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This game’s got me obsessed! It’s like it’s taken over my life... wait—HARD MODE ACTIVATED. No-no-no-no-no! It has literally taken me and thrown me into the part of Penelope Eckhart. Love is easy as the heroine, but as the hated villainess, I’m trying very hard not to die… at the hands of my brothers… the prince… a fork… every possible ending is death! This world is stacked against me, but can my wits and insider game knowledge score the affection of these male characters? Or the reset button???

Villains Are Destined to Die follows a girl who wakes up inside a brutal otome game as Penelope Eckhart, the villainess doomed to die. To survive, she must navigate a deadly affection system, raising the favor of dangerous male leads while uncovering hidden secrets about the game’s world and her true identity.

One year ago, I was a world-class player in the game [Arcadia]. However, everything I built up was destroyed by Shin Heejae as easily as a sandcastle. I sold my account at a high price and decided to never set foot in the game again... Even if I quit now, it doesn't mean I quit for good though, right? One year later, I made a new account just like following a homing instinct.

Trapped in the gaming world of Elix, Sehyun’s once mode of solace is now his prison. Here, one must conquer empires or be conquered. What’s more, dying in-game means dying in real life. Stuck in a perilous reality, Sehyun must save his empire while facing the effects of his corrupt past. To do so, he must regain the trust of his Grand Duke, Ruhak. But since he has so much resentment toward Sehyun, the only way to appease Ruhak is to succumb to his needs, no matter how immoral or carnal they are.

In the game, he plays as a strong character nearing the level cap. However, in real life, Lu Siqi is a highschooler with nothing left to live for. Only thinking about what is the meaning of being alive and death. Operating as a meek female character in the game, in reality, Shi Liu is a self proclaimed sentient beast who is finding his next interesting prey behind the monitor screen...... The new update in《Fantasy ONLINE》added many new high level equips in the medium difficulty instance "Deville Labyrinth", which attracted many players to form groups. Just like that, 647 who is planning to challege the instance, and Sixteen_16 who is looking for a new prey, met each other at the entrance of the instance—

After being harassed by a stalker, Yoon Jigu becomes extremely wary of other people. Particularly, he’s most wary of his new neighbour, a man with strange sexual interests next door… “My neighbour is a fucking pervert…” While offline, Yoon Jigu and Lee Yeowoon are reluctant neighbours full of misunderstandings. But in-game, unbeknownst to themselves, they make up the bickering, chaotic couple of neutaaaa (Lee Yeowoon) and ji9star (Yoon Jigu). A comedic meet-cute between a handsome but childish, misunderstanding mess of a top and an oblivious, affectionately flirtatious bottom weak to good looks. #BL #Cute #Misunderstandings #YoungerTop #OlderBottom #PrettyBottom #HotTop #Gaming #Neighbours #IdentityPorn

The intermediate boss of the AAA-game I was developing at work is a villain who's fated to die 999 times out of 1,000. That very boss is now me. "I'm fated to die in almost all routes." Deculein will die no matter what, like a villain should. [Primary Survival Goal: Become necessary to the game.] If I am fated to die, then I'll just twist said fate and survive.

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Joo In-soo becomes the uke in an adult BL game. The only way to escape the game is to conquer all the main characters. In-soo starts to get entangled with them while conquering all the main characters, but what should he do? He doesn't have the slightest intention of bottoming!

I woke up in a strange bed, with not just one, but two lovers beside me! In this game of love, affection, and deception, I’m Elvia, the Imperial Princess, with a gaggle of men vying for my favor. Sounds great, right? Except this means I'm also stuck as the villainess while the main character is my manipulative maid, Arielle! She’s out to bring me down, and she’s got plans for my harem of men. But I know all her secrets, because I can see her player notifications. Can I beat her at her own game?

I'm going to live a normal life! ...said Shari Azriel, the apothecary of the Dover village. Then one day, I realised that I possessed an NPC in a video game! I've been locked up here for two years, and I only just noticed. If I can't get out of the game... "A, in their 20's, was found starved to death while playing VR games." This could be what I'm remembered as! "I have to get out!" However, it was too late when I came to the realisation that... I can't log out because of an error! That means, the only way out would be approaching the male lead, "The Lord of Nightmares", and helping his comrades defeat the final villain. So I have no choice but to wait until the game ends... The difficulty level, the story, the likelihood of failure in such a heinous game, a game that nobody won before... "The Lord of Nightmares has a strong urge to kill you." Somehow, I believe dying by the male lead's hands would be faster.

Her boyfriend was stolen through an online game! During this heartbreak, she logged in to the game and met...!?

Life is about survival of the fittest... But what do you do when you're reborn as a crow? Find someone big and strong to take you in, of course! After saving Prince Camute's life, Rainelle is brought to the imperial palace to live as his pet. However, just as she believes she's set to live a life of comfort, she finds herself caught at the center of a dangerous power struggle between Prince Camute and his brother. Now that her survival depends on his, will Rainelle find a way to help her prince?

When Yewon opens her eyes inside Midnight, the top-ranked dating simulation game, she realizes things aren’t quite as fun when her own life is at stake without a “Load Save” option. The only way to clear Midnight is to reach a happy ending with one of the five love interests, but each route poses a different set of problems. Meeting the master of the mage’s tower will lead to almost certain death, the crown prince doesn’t even try to hide his animosity towards her, the merchant seems to be missing a few screws, and another barely speaks. The swordmaster seems relatively normal, but it turns out he’s a devout follower of the temple she’s desperately trying to escape. Will Yewon be able to capture the heart of one of these men and use her insider game knowledge to clear the game?

Mujik is a lowly programmer at a video game company. He regularly gets chewed out by his boss and constantly works overtime. But one day a bug in the virtual reality game he plays makes all the female NPCs fall in love with him. What’s more, the game even rewards him with the ability to charm women…in real life?! Mujik’s office is full of hotties and now he’s gonna make the most of his leveled-up charisma. It’s his game he’s playing now, so let a player play…

I'm going to live a normal life! ...said Shari Azriel, the apothecary of the Dover village. Then one day, I realised that I possessed an NPC in a video game! I've been locked up here for two years, and I only just noticed. If I can't get out of the game... "A, in their 20's, was found starved to death while playing VR games." This could be what I'm remembered as! "I have to get out!" However, it was too late when I came to the realisation that... I can't log out because of an error! That means, the only way out would be approaching the male lead, "The Lord of Nightmares", and helping his comrades defeat the final villain. So I have no choice but to wait until the game ends... The difficulty level, the story, the likelihood of failure in such a heinous game, a game that nobody won before... "The Lord of Nightmares has a strong urge to kill you." Somehow, I believe that dying by the male lead's hands would be faster.

After sleeping a total of 10,000 hours inside Idea, the hottest online game around, Lee Hyunsung becomes one overpowered player! He's given an exclusive hidden class with an array of unique skills, and one of which allows him to fight in his sleep! He's slowly making his way up to the top, and everyone from the developers to other players are starting to take notice of this odd rookie. Will Hyunsung eventually become the top ranker in Idea? Or is this all just a dream that's too good to be true?

Second year high school student Rakuro Hizutome is interested in one thing only: finding "shitty games" and beating the crap out of them. His gaming skills are second to none, and no game is too bad for him to enjoy. So when he's introduced to the new VR game Shangri-La Frontier, he does what he does best—min-maxes and skips the prologue to jump straight into the action. But can even an expert gamer like Rakuro discover all the secrets that Shangri-La Frontier hides...?

Nothing out of the ordinary has ever happened to Namjoo, that is, until the day he picks up a mislaid USB on the street. Curiosity gets the better of him and when he takes a look inside, he finds a steamy VR game that’s still in the works. To Namjoo, the game looks ready for release, but little does he know about the bug that’s affecting all of the NPCs and making all of them super horny. Meanwhile, Hye-na’s panicking about her lost USB and is determined to get it back before more people find out about the game's fatal flaw. Join Namjoo and Hye-na on their journey to Lust-a-land, a world that isn’t for the faint of heart...or the low of libido.

[Fan Translation by Lilith Scanlations] This story is a cute and sweet modern BL romance set in an online game/chat community– Han Jaewoon, a struggling job seeker, finds solace in an online community where users create avatars, role-play, and form virtual families. In the midst of his uncertain future, this digital world becomes his escape. But when he unexpectedly meets his perfect match online… is it okay to fall for someone you've only met in an online community? #Cute #GameStory #SweetStory #OnlineCommunity

**Pain Perception 0, Capture rate is 100!** A virtual reality game with pain perception set to '0'. I was the first to clear all endings, and started the final 100th playthrough... but something is off. Suddenly, I have a strange disease with a terminal setting, and the capture target characters are starting to worry about me. I don't feel any pain, so should I pretend to be sick? Before I knew it, to the capture target characters, I became a noble hero enduring pain and sacrificing for world peace. Since it has come to this, the concept for this playthrough is a terminally ill hero throwing herself for the world! I must end it with a happy ending. This is my last playthrough in my life!

A detested villainess and a proper prince are instinctually drawn to each other's bodies before they have a chance to develop feelings. What will their destiny be!?

What happens when you finally hit 100% for a character’s route in an otome game? You’d marry him, right? Wrong! Joo-ah isn’t here to commit to just one man. Ever since she woke up as the main character of an otome game, she’s been grinding her way through all four male leads–both in bed and with the game’s likeability scores. Now that she’s hit the finish line, Joo-ah is ready to settle down with her harem of hotties… But wait, why are they starting to give her the cold shoulder? The game might not be over just yet!

Hyun’s what some may call resourceful, thrifty, or, um, stingy. Whatever you call him, he’s also dedicated—he grinded night-and-day to get a top-tier character. But once he sold it, every last cent was taken away by loan sharks. In the new VR MMO Royal Road, he’s committed to making it big for himself and his family. He knows that he should absolutely NEVER be one of those weak and poor sculptors, so what’s he going to do when he accidentally becomes the Legendary Moonlight Sculptor?

I became a maid in a horror game. Trapped in the mansion, I either penalize the protagonist trying to escape or act as a guide. "I'll lock you up too if I manage to get out." The protagonist is too loud. So, I decided to help him escape quickly. "Let's have some food, Dietrich." "It's a potion. It'll help you recover quickly when applied." "The escape's hint is right here..." I fed him well for the next playthrough, gave him potions to use if he got injured quickly for the next playthrough, and blatantly gave him hints for the problem. We can go out now, right? By the way. "Well, I'm not sure of the answer." What's with this guy who's supposed to be smart? ...The protagonist just doesn't seem to want to leave the mansion. "If you don't leave, I'll leave." Feeling annoyed at the thought of having to keep seeing that despicable guy, I shouted in frustration. "Were you even able to leave from here?" His eyes narrowed sharply. "I'll tell you, I have no intention of leaving here." "What?" "And you can't leave either." What on earth is going on here?

Choi Sungwoon successfully completed all of the achievements in the game, “Perished World,” as the No. 1 player in the game’s rankings. After a brief moment of joy due to his achievement, Sungwoon receives a suspicious email and is summoned to a real version of “Perished World,” starting his race to becoming a “god”.

Former archery prodigy Yoo Sanghyun was destined for greatness until an injury forced him to quit. Though his coach helped him secure a stable job, he never felt like he belonged. Frustrated, he leaves it all behind to pursue game streaming. Leveraging his incredible archery skills and the charm of his noob character, he quickly rises to fame as "Almond." Now, he's determined to dominate the gaming world, but will his virtual success translate into something greater in real life?

To Blanche, everything seemed hopeless. Until she realized it was all a game. One she made, to be exact. Now she has a goal: Become the villain's right-hand man! But wait. Why is she the one saving him...?

A popular online game's rank one player, JjamppongSundubuRamen, is a high school girl—Seongah Myung. She wants to keep her status as a ranker a secret from everyone around her, but on her first day of high school, she meets Hanjun Kang, the player behind StrongJun, someone she has a bad in-game history with. While agonizing over whether she should drop out of school, fearful that her identity may be discovered by Hanjun Kang, standing before her is Taeui Ahn, who looks exactly like her in-game character, and Seongah falls in love at first sight.

Yihan is obsessed with one thing and one thing only: Mikaros, the really hot mint-haired hunk who exists only in the world of Yihan’s favorite BL game, Love Meter 100%. Wherever Yihan goes, his hefty stash of Mikaros merch goes—the limited edition tote bag, the special key ring, and the myriad of adorable plushies that he somehow manages to keep on his person. Being the ultimate stan isn’t something Yihan is ashamed of, that is, until he runs into Mikaros in real life. Mikaros-in-the-flesh is called Park Há, and he is everything that Yihan didn’t know he needed. There’s only one catch. Park Há hates otakus…but Yihan is literally the biggest otaku ever.

“Will you save us? YES or NO?” In standard dating sim style, “Anise” was summoned as a Saint into the world of “Garden of Salvation”. However, Hime, another girl who was also summoned alongside her stole the title of “Saint” for herself! Without being allowed to use the “healing magic” that she had learned, Anise was exiled to a remote village. If things stick to the script, a general from the neighboring kingdom of Farglow will die before long and Hime will reign supreme as the Saint in the bad ending. For Anise, that means death. In order to find her own path for survival, she decides to save the general and rewrite the story, but…

"You have acquired experience points. Kudo Kazuto has risen to Level 1," echoes through Kazuto's mind after he runs over a mysterious dog on his way home from work. The next morning, he awakens to a changed world, full of vicious monsters. The world now features a game-like system of levels and skills, alongside danger at every turn. Will Kazuto be able to survive by leveling up and taking advantage of the special skill he acquired the previous night? His survival adventure begins now!

He only just got reincarnated in another world as Zinc, a dropout noble, but he’s immediately banished from the kingdom?! However, that’s not enough to make Zinc just give up! With “Enchantment,” a power that can make anyone stronger by granting abilities to items, Zinc wants to make a life for himself as an adventurer. The curtain draws on Zinc’s journey as he uses this incredibly rare ability, that’s basically a cheat code, to go from zero to hero!

A professional gamer, in the past, has one thing he's best at carrying people. Will his skills help him obtain something more?

Stuck in a loveless engagement with the crown prince and tired of living in the violent capital city, Violet Hale wanted a way out of her miserable life. Enter the enigmatic archduke Cedric Etchell, who breaks off her engagement and agrees to a contractual marriage with her as thanks for saving his estate. Determined to make it on her own once the contract ends, Violet starts her own business. Love isn't in the plan, but could the archduke make this self-made lady have a change of heart?

Yoon Bom-bit loves one thing above all else – dating simulation games. Her most recent obsession? A feudal-era game called “The Lonely Hawk Sings in the Absinthe-Colored Cage” starring Anette De Valois. Bom-bit would do anything to give Anette the happy ending she deserves…but her plans are consistently ruined by Mariette: Anette’s twisted stepsister who leads Bom-bit to getting a bad ending over and over again. One day, Bom-bit starts her computer up, only to be transported into the world of the game – and inside Mariette’s body! With this newfound chance, will Bom-bit be able to help Anette finally get the happy ending of her dreams?

After "outboxer009" wakes up in the body of Yuder Bayel from Legend of Heroes 2, he soon discovers that his rival "sandstorm" has also entered the game world as Cordelia Chace. These top-two-ranked old pros come to realize that navigating this game world is much harder than just pointing and clicking. With the apocalyptic conclusion of the game looming before them, they'll have to combine his quick wit, her foul mouth, and both their gamer mindsets to make a new, less cataclysmic ending.

I became a maid inside of a horror game. Penalties were given to the male lead, who was trying to escape being locked up in a large mansion, and I acted as a guide. I was going to fulfill my duties until the male lead’s play ends. “When I get out, I’ll lock you up exactly the same way.” The male lead is so noisy. If it’s going to be like this, I’ll just help him escape faster. “Let’s eat, Dietrich.” “This is a potion, it’ll help you recover faster if you take it.” “The hint to escape is over there…” I fed him well to prepare for the next play, and when the male lead got hurt, I gave him a potion so he could quickly play the next game, I even gave him a hint for the problem. You’ll be able to get out now, right? However. “I don’t really know the answer.” What’s the meaning of this? Aren’t you supposed to be smart? …The male lead doesn’t think about leaving the mansion at all. “If you won’t get out, I will.” I shouted in anger because I was so sick of the thought of having to see the face of someone I don’t want to keep seeing. “Is it possible for you to get out of here?” His eyes sank bitterly. “Let me tell you this, I have no intention of leaving this place.” “What?” “And you have no way of getting out, either.” What the hell is going on?

Chae Yu-ra is an ordinary girl who likes to watch online game broadcasts. She becomes the sole sponsor of an unknown streamer, Choi Ji-hyuk, who plays a virtual reality game called Constellation. But one day, she wakes up inside the game and discovers that she is Choi Ji-hyuk's constellation, which means she can grant him wishes and powers. Choi Ji-hyuk, on the other hand, is an elite hunter who is determined to take revenge on the constellation that abandoned him in the past. He is unaware that his constellation is actually Chae Yu-ra, the girl he despises for her lack of skill at the game.

Taepung Shin knows every nook and cranny of his favorite MMO video game Paradiso like it was the back of his hand! However, his gaming adventures suffer an abrupt end after his untimely death. But this is not his last hurrah since he’s reincarnated as Jared, a delinquent lord of a frozen province… in Paradiso! Now, he must brave the world he loved and take advantage of all glitches he knows about and turn himself into the main character of his new solo adventure!

A detested villainess and a proper prince are instinctually drawn to each other's bodies before they have a chance to develop feelings. What will their destiny be!?

Taepung Shin knows every nook and cranny of his favorite MMO video game Paradiso like it was the back of his hand! However, his gaming adventures suffer an abrupt end after his untimely death. But this is not his last hurrah since he’s reincarnated as Jared, a delinquent lord of a frozen province… in Paradiso! Now, he must brave the world he loved and take advantage of all glitches he knows about and turn himself into the main character of his new solo adventure!

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Reincarnating from a fujoshi to the younger brother of a BL game MC!! All I wanted was to watch over my older brothers, but I became the main character?! A working-class adult fujoshi reincarnates as the younger brother of the BL game protagonist that I played in my previous life. It's after my elder brother gets together with one of the game capture targets... From watching the "happy ever after" of the "oshi couple", to seeing how the other brokenhearted capture targets bounce back, this position is just too delicious!!! But when I was playing the game, there was no "younger brother"?!!

There was a globally popular game called “The Legend of the Seven Heroes”. Ren cleared the sequel of that game at the fastest record in the world, and thus he obtained a bonus special data. However, no matter where he looked inside the game, he could not find the data. The moment where Ren was about to give up the search, he decided to start playing the second round of the game. Suddenly,a notification message “Do you want to start a special story? appears on the screen. When Ren chooses “Yes” without hesitation, he loses consciousness, and when he wakes up, he was a baby. —- Could it be that he was reincarnated as one of the hero in “The Legend of the Seven Heroes”?　 Ren, who thought such a thing was impossible, could not believe his ears when he heard his name from his mother’s mouth. It was the name of a classmate who betrays the heroes in the middle of the story. Of course, he wishes to live in peace. But in the game, he meets a saint whose life he’s supposed to take, and doesn’t. Furthermore, he ends up saving a character (the boss of a great noble family) who was supposed to die. All of these things creates a development that he doesn’t know about coming to play…

Mincheol is a game developer who spent most of his youth years creating a virtual reality game where after 5 years he was suddenly fired for opposing the Idea of the corporatives of implementing a In-Game Payment System to the game he devoted to. "that's how my life as the development director of the game ended, but since is a game that I created myself, I'll....be the one who ends it as well, in order to do that, I'll enter the game to become the final boss and destroy the game from the inside with my own hands" "I'll show them what a truly Bad Ending is".

As the end of the dating sim came ever closer, I had decided...to run away. Woo-hyun, who died in an accident at the age of 25, opens his eyes and finds himself in the world of a dating sim. Suddenly, he is 18 years old again, and the stepmother who had always disapproved of him is revealed to be his biological mother. He now possesses the ability to gauge people’s affection for him with numbers above their heads. Unlike his past life in the previous world, Woo-hyun has the perfect life: loving parents, friends at university, and a sweet, devoted boyfriend named Sunwoo. However, as Sunwoo's “relationship points” continue to increase with each passing day, Woo-hyun can't help but wonder what will happen when the score reaches 100, indicating the end of this “game.” Fearing the loss of Sunwoo, whom he has grown to love with all his heart, Woo-hyun decides to run away in an attempt to prevent the score from rising any further. Nevertheless, Woo-hyun soon discovers that Sunwoo's feelings run even deeper than he could have ever imagined, and Sunwoo is determined to keep him by his side, no matter what it takes.