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Not to fall into the cycle of reincarnation within the vast world, The heart transmits the Dao among humans. Willing to wield a sword to end myriad calamities, Exchange ruthlessness for a world of emotions!

[Warning: Some content in the novel may be upsetting to some readers. Contents include injuries, sickness, mental health, intense medication, fight scenes, and intense gore. Lastly, this novel is a semi-reality dark fantasy trope. Read at your own risk.] Chapters and Release: Release days: Everyday Release time: 3pm UTC Status: Unedited. (Will edit after main story conclusion. Specifically from the start.) *** Synopsis: A fifteen-year-old schoolgirl happens to find herself approached by a strange woman after a rough day—who happens to know her plans on running away. Astonished, she tried to interrogate, but ended up getting dragged into another universe and another world. There, she finds out that experiments are being ran on fourteen other candidates set aside for her. Being the last candidate, she is told that she might be the first one to face demise. But she is determined to find out what is up with this facility. Eventually, she comes across an astonishing fact—that this whole world and setting is similar to that of a book she read during her younger days. And the protagonist happened to be her own cousin, who also killed her at the near end of the novel. *** (Prologue) Listen... No one is judging no one here. And so am I. The world has been cruel these days. Being modern means being rude to people on the street who are below your rank—That is what they believe. I find this all frustrating, why move with a state of mind that could as well kill you someday. You don't know if this person is a lawyer, a far relative, a doctor, a politician. But you already get the gist, don't you? And like any other teenagers my age, I really want to run away from all this. It's not like I am an orphan or from a poor household. I am from a family which is a standard class in economical terms in this world. And yet, I want to run away. Haha! Anyways. I did succeed. I wonder at what cost? I am away from all that hostility of course... But now I am in another world. Not reincarnated. Not transmigrated to another body. I am with my own soul in my original body, but in another world. This world... is weird. Thinking back, I remember reading a strange book when I was young. This book actually speaks about this world. I am a character there. Funnier thing, I don't know what is up with it either. It appears to me that the writer decided they want to see the 'live-action' version of it. So now... I am the actor playing my own character.

Wen Meng transmigrated into a melodramatic interstellar novel, becoming the malicious supporting character and fake heiress. As a result, she was thrown into a desolate star's lake at the beginning and nearly drowned. Fortunately, she awakened the beast-taming ability, and with the help of the system, she successively tamed various young disaster beasts and lived together with the little ones. One day.. A pitch-black serpent coiled around Wen Meng's body, its head affectionately resting against her cheek. "Get off her!!" The white wolf at his feet suddenly transformed into a handsome man He clenched his fists and roared at the black serpent. "What's it to you?" The black snake spoke, its voice human-like. To assert its dominance, it coiled around her even tighter and flicked its tongue against her ear. "Can't you understand?" The man, burning with jealousy, grabbed the snake by the neck. "If you play like this, it won't be fun anymore." The black snake unexpectedly transformed into the handsome 858. The smoke cleared, and the two men were grappling with each other. The scene was extremely ugly. "How did they... turn into humans?!" Wen Meng couldn't believe her eyes. "So childish, still fighting." The big eagle spread his arms and hugged Wen Meng's waist from behind, resting his chin on her shoulder, greedily inhaling the fragrance of her neck. "Only beasts without confidence compete for mates." "Exactly!" The little bear comfortably rested its head on Wen Meng's snow-white thigh, rubbing its furry face vigorously. One of its paws was stretched out, and Wen Meng was trimming its nails. The little bear spoke in a soft, childish voice, "Not like me, I'm a good baby." But at this moment, Wen Meng had already come to her senses. She murmured, "You too can turn into humans, right?" Big Eagle: "..." Little Bear: "..." Later, they all wanted to have her to themselves. Using all their tricks to ruin the reputation of other disaster beasts, Filial piety turns sour, consumed by jealousy. Bai E: "Say you love me, that you love me the most, right?" Wen Meng: ... (I love, universal love) Anaconda: "Why can't we be together? Did you give birth to me?" Wen Meng: ... (You've grown up and become disobedient) Thunderbird: "Open your eyes and look at me. I don't believe your eyes are empty." Wen Meng: "Put your clothes on!!" (nosebleed gushing) Bear King: You think I have no feelings for you? I just go into heat a bit later. Wen Meng: ? (Bear hug, uh, can't breathe) And then later— Wen Meng found the culprit who had plotted against her. "Compete with me? You're not even worthy." That person glanced at Wen Meng with disdain Not a trace of remorse. She had never taken Wen Meng seriously. Wen Meng opened the space card. The most terrifying disaster beast in the galaxy appeared at the same time. The magnetic field and celestial phenomena of the Emperor Star were in complete chaos, as if it were the end of the world. These ancient god-like beasts of calamity bowed to her, Glaring at the enemy with fierce eyes. The woman's face turned pale, filled with terror "Did that scare you?" Wen Meng laughed "I've always wanted to ask you, do you really know, "Actually, you are the impostor?" Finally.. Wen Meng's former fiancé, General of the Empire, roared with reddened eyes, "Tell me! How many more men do I have to defeat to win your heart??" Chief Inspector of the police station, the mad scientist director, the aristocratic business tycoon... all being called out at the same time. And the one, two, three standing behind her... there were too many, Wen Meng couldn't remember them all. This world is a vast battlefield of Asuras.

New York: the financial heart of the world, a modern jungle forged from steel and glass. To the average onlooker, it is a battlefield of capital; to Shen Yu, it is a treacherous landscape of "Silver-Shredding Traps" and "Heaven-Cleaving Slights." As an authentic heir to Taoist tradition, Shen Yu possesses the heavy destiny of Wu-Earth. He originally intended to live a reclusive life of cultivation in this "Metal and Water" dominant city, only to be unexpectedly ensnared in a metaphysical conspiracy spanning over a century: Why did a top Wall Street venture capital firm collapse overnight? It wasn’t stock market volatility, but the glass curtain wall of the opposite building acting as a blade, severing the veins of wealth. Why does a dragon’s roar echo from the bottom of the Hudson River? It isn’t the subway; someone is attempting to refine the entire island of Manhattan into a "Dragon-Locking Formation" to imprison a nation’s destiny. And why does his silhouette appear in a photograph from a hundred years ago? When modern technology collides with ancient forbidden arts, and Western skyscrapers are transformed into Eastern altars, Shen Yu stands amidst the tangled desires of Manhattan. With a single copper coin in one hand and half a cup of black coffee in the other, he balances Yin and Yang, adjudicates life and death, and mends the dragon veins.

A stubborn young Duke on the verge of being replaced by his heartless and greedy uncle comes to the realization that he needs to fight if he wants to keep what is his. But after the war he lost his will to fight, to live. He no longer fit in with high society, he was scared inside and out and he didn't know how to fight a battle with reputation instead of swords. On a mission to find an imposter, he runs into his late captain's younger sister. In a strange turn of events, she swears a life debt to him and immediately begins to improve his broken reputation with her wild and bright demeanor. The orphaned daughter of an Earl runs circles around her conniving guardians constantly ruining their attempts to marry her off so they can inherit the Earldom, all while secretly preventing the Poor Earldom she loves from going to ruin. Strong-willed and smart she thinks she's got it all figured out. She just needs to block all potential marriages and keep her land and people afloat for another year and a half and she'll be free. But what happens when she's outsmarted and out-maneuvered by someone unexpected? And is she really as immune to good looks and charm as she thought... or was she way overestimating herself?

Mazoku and his friends go on an epic conquest to eliminate all of the Forsaken Realm while also getting stronger to becone the next Power Kings!

In the heart of New York City, where ambition bleeds into the shadows, an ancient power has arrived. Lin Mo, the last descendant of a forgotten Taoist lineage, sits in the shadow of the Wall Street Bull. To the world, he is a penniless vagrant in tattered robes. To the entities lurking beneath the subway grates and within the penthouses of the elite, he is the only thing standing between humanity and the abyss. When a wave of supernatural suicides plagues the city and the bronze icons of capitalism begin to thirst for blood, the NYPD’s Occult Task Force is forced to turn to the man they once tried to arrest. Armed with cinnabar seals, a peach-wood sword, and a sharp wit, Lin Mo takes on the demons of the New World. From the haunted alleys of Chinatown to the cursed boardrooms of the 1%, the game of Yin and Yang has begun. Welcome to New York. Mind the ghosts.

Vincent is just a regular Mexican American mechanic living in Harrison Minneapolis. But after dying by an unknown cause, he reincarnated in the Lower East Manhattan set in the early 2000's, where 50% of the population posses superpower's known as meta abilities. Now a half man/dog hybrid living with a mysterious sociopathic dad. Vincent has been abused and force to murder and eat people because his meta ability allows him to enhance his body by consuming human flesh and only human flesh alone. As he cannot digest anything other than that. Living 10 years under his roof until Vincent manage to cultivate enough strenght to kill his dad. Finally free from his influence, he strive to leave the apartment and redo his second life. Managing to apply as a mechanic again thanks to his new found friend and co-worker Dave, a caring and casual mechanic that has black scale's, a carapace that blocks his eyes and a meta ability that grants him enhanced hearing. Unfortunately. Vincent knows that his second chance in this world won't go well due to the cannibalistic side of meta ability. Leading him to a dark path where he hunt's down criminals, villains, thugs, drug lords and even some occasional vigilantes at night. Just to satiate his hunger. But will he be able to keep his secret and hunger intact? ( on hiatus )

Gripgaff Runtsmacker was a professional. Back in the grimdark far future of Warhammer 40K, his job was simple: scream at small green creatures, hit them with a spiked stick, and ensure they didn't blow up the camp before they could be useful. It wasn't glorious, but it was honest work. Then he died and reincarnated in the New York City sewers. Now, Gripgaff is an eight-foot-tall, muscle-bound Ork dealing with a fresh batch of manic, naked Snotlings who think Manhattan is their personal playground. Worse yet, this strange new "fleshy-soft" reality is completely infested with brightly colored humies in spandex who keep interrupting his official herding duties. Armed only with a crackling Grot-Prod, an iron Grabba-Stik, and the sheer, logic-bending power of Orkish belief, Gripgaff sets out to build a proper underbelly empire. From turning stolen Oscorp tech into a flying sewer-grate battle-wagon, to accidentally infecting Tony Stark's nanotech with diesel-powered thoughts, Gripgaff and his radioactive toddlers are turning the Marvel universe completely upside down. Can Spider-Man survive a zero-gravity gremlin ambush? Why is a naked Snotling joyriding through Midtown in the Hulkbuster armor? And how on Earth did a telepathic look into an Ork's brain turn Professor Charles Xavier into a wrench-wielding, soot-stained mechanic screaming "WAAAAAAAAGH!" through a traffic cone? Find out in the ultimate crossover crisis, where human physics are entirely optional, green is officially best, and the Avengers are about to learn that you can't defeat an enemy who runs entirely on pure, unadulterated nonsense.

Fu Xiaoxiao transmigrates into a book and immediately faces the crisis of being sent to the countryside. As the unloved middle child, her younger sister is the one meant to go — but her mother transfers her job to the sister instead. A disaster of a start. To avoid being sent away, she has to marry within seven days. She meets a few ordinary men and decides she'd rather go to the countryside. Then she runs into a neighbor who's also looking for a spouse — and his conditions are surprisingly good. A dowry of three hundred? Bicycles and a radio? Just take care of the kids, and separate rooms are fine? The others may pass, but she won't. Every day is a battle of wits with the two kids. Life is eventful, she gets a salary every month, and the boss is never home. Absolutely perfect. Except... wasn't this big shot supposed to be infertile? Then why does he keep strutting around naked in front of her? She has professional ethics. She won't be seduced by a good body. Hmph. Men only slow down her sword swing. Lu Feng grits his teeth at Fu Xiaoxiao, who remains completely unmoved by his countless attempts to seduce her, and traps her in his arms. "Boss, let's talk this through. I know forty a month is a bit much — how about... five less?" Trapped in his embrace, Fu Xiaoxiao thinks he's unhappy with her high salary and starts bargaining. "I'm giving myself to you for free." Lu Feng grinds out through clenched teeth. This woman has no heart. "...Can I say no?" Fu Xiaoxiao swallows, staring at the washboard abs so close. "Such a good deal — are you sure you don't want it?" Lu Feng squints, tempting her. "Fine." A fool turns down a bargain.