Sands of Time and Desire

On a bitter winter night, swept by howling winds and driving snow, Ada Clara discovered a dying wolf pup inside a mountain cave. Its body was covered in wounds, curled against the deep snow, yet its amber eyes gleamed with an awareness and spirit no ordinary beast should possess. Moved by instinct and compassion, she brought it home, tending to its injuries with patient, careful hands — nursing it through medicine and meals, keeping it company as it slowly fought its way through that long, grueling winter. Then came a full moon night that changed everything.Ada Clara was jolted awake by a thunderous crash. She pushed open the door — and the silver-grey wolf was gone. In its place stood a tall, strikingly handsome stranger, radiating an air of quiet danger, bare beneath the moonlight. He said: "You are the one who saved me." His name was Rory Joshua. And he had no intention of letting her go. Using the most ancient rites of his kind, Shen Jin staked his claim over Ada Clara — a declaration of protection, of possession, of a bond that could not be undone. But Ada Clara was not ready. Not for this. Not for a love that defied every boundary she had ever known. This is impossible, reason told her.Yet every time those amber eyes turned toward her, something deep and tender inside her had already, quietly, fallen. A story of redemption, devotion, and the love that blooms beyond the boundaries of worlds — where danger and gentleness entwine, and a chance encounter becomes an inevitable fate.

Systems, cheats, rebirth as an all-powerful cultivator destined to shake Celestia and rewrite fate itself, yeah, Osha didn’t get any of that. In fact, fate must’ve been asleep the day he was born. Instead of a golden finger, he ended up as an average, powerless human in Inazuma. No Vision. No Delusion. No ancient bloodline waiting to awaken. The only unusual thing about him was the pair of fuzzy cat ears and a tail he had for some inexplicable reason. A blessing? A curse? An aesthetic choice by some random god? Who knows. In his old world, he used to be Haruko, a terminally underpaid 7-Eleven clerk in Japan who worked miserable night shifts and argued with old men about expired rice balls. His life was already a comedy of errors, but it reached peak absurdity the day he was chased by a sentient-possibly vengeful, truck. Instead of simply flattening him, the truck pursued him down the street like something out of a horror movie. In a desperate attempt to escape, Haruko dove into an open manhole, where fate finally claimed him. And so, reborn in Teyvat, Osha’s legendarily unlucky saga began. First, his own mother sold him. No hesitation. Then the ronin who raided the caravan he was in decided to sell him too. After that, he was sold again—this time to a countess in Fontaine, who traded him to the House of the Hearth for a Delusion. If there were a Hall of Fame for Unlucky Souls, Osha would probably have his own wing. But hey, at least he didn’t have to go to college anymore. And honestly? That’s gotta count for something, right? ---- lots of horses in this ff. Heh, Roach.

Dante Voss arrived in the world of One Piece, but unfortunately encountered pirates and was sold into slavery in Mary Geoise, where he became a gladiator. His system awakened after killing the first person. Killing others earns you kill points, and killing special characters can also unleash different kinds of light as a reward. With the help of the system, he rapidly improved his strength, gradually growing from an ordinary person into a legend.

Man is the spirit of all things, and gu are the refined fragments of the Great Dao. The ambition which blooms with the spring's morning breeze withers at the call of autumn's night. The accumulation of five hundred years - triumphs and failures - will be naught but ash with dawn's first light. The rising of the sun bathes the mountains in golden flame, but 'tis sunset upon the demon's time. The demonic overlord, Fang Yuan, is cornered by his enemies after word gets out that he refined the Spring Autumn Cicada - a gu worm rumored to be capable of having a chance at sending one back in time but demands a terrifying price in return - the user's entire existence! With no hope of escape, in desperation, Fang Yuan uses the Spring Autumn Cicada which miraculously lives up to its name and sends him back in time. And now, he's back in Gu Yue Village as a fifteen-year-old ready to use his knowledge of the future to conquer the world... but there's something wrong. Something is quite different this time around. What's with this new notification that keeps popping up in his view? It calls itself 'The Goody Two-Shoes System.' It also starts giving him quests to complete. "Help Fang Zheng gain his confidence back!" - get a Green Copper Relic Gu! "Help your friends refine their gu worms!" - have your aptitude raised by 2%! All of these rewards and quests before him, why are they trying to convert this demonic overlord to the path of righteousness? And aren't some of these quests kind of... sus? Why does marrying Bai Ning Bing give him an immortal gu? Whatever, anything for benefits! This is a fanfiction based on Gu Zhen Re's work 'Reverend Insanity' known in Chinese as 蛊真人 or 'Gu Taoist Master'. I don't own the rights to the original work. 'Gu' in the context of this story are mystical insects that have various powers and are the basis of the world's cultivation system.

The Good News: I’ve arrived in the world of Pokémon! The Bad News: I am the Pokémon. ꒦ິ^꒦ິ The First Life: I was reincarnated as a lowly Weedle on the outskirts of a vast forest, struggling just to survive in the brutal "Era of Magical Beasts." The Second Life: I was reborn as a Pokémon with legendary popularity and immense potential, only to be chased out of the forest by a swarm of Beedrill—who happened to be my own companions from my previous life. The Third Life: As a Flying-type Pokémon, I managed the unthinkable—falling right off a cliff to my doom. ...As the cycles continued, he lost track of how many lives he had lived. He only knows one thing: at this point, even Arceus has to show him a little respect when they meet.

Someshpur is a quiet village in Bangladesh, but is the center of a world filled with dreams. As a second-year college student and the pillar of a family with three brothers and a sister, Mahfuj must balance his studies with the responsibilities. This is a story of grit and family bonds.

My name is Yuto, born in Kirigakure. As the First Mizukage, I had no desire to oppose Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, those two reckless fools. After all, both of them were absurdly overpowered, but the system forced me to unify the entire ninja world. So, at the very first Five Kage Summit, I flipped the table outright. But—kill me if I lie—I never expected those two fools to join forces and ambush me! They couldn’t kill me, though. So, as I was being sealed away, I gave the pair of them a solid middle finger!

Another smutty SOL morally ambiguous fanfic