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Clumsy Beast, Keep Your Paws Off

Su Qinglan sat cross-legged on the grass, holding the chubbiest tiger cub she’d ever seen. “Aww… Look at you,” she whispered, booping its tiny nose. “So cute I could eat you up...” A sudden shadow loomed over her. “What’s so good about this stinky cub?” a deep, amused voice asked. She blinked up… and froze. Towering above her was a tall tiger beast man, his golden eyes narrowed in a lazy, predatory smile. “Let’s have ours,” he said. Su Qinglan’s brain short-circuited. … Ours? OURS?! Before she could process, in the next moment she was hoisted up onto his broad shoulder like a sack of grain and carried straight toward the cave. Su Qinglan was so choked by the suddenness of it all… she forgot to even complain. *** Su Qinglan’s knees knocked together as she stared up at the enormous serpent. Its cold, red eyes narrowed, the flick of its tongue tasting the air between them. “D-Don’t eat me,” she stammered, hugging herself. “I...I’m not tasty… really, I’m stringy and full of… uh… bad cholesterol.” The snake’s head lowered until it was mere inches from her face. Her fox ears twitched wildly. And then, before she could blink...its massive body shimmered, scales turning into bronzed skin and lean muscle. Standing before her was a man so breathtakingly handsome that Su Qinglan’s poor fox eyes watered just looking at him. Su Qinglan swallowed hard, her tail fluffing up in panic. “I… I…” Her voice cracked. Okay, new problem… the snake is hot. She squeezed her eyes shut. “If you… if you really want…” She blurted, her face burning, “…y-you can… take me.” *** One moment Su Qinglan was fighting with the zombie king with all her might. Boom! The next, she woke up in a bizarre beast world… inside the body of a lazy, pampered, fat local tyrant everyone hated. The “original” Su Qinglan had been an arrogant, scheming villainess who spent her days bullying weaker beast women, chasing after handsome males, and terrorizing the tribe kids. Now, thanks to fate’s twisted sense of humor, Qinglan had inherited the body and the bad reputation. But honestly? Being fat in a beast world was still better than starving in the apocalypse. At least here, she could eat. The only problem? In this world, men weren’t just men, they were beastmen. Tall, strong, dangerous… And apparently, every beast woman was expected to have several husbands. The catch? The “original” Qinglan’s antics had scared away every decent male within a ten-mile radius. Armed with her apocalyptic survival instincts, a sharp tongue, and a mysterious system that suddenly activated... "Binding with host…" "Congratulations, host, for successfully arriving in the beast world." Qinglan decided she wasn’t going to cry about fate. If she had to live here, then she’d live big, literally.
Violet_Melody99 · 1.3m Views

TRUCK CITY

The belief that a city must exist on fixed land begins to collapse. A man selling fish-shaped pastries from a truck, a woman serving hot fish cakes— around an abandoned industrial complex, beside a landfill no one paid attention to, self-employed truck owners begin to gather. Medical care, housing, food, education, fashion, administration—every function of a city is loaded onto moving trucks. This is the beginning of Truck City. After witnessing the death of a child caused by the collapse of the emergency medical system— and seeing the responsibility erased within bureaucracy—Doyoon loses faith in the existing healthcare structure. “If the hospital can’t come, then the hospital must move.” Centering on T-MED, a surgical truck equipped with a full operating room, he designs a mobile medical system capable of deploying anywhere. But the experiment soon runs into fierce resistance from the medical establishment and rigid administrative barriers. Those who gather to survive soon realize that medicine alone is not enough. People need to eat, get dressed, and have a place to sleep. Food trucks arrive. Ultra-compact residential units called House Trucks are installed. Electricity, water, and communication systems are connected on a truck-by-truck basis. Truck City gradually begins to take the shape of a city, no longer just a temporary camp. As Truck City spreads through social media, it draws global attention. A truck fashion show held in collaboration with Gucci and large-scale food truck festivals spark a new cultural movement. Functionality-driven trucker fashion, born from survival, becomes a worldwide trend. Meanwhile, requests pour in to export medical and rescue trucks to war zones and disaster areas. Truck City is no longer a fringe experiment—it becomes a global model. But expansion inevitably creates fractures. Capital flows in. Politics intervene. Internal power struggles emerge. Between those trying to protect mobility and public purpose and those attempting to lock the system into a profit-driven structure, Truck City stands at a crossroads. Is this an ideal city— or merely the repetition of another system? TRUCK CITY asks: Who does a city belong to? Who does a system really save? A record of a moving city, suspended between survival and ideals.
김창일 · 13.1k Views

Awakened: SSS Rank Cult Management Skill

!~~~WSA 2026~~~! "A teachable moment. The fragility of life doesn’t care what you want, only what you can do. SkillSense simply shows you the truth of yourself, of what you are, and what you can become. And the truth, little one, is rarely kind." ——————————————————— This is the story of one man's Ascension to godhood and beyond. Magnus Barlowe: Cult Leader? He'd wish it wasn't so. But when he plays an obscure game and is the first ever person to complete it, he's rewarded, or punished, with the most unexpected skill. In this world, skills are managed and recorded through technology known as SkillSense, and the people of the world place a hierarchy on those with skills. Meaning: The higher your skills, the more people respect you. But the skill Magnus just earned, SSS-Rank Cult Management, is not only two levels above the max S-Rank, but is also a restricted and mostly unknown skill to the world. What has the world got in store for this reluctant man? Will he deny his destiny, or jump into the path of being a cult leader and not look back? Follow Magnus along his journey through the occult in this tale of mysteries! ——————————————————— Author's Notes: As you may know, I'm also the author of Reborn with a Necromancer System, which has been a blast to write, Fractured Horizon, a slightly futuristic fantasy/sci-fi novel about mutated human monsters and psychics that battle them (currently on hiatus to focus on my other novels and my life). I also wrote My Undeath, a reincarnation novel set in a fantasy world. It wasn't my best work, but I loved writing the story, and I may get back to it one day. As long as you, my readers, are interested in this novel, I will continue to write it. Magnus's journey is capable of covering thousands of chapters across many years of his life. ——————————————————— Disclaimers/FAQ: 1. This story is set in a modern alternate Earth, where there is a technology that reads your best skills and reveals them to you. This is not a system novel, instead, the "system" is just a mathematical analysis of your skills that everyone has access to. But the MC is guided (not very gently sometimes) by the social media system known as SkillSphere occasionally. He is not a slave to it, but reluctantly follows it's suggestions for one reason or another. 2. There are no plans for a harem, or for multiple lovers over the course of the novel. The MC is a loyal, stick-to-one-person-at-a-time kind of guy. But don't worry, we won't suddenly see Magnus shift his entire personality just because he likes someone. He is who he is, and of course may change over a couple thousand chapters, but not in an instant. 3. This is not a cultivation novel, even if it has cult in its name. 4. Yes, the images and cover art in this novel are currently generated with A.I. This in no way impacts my writing, and if enough money is made from this novel, I plan to commission professional art for the title, characters, and some world building images. ——————————————————— Inspiration: The Steam game Cultist Simulator, was actually something of an inspiration for this novel. I played several dozens of hours, but always felt it needed something. I started working on a 3D alternate version of the video game to make it better, but it suddenly hit me that I could write a novel about a cult leader instead. I've watched and read several pieces of fiction with cults in them (quite difficult to find, honestly), and they usually grab my attention pretty well, and so here I am. ——————————————————— Support me, the Author: Please use coins/stones/golden tickets, or review my novel! And if you're feeling extra benevolent and want to help me turn writing into my full-time job so you can all read more from me, please share my novel or send me gifts with coins. Everything helps, and I can spend more time writing more chapters for you all to binge! If I were to win WSA 2026, you'd have me writing full-time for an entire year. Wish me luck!
Jhaydun · 13.1k Views

My Fiancée Cheated, So I Courted The Apocalypse Empress

In a world where bloodline is destiny, Kazimir Ahn-Ra was born cursed. Three divine frequencies war inside his body—Steel, Frost, and Solar—each one demanding dominance, tearing him apart from within. The Doctrine of Purity declares him a mongrel, a genetic abomination, living proof that mixing the gods' blood is sin made flesh. For three years, he endured. Not out of hope, but out of love. Lady Elara Sol-Hara, the radiant prodigy who promised to cure him, who whispered sweet lies while draining his blood through silver needles, using his dense mana to fuel her meteoric rise through the cultivation ranks. He gave her everything—his blood, his dignity, his future—because he believed her when she said "I'll fix you." On the Winter Solstice, she destroyed him. In front of the entire Imperial Court, Elara annulled their engagement, called him a failed charity case, and pledged herself to Crown Prince Viktor—the man who'd spent years advocating for mongrel sterilization. When Kazimir dared protest, Viktor broke his ribs and threw him into The Maw of Forgotten Things—a dimensional rift where the Empire disposes of its mistakes. He should have died. Instead, he met her. Zarya Sekhmet. The Twilight Empress. The Breaker of Cycles. A goddess-class entity who has lived this world fourteen times, watching civilizations rise and fall, dying and resetting in an endless loop. She's been emperor and assassin, hero and villain, savior and destroyer—and every story ends the same way. Until now. She offers Kazimir a blood pact: power in exchange for his soul. She'll force his warring bloodlines into brutal harmony, transform his suffering into strength, and forge him into the weapon she needs to finally break the cycle. The price? His pain becomes his power. His hatred becomes his fuel. Armed with the trait [Pain Conversion]—which transforms damage into devastating temporary strength—Kazimir claws his way back from death itself. He crashes the Solstice Ball, covered in blood and ash, to deliver a simple message: I'm not dead. I'm not forgiving. And I'm not going away. Now hunted by the Empire, branded a terrorist, worth more dead than alive, Kazimir flees to the Contested Lands with Zarya to begin his transformation from broken victim to unstoppable force. This is not a redemption story. This is a revenge epic where the discarded mongrel becomes the monster they should have feared. Because in Aeternys, purity is power—but chaos endures. And some weapons are forged in the abyss
rnzu_akrn · 5k Views