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Jinglin and Cangji continue their journey as they follow the bronze bell and the suffering of man. But as they do, memories of their past begin to resurface, and their relationship may not be so simple as the former deity and his hungry pet fish.

When Xiao Yu’an was diagnosed with a terminal illness, his escape became webnovels. The final one he reads before his death is The History of the Four Empires, and he finds that after his death… he wakes up as the antagonist — the Emperor of the Northern Empire. In the face of the threat of the Emperor’s horrible death, Xiao Yu’an can only do the right thing: treat Yan Heqing well and matchmake him with the emperor’s sister, Princess Yongning.

When Shinohara Erika is asked to show a picture of her boyfriend, she usually deflects. During lunch, he seems to call every day, and she leaves. As she hides in the bathroom after asking her friend to give her a call, she overhears the other girls say they don’t think she actually has a boyfriend. Desperate to make sure she fits in, she snaps a shot of a random handsome guy to show them.

Unfortunately for her, it turns out to be Sata Kyoya from her school, a popular guy in her year. Fortunately, when she explains her situation, he agrees to help.

That is, if she’s willing to pay the price…

When Maki Shouichi (CV: Kimura Takuya) brings his son Maki Mahito (CV: Santoki Souma) out of Tokyo during the war, Mahito isn’t exactly overjoyed about the prospect of having a new mother, or a younger sibling. However, he quickly realises that the grey heron (CV: Suga Masaki) that lives by the pond isn’t a normal bird after he hurts himself.

A carp in a bowl had gained consciousness as it lives with Jinglin, a recovering man who mostly slept. It had gotten into its head that it wanted to devour its caretaker. And when Cangji gained a human body as a result of nearly becoming fish feed himself, that’s the pledge he made… But it would have to wait because their lives were further flipped upside down when Cicada Haven was disturbed and Jinglin had to leave to get his bell back.

With the Lunar New Year around the corner, people are suddenly collapsing and then writhing in pain at the hospital. Not understanding what sort of poison is causing this, SID is brought in to investigate. It’s not long before Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei find themselves in the middle of conspiracies and battles of wits.

When two immortals are sent to go through trial and tribulations as a punishment for having an illicit affair, the god Song Yao Yuanjun, a man who had a fluke ascension to immortality, is sent to oversee their punishment.

However, things aren’t as easy as Song Yao hopes them to be, never mind that no one told him in advance that he would need to make it into the bed of one of the punished immortals.

Wakaume Sahoko does not like good-looking guys. She hates them, even. She has decided she doesn’t need a boyfriend either. But one day, her best friend’s bias, Kirigaya Kouta, comes to the tiny diner the Wakaume family runs. She asks for his autograph for her friend, and learning that Sahoko isn’t a fan, he promises to do his best to make her a fan. With time, Sahoko gets to know the top male idol in Japan, and she can’t help but begin supporting him. But are her feelings really just those of a fangirl?

Guo Changcheng’s first day at the Special Investigations Department of the Public Security Bureau was certainly not what he expected; it started late at night when he had to go to HR, and later in the day he joined Director Zhao Yunlan for an investigation. During the investigation, while Zhao Yunlan had to drag around his useless nepotism intern, he meets with Shen Wei, a university professor who has his own secrets and to whom Zhao Yunlan feels undeniable attraction.

Aoki Shouta is in love with Hashimoto Mio, the girl seated next to him in class. During a quiz, he doesn’t have an eraser, but she’s an angel and lends him one. Problem is, he finds it says “IDA❤️” on it and his crush inevitably breaks his heart. What’s even worse, though, is that Ida Kousuke is seated right in front of him and picks up the eraser when Aoki drops it. Unable to say it’s Hashimoto’s eraser after his initial denial of ownership, Aoki’s forced to admit it’s his.

During the escort of a diplomatic envoy, General Fu Shen is injured. Unable to walk on his broken legs, he returns to the capital only to be conferred a marriage with Imperial Investigator Yan Xiaohan, the court lackey who has no bottom line and Fu Shen’s nemesis.

This is a collection of short stories set both before and after the main story. In original stories and bonuses from the web serialisation, we get to meet the original flavour, Bing-ge, as well as Zhuzhi-lang during his time with Tianlang-jun, among others.

After following Luo Binghe to the Demon Realm, Shen Qingqiu asked Luo Binghe to leave him alone. To his surprise, Luo Binghe does this. At least for a few days. But when things seem about to take a turn for the worse, Shen Qingqiu’s misfortune really manages to save him from the situation… only to be thrown into a situation that might perhaps be worse?!

A few years ago, Captain Jiang Ting of the anti-drug unit of the Public Security Bureau in G City died in the line of duty. Yet, when the Vice Captain of the criminal investigation unit in J City, Yan Xie, investigates the mysterious death of a young man at a karaoke bar, he recognises the helpful civilian Lu Chengjiang as that very Jiang Ting.

After dying while escorting hostages, Li Changtian wakes up in ancient times as a beggar next to a body. While trying to save her, he’s seen and assumed to be a murderer. Grand Inspector Yan Shu gets involved, trying to solve the case and prove Li Changtian killed her.

Three years passed with Shen Qingqiu living a perfectly peaceful life — when he wasn’t out travelling, he might have given his disciples some guidance, and now and then he needed his medicine as well. One day, though, he got a sudden quest, and to his horror, it turned out that this quest was not only demons feeding themselves; Luo Binghe has already returned from the Endless Abyss. Now he had to get away, and quick! But things are never easy for Shen Qingqiu, and even after changing his hardware, he didn’t get rid of that virus of a system haunting him.

Xiao Yu’an got terminally ill and, at the end of his life, he chose to read webnovels to pass the time. Just before he passed away, he commented on one of them… only to wake up as the villain of the story he just finished?! To ensure he avoided certain death, Xiao Yu’an tried to treat Yan Heqing, the male lead, well, while saving many people… But it appears that the universe itself might actually be working against him…

“Dumbfuck author, dumbfuck novel!”

After cursing out the novel Proud Immortal Demon Way and its author with his last breath, Shen Yuan woke up in an unfamiliar place. Having promised himself not to ask anything stupid if he ever transmigrated, he was quick to adapt… and realised to his horror that he was the villain with the most miserable end in the very novel he cursed out, and with an annoying system telling him to improve the novel to boot. Can he improve the story, fill plot holes and not kill himself in the process?

The young lady of the Liu family, Liu Shiqing, doesn’t act the way she’s expecte to. Because she grew up with her father leading armed escorts, she’s not able to stay cooped inside all day, no matter how much her father tells her to do so. One day the men are escorting a certain thing, and Liu Shiqing sneaks into the escort and nearly gets kidnapped. However, a handsome young master in white kills the bandit with a single attack and then leaves. The impression on Liu Shiqing makes her want to find her saviour. Little does she know she’s about to end up amid mystery and forces one should not play around with.

The only goal Ling Chen has in life is to kill Ye Zimu. That is it. However, because Ye Zimu has superpowers and acts as a hero, it’s not the easiest thing to do for a regular-guy-turned-villain. Then, one day, Ling Chen finds himself returned to his 17-year-old self, before it all began, before the superpowers, before the path of vengeance and loathing. He’s naturally still determined to kill Ye Zimu, who he hates with a passion, but now that his life hasn’t lost all meaning yet… does he really need to?