When Taboos Come True

New novel: All the Male Leads Are Insecure Simps, now updating [Each time a taboo is repeated, it gains a portion of power] [In the end, the taboo comes true] The Ancestral Hall Collapses "The ancestral hall is sacred! Women are filthy!" "If a woman enters the ancestral hall, bloodshed will follow!" Menstrual blood is filthy. Women who bleed filthy menstrual blood are forbidden from being buried in the family graveyard or taking part in ancestor worship, and must never set foot inside the ancestral hall. After Lin family's daughter-in-law miscarried and hemorrhaged, she became someone everyone avoided mentioning. According to the clan rules, a woman who miscarried had to be driven out of the house and kept away from her relatives. She was not allowed to eat for three days, so her body could expel its impurities and be purified. "If this goes on, Mom will starve to death!" On the day of the ancestor worship ceremony, all the men of the clan gathered together. A little girl rushed in and begged her father to show mercy, but her grandfather glared at her, bristling with anger: "Women aren't allowed in the ancestral hall! Hurry! Get this money-losing girl out of here!" The crying little girl was forcibly dragged out of the ancestral hall. The instant her feet were dragged over the threshold, a deafening rumble shook the earth. The beams snapped, tiles and rubble came crashing down, and the ancestral hall collapsed in an instant. The Island of Taoyuan Sinks Far from the hustle and bustle of the city, there was an island called Taoyuan. It was a paradise reserved for men alone, where women were strictly forbidden. "They say that if a woman sets foot on the island, Taoyuan will sink." The apocalypse arrived, but only Taoyuan remained peaceful and untouched. The men aboard Noah's Ark scrambled to get onto the island, yet refused to let their mothers, sisters, wives, or daughters join them. "The island will sink if women set foot on it!" They clung to the taboo in the legend, watching helplessly as the women were tossed about in the storm. "Drive them away! Drive them away!" The men waved their spears to drive away the boat full of women. In the chaos, one of the women's shoes fell off and landed on the island. In an instant, fierce winds and torrential rain swept in, and lightning flashed as thunder roared. The ground split open where the shoe had landed. A vast fissure, like an abyss, swallowed the men on the island in an instant. Taoyuan sank, and the storm ceased. The world returned to calm. The first woman stepped off the boat, and as her foot touched the ground, a new land was born. Lipstick Brings Men Bad Luck A young woman had just moved to town. "I hear she's a widow. She caused all three of her husbands to die!" "A widow, and she still puts on heavy makeup every day?" "Exactly! Maybe it was that bright red lipstick of hers that killed those men!" Shuzhen heard this gossip at the market while shopping for vegetables. In the height of summer, Shuzhen still wore long sleeves and pants, with a high collar and a mask pulled tightly over her face. As summer drew to a close, Shuzhen knocked on the young woman's door. "Excuse me, could you tell me where you bought your lipstick?" The woman looked over the plainly dressed Shuzhen, noticing large purple bruises beneath her cuffs and pant legs. She turned back inside, then returned with a lipstick. "It's yours." Her drunken husband came home and immediately noticed something different about Shuzhen. "Why are you suddenly wearing lipstick? Are you cheating on me?" "Where'd you get the money for lipstick? Did you steal mine?" "That widow's stuff? Are you trying to get me killed?" The man raised his hand high, and Shuzhen squeezed her eyes shut. But this time, the familiar pain never came. The next day, the neighbors talked about the man's death: "He was so young. How did he have a heart attack and die suddenly?" The Witch Hunt Fourteenth-century Europe. Villagers on their nightly patrols held up torches and shouted over and over into the darkness: "Burn the witches! Burn the witches!" The stakes were set alight again and again, and the charges of witchcraft and its evil powers were proclaimed time and again. Amid the overwhelming blaze, the women branded as witches truly gained the powers attributed to witches in the legends. A new hunt began. The true Hammer of Witches descended upon the world. The witches born on the stakes began hunting the foolish, ignorant, and wicked villagers whose hands were stained with the blood of countless innocent women. The law they used was the law of retaliation. [I never understood what they were so afraid of] [But the other side of fear bears witness to power] [You, feared and tabooed, possess power beyond compare] [Wicce's Upcoming Novels] All the Male Leads Are Insecure Simps Insecurity plus being a lovesick simp: the finest makeup and jewelry a man can wear. His Baseness A lightly suspenseful romance anthology. The aloof male lead falls from grace for love. She's an Absolutely Wonderful Woman! She doesn't smoke, drink, or commit domestic violence. How does that not make her an absolutely wonderful woman? System: Of course it does! Here's a reward: Absolutely Wonderful Woman [Health] 100! [Luck] 100! [Wisdom] 100! To You, Unseen To you, hidden in the crowd and never seen. Written for girls with ADHD/ASD who are more hidden and harder to recognize than boys, and therefore have a harder time getting diagnosed and finding support. 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