Kui Hua knew from childhood that she could never level up.
Luckily, alchemy let her escape the human traffickers and survive in Cha City, a place crawling with monsters
What a load of crap! She'd been conned!
Working in the lab during the day was bad enough, but she couldn't go to school, after all. And all those other jobs, collecting scrap and refining it while skipping work, farming and selling produce after work, and more, were all because of this gold-devouring beast. The worst part was that alchemy was the only thing she could use.
Now, if she doesn't work, she'll die (physically); if she does, she'll die (mentally).
Ever since Li Daoyi learned about Kui Hua, he had deliberately gotten close to her.
He was a monster who disguised himself as a girl, and he had to make a deal with Kui Hua if he wanted to go outside. But Li Daoyi had never imagined that he might share a bed with someone under the same roof.
Kui Hua said they were childhood friends.
But Li Daoyi thought they should be childhood sweethearts, family who couldn't be separated, and best friends...
Maybe he should add lovers to that list?
It didn't matter. Kui Hua could only have him by her side.
Eight years later, in the Hexi Corridor, Kui Hua finally emerged from the fissure, but she had lost her memories and turned into a monster.
She disguised herself perfectly and was dragged into a group of teenagers.
Some of them were students of Li Daoyi, their leader. As they traveled, they talked about the famous figures renowned far and wide, and dreamed of the day they might enter the Domino Laboratory.
Kui Hua alone felt nothing.
She vaguely remembered Li Daoyi being ostracized, that the lab was a decrepit wreck, and that those famous figures couldn't possibly be the aliases she had used while working odd jobs.
Reading Guide:
1. A sharp-tongued misanthrope x a vicious monster who cross-dresses as a girl
2. Leveling progression + secret identities + ensemble cast
3. Childhood friends / cross-dressing trope
4. Genius protagonist
5. An industrial world of cultivation and monsters, with original worldbuilding
Coming soon! Won't you add The Mimicry of Academic Disciplines to your collection?
From a young age, Zhu Jiudu had moved through the world of fame and fortune. She was the military academy student on the silver screen whom everyone envied, a paragon.
Then one day, an explosion damaged the brain of this once-gifted prodigy, leaving her below even an ordinary level. A diagnostic specialist once said outright that her brain could never be repaired.
Remember, she was Zhu Jiudu, the one who made countless classmates lament that they were “unlucky to be born in the same era.” She was synonymous with honors and glory.
And now?
She might as well be dead. Worse, she was forced to endure the humiliation of barely clinging to life.
Zhu Jiudu knew this all too well.
Under every sort of scrutiny, in exam zones like the Lower City's fungal metropolis, the nuclear wasteland under a blizzard, and the abandoned fjord city, she was either arguing with the air or covering her ears and running around in a panic.
Everyone said she was crazy. Only she knew they were right.
Whose academic subjects turn into cats and dogs, or even little people?!!
They insult her for being an idiot every day, and each subject even transforms into a teacher and sets all kinds of hard problems, determined to get her back to her peak and beyond. They're practically trying to kill her! T T
Gan Guanying didn't know that his “distant relative” was Zhu Jiudu.
Nor did he understand why his parents' faces changed dramatically when they learned her name.
When he moved in with Zhu Jiudu, everything became clear.
He wasn't trying to take anything from her. He had simply remembered his days in District Twenty.
Back then, when he was hungry, he picked up discarded vegetable leaves; when he was thirsty, he drank dirty water.
It was Zhu Jiudu's dazzling, carefree face on the silver screen, and the stories about her everywhere, that made him wonder if anyone could really live like that.
She was someone to admire and envy.
But later, she died in that nuclear blast.
Only Gan Guanying knew that the deleted contact information and the shared bedding in the rented apartment meant she was still alive.
- If the long-abandoned red window opens onto a green wall -
- Will you come back? -
Reading Guide:
1. The golden finger is a team of master teachers in every academic discipline! Exclusive tutoring from the best.
2. A return to the path of genius
3. A heroine who is warm on the outside and cold within
4. Concrete Core style
5. Bittersweet romance / boarding together / military academy mechanics
Theme: Face no storm with fear; seek the truth.
Hey, Wei Hua wants to cheat??
Sister Lili, you also have today, hahahaha