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[Pure • Sweet • Enemies-to-Lovers • 1v1] Yun Ran—master physician, poisoner, and martial artist—was living her best life until lightning rewrote her résumé: now she’s the abused eldest daughter of a noble house. Forced into a wedding sedan by her scheming sister, she lands beside Highness Nangong Mo, rumored blind, crippled, and dying. Wedding-night script: Highness: “I’m a broken man; divorce me and be free.” Yun Ran (tearful): “I’ll stay till your last breath.” Inner monologue he hears: [Divorce? Why? Free mansion, endless gold. Once you croak, I’ll bury you and keep it all. Chef’s kiss.] Highness smiles thinly: “Charming plan, my dear.”

In a city called Shadow, people aren't punished for their actions… but for their thoughts. Everything is monitored, and every intention is uncovered before it can become a crime. But when a murder occurs with no recorded intent, Detective Adam begins pursuing an impossible truth… He discovers that some people can conceal their thoughts, or perhaps… don't think at all. As the investigation deepens, Adam faces a terrifying shock: The killer might be closer than he imagines… perhaps inside his own mind. In a world that monitors every thought, the most dangerous question remains: Do you control your thoughts… or do they control you?

She can hear the last 10 seconds of the dead. Every time she uses it, she pays a price. Headaches. Insomnia. And something else… watching her back. When a series of deaths begins, all victims say the same thing before dying: “He is back.” But the truth is— This is not the third case. It’s the seventh.

Corren was eight when the song began—a slow, haunting melody only he could hear, always before someone died. The first time he tried to stop it, something broke. He never speaks of that day. Now seventeen, the Deathsongs are louder, closer. In a world ruled by fate and silence, Corren bears a power he never asked for and can’t escape. Each song is a warning, a burden, and a choice he never wanted to make. He doesn’t want vengeance. He wants to protect the people he loves. But fate doesn’t take kindly to interference. Prophets fear him. Something ancient is hunting him. And love, if it finds him, might be his undoing. To silence death, Corren must learn to sing.

When a family moves into an old home with a dark past, they quickly realize it's not just the creaking floors or cold drafts they should fear — it's the feeling that someone, or something, is always listening.

"The walls are communicating. And they're saying you're going to pass away." Amber Hayes had it everything six months ago: a successful career as an investigative journalist, a fiancé from one of the most influential families in San Francisco, and a Pulitzer candidacy that would solidify her reputation. Then followed the litigation that left her bankrupt and on a blacklist, the exposé she should never have written, and the betrayal that ruined her career. She now lives in a dilapidated apartment in the Mission District as a disgraced nobody, subsisting on freelance gossip pieces that murder her soul but pay the rent. Her former best friend was married to her ex-fiance. She can't get her own parents to answer the phone. With the exception of her younger sister Lily, whose cancer treatments deplete Amber's meager funds, she has lost everything. The voices then begin. At precisely 3:47 AM, she hears whispers about murders, thefts, and conspiracies that haven't yet occurred. At first, she believes she is going crazy. However, Amber discovers the impossibility: she is somehow hearing criminals plotting murders before they happen when a CEO is discovered dead just as the voices had prophesied. Amber begins recording the forecasts in an attempt to save her job and show that she is not crazy. However, she gets apprehended at the crime scene when she attempts to stop a murder, and the guy who does so is Dante Cross, the vicious wealthy prosecutor she publicly disparaged in her previous piece. The man who vowed to see her destroyed. The man whose touch continues to haunt her nightmares. She is offered a devil's bargain by Dante: either use her "gift" to assist him in apprehending a serial killer who is frightening the city's elite, or be charged as an accomplice. Amber learns three terrible truths when she is forced to interact with the cold, domineering man who ought to be her enemy: the crimes she is hearing are linked to the conspiracy that ruined her career; her ex-fiance and former best friend are involved in a trafficking ring that uses tech company resources; and Dante never intended to destroy her—rather, he was attempting to protect her from a truth that would have killed her. Amber must choose between continuing to be the victim she has become and embracing the deadly power that might cost her everything, including the man she is falling for despite all the reasons not to, as the voices get louder and the killer's pattern becomes apparent. The walls are communicating. And only one name is being shouted: hers.

Shen Yue lived nineteen years as the Shen family’s jewel—trained, polished, paraded as their heiress. Until one glittering banquet shattered everything. Exposed as a fake daughter and discarded in public, she’s left with nothing but whispers of “pitiful cannon fodder.” But Yue carries two sets of memories: the girl who bled her fingers raw for approval, and the modern student who once read this exact story on a glowing screen. She knows how the plot is supposed to unfold—unless she changes it. Then Gu Hanchuan, Haicheng’s cold and untouchable CEO, offers her a contract marriage: he gains a partner no one dares challenge, she gains protection in a world eager to see her fall. Armed with wit, sarcasm, and knowledge from the book that no one else has, Shen Yue refuses to play the victim. She’ll silence gossip, face-slap her enemies, and carve out a future on her own terms. But there’s one twist the original novel never wrote: Every sarcastic thought, every flustered sigh— the Gu family can hear it. _________________________________________________ Expect: -A witty female lead -A cold on the outside, warm on the inside male lead -Lots of fluff and banter -True romance to start midway point -No Harem -No love triangles -Pure love -A complete story (~150 chapters)

Makoto Kudou, sixteen years old. An ordinary boy living in Sogo City, a fading town in the northern edge of J-Country. Struck by a serious illness in his third year of middle school, he missed his chance at normal exams and ended up in a correspondence high school. No friends. No youth. His only escape was reading light novels, dreaming of a world where he might matter. —Then, one day, a mysterious “Voice” echoed in his mind. “Under the desk, on the right. A test paper has fallen.” And it was true. In that instant, Makoto was convinced: this was no coincidence. This was a skill—fate’s power granted to a nobody like him. Assignments, trivial choices, small human interactions… Each little success piled up, and he began to trust in his “Skill.” But it was not mere luck, nor divine blessing. The reason he was chosen lies hidden in the shadow of his past illness. Fantasy or miracle? Guided by the “Voice,” this boy will one day become a necessary evil that reshapes destiny. Set in the snowbound, fog-laden city of Sogo, a dark fantasy of local revival begins here. Original Japanese version published on Narou (小説家になろう) and Kakuyomu (カクヨム). (Original Japanese title: 凡人の俺にだけ“声”が聞こえるようになった件 ―地方創生チート始動―)

Bai Su, who transmigrated into a book set in the interstellar Beast World, has only one interest: making delicious food at the orphanage, raising children, and enjoying her hard-won new life. Future's great villains? The cubs are all super well-behaved in front of her! The Federation Leader comes to freeload a meal, and his disability is cured! The business emperor comes to freeload a meal, and his infertility is solved! The obese little female gets thinner the more she eats, gradually growing into the number one beauty of the Beast World. She also attracts the number one genius doctor of the interstellar era and the interstellar great captain. The villainous cubs, driving warships and controlling ten thousand beasts: "If you want to get close to our Mom, you'll have to withstand our cannon fire first!" The Federation Leader laughs in anger: "You dare to bomb my armory? Courting death!" The gloomy and bloodthirsty emperor: "A bunch of little trash! You think I'm afraid of you?" The doctor's face turns ashen: "Either give back my research results, or die!" The interstellar great captain dangerously shoulders a Barrett: "I see you're all dying to get locked up." Bai Su smiles and peeks her head out, holding a gleaming kitchen knife: "Time to eat! What are you all doing?" The big shots and the little villains, harmoniously putting their arms around each other's shoulders in a picture of fatherly love and filial piety: "Coming~~"

On the verge of death from illness, Yu Zhizhi transmigrates to the Beast World Planet, becoming the lowest-ranking plaything for slaughter. Her destiny was supposed to be a direct slaughter by powerful figures gone Berserk in their beast forms. Fortunately, she awakened the Childbirth System, and the style of the story suddenly changed— The maddened and fallen monster (Wolf): "I'll give you a choice, love me, or be bitten to death by me?" The evil Duke (Snake): "Beautiful maiden, please fall into the abyss of desire with me." The tyrannical Imperial Marshal (Shark): "I command you, you are only permitted to love me!" The wildly arrogant Crown Prince (Tiger): "I will kill all the males who covet you!!" (The list of Beast Husbands is expanding—) As the lowest-ranking female, Yu Zhizhi is doted on wildly by the powerful figures, undergoing Evolution all the way to the top-tier Rare grade and becoming the most noble existence in the Beast World Empire!