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Outline of a novel idea I want to test on the community. Please leave any questions, comments and concerns in the comment section. If you all like the outline I will upload 3 times a week or more at my availability. please and thank you for the read.

Author: 314 (Yang Chen)
 
After you confirm what genre and topic you wish to write about, it's now time for you as an author to design your settings and write the overall planned outline for your plot. As for why I'm putting these two elements together, that's because these two elements are deeply interconnected and inseparable.
 
When you're writing the overall outline, this is basically coming up with the story's plot. As you write the outline, what you're actually doing is fleshing out the details for your setting.
 
When you're writing a story, of course, you need to first consider where your story will happen, when it happens, who it happens to, and what type of person it happens to. As the story progresses, you also need to consider who the main character will meet in the story, what time and place he or she meets them at, along with who's stronger and who's weaker than the main character…
 
This is why by the time that you're finished with your overall outline, the world's background, various factions, levels, special abilities, treasures, all the important characters… and such settings will be naturally completed during the course of outlining.
 
The reverse is true as well. If you first work on designing the detailed settings instead, then you'll basically end up with an outline for the story's plot and how the main character grows over the story as well.
 
Of course, there's still some differences depending on which angle you start from. However, newcomer authors like you don't need to worry about this. You can simply create based on your personality and whatever you prefer. It doesn't matter whether you start from the settings or the outline. You can even do both at the same time.
 
For newcomer authors like you, there's only five points that are critically important for you to understand.
 
1.      Having an overall outline isn't absolutely necessary, but having one is always better than not having one
 
Theoretically speaking, even if you didn't prepare an overall outline, it might not affect the progress of you writing your novel at all. There are some authors out there that simply write whatever comes into their mind and go with the flow.
 
Of course, this is all just a best-case scenario in theory. For the great majority of authors out there, once your story's plot exceeds your planned outline... 

Your outline will help your story stay on track in the early stages, but once you reach the mid and late stages, all sorts of problems often appear, such as too many plotlines all at once, self-contradictory plotlines, or writer's block…
 
At such a time, authors will typically regret not creating a more detailed outline, but it's already too late now. Actually, overall outlines have more uses than you think.
 
Since webnovels are typically longer than normal novels, they take much longer to write as well. Typically, it takes an average author several months or even longer to finish writing everything in their overall outline. By the time that they're finish writing everything in their overall outline, most authors will have new ideas and insights into what they want to write. Once they combine their new ideas with their original outline, in a way, this gives them two sources of inspiration. It's basically the equivalent of two people working together, and on top of that, these two people know exactly what each other are thinking.
 
It's easy to see how this can be helpful in improving the quality of your novel.
 
Apart from this, while creating an overall outline, the author can also discover many topics or problems with the settings and correct them in time.
 
To give an extreme example, if you're having a great difficulty with writing your overall outline and don't know what to do with your own plot, this proves that there's a large problem with your plot. You should either make major changes, or delete this part of your plot entirely.
 
So, newcomer authors definitely shouldn't overlook the uses of having an overall outline. No matter if you have a good or bad outline, a simple or a detailed one, as long as you have one, that's good.
 
What needs to be noted is that only outlines that have been written out truly count as outlines.
 
Even if you as an author have a very detailed outline, and even if you've solidly memorized every single plot point in your outline, any outline that hasn't been written into your novel doesn't count as a true outline. That's because when you actually start writing, you'll discover that what you finally end up writing will always have differences from what you envisioned.
 
2.      You need to finish your outline, but it doesn't need to be complete
 
Thinking about your outline is equivalent to thinking about your novel's plot. You need to consider both the beginning and the end. You also need to think about everything that the main character experiences from the beginning to the end of the story.
 
If your outline isn't finished, but only half-finished, you won't even be able to predict the storylines that come later, which will cause you to have difficulties writing your plot once you finish the beginning stages. This is basically the same as not having an outline at all.
 
Still, there's no need for us to make the outline as detailed as possible from the very beginning, with so many specific scenarios for all your plots. The reason for this is quite simple—none of us know just how long our novels will turn out to be in the end.
 
A story that's written with the intent of becoming a commercial product needs to be sufficiently long enough right from the planning stage. The longer your potential story, the better. But actually, how many words it finally ends up with depends on how well your story performs.
 
If your story is incredibly popular and performs well in the market, then we can consider writing it for as long as possible. However, if your story obviously isn't popular with readers, then you can consider ending your story in a timely fashion at an appropriate point in the plot so that you can think of a new story instead. That would be a wiser decision if you wish to become a professional author.
 
Of course, when you're only in the outlining stage, it's impossible for you as a newcomer author to know how readers will react to your novel. Precisely because of this, you need to have a flexible writing plan. What this means is that you should have an outline that's detailed in the beginning and general near the end. For the beginning of your story, you should have as detailed an outline as possible, while for the middle and especially the later parts of your story, you only need some general ideas. All you need is to consider the overall development of the plot so that you know what direction to take your storyline in.
 
For example, maybe you planned that the beginning of your novel will be approximately 80,000 words, and you've prepared a 4,000-word outline for just the beginning. In that case, your outline for the next 80,000 words, the middle of your story, might only need 3000 words, and the meat of your story, another 240,000 words, might have an outline that's less than 1000 words.
 
Of course, as you continue writing your story, you should constantly update your outline as well. You should complete your outline for the next 80,000 words before you finish writing the first 80,000 words.
 
3.      Your settings need to be constantly updated

Just like writing an outline, you should first come up with the basic settings before you even begin writing, which includes your world background, main character's personality, power levels, and so on.
 
More specific settings, such as a powerful artifact that appears in the story, can be added as you write your story.
 
Unlike an outline, you don't need to fully plan out all of your settings at the very beginning. It's perfectly acceptable to think of new settings while you're writing.
 
However, newcomer authors need to note that while it's okay to come up with new settings as you write, you should write these settings down and add them to your outline or settings document as you write.
 
This is to help yourself check your own settings later in the future. Otherwise, a novel that reached over one million words and has lasted for one year or longer might cause you as an author to completely forget about something you wrote before in the past. It's even quite common to make a mistake when writing about the items that the main character possesses. Yet, there will always be a sharp-eyed reader or two that catches the author out in a misstep.
 
If you have a very detailed document on your settings, not only will you be able to greatly reduce your own plot continuity errors, you'll also be able to look through your settings whenever you have writer's block and find some inspiration in a side character that you have already forgotten about or some item that was mentioned before but never used again.
 
4.      It's better for your settings to be cliché
 
Here, this means the systems and names that you use for your settings. For example, the names and levels you use for a martial arts society.
 
Many newcomer authors will mistakenly think that using already existing well-known settings will make their novel seem too cliché, causing them to want to be as "unique" as possible. These authors will use their imaginations to come up with all sorts of fictional vocabulary words, which in their minds will make their novels "stand out." These newcomer authors don't realize that this is the worst possible way to write a novel. In the great majority of situations, this will have the opposite effect from intended.
 
A new original novel that you write should be a new interpretation or story about some specific genre or story type. How to make your novel stand out depends on the conflicts you create in your story and how the main character resolves them. As for coming up with new vocabulary words and names for your novel, even if you make them sound really cool, or make some modified slang words, it's almost never a good thing for you.
 
The reason for this can also be understood in my article about how to write the beginning of your story. By doing so, the author is placing more burden upon the readers to understand a larger amount of information.
 
There will always be other already existing words that you could have used, which are easily understood by all your readers. Instead, your readers now need to spend their time and effort on reading your explanations. Obviously, readers aren't here to read your technical manuals or info dumps. The more explanations that you have in your novel, the lower your novel's appeal and flow will become. But, if you don't add any explanations for your self-created words at all, the readers won't even understand what's going on.
 
This is why newcomer authors should avoid this useless type of "creativity" as much as possible. You should simply rely on settings that all readers are familiar with instead.
 
5.      The storyline should be pushed forward by using conflicts
 
Many newcomer authors will often develop writer's block when planning their outline or working on their novel.
 
Sometimes, this is because the author has made their storyline too messy. But most of the time, it's because the author feels like there's nothing to write about, or doesn't know what they should make the main character do. The author has no idea how to continue their own story.
 
In order to deal with writer's block, or in other words, how to push your storyline alone, the answer is actually incredibly simple.
 
You can answer this question using only one word – Conflicts!
 
Actually, the critical element of all webnovels can be summed up into one word – conflicts. For example, leveling is the desire or need of the main character to become stronger, which is a conflict between the main character and his or her own current weakness.
 
And since there is a conflict, you must resolve the conflict. And so, your main character wants to cultivate to become stronger, which means he needs to travel around the world in order to find cultivation methods…
 
All sorts of conflicts will both push forward your storyline as well as create numerous climaxes for your readers. It can be said that how you design your conflicts is the very foundation of writing any novel, not just a webnovel.
 
As for a more detailed analysis on how to design your story's conflicts, please read my intermediate-level article on the topic. For newcomer authors like you, you simply need to understand this concept, and know that you should keep coming up with new conflicts whenever you're having trouble keeping up with your own storyline. Try finding potential conflicts from plots, characters, and items you've already used, or forcefully introduce a new element into your story that creates a new conflict.
 
This can be said to be one of the most basic techniques of planning your storyline.

If you’re confused about how to write a popular webnovel, perhaps this book will be able to help you out. 

This book contains articles written by the best editors in the Chinese webnovel industry. There are introductory guides, intermediate guides, and assorted topics, with different numbers of guides in each type. Each week, we’ll be publishing three guides. If you believe that these guides are useful, please let us know by leaving your reviews. We can adjust the update rate based on your feedback.

Author introduction:

314 (Yang Chen): He is China Literature’s general manager, Xiaoxiang Academy’s general manager, Qidian’s head editor, China Webnovel Literature Committee member, Jiangsu Province Webnovel Author Committee vice-chairman, and a qualified expert on all internet literature. He has discovered many popular topics and greatly helped the industry to expand, along with having personally advised many top-tier authors. He is from the first generation of webnovel researchers. Yang Chen started working in the webnovel editing industry in 2005, and is highly skilled at summarizing and analyzing the business theories behind webnovel literature and is famed for his outstanding creativity in the industry.

 Small Team Leader（Zhou Binglin）：Small Team Leader is a high-ranked general manager for China Literature, as well as the head editor for chuangshi.qq.com. He is originally from Guilin, Guangxi.

Small Team Leader is a top-ranked editor for original novels as well as a veteran web novel expert. He has helped to discover countless popular topics as well as frameworks and has advised numerous platinum-ranked authors. He’s also one of the first generation of web novel reviewers as well as authors.

After talking to Jiang Huanqing, Yun Hua returned to her room. 
The first three chapters of the novel had already been written.
Yun Hua kept editing them over and over again.
The name of the book was 'Shocking Dream of Qing Palace,' and she was pretty satisfied with this name.
Actually, many online novels did not have a main storyline, let alone a detailed outline.
However, it was undeniable that a main storyline, a detailed outline, and even a chapter outline would definitely elevate the story's logical flow and narration. This could also allow the author to write more smoothly and avoid too many writer's blocks.
The first three chapters and even the first 30,000 words had to be refined in detail. After all, the introduction was the thing that attracted the readers' attention.
A shocking introduction could allow one to feel refreshed.
In 2006, when the time-traveling theme was still very novel, time-traveling because of a landslide was even more unique.
When Mo Lan woke up, she became the young princess of the Niohuru Hala family. Even though she was a medical student, she had watched Er Yuehe's Kangxi Dynasty. After she understood who she was and that she had traveled back in time into this identity, she realized that she had become Qianlong's mother.
Mo Lan felt that she was not intelligent enough. As a modern person, she also didn't like sharing her husband with other women, so she was prepared not to compete in the concubine selection from the start. She wanted to fight for the opportunity to marry a Han man in the future. With her current Manchu identity and status, it would not be too big of a problem to marry a Han man with good character. At most, she would just not get married.
However, things were always so coincidental. Mo Lan was very curious about the ancient world and finally found a chance to pray to the deities with her mother on the third of March. In the end, she coincidentally met a severely-injured man, who was barely alive, in a bamboo forest at the back of a temple.
The man was very good-looking. Coupled with Mo Lan's nature of saving the ill and her medical skills, she took care of the man's injury. Unexpectedly, this man was exactly the future Yongzheng and the current Fourth Prince—Yin Zhen.
The story flowed too well, and Yun Hua was writing very quickly.
One good thing about a web novel was that it had the highest expectations on the storyline.
One just had to write logically and smoothly, without extravagant vocabulary. As long as one could write clearly and more diligently, one would be able to write a web novel that readers loved.
Yun Hua had written so many novels in her previous life; Thus, she had long been able to combine her literary skills and the storyline, allowing her to tell the story's ups and downs in the most intricate and smoothest way possible.
After tidying up the novel's book title, synopsis, and the first three chapters, Yun Hua started working on the later chapters' detailed outlines.
She loved writing chapter outlines. They were detailed about the core content, containing every chapter's point and conclusion. She made sure that her conclusions had cliffhangers so that it attracted the readers to carry on reading. Having cliffhangers was an extremely important part of a novel.
At the same time, she also wanted to go through the story outline and list all the twists and turns of the story, to better arrange the later plotline.
For a novel with more than a million words, all this work was complicated but necessary.
Since Yun Hua had already written the novel, she was aiming for copyrights. She wanted to turn the novel into a movie, a game, and a comic; she would not simply earn a few bucks and stop there. 
Thus, she had to settle the important scenes, which would increase her workload. Of course, she would get an even bigger return in the future.
Once she started working, more than two hours had passed. Yun Hua stretched and hesitated for a while before standing up.
There were apples and bananas in the refrigerator. Should she give some fruits to that person?
When she went up to the attic, that man was still lying down and sleeping with his eyes closed.
Yun Hua immediately remembered the time he pretended to sleep.
She bit her lips and kicked his long legs sprawled on the floor. "Hey! Stop pretending to sleep."
However, to her surprise, he did not give any form of reaction.
Looking at his face again, she realized that he looked very sick.
Yun Hua instantly started panicking.


[Strong female lead, Revenge, One True Couple]
Her best friend becomes her sister, disfigures her, breaks her legs, steals her rich fiancé, plots the death of her mother, and sends her to a psychiatric hospital where she is tortured to death.
Reborn as her thirteen year old self with a vengeance, Yun Hua is going to make all of them pay in blood!
While planning her revenge, she meets Bo Siqing, a soldier that died in his twenties in her previous life, and their fates get intertwined in a very interesting manner.

Okay guys, time to tackle the elephant in the room. What the hell happened to this novel, why am I not updating it almost at all, and generally why have I turned into the sht author I always despised on this novel while somehow maintaining a proper rate on my other novels?
Let me explain everything points by point.
1st - Ending "Road to the Crown"
- This was the first instance that got me lazy with Battlesmut. I simply wanted to focus on the ending novel, so that once it would be over, I would have twice the time to write this one. Sadly, even after finishing the novel, I got so used to the relaxed days where I could actually do anything outside of writing, resulted in the first crack in my mostly spotless record of writing regularly (not fully, mostly...)
2nd - Sudden project falling on top of my head
- Don't misunderstand. This is something that I believe to be able to change my life, but over the last month, I was extremely absorbed with several things that are of utmost importance for me. As such, the time that I could spend writing (not to speak, the willingness to do so) were even smaller
3rd - Caught covid
- While I didn't really suffer from it that much (just some slight fever symptoms), the fact that I contracted it from my parents (who were tested positive) meant that for about the last two weeks (and quite honestly, still) I was insanely worried not about myself, but about my parents. While for some finding something one wants to do in life and actually doing it is a major step in reaching maturity as a person, I still love my parents very much and I can't imagine anything happening to them right now or anytime soon. That's just another reason why I wasn't very productive over the last few weeks.
4th - but by no means, the least important one. Here I will go on a little ramble, so bear with me or jump to the TL:DR at the bottom.
- From a long while, I had a problem with this novel. Partially it could be caused with my focus being diverted to other stories, partially it could be the responsibility of the situation I appeared and new ideas that I started adopting... But the truth is sadly quite obvious.
This novel is slowly nearing its end. This time, contrary to what I did in Road to the Crown novel of mine, I will be able to say that the entire story got perfectly fulfilled. The ending that is slowly (really slowly) approaching, is the one that I foreshadowed ever since the beginning, ever since I started treating this novel seriously. Obviously, it's adopted to my current ideas and all, but generally, this is the ending that this novel was supposed to end with. 
But.
Whenever someone writes like me, then outside of the general outline, they don't really need anything else. You just get the last even that happened, figure out its placement on the timeline, what is it supposed to be its aim, the ultimate goal etc...
And ever since I started wrecking my release, I was plagued with a single problem.
You cannot end the novel with a precise outline.
Not when it was built for so long and using so many deep ideas. You HAVE TO plan it out to give the ending its justice... But doing so, forces you to accept the fact that the novel is about to end. And I wasn't ready to do so for a long while.
For me, battlesmut is that bastardly but still loved child. It's beginning is awful, I always admitted it. It's a novel that allowed me to learn how to write. Although I'm not claiming I climbed that mountain all the way, I'm definitely far further than I was when I began. 
For me, battlesmut turns into this safe area of a huge project that came entirely from my head. With all its groundwork, character building, foreshadowing, I knew that I could always write about and based on something that only the readers of this novel are privy to. With the end of my second novel, it is my last novel where I managed to establish the world I created for it.
But the time where I would write the outline of everything until the end, had to come.
It happened a few days ago. I just sat down, decided to accept the fact that I will soon have to say goodbye to this child of mine... And I did it. I already know how will this novel end, what will happen behind it, what it will imply for the future... To a point I can even predict how some of you will react to the ending I have in store. All that's left for me to do is to sit down and write those last chapters, right?
Yeah, but as if it was that easy. 
Today, I made the first step to give the ending of this novel proper honours. I won't laze around anymore, I won't treat it as the story I can always come back to. I will respectfully bring the end of battlesmut to its fruition, and allow it to become a completed novel in the way I always envisioned it would. With daily releases and surrounded by loving readers. 
At this point, I also need to point out one thing - This novel still has a lot to go through before it will end. When speaking about nearing the finish, I meant it on the global scale, on the scale that the author needs to think in. In terms of the number of chapters... No, I won't give you that :D 
I can at least say, that while it will take a while, this novel will reach it endings properly, in due time and with respect it deserves for turning me from a random cashier in some local shop to a damned author of several novels who bounds his future entirely with writing.
TL:DR - I got emotional over the fact the novel is somewhat nearing its ending.
Thanks to everyone who stuck so far to read this rambling of mine. Thanks for the continuous support of this and other novels of mine, that allowed me to keep living the dream of being a full-time author. I hope that this time, I won't have to cover before myself for breaking my promises, instead properly fulfilling them and allowing this novel the lay the groundwork for the greatest and most insane project I ever could figure out, and that I already somewhat begun.
Cheers!
MotivatedSloth, signing off.


Did I reincarnate? Or was I transported to an Isekai cultivation world? To be honest, I have no clue!

What matters is that I turned from being useless, bullied, and trash, to fully-fledged garbage in my new cultivation world! 

But what is this strange bleep that keeps ringing in my ears? Is this some kind of system? Oh God! Did you gift me such a cliché, right at the start of my journey?

Wait, why are you trying to kill me? Did I do something to you? Stand back or I will be forced to use unstoppable Exhudia!

Tell me, what did she do for you to treat your significant other in this way? Let me show you how girlfriends should be taken care of!

Wait, everyone was always telling me that demons are bad, so why is this demonic queen trying to seduce me? Wait! KEEP YOUR HANDS AWAY FROM MY PRECIOUS SWORD!

I just came back from a mission and was promised at least a half a year of break. Why are you bothering me again with something as silly as subjugating a devil general?


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This chapter isn't story related and only aims to give you some of my own thoughts on the novel so far. Feel free to skip this. Basically final notes for the end of the volume. Will probably do these at the end of every volume.
I do enjoy reading these in other, real light novels, showing a further plan or giving a few thankful words.
And so I want to thank you for getting this far. I'm well aware that this novel is far from the best, but I could see how much my writing has grown by now. At some point I might even rewrite the first couple chapters to bring them up to quality. But not right now, since I really need to get into a better flow for writing and it would also further cripple my already wacky release rate.
Working full time and procrastinating as much as I do hinders the novel a lot. I could probably release daily, if I manage to get my mind to do it. But it tends to wander around, preferring watching youtube videos over writing.
But despite all of that, we still got here. First volume finished with around 60k words and 54 chapters. It actually turned out way better than I first expected. I'm making up a lot of stuff along the way, but I do have a general outline to the novel. Especially for now, things are easier this way. If I would get more serious I would have to create a full detailed outline for the whole thing.
This novel is like my training wheels. I want my writing to grow with the story, with the characters. 
So please, feel free to criticize my writing as much as you like. I do prefer feedback because with that, I can see where I have to improve myself on. 
Since this is released on Webnovel and most female lead stories do have some romance in them, I do think I will tackle on that genre as well in later parts of the novel. For now I want to keep it mostly focused on fantasy elements and the general story.
I'm experimenting quite a bit with the story, so plans might change and some plot points mentioned may or may not be addressed along the way. 
 
The following flaws which I'm aware of are planned to be addressed in volume 2:
-More building to side characters, story was mostly focused on Yoru/Iris until now
-Better description for characters to give them a more vivid feel. I always imagine the characters in my head when reading a book, but I don't think I myself describe them enough to be easily visualized
-more improvement in my writing
-better release schedule, at least more consistent (thinking on at least 2 chaps a week, on weekends
-more references to other novels/anime
-a more unique style of storytelling
 
 
So thank you for your attention and please continue on enjoying my writing. What else will come up in this story leading to a full out war? Who exactly is the demon Meteora and what are her planes? What happened to the members of the group? Find out in the next volume…
(God that was too cliché, wasn't it?)

In a world, where countless wars between angels and demons have been fought, humanity finally had enough and decided to free themselves of the shackles put upon them by the other races. Together with hybrids, children of demons/angels, they aim to overpower both angels and demons to bring peace for humanity.

Living in such a place, the demon hybrid girl Yoru tries to survive and just wants a comfortable life. But things aren’t so easy for an orphan who has to attend military school, which trains these hybrid children like Yoru to fight the other races.

This novel tells the story of how Yoru manages to stand on her own feet in this cruel world.

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My first novel, so don’t expect too much and enjoy.I will use this novel to get used to writing and get better at English overall.
Feel free to leave any suggestions or criticism.

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AUTHOR HERE!!! 
Hello, so after my Work Immersion, I decided to make an outline of the story and tried reading other novels to get some ideas. After reading some novels(50+novels) in the last 5 months, I re-read my worked and found it quite dissatisfaying since my plot is overused and my sentence structure and grammars are not that great. 

Now, Ive decided that I will not continue this NOVEL "Monsters Within", it is not because I am not proud of this novel, but because I think I can do better than this, I can improve this, I could make something more than just a copycat. 

So, yeah, I will not continue this work but I wont delete it either. As Ive stated before, this is my very first novel for you all to read, and because of this novel, many people have given words of compliments and encouragement to me. And because of those people, I want to improve so that I could live to all of their expectations and make them be proud of me.

and one more thing, I was going to post the outline of my story, how it will go, and how it will end but I've decided that I'll omit those.
I'm thinking of using those outlines as a part of my next Novel, (which won't be discontinued like this one.) That novel will be the NOVEL that I will seriously try to put my all.

Anyway, a BIG THANK YOU!!  to those who read Monsters Within. 

BYE BYE

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Placed in a world with Cultivation and Monsters. 


A Half-Human and Half-Beast child, Chase. Being abandoned in the Crimson Forest, he is found and raised by a wandering Drunk Old Man that is a member of the Violet Family.

 Although he grew up as a healthy boy, Chase did not have the talent to Cultivate a simple technique that the Violet Family provides and has since then been the only Failure Child of the Family. 

But his life changed drastically when he was finally able to cultivate and integrated his soul with a Legion of Legendary Monsters.


Follow the Journey of a Young Boy that has been called as the Ultimate Failure become the Most Powerful Man in all of the 12 Worlds.


Release Rate: Unknown(Hiatus)

Author's Note: This is a plain cultivation Novel, please don't read it. If you ever read it, don't blame me if you get too absorbed on it. I don't have that much money to pay for your medical fees if you ever get sick reading this. 

Also, I am NOT an English Language Native, so you can expect some errors on my grammars and some little to no typos.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The story will get better as you read the next chapters.


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If the owner wants me to take it down, then I will gladly do so.

Hello, fuckers! Volume 1 has finished and I'm going to tell something y'all didn't know about my novel.
1. Margret wasn't supposed to exist:
Yes hon, she wasn't supposed to exist at all. She is a character that I put at the last minute. And this 'Angie' was supposed to be human and Scarlett's roommate. 
2. Diana wasn't supposed to be a witch:
Yeeeeeeeeeees I know. She was supposed to be the nice, human grandma but my brain. My brain's a bitch and won't listen to me.
3. I have an outline and this novel was not supposed to be like this:
Yes, bitch. It was supposed to end right now and Scarlett was supposed to be hit by a bus and go into a coma in the end. Don't worry, there was a happy ending.
4. Scarlett was supposed to be a Korean character:
Even I was in shock when my bitch of a brain told me to make her not Korean. If she was supposed to be Korean, her name would be Kwon Joo-hee.
5. Anastasia was supposed to be a greek minor goddess:
Anastasia was supposed to be Goddess Melinoe, the ghost queen. I mean no offense to Greeks out there, I was going to make Melinoe bi. But changed it last minute because I thought it'll be offensive. 
6. Anastasia and Scarlett were supposed to meet as classmates:
They really weren't supposed to have an ugly meet with Anastasia bleeding and Scarlett taking her to the hospital. 
7. Michael was supposed to have internal homophobia:
He wasn't supposed to be a happy person. The outline said even though he is gay he felt disgusted by himself. He was about to do suicide, that's when Manchu stopped him. So yeah, it was going to be kinda angsty. But I didn't want to make it so angsty because I hate angst myself.
8. Scarlett was supposed to have panphobia:
Panphobia is a fear of everything. But I forgot I don't know how to write panphobia is, so I left that thought.
That's it! Eight confessions! I have a feeling, my confessions would have made the novel better than this shitty version of it.
I would love it if you support my other novel Force of Fate! I used my version of Greek mythology in the introduction! Also, my side project would be on Tumblr and I haven't thought of the title for it! My account is bitchypersonachaos, I would love it if you support that too! I'll update it once a week.
Goodbye for now! Meet y'all after probably a week later!

This is a story of how an immortal and a mortal fell in love. But there wasn't a meet-cute. The mortal thought the other was dead. But hey, she's okay, it was just a prank! They were getting along well and being third wheels. 
But then the mortal had to go somewhere else for studies. They said bye-bye to each other. And bam! Did someone try to kill her friend? The immortal said: we are going there even if you don't like it! 
K bruh. 
But wait, who's the person trying to kill her?


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Updating schedule: Sundays
The picture ain't mine, I edited it, that's all.
It will have some triggering contents, please skip those, I have given a warning before starting it. But they ain't that frequent.
Also, this is my first WIP so it'll be cringe at the start. I'll edit this after I finish this.
Also, follow me on Tumblr: shydestinykryptonite. Feed my ego rats!

Once he got back downstairs, he put away his Chemistry work and pulled out his Algebra. He remember Ms. Blackice's instructions and separated the required questions from the rest. It was a little distracting to do so, but he ultimately decided to just do everything on one set, and then copy out the required ones. This simplified the work significantly. He then grabbed a ruler and drew a border around the the required sections, so that it was more clear. He felt that this looked a bit fancier and was quite pleased with himself, though he wasn't quite sure why. 

After he finished delineating everything, he stretched and brought his coffee mug back upstairs, thinking he might get lucky and there'd be more in the pot. His luck was good, as his parents had made another pot. By this point, his sisters were up and he could hear Saturday morning cartoons blaring in the living room. Resisting the urge to go and join them, poured himself another cup, chatted briefly with his parents who seemed to be doing some paperwork at the table, and went back down to get started on his last novel.

When he got back downstairs, he was ready to use his Enhanced Focus ability on the last novel. That would give him a 25% boost to his reading speed, turning 60 minutes worth of reading into 75 minutes. He looked at the time and saw that it was almost 11. If he used his Enhanced Focus now, he'd probably be asleep by the end of the cooldown period. 

"So, System, just to make sure I understand this properly - if I used my Enhanced Focus now, I can use it for an hour and it will cooldown in 12 hours. But I can also use it for two hours now and it won't cool down til this time tomorrow?"

<<Correct. In reality, the cooldown period is a safety limiter put in place by the System so that the Subject doesn't overtax their mental capabilities. An apt metaphor for the Subject would be the concept of 'Overclocking'.>>

"Got it. So that means that hypothetically it would be possible to use the Enhanced Focus for an even longer period."

<<Hypothetically, this is accurate, but the subsequent mental trauma prevents the System from being able to enable this feature until the user's capabilities improve, other than under extreme circumstances. This limiter is put in place by the Author.>>

"Got it... so there are ways to improve my mental capabilities so that I can sustain the focus for longer periods?"

<<Correct.>>

"...How do I do that?"

<<Is Subject asking for yet another Mission?>>

"Ah. No. Not at the moment. Enable Enhanced Focus, please."

<<Enabling.>>

---

Shortly before 1pm, Michael's Enhanced Focus session ended. Other than a bit of a fuzzy feeling, he was feeling okay. He could vaguely sense what might happen if it had continued, though, and understood why the limiters the System had mentioned were in place. Deciding that he needed a bit of a break, he made his way upstairs to see if there was anything to snack on for lunch. Soon he'd prepared himself a plate of cold-cuts, cheese, a couple of hard-boiled eggs, and some salad.

"Now that I think of it, shouldn't I get ready for the nutrition plan? I can afford it with the money from the cafe project... System, is that ready?"

<<Confirmed. When would Subject like the plan to begin?>>

"Let's make it for tomorrow. I'll let my parents know."

<<Confirmed. Transmitting.>>

"Woah... that's a lot of meat... and eggs... and vegetables."

<<Correct. System estimates Subject is currently under consuming protein by a factor of->>

"Never mind. Guess I'll go shopping."

After discussing his plans with his parents and assuring them that everything would work according to proper nutrition guidelines, Michael grabbed his empty backpack and walked over to the nearby grocery store. In inordinate amount of eggs, multiple cuts of multiple types of meat, and green vegetables later, he started making the trek home with a much heavier backpack and a much lighter wallet.

"Eating healthy is really expensive..." he grumbled.

---

He made space in the fridge and loaded all of his groceries in. He took no small amount of pride in handling the matter himself and not burdening his parents with it. While they said that they'd support him, this was a decision he'd made, for pretty selfish reasons. He already felt bad taking up their fridge space. He decided that after the bathroom was done, the kitchenette was probably the next project he wanted to undertake in the basement.

Everything settled, and refreshed in mind if not in body, he went back downstairs to continue reading the novel. With the improved reading speed from the Enhanced Focus, his two hours had turned into two and a half, and he had found that his overall reading speed had been improving regardless recently. He was already half through the final novel, and wanted to get it done before dinner. Then, he could work on his outline after dinner and spend tomorrow putting together his first draft. 

Confident in his plan for the rest of the day, he got back to his desk and opened up his book again. His fuzziness from earlier was completely gone. It seemed like alternating some physical activity with academics was a good way to keep his momentum. He started ruminating on his plans for the outline, keeping in mind the structure requirements his teacher had listed, as he made his way upstairs to check on his family. 

Since it was only around 6pm, most of the family was either reading or watching TV. Flavius was currently in the process of making dinner. Since Michael had previously made the deal to swap out his dinner rotations, he was responsible for both setting the table and clearing it after dinner. As he had a bit of extra time, he offered to help in the kitchen, using the opportunity to practice his kitchen skills. His father welcomed the assistance, and Michael was soon chopping along grid-lines that only he could see.

Dinner passed quickly, and luckily there weren't too many pots to scrub. Soon, he was back in the basement drafting his outline. Since he'd been giving it a lot of thought already, it came together pretty quickly. The preliminary sections needed to cover the novel assigned, and he would follow up with his "extra" components afterwards. This meant that while he was paging through the novel tomorrow, he'd make notes for where he could reference it later. He was planning on using the momentum from the first section to drive through the additional content. He wasn't sure why he had decided to push through the entire first draft tomorrow, but now that he'd set his mind on the challenge he was trying to push for it as much as possible.

He refrained from actually starting the essay, though, and once he was done with the outline he put his pencil down. He was feeling pretty mentally drained after the day of hard work - at the same time, his body was also pretty tired from the morning's exercises, the hour-long run, and then the trip to and from the grocery store. However, he was still feeling a restless energy he couldn't put his finger on. It was too early to go to sleep, as it was only around 9 pm. He didn't want another 3am wake-up call.

He went upstairs to see what was going on - his sisters were watching a movie, and his parents were working on the preliminary aspects of the project. After a brief conversation, they confirmed that they'd have the initial requirements he needed to get started on his part of the work ready for Monday. At a bit of a loss for what else to do, Michael decided to just go downstairs and play a video game. However, after feeling all of the benefits of the System, the games seemed to lose their appeal. When your life is practically an RPG, what's the benefit of playing one?

At a loss, Michael decided to ask the System.

"Hey, System?"

<<Awaiting Subject's query.>>

"Any suggestions for what to do? It's too early for sleep, my body's tired, my brain's fried, but I'm still restless."

<<...if Subject desires, System has an option available.>>

"Ok, but I don't really want to read anything."

<<...System has other options available.>>

"Good."

<<Generating mission...

[Mission: Breathe]
Description: Not every minute of every day needs to be filled with activity. Look for the essential in calmness by breathing according to the system's instructions. 

Reward: Appropriate attribute increases.>>

"...Breathe?"

<<Correct.>>

"All right. What do I do?"

The system instructed Michael to sit down at the edge of his bed, with his hands on his thighs. Then, it simply had him breathe in for a period of time, and then breathe out. It made recommendations on adjusting his posture, and pointed out areas of his body where he could relax. Initially, he couldn't stop thinking about his English assignment, or getting faster, or his proposal for the cafe, but every time his mind wandered, the System would remind him to simply focus on breathing. Soon, he found himself lulled into an almost semi-conscious state. He was still both body- and brain-tired, but in the face of the simple flow of breathing in, and breathing out, the restless energy melted away. After what seemed like only a moment and also an extended period of time, the System told him it was 10pm, and Michael yawned, leaned back, and went to sleep.

It's the turn of the 21st century in a world not unlike our own. 14 year-old Michael wakes up on the first day of high school with a nosebleed, a splitting headache, and the voice of someone claiming to be him from a number of years in the future in his head!

"We could have been, and we need to be, better... so, congratulations, I'm sorry, and good luck!"

Stuck with a somewhat overbearing voice in his head that seems hell-bent on ruining his life, Michael will have to survive such ordeals as... doing well in school, eating right, exercising and... learning demonic contract law? Stay tuned to find out!

That police announcement fired up a round of public sentiments.
The more twists and turns a bizarre homicide case had, the more eyeballs it would attract.
The death of an iconic figure of envy who had a personal worth of tens of billions of dollars had already left the public hanging in the air, dying to know more about his death. And the addition of a novel that had been offering details of the case which the public regarded as having the ability to "foresee", grabbed the nerves of the public. At one time, the case even overshadowed the news of adultery of a certain famous artiste and became the hottest topic.
Nonetheless, "Murder The Dream Guy" did not skyrocket to fame. With the presence of pirated versions of her novel, she did not get much increase in her subscriptions as well. However, more and more people got to know about her novel.
Her pen name "Xiang Gongzi Wan" finally stood out from an enormous group of authors.
Fang Yuanyuan: "Little Wan, even I have started to wonder how did you know about the case beforehand? Hey, don't tell me that fate is guiding you or something like that?"
Fang Yuanyuan was at work and kept poking Xiang Wan at WeChat, curious to find out more from her.
This was the third consecutive day she had inquired that for the umpteen time. 
But to be guided by fate… nothing of that sort!
Xiang Wan rolled her eyes in disdain with her hands on her chin.
Xiang Wan: "If I say that everytime when I write, I can hear a voice inside my brain, and that voice is guiding me toward a direction, will you believe it?"
Fang Yuanyuan sent three consecutive "D*mn" and was dubious of her words.
Fang Yuanyuan: "My goodness! It can't be true, right? Cousin, don't scare me!"
Xiang Wan: "If it's not true, what do you think it is?"
Fang Yuanyuan: "Yes, if it's not true, how can you write a story so close to the truth? Ahhhhh, I'm going crazy! What's going on?"
Xiang Wan knocked on her forehead.
Xiang Wan: "… Just take it that way. I'm not a human, I'm a deity!"
Fang Yuanyuan: "You're crazy, right?"
Xiang Wan: "Haha!"
In actual fact, Xiang Wan herself was flummoxed.
This was exactly like the case of a blind cat running into a dead mouse, that kind of probability made her dumbstruck with amazement. 
How could she not know if she had the predictive ability of writing cases?
What she had wrote and thought, besides the time when Bai Muchuan kind of forced her to modify her plot, she had not deviated from her main outline.
Yes, apart from her main outline, she also had a more detailed plot outline.
Although those few readers did not admit that they had seen the detailed plot outline, Xiang Wan was very positive that she had written something like that.
The only scientific explanation was—someone replicated the crime in her novel.
The question was, who was it that replicated the crime?
The detailed plot outline of her novel had merged well together with the real criminal case.
But was the murderer, as per her novel, really Er Niu who had died more than a month ago?
Xiang Wan had spent the whole day in confusion.
That day was an unusual day for her.
The reviews and comment section continued to receive lots of attention. There were posts in Weibo, as well as private messages from QQ and WeChat. She was unable to respond and unable to digest all of the attention.
Perhaps the most helpless matter was, she was staying in Bai Muchuan's house gratuitously, almost forcibly cut off from society.
Other than news on the internet, she could not hear anything from the outside world.
…
Bai Muchuan came back during dinner time.
At that time, Nanny Li was calling Xiang Wan to come down for dinner.
As soon as she saw him entering the house, Xiang Wan, who was "imprisoned" for three full days, rushed toward him.
"You're finally back. What the hell's going on? Why is this happening?"
Bai Muchuan did not say anything, but he looked at her from top to bottom.
"You're full?"
"…"
Where did this come from?
Xiang Wan was full of doubts but was defeated by his nonchalant attitude.
"Detective Bai." She raised her head slightly. Her black hair hang loosely on her shoulders, and her face was fair and clean. Her pink lips were like flower petals, and her displeased look was exceptionally beautiful, even if her words might not sound pleasant to the ear. "I've finished writing the case, can I be released?"
Bai Muchuan raised an eyebrow, but was emotionless as usual.
"The smiling murderer under the sun has not appeared. How can you say that you've finished writing it?"
Xiang Wan wanted to cry her heart out. "Heavens! I really feel like kneeling down to you for mercy! That's just a novel, it has nothing to do with reality. How would I know who's the murderer under the sun? I'm intending to write a series of murder cases so it's not that simple. The real big boss is not out yet. I'm estimating some five million words. Are you sure you're keeping me as a freeloader in your house until I write the final chapter of 'Murder The Dream Guy'?"
"Why not?" Bai Muchuan loosened his collar button and entered the house from her side before stopping to raise his hand at her. "Please rise, no need to kneel!"
"…" Xiang Wan really took her hats off to this person.
However, based on his invitation of being the advisor of the Criminal Investigation Unit that night, Xiang Wan's attitude toward him had improved greatly.
No choice. She rubbed her hands and followed him, from the living room to the dining room, like an obedient elementary school kid.
"No matter what, it's really absurd to live in your house like this! Detective Bai, why not take the opportunity now to settle the compensation issue, then…"
Bai Muchuan halted his steps, ignoring the embarrassed Xiang Wan who nearly bumped into his shoulders, and took a casual glance at her. "The red car you saw that night, you don't want to know who's the owner of the car?"
Red car? Xiang Wan was startled then elated.
"Oh yes! I have nearly forgotten about this. You've gotten the information?"
Bai Muchuan replied, "Yes, more than one."
After that, he stopped talking about the topic and moved his eyebrow up and down in deliberation.
Xiang Wan felt as if a cat was scratching her in the heart—she was itching to know the answer.
Hence, she made an awkward cough, and stopped mentioning the compensation. Her eyes was so excited that they seemed to be shining.
"Detective Bai, are you able to tell me that information?"
Bai Muchuan narrowed his eyes and sat on the chair unhurriedly, as if he was a VIP.
"It depends on your performance."
Performance?
Xiang Wan saw the plate of scalded prawns before him and instantly understood what he meant.
She began shelling the prawns, filled his bowl of rice, and filled a bowl of soup for him. She was like a little maid serving her Young Master.
Bai Muchuan had not come home for three days, which meant he had eaten at the canteen for three days straight, so he ate a lot during this home-cooked meal.
The two of them did not really converse with each other. Even their gazes were focused only on food, and when they needed to communicate, it would still be related to food. Bai Muchuan did not have any emotion as usual, but they got along so well that there was a feeling of aesthetic pleasure beyond words. That made Nanny Li so delighted that she secretly gave a call to Old Mrs. Bai—Bai Muchuan's granny.
As for Bai Lu, she did not even finish her meal. She ran upstairs and cried bitterly under the covers.
"Mom, my little uncle is snatched away by someone else…"
…
That day was the seventh day of Zhao Jiahang's death.
Over at the Zhao Family's villa, it was very crowded during the day.
Friends and relatives came to pay their respects for the deceased. They lobbied around, socialized with each other, and went back in the night after they had their meals.
At night, the temperature decreased, and the wind started to blow.
The dim, white lanterns hanging by the door had a gloomy glint of light. The smell of candles, the long strips of white cloth, white flower wreaths, as well as the joss papers got stronger and thicker.
Same as before, Mrs. Zhao did not show up at the mourning hall.
At the "white castle" she lived in, it was so quiet as if nobody had lived there.
Outside the window, the rustling of bamboo leaves sounded like a man's footsteps, releasing a strange eerie feeling.
"What's the time now?" asked a woman in a soft tone. She was sitting on a wheelchair by the window.
"It's almost twelve midnight, ten more minutes to go," Xiao Cheng answered dutifully.
"They've all gone back, right?"
"Yes!"
"Where's the Reverend?"
"At the mourning hall."
Mrs. Zhao's face was covered by a veil, partly hidden, partly visible.
She mulled over something for a while. "The Reverend is ready?"
Xiao Cheng seemed to hesitate for moment when they heard a voice.
"Amitabha," said a bald monk donned in monk robes and cassock who came in through the door.
"Mrs. Zhao, everything is ready."
In this age, feudal superstition had long been abandoned. A lot of families do not conduct religious rites for funerals anymore.
However, although Mrs. Zhao did not attend the funeral, she had made sure her husband's funeral to be exceptionally grand.
The seventh day of a person's death was also known as "the return of one's spirit". It was said that the spirit of the deceased would be coming home on this day to bid farewell to their family members. The seventh day was the last day for the spirit to stay in the living world. According to customs, relatives would lay a layer of plant ash on the ground and then stay away from it. On the next day, wherever the spirit passed by, there would be footprints on the plant ash.
This custom was known as "collect footprints".
People like Mrs. Zhao who was highly educated should not have believed in such superstition.
But not only did she believe it, she actually seemed to believe in it deeply.
She had specially invited the eminent monk to conduct funeral rites and deliver sermons for Mr. Zhao, as well as "collect footprints".
Mrs. Zhao completely followed the instructions of the eminent monk. Not only were the plant ash scattered from the doorsteps, joss paper was also stuck on a bamboo pole every ten feet to guide the spirit. Mr. Zhao's favorite food and fruits were placed at the garage where he was found dead. Joss sticks and candles were lighted all the way to his room.
It was said that by doing so, he would enter the house to spend his last night in the world of the living.
"Mrs. Zhao, it's almost time now," said the eminent monk.
"Xiao Cheng, off the lights."
"Yes, Mrs. Zhao."
The wind blew gently, Mrs. Zhao's voice sounded lighter than a ghost when scattered in the wind.
"Will he really… come back?"
All the lights went out, and the white castle instantly darkened.
The oil lamp laid on the path seemed to flash a ghastly glow.
Somehow, the atmosphere started to become spooky as they hid behind the chiffon curtain in the living room.
Thump! Thump! Not sure whose heartbeat was that.
Mrs. Zhao stood motionless as she held her breath.
The eminent monk sat on the cattail hassock, his hands folded, silently chanting the scriptures.
Dong—!
The clock at the living room chimed.
It was now midnight at 12 o'clock sharp!
The half-closed door was blown open by the wind.
A gust of hair-raising wind blew into the house. At the dark doorway, no one was there.
Mrs. Zhao's gaze was fixated on the door without blinking. Slowly, she really saw a shadow moving toward the house.
There were no lights. The dark house was as if the dark night itself, No one could see the face of the that shadow, but that figure and built, that style of apparel… without a doubt, it must be Mr. Zhao.
…


Aspiring author Xiang Wan was deemed hopeless by her family and better off married when her fourth novel still did not do well. 
Just as she started to doubt herself and wonder if she should continue to pursue her dream as an author, things take an unexpected turn when a dazzling guy appears before her and she was taken away by the police as a prime suspect of a murder case.
A murder had taken place and the details were eerily similar to her mystery novel. 
From then on, her life turned topsy-turvy.
...........
Translator Review:
This is a novel encompassed with mystery, ethics, family ties, and romance. Of course, the highlights of this book are the murder cases. 
Although it’s a modern setup where none of the characters have a system or any other cheats, the Author managed to delight me with her writing, creative plots and a good pace without dragging her story. 
I marvel at the way the Author links up the clues and plot to explain the individual cases as well as paving the way to unravel the huge conspiracy behind the individual murders. Romantic plots are light-hearted so readers could take a breather from the plots of gruesome murders.
Frequency of release:  1 chapter/daily

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