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The Burden Ledger

6 ch · Fantasy

In a Seoul plagued by reality-fracturing dungeon gates, nineteen-year-old E-rank porter Kang Ian survives on the bottom rung of raid society. Possessing the cursed innate ability Burden Transfer, Ian can draw any physical trauma, poison, or fatal curse from another person into his own flesh and later discharge it. He endures agonizing fractures and festering lacerations to afford illicit suppressant medication for his younger sister, Soo-ah, who suffers from terminal gate sickness—a horrific condition slowly crystallizing her organs into an active dungeon portal. When Ian absorbs a lethal wound to save his raid leader during a red gate catastrophe, the megalithic Cheongang Guild takes notice. Cheongang offers a permanent stabilizer for Soo-ah in exchange for Ian absorbing the necrotic, unhealable curse eating away at their celebrated S-rank vanguard. Ian accepts the transaction, only to uncover a sinister corporate conspiracy: top guilds have systematically used expendable low-rank awakened as biological waste dumps to absorb the fatal fallout of dungeon anomalies. When his best friend is executed for discovering the guild's secret ledger, Ian is pushed past his moral breaking point. Armed with the law of conserved suffering, he turns the accumulated agony of the awakened elite into an overwhelming weapon of retribution.

Celestial xianxia

Ledger of the Bone Debt

5 ch · Fantasy

Mu Yana, nineteen, is the youngest junior reckoner in the Bone-Ledger Temple, a sealed xianxia sect where unpaid debts are inscribed as marks on the debtor’s skeleton. Her rare gift lets her read even invisible bone-marks by touching a debtor’s wrist, but every reading causes nosebleeds, and she cannot alter any mark without elder approval. When four powerful men arrive for seasonal accounting, each expects the mercy of a woman who looks exactly like Yana. Their records say their debts were already collected five years ago by her own hand—when Yana was fourteen, unlicensed, and supposedly never allowed near debtors. As each man reveals a different favor he came to repay, Yana discovers a hidden mark on her own body, a false cremation record, and a secret line written in her blood on the master ledger. The elders demand she inscribe a new debt on the foreign envoy’s heart using her own name, forcing her to choose between the life she remembers and the forbidden identity waking beneath her skin.

Ink wash

Pei Zhaoyue Does Not Kneel

13 ch · Action

At seven, Pei Zhaoyue watched her grandfather ignore her grandmother's counsel and destroy their house. Ten years of secret tutelage later, she has learned to read the specific shape of every man's shame — and she has a list. When she engineers her debut at the Fourth Prince's lantern banquet, she does not seduce him. She lets him understand that she sees him. And she takes his army, his seal, and his path to the throne — without ever kneeling.

Celestial xianxia

The Oathmaker's Apprentice

5 ch · Action

Yan Heshu is a penniless servant-class disciple trapped inside Mirror Pool Sect by an inherited exile-oath. He has no qi, no master, and no chance of surviving the sect-survival exam by strength. But when he is assigned to clean old oath-tablets, he discovers his disgraced grandfather's ink reveals the hidden fallback clauses that enforce every blood-oath. Seniors who treat contracts as servant work begin signing vows in front of him, never realizing Yan can read the second line beneath the first. With each notarized oath, Yan maps the sect's secret debts, blackmails, and betrayals—especially the twenty-seven private vows of the First Seat, the immortal cultivator who once declared him useless. Yan cannot break oaths, cannot lie under his own ink, and cannot leave the mountain without dying. So he does the only thing a powerless boy can do in a sect of monsters: he writes terms sharp enough to make monsters kneel.

Monochrome thriller

Seven Minutes in the Elevator

5 ch · Action

After a public office humiliation, junior designer Ha-eun gets trapped in an elevator at 11:47 PM with a quiet stranger in a black coat. In seven minutes, he sees the worth everyone else has trained her to doubt. Their weekly elevator meetings become a forbidden pocket of honesty with one rule: no names, no real life. But the rule was never romance. It was damage control.

Celestial xianxia

Wet Nurse to a Calamity

5 ch · Action

Liang Hua is a mortal widow indentured to the Pavilion of Tender Years, where immortal infants too dangerous for divine milk are fed by mortal wet nurses under brutal rules: never speak first, never name the child, never let the child name you. Her ward, Little Cloud, is the only surviving infant of a banished sky-god. At his four-month inspection, he breaks every expectation by saying Liang Hua's true name — a name she has hidden from everyone alive. To survive, Liang Hua must bargain with a sharp under-matron, falsify immortal records, and keep a calamity-born baby calm enough not to expose her. But the infant's hunger is not only for milk; he is learning secrets, loyalties, and names that should be impossible to know.

Celestial xianxia

The Lifespan Pawnshop

5 ch · Action

On the seventh floor of the Nine Levels Lifespan Pawnshop, sixteen-year-old mortal courier Lu Yan carries sealed years of immortal life across counters that their owners are too afraid to touch. Her tongue can taste the age and bloodline of sealed lifespan, a rare mortal sensitivity that keeps the pawnshop machinery moving. During a night shift, a green-hooded customer deposits thirty years that taste exactly like Lu Yan’s dead mother, proving her mother survived the famine story Lu Yan was raised on and was harvested somewhere inside the immortal realm. Bound by her grandmother’s indenture contract and unable to leave without clerk approval, Lu Yan begins secretly tracking every deposit. Each customer’s collateral reveals stolen bloodlines, murders, and hidden debts. When Senior Clerk Shen Yue discovers her ledger, he offers protection and expedited payments for her dying grandmother, but his help has a price. The pilot escalates from one impossible taste to a trap: Lu Yan handles a deposit that tastes like her own future lifespan, then faces the return of the green-hooded customer with years stolen from her grandmother. A signed exit chit lies within reach, but Shen Yue demands a hundred more years of service before she can take it. The pilot ends with Lu Yan’s brush suspended mid-stroke over the side-contract.

Romance manhwa

The Name on the Last Page

5 ch · Action

Heléne Saint-Maur, the last keeper of a magical debt ledger, has spent five years paying down sins her family wrote in ink. On her twenty-first birthday, the young Earl of Wassen arrives to collect the worst line in the book: her grandmother sold "one heir of the body" to his house, and Heléne is the overdue heir. With only seven blank pages left, only four safe crossings left in her lifespan, and a courtly creditor who may be victim as much as villain, Heléne must decide whose name deserves the last page before another ledger claims them both.

Monochrome thriller

The Twelfth Bride of Songhe Pass

5 ch · Action

Liang Wen, a 23-year-old vet-school dropout in Chengdu, returns to the isolated mountain village she fled as a child after receiving her grandmother's death certificate and an old betrothal registry naming her as the twelfth bride of the Du family. Songhe Pass does not greet her with violence; it greets her with patience, food, water rights, and a public temple ledger listing eleven previous brides. The eleventh bride is marked not dead, but "survives." To protect the eleven-year-old half-brother she never knew was left behind, Wen has twenty-one days to either submit to the village's hereditary rite or watch her family lose its land and water. As Wen decodes the bride records, she discovers the rite is not a simple sacrificial marriage but a hidden system of death accounting: brides record the crimes the village wants forgotten and seal them in the Du altar so the mountain takes the debt instead of another child. Wen's choice becomes sharper than escape or surrender: expose the ledger publicly and risk being killed, or become another silent accountant for Songhe's sins.

Monochrome thriller

The Pawnshop on Ren-Hai Bridge

5 ch · Action

In the industrial river-port of Ren-Hai, licensed pawnshops accept memories as collateral: a face, a scene, a feeling sealed into jade and fully erased from the customer until redeemed. Han Xinyu, the twenty-year-old heir of an old bridge pawnshop, is calm, exact, and trapped by law. When a stranger pawns a memory that shows her own father’s murder, Xinyu cannot report what she saw, cannot return the memory, and cannot abandon the shop without losing her family’s livelihood. Each new transaction gives her one more legal clue in a twelve-year-old conspiracy—until the trail leads not only to officials and assassins, but back to her dead grandfather’s private ledger.

Romance manhwa

The Poisoned Vow

1 ch · Romance

Duchess Elara von Aldenberg is executed for poisoning Crown Prince Kaelan. She wakes on the morning of their engagement, six months before the crime. She believes she has a second chance to flee—but Kaelan, the man she supposedly killed, remembers the execution too. He offers a dangerous alliance: find the real poisoner or he'll expose her secret. As they navigate a court of vipers, they uncover a conspiracy that binds their fates, and the line between enemy and lover blurs. But the poisoner is still out there, and this time, they're both targets.

Dark action manhwa

The Save Point Has Wheels

6 ch · Action

Erine, a burnt-out corporate worker, died at her desk one save-screen short of the secret true ending of the otome game 'Mirai-mirai'. She wakes up as a sentient AI food truck — the game's joke NPC. To make matters worse, the villainess Helena is already exiled, months ahead of schedule. Someone else is playing, and they have the same cheat sheet. Erine must feed the starving, bank fuel to maintain her human avatar, and race a rival reincarnator rewriting the story in real time — while the villainess she's trying to save slowly realizes her 'friend' knows things no stranger should.

Celestial xianxia

The Bone-Scribe of Last Vow Monastery

5 ch · Action

At Last Vow Monastery, dying cultivators carve their final vows into their own kneecaps, and novice bone-scribes read the truth after death. Fourteen-year-old Sui Wanqing is obedient in public and dangerous in secret: she has been practicing vow-script on her own ribs, becoming sharper than her teachers while hiding that she has no martial cultivation and no sponsor to leave. When a fresh kneecap appears in the offering basket bearing a vow addressed to her, written by a future hand she has not yet learned, Wanqing is pulled into a murder network that already knows her name. Each new bone reveals one more piece of the conspiracy, but every reading destroys the evidence. By the chrysanthemum festival, she must outwit beast-tamers, a coerced dead nun, and the abbot whose four-hundred-year-old spine may hold the secret that makes Wanqing the only witness worth silencing.

Romance manhwa

Two Crowns, One Confessional

5 ch · Action

Sister-Translator Aune Veldemar is a Veiled Penitent: if she repeats a sealed confession, a living veil will bind her mouth forever and take her tongue. She survives by words anyway, serving as the empire's chief cipher-translator in a war against the southern principality of Tarsen. When hostage prince Edran enters her confessional and whispers enemy battle plans in a dialect only she can read, he turns her vow into the safest spy route in the capital. Aune cannot speak, cannot refuse him, cannot leave the Order, and cannot ignore that her brother's regiment may live or die by the secrets trapped behind her teeth. Each confession becomes a locked-room duel of faith, desire, and treason as Aune finds loopholes in silence and Edran falls for the woman he is using. The pilot ends when a cipher key exposes Aune's own mother as Tarsen's dead spymistress, turning Aune from imperial asset into possible traitor just as wedding bells announce Edran's political marriage to the imperial dauphine.

Romance manhwa

The Duelist's Confession

5 ch · Action

At Saint-Vermeil Academy, every cadet wears a Steel Oath tattoo: lie or touch unlawfully, and the mark blackens into rot where everyone can see. Esme Calvier, a precise but overlooked second-year duelist, survives by night as V. Marrante, the anonymous ghostwriter behind the empire's most elegant dueling memoirs. When she draws Lucien Aubray in the semi-final bracket—the brilliant heir whose private memoir she wrote last winter—he begins visiting the records-balcony after midnight, quoting lines he should never know and forcing her to answer under the Oath. Esme cannot withdraw, cannot lie, and cannot let anyone audit the Marrante manuscripts locked inside the headmaster's office. Lucien's blackmail is not meant to make her lose. It is meant to make her win in public, so the empire will have to ask who she really is.

Celestial xianxia

The Bride Who Married Her Own Killer

5 ch · Action

To end a decade of slaughter, eighteen-year-old Hua Ruoshuang is married into the rival Mu clan and sealed inside a hundred-day Twin-Cultivation marriage cave with Mu Yan, the war hero who killed her great-aunt. But on the night before the wedding, Hua Yuelan's dying soul-shard leaps into Ruoshuang's body, bringing forty years of secrets, sword mastery, and hatred. If Ruoshuang reveals the foreign spirit inside her, the treaty demands her execution; if the cultivation cycle fails, both clans return to war. Now the bride must share every breath, lie, lesson, and intimacy with the man one woman is beginning to understand and the other can never forgive.

Celestial xianxia

Top of the Consort Roll

5 ch · Action

Cao Ling-er enters the Imperial Consort Examination with one goal: fail gracefully for thirty days and receive the return-bride tattoo that will legally free her from marriage forever. Armed with her dead aunt's secret notebook of beautiful failures, she sabotages her poems, music, clothing, and embroidery without crossing the line into treason. But the dawn rank board keeps climbing instead of falling. By day three she learns that someone has been correcting her failures; by day ten a rival princess is protecting her rank; by day twenty-one the Crown Prince himself has begun overturning her losses. The higher Ling-er rises, the more she realizes the examination is not choosing a bride — it is reopening the sealed truth of her aunt's death.

Romance manhwa

The moon's chosen

1 ch · Fantasy

Seventeen-year-old Kelvin stands in the underground Moonfang sanctuary before an uncle he has only seen in a hidden photograph. The silver crescent on his arm marks him as the Moonfang heir. A rival wants his place, and the Bloodmoon Pack already knows he is alive. Before the ancient Moonstone, Kelvin demands the truth about his father's death.

Celestial xianxia

Three Pages of the Emperor

1 ch · Fantasy

“Upon hearing The Fool’s question, Audrey did not immediately answer like in the past. Instead, she widened her crystalline eyes and glanced at The Hanged Man with a scrutinous attitude. Alger subconsciously subdued his body motions. After…”

Celestial xianxia

The Pebble Roster

5 ch · Xianxia

Sixteen-year-old Yu Heng enters Cloud-Step Sect as unranked labor, not a disciple: a broom boy with no spiritual root, a debt-bond tied to his wrist, and an eidetic memory for written marks. While sweeping the sect’s white-pebble courtyard, he discovers that the gravel is carved with names of vanished disciples. A stolen janitor’s logbook reveals the sect’s secret: every intake year produces only seven accepted cultivators, while the rest are “absorbed” into the courtyard as spirit-fertilizer. Yu cannot cultivate, cannot run, and cannot protect his mother if her bond defaults. His only weapon is paperwork. Each hidden ledger he reads lets him predict the next cull one step early, forcing him to decide who deserves warning, who can be traded, and whether survival means becoming part of the machine that grinds people into stones.

3D animated

Haunted Hotel: The Birthday Queen

1 ch · Comedy

Vanessa, a birthday enthusiast, checks into the notoriously spooky Undervale Hotel. Her 'Birthday Queen' sash catches the eye of Abaddon, the hotel's resident ghost, who convinces the spectral staff to throw her a lavish, secret royal ball. When Abaddon crowns her, an ancient curse awakens, unleashing a demonic invasion. Vanessa and her friends must team up with the chaotic ghost staff to save the hotel, all while battling the forces that want to steal the crown.

Celestial xianxia

Every Realm I Break Erases You

1 ch · Xianxia

Seol is a servant in the Cloud Jade Sect, invisible and underestimated. But at night she cultivates in secret—and her speed shatters every law of talent. There is a price: each realm she breaks through burns away one memory of her family. When she leaps into a freezing spirit pool to save the sect's young master, she ascends before the elders and wakes unable to recall her mother's face. To reclaim her past, she must survive a sect that wants to own her, a rival who wants to expose her, and a power that demands she forget everyone she loves—one breakthrough at a time.

Romance manhwa

Cherry Blossoms and Catnip Chats

1 ch · Romance

“🌸 Café Beginnings & Cat Puns 🌸 The bell above the bakery door chimed softly as four very familiar voices overlapped in laughter. Marinette Dupain-Cheng sat at their usual corner table, one leg tucked under her and her phone abandoned…”