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Just One Puff is a neon-fantasy adventure about chasing freedom in a world that runs on crowns, coins, and clouds of smoke. Oscar, a streetwise dark elf with a dream of making his name in the green trade, wants nothing more than to sell good weed, smoke in peace, and drift from city to city collecting stories and scars like souvenirs. His plans go sideways the night he crosses paths with Stephanie, a runaway princess desperate to escape a gilded cage and a future written by royal ink. Together, they tumble into a glowing underworld of black markets, turf laws, rival syndicates, and kingdoms that don’t like their rules being broken. Between late-night blunts, close calls, and unexpected bonds, their journey becomes more than a hustle or a getaway—it becomes a search for what freedom really means, because in their world, sometimes just one puff can change everything.

"Lin Yuan, you're fired! Your playing style was too dirty; you're a disgrace to Chinese football!" A ban forced 18-year-old Lin Yuan to leave for Portugal, carrying a bad reputation. Everyone thought this rough guy who only knew how to fight with his body would eventually give up. Until that season, a true beast emerged from Boavista's checkerboard stadium. Some call him the "midfield meat grinder" because wherever he is, it becomes the opponent's nightmare. Some call him the "ankle terminator," and even Messi and Neymar have to be careful to avoid him. Some even call him a "tyrant" because as long as he's on the field, he controls the rhythm of the game! ... Three years later, the Champions League final. Lin Yuan switched to a top club, donned a new uniform, led his team to the top of Europe, and lifted the "Big Ears Cup". He also won the Ballon d'Or that year, becoming the new king of football. Facing the swarm of Chinese football associations seeking reconciliation, Lin Yuan gave a cold smile to the camera: "Sorry, I'm just a dirty hooligan who plays football, I'm not worthy of your noble football." ------ • Atleast Read First 10 Chapters Before Deciding. • Not My Work I'm just Translating and Doing poison taste. If Orignal Owner wants It removed Contact me. • Also You don’t need to know the original work to follow this journey. The narrative is built so that anyone can dive in and fully grasp what’s happening.

The most unlucky woman in the world vs The most mysterious man in the world. A piece of paper declaring a marriage alliance between two enemy families was not her business. Because she would never be picked as the bride anyway. Officer Tai Liwu's bad luck was not just broken heels, exploding cars or birds pooping on her head. It also extended to her dating life--which did not exist. She had resigned herself to a lifetime of arresting bad guys and surviving death with zero romance. But when her sister has a panic attack before walking down the aisle, Tai Liwu is shoved into the bridal hall and told to smile. On the other side of the aisle, City Lord Shen Weijun was dealing with his own disaster: his brother, the intended groom had drugged him, put him in the grooms clothes and bolted! Forced to step in under a false identity, Weijun expects nothing more than a political farce. After all, their families are sworn enemies and this wedding is supposed to be a ceasefire, not a love story. But trouble brews when Weijun finds himself falling for the sharp-tongued police officer who can arrest a pickpocket with one hand and chase after her hat with the other. Pretty soon, he is more interested in kissing her than fearing her bad luck and suspicious intentions. And Liwu, her "bad luck" takes a twist when on her wedding night, she awakens a bad luck system, throwing their lives into chaos.

In the fifth year of the apocalypse, when it was coming to an end, Sunshine Raine died, killed by her cousin and her fiance. Sunshine only had one wish, if she could go back in time, she would not make the same choices she had made. In this dog eat dog era, she would be the top dog. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself back in time, one month before the apocalypse. A few changes had happened, one, she was in bed with Hades Quinn the father of her foolish fiance in her last life. Not just that but they had a marriage certificate! Two, her sister was also reborn and in this life, she had chosen to marry the foolish scummy ex. It made Sunshine his stepmother!! Granted he was adopted by her husband but it was all the same, she was now his mother and her cousin's mother-in-law. Despite the surprises, Sunshine focused on the upcoming weather disasters, monsters in the mist and humans that were more savage than those monsters. With a system in hand and knowledge of what was coming, she used her wealthy husband's money to stockpile, sold the family property and went on to rise again as the apocalypse queen. While her cousin was being starving and suffering with the man that was pretending to be a fool, Sunshine was being pampered and kissed by the male lead. While her sister was being forced to work by the fool, she had three step sons to work for her. As promised, she became top dog. This novel is participating in the WSA, please support.

Lyla Morgan's life was a disaster. Twenty-eight years old. Philosophy PhD candidate at NYU. Eighty failed blind dates. Zero romantic prospects. Then one rainy night in Brooklyn, everything changed. A supernatural system binds her with an impossible contract: seduce and reject twenty men, or become a succubus slave forever. Overnight, her plain appearance transforms into devastating beauty. Every man she meets falls helplessly under her spell. Including the one person who was supposed to hate her. Professor Ethan Cross from Columbia University has been Lyla's academic rival for three years. They've competed for publications, clashed at conferences, and perfected the art of professional contempt. But when the system forces Lyla to target him, Ethan's carefully controlled world shatters. By day, he becomes a lovesick fool trailing after her. By night, he slaps himself awake, horrified by his own obsession. As Lyla loses control to the system's dark power, Ethan notices something wrong. The fear behind her perfect smile. The desperation when she flirts. She's not playing games. She's trapped. And Ethan might be the only one who can break her chains. A dark romantic comedy about supernatural contracts, academic rivalry, and the dangerous line between forced seduction and real love.

Kyle Alars is an average student at Arcadia Magic Academy. He gets average grades, has few friends, and lives only day-to-day. he dreams of becoming one of the strongest mages of all time, wanting to eclipse the father of magic, Edward Steel, and be the first to reach the theoretical realm of 9th-circle. Until something changes. He wakes up with memories of experiences he never went through, he has a strange sense of Deja Vu around places he had never visited, and most importantly of all, he notices strange occurrences around the prestigious academy. Follow Kyle's story as he uncovers the secrets of this world, and meets new and interesting people. ********** I have BIG plans for this story. Be sure to give it a chance. English isn't my first language, but I like to think I'm pretty good at it. Enjoy!

"You sure you want me to fuck you." He said to me, the blunt head of his cock lined up in my pussy. "Yes," I whispered. "I just want to forget. Please help me forget." ~~~ Ariel thought her biggest challenge was planning a future with her boyfriend, Roland. But her world shatters on Halloween morning when she catches him in the arms of her best friend. Devastated and seeking a night of oblivion, she disappears into the shadows of the pack’s annual masquerade ball. There, she finds solace in the arms of a mysterious, masked stranger. Their connection is primal and electric, ending in a night of passion that leaves Ariel with a fading memory and a glowing mark she can’t explain. The morning after brings a harsh reality: the stranger is gone, leaving only a mask and a lingering scent. But the mystery deepens when the pack’s "prodigal son" returns. Armani, Roland’s older twin brother, is everything Roland is not—cold, powerful, and radiating a dark authority. The moment their eyes meet, Ariel’s inner wolf recognizes the predator from the party. As Armani reclaims his place in the pack, the "mate pull" becomes an undeniable force, drawing Ariel away from her past and into a forbidden bond with the man who is her ex-boyfriend’s greatest rival. While Roland desperately tries to win her back, his suspicion turns to murderous rage as he realizes the truth: the woman he betrayed has been claimed by his own blood. Bound by a "mate mark" that glows under the moonlight and haunted by a dark family curse that follows the Alpha’s firstborn, Ariel must decide if she is running from Armani—or running toward a destiny that was written in the stars long before the mask came off.

Year 685 — Transmigrated into this world. Year 690 — Consumed the Sand-Sand Fruit, and developed its abilities using Azir, the Desert Emperor, as a conceptual model. Year 695 — Met his closest friend, Nefertari. Year 715 — Founded the Alabasta Empire. Year 719 — Rowan fell in battle, perishing on the eve of the World Government’s founding. Year 720 — The World Government was established. The Void Century began. …… Eight hundred years later. Sea Circle Calendar, Year 1507 — Due to the aftershocks of a battle involving the current Sand-Sand Fruit user, “Sir Crocodile” Crocodile, the long-slumbering Rowan awakens.

Lola is an unwanted child, often looked down on and shamed. At a young age, people kept saying that even when she got married, only good-for-nothing scums would want her! Years later, Lola comes back to end ties with her family once and for all when two children cling to her legs, saying; “Mommy, please let us adopt you!” “Mommy, Daddy misses you so much! He said he wants another baby!” When everyone was only interested in Lola’s misery, the richest and most influential hotshot announced, “My wife, please come home.” *** Join my Discord server: https://discord.gg/gXCMQwmrGY

[WARNING! MATURE CONTENT] "Act like I'm the only one, Yuki." Trapped within the walls of a brothel that sells both her bodies and dreams, Yuki clings to a hope that one day, someone will take her away from that place. So when Ivanovich—a dangerous man more accustomed to killing someone than showing tenderness—begins to hire her privately, Yuki thought there was still hope for her to escape from that hellhole. Despite the danger of loving someone as important as Ivanovich, Yuki couldn't help but get drawn deeper into his life.

In countless civilizations of the Primordial World, there is a widely known saying. When each civilization descends upon the Primordial, influenced by the Primordial Law, a few Supreme Treasures containing the Law will be born, which would make the owners the most powerful in the world. Having one Supreme Treasure is the luckiest thing one could imagine, let alone becoming the owner of two or even three Treasures. However. Yang Fan, with the power of dreaming the future reality, does not think so. He states, "It's just Supreme Treasures, can't they be picked up as long as you have hands? I had a few dreams and easily picked up five pieces."

The wolfish youth, traversing the city! Bloody battles across the world, what fear is there in dying! When brothers unite, their power cuts through gold! Returning from his studies, the wolf tattoo on the youth's back grants him mysterious powers, making him as cold and bloodthirsty as a wolf.

Traveling to the fully virtual game "Stone of Creation". This is no longer a game, but has become reality. Life is no longer a health bar. Power is no longer Skills. The body is no longer data. Since the game has become a real Otherworld, transform this game Otherworld into an Otherworld game world. Datafication, initiate! [Personal Panel] [Skills Level] [Dungeon Instances] Step by step, create them all!

People know that ghosts are terrifying, but ghosts understand the malice in human hearts. This is a traditional supernatural novel.

The most dependable (sarcastic) assassin -- Gao Xuan. Developing himself with an inventory of powerful gear. A master of biding his time, backstabbing, and brutalizing weaklings. Don’t love me. Nothing would come out of this. I am an assassin without feelings.

“I’m just a normal person who also has personal storage power.” When the next-gen VR game, Second World, finally arrived, the MC took a bottle of water out of his personal storage and took a sip before he was stunned. “T-this is inside the game, right?” From that day onward, he could bring in-game items out into the real world and vice versa. His life was completely changed.

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The world was destroyed by meteorites and everyone on Earth transmigrated to a wasteland. The wasteland would encounter an unpredictable catastrophe every seven days. Some of the catastrophes included the great flood, ice age, invasion of demonic beasts and plague of plants. In order to survive, mankind had to build more advanced shelters. Lin Yue awakened the 100 Percent Drop Rate System, allowing him to live a very different life from the others. Other people lamented, “The drop rate is too low, isn’t it? I have killed 50 mutants, yet I still have not gotten any drops!” Lin Yue lamented, “I have way too many drops and my item list is now full. Could it be that I have to upgrade my shelter and build a warehouse for all the drops? Tsk. That’s so troublesome.”

This is a world where everyone participates in simulations, amidst an eerie apocalyptic setting. Only by performing a Heaven-defying Fate Change in the simulated life can one avoid being consumed by the black mist. Lu Yuan crosses over accidentally and gains an Adaptive Talent, receiving a Divine-level Talent automatically in every simulation! First Life: A modern technology world where Martial Dao is in decline. [Heaven Rewards Diligence]: With every bit of effort, reap a hundredfold reward; even breathing makes you stronger! Second Life: A Magic World, reincarnated as an ordinary skeleton. [Undead Calamity]: Transform into the Undead Dominator, using the Catastrophe Legion to battle against the Abyss Demon! Some Life: Parasitic cultivation, where cultivators are reared by the Insect Race. [Heaven-defying Comprehension]: Deduce the Gu Dao cultivation system, becoming the first Gu Immortal in history! As each Divine-level Talent is activated, the Gods and Demons finally discover in terror…

Ten trillion was credited to my account, but I could only spend it on women?! I'm truly not a simp. But I had no choice. …… In order to spend all this money, Jiang Chen had to rack his brains and resort to all sorts of means. Audiences: "Wrong, all wrong, this isn't a dog-like simp, obviously, it's a love wolf in battle!"