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My new novel, After the Demolition, My Whole Family Made the Pig-Butchering Scam List, is now available in my author profile. Please add my upcoming novel, Can Infinite Failures Only Deduct Love?, to your collection. Thank you!~ Synopsis: A murder takes place in District 13, a low-class slum in the alchemical fantasy game world of Arcane Throne, a world of low-level citizens, alchemy, and a touch of Western fantasy. The wooden door opens. Xie Keli, a scoundrel who used to roam the streets, stumbles out of the room of Fu Chuan, a lowly pauper, in disheveled clothes. Just as the furious crowd is about to execute him, a noble's guard unit descends from the sky. As an illegitimate child of the nobility, he gets away unscathed. In the dead of night, he touches his own face and remembers that before she used the “Devouring Scroll,” she was actually called Fu Chuan. And before she transmigrated into Fu Chuan, she was a game-resource reseller. In the world of arcana, staves sweep through the air, elemental particles sing, flesh surges and is destroyed, and matter born of the ages crumbles beneath incantations. The coffin bearers, the Little Flayer Assassin Corps, the Knights of the Crossed Rose, cunning financial clans, zombie brides, ugly goblin armies... Are all of these just dungeons? The academic arcane mages are choosing their dungeon party members. The eldest heir calculates how to eliminate his family's shame, his good-for-nothing younger brother. His beautiful fiancée is already pregnant with twins fathered by the academy's heartthrob. The male lead, equipped with a BUG-filled System, plans to kill the young scoundrel and earn the world's favor. Shaking a triangular flask, lighting the cloudfire furnace with fire element, calculating a tiny world of metallic reactions, and struggling through an alchemy system of “infinite” possibilities, Xie Keli sits there with messy bedhead, figuring out how much this batch of alchemy products might sell for, assuming the reactor doesn't explode first. Reader's Guide: 1. A hybrid Eastern and Western setting, with a high-martial-power world where the game has become reality. Class divisions are severe: divine authority checks royal power, royal power rules everything, and capital monopolizes the material economy. 2. Equipment and resources come from dungeon runs. Defeat the BOSS and you'll get gear and experience; otherwise, practice alchemy. Either burn money on technology or work yourself to the bone clearing dungeons. The story is mainly set in academic circles, with monster fighting, leveling up, countless academies competing, and a global race among arcane practitioners. The strong rise to power, while the resilient fight their way back up. 3. The characters' values don't represent the author's. Given the civilization and plot logic of this world, please don't apply modern morality. The protagonist keeps a low profile and is a plain, honest sort, equally comfortable as a man or a woman, unassuming and drawn to the dark side. When she fights someone, the only options are your death or your death. 4. Romance takes up little space and is open-ended. Imagine what you like based on the protagonist's identity and the plot, but reader interference is not welcome. 5. The main setting is Western fantasy magic: Middle-earth magic + trans-temporal technology + feudal royal power and imperial court politics + a Western religious hierarchy, all thrown together. It's wildly imaginative, so just go with it. My next novel, Different Species (Future Mutant War), is now available. World setting: The year is 2500. Resources are depleted, and technology has developed along a narrow range of paths: firearms, biological mutation, and energy. The world is on the verge of becoming a wasteland. Living resources have dwindled to the bare minimum, the world's dominant political systems are collapsing, financial conglomerates control everything, and the wealth gap is enormous. People's ID cards are beginning to display class markers, and society is consumed by extreme entertainment. Synopsis: Global climate change and radiation disasters have exposed mysterious regions in the sea and on land. With resources equaling wealth, the think tank of Tianxi Consortium, one of the world's largest financial conglomerates, concludes that development of the B05 ruins in the Deep Red Zone, a key area for the conglomerate, has failed. It therefore sends the Ninth Exploration Team to survey the ruins. Sui Xin, a frail history and environmental studies consultant on the exploration team, is one of the conglomerate's highly intelligent middle-ranking employees. She's a striking contrast to the team's burly members, who carry lethal weapons. But on their first day in the ruins, a fog envelops their convoy, the tires corrode and blow out, and, with a loud crash, their vehicle plunges into a ditch. When Sui Xin wakes from the pain, she sees that the skin on her arm hurts. She runs a finger over it and feels a two-centimeter-long worm crawling beneath her skin. In the pool of water where the car overturned, countless blood-red worms are swimming toward her. At that moment, she knows it's over, and suddenly realizes that everyone chosen for this expedition seems to belong to the lowest classes, E and D. And she is E, the lowest of all. What Sui Xin doesn't know is that, as she touches her arm, a global livestream begins. Across the world, including the streams set up by Tianxi Consortium in numerous different ruins, an advertisement appears: They are trapped in the ruins with no way out and will fall into certain death, but they will also bear humanity's hopes and complete their genetic mutations! The ad makes a huge splash, heads keep dropping in the ruins, and the enormous profits from the livestreams bring smiles to the capitalists' faces. But they never expected some of the people to actually mutate after three days. The mutants are on a killing spree on the livestream, ruthless and powerful, on the verge of escaping the ruins and returning to the human world. They're about to take revenge. Humanity panics, and a global vote is held to execute the mutants trapped in the ruins. The capitalists and human society then send hunter-killer squads and mercenaries to exterminate the mutants in the ruins and rescue the poor souls who haven't changed. Later, Sui Xin is brought back as one of the survivors who supposedly hasn't mutated. The young heir of the consortium smiles and asks if she'd rather be locked up in a laboratory and studied like a rat, or bow her head and become his captive. Five minutes later, in the washroom, Sui Xin washes the scalding blood from her hands. In the mirror, her eyes are a pure, blood-red. First mutation type: skin-contact mimicry and disguise. Once back at the consortium, she quickly learns a secret: mutants have short lifespans. The stronger the mutation, the more severe the cellular decay and backlash. Only the consortiums have the means to develop a cure. Mutation types include flight, telepathy, lie detection, limb replication and imitation, invisibility, control, and transformation into a different organism (radiation and viral mutation cause people to turn into cockroaches, rats, lionfish, shrimp, birds, and so on, but they may also be overtaken by the instincts of those creatures). Mutants have only one ability. Only a very small number of freaks can undergo multiple changes, and most are flesh and blood, vulnerable to physical and energy-based attacks. PS: This is a future mutant war, with a highly unstable society divided into rigid classes. At its core, the crisis is driven by excessive capitalism, environmental and energy problems, the wealth gap, and the entertainment culture arising from extreme hedonism. These are signs of a future apocalypse, not a reflection of current society. This is purely a speculative future novel. The combat is limited to low-level supernatural abilities, not deified or immortalized: low-level magic, occult energy, and martial arts. Theme: Fight fiercely to survive, never compromise, and fight for life.