crook of a neck

• 1-2 New Chapters Every Day An American accountant in 2025 wakes up to find himself in the body of King Louis XVI. The shock nearly stops his heart, but what truly terrifies him is realizing he’s living on borrowed time. He knows how this story ends, and he refuses to meet the guillotine. With his modern financial knowledge and sharp sense of public opinion, he decides to save France from bankruptcy—and himself from the blade. But politics in Versailles are far more dangerous than tax codes. His reforms stir anger among nobles, foreign rivals, and even his own court. Every move he makes is a gamble. And while he’s busy trying to change the future, he also has to pretend to be a husband to Marie Antoinette. At first, it’s just an act to keep history on track. Then, slowly, she becomes more than a name from his textbooks. Her warmth, her laughter, and her loneliness begin to draw him in. Now he stands between love and revolution, between the woman who changed his heart and the nation he’s trying to save. Can an ordinary man from the modern world rewrite the fate of France and keep both his crown and his life?

[BL] Due to a rare condition, Vince’s end of the red string of fate is tied around his neck, while his soulmate's, Jack, is tied around his finger, like it’s supposed to be. Theory says that if they "sleep" with someone that isn’t their soulmate, the string tightens on the other end, letting your soulmate know exactly what you are doing. When Jack feels his string tightening, he feels heartbroken, and starts to sleep around with everybody as revenge, not knowing Vince was a victim of abuse. When they finally meet, Vince is already suffocating. or - Love and fate's hopes for humanity were way too high and all they got was disappointment

“I woke up in a coffin, naked.” Waking up in a coffin, Alina wakes up to a new world. She’ll face off against cultists, robots, mages, monsters, and automatas, and that’s only half of the first day. She’s going to need knowledge, she’s going to need wits, and she’s going to need blood, a lot of it. But first, she needs her underwear. Follow the journey of Alina as she makes her place in the world, that she founds strange, but oddly familiar to Earth. She’ll meet dragon lords, A.I. overlords, warlords, and many other lords on her path of discovering the mystery of Ingrid and the origin of this world. However, it’s hard when all you want to do is bite down on necks. After all, she’s a vampire.

The ribs takeout delivered after a late-night overtime shift wasn't a comfort, but a death curse closing in step by step. A young female delivery worker, a bizarre carp by the bedside, a hoarse whisper in the ear... Overtime worker Joseph is drawn into an inexplicable horror. Childhood sins are awakened, shrouded by the shadow of being flayed alive. Who is knocking at midnight? Who is whispering "Why..." in his ear?

"I am just an executioner who works every day to earn money to live... I have nothing to do with those I execute, but deep down I know how many souls resent me... And the most resentful of them all was Princess Serena: 'If you execute me now, you will regret it for a long time.' I thought it was just an empty threat, and I didn’t know I would become one of the victims of her lover’s revenge — the Tower’s magician, Alister..."

"Goodness, my poor Mathilde! Mine was an impersonation! It was worth 500 francs all things considered! ..."

Do you know what it’s like to get riddled with bullets in broad daylight? Giovanni Kivela, a 19-year-old ex-mafioso, suffered that exact fate the very same day he’d planned on carrying out a John Wick-style mission to avenge Officer North, the parole officer whom he loved like a mother. Though he likely would’ve gone through with the plan if he hadn’t spoken with her in his dreams the night before the mission. After a heartwarming and eye-opening conversation with her, Gio decided against throwing his life away and instead chose to honor her legacy and memory by living a peaceful, philanthropic life. And the same Mafia that Officer North died to get Gio away from was kind enough to let him do it! Just kidding. Didn’t you read the logline? They lit him the hell up. On the same day he was supposed to carry out that John Wick mission on them, ironically enough. As he bled out, Giovanni asked any god that would listen for a second chance! He never asked to be a mafioso. He just wanted to live a normal life! Have a wife and kids and be a boring dad who played games, drank beer, and barbecued for the rest of his life! He’d do anything… be anything if it meant he could live again and honor Officer North’s sacrifice for him! But Gio wasn’t religious. He didn’t think any god out there was actually listening to his plea. Right…? And what’d he say again? He’d do and/or be anything? Maybe he was being a bit dramat– NOW BEGINNING TRANSMIGRATION SEQUENCE. Well, you know what they say: “Careful what you wish for!"

The cold wind hit me like a bullet. I took a step but the floor was so slippery that I was unable to catch myself. I almost fell forward into the pile of dreadful snow below me. Then suddenly a hand wrapped around me. It was a large bulky arm that gripped my waist from behind. The man who had been silently awaiting as I moved slowly down the aisle was now holding my tiny body up with a single arm. I turned slightly to see my savior. "T-Thank you..." I mumbled with my freezing lungs.

Joyce Anderson was the best among her colleagues. She had just finished her internship and was being whisked off by the FBI before she could blink. She suddenly spoke out in a meeting and that was how she landed her first mission. Everything went wrong on the first day of school and she was caught in the tug of war between the two male Adonis.

Fu Shinian, an extra character in the original book, awakens to find that her whole family are the vicious villains in the story. Her father, unable to establish relations with the Marquis Changping's residence, is demoted and exiled by the male lead. Her mother is beaten to death on the road to exile, and Aunt Cheng is humiliated to death protecting her chastity. Her elder brother opposes the male lead to win over the female lead and dies saving her. Her elder sister makes life difficult for the female lead, and after their father is exiled, she is divorced by the male lead and sent to a pleasure house. To protect her family and change their tragic fate, isn’t it fair for her to absorb all the male and female leads' fortunes? * [Ding! Male and female leads' fortune -1000, Fu Mansion's fortune +1000] Mr. Fu: "I attended the morning court session, why did His Majesty promote me again!" Madam Fu: "I went to the temple to offer incense, and the master said I was surrounded by a powerful purple aura!" Aunt Cheng: "How did the Cheng Family suddenly become the imperial merchants!" Elder Brother: "It seems like I suddenly have gained intelligence, I know all the exam questions!" Elder Sister: "How come right after I broke off the engagement, Little General Gu came to propose?" * The Marquis Changping can only live to 25, in two years the title will belong to the male lead? She frantically absorbs the fortunes of the male and female leads to boost the Marquis Changping's fortune! During the plague lockdown, Fu Shinian brings medicine and travels long distances into the city to safeguard his health. He understands the girl's intentions, but he only has two years left to live, how can he drag her down. However, why does his heart ache so much watching her with someone else? Finally, the Marquis Changping forces Fu Shinian into the corner of the study, lowering his head to seek her lips: "Niannian, I was wrong."