After Picking Up Five Brothers, No One Dares to Offend the Capital City - Chapter 293: Yao Siqing’s Identity

I came home from college expecting to deal with my emotionally unavailable father, an empty fridge, and a summer full of boredom.What I didn’t expect was to walk into the kitchen and find a barefoot, stunning woman in my dad’s shirt stirring eggs like she owned the place.Spoiler: She does.Her name is Elena, and apparently, she’s my brand-new stepmother—seven years older than me, way too cheerful, and totally off-limits.But try telling that to my brain when she’s bending over to grab orange juice or accidentally falling on top of me in the laundry room. Try telling that to my heart when she’s laughing at my jokes, defending me at dinner, or wearing my hoodie because “it smells like comfort.”My dad doesn’t see her. Not really.But I do.And that’s the problem.Now I’m stuck in a house full of tension, sarcasm, and slow-burn chaos.She’s married to my father.I’m supposed to be focusing on my future.But somehow, I’m falling for the one woman I absolutely, definitely, 100% should not be falling for.Oops.

“Hey monster, you're not ready for this blow, but I don't give a shit!!” said Lian as he drew a circle inside another circle in his mind.Then, a few seconds later, a fireball as big as a house hit a monster just over 4 meters tall...It was a waste of resources, but it was damn fun!“BOOM!!!” he said as the fireball reached the monster, covering it entirely.The excitement on his face was palpable as his clothes and hair fluttered from the power generated by the impact.[Accuracy: 97%]“Tsk, it's really hard to achieve 100% accuracy when casting spells... that just means I have to do better!”Meanwhile, the monster and the entire area around him was destroyed. The crater was huge, flames burned the ground, and ash mixed with dust covered the air.---In a world full of Gates, Mages and Knights work together to defend humanity from extinctionLian, a boy from a small town, awakens a very... unique system.Casting spells by drawing strange shapes in his mind had become normal for him by now.Thanks to the system, he had become a Mage, a human capable of using mana to cast spells.Facing monsters from the Gates had become routine. Studying magic was a pastime. After all, he had the System, he didn't need to study classical magic. Or maybe not...

Winner of the 2017 Joara Novel of The Year Contest-

In a world plagued by Morgellons, a deadly disease that turns humans into non-human creatures, people have chosen to abandon their humanity in order to fight against the bloodthirsty corpses. In the end, there will be no humans left on Earth.

But that harsh world is, in fact, a world fabricated merely for entertainment. A world for humans to live in exists neither inside nor outside.

This is the story of a boy who, while living a miserable life, stares at the stars as he desperately tries to keep his humanity.

[Ding!! Business Empire System Activated]After his business tycoon dad passed away, Kim Suho inherited 1 million dollars as the fifth son, but before he could use it, it was taken by the system.“I have to use the whole amount in a legal business to get double the amount? That's so easy.”Kim Suho was elated to see the system giving him the easiest task ever. He would receive double the money if he used the entire amount in a legal business within just one week.Confident in his plan Kim Suho bought a struggling T-shirt making factory. What he didn't expect was that there were people in the company who had the potential to make it great again from scratch.As he sees the companies under him becoming the world's number one Business Empire, he finds himself regarded as the country's foremost philanthropist and greatest entrepreneur ever, leading environmentalist, permanent president of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, A legendary business tycoon and industry-recognized “greatest boss ever”“Damn, I Don’t Want to Build a Business Empire,” Kim Suho said sadly.Additional Tags:#lightromance#businessmanagement#girlsfallinlovefirst#handsomeprotagonist#richtopoortorich#misunderstanding#no-booba