a quiet monsoon evening

Introducing the new story "Return to '81: The Struggle of the Eldest Sister" – a heartwarming pampering tale, a tale of marital love, a tale of a woman's self-empowerment. That year, Ning Yunxi willingly married. On the day she took her vows, everyone around doubted the union, and her family declared, she shouldn't expect to receive a single penny from home. Her husband was an orphan with a bunch of little radish head siblings? No one believed her soldier husband would one day become a high-ranking official, no one imagined her Second Uncle would become a great scientist, and no one conceived that her young aunt would be a future superstar, let alone that the fourth child would be a natural-born tycoon. But truly, one day, all the futures Ning Yunxi saw came to fruition. Today, she has married a poor soldier and has become the sister-in-law in the military; raising the children of soldiers without fear, convinced she's betting not just on one potential stock, but on a multitude of leading stocks – with her newly acquired special abilities, she becomes a super teacher for the people! ----------------------------------------------------- All along, she had been recognized by the Wen Family as the least promising daughter, unremarkable in appearance and unnoticed, still unable to marry at the ripe age of twenty-nine. He, the son of a military family, born with privileges, deliberately concealed his identity at the matchmaking banquet, posing as an ordinary man. When they married, people sneered, "A pair of worn-out shoes matched with a bankrupt family, just perfect." Then one day, the gold buried in the sand shone with an immense brilliance...

In the eyes of Chi Zuxu, Chi Yi is a typical delinquent with the three big ‘NOs’— no morals, no virtues, no principles. To her, though, he is a classic baddie who is heartless, soulless, and inhuman. After the girl breaks and climbs through his glass window on the second story, she peeps at him with an innocent demeanor. “Chi Zuxu, lend me the other half of your bed!” she wolf-whistles at him blatantly. The man admonishes with a scowl, “Chi Yi, aren’t you shameless!” Inside the cinema, as Chi Yi’s little hands restlessly grope the man’s body without chagrin, she tells him smilingly, “Chi Zuxu, I want to do bad things with you!” Holding a look of woeful disgrace, he knocks her head. “Chi Yi, aren’t you embarrassed!” It is a lovely love story between a barefaced and a reticent. But, Mr Reticient, please don’t cry when Miss Barefaced finally slips away.

As an anti-fan of the idol group, Starry Night, An Xiaxia is happy to spend her time online slandering lead singer Sheng Yize. But things take an unexpected turn when An Xiaxia starts high school - the Starry Night trio somehow becomes her classmates, and even end up moving into her house. Also, the nation’s idol Sheng Yize seems particularly interested in An Xiaxia for some reason... Sheng Yize: Xiaxia, if I and a chicken wing fall into the water together, which one will you save? An Xiaxia: Hm… I can't swim, so obviously you're going to save yourself and get my chicken wing out! Sheng Yize: I thought I was the nation’s idol???

Silas Sotos started as an outsider, dabbling in arts best left unknown. Now, can he harness his god-touched powers and navigate the treacherous currents of faith, law, and cosmic dread to save a city that barely understands the forces threatening to consume it? And what will be the price of his unique salvation? If you crave a dark fantasy that masterfully blends occult beginnings, thrilling detective work, Lovecraftian horror, and a protagonist whose power is as dangerous as it is extraordinary, then prepare to be captivated. The true shadows of Bayne City are calling.

At eighteen she is already a legend in the army. The coldest, sharpest soldier in a generation, perfect at everything she touches and interested in nothing but the next target. They call her a machine. No one knows she is the lost heir of a slaughtered crime family, alive only because someone hid her, and that every medal she earns is one more step toward the man who killed her parents. Three men know who she really is. The youngest general in the country's history loved her before either of them had a word for it, and now guards her from the shadows — she files him under "older brother." The soldier she grew up and bled beside would burn the world for her, and she is certain he only ever sees a little sister. And the mafia lord who has hunted her for three years means to set a crown on her head or a bullet through it, whichever keeps her. She misreads the first two and underestimates the third. She is wrong on every count.

[BL]Back into the Enigma's Den- new bl book out _____ “You motherfucker… don’t come back to this shop again… or else…” Customers flinched at the loud noise. The next second, someone was thrown out of the shop by the delicate but handsome-looking omega shopkeeper. The alpha hunters flinched as they watched the omega shopkeeper move back after throwing an alpha out all on his own, and they all thought the same thing—do not anger the shopkeeper and do not go after him. After all, to these low-level alpha hunters, the omega civilian shopkeeper was a celebrity. However, what these hunters did not know was the secret the omega shopkeeper hid. Not only was he a hunter, but also part of the first-generation hunters who went after the world’s first and last L-class gate, and perished. But Kyle somehow survived. And not only did he survive, but he also found himself returning 10 years after he entered the L-class gate as a dead man walking. With no money and no identity to call his own, Kyle decided to start fresh from the bottom and live a civilian life he was not able to last time. He almost succeeded, if not for the new customers of his that were trying to uncover his identity. The world had changed from the once-bleak one where hunters were feared, to one where hunters were revered as celebrities, but Kyle had no intention of stepping into the limelight. Now, if only others got the message, he would appreciate it as well. After all, he had no intention of mingling with the world of top hunters again, even if the pull tried to bring him back. ______ New book out. Please check it out.

At seventeen, Noah Calder makes a decision that changes everything—he walks away from home. Not because he doesn’t love his family… But because poverty has given him nothing but limits. With only a few coins in his pocket and a quiet resolve in his heart, Noah enters a city that shows no mercy to the weak. Hungry, alone, and unnoticed, he survives by observing, thinking, and enduring. Until one day— He witnesses a deadly accident. While others hesitate, Noah steps forward and saves a man trapped inside a burning car… not knowing that the man he saved is one of the most powerful billionaires in the country—Victor Laurent. Offered wealth as a reward, Noah refuses. Because he understands something most people don’t: Money given without knowledge… disappears. Instead, he asks for something far more valuable. “Teach me.” Intrigued by his calm mind and rare clarity, Victor takes Noah in—not as a charity case, but as a disciple. For five years, Noah is forged in silence. No luxury. No shortcuts. No praise. Only discipline, knowledge, and ruthless lessons about money, power, and human nature. Then comes the final test— One billion dollars. No guidance. No second chances. Noah disappears from the world. And when he returns… He is no longer the boy who left. But instead of flaunting wealth, he hides it. Returning to his hometown under a simple identity, Noah begins to change everything—quietly. Helping his struggling family. Building opportunities for others. And protecting the people he cares about… without them ever knowing the truth. But secrets don’t stay buried forever. As rivals emerge, relationships deepen, and his past begins to catch up— Noah must decide: Will he remain in the shadows… Or step into the light and reveal the empire he built in silence?

"Be my surrogate." That is the price of Liora's life. An omega the pack calls defective, she cannot shift and has never belonged. In a world ruled by bloodlines and strength, she has survived by being invisible. Darren Hart, the Alpha's heir, has always been her only refuge. He chooses her to bear the future of the pack when tradition demands an heir and his mate cannot provide one. Under his protection, Liora is taken into the palace and bound to him by duty. But it is not Darren who unsettles her pulse, it is his father, the Alpha, who makes her heart beat faster than it should. Alpha Lucas Hart is power made flesh, a ruler feared and obeyed, and the one man Liora has never been able to look at without feeling something she should not. His gaze lingers too long. His questions cut too deep. Caught between the heir who saved her and the Alpha she cannot stop wanting, Liora steps into a court where loyalty is currency and weakness is fatal. Because she was never meant to be weak. And loving the wrong Alpha may be the most dangerous choice of all.

On a rain-lashed night in 2003, a signal failure halts every train passing through Kochi Junction. Among the stranded crowd, six strangers briefly cross paths — a disillusioned teacher, a young nurse bound for the Gulf, a returning architect, a restless journalist, a weary migrant mechanic, and an aspiring coder chasing her first job. None exchange names. Yet that night of shared waiting becomes the quiet axis of their lives. Over the next two decades, their stories flow outward — across Kerala’s backwaters and India’s cities, into deserts, boardrooms, and faraway apartments — tracing how ordinary people carry fragments of one another through distance, failure, and rediscovery. From night schools under railway bridges to floating hospices on the Alappuzha backwaters, Monsoon Junction maps the fragile beauty of human connection in a world always in transit. Lyrical and deeply human, this multi-voiced saga explores the lives of those who arrive, depart, and sometimes return — finding that the hardest journeys are not measured in miles, but in forgiveness.

Living a perfect life helping others and without committing any wrongdoing, Noah meets his untimely end saving a girl from being hit by an incoming truck. While he accepts his end, he finds himself not in whatever afterlife awaits, but an enigmatic place only known as “The Cycle.” Due to his “Perfect” karma of one million, he is transported to a fantastical world of magic, though he chooses a simple, quiet life along a lake. However, when being sent to this second chance at life, one gift is bestowed upon him: [...Integrating System…] [Jack-of-All-Trades System Activated.] From doing push-ups, chopping trees, and even cutting vegetables, every action is its own unique skill, able to be ascended from a meager level of zero all the way to greatness! --- [Daily Releases at 9:00 AM PST] Please support the book with power stones! Bonus chapter at 100 PS!