Psychological
The Mercury Draught
My mistress prides herself on being a virtuous wife, even as she forces her husband’s bedmaids to drink mercury-laced contraceptive draughts.
When one girl dies and another is sold, my mistress chooses me as the next woman for her husband’s bed.
She does not know that I was once a modern physician—or that I have stopped waiting for mercy.
If this household refuses to recognize its servants as people, I will teach its masters the price of treating women as things.
The Missing Game
A group of tourists travels to an island for a vacation, only to be forced into a deadly game with enormous rewards and their lives at stake. Over the days that follow, one special contest will be held each day, and the event will be chosen by a randomly selected Featured Player. At least one person will be eliminated in every contest. There is only one way to end this brutal game early: identify the Mastermind hiding among them.
Chen Nuo is terminally ill and had planned to end his life during the trip. But once he is drawn into the game, desperation rekindles his will to survive, and he joins the other contestants in one unexpected, heart-stopping contest after another. As the number of survivors plummets, the game’s rules grow increasingly cruel, laying bare the best and worst of human nature in a struggle between life and death. They have three Mastermind votes. Can they unmask the Mastermind? And what astonishing secret lies behind The Missing Game?
The Mistress of the House
After rescuing my young nephew from the water, I went to the east wing to change my clothes.
But my brother-in-law, Zhao Hong, chose that exact moment to shove the door open and barge in, forcing me into a marriage with him as his second wife.
On the night before the wedding, my legitimate mother personally brought me a bowl of Sterilization Decoction.
I pushed the bowl away and looked up at her. “If you dare force me to drink it, the first thing I’ll do is make sure the Zhao Family has no descendants. Do you believe me?”
My legitimate mother flew into a rage and immediately went to complain to Zhao Hong.
Zhao Hong sneered. “Scheming women like her aren’t fit to bear my children.”
My eight-year-old nephew shouted too,
“Bad woman! You’re not fit to be my mother!”
I looked at Zhao Hong. “Since I’m not fit to bear your children, then don’t come to my bed.”
“From now on, the child’s food, clothing, lodging, schooling, future prospects, and dignity in front of the nobles… none of it has anything to do with me.”
“If my lord thinks I’m so scheming, perhaps he should raise the child himself.”
Before I transmigrated here, I worked in HR at a major tech company.
Aside from competence, the job also required knowing how to spot workplace PUA when you saw it.
The Mourning Hall Mystery
In our village, a child who dies before his parents cannot be given a funeral—unless he dies in an unclean place.
When my drowned best friend is laid in the mourning hall, a seven-day vigil turns my guilt into terror, and the truth behind the hauntings proves more horrifying than any ghost.
The Ninth Daughter
Everyone in the capital knows that every beauty who disappears into Minister Luo’s rear courtyard carries him one step higher in office.
Born mute—or so the household believes—his ninth daughter survives by making herself small and useful to the family’s favored eldest daughter.
As sisters are sold, married, and sacrificed for the ambitions of men, Ah Jiu realizes that obedience will never buy her freedom.
To escape the Luo estate alive, she must wager the one thing society says determines a woman’s future: her face.
The Ninth Loop
The system told me I could only go home by becoming the male lead’s girlfriend.
After five years of groveling, his affection score was still stuck at fifty.
So I asked him one more time—and pushed him off a rooftop when he said no.
Every death resets the world.
Every loop takes us farther into the past.
If winning his heart will not set me free, perhaps killing him will.
The Non-Existent Thief
I am a Thief.
While I was stealing, the homeowner came back.
With no other choice, I had to hide Under the Bed.
But in the next second, the Man pulled out a Knife and slit the woman’s throat, then took out his Phone to make a call.
Just as he dialed, from the pocket of my clothes,
came the sound of vibration.
The Painted Celestial
In my second year at the army brothel, I became pregnant.
Every soldier who had ever entered my tent fought to claim the child as his own.
Chen Shitou had come to me only once, yet he dropped to his knees and begged, “Miss Yang, I’m about to go into battle with the vanguard. My parents have no child but me. I need to leave them something to remember me by.”
Later, I went to his hometown and met two of the kindest parents in the world.
The Pearl and the Kite
A scandal spread through the household about Xue Rao, our family’s adopted daughter, and my eldest brother.
She had him so thoroughly bewitched that for days he neglected his younger siblings.
My second brother was furious and went to confront her.
Before long, he too was constantly visiting her waterside pavilion, with no thought for anyone else.
I decided to see this scheming creature for myself.
Gauze curtains veiled the pavilion, and laughter filled my ears.
Xue Rao greeted me with a smile.
“Why, Third Miss.
Which brother have you come to see?”
The Perfect Victim
I fell into a sewer while I was out buying groceries and was already unconscious by the time I was rescued.
But unexpectedly, while I was unconscious, a gas explosion occurred at home, killing my husband instantly.
Sobbing hysterically, I stumbled home as fast as I could.
The neighbors all remarked on how deeply my husband and I must have loved each other.
Only I knew I was merely anxious to see the fruits of my labor.
After all, I couldn’t put my mind at ease until I’d seen it with my own eyes…