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Reverend Insanity: The Goody Two-Shoes System

Man is the spirit of all things, and gu are the refined fragments of the Great Dao. The ambition which blooms with the spring's morning breeze withers at the call of autumn's night. The accumulation of five hundred years - triumphs and failures - will be naught but ash with dawn's first light. The rising of the sun bathes the mountains in golden flame, but 'tis sunset upon the demon's time. The demonic overlord, Fang Yuan, is cornered by his enemies after word gets out that he refined the Spring Autumn Cicada - a gu worm rumored to be capable of having a chance at sending one back in time but demands a terrifying price in return - the user's entire existence! With no hope of escape, in desperation, Fang Yuan uses the Spring Autumn Cicada which miraculously lives up to its name and sends him back in time. And now, he's back in Gu Yue Village as a fifteen-year-old ready to use his knowledge of the future to conquer the world... but there's something wrong. Something is quite different this time around. What's with this new notification that keeps popping up in his view? It calls itself 'The Goody Two-Shoes System.' It also starts giving him quests to complete. "Help Fang Zheng gain his confidence back!" - get a Green Copper Relic Gu! "Help your friends refine their gu worms!" - have your aptitude raised by 2%! All of these rewards and quests before him, why are they trying to convert this demonic overlord to the path of righteousness? And aren't some of these quests kind of... sus? Why does marrying Bai Ning Bing give him an immortal gu? Whatever, anything for benefits! This is a fanfiction based on Gu Zhen Re's work 'Reverend Insanity' known in Chinese as 蛊真人 or 'Gu Taoist Master'. I don't own the rights to the original work. 'Gu' in the context of this story are mystical insects that have various powers and are the basis of the world's cultivation system.
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System Apocalypse: Reader's Privilege

Ethan Chen was supposed to die, twice. First as Park Ji-woo, a 28-year-old office worker who fell asleep reading a web novel and never woke up. Then as Ethan Chen, a 17-year-old abuse victim destined to starve to death when his adoptive family abandoned him during the apocalypse. But something went wrong. Or maybe something went right. When Ji-woo's soul crashes into Ethan's body two months before the world ends, he brings with him fragments of knowledge from "Apocalypse Descent", a 2,847-chapter novel about zombies, mutations, and humanity's brutal fight for survival. He knows the apocalypse begins August 15th at 3:47 AM. He knows a System will appear, turning reality into a deadly RPG. He knows the protagonist, Lucas Reed, will rise to become humanity's greatest hero. What he doesn't know is how a nameless side character survives long enough to matter. With 59 days until the world ends, Ethan must escape his abusive home, gather resources with no money, and prepare for horrors he can barely remember from a novel he never finished. When the System finally arrives, it offers him something unexpected: Reader's Privilege, a unique advantage for knowing the story. But knowledge without power is just another way to die. As the dead rise and civilization crumbles, Ethan must evolve from a frightened teenager into a survivor who can build a base, gather allies, and face not just the zombies and mutations, but the darkest parts of the human heart. Betrayal, sacrifice, and impossible choices await in a world where points mean survival and trust is the rarest currency. The apocalypse doesn't care about second chances. But Ethan isn't ready to waste his. ---
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