK DOWNGRADE.] [ALERT: A SUPERIOR OPPONENT HAS BEEN DETECTED.] [DANGER: TRAINING INTENSITY IS EXCEEDING HUMAN PHYSICAL LIMITS!]

The joy of playing hoops, competing against the best and finding yourself.

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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

"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.

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.

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.