MTL - Luoyang Brocade - Chapter 427 Back door (1)

“Help me, please,” Bella pleaded, grasping his hands.His dark eyes, devoid of warmth, pierced through hers with an unsettling coldness. “Why should I mess with those goons to help you?” he asked callously.“I’ll do anything you say,” she said without thinking, desperate. “Just save me from them.”He demanded something that Bella had never anticipated even in her dreams.A contract marriage!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bella Dawn was already in distress to pay her step father’s debts. To add her misery, her mother was diagnosed with liver disease and needed immediate transplant.Where would she get that much money?Then, like a cruel twist of fate, she accidentally encountered a handsome man, Theodore Reid, the enigmatic CEO of Ace Group.Rumors said that he was a ruthless businessman with a heart as cold as ice. Yet, to Bella, he was kind, rescuing her from the clutches of those who sought to exploit her.She was grateful to him until he demanded something weird, shattering her pervious assumptions. He wanted to marry her.NoHe wanted a contract marriage.In exchange, he would take care of her mother's treatment and compensate her generously at the end of their arrangement.For Theodore, it was a solution born out of necessity, a means to appease his grandfather's demands for an heir while he searched for the one who had once saved him, his angel.Bella’s appearance reminded him of his savior. So, he offered her a contract marriage. It was a temporary solution to his grandfather’s demand to get an heir until he found his angel.With no other options left, Bella reluctantly agreed to the terms of the contract. But little did she know it would test her resolve and resilience like never before.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Remember one thing, never fall in love with me,” he said, cold and dangerous.Bella gulped, nervous. “What if I do?” A sliver of defiance, a foolish question escaped her lips. She was already attracted to his handsome appearance.He squeezed her jaw and hissed, “You will regret it.”“What if you started liking me?” she dared to ask.He leaned closer, his breath warm against her ear. “No chance,” he scoffed. “You're not my type.”Bella’s heart sank.

Crossing into a wasteland ravaged by Infected Bodies and constant natural disasters, Cheng Ye becomes an Inspector at the border of Happiness City.Every survivor wanting to join Happiness City must be thoroughly questioned and inspected to prevent Infected Bodies from infiltrating.But soon, Cheng Ye realizes these Infected Bodies are nothing like he imagined!Here, there are Death Language Tentacles that can bring people back to life, surviving through sheer will.There are Death Dandelions that can instantly cover a two-kilometer radius, infecting everything in its range.There is a Fiery Sunflower that releases biological deconstructive rays, melting everything.And also, the Laughing Mandrake that becomes stronger by making creatures laugh...What? You want me to inspect these monsters?With a special Civilization Collector.Chen can search and replicate their information, items, skills, attributes, abilities, facilities...

“Modret, you are the only one that can save the gods from their crisis!”Modret, a legendary gamer known for beating impossibly difficult titles, finally clears Celestial Descent after six relentless months.But just as the victory screen flashes… the world around him collapses.He awakens in an unfamiliar realm — not the game world, but a terrifyingly real universe unlike anything he’s ever seen.A world so brutal, so unfathomably difficult, it makes Celestial Descent feel like a tutorial.Blessed—or cursed—with seven divine draws, Modret receives ancient relics, a mythical bloodline, and a forbidden system: the Cosmic Shadow System.His mission is absolute:Save the gods from extinction.But the world doesn't want to be saved.The gods aren’t what they seem.And Modret’s very existence may be the spark that dooms them all.Because in a world this cruel…Maybe the true calamity isn’t coming—Maybe it just arrived.Power Tags & Tropes:Transmigration • System • OP MC • Cosmic Evolution • Harem • Succubus • Elf • Angel • Vampire • Fox Girls • Dragon Girls • Monster Girls • Slaves • Princesses • Yandere • Primordial War • Divine Realms • Righteous Characters • No Incest • No Rape • No Yuri • No NTR • Death • Demon Lords • Mana

Xu Shiyan was reborn back to forty years ago, the second day of his wedding.

Shui Lingling’s daughter-in-law has just entered the house, and everything is off to the best start.

Farming, hunting, going to the mountains to dig a big ginseng, life in the 1970s was actually quite good.

I didn’t have much skill in my previous life, and I don’t have any grand wishes in this life. I just want to live a good life with my daughter-in-law and cultivate my daughter into a talent.

The eldest daughter likes to write, so let her take the Chinese department of a key university.

The second daughter likes to sing and dance, and the art school is good.

As for that bastard son, the prodigal son, he didn’t have a chance to stuff it back into his mother’s belly in his previous life, so he just wanted to be born in this life.

But why are some things different?

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