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Marghoul: Fist of the Broken Realm

Marghoul: Fist of the Broken Realm

By @Marry Jackson

Marghoul, a peerless martial artist from Earth, finds himself abruptly reincarnated into a brutal medieval realm plagued by shadow beasts and warring factions. Gifted with superhuman strength and an ingrained mastery of combat, he carves a path through the wilderness, his every strike shattering stone and bone. While his unmatched power makes him a savior to the defenseless, it also marks him as an outsider, a terrifying anomaly. He longs for a connection, for a place where his monstrous abilities don't define his worth, but the world demands only his fists. As an ancient evil stirs, threatening to consume all, Marghoul must not only wield his strength against overwhelming odds but also confront the gnawing loneliness within. Can he forge genuine bonds and find a true purpose, or will his devastating power ultimately isolate him further, turning him into the very weapon he fears becoming?

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The Phantom Artisan's Canvas

The Phantom Artisan's Canvas

By @john1208

Fang Yanqing, a modern special effects makeup artist with a chronic inability to turn away a soul in need, wakes up in ancient Xichuan. He is now the notoriously useless son of a corrupt Minister, exiled to a barren, famine-ravaged village meant to be his grave. With ruthless tax collectors marching to slaughter the starving peasants and hoard the remaining grain, Yanqing must act fast. Using local clay, crushed insects, and tree sap, he weaponizes his trade in high-stakes, action-packed heists. He crafts hyper-realistic plague sores to repel soldiers, forges the faces of dead imperial inspectors to infiltrate heavily guarded grain silos, and weaves optical illusions to turn frail villagers into a phantom army. His reckless compassion draws the attention of Yan Jingshuang, a terrifyingly pragmatic rebel commander who views him as a naive but brilliant asset. But as Yanqing dodges arrows to decode mysterious contouring diagrams hidden in his ancestral jade, he realizes a shocking truth: his 'useless' predecessor was actually his own future self, who orchestrated this exact exile to prevent an apocalypse. Can his brush strokes rewrite a doomed history, or will his bleeding heart get them all killed?

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Reborn as a Dungeon Core with a Gacha System

Reborn as a Dungeon Core with a Gacha System

By @Long

After a mundane life, Elias wakes up not as a hero, but as a fledgling Dungeon Core, buried deep beneath a hostile fantasy world. His only companion is a sarcastic Gacha System, offering randomized boons from mythical beasts to powerful artifacts, all fueled by the fear and despair of adventurers. Elias must rapidly evolve his dungeon, luring unsuspecting heroes and monstrous races into his labyrinthine depths to harvest their 'essence' for more gacha pulls. But the world above views all dungeon cores as existential threats, and a legendary 'Dungeon Hunter' organization is already closing in. Elias isn't just fighting for survival; he's fighting to carve out his own twisted paradise in a world determined to eradicate him, all while battling the gnawing loneliness of his subterranean existence.

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love story in Seoul

love story in Seoul

By @n ni

Neni, a vibrant K-Pop fan from 2024, suffers a tragic accident only to awaken in Seoul, 2010. Disoriented but exhilarated, she finds herself in the past, a full five years before BTS's debut. Her cheat? An encyclopedic knowledge of BTS's future, their music, and every challenge they'll face. But this isn't just about foreknowledge; she encounters a young, struggling Min Yoongi, raw with ambition and overshadowed by self-doubt. Neni's mission shifts from merely observing history to subtly guiding his path, ensuring his genius blossoms while battling against the ethical dilemma of altering time. Can she safeguard his destiny without erasing the very future she cherishes, especially as an unexpected, forbidden romance ignites between them, threatening to unravel everything she knows?

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Thượng Thực

Thượng Thực

By @thu le thi thanh

Trong tàn tích của Overworld, nơi Chiến tranh Thượng đỉnh giữa Quỷ Nhân và Con người đã hủy diệt mọi thứ, Yuki, một linh hồn lạc lối từ thế giới khác, thức tỉnh với một gánh nặng không tưởng: hệ thống thế giới hoàn chỉnh trú ngụ trong tâm trí mình. Cô sở hữu năng lực thao túng trọng lực, có thể kéo những thiên thạch khổng lồ từ không gian. Mục tiêu của Yuki không chỉ là sống sót, mà là kiến tạo một vương quốc mang tên Overlord. Với trái tim lạnh lẽo và ý chí sắt đá, cô phải thu phục các chiến binh, xây dựng nên lực lượng của riêng mình. Nhưng liệu một mình cô có thể định hình lại một thế giới đầy thù hận và mất mát, hay sẽ chỉ là một kẻ chinh phục khác trong vòng xoáy chiến tranh vĩnh cửu? Hành trình của Yuki là cuộc chiến chống lại sự tuyệt vọng và xây dựng lại nền văn minh từ đống tro tàn, với từng viên gạch đặt bởi sức mạnh và sự cô độc của chính mình.

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Oh hell nah i just got into another world again!

Oh hell nah i just got into another world again!

By @Nowayman

Kazuki, a gentle soul with the misfortune of being Isekai'd again, finds himself in the ancient, crumbling world of Undergate. His only solace is a bizarre 'gift': hit a jackpot, and he’s instantly healed for ten minutes. But this world, where everyone wields unique 'gifts', is spiraling into dark decay, threatened by unseen forces. As the enigmatic Void Weavers rise, intent on destroying all 'gifts' and plunging Undergate into the abyss, Kazuki’s gentle nature and his reliance on pure luck are put to the ultimate test. He must confront not only the escalating dangers but also his own profound fear of attachment and responsibility. If he fails to overcome his crippling passivity, this beautiful, crumbling world, and any hope for a true home, will be lost forever. Can a man who always waits for luck truly forge his own destiny?

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Marghoul: Fist of Another World

Marghoul: Fist of Another World

By @Marry Jackson

Marghoul, reborn into a brutal medieval fantasy, wields inhuman strength and martial mastery, a devastating force of nature in a world teetering on chaos. Yet, his power is a lonely burden, a constant echo of a past failure he desperately tries to outrun. Whispers of a spreading blight corrupt the land, turning once-proud knights into monstrous husks and sowing terror among the innocent. Marghoul finds himself pulled into a desperate struggle against an unseen enemy, his fists the only bulwark against utter annihilation. He must choose: succumb to his isolation and watch this new world burn, or forge unexpected bonds to confront a threat that feeds on despair itself. Can even unrivaled strength protect a heart burdened by an unshakeable fear of losing everything again?

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The Olfactory Sovereign: Distilling the Court of Lies

The Olfactory Sovereign: Distilling the Court of Lies

By @john1208

Luo Mingzhi, a modern master flavorist and synthetic chemist, wakes up in the body of a starved, illegitimate son in the Qingshao Manor - the Daolan Empire’s premier incense-purveying clan. Slated to be permanently silenced to hide a family embezzlement scandal, Mingzhi uses makeshift ancient distillation gear to extract highly concentrated volatile compounds from the estate's weeds. He doesn't just create pleasant scents; he weaponizes olfactory psychology. By lacing the matriarch's daily incense with anxiety-inducing terpenes and micro-doses of hallucinogens, he drives his abusers to paranoid, public confessions. As his "miracle fragrances" elevate him to the imperial court, Mingzhi secretly controls political factions through invisible chemical warfare, inducing suggestibility in arrogant generals and terror in corrupt ministers. But his perfect manipulation hits a wall with Yan Beicang, the ruthless Chief Inquisitor of the Pavilion of Silent Edicts. Born with congenital anosmia, Beicang is entirely unable to smell - and therefore utterly immune to Mingzhi’s chemical tricks. Forced into a deadly alliance with the only man who sees through his fragrant illusions, can Mingzhi outwit the empire's greatest minds using his true intellect, or will his invisible empire evaporate before the inquisitor's piercing gaze?

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The Refraction Mandate: Blinding the Imperial Court

The Refraction Mandate: Blinding the Imperial Court

By @john1208

Shen Lanyin, a brilliant optical engineer, wakes up as the despised illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic clan, banished to the freezing, perpetually shadowed Jue-Ming Gorge. Her exile is meant to be a slow death sentence, serving as a political hostage to Wei Jingzhe, the empire's ruthless spymaster whose rumored 'demonic curse' makes his skin burn in daylight. But Lanyin refuses to die in the dark. Using polished ice, bronze, and rudimentary glass, she constructs a massive heliostat array to route life-saving sunlight into the gorge. When she realizes the spymaster's 'curse' is merely severe photophobia, she crafts polarized quartz lenses that allow the terrifying lord to walk in the sun, earning his absolute protection. Together, they weaponize the physics of light - using camera obscura to fake divine omens, periscopes to spy on assassins, and optical telegraphs to outpace the Emperor's intelligence network. But when her corrupt family deploys a massive, chemically induced smoke-screen to plunge the capital into a 'cursed eclipse' and stage a coup, can Lanyin engineer a solar weapon powerful enough to shatter their illusions before the empire falls?

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The Cinnabar Paradox: Curing the Mad Heavens

The Cinnabar Paradox: Curing the Mad Heavens

By @john1208

Pei Xingjiao awakens in the suffocating, toxic pits of the Yancang Valley, banished to die alongside her disgraced noble clan. Surrounded by laborers dropping from a mysterious "curse-sickness," her modern eyes immediately recognize the truth: the horrific symptoms aren't supernatural, but rampant mercury and lead poisoning from boiling the Emperor’s sacred Vermilion Pills. Worse, the terrifying martial tyrants who consume these pills for "immortality" are slowly going violently, unpredictably insane. Armed with improvised charcoal filters, dietary regimens, and rudimentary chelation therapy, Xingjiao doesn't just survive the pits - she turns the toxins into a political weapon. By secretly diagnosing and curing the paranoid, tremor-ridden Imperial Viceroy, she secures a deadly, untouchable patron. Together, they begin a shadow-war against the Imperial Court, manipulating the supply of "pure" elixirs to trigger catastrophic mental breakdowns in their enemies mid-battle, while keeping their own forces sober and sane. But when the deteriorating Emperor demands she refine a new, infinitely more lethal batch of ascension pills under strict guard, can she engineer a rebellion before the madmen burn the entire valley to ash?

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The Jade Ledger's Deficit

The Jade Ledger's Deficit

By @john1208

When modern logistics executive Qiao Jianyu wakes up in the Shaoming Empire, she isn’t greeted by silk robes or a prince’s favor. Instead, she’s chained in the freezing mud of the Iron Creek Debtors' Camp, three days away from being auctioned to a brothel to cover her clan's catastrophic bankruptcy. Realizing her father was framed by a rival merchant syndicate, Jianyu leverages her mastery of supply chain management, futures contracts, and forensic accounting to turn her staggering debt into a deadly weapon. She strikes a dangerous bargain with Jing Mochen, the empire's cold-blooded Chief Inquisitor, offering to fund his starving northern army in exchange for temporary immunity. Operating out of the penal quarry, she introduces modern assembly lines, fiat banking, and hostile takeovers to an ancient world. But as her economic empire grows, she corners the market on the very resources the Emperor needs for war, making her a target of the highest courts. Can a brilliant merchant queen outmaneuver the imperial throne before her monopoly makes her too dangerous to live?

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Marghoul: Iron Ascendant

Marghoul: Iron Ascendant

By @Marry Jackson

Marghoul, a man burdened by the ghosts of a past life’s failures, awakens in a brutal medieval fantasy world, gifted with impossible physical strength and martial arts prowess. Haunted by a pervasive guilt from not being able to protect those he loved, he vows this new existence will be different. But his formidable power, a beacon in a land rife with banditry, monstrous beasts, and burgeoning wars, doesn't go unnoticed. When a shadowy ancient order, rumored to manipulate kingdoms from the shadows, targets a defenseless village Marghoul has sworn to protect, he is drawn into a devastating conflict. His monstrous strength might save lives, yet his ironclad control and refusal to rely on others could be his ultimate undoing, threatening to crumble the very foundations of his new life and the world around him. He must learn that true strength lies not just in his fists, but in the connections he forges, before his past mistakes doom this new future.

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Weaponizing the Rumor Mill

Weaponizing the Rumor Mill

By @john1208

Wei Zhaochen awakens in the rat-infested dungeons of the Qilong Dynasty, the disgraced youngest son of a loyalist family framed for treason. With his clan scheduled for execution in exactly five days, he has no martial arts, no magical artifacts, and no physical strength. But as a former cutthroat PR executive, he knows something far more dangerous: how to control the narrative. Smuggling out a series of explosive, sensationalized anonymous pamphlets, Zhaochen creates the empire's first mass-produced tabloid, sparking a public frenzy that forces the royal court to halt the execution to save face. His viciously effective smear campaigns soon catch the eye of Grand Regent Pei Wanning, a terrifyingly competent but widely despised female ruler suffering from a disastrous public image. Zhaochen offers her a devil's bargain: he will sanitize her reputation and politically assassinate her rivals using the dark arts of modern propaganda, if she protects his family. As their partnership deepens into a tense romance and his shadow news agency grows, can Zhaochen control the vicious court he is spinning, or will the mob he created devour them both?

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