bodies in the box

Li Daoxuan received a strange scenic box. Inside the box, there was an ancient village, and a group of plastic figures, holding swords and knives, hacking and slashing through the village. He bent his finger and flicked it towards a most conspicuous figure... Late in the Ming Dynasty, in Shaanxi, there was a great drought in the land. A gang of mountain bandits was looting, burning, killing, and plundering in the village. A poor maiden was about to be killed under a mountain bandit's blade. Suddenly, a giant hand stretched out from the clouds, bent a finger, flicked it, and the mountain bandit was flung several dozen yards away.

Did you know what the blind box of real estate was like? The speculators would buy the real estate that had been foreclosed houses. For fairness, the door and windows were locked. You didn't know what was inside. Everyone could only observe outside and look for clues. Maybe the luxurious furniture inside was worth a lot of money, or some of them were leaked which you would cost a sea of money to repair. While others were still raking against the wall and looking around. Lee got the divine-level hint system, and all the house values were clear at a glance! "The decoration of this building is terrible, and the thief has come here in advance. Don't buy it." "This villa is worth 5 million dollars. There are antique gold coins hidden in the basement!" "Don't miss this warehouse. It's worth 20 million dollars. There is the authentic work of Picasso in it!"

By day, Joon-ho runs a discreet, high-end massage clinic in Seoul, specializing in pain relief and body alignment. But behind the soundproof doors, his true gift lies in reading the deepest cravings of the women who walk through his door—and giving their bodies exactly what they need. From overworked executives to national celebrities, no woman leaves untouched—or unchanged. When Harin, his former campus crush turned office worker, reenters his life, one night of pleasure turns into something far more dangerous: connection, obsession, and a partnership that blurs every boundary between business, pleasure, and possession. Now, she’s not just in his bed. She’s in his clinic. His lap. His world. And she wants to watch everything.

Li Yi, who carried the usury, was sold to a mysterious organization K by the Mafia. He had no choice but to participate in a killing game whose bonus was as high as 100 billion! Fortunately, he activated the human-box system, and the dead would explode a box in front of him. "The corpse box was opened successfully!” "You will be rewarded with advanced fighting skills!” He was constantly learning new skills and becoming stronger. He was determined to get the 100 billion bonuses!

Ten years of devotion. Thousands of nights in his bed. Yet I still couldn't replace the white moonlight hidden in his heart.Until the moment he nearly knocked over my secret—the black brocade box on the nightstand.Inside it lies the truth I'll never let him see:The three children I lost… because of him.And the man I truly love… was never Stuart Hall.

Zehn Jahre der Hingabe. Tausende von Nächten in seinem Bett. Doch ich konnte das weiße Mondlicht, das in seinem Herzen verborgen war, immer noch nicht ersetzen. Bis zu dem Moment, als er beinahe mein Geheimnis umgestoßen hätte – die schwarze Brokatschatulle auf dem Nachttisch. Darin liegt die Wahrheit, die ich ihn niemals sehen lassen werde: Die drei Kinder, die ich verlor … seinetwegen. Und der Mann, den ich wirklich liebe … war niemals Stuart Hall.

Jian Tian transmigrated into a Mary Sue school novel and became the cannon fodder female supporting character. Although she is cannon fodder, her entire family is full of villains. The villainous eldest brother opposes the male lead and leads the company to bankruptcy. The villainous second brother opposes the female lead and ends up with crippled legs. The villainous third brother is a love-struck fool and ends up on the streets. And she has it worse, being implicated and sent to prison. Why should she be the only cannon fodder in a family of villains? She wants to turn the tables! She wants to rise! However, just as she ignites her fighting spirit, she discovers she’s bound to a system that will obliterate her soul if she doesn't slack off. Jian Tian: "..." Lies down. And she even persuades her whole family to slack off collectively. Seeing the eldest brother working overtime at the company: "Stop working overtime; after all, the company won't be yours in the end! Trust me, first lose 1 billion!" Seeing the second brother busy with his medical career: "Don't work too hard, after all, you're ultimately making wedding dresses for others. Why not research a cure for crippled legs instead?" Seeing the third brother running errands for the female lead: "Isn't being a happy bachelor nice? Why must you suffer for love? Wake up, licking the boots will get you nothing in the end!" The three brothers of the Ji family: "..." Has our little sister gone crazy? Later, after experiencing the joy of slacking, the three brothers: "Hmm, this is nice..." However... We agreed to slack off together, so how did you quietly become a top boss?! Jian Tian awkwardly scratches her head: "There’s too much development in my field; I can't help it." And the dark villain lurking in the shadows, aggressively wrapping his arms around her waist: "Hmm? How about including me too?" Jian Tian: "..." Don’t come near me!

Mo Yu transmigrated from the end of the world into the body of a cannon-fodder female supporting character in a novel about a rich family. In the original novel, Mo Yu was the real young lady who lived in a village as a kid. Meanwhile, the fake young lady, Mo Xue, who lived as the young lady of the Mo family, had a baby with the strongest business mogul in the novel, Gu Lian. For that reason, other young ladies were always envious of her. However, Gu Lian entered a state of coma due to an accident. As the cannon fodder in the novel, she was responsible for serving the female lead. On top of that, she didn't even experience a single good day. When her rich family found her in the village where she lived, she was forced to marry a comatose man as soon as she returned with them. She felt deeply twisted. On most days, she would torture her unconscious husband to vent. However, by now, Gu Lian had actually regained consciousness. He would wake up anytime now, and the first thing he wanted to do was to annihilate Mo Yu, the evil female supporting character. Mo Yu looked at the needle in her hand, which she was prepared to torture Gu Lian with, while she thought about how to survive. However, she realized she had swapped souls with her comatose husband! She could actually initiate soul-swapping with another person! Gu Lian looked at Mo Yu, who was in his unconscious body, and smiled devilishly. "How does it feel?" "This bed feels very comfortable. I'm willing to switch places with you. You can have the freedom!" Mo Yu exclaimed. "Huh?" Gu Lian was confused. After occupying Mo Yu's body, Gu Lian realized that Mo Xue, who seemed gentle and elegant at first, was full of evil. His father-in-law and mother-in-law were also cunning folks. Those who behaved kindly toward him all showed their ugly sides in front of Mo Yu. On the contrary, the wife he thought was cunning and evil was the kindest of them all.

"No one ever helped me no matter how much I suffered. So, tell me...why would I help others if there's no benefit to it for me?" After being sold off by his parents to human traffickers due to a physical deformity and ending up as a resident of the underworld, a jaded mercenary is killed during a mission gone wrong. "If only there was a way to carry my entire arsenal of weapons without weighing myself down..." As he dies, he suddenly find himself waking up in a younger, unfamiliar body, in an unfamiliar world. He finds himself in a rundown orphanage located in a medieval world full of Magic and Monsters, his new body weak and frail. His new name is Jaedfern Meraled, or Jade for short. But he's not alone in being sent to this world...along with him for the ride is the Angel Arkiela, who was banished to this world for interfering with the human world out of boredom. Specifically, she used her powers to feed and amplify people's impulses and intrusive thoughts, including the people around Jade, whom she targeted to, in her words, "mess with", and subsequently went on to ruin his life. She then claims that their lives are now intertwined...if one of them dies, so will the other. While being uncertain as to whether she's being honest about that or lying so that he can't afford to kill her, Jade can't exactly risk putting it to the test, so he errs on the side of caution. Grudgingly, he decides to accept her presence around him, having no other choice in the matter. With that settled, she reveals that when people are reincarnated with their memories intact, they're given OP powers, usually as a reward or consolation for their circumstances in their previous life, and she then checks what abilities he's been bestowed with. In this world, there are three main elements to a person's Magic...their Magic Class; which is the core of their abilities, their Mana Pool; the quantity of Magical energy they possess, and finally, their Skills; special abilities that include active powers such as Appraisal and passive powers such as Heat Resistance. Each person possesses three Skills, without exception. As for Jade, his Magic Class is...well, he doesn't have one. And his Mana Pool...is nonexistent, he possesses no Magical energy whatsoever. And finally, his Skills...he only has one, titled "Mercenary's Item Box", a dimensional storage power with a number of abilities that can be unlocked by Leveling Up the Skill. Most people who are reincarnated are given OP powers, rewarded for either living a virtuous life, or as consolation for living a tortured life. But sometimes, people who've lived sinful lives, can be punished instead, bestowed with the bare minimum of abilities in worlds where such abilities are everything. And Jade is the latter. However, Jade may not necessarily be as bad off as it initially seems...because within his Item Box, is every weapon he owned during his previous life, weapons that don't exist in this world. Will it give him enough of an advantage to survive, and ideally thrive, in this medieval world rampant with violent crime and dangerous Monsters? One thing's for sure, it certainly won't be easy...

All three books in the popular <em>Sandbridge</em> M/M romance series by Elizabeth L. Brooks and Lynn Townsend are now available in one box set! Contains the stories:<br><br><strong>Nights in Sandbridge</strong>: Andy's made a habit of running away -- he ran away from his abusive father, and then several years later, he ran away from his manipulative boyfriend. He thinks he might have found a home in Sandbridge with Scooter, but when trouble rears its ugly head, will Andy run away yet again?<br><br><strong>Daybreak in Sandbridge</strong>: Scooter's life is definitely on the upswing: his business is successful and he's engaged to the most amazing man he's ever met. But when Andy is called home to attend his dying father, Scooter is forced to realize that he knew less than he thought about Andy's past. How can Scooter compete with the sizeable fortune Andy is set to inherit or the lovely and stylish girl Andy left behind?<br><br><strong>High Noon in Sandbridge</strong>: Life takes a sudden turn for Scooter and Andy when Scooter's sister meets an untimely end and they're suddenly guardians to a niece they've only met a handful of times. Billie is stubborn and hot-tempered and not remotely interested in making a life in the one place that her mother had sworn never to return. Will she ever learn to call Dockside and Sandbridge home?