cannery row

A thousand years ago, a Rain of Evolution fell, and the world entered the Era of Evolution. Animals, plants, and humans all gained the potential to evolve into higher-level life forms. However, the human method of evolution is unique; they must absorb the extracts of higher-level life forms to complete their evolution, and each time they absorb an extract, they also acquire a skill from the extract's original owner. Absorb the extract of an “Undying Salamander” and gain the ability of limb regeneration; Absorb the extract of an “Iron Armor Oyster” and possess a flexible gender; Absorb the extract of a “Forest Giant Cockroach” and transform into an unkillable cockroach; Su Ze has come to this world, but before he can begin his evolution, he must solve his life-and-death crisis. “My name is Su Ze.” “I originally thought I had transmigrated and become a scion of a powerful official, but I never expected that I was just his clone, a scapegoat for him to escape punishment, a tool used for him to fake his death and get away.” “What's worse is, I'm scheduled to be executed tomorrow, but my cheat has not yet arrived...”

[WSA 2025 ENTRY] - This Novel is participating in the 2025 WebNovel Spirity Awards ^^ Due to unfortunate circumstances, "Ari" Ariel Matisse lived in the slums of Los Angeles, also known as Skid Row. One night, on his way home, he was killed while witnessing an old man getting beaten. When he woke up, he had been thrown into a dumpster, and a strange screen flashed across his eyes, and no matter how he looked at it, it reminded him of a status window in a game. [System Integration Complete!] [Become a Global Music Superstar!] For some reason, he gained a system that wanted him to join a survival show and become a globally famous idol. If he refused to complete his given tasks, he would die. But if he succeeded, he would have the money and power to change his life as well as get revenge against the person who killed him. P.s. this story is kind of a love letter to LA and the amazing blend of cultures (American, Asian, Hispanic, African, etc) that can be found there. I hope you all fall in love with the area as much as I love it.

Lena Voss is Goldcrest Academy's untouchable top student — cold, calculating, and secretly hilarious in her own head. Nobody gets close. Nobody gets through. That's exactly how she planned it. Until Ethan Cain transfers in, steals her ranking by 0.2 points, and refuses to take any of her hints to leave her alone. What he doesn't know is that their families already decided their fate — a contract binding them together long before they ever met. Lena knows. She's been planning to disappear before he finds out. But plans have a way of falling apart when the one person you're running from keeps finding you anyway.

Li Dao is reborn into the Daqian Dynasty as a third-class count. During a palace banquet, he accidentally drunkenly broke into a palace, coinciding with the recovery of his past life memories, so his memory was confused and drunkenly ruined the innocence of the mistress of the palace. In the end, the emperor was furious and sent Li Dao to the death camp in the border, wanting him to die outside the border. As a result, he accidentally awakened the 'Kill the Enemy and Explode Attributes' system. From then on, killing people can become infinitely stronger. Since then, Daqian has less of a playboy count, and more of a human hero who has slaughtered countless people. Dynasties fight for supremacy, rivers and lakes are in strife, foreign races invade, overseas rages, and immortal gates are opened. Step by step, Li Dao hacked out an invincible road that belonged to him alone. Years later, when Li Dao returned to the imperial capital with his great war achievements, he stepped into the imperial palace again and found that the woman whose innocence he had destroyed at the beginning was already sitting on the dragon chair. And next to the dragon chair, there was a young daughter whose eyebrows were similar to his. At this moment, there was only one question left in Li Dao's mind. Is this anti or not?

I was sentenced to death for treason. But the execution was never meant to kill me. As the lethal injection entered my neck, I learned the truth — my body had a rare neurological compatibility. I wasn’t a criminal to them. I was a container. They transferred my consciousness to a hidden facility, erased my identity, and attempted to upload the mind of Alex Wieland — the world’s most powerful billionaire — into my brain. They wanted a rebirth. A younger body. A second life for a dying titan. What they didn’t expect was me. Before becoming a death row inmate, I was the top operative of a classified unit trained in consciousness defense. When the billionaire’s mind invaded mine, I didn’t break. I fought back. Inside my own head, a silent war began — memory against memory, will against will. In the end, I consumed him. His knowledge. His skills. His global empire. Now I stand in his place, armed with military tactics, corporate power, and secrets worth trillions. As I uncover others who survived the same experiment, we form a hidden alliance — victims turned predators. The people who created this system believed minds could be traded like assets. They were wrong. Because now, I control the rules. And the world is about to find out who really survived the execution.

Ethan Cross was supposed to die on death row. Framed for a massacre he never committed, betrayed by the law, abandoned by the world, and marked as a monster by the media, Ethan had only thirty days left before his execution. Then the Rift opened beneath Blackridge Penitentiary. Monsters tore through the prison walls. Guards ran. Inmates screamed. Death swallowed the entire facility. At the edge of his final breath, Ethan heard a cold voice in his mind. [Infinitely Devour System Activated.] From that moment on, every enemy he killed became fuel. Every monster he devoured became power. Skills, bloodlines, memories, divine fragments—nothing was beyond the reach of his system. The weak death-row inmate became a hunter. The hunter became a nightmare. And the nightmare would one day become a Sword God. But Ethan does not only want power. He wants the truth. Who framed him? Who killed his family? Why was Blackridge hiding a Rift beneath its prison? And why does his system seem designed not to save humanity… but to devour gods? The world wants Ethan Cross dead. Unfortunately for them, death row only taught him one thing: If the world becomes his enemy, he will devour the world.

Vexie is a ghost in the city—a goth baddie with a sharp tongue and a heart fueled by revenge. With only forty dollars to her name, she infiltrates the most exclusive gala in the country to face Silas Thorne, the billionaire who crushed her family's legacy.

Adam was a nobody who conquered ROW Online dying game. Feeling unfulfilled by his hollow victory, he deleted his maxed-out account—a single click that cost him everything. Shortly after, the world changed forever. The game evolved into ROW Online-2v, shattering the boundary between the virtual world and reality. In-game currency became global wealth, and the terrifying 'Ascension System' granted players god-like magical abilities in real life. Left powerless in this new reality, Adam was betrayed by friends, robbed of his hard-earned strategies, and ultimately killed in a pathetic accident. However, death was not the end. Adam opens his eyes to find himself ten years in the past—waking up on the exact morning he was about to hit 'Delete'. Armed with the knowledge of the future and the unmatched skills of an absolute veteran, Adam is no longer just playing a game. He is about to play for his life.

Sophie Wexler transmigrated into a novel about The Galaxy, becoming the vicious, F-rank Healer-class cannon fodder. The original owner constantly caused trouble and made things difficult for the female lead, earning her the hatred of the entire internet. Upon transmigrating and seeing that everything had been ruined by the original owner, Sophie's only thought was: "What kind of nightmare start is this?!" To escape the original owner's fate, Sophie Wexler worked diligently, conducted herself conscientiously, stayed away from the male and female leads, compensated the soldiers harmed by the original owner, and strove to be a model citizen of The Galaxy, absolutely refusing to be the cannon fodder 'offed' by the Imperial Marshal! Broke and powerless, Sophie also had to support a man who'd been innocently dragged into the original owner's mess. She had no choice but to hustle. She started live streaming, became a masked singer, and held concerts. At first, netizens were scornful: 【Tsk, how good can she possibly sound?】 Later, the netizens were forced to eat their words. 【Damn, that's so good I'm on my knees!】 【What the hell, the violent episode of my Disorder Period has actually been soothed?!】 【The toxins in my Spiritual Sea have actually been eliminated!】 Her live streams went viral, the masked singer became a huge sensation, and tickets for her concerts were snapped up across The Galaxy. Sophie was content, thinking, "This time, I must have finally escaped the original owner's fate, right?" But what do you know, the man I've been doting on and supporting is actually the Imperial Marshal?! --- One day, Yancey Forrest came home to find that the boisterous person who was always claiming to be good to him was gone. His eyes darkened. Provoke me and then think you can leave? After catching her, Yancey traced his fingertips along Sophie's neck, smiling gently. "Why run?" Sophie trembled. "You... you're the Imperial Marshal?" His identity exposed, Yancey Forrest took her hand and slowly placed it on his own neck ring. "You know I won't kill you, don't you?"

Stella Sterling, born into wealth, had always followed the rules. Jaded by the hypocrisy of high society, she suddenly had a whim one day to have an ordinary romance. Thus, a fabricated rumor that Stella Sterling had spent a fortune to hire a Matchmaker from a dating site to find her a partner quickly spread through her circles. Those on good terms with her teased and watched the fun. Those on bad terms with her waited to see her become a joke. Later, an employee from the dating website revealed, "The company was acquired with an investment from a Vicenzan tycoon, and the profile of a certain female member with the surname Sterling was hidden overnight." The public speculated wildly about the identities of the Vicenzan tycoon and the female member with the surname Sterling. - Later on, a candid street photo that was accidentally captured went viral. In the dense night of The Spire on Vesper Island— Beside a Benz, a handsome, composed, and dignified man lifted a striking beauty in a red dress with one arm, pressing her against the car door and lowering his head for a deep kiss. In the faint light and shadow, the woman's flowing hair was swept by the wind, wrapping around the man's finger, which wore a pinky ring. Like a footnote to a romance, and even more like a vintage film frame etched into the axis of time. Someone immediately dug up the man's identity based on clues from the photo. The eldest son of Vicenza's Rhodes Family—low-profile and inscrutable, cold and untamable, and also the powerful contemporary authority of The Vesper Circle. And the alluring, glamorous belle by his side was none other than Stella Sterling. When the street photo spread to the mainland, everyone excitedly exclaimed: "The case is solved, the case is solved—"