the collapse of distance

This text has been published under the name "Amidst the Falling Stars". "President, I've found a little Baozi who looks a lot like you." "President, Baozi says he doesn't have a real dad; he's a test-tube baby!" "……" He'd only been gone for two days, only to be told by his secretary that he'd been high-grade counterfeited, and it was a mini version of him! Test-tube baby? Thud! One phone call, city-wide search for Baozi, and also Baozi's... mom... Half an hour later... "President, we've found Baozi's mom... it's just... the young assistant you just fired." "……" Before meeting Ou Mucen, Ye Ning was both the inconspicuous adopted daughter of the Ou Family and the true hidden master of the Antique Circle. She was exceptionally talented and intelligent, content with living a simple life. But after meeting Ou Mucen, her persona collapsed...

Gu Mian is the most unlucky person in the whole world. He is involved in many accidents everyday, each of which aims to kill him. One day, the Global Evolution Game starts, allowing everyone to enhance themselves by clearing instances. Even in this game launched by the planet Earth itself, Gu finds himself still being targeted, with less game functions available than other players. However, he is able to do things that others cannot, such as punching NPCs in instances... [Warning! Warning! Red-level warning!] [The Resentful Spirit High School Instance is undergoing catastrophic collapse! Instance characters are almost entirely lost! The instance map has suffered Epic-level destruction!] [Data analysis failed!] [Instance structure abnormal!] [All players within this instance will be forcibly ejected in ten seconds. Please prepare!] [10, 9, 8...]

Des années après leur rupture, Poppy Hale rencontre son ex-petit ami, Declan Hawthorne, qui est également le père de son enfant, lors d'une réunion d'entreprise. Poppy Hale ne veut que s'échapper de lui. Elle a peur de perdre son enfant et de se retrouver sans rien. Elle se souvient comment il a dit une fois qu'ils ne faisaient que jouer à un jeu, et elle maintient une relation respectueuse de supérieur-subordonné avec lui. Cependant, les femmes autour de lui vont et viennent, mais aucune n'attire son attention. - Lors de leur première rencontre, Declan Hawthorne suppose qu'elle l'a abandonné et s'est immédiatement mariée et a eu un enfant. Il veut se venger, la voir le cœur brisé, et la faire regretter. Pourtant, il ne peut s'empêcher de vouloir qu'elle reste avec lui, avec leur enfant, quand elle est au plus bas. Le jour où il apprend la vérité, il réalise que sa vengeance a toujours été contre lui-même. Poppy Hale : "C'est toi qui as dit que nous devrions garder nos distances." "Distance," Declan Hawthorne lui relève le menton, "peut aussi être négative."

Dans le mystérieux MMORPG 【ExoGenesis】, l'âge extraordinaire de la transcendance est arrivé sur Terra. Tristan renaît le jour même du lancement du jeu, éveillant un talent de niveau SSS : le Dieu du Sniper. [Dieu du Sniper (Niveau SSS)] - Effet 1 : Toutes les attaques à distance sont garanties de toucher, et le type de dégâts est changé en dégâts réels. - Effet 2 : Pour chaque mètre de distance de la cible, les dégâts augmentent de 10%. Avec un talent aussi surpuissant, le choix de Tristan est clair—il devient un Assassin ! Avec une précision mortelle et la capacité de frapper à des kilomètres de distance, Tristan prouve qu'un Assassin n'a pas besoin de combattre au corps à corps.

In a quiet riverside village, a weathered bridge becomes the keeper of memory, love, and silence. Aisha has spent years learning to breathe without Rehan, the boy who once promised her forever but vanished into ambition and distance. She lit lanterns alone, carried solitude like a cloak, and built resilience from absence. Yet when Rehan returns, older and burdened with regret, the bridge calls them both back to confront the years that shaped them apart. Their reunion is not simple. It is a fragile thread woven from silence, forgiveness, and the courage to endure the eyes of a village that remembers too well. Through lanterns drifting on the river, whispered confessions, and the quiet endurance of staying, Aisha and Rehan must decide whether love can survive the distance that became forever — or whether some promises are meant only to illuminate the night before fading away.

Qin Tianyu, who had been reborn due to luck, came to a place called Collapse Space. Under the guidance of the system, he crossed over to various worlds of the second dimension … ================= Disclaimer: I do not own the novel or anything about it. They all belong to Bie Jiao Wo Mo Wang so please do support the original work. =================

In a world still healing from the Transparency Revolution that exposed global corruption, violence begins rising again across Mumbai—quietly, strangely, without warning. Ordinary people display inhuman reflexes, unpredictable instincts, and terrifying bursts of clarity in fights. Officials blame stress. The media blames unrest. No one knows the truth. Arjun is the kind of boy who should never be caught in this chaos—quiet, overlooked, bullied, living each day in survival mode. He’s not fast, not skilled, and not brave. Yet whenever danger closes in, something inside him reacts before he can think. A glance he shouldn't notice. A footstep he shouldn't hear. A punch he shouldn't avoid. Everyone around him is changing in violent, unpredictable ways. But Arjun… stays calm. When he survives an attack that should have killed him, he begins to notice the truth: the world is shifting, people are breaking, and whatever is happening to them… isn't happening to him. As more strange incidents spread across the city, Arjun finds himself caught between students who fight like cornered animals, strangers whose instincts feel manufactured, and forces far bigger than any schoolyard conflict. He isn’t trying to become a hero. He isn’t trying to understand the world. He just wants to stay alive. But survival comes with a cost—because once the wrong people notice someone who doesn’t break, they don’t let go. And Arjun is about to find out that the most dangerous thing in this changing world… is a mind that refuses to fall apart.

Revenge, a destroyer of worlds! Born in a world engulfed by chaos. A world ruined by the insatiable nature of man. A world not even fit for wild beasts. Oliver, a teenager who made a promise to his unfulfilled father to become liberated from this lost world of crime: He's a charming young boy who must overcome his deep lust for money, and become a success or the opposite. Vanya's world is a literal inversion of Oliver's. She's basically born with s silver spoon. But even the best flower has its thorns – she too must overcome the emotional trauma she's made to face; the hurdles she must cross seems to increase daily. Both Vanya and Oliver cross paths, leading to an unbreakable bond; one that may last forever. Now, would the difference of their worlds affect their bond? Would the overcome the status quo? And would Oliver get over the thirst for revenge buried beyond his soul before it destroys the bond? Read on to get answers. Read to satisfy your curiosity. #Bullet, Roses and Quotes.#

Seven years before the world collapsed, Ethan Cole failed—and lost everything. Now, reborn into his younger self with memories of the apocalypse, he has a single goal: survive, dominate, and rewrite history. At school, he manipulates friends, rivals, and alliances with surgical precision. A brilliant girl catches his attention—a potential partner, a rival, or something more—and even his perfect plans tremble in the face of unexpected emotions. With every decision, every secret, every investment, Ethan moves closer to building an empire invisible to those who underestimate him. But the clock is ticking, enemies are rising, and even foresight can’t predict every betrayal. Strategy. Romance. Power. The game has only just begun.

Ren Akiyama is a ghost in his own life. At seventeen, he lives alone in a cramped Tokyo apartment, works a dead-end bookstore job, and attends the prestigious Meiji Gakuen High School with the bare minimum effort. His classmates see him as lazy, apathetic, and cold—a boy who has given up before even starting. They don't know that he was once a child prodigy, a genius who burned so brightly that the world tried to consume him. They don't know that he ran away from a family that sold his talent like a stock commodity. And they don't know that behind his dead eyes lies a mind sharp enough to manipulate, strategize, and destroy anyone who threatens his carefully built wall of mediocrity. Hikari Tachibana is the sun that illuminates everything she touches. Beautiful, popular, and effortlessly brilliant, she seems to have the perfect life—a wealthy family, adoring peers, and a future paved with gold. But when her family's corporation collapses in a web of conspiracy, she loses everything overnight. Forced to leave her penthouse, she finds herself standing in front of the only person who never pretended to like her: Ren Akiyama. "You owe me," she says, holding out a crumpled envelope of cash. "Remember when you saved my cat two years ago? I'm calling in that favor." Ren doesn't remember saving any cat. He doesn't remember her at all. But the envelope contains enough money to cover his rent for six months, and Hikari's desperate eyes remind him of someone he used to know—himself. Now the school's most beautiful girl is moving into his one-room apartment. She can't cook, she's terrified of cockroaches, and she talks too much. But she also sees through his masks with an unsettling clarity. As they navigate cohabitation, part-time jobs, and the brutal social hierarchy of their academy, secrets begin to surface—about Ren's tragic past, Hikari's hidden abilities, and the conspiracy that connects their families. This is not a love story. It is a story about two broken people learning that survival is easier when you have someone to come home to. But in a world where trust is a weapon and kindness is a weakness, even the simplest happiness comes at a cost.