My Red String of Fate
Read ch 42 as of 04/08/21 - The place of Luce and it’s people are annoying. If this story is just about gods being stupid, then I’m dropping its ass. - FL is Lian the miracle healer at the Temple of Lemde. - She fell into another world while following her own red string of fate 5yrs ago. The red string is a sign of death. FL can see and remove them, feeling the pain from each one. - This world is in a reverse harem novel, with Saint Lucia as the heroine who has the same ability as FL. There are up to 5 male interests. - FL saves a badly injured stranger one night. - A red string of fate appears connecting his heart to her wrist. This indicates their lives and deaths can affect eachother. - The next day the stranger visits FL at the temple. He is Abel the reaper, one of the male interests. He is half immortal, has a killing aura and is a villain in the novel. Only Lucia can make him immortal. - Abel takes FL to the temple of death to be his personal healer. Every night he returns injured, and she heals him. They get closer as their concern for eachother grows. - Cain, loyal colleague and friend of Abel. Another male interest. Abel gets jealous when FL heals him. - Abel shows FL where his heart is hidden. While tempted, she doesn’t cut the thread. - (Out of frustration his feelings aren’t reciprocated by a dense FL), Abel throws a tantrum in the temple, causing destruction and badly injuring himself. Only when FL accidentally poisons herself with a bow and arrow, does he stop and take her away for the antidote. (Poisons of this world don’t affect FL as she’s from another world.) - A rebellion in the temple of death is underway. FL takes Abel’s heart and runs away. Abel fights the rebels while Cain protects FL as they leave him. Cain reveals his true form as an Angel (the Holy Sword of Luce) to face more foes. FL continues to flee but decides to turn back as she promised never to leave. She sees Abel in the thick of the fighting. She is injured when she moves to protect him from a magic strike. He unleashes an almighty force that levels the temple of death. - FL revives an unconscious Abel with a kiss. - They go back to FL’s temple of Lemde. - Abel gives his heart to FL for safe keeping. - Abel expresses his jealousy, possessiveness and concern for FL. - They go to a street celebration for FL’s return. - FL and Abel decide to travel in search of a new temple site (and look for Lucia). - The head priest asks FL to let him know if she comes across his son. A red string appears when she is shown the son’s picture. He says she has the power to change fate, hers and those around her. - Caesar / Apocalypse with Asura interrupt FL and Abel to take them to the realm of the Dark Lord (the novel’s main villain). - FL meets Valcan the blind dwarf. She asks him to make her a magic shield in exchange for his eyesight back. - FL is summoned by Asura to heal injured troops. - She heals Silver Wing, the guardian of the desert. - She heals Demian, who she learns is the son of the head priest. Demian is also one of the male interests. - FL gets jealous when she sees Kali the full moon goddess with Abel. - FL initially rejects Abel’s feelings due to his fated relationship with Lucia, her own short lifespan, and her eventual return to her own world. Abel says that she’s by his side for now. During that time he asks her to always be honest with him. - They have sex for the first time. - While with Silver Wing to get sunlight to cure his depression, FL spots a very badly injured Cain. She brings him back and convinces the Dark Lord to let him stay while she heals him. Cain starts to confess his feelings to FL but he’s interrupted by Abel. - Cain betrays Abel by revealing his Angel form and kidnapping FL. He thinks she’ll be safe in Luce away from Abel. FL is badly hurt when she falls to the ground to find Abel. Cain carries her to Luce for a healer and Lucia offers her help. - The Dark Lord had already heard that the hero Assand’s seal was broken and Lucia had awoken. FL and Abel were free to go. - FL meets Assand and Lucia in Luce. Their characters are different to the novel. Assand is a pompous bastard. Lucia seems insecure and threatened by FL. FL reveals her ability to see the red strings when she heals Cain who saved FL from a fall. Sola the god goes out of control and Lucia faints from trying to hear the oracle …
Death Is The Only Ending For The Villainess
Ch 122 as of 29/04/23 - also on Tapas (not free) ** Unofficial translation really sux ** End of season 1, Ch 44 ** End of season 2, Ch 85 - FL wakes up as 18yo Penelope Eckhart the villainess. She had fallen asleep after playing the reverse harem otome game all night. She completed the game first in normal mode. - FL was trying to clear the game in hard mode with Penelope as the female protagonist to reveal the hidden ending for free. She kept dying and became obsessed with wanting to see Penelope survive, win over one person and live happily. She sees herself in Penelope. - FL’s past life was very similar. She was an illegitimate daughter who moved in with her father’s rich family after her mother died. She was always mistreated and bullied by her 2 older half-brothers, and her father did nothing to help her. Her father’s wife died of an illness before FL was born. - FL survived, got into a prestigious college (to study archaeology?) and moved out to live on her own 6yrs later. 20yo FL looked forward to a new life where she could be happy. - Yvonne 18yo, is the female protagonist in the normal mode of the game. She’s the real Eckhart daughter who’s been missing for 6yrs. She forgot her identity and had been living as a poor commoner in the country. She’s due to return to the family by FL’s coming-of-age ceremony (ie 18th bday). - FL is in the world of the game in hard mode. She has to get 100% favourability (affection score) with 1 of the 5 male protagonists in this game by her coming-of-age ceremony. At first FL can only speak and act according to the game options. - The 5 male protagonists: - 24yo Derrick and 20yo Reynold, the adoptive brothers. Derrick is the captain of the Eckhart knights and the heir. - Crown Prince Kallisto Regulus 23yo. He’s a war hero, a tyrant and a psycho. His mother was the former Empress who died. - Slave knight Iklies, 17-18yo ex-noble of Dellmene / Delmaine, a ruined nation conquered by the Ioka Empire. - Vinter Berdandi, 26yo Marquis heir. He’s a mage and the info guildmaster. - 12yo Penelope was adopted into the only ducal family of the Ioka Empire. She was adopted as a replacement due to her similar appearance to Yvonne. She was an orphan after her mother, a poor merchant, died. She grew up unloved and ignored as a parasite and the ‘fake’ daughter in the Eckhart family. Penelope was forced to become the bad tempered villainess after years of being mistreated, bullied and tortured by the household staff. - Emily, FL’s personal maid, pricks FL’s arm with a needle while she sleeps and gives FL cold water to wash with. Emily serves spoiled, rotten food to FL who chooses to eat it based on her experience of the game. Reynold passes by and stops FL. He imprisons Emily. (Reynold -10% to -3%) - The Duke summons FL to reprimand her for the commotion earlier with the maid. FL chooses to say it was all her fault and calls him “Father” which opens a hidden quest. FL gets to turn off dialogue choices and can now speak and move independently. - FL asks the Duke for his forgiveness. She’ll prove her worth as an Eckhart between now and her coming-of-age ceremony. - Derrick stops FL as she leaves the Duke’s study. Despite knowing FL was served rotten food, Derrick still blamed FL for what happened. She begs for his forgiveness and calls him “young master.” (Derrick 0% to 5%) - FL dreams of Penelope’s memories when she was accused by Reynold of stealing Yvonne’s necklace as a child and no one believed she didn’t. The Duke ordered for Yvonne’s room and the third floor rooms to be locked. From then Penelope stopped calling the Duke “Father.” - FL rebukes Fennel the head butler for his rude, disrespectful behaviour. FL decides to reinstate Emily as her personal maid (no one else volunteered to except for Emily). Emily was punished with a 3-mth pay cut and assigned to the laundry. - FL knows Emily isn’t the one who led the bullying and she’s not the only one involved. FL plans to earn Emily’s loyalty by forgiving her and giving her another chance to prove herself. - FL takes the needle from Emily and threatens to prick herself so others will see and suspect Emily if she doesn’t behave from now on. - Reynold tries to start a fight with FL when he learns she took back Emily. He accuses FL of having no self respect. - FL says isn’t this what Reynold intended after what really happened with Yvonne’s necklace. FL knows he was the real culprit and he framed Penelope. (Reynold 3%) - Derrick escorts FL to the 2nd Prince’s bday banquet. He surprises FL by sharing the same carriage there. (Derrick 6%) - FL wants to see if there’s a reset option when she’s about to die. She plans to test this with Kallisto at the ball. - Kallisto surprises everyone by entering with an almost dead assassin in tow. He implies the Empress sent the assassin, then kills the assassin and leaves. - FL comes across Kallisto in the garden and he asks why did she follow him. No reset button appears even though he put his sword to her throat. In desperation FL says she’s in love with him. He lets her go for now. (Kallisto 0% to 2%) - FL meets Vinter on her way back. He gives her a handkerchief to stop the bleeding at her throat. (Vinter 0% to 9%) - FL faints when she sees Derrick. FL wakes up after 4 days. - Derrick gives FL a scarf to hide the bandages on her neck. (Derrick 8% to 10%) - FL’s reputation improves (+5 pts) in the duchy as a result of the incident with Kallisto. FL notices the improved attitudes of the household staff towards her. - Founding festival: - FL tries to sneak out at night and is discovered by Reynold (7%) then Derrick who both decide to join her. They’re separated from her when the parade starts. FL attends a slave auction where she buys Iklies for a fortune. - FL is given a ring that is connected to Iklies’ collar. Pressing the ring activates a paralysis spell in the collar that stuns the wearer with an electric current. When they leave, Iklies (18%) saves FL from a violent confrontation with a rival noble bidder and his men. - Back home, FL convinces the Duke, Derrick (13%) and Reynold (10%) to let her keep Iklies as her personal bodyguard. None of the Eckhart knights like FL and they won't protect her. Iklies’ 1st mission is to be accepted by everyone in the duchy. - FL sees Iklies (25%) training hard in the rain alone. She realises he could be the greatest threat to her life. - Emily visits the info guilds on behalf of FL on the pretext of looking for Vinter. FL is trying to get Vinter’s attention as he owns the largest info guild that found Yvonne and reunited her with her family. Emily is pleased to be trusted by FL and FL’s reputation in the household goes up again (+10 pts). - A small, white, talking rabbit suddenly visits FL by magic which signals her next quest to meet with Vinter. FL is teleported to his office and enters a secret magic space. She meets a group of mage apprentice children and helps them recover a box from an iceberg. Vinter arrives and she returns his handkerchief to him with a gift of expensive cuff links. - The children are orphans rescued from anti-magic groups. The imperial family has been persecuting mages because of an oracle by the temple: “Only when all forces who use magic are eliminated will the true Emperor chosen by god be born.” - Vinter keeps it a secret that he’s a mage as magic users are oppressed in this world. Mages aren’t allowed to use magic unless they pledge allegiance to the Ioka Empire. - As FL exits Vinter’s office, she sees Derrick and the Eckhart knights making extra security patrols on the streets. She re-enters and asks Vinter (15%) to help her get to a street near her home and he teleports her there. Derrick catches FL as she’s about to sneak back into the estate. - Derrick and the magic bracelet: - Derrick takes FL to see a view of the capital city all lit up for the festival. After lecturing her about avoiding criminals and sneaking out without an escort, Derrick (17% to 20%) gives her a garnet bracelet. It’s enchanted with protection and camouflage magic so she’ll appear like a boy her age. - Invited to have lunch with her family for first time since she was reborn, FL continues to experience ridicule from the head chef. When FL brings this to the attention of her family, they make a show of firing the one responsible. - Later all of the kitchen staff are fired and replaced. - FL is shown by Fennel to the 3rd floor attic (before she wasn’t allowed) to see the fireworks as a form of sincerity from the Duke. Fennel also apologises for everything. Reynold confronts FL here about why he hates her: he overheard her as a child wishing for Yvonne to die and never come back. FL apologises but hits back with some ‘truths’ of her own: about life as a beggar orphan. Reynold (17%) at least has the decency to appear shocked. - FL visits the training grounds to check on Iklies and sees him being bullied by the other knights. She orders Iklies to attack Mark Albert from the 3rd division who insulted her. She allows Iklies to vent his anger then stops Iklies before he kills Mark. - The knights that bullied Iklies are dismissed (by the Duke?) - FL takes Iklies (33%) shopping. She buys new uniforms for him. She also buys a magic sword pendant that turns into a real sword when it’s injected with mana. It’s made from rare dwarf steel (dwarves are now extinct). With his new sword, Iklies (40%) pledges his service and loyalty to FL as her knight. - When asked by the Duke about the incident with Iklies, FL tells the truth. Iklies was the only one who defended her when she was being insulted. She still has to attend the hunting competition. The Duke gives her a modified crossbow with mana infused pellets to lessen the risk of her getting into trouble and harming the family name like last year. - The pellets cause an electric shock to stun their target. An additional spell cast on the pellets will cause loss of memory in human targets from the moment just before they’re struck. - FL gives a magic amulet with a teleportation spell to the Duke as a gift for the hunting competition. FL gives a protection amulet as a gift to Emily as a reward. FL’s reputation with the Duke and the household increases with points awarded. - FL feels threatened after receiving a letter from Kallisto. - FL goes to the family training grounds to practise using her crossbow. Iklies comes to help her. Derrick arrives and they argue over who should teach FL. She stops them and leaves before she might die in the crossfire. FL hires an instructor to teach her instead. - Hunting competition near the imperial palace: - In the carriage on the way there, the Duke proudly shows off the amulet from FL to her brothers, much to her embarrassment. - All carriages are inspected for lethal magic weapons or evil mages. This is for Kallisto’s safety as the host of the event and he has many enemies. - At the garden banquet for the opening ceremony, nasty whispers aimed at FL has her openly loading her crossbow in a threatening manner before slinging it over her shoulder. - Kallisto speaks briefly to open the competition. The Emperor and Empress are apparently both unwell, and the 2nd Prince has joined them in the south. - The hunting competition guests include many noble supporters of Kallisto. He chats with them as he makes his way to FL’s table where she is alone. When he asks FL for details on how and when she fell in love with him, she says she’s no longer in love and will find someone more fitting for her station. - A large magical creature suddenly looms above and aims for Kallisto. A table of foreigners disguised as robed shamans were actually rebels from the Leila kingdom. The more the magical creature is destroyed, the more it multiplies. A barrier is keeping everyone within the garden banquet area. - FL is able to wipe out the magical creatures with her crossbow as they are weak to magic weapons. She successfully completes a quest to become the queen of the hunting competition after saving everyone from danger. All favourability scores go up. - Derrick 30%, Reynold 27%, Vinter 20%, Kallisto 9%, Iklies 60%. - The rebel leader is taken away and imprisoned. - Most of the robed rebels are actually brainwashed and abused children with magic powers. Vinter and FL ask for mercy from Kallisto who spares their lives and leaves them in Vinter’s care. - Vinter is the only one to personally thank FL for saving them. - The Duke says he’s proud of FL as his daughter. - Reynold applies ointment to FL’s small wound on her neck. - The hunting competition still proceeds the next day. FL is the only woman in male attire. FL is trying to decide who to give her 3rd amulet to (she bought 3), when Kallisto (12%) takes it from her and refuses to give it back. - At the hunting grounds, FL is invited to tea but she is mocked by the ladies. They’re led by Gloria Kellen (daughter of a Count) who Penelope aimed her crossbow at last year. FL does the same this year but lets Gloria and the others off with a warning. FL then leaves for the hunting area. - FL receives a quest to hunt a giant bear when she stumbles into the wrong area. Kallisto saves her by stabbing the bear at the last minute. He wants her to take credit for the kill and cuts off the bear’s head for her. - Assassins quest: - Kallisto survives an arrow attack as it struck the amulet he took from FL. They ride away together but are pursued by the assassins that the Empress sent. FL knocks out all 20 assassins with her crossbow and clears the quest, but she falls off a cliff with Kallisto who was protecting her from a dagger. - FL wakes up in a cave with Kallisto and a campfire. They survived as they fell into a river but they’re half undressed as their clothes need to dry. She receives as a quest reward the assassin’s dagger that had struck Kallisto. - FL’s favourability with Kallisto has gone up (29%). He asks why did her feelings for him change. She says he tried to kill her. He asks what made her fall in love in the first place. She says his hair and eyes made him look like a rich person. - FL wakes up from nightmares about the bear and the assassins. Kallisto tells her a story of when he was about 10yo and was chased by a bear at a hunting competition. He then had to face a large group of assassins that the Empress most likely sent to kill him. The bear and the assassins killed eachother, and Kallisto took the bear’s head and won the hunting competition. - FL’s father and brothers are desperately searching for her. The bear’s corpse and head have been found. There’s also a search party for Kallisto. To cover up the incident caused by Penelope last year, the Duke gave up an entire diamond mine to Count Kellen. - Explore the cave quest: - FL goes with Kallisto (34%) to the back of the cave. They see a skeleton holding 2 scrolls in the centre of a sealed magic circle. Kallisto destroys the seal and FL carefully removes the scrolls. They’re magical maps, one of the forest they’re in and the other of Valta the ancient kingdom of magic (now the Archina regime). When Valta was wiped out, the oppression of mages began. - The game system instructs FL on how to use the magic forest map (has up to 3 uses). She teleports herself and Kallisto to the small critter hunting grounds. Kallisto asks her to call for help but he faints due to the slow acting poison from the dagger. FL sees some soldiers but she’s arrested for the attempted murder of the Crown Prince and other noblemen. - Marquis Allen, the father of the Empress, was behind the Leila rebels and the assassins who were noblemen in disguise. One of the noblemen is Baron Tullet, Gloria Kellen’s fiancé. While Kallisto remains unconscious, Marquis Allen frames FL with everything and removes all traces of evidence. A rumour is spread that FL wanted to assassinate Kallisto and silence any eyewitnesses. - Derrick comes to see FL who is imprisoned in the north tower of the imperial palace. She quickly realises he isn’t interested in the truth. He blames her for causing trouble again and is looking for a way to control the damage. She says she’ll take care of things herself and he can ignore her as he’s always done. She’s turns her back and asks him to leave. - Grand Council Room: FL’s trial begins. - FL is accused of attempting to murder 7 noblemen and Kallisto. FL fired her crossbow at the noblemen to take the bear they were hunting away from them. Derrick argues the crossbow and the mana infused pellets weren’t designed to injure grown men. Derrick has proof from the mage and their signed contract. - FL provides her own testimony and says she was hunting the bear alone and was helped by Kallisto who cut off the bear’s head. The bear’s corpse can be checked for the lack of attack wounds that prove the noblemen weren’t hunting the bear at all. - FL has to say she was secretly meeting Kallisto to resolve their relationship. No one would believe it was a coincidence. - Vinter arrives and provides his corroborating testimony that he saw what happened with FL, the bear and Kallisto. - FL reveals the dagger that was still hidden in her possession as her hard evidence of assassins attacking her and Kallisto. - FL points out Marquis Allen’s crest as the same one carved on the dagger. The blue token tied to the dagger was made by Gloria Kellen. This means the dagger belonged to Baron Tullet. - The nobles involved are all arrested and FL is released. - Derrick tries to speak with FL but he still persists in his cowardly behaviour of shifting blame towards her. FL says she never had any faith or hope in him to begin with (even though she secretly did). - Reynold confirms with FL that she isn’t in a relationship with Kallisto. Reynold also says he’s not Derrick and he would’ve believed FL if she’d told him what happened. - Cedric Potter, Kallisto’s assistant. - FL is given permission to freely visit the imperial palace during the rest of the hunting competition. FL visits Kallisto (42%) each day to make sure he’s still breathing and to tell him not to die. When he wakes, FL gets him to promise not to kill her if he hears anything later (from what she said about him at the trial). - On the last day of the hunting competition, the top 5 hunters are Reynold (40%), Derrick (32%), Vinter (44%), Kallisto (45%) and FL. Both Kallisto and Vinter dedicate their hunted prey to FL. The bear was entered under FL’s name (by Kallisto) so she is the overall winner and is crowned the queen of the competition. - FL will not seek her family’s trust or acknowledgement anymore. - Made from the hunted prey given to FL, Iklies (69%) receives a priceless necklace of mammoth ivory, tiger fangs and black onyx. His favourability increases to 77%. The numbers disappear after one of the targets is above 70%. To check the favourability number, FL must make physical contact with the target then pay either gold or fame points. - Favourability now appears as a colour. - Derrick (orange), Reynold (pink), Iklies (dark red), Vinter (violet). - Duke Eckhart insists the whole family have lunch in the greenhouse. Penelope was never allowed to enter the greenhouse in the past. The Duke announces that their family portrait will be painted soon, before FL’s coming-of-age bday in a month’s time. It won’t be long until Yvonne returns. - When asked what she wanted for her bday, FL requested her own personal budget and private assets. Derrick and Reynold deny her request. The Duke goes to FL’s room for the first time ever and secretly gives her ownership of an emerald mine. - FL decides to focus on increasing Iklies’ favourability to 100% asap. It’s now 81%. She wants to remove his slave collar but he refuses. Iklies will keep wearing the collar to reassure FL that he’ll behave. He wants FL to have his life in her hands. He’s now 86%. - Kallisto summons FL to see him to discuss what she said about their relationship during the trial. FL pretends to be unwell so Kallisto makes a surprise visit to the Eckhart estate. He confronts FL about the rumours that he begged to be her lover. Kallisto gives to FL the ancient map of Valta that he got restored by the imperial mages. (A copy of the map is retained by the palace) - Marquis Allen has been released with no charges. - Baron Tullet was framed for everything. - Count Kellen and his family lost all of their wealth, assets and status. They were demoted to slaves. Kallisto gives the returned title deed for the diamond mine to FL. - Kallisto investigated why the original Penelope caused a commotion at the hunting competition last year. At the Kellen tea party, Penelope was served dirty water full of mosquitoes. FL didn’t think the Duke would believe her if she told him. - Iklies saw FL with Kallisto and ran away. - FL is told Iklies stays in his room and hasn’t been to training for a few days. She visits him and overhears some knights insulting her and Iklies. They’re shocked to see her and FL tells them to go away. - Iklies lets FL into his room. He’s crying and asks who was the man that she met. FL realises Iklies has feelings for her. - After FL reassures Iklies (88%), he asks for a swordsmanship instructor so he can better protect FL as her guardian. - FL meets Derrick and requests a good swordsmanship instructor for Iklies. Derrick warns her that it could be seen as treason to teach swordsmanship to a slave from an enemy country. Iklies is sent away to train under a swordmaster who is a former vice captain of the imperial guards. - Emeralds sold from FL’s mine were all bought by White Rabbit, the merchant company run by Vinter. Using magic, Vinter invites FL to visit him. FL uses her magic garnet bracelet to disguise herself as a boy. - FL signs a contract for Vinter (52%) to handle the processing of the emeralds. She signs a separate contract for him to handle the whole process for her diamond mine. She needs her own funds to support herself after Yvonne returns and to pay for checking favourability. Vinter includes in the contract a condition that FL must have a few meetings with him. - FL arrives for her first meeting with Vinter. - Main episode: the Whereabouts of the Missing Children. - 1st quest: Volunteering in a Poor Village. - Roan is one of the orphans under Vinter’s care. - Vinter teleports the 3 of them to a port city that suffered the most damage in the war. They go to a village and Vinter uses magic to set up a soup kitchen. Mostly poor orphan children come out. - FL learns that Vinter has already met Yvonne. - She recently volunteered with him at the village. - Vinter gives FL a pendant necklace that’s an ancient magical artefact. It changes colour if mama or poisonous substances are nearby. FL completes a hidden quest to gain Vinter’s trust. - The Holy Kingdom of Leila aims to get rid of all mages. They believe that is the only way the Leila kingdom is going to rule over the whole continent. Anyone possessing mana became outcasts in the village as they were blamed for the constant attacks from the Leila kingdom. - On the village outskirts where the mana outcasts live, FL watches over Roan playing with other orphans while Vinter meets the village chief. The children suddenly vanish. FL finds them on the beach with mages from the Leila kingdom. The system lets FL use lightning magic to try and stop the mages. Roan teleports FL away to protect her and the children disappear with the mages. - Vinter admits he was testing FL to see if she was from Leila. - As part of the main quest, FL insists on going with Vinter to save the children. They teleport to a small island called Soleil. - Vinter detects Roan’s presence in a cave. - The Leila rebels use magic stolen from children with mana in order to eliminate mages and resurrect Leila. - The Leilans are an ancient tribe who possess powers similar to magic. Instead of magic and nature, they use life force. - The ancient Valta kingdom was built by the Leilans. - The ancient mages sealed away the Leilans to stop them from trying to take over the world. A curse was cast by the Leilans that altered history. The mages were framed for the Leilans’ misdeeds. That’s why mages continue to be persecuted. - FL and Vinter are separated due to a trap. FL receives a quest to defeat a swarm of enchanted creatures. The system lets her cast fire or freeze spells. Kallisto suddenly appears and helps her. Later Vinter reunited with FL. - FL, Vinter and Kallisto reach some underground ruins where Leilan rebels have gathered. They see a woman in white who the rebels call the goddess Leila. She appears to drain the life force from a captured man and he disappears. Vinter suddenly attacks when he recognises an ancient artifact stolen by the Leilans that is used for mind control. - The Leilan rebels release monsters to fight Vinter and Kallisto. Vintner teleports some of the children away before they can be fed to the monsters, but he’s injured in the process. - FL sees a system window and casts a powerful spell that destroys the monsters. The spell also wipes out most of the rebels and shatters the magic mirror artifact. FL takes a piece of the artifact with her. - The woman called the goddess is actually Yvonne. A surviving rebel teleports her away. The underground cavern is collapsing from FL’s spell. Vintner saves the remaining children while Kallisto and FL take Roan. The entire island with the cave sinks into the sea and disappears. - FL clears the Whereabouts of the Missing Children quest. - Kallisto is forcefully teleported by Cedric to return to the imperial palace. He kisses FL before he vanishes.
The Imperial Master Above Webtoon
The Titan's bride
Beauty and the Beasts
Read ch 20 as of 14/6/20 - too silly. ** DROPPED
May I Ask For One Final Thing?
Cheating Men Must Die
Ch 343 as of 10/04/23 THE PALACE HAREM IS A MESS - Consort Su, harem infighting case: despite many sacrifices for her bastard lord and younger conniving bitch consort who plans to kill FL and ruin her whole family. Revenge is sweet as FL successfully accuses bitch of adultery, shedding doubt on her baby’s legitimacy, bitch kills bastard then herself. FL groomed a neglected, young prince who became next Emperor with her ruling as Empress Dowager for first 10yrs. A MOVIE QUEEN FALLEN FROM GRACE - Movie Star Su: kills herself after sex scandal with rich business man destroys her career and reputation. Framed by rising star An Sheng, who she loved and trusted. FL ruins career of bastard instead and also breaks him up with the Lin heiress (his other lover) by showing his true colours. FL finds true love with Gu Chen, who was a big fan and loved her so much he followed her into the movie industry despite his wealthy background. They marry and FL stays with him until his death 40yrs later. THE MOST TRAGIC VAMPIRE IN HISTORY - Vampire Su: imprisoned and tortured by vampire hunters, FL commits suicide after betrayed by fiancé Youji, who left her for a human Wei An. FL allies with Hunter Xavier (brother of Wei) to kill vampire duke Olinor and save her dying vampire clan. - Banished, Youji is no longer a vampire and has a destitute life with Wei (who tried to kill her own bro). They got a much deserved UN-happy ending. ELEGANT SOCIALITE: A MARRIED WOMAN IN CHINA - A devoted wife is bullied and abused by her mother-in-law and husband, who has fallen for a greedy younger woman (transmigrated fan, cause for story to deviate). FL loses weight, becomes successful businesswoman in own right. Initially supports bitch at the dance hall and sets her up with Marshal Wei (has lost love who is FL best friend). In the end FL gets divorced on own terms, after creating much discord and leaving bastard with nothing after marrying bitch and stuck with selfish mother-in-law. DRAMATIC SCHOOL ROMANCE - Student Su commits suicide after extreme bullying that arose from heartless rejection by Min Mingzhe, the boy she liked. Cliched plot of bored spoilt rich kids abusing wealth and power of their parents to make life hell for others. FL gives herself makeover, faces down expulsion threat and gets on student council. FL manages to get blank cheque from bitch (Pu XiaoZhen), ignores initial interest in her shown by bastard. - FL attends bitch’s 16th bday as bastard’s partner, and FL gets contact details for real daughter of bitch’s family. Bastard’s sister saved from hoodlums by FL. Withdrew large amount using blank cheque and gave to parents for travel after their jobs lost. FL faced down expulsion again by surprise reveal of real daughter, confirmed by DNA test. Bastard confesses to FL and saves her from getting stabbed by bitch at school anniversary evening party. FL erases memories of her from all but the bastard. THIS FENG WUSHUANG - FL dies in vain without confessing to bastard who prioritised the life of the conniving bitch over hers. Bitch constantly causing trouble and breaking rules but bastard far too lenient and forgiving. Demon lord constantly pursuing bitch (bastard actually pushing her to demon lord). As novel incomplete, bastard achieved self awareness and had been plotting all developments for long time. FL escapes by suicide but bastard vows to keep searching for her. Bitch now old and alone after cultivation abolished. THE TAOIST MASTER - Ghost Su vengeful against acid attack bastard (FL kills) and death of grandma. Also angry against Taoists as wants to rise to heavens. Taoist successor Qi Ling vanquished all “evil” ghosts and souls, no questions asked (ie wrongful death etc). Taoist leader bastard has captive female ghost (FL) as sacrifice for ceremony to renew and strengthen boundary with netherworld. FL gains trust of Qi Ling who has her absolute belief about ghosts challenged. - FL was killed by Taoist members and soul forcibly taken. This has been going on for last 100 years (every 4-5yrs). There’s a with Ghost King to allow ghosts into human realm to secure “performance” and reputation of Taoist Master Palace. FL helps Qi Ling to dispel Ghost King and defeat Taoist leader. FL tells Qi Ling to look for her in the void if she can break free from her world. THE CONCUBINE’S DAUGHTER - FL suicides after reputation destroyed by bitch younger sister who framed her. FL recovers by creating new trend of the “hangover look”. Marriage proposal also overturned by FL. Internal family struggle to attain favour is won by FL against bitch, incl embarrassing herself with a false accusation about FL and guard to the Emperor. Guide to deflecting bitches taught to Emperor before by FL is brilliant. - Consort selection with view to become Empress, with FL proposed to by Emperor. Bitch kills own mother to avoid poisoning accusation of grandmother. Tables turned by FL on bitch for murder and conspiring to harm FL after trap is foiled and Master Ling and his men are all killed. Bitch is sent to prison where she goes insane and her name removed from family register. Emperor admits on wedding night that he knew it was FL. A LITERARY GIANT’S HUGE FALL - A transmigrator is plagiarising works from the future. She’s also having an affair with a married actor. - This unrepentant bitch is exposed on stage at an awards ceremony by the wife of the cheater. She’s driven to a life on the poverty line while cheater is working in gay porn. CRIMINAL OFFENCES OF A VILLANESS - Based on an otome game, a conquering system was born and tied to the female protagonist Nanako. She used the system to transform herself and continued on in this way. - A body of consciousness has called forth a punishment on Nanako after years of resentment reached a tipping point from her many conquests that tore apart couples and families. - FL needs to prevent Nanako from conquering the affections of at least 2 out of the 3 male leads. - ML1 is Takishima Kai, a famous painting prodigy. FL is almost successful at 98% as his girlfriend, but Nanako wins at 100% when she seduces and sleeps with him. ML2 is Hoshino Fuji, a successful musician. FL successfully conquers him at 100% when he covets her talent as a musician to use for his own benefit. ML3 is Minamoto Nagamasa, the young master of a yakuza group. Nanako is given away easily to someone else while FL is proposed to, 100% affection. The system anomaly is recalled and Nanako reverts back to her plain self. REBIRTH - Cheating bitch Cao Xueyi has access to a mid-level Demon system and can turn back time at will by 5hrs. With each time reset, everyone but Xueyi loses their memories from that period before time is turned back. FL needs to show the male lead Gu Hanyu the true nature of this gold digging bitch. FL also needs to fix what’s wrong with the system. In this world FL becomes Hanyu’s childhood friend who’s been in love with him for a long time. - FL set reminders to not repeat the same tricks in front of Xueyi and to not expose to Xueyi that FL is targeting her. FL’s head hurts when she’s about to do either of these. FL discovers the conditions to activate the time reset require Hanyu to be present and say he wants to break up. FL sets up Xueyi by arranging all 37 of her boyfriends to meet and has it streamed live. ASCENT OF THE EMPRESS - FL must stop Li Mengyu from becoming the Empress in 10yrs. To do that FL will stop the Crown Prince, Mengyu’s husband from becoming the Emperor. FL cures the 2nd Prince Rui of a mysterious disease that made him dark, fat and unable to be near women. Prince Rui resembles Zero, a late colleague / master of FL. He can also see the bamboo rat. - Li Mengyu swapped souls with Tian Mengyao to be in a better position to be selected as the consort to the Crown Prince. Mengyu then killed the real Mengyao. - Prince Rui is given responsibility of managing the flood disaster relief. The Crown Prince sabotages Rui’s efforts to discredit him. Rui almost drowns after the dam is broken but FL saves him and the dam is fixed. FL has Rui beg forgiveness to the Emperor in a similar way to when he was younger. - A witness and physical evidence of Rui’s mother’s death by poisoning emerges. The Emperor is informed and he is furious with the Crown Prince as the culprit. The Emperor faints after a fit of coughing and left to die by the Crown Prince who uses Mengyu’s puppetry talisman to control the corpse and take over the throne. - FL led Rui’s soldiers and exposed the Crown Prince and Princess. She later wed Rui and they lived happily ever after as the Emperor and Empress. CEO WISHES TO GO ON STRIKE - Ling Xingzi is the poor female lead who hates rich people. - Gu Nancheng is the male CEO lead who has obtained awareness. - Han Xingxing is the author using the power of a super high level demon system to control the world. - FL is the rich childhood friend in love with Gu Nancheng. - FL’s character had committed suicide when she was harshly rejected by Gu Nancheng who told her to die. The previous host had failed the mission to free FL’s character from Gu and live her own life. In a business meeting, just as FL was going to punish Gu and exert her independence, she was controlled to act as the pathetic lovelorn villainess. After many experiments, FL realises everyone in this incomplete world is controlled from Ling Xingzi’s POV by the devil system used by the author. - FL convinces Gu to collude with her in changing the plot. FL deduced as long as she plays the villainess as expected, the will of the world won’t interfere and her life won’t be targeted. - The author tries to kill off FL but there are almost 20k near misses, as the will of the world can’t kill her. - The genre of the novel changes to horror and the villainess must die at the hands of the main character for the novel to end. FL asks Gu to help fake her death. He doesn’t want her to die like the previous host and hopes they both survive. - FL faked her death but the author wrote the ending to include a fire where FL’s body is burned up. FL had planned for this and with the rat’s help, created an explosion to disrupt the fire and shield FL’s body. The novel ended with the author possessing Ling’s body after writing that Ling was the royal heiress of a foreign country. - FL and Gu setup Ling and trick her to disconnect from the demon system, then FL kills Ling. FL spends 3mths with Gu then has to leave as her mission is complete and her body could only last til then (she was badly injured internally from the explosion). IMPRISONED LOVE - FL shares the body of Su Yaoniang who just married Yang Zizheng. She was the daughter of a county magistrate that Yang blamed for the deaths of his parents. He became the ruthless leader of the underworld and ordered others to brutally murder the Su family 3yrs ago except for FL. He got close to FL until they married but he soon revealed he did this to torture her so she would feel the same pain and despair he did. From their wedding night, he has her confined to her room. - FL possesses the body for 12hrs at night. During the day she’s in spirit form and must stay near the body. Yaoniang retains the memories of what happened during the night. - FL needs to get the weak Yaoniang to wake up to reality, instead of clinging to Yang despite knowing he killed her family. FL plans to show her that she can live on and live well without Yang. Only Yaoniang can save herself. - FL wants to force Yang to realise sooner that he loves Yaoniang as much as he hates her. He needs to pay for the blood on his hands. - FL suggests Yang might love her when he stops her from killing herself. He goes to a brothel to prove her wrong. - FL confronts Yang at the brothel. She threatens to kill herself again. She demands proof that the bandits sent to murder her family are all dead. It seems the head of the bandits managed to escape. - FL pretends to have gone mad. The doctor says she’s unstable with a mental illness due to extreme stress. FL acts like she’s possessed by a ghost and Yang calls for a shaman. - Fang Xu, a secret investigator sent to find evidence of Yang’s crimes. One night he infiltrates Yang’s study and is poisoned while looking through the ledgers. FL throws a mad fit to distract Yang and save Fang Xu. She lets herself be taken hostage by Fang Xu and they escape together. They hide in the brothel while Yang’s men search the city. They leave the city by disguising Fang Xu as a woman and FL as a deathly ill person. - FL and Fang Xu come across Yang’s men in the next city. FL and Fang Xu overhear the men planning to capture the surviving bandit from the Su family murders. FL, Fang Xu and Yang’s men find the bandit at the same time. The bandit is seriously injured by Yang’s men. Before he dies, he tells FL where to find the evidence of Yang’s plot that murdered an imperial court official. - FL shelters in an abandoned temple. Yang arrives to personally take FL back. After seeing the evidence that includes details of numerous other crimes committed by Yang, Yaoniang gives him a final chance to repent. Yang refuses to admit he’s done anything wrong. Yaoniang finally turns away from Yang. - While FL stalled for time, Fang Xu arrives with soldiers and an official to arrest Yang and his men. FL already gave the evidence to Fang Xu. Yang kills himself in prison. Yaoniang’s spirit also departs with the end of the story and FL’s mission. FL takes a vacation in this world and spends time with Fang Xu. QUIET VILLAGE - Yuan Fangqin was mistreated by her husband Su Mingqiang and her in-laws for giving birth to a girl. One day, drunk Mingqiang drowned and died. In the chaotic struggle to stop the in-laws from taking all of Fangqin’s household items, her daughter Su Luxia died. FL possesses the daughter’s body. - Pei Qingxuan, a sickly boy from a wealthy family. - He has a weak body and heart disease. - Su Mingsheng, Mingqiang’s younger brother. - Su Dazhuang, the village chief’s son. - FL kills Mingsheng with an axe when he attempts to rape Fangqin. Then FL kills Dazhuang when he tries to drown FL for refusing to lick his shoes. - The village chief decides a human sacrifice is needed for the annual sacrificial ceremony to the mountain god. Mingqiang’s mother suggests FL as the sacrifice. FL creates a lethal poison and adds it to the water in the well after she jumps in as the sacrifice. The villagers die after drinking the “blessed water”. FL emerges from the well and sets fire to the village. - The next day all of the villagers are alive. They are in an infinite loop of death and revival. FL is disconnected from the main system. The demon system sent FL to a derivative world. The creator of this world is Pei Qingxuan. He wants FL to stay with him forever. FL tears open a crack in the world, reconnects with the main system and escapes. THE IMMORTAL MOUNTAIN - Qing Chen was a celestial being who was betrayed by his lover Bing Xi after she fell in love with his close friend Yan Yun. - Yan Yun’s mother, the Empress, and Yan Yun set up Qing Chen to become a demon and then executed. - Yu Ling Troop high ranking officer selection - FL as Qing Chen wins the archery contest. Yan Yun is 2nd.
This Time I Will Definitely Be Happy
** Rate 3.5
Isekai de Café o Kaiten Shimashita.