the blurred boundary

Coming around, Hu Ma finds himself pierced by iron hooks through his scapulae. For several days, he has been forced to eat some disgusting red meat everyday by an old woman and a little girl who have been keeping him in the house. He has tried to flee but failed due to a sea of evil spirits outside. "Granny chants the calming spell for Brother Huma every day, feeds him soup and medicine, and even gave him meat from Master Tai Sui to eat. Now Brother Huma finally doesn't run around anymore, but Brother Huma doesn't recognize Granny or Little Hongtang," says the little girl. ... One night, in his dream, Hu Ma hears a faint voice coming from the smoke of a burning incense stick. "Once they discover we are Reincarnators, they will perform soul extraction and strip our bones, refining us until not even a trace is left..." "They believe we are Yin Ghosts!"

Johan came from a past full of dark secrets. After his first love/best friend cheated on him, he left their rural town and lived for a fresh start in the nearby city, portraying an innocent persona. For years, he kept everyone out of his private life, but the mystery he’s hiding captivated Adrian, a man with an unsatisfied relationship with his girlfriend. Despite their apparent attraction to one another, a line kept them from acting on their feelings. But when Johan outed himself in a drunken confession, things took a drastic turn. On the day he decided to distance himself from his handsome workmate, Adrian appeared on his doorstep and invited him for a walk. Blinded by desire, Johan gets tangled in an insatiable affair that challenged his beliefs, awakened his feelings, and roused his fears. As they ventured between the boundaries of love, lust, and friendship, Johan’s secrets resurfaced one by one, and Adrian’s in for a wild, dangerous ride. ——— Warnings: Oh, hey! So you've decided to click on it. Great! Just a little heads up, though. If you're looking for a BL Fairytale where MC is an innocent cinnamon roll and ML is a gay Prince Charming, you've clicked the wrong book. This story depicts a grey side of gay relationships not everyone would dare to tackle. It's a sinfully forbidden love story. Sex scenes are descriptive, and strong language are unfiltered that may be upsetting to others. Readers discretion is STRONGLY advised. ——— Gold Tier Winner of WPC# 125: LGBT+ Pride Month

Sinopsis: Seorang pemuda terlempar ke dunia One Piece dengan ingatan yang masih utuh. Dan memanfaatkan berbagai pengetahuannya tentang One Piece dan juga kekuatan buah iblis untuk memanipulasi Batasan, dia akan memulai kisah petualangannya dan menggapai puncak! ==== ===== ====== ======= Catatan Penulis: Ini adalah pertama kalinya saya menulis fan-fiksi. Dan jujur saja, saya sendiri hanyalah pemula dan bukanlah seorang penulis yang baik sebenarnya. Ada beberapa/banyak kekurangan dalam fan-fiksi ini, jadi jangan terlalu banyak berharap ini adalah mahakarya yang luar biasa!

Author: Paul W. Feenstra is a historical fiction novelist. Meticulously researched and detailed, his character driven novels create a dramatic window into our chronicled and complex past. Born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1959, to Dutch immigrants, Paul still commutes to Los Angeles, California, where he worked as a multiple ‘Emmy’ nominated entertainment industry professional. Will justice prevail over greed and ruthless ambition? July 1839, without the permission of the English Government, the New Zealand Company ship, Tory, quietly departed England, anxious to reach New Zealand with the utmost speed. Expedition leader, Colonel William Wakefield’s objective is clear – acquire millions of acres of valuable land from the natives at the lowest possible price. On board the Tory, Andrew and Eleanor Stewart, young Scottish emigrants indentured to the New Zealand Company, are excited at the prospect of beginning a new life in a perfect town called Britannia. It’s the Utopia the company promised. Boundary highlights adversity as settlers struggle to survive the hardships of a new colony. Where mounting claims of illegally obtained lands and deception force local Maori chiefs to resist. How much more can they endure before they finally take action and revolt? Caught between the loyalty to their employer, and helping Maori, Andrew and Eleanor encounter schemers and murderers as they challenge the powerful New Zealand Company and the men who govern. Meticulously researched, Boundary is a story of greed and injustice, and draws attention to an often-misunderstood dark passage in New Zealand’s early colonial history.

When Theodore was dropped into a waterway by his half-brother, he suddenly recalled the memory of his past life. He had been a Japanese citizen known as Kirishima Kagehisa, placed inside VRMMO character he had made in Break Force Online. ‘Theodore’ is a Combat Mage that Kagehisa played within BFO, and he realized his skills were progressing well even in this other world. Theodore, who had lightly brushed off his half-brother to make his own place in the world, had ventured off to the large labyrinth existing at the Boundary City, Termuilles, to find his own place in the world.

One night, Lin Arjun was just another exhausted college student, working at a nightclub to pay his fees and survive another semester. Then a mysterious phone call changed everything. A billion-dollar inheritance. A terrified girl running for her life. A bottle shattering against his head. And when he opened his eyes again, he was no longer on Earth. He found himself in a deadly forest beneath a moonlit sky, chased by a savage beast and forced into a ruined hut hidden deep within the wilderness. There, on the brink of death, he knelt before an ancient Buddha statue and begged for a chance to live. Something answered. **The Boundary Domain System.** Within his boundary, Lin Arjun is absolute. Inside the invisible barrier surrounding his territory, he can suppress enemies, control life and death, heal allies, and command spiritual energy itself. Every enemy or beast killed within the domain grants him experience, treasures, pills, weapons, skills, and even rare bloodlines. As his cultivation rises, the boundary expands. A ruined hut becomes a stone house. A stone house becomes a sacred sect. A single spirit tree becomes an immortal orchard bearing fruits that heal wounds, extend lifespan, and nurture disciples. When a hunted cultivator girl, Bai Ruoxue, flees into his domain and kneels to become his first disciple, Lin Arjun’s fate changes forever. With every disciple breakthrough, he gains tenfold returns. With every territory expansion, his power over life and death deepens. From a forest hut to a world-shaking sect… From the lowest realm to the underworld, upper world, immortal world, and beyond the heavens… Lin Arjun will build a domain where even gods must kneel. **Within his barrier, he is invincible.** **Within his boundary, he is God.**

Voices that should not exist have begun to speak. A woman is reborn from an ancient painting, singing of a love sealed away for centuries. A man turns the resentment of a living sacrifice into destruction that consumes his own people. A god offers a final prayer to keep a demon bound— and never answers again. A soul awakens inside a machine, asking questions no machine should ask. Something from beyond this world arrives on Earth, not to interfere, but to observe. And I hear them. This is not a single story. It is a record. A series of encounters that appear unrelated, taking place within ordinary lives and familiar spaces. Each one alters my understanding of life, death, and the boundary between them. I record these events not to explain them, but because pretending they do not exist is no longer possible.

[Are you guys, fed up with an overpowered, dumb and brain-dead protoganist or main character getting everything without putting much efforts, just because he is referred as a heaven's child. Are you fed up with novels and stories where the villian has every knowledge of future plot, and is armed with a powerful all purpose godly system to beat the sh*t out of the protoganist. Are you guys fed up with novels where our protoganist got hit by truck- kun and got transmigrated to another Cultivation world, and got an over powered system, which gave him high ranking skills and cheats if he fu*k other beautiful girls, women, his master's disciples or even his own master. Or some dog's shit face slapping novel with prior warning by author, ' to keep your mind shut while reading. If yes, and you are tired of reading the same repetitive plots, then for once try this novel. I wouldn't say that you wouldn't find smut content in the novel, but it is not that much expressive (unless you demand), and ofcourse i wouldn't write that unless the plot demanded it. That's it from my side, my feelings and my words. And If you like it and the novel meet your taste please vote, like and support the book in any way possible. Lastly, if you have read all of these paragraphs, i would like to express my gratitude to you all, each and everyone for giving me your precious time. And please feel free to ask me for any query or mistake you find ( plothole). Together we will make the novel journey adventurous and exciting. So let's join Lei Jun on this exciting journey towards the mysteries and secrets buried beneath the cultivation world. Thank you] Lei Jun’s life has been defined by mockery and misfortune. Named "Thunderous" but living as a lowly city waiter, he is the orphaned survivor of a famine with nothing to his name but a burning desire to "jump the dragon gate" and escape his wretched fate. When a mysterious old man named Li Yunjin claims Lei Jun possesses "immortal luck" and invites him to join the grandly named Eternal God Sect, Lei Jun believes his moment of destiny has finally arrived. But the reality is a cold splash of water. The "Eternal God Sect" is a crumbling ruin of sagging roofs, missing tiles, and dust-covered memorial tablets. Its Sect Leader is a man whose grand ambitions have been weathered down to a late-stage Qi Refining cultivation and a desperate need to pass on a dying lineage. Instead of a jade palace in the clouds, Lei Jun finds himself in a valley of weeds, clutching a basic "Fire Spirit Art" manual and a hammer to repair his own living quarters. Just as the dream of immortality feels like a pipedream, a cold mechanical voice echoes in his mind. [Ding! Monarch Sect Building System Activated.] With the ability to see the hidden potential in the ruins and upgrade the dilapidated structures into divine sanctums, Lei Jun realizes that the old man’s words were truer than he knew: A mountain need not be high; if there is an immortal, it will be famous. From an outer disciple in a "grounded" sect to the architect of a new Golden Age, Lei Jun will prove that even a waiter from a famine-stricken village can build a ladder to the heavens. The world thinks his Sect is a joke of the past, but with the System in hand, Lei Jun is about to make them bow before its future. Join Lei Jun on this journey as he climbed higher on the world hierarchy and unfolds many mysteries. ----------- Note - To gain traffic i am taking these steps and soon be available on Patreon too. " l will be posting this story on RoyalRoad.com," "https://www.royalroad.com/profile/941968/fictions" Thanks for your support.

Jolls thought she’d finally escaped her past — until one call shattered everything. Now, as a familiar voice haunts her nights and a new girl starts to feel like home, she finds herself torn between healing and heartbreak. But some people never really leave you… even when you stop answering the phone.

In her previous life, she took the wrong "white lotus" script, causing her to die a miserable death. Heaven has let her live again, so she shouldn't have to suffer the hardships of her past life once more! Feng Moxi sheds her weakness from her previous life. Making a new choice, she must fight! There are monsters! Kill them! There are scumbags! Eliminate them! With her meager strength, she picks up a Heavy Sword and forges a difficult path forward. Unexpectedly, that arrogant and reckless person who caused her no small amount of trouble along the way eventually becomes a comrade-in-arms to whom she can entrust her back, a companion for life. The sky fills with darkness, the Demon People emerge! The Heavenly Dao returns. One day, Feng Moxi is leisurely roasting beast meat by the river. Chaoyang, having just finished fighting a demon beast, sees the crumbs on her lips and immediately leans in. "Want some?" Chaoyang dazedly nodded his head. Suddenly, a piece of burnt beast meat is stuffed into his mouth. Chaoyang pulls Feng Moxi into his embrace, gently brushes the corner of her lips with his hand, and says, "You're mine!" Apocalypse + Cultivation + Doting Boyfriend