Explore

Celestial xianxia

Vessel of the Starved Gate

4 ch · Xianxia

Shen Yao was born with shattered meridians, useless to any sect except as an offering. When the Celestial Orthodoxy calls for five child Vessels, he volunteers to be hollowed out so a god can borrow his body for one year. The promised reward is divine residue and a cultivation future. During the descent, an older buried deity intercepts the god assigned to him. The war inside his soul leaves no clean master behind—only a starving appetite that feeds on cultivators' qi, memories, and fate. Hunted by the sect that expected a puppet and loved by a healer who thinks there is still a human soul to save, Shen Yao begins to understand the truth: the gods did not bless the world. They farm it.

Celestial xianxia

Patron of Unfinished Narratives

5 ch · Xianxia

Yǔ Zhēn sells destinies for a living in a city where stories are transferable property. When a forbidden tragedy fragment mirrors her own childhood and the suspicious death of her younger brother, her search leads from her respectable brokerage into the Celestial Archive of Plots. There she learns that gods are not creators but entertainment executives collecting royalties from human suffering. To escape a closed-loop tragedy written for her, Yǔ Zhēn weaponizes every unfinished story she has ever skimmed, turning the gods into characters in a better show. Victory makes her divine, but it also asks for the only payment she cannot bear: the deletion of the brother-shaped wound that made her human.

Dark action manhwa

I Married the Villain on Tuesday

5 ch · Action

Park Dahee, a burned-out webtoon assistant, collapses after a brutal deadline and wakes inside the romance fantasy she was coloring as Elodie Valente, a disposable maid in the house of Duke Caelum—the infamous male lead who kills wife after wife until the story grants him a destined true love. Dahee knows the plot and only wants to survive quietly, but Tuesday keeps repeating whenever someone dies by the duke’s hand. When Caelum reveals he remembers the loops too, Dahee believes she has found another prisoner of the story. They decode the rules, fall into a desperate romance, and choose death together to escape the author’s cage. But Dahee wakes again to a duke who has never met her, a mirror with golden eyes staring back, and a novel page revealing the truth: she is not the maid. She is the villainess who built the cage.

Celestial xianxia

Mourner of the Seventh Veil

5 ch · Action

In a post-imperial mourning court, young Queen Dowager Seo Ha-eun must publicly grieve for one hundred days to keep her dead husband's title, lands, and her imprisoned mother alive. Ha-eun is a perfect ritual reader who can cry on command, but she never loved the king she married for only forty-one days. When a note in the late king's handwriting accuses her of crying the wrong number of tears, she follows the trail into the forbidden seventh-veil sanctum and finds her husband alive, chained, watching, and grading her sincerity. As the court punishes her technical failures and the hidden king rewards them, Ha-eun realizes she is trapped between two systems of ownership. Her only rebellion is to fail beautifully enough that the right witness cannot look away.

Monochrome thriller

The Replacement of Lady Sera

5 ch · Action

Mire, a parlor-maid from a third-rate inn, is hired to impersonate the sickly Lady Sera Tessen for one autumn so a political marriage can be consummated and a dowry secured. Her face, voice, handwriting, and posture are close enough to fool even Sera’s mother, but her contract hides a poison clause and her younger brother is held hostage by the bride’s family. In the second week of marriage, the real Lady Sera dies, and Mire is told the role is now lifelong. Her cold archivist husband, Domnal Tessen, begins setting quiet tests only the true Sera would pass. As Mire searches Sera’s stolen diary for survival, she discovers Sera herself was once a replacement: the original girl died at seven, and the woman Mire is copying was named Iulia. By the monthly memorial, Mire must read sacred Old Tessen liturgy she cannot understand—only to find the page replaced with a passage copied from her own private letter to her brother. Domnal is watching. He knows.

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.

Monochrome thriller

The Forger's Mouth

5 ch · Action

In a 1920s Shanghai-coded foreign concession, Wen Jia survives by telling the truth about other people's lies. She is the only certified woman documents-expert in the city, famous for reading a person's hand through pressure marks, ink sediment, and seal flaws. She is also a convicted perjurer with three wooden fingers, because three years ago Bai Lou, the beautiful and terrifying head of the Lotus Pier syndicate, paid her to certify a forged debt. Now Bai Lou hires her to authenticate the supposed last letter of Bai Yan, a dead heiress whose estate can shift the balance of the underworld. Halfway through the examination, a woman enters Wen Jia's atelier pretending to be Bai Yan's twin. Wen Jia recognizes the woman's penmanship from the letter itself: the dead heiress is alive. If Wen Jia refuses the job, Bai Lou exposes her old bribe receipt. If she lies under oath, the court takes her remaining left thumb and her license. If she tells the truth, Bai Yan may die. The pilot unfolds as a locked-room psychological duel between three predators: a forger who cannot lie, a dead woman who wrote her own accusation, and a possessive syndicate lord who watches hands the way other men watch mouths.

Celestial xianxia

Twin-Pain Eclipse

5 ch · Xianxia

Three days before the prophesied duel between the South Continent's Blood-Prince and the North's Ice Saintess, a laughing immortal binds them with a Twin-Pain Oath: every wound of flesh or heart is shared exactly. The enemies must hide the bond from clans that would weaponize it, hunt the immortal who made it, and survive the Eclipse battle that can no longer end in a clean kill. The pilot follows the Saintess as hatred becomes reliance, then ends with the reader learning the Blood-Prince paid for the oath on purpose.

Celestial xianxia

Seventeen Cups Before Dawn

5 ch · Xianxia

Wen Yichen begins dreaming the deaths of Ning Zhao, the childhood friend who pours his tea with impossible precision. The visions lead him to a truth she has hidden across seventeen ruined worlds: she has been regressing again and again to keep him alive. But the pattern she refuses to name is worse than any enemy. Every apocalypse begins with Wen Yichen trying to save her.

Monochrome thriller

The Copper Tongue Empress

1 ch · Fantasy

A defeated princess marries a dying emperor and discovers she can taste every lie. Given one year to name the true heir or die, she must survive a court of poisoners, three rival princes, and a Dowager Empress whose lies are silent. But every lie she hears poisons her blood—and the truth may cost more than her life.

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.