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【2023 Kuaikan manhua competition entry】The odds and twists of truth have never ceased in this world. In the River of Oblivion, an emissary of hell is born from the Red Lycoris, whose flowers could never meet its own leaves. Will she be able to unfold the secrets of each soul and bring them relief?

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Mia had always managed on her own, but everything changed when Matthew tracked her down. Matthew Knight runs a risk management company with his brothers. One day, a client asks him to find his fiancée, Mia. She appears to have vanished after getting involved in the drug trade. Matthew ultimately locates her at a hotel but he is surprised by her. She combines strength and innocence in a way he hadn’t anticipated, testing his professionalism. Will Matthew and Mia be able to make sense of their situation…and their feelings?

On a mission to meet a certain someone, Ruby, in the guise of a bartender, sneaks into?Q Virtus, an exclusive world-class gentleman’s club for billionaires. Everyone inside wears masks to hide their identities, but when the person she’s waiting for appears, she knows him instantly by his unmistakable aura and piercing green eyes. Narciso Valentino… The shrewd, successful businessman who has the New York financial markets in the palm of his hand is also known as the Magician of Wall Street. Ruby needs to ask a favor of him. He, meanwhile, has just one goal in sight?making her his own for the night…

Yuna Aikawa, who is good-natured and cannot refuse people's requests, was forced to work overtime as usual, taking her work home with her. Masaki, Yuna's husband, was worried about her, but Yuna smiled at him and said, “I'm Ok.” Masaki did not take it well. “I’ll punish you.”, “Bad girl Yuna.”, ”Bad girl needs to be punished by spanking.” Yuna is puzzled by the first time she was told these words. “I've been told I'm an honor student and a good girl...” “Really? Isn’t that you are someone who is easy to exploit?” Masaki’s painful word deeply penetrates Yuna’s heart.

Plot: After losing their parents at an early age, Natsuhiko and Haru had to be seperated. Years later, Natsuhiko opened a cafe hoping to fulfill his and his parents' dreams. After an incident with a customer, Natsuhiko finds out that he is his younger brother. Unfortunately, he now works as a host. Not only that, Natsuhiko had racked up plenty of debt to finance his cafe. Can Natsuhiko overcome these obstacles and convince his younger brother to come back and keep his cafe, and their dreams, alive?

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A campus romance between Shin Seungwon, a former soccer player and Sports Rehabilitation major, and Kwon Jaeyoon, a student from the Business Administration department— Kwon Jaeyoon, a Business Administration student, undergoes surgery due to tinnitus in her left ear and returns to campus a year later, where she unexpectedly runs into Shin Seungwon, the person she had a crush on 5 years ago. Before Jaeyoon could organise her thoughts, Seungwon, who is in the same class, begins to approach her without hesitation, causing Jaeyoon’s heart to waver. When Seungwon helps Jaeyoon every day after she injures her leg late at night, Jaeyoon feels uncomfortable with the one-sided kindness. In response, she decides to help Seungwon with his practical work for the Sports Rehabilitation class. Despite trying her best not to notice, Jaeyoon's body keeps reacting instinctively, leaving her awkward and worried that she might be misunderstood as a pervert.

In addition to being the oldest of four beautiful brothers, Sawyer is the only doctor in Buckhorn, Kentucky. One day a woman named Honey drives her car through his fence and into the lake. He finds her unconscious, but when she wakes up, she doesn’t seem to want his help. She appears to be afraid of something, but what that might be is a mystery. Sparks begin to fly as Sawyer nurses her back to health. Will an irresistible magnetism draw these two closer together?

A look into the lives of the various residents in one quiet community.

When he consoles Mrs. Kanamori, a beautiful elf whose husband has passed away, by saying "I'll marry you myself," he is taken in and becomes her fiancée...? A sweet and precious pure love comedy between a clumsy Yankee boy and the slightly natural Kanamori-san, 500 years apart.

It is said that the difficulty of the quick-travel system is divided into: Normal-Difficult-Hell-The empress punches the white lotus and steps on the scumbag. The revenge method is unconventional. The scumbag white lotus is frightened by the empress's abuse and flees for his life. But this time, why did he not dodge or evade but rely on me? "Because, this time I want you to fall in love with me"

It is currently the Meiji era. Blessed with both heritage and beauty, Satoko’s one wish is to marry for the good of the family. But suddenly, a mysterious assassin comes for her life. In order to make it out of there alive, Satoko makes the assassin a “proposal”. The daughter of an upstanding family, and an assassin. Romantic suspense about the contract marriage between two who should never have crossed paths.

A One-Shot by Yamada Akihiro the illustrator behind Twelve Kingdoms and Record of Lodoss War.

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"After the war, I shall return. Let's get married then." Collin, a member of an aristocratic family, and Rose, an innkeeper's daughter, promise to marry each other despite the differences in their social status. However, in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in a combat zone, Collin receives a letter from Rose one-sidedly breaking off the engagement. Collin returns home unconvinced, but when he goes searching for Rose, he hears that she has gone missing. When he finally locates Rose, he finds her working as a housekeeper for an elderly noblewoman at her manor. But Rose acts as if Collin is a total stranger when he expresses his unwavering love toward her.

Yoshiwara, old Edo's paradise of pleasure, has been reborn in modern-day Tokyo.... In this playground of the powerful, where money rules all, women sell both their bodies and the idea of romance to their male clientele. Thrust into this world is the ingenue Asuka, who's been sold out by her foster parents to pay off their debts. While at first oblivious to the nature of Yoshiwara, she accidentally barges in on a "transaction" between a courtesan and her client. Confronted with her new reality of being bought and sold, she longs to make a break for it... but is there anyone around her she can trust...?!

Upcoming starlet Missy Klein is getting married to Ian Lawson, founder of the SpinTrax recording label, and From This Moment, Nashville’s hottest wedding planners, have gotten the contract to arrange the wedding. There’s only one problem?cofounder and photographer Briana Harper had a college romance with Ian, and they’re now stuck in a snowed-in cabin! With the relationship warming up faster than the weather outside, Briana and Ian start to reconnect…but Ian’s abandonment of his own music career to pursue the business side of things has always irked Briana. She begins to ask herself if she could get together with Ian again, but how is that possible when he’s getting married to the mother of his unborn child?

Her father loses their fortune and estate gambling and disappears. The last opponent he lost big to was a nobleman named Develin, and Thea’s father even gambled away her dowry. Thea shows up at Develin’s home and resolutely offers him a deal. “Please marry me.” Can he turn down this sudden proposal? Thea is fraught with unease, but Develin unexpectedly embraces her and steals a kiss. Could they really be together as man and wife, or does a miserable marriage await her?

Childhood friends Han Jeong-woo and Choi Yi-seo have been friends for 25 years. Jeong-woo has had a crush on Yi-seo for a long time, but Yi-seo doesn't see Jeong-woo as rational at all. Then one day, the two begin living together due to a certain incident... "You, why are you so big?" "I told you, you're much bigger than those toys." Are they crossing a line that friends shouldn't cross?! "Put it in, put it in? I don't think it'll fit." "Our Yi-seo, it'll get all wet and fit in."

Obsessive Villainous Emperor is here! Come come my fellow crazy-male-lead lover!

Scary and mysterious ghost stories. You're going to get cursed, once you listen to them…

Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the duke, has memories of her previous life. It seems like she's been reincarnted into an otome game. The problem? She's never played one before! See as she doesn't know the tropes of the genre, her knowledge wasn't going to be useful in this world... Oh well - it can't be helped. Let's just live life as it is! --- Alt Official Raw (https://comic-walker.com/detail/KC-005968-S?episodeType=latest)

After botching a job interview, a man climbs a mountain to end it all, only to wake up in a world of half-human, half-animal creatures. Caught between disbelief and temptation, he must navigate this strange new reality.

But Sharuen is your adopted daughter! What about me?” Eliana, the eldest daughter of a impoverished noble family, is overjoyed when she receives a marriage proposal from the wealthy Baron Karman. On her thrilling first night, filled with hope, she is struck by thunderous words from her husband, Baron Karman: he loves another woman—even his adopted daughter, Sharuen. To make matters worse, she is falsely accused of being a wicked stepmother due to Sharuen’s schemes… “Rumors shouldn’t be spread half-heartedly, Sharuen.” Turning crisis into opportunity, Eliana, now burdened with every rumor, sets her sights on becoming the Queen of the Harem. In this perilous quest to build a harem, will she achieve her revenge and find true love?

She approaches the man. This is a risky bet, but she has no choice—she needs to win it. “I’ll transform him into a perfect gentleman.”In a sleazy casino full of oil refinery workers, Catherine timidly sits next to her fiancé. “Damn it! Take it all!” a man with black hair suddenly screams and starts taking his clothes off. Then her fiancé whispers into her ear, “Catherine, it’s him.” With strong determination, she approaches the man. This is a risky bet, but she has no choice—she needs to win it. “I’ll transform him into a perfect gentleman.”

Laurel Midland harbors a dark secret, one that leads her to think she deserves no happiness in life. When she arrives at the house of widower Charles Gray, she finds a like-minded soul in a child who's been denied much happiness. As the new nanny, she's tasked with proving herself to Charles, proving that you need to have fun to live, and learning that you need to forgive yourself to move on.

“You’re telling me to vow my eternal love to someone whose name I don’t even know?” Louise, a wholesome girl working in the entertainment capital of the world, Las Vegas, has found herself in a dire situation. She’s on the run from a mafioso after accidentally swallowing a diamond worth millions. If they catch her, it’s off to the chapel and then the operating table for her. But Louise refuses to become the bride of a criminal. Donning a wedding dress, she escapes her captor’s car and bumps into a man on his way back from a friend’s wedding. Without a moment to spare, the two make for the nearest chapel to hide from Louise’s pursuers!

Lily, a black witch who was brought to the castle during a witch hunt when she was young and is still used by the king for her power even as an adult. She lives each day enduring both fear and scorn. Then one day, she meets a new court jester. Unlike other jesters, she is disliked for his flattery, but the jester shows favor to the witch. Why does the jester show favor to the witch? Can the witch ever get her free life back?

He was just a passing stranger…at first!Abby has lost her self-confidence and her courage. After being fired from her job, she felt like all her hard work was for nothing, so a heartbroken Abby ran off by herself to Lake Tahoe. Just when she had decided to pursue a more relaxing life, her car gets a flat tire in the middle of the night on a snow-covered road and she’s stranded. It’s the worst day of her life. As she holds back her tears, a hero appears in front of her. Gar, the muscular and handsome owner of a ski lodge, gives her a moment of peace. She imagined that would be the last she saw of him, but the future has something else in store for Abby!

"Hey, Kuroya, you like me, don't you? How did you know?" To have one-sided love discovered. For Kuroya, a high school student in the shadows, it was a humiliation that was tantamount to death. The other is Kasumi Shiramori, an extremely beautiful girl who is an upperclassman in the literature club. While they spend time alone together in the club, Kuroya is forced to admit that he has been hiding these feelings from her for a long time, but ......! The older student tells the despairing Kuroya, "Well, I'm going out with her on a trial basis for the time being. "Then - for the time being - we'll go out on a trial basis"? No way, they are in love with each other and have a relationship! No, wait, it's not supposed to be like this---This is an agonizingly lovey-dovey and super-sweet adolescent romantic comedy full of lovey-dovey love from the senpai of your dreams, who teases you even though you're dating!

From James M. Cain to Stephen King, from Sophocles to the Marquis de Sade to Iceberg Slim, here are stunning and sometimes macabre visualizations of some of the greatest crime and mystery stories of all time. Rick Geary brings his crisp style to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment; C. Frakes resurrects the forgotten novella "Talma Gordon," the first mystery written by an African American. Crime finds new life in these graphic renditions of The Arabian Nights, the Bible, James Joyce's Dubliners, Patricia Highsmith, and leading mystery writers of today like Jo Nesbø. Crime and mystery have never been so brilliantly reimagined.

Lu Chi was easy going with girls, but she never recalled what men looked like if she just saw them once. She was a face amnesia girl for men and she thought they all had a round face. She recognized men with their dressings but not their face. But now, a man who she could recognize showed up.

Princess Shina was sentenced for treason and offered as a sacrifice to be fed to the evil dragon. But when she was thrown into the dragon's lair, no evil dragon was to be found—only a barely conscious, naked, dark-skinned man lying there instead.

Felicia is a servant's daughter who harbors a yearning for the eldest son of the Marquis's family. But they are torn apart by a sudden separation. When they are coincidentally reunited ten years later, there's a huge gap has opened between them...!

A Wonderful Husband, a Wonderful Life, and an Adorable Child with the One I Love— I want to live the perfect married life! But that was just a dream. Office worker Rena marries Ryūsuke, a senior colleague with a high income. "I'll seduce this rich guy and make him mine♪" —It was a calculated marriage from the start. But Ryūsuke turns out to be not only emotionally abusive but also unbearably creepy in bed! (I don’t want to have this man's child…!) He has money, but the ideal marriage filled with love is nothing more than a distant fantasy. Then, in her lowest moment, Rena reunites with Kento—her old crush! Kento is kind, handsome… but completely broke! —Then why not just have his baby and raise it with her husband's money♪ What will be the fate of Rena, the cunning "cuckoo woman" who lives by her own rules!?

"Secchan" by Oshima Tomoko is about a girl who sleeps with anyone and a boy who doesn't have interest in anyone. These two young university students meet due to a certain incident and their lonely lives intermingle. (from Manga Mogura)

Fangs and Favors In the cutthroat world of corporate Japan, Ito Yuka lands a coveted position as executive secretary to the enigmatic President Kawakita. But her dream job quickly turns into a nightmare of impossible demands and late nights. As Yuka struggles to keep up with her ruthless boss, she stumbles upon a chilling secret: President Kawakita is no ordinary man, but a centuries-old vampire! Will Yuka embrace her newfound authority, or will the seductive pull of her vampire boss prove too strong to resist?

When she was seventeen, Angela fell pregnant—but she was poor and decided to give the baby up for adoption. Then one day she finds out that the couple who adopted her baby died in an unfortunate accident. Worrying about her child, Angela desperately searches out the child’s guardian, Nick, the younger brother of her child’s adoptive mother. Nick lives in London, runs a multinational business and is so busy that he’s looking for a nanny for the niece he has recently taken in. And so Angela hides her true identity in order to see her daughter and become the girl’s nanny.

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. "It's okay if you cum. I want to see more of you like that." Cool, good-looking, (various) big eater with glasses x Loves to eat, a little fluffy, naturally older office lady "I often hear that people who eat well are also good at sex." Nene, who works for a healthcare company, is an ordinary office lady who loves food. However, lately I've been concerned about the weight around my stomach, so I've been going to the in-house gym. There, he met Kuroda, a junior at the same company who had a cool and quiet demeanor. By chance, Nene ends up having dinner with him. She is attracted to Kuroda-kun, who is a big eater, which is hard to imagine from his slender appearance, but he feels that he has a complex about her... Nene tries to cheer him up, but because he's drunk, he ends up saying something outrageous. And then, for some reason, I decided to have sex with him...! ? “Senpai, would you like to try it?”

Mary, having lost her mother at a young age, grew up ostracized by her spiteful stepmother and stepsisters and was eventually forced out of town after being accused of a terrible crime. She now lives alone on a deserted island owned by her friend. One day, a terrible storm sets in, and she finds an injured man washed up on the beach. As she and Ben wait out the storm, they end up warming their hearts and bodies. A single night of romance to heal long years of isolation. That’s how Mary tried to think of it when Ben left the island. But many weeks later, she finds out that she’s carrying his child!

Kiyo works in product development at a chocolate manufacturer; she's what they call a "science type" with her white lab coat and glasses, plus her lack of romantic prospects. "I've spent my whole life focused on research, but now I want to give 'love' a try." -- Her mind made up, Kiyo registers with a matchmaking service, but the dates just keep going down in flames... Then one day, she's met with a shocking invitation from the young and handsome president of her company, Mr. Sendo: "Would you like to go out with me? I need you." Kiyo has zero experience with romance, so this well-mannered and gallant man gazing sweetly at her as he calls her beautiful is enough to leave her reeling...! Her heart is still pounding on the day of their date, and then Mr. Sendo suddenly reveals his red-blooded, manly side and proclaims, "I'll shatter that logic of yours with my passion"...?!

Yamazaki Misaki passed away due to illness, but when she awoke, she found that she had been reborn as a character in a manga she had read before her death the abusive, wicked stepmother of the young protagonist. Only remembering this the day before her wedding, there was already no way to escape. Determined to treat her stepson well, upon meeting him, she found the boy extremely adorable! As she worked to raise the child well with her memories to aid her, the attitude of her cold husband began to change?!

In noble society, while most people care more about house or status than love when seeking a partner, this couldn't be any less the case for Grace Shellgrave, the daughter of a marquis with memories of a troubled past life. Seeking a true connection with someone who feels the same way, she attends a masquerade ball in secret. After spending a romantic night with Alan, a man who seems to share the same values, she soon finds out she's become pregnant... and to make matters worse, Alan is actually the heir to House Ward, the sworn arch-enemy of the Shellgraves! Alan aggressively pursues Grace, but she refuses to let her baby become a pawn for another typical noble. Does he just want an heir? Or could it actually be... love? Two equally awkward opposites attract in this aristocratic love story!

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world where there are ‘superpowers’, a new race of humans who surpass human abilities, and ‘guides’ who can control their rampage. 'Betty', a guide, hides her identity and lives in a small town in America. One day, 'James', a super-powered hero, transfers to Betty's school to find the villain 'Dave'. Betty avoids James but continues to become involved with him and to make matters worse, while trying to stop her best friend's rampage of superpowers, she is forced to use her guide abilities... It turns out that her friend is not an ordinary superpower, but a villain. It was 'Dave'! Betty is caught between a villain and a hero, and her life, which she wanted to live normally, begins to spiral.