When Lin Yun, a 996 office worker, is "taken away" by a truck on his way to work, he opens his eyes and is reborn into the everyday world of anime he's always dreamed of. He thought he'd enjoy a peaceful high school life with familiar characters, until one day—a bloody elimination tournament called "Instance" suddenly arrives, ripping apart his warm daily life and dragging the world into a brutal "Civilization Selection."

Faced with this sudden prelude to doom, everyone blindly pursued the "evolution" power granted by the system, but Lin Yun stood by and watched with aloof eyes. The mysterious panel in his mind, towering over the entire universe, allowed him to see through the conspiracy behind the copy and the true nature of "evolution"—it was merely a disguise for the captivity and harvesting of higher-dimensional beings.

To protect the hard-earned warmth of his daily life, and for the girl he cherishes most, Kotobuki Tsumugi, Lin Yun resolutely embarks on a path of dominance that defies all rules. Hiding his edge, he quietly cultivates his own "Hunyuan Martial Arts," tempering his strength to the limit. Under the guise of peace, he and his childhood companions form the "Starry Sky Oath." Acting as a prophet, he forges a path that will drag the world into his new order.

He's not a savior, but a chess master outside the chessboard. While everyone else struggles to survive in the dungeon, Lin Yun is already controlling the situation behind the scenes, aiming to finally break free from all constraints and achieve absolute freedom and control—never again to be constrained by anything!

Alex thought her life would continue forever like a marionette.

Every day, she was controlled to enter seemingly different worlds, exploring, mining, building houses, traveling between the main world and the Nether, and finally defeating that familiar giant dragon in the End.

Until that day.

"Let's play something relaxing today, maybe open a burger shop or something. What mod is this? Real?"

"Aine? Come down for dinner!"

"Okay~ Hmm, let me finish loading this first... Huh? So hot! Why is the computer smoking? Wow——!"

A cry of despair echoed in her ears, and the world fell into darkness.

When Alex woke up again, she found herself inside a burger shop. The feeling of being bound had disappeared. Was she free?

She walked to the door and instinctively knocked over the nearby table, lifting the long table that was taller than her.

"Ding ding ding!" The sound of a wind chime rang out.

"Excuse me... are you still hiring here?"

A tired-looking girl with blue hair in twin tails pushed the door open, but was overshadowed by a shadow in front of her. She looked up, her gaze landing on the long table she was holding high.

"Sorry! I didn't mean to interrupt!"

The setting is a mix of MYGO+Madoka Magica, with the protagonist being a semi-original character, and the MC is Alex.

[Borrowing Girlfriend + Quintessential Quintuplets + Spring Objects + Dressing Dolls + A Silent Voice…tentative]

Yuta Kijima accidentally traveled to an island country. His previous life was not a highlight, but in this life, with the proficiency system, he must make himself live more freely.

I didn't expect that not long after I traveled through time, I unexpectedly fell in love with a Sakura girl online. I had planned not to care about the illusory online relationship, but I didn't expect that my online love object would be Kato Megumi, the considerate Kato Megumi, the tsundere Eriri, and the fat senior sister Kasumi wearing black stockings.

In the days that followed, all kinds of romantic luck continued to appear around him.

"I'll always love Kato Megumi!" "Eriri is the best in the world!"

(The characters in this book are all adults, please don’t criticize if you don’t like it)

Reporter: "How do you feel about becoming the world's number one horse racing girl?"

Xianli Xingguang: "Ahem, let's be low-key about this."

"Hey, Mi Yu! Stop pulling at me, my pants are going to fall off."

The reporter looked at the two men playing around and the many horse girls behind them. "So, how do you manage such a harmonious and friendly school life?"

Xianli Xingguang: "Impossible, absolutely impossible, Shura Field, stay away from me."

Lu Yu: Living Alone, Then Picking Up a White-Haired Dumpling

Roman: "I was the only boy in the orphanage where I was adopted?"

Yaheng: "About the Ordinary Me Who Accidentally Stumbled into a Fight Between Gods"

PS: This is a fanfiction of Honkai Impact 3rd. The protagonist is not a time traveler. Some timelines may differ from the official one, and elements from other works may be mixed in.

"I, Su Shi, and my younger brother, have come to Beijing from Meizhou to take the imperial examination. I miss the flavors of my hometown. Does your restaurant have Sichuan delicacies?"

"Yes! This restaurant is the Sichuan Restaurant!"

Ever since Wu Ming opened the door to 1056, he no longer had to worry about the restaurant's business.

...

"Wu Lou in the south of the state is the best wine shop in the capital, with more than a thousand drinkers. Everyone in the restaurant, no matter who they are, must queue up to enter. Even if one drinks alone, the cups are made of first-class glass. The fruits and vegetables are all exquisite, and cold water and tea are all refillable. They also have twice-cooked pork, fish-flavored pork shreds, and steamed pork with rice flour, all for only a hundred coins per minute."

- Excerpted from "Dongjing Menghualu"

A pure aquatic creature unable to understand others' emotions, Qingchuan Xiang quit the band she found puzzling. She was confidently enjoying her ever-changing daily life when she unexpectedly encountered a devastating blow from multiple black holes. Even free-flowing water can't escape the effects of being sucked into a black hole, right? "Hey, Tomorin, give me back my daily life!" "Xiang... can't quit the band!" An interesting experiment, a deeply romantic band journey. While on the road, perhaps we can also try visiting Qingchuan Xiang's small bar and ordering a non-alcoholic Sugar Rush.

After traveling through time for ten years, without cheats or talents, Kiyoshi Tousaka has already accepted his ordinariness, and now he has to live an ordinary life. Then he met this noble lady in a gorgeous kimono under the snow. "I need your help." That's what she said. In the rainstorm upstream, his ordinary life changed. Many years later... "Which of us is your first love?" Looking at the two girls in front of him who looked like twins, Kiyoshi Tousaka fell into a long silence. The current situation is not that he is trapped in the Shura field of twin sisters, but that his wife has become two. To be precise, these two girls are both his wives. But how can they meet? They are obviously not in the same world! "Haven't you thought of the answer yet?" "You'd better think it over before answering." Kiyoshi Tousaka rubbed his hair frantically. Can't tell the difference! I can't tell the difference at all! I can't do this question! "I choose death, why don't you just give me a knife."

(Not a plagiarist, the protagonist is an original writer) Listen, if you don't want to be stabbed by girls, you must abide by the following points: be particularly outstanding, particularly handsome, and particularly humorous. These advantages cannot be possessed anymore. You must try to avoid beautiful women, as women will only affect the speed of your sword drawing!

But what should I do if I, Hiroki Harada, have all these advantages? I am so troubled. On the way to becoming a writer, I am unknowingly surrounded by legal loli apprentices, beautiful girl samurai editors, and superstar queens?

I did everything as required but still couldn't avoid being stabbed. It seems that I didn't take enough wolfberry to nourish my kidneys. As expected, as long as my kidneys are well, I can start a harem, right?

The third year of Wanli’s reign, in spring.

The Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng reinstated the practice of keeping the Veritable Records (Qiju Zhu), assigning the duty to the Hanlin historians on a rotating basis.

From that moment on—

Shen Nian, third-ranked Jinshi from the year Xinwei of the fifth Longqing reign, Bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, Compiler at the Hanlin Court, Zhang Juzheng’s most outstanding disciple, and lifelong nemesis of the Wanli Emperor,

—thus began his career as court chronicler.

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That day, the young Wanli Emperor got drunk and missed an imperial lecture.

Shen Nian straightened his back and wrote:

“His Majesty, drunk, missed the imperial lecture. The Empress Dowager and the Grand Secretary rebuked him sternly, even speaking of dethronement.”

That month, a large number of eunuchs were appointed as mining and tax commissioners, extorting wealth from the people.

Shen Nian raised his chin and wrote:

“Before the throne, I declared: ‘The disasters of monopolies and mining taxes are entirely the Emperor’s fault.’”

That year, the Wanli Emperor neither performed the suburban sacrifices, nor paid respects at ancestral temples. He refused audiences, ignored memorials, and ceased court lectures.

Shen Nian and his fellow historians cried aloud:

“Better to die speaking than live in silence. The greatest honor of a court historian is to be killed by the Emperor.”

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Shen Nian said:

“I must be ill. I can’t sleep at all.

I have contracted Zhang Juzheng’s illness—the burden of holding up a collapsing sky—

but I was not destined for Zhang Juzheng’s fate.

In a daze, I saw the Grand Secretariat reduced to two people:

one drafting memorials—that was me;

one issuing imperial replies—that was also me.”