Crown of Sin

[Volume One is currently updating. After Volume One is complete, I'll go through and fix typos all at once. If you spot any typos, I won't fix them right away as long as they don't affect readability.] (No guarantee of daily updates; updates depend on the rankings. I recommend saving it to your library and letting chapters build up so you can read them all at once. Some chapters are quite information-dense.)

Blurb:

This blurb was revised and archived on the night of November 11, 2023.

[Second Version] (There may be a third version.)

"A crown forged from unspeakable sins. All supreme glory belongs to you."

As the real daughter and villainess in a story about a real and fake heiress, Duan Yao appears to be nothing but a pitiful little mute whom anyone can bully.

Weak, helpless, and miserable... She can't even play a remotely challenging villainess convincingly, and the fake heiress, the true heroine, easily bullies her to the brink of death.

Just as she finally reaches her breaking point and is ready to fight back, a group of inexplicable people throws her plans into disarray. In the blink of an eye, she has stumbled into a "past life and present life" versus "The domineering female CEO is actually me" set.

She's practically a miserable, brainless fool, blindly led around by the nose, unable to do anything she wants.

But is that really the case? Duan Yao smiles without a word.

With a sweet smile, the girl uses "Deception" to beguile the masses, "Commands" to punish evil, "Sophistry" to shatter fate, and "Fear" to turn the world upside down...

In truth, she's a venomous black widow spider, possessing unparalleled allure and incomparable terror. Everyone who comes near her is left lovesick and unable to escape, sinking into a mire from which there's no return.

"I am willing to offer everything I have to you, my Lady Witch." A cool, aloof German Shepherd of a man lowers his head and makes his vow, humbling himself to the dust.

"Ah! Ah, ah... My master... Please let me..." A once-artist, now driven mad and thoroughly M after being trained, cries out in a frenzy.

A gluttonous demon boy, a little girl with a split personality, an arrogant thief witch, an apparently sweet and naive primordial human, a fragile yet lovesick idol girl, a perverted and twisted chuuni shut-in criminal... One by one, in groups, lovers who transcend gender fall for the "charm" of the "Witch," presenting their words of love as if they were their own hearts.

Duan Yao responds:

"Then help me claim my crown."

From a selfish little girl, to a witch steeped in sin, to a queen who rules the world, the girl Duan Yao wanders through the mortal realm, gradually realizing how the world in the book differs from the real world and finding a true future for this planet.

Watched. Observed. Controlled. Written.

Will you roll the dice?

Please answer: the sins beneath the crown, in a cyberpunk world.

The Witch trusts no one, uses everyone, and has locked away her heart. She is an impartial judge, a saint destined to save the world, and a queen who will lead all of humanity off Earth. She may not be a good person, let alone a hero, but she deserves to be loved.

Love me. Love me. Love me.

Even if I don't love you, still... give everything to me!

"I will." [In unison]

This novel is also known as Transmigrating into a Mute Real Heiress and Claiming My Crown in a Cyberpunk World.

"Real and Fake Heiresses" x "Cyberpunk" x "Career-Focused"

"Transmigrate into a Book and Turn the Tables" x "ABO (ES)" x "Everyone Is Drawn to Her"

[Superpowers] + [Political Intrigue] + [Mystery] + [Conquest]

[A Large-Scale Dog-Training and Romantic Rivalry Showcase] [Fake Strong Female Lead]

If you're looking for a heroine who dominates everyone like a phoenix, this isn't for you.

A product of my imagination and personal tastes, written to satisfy my own cravings. The author's wicked sense of humor is all over it. Anyone except the heroine might suddenly die. (A personal preference.)

The heroine is not a good person, and the characters' values do not represent the author's. (Standard disclaimer.)

There are lots of strange one-sided crushes on the heroine, but the ending is one-on-one and features a female-top/male-bottom pairing. [Please take note!]

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Coming soon:

The Divine Descent Project

[Second Version of the Blurb] [Third-Person Narration]

This novel is also known as Giving Them a Little Taste of Player Shock [The Fourth Calamity].

Your name is Cheng Ye. You died in a car accident.

But it seems you didn't really die. Your soul came to another world and became the core of a divine statue.

The moment you open your eyes, you're mistaken for a resurrected goddess. Before you can figure out what's going on, you face two dying believers with despair in their eyes. You choose:

[Option One: Tell them outright, "I'm not your goddess, hahaha!" Then get wiped out along with the insect horde that arrives in quick succession.]

[Option Two: Act coy, but pretend to be their goddess. When the two question your identity, you can't use divine power. Next, you'll either die in an insect disaster or be exposed as an impostor and stabbed to death by your desperate believers.]

[Option Three: Tell them you're a newly born goddess, but you won't promote feudal superstition or ask for their faith. You want their fire of vengeance instead. As long as they're willing to work with you, the future looks bright: defeating the evil gods and restoring civilization are both totally doable.]

"...Do I even have a choice?!!"

[Sorry, you don't.] (Smiling.JPG)

You choose to impersonate a goddess with righteous conviction. After a bout of bluffing, you join forces with the two men and manage to repel the enemy for now. They take you for the real goddess, and faced with your fervent believers (fans), you have no choice but to keep playing the part of a deity. With hardly any believers, insufficient power, and curses running rampant, you choose:

[Option One: Send your only two believers out to spread the faith, then flop and slowly fade away yourself...]

[Option Two: Summon Blue Star players, create a disaster legion, and give those outer-realm evil gods a little taste of player shock...]

And so you...

[I'M DONE BEING HUMAN!!!].JPG

At the very end, you finally face this choice:

[Become the true Daughter of Vengeance. Lead your people with a flame that burns everything away and restore civilization!]

Reader's Guide:

A The Fourth Calamity player story with a female lead and a romantic pairing. No shipping wars, no secret identity reveal, and an ultimately one-on-one ending.

Ensemble cast. The heroine has secret identities and will get involved herself. They may or may not be exposed, but her style will never falter.

The main plot follows the restoration of civilization in another world and the growth of the players.

There are foreshadowed clues. The heroine is the strongest. No feudal superstition, but there is a fan economy, and she'll squeeze every last bit of value from the players.

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Second upcoming novel

[Chu Hejie] Camellia Beauty's Death-Seeking Spree in an Infinite Game

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In a nutshell:

Live recklessly and die? Or face death head-on and live?!

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Blurb

"Shall we roll the dice?" - Chu Hejie

On a blue moon night in 2046, formless alien gods and their kin unleash a "Catastrophe," forcing everyone on Blue Star into dangerous little worlds called "Games," created by the gods themselves.

At first, these endless absurd games were merely theatrical performances for the gods to watch for their amusement. That changed when a top player traded their life to force the gods to grant every player a "Gift." From then on, humanity had a beacon of hope in its fight against the heretics.

Four years later, ordinary girl Chu Hejie finally receives her "Gift" and qualifies as a player in the "Infinite Game." But a god's cruel whim forces her into a vicious cycle of life and death.

Her "Gift" lets her return to any point in time she has previously anchored, no matter how she dies. But she cannot learn any "Magic," "Occult Arts," or "Superpowers." This is her only weapon, and the maze that confines her.

But instead of lamenting, the girl secretly rejoices at receiving such a powerful Gift. The god who gave it to her regrets the decision and spitefully adds a curse:

"When the number of times you die reaches 666, time will rewind six years."

What was the world like six years ago? The "Catastrophe" had yet to descend, and everything still had a future... The girl stops rejoicing and resolves to die 666 times, so she can return to the past before disaster strikes!

But is the god's Gift really that simple? What kind of fate awaits the "heroine" who rolls the dice?

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Chu Hejie is beautiful, and exceptionally so.

So when she is first forced into the life-or-death [Infinite Game], players predict: "She's so beautiful, but doesn't seem to have any impressive skills. If she doesn't become a high-level player's clingy little flower, she'll probably die."

But they never imagine that Chu Hejie isn't some little green tea who only knows how to cling to people and whimper. She's a wild camellia, clever and brave, constantly flirting with death.

When people invite her to join their team, she coolly refuses. When high-level players extend an olive branch, she smiles inscrutably and refuses. When an evil god threatens to make her a spy, she coldly refuses again.

Everyone thinks, "A woman this reckless will probably be dead the very next second."

But everyone is stunned when Chu Hejie seems to have known the team invitation was ill-intentioned, the guild's olive branch was a trap, and the evil god's offer was nothing but false affection. It even turns out that she chose to enter the perilous [Infinite Game] herself from the very beginning.

So someone asks why she keeps taking such risks and yet seems perfectly safe. The camellia beauty, now a high-level player, raises an eyebrow. "I think we have different definitions of 'reckless.'"

Courage isn't the same as thoughtlessness, and hesitation is just cowardice.

Chu Hejie is only trying to tear apart this ridiculous starry sky.

Even if...

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Reader's Guide:

1. All dungeons are original, with a touch of cosmic horror. The heroine is probably just an ordinary person who happens to be beautiful.

2. Death rewind is a common skill, so please don't make a fuss.

3. No invincibility cheat, only information advantages and intelligence warfare, with the heroine putting herself in danger.

4. The official male lead doesn't get much screen time. Everyone is delusional, and the romantic rivalry is intense.

5. This is both a global story and an infinite-flow story, so there will be some strange settings, but they're probably acceptable... right?

6. Finally, I hope you'll give it a chance!!!

Theme: Believe in yourself.