Villain's Rising - Chapter 147 147. The New World [Time Skip: 1 Year]

The man I had a one-night stand with is the CEO!

“Romantic relationships between employees are strictly forbidden”

Karina’s chaotic love life starts when she lands her dream job only to fall in love with her colleague on the first day. Things get more complicated when the CEO finds out about her forbidden relationship. Drunk and heartbroken, Karina spends a steamy night with a stranger only to find out that it is her Devil CEO boss. Karina navigates the complicated web of lust and lies with her unwavering determination to reach her career goals. What will happen to Karina and her love life when the Devil CEO demands that she becomes his ‘personal secretary’?

My other works: Forbidden Heat, Love Slave to the Mafia Boss’s Passion, Lust Contracts and Conquering the Emperor

Deep below the earth's surface, a mystifying subterranean seascape lurks, an archipelago bathed in inky blackness where suspense and horror hold court. Here lie strange islands and even stranger monsters, far beyond the realms of human imagination. In this domain, mankind is far from dominant; instead, madness and death rule supreme.

Pleading for mercy from the unknown creatures of the deep only leads to a slow, tortured existence. The trapped survivors gradually distort, losing what made them human, both physically and mentally, to the gloom as they remain trapped in this eternal obscurity. Their only hope? A perilous expedition into uncharted sea territories.

Fueled by determination, Charles embark on this daunting voyage aboard his steamship, aiming to reclaim humanity's past glory. Together with his crew, they sought a way out of this hidden sea world, a path back to the sunlit world above, where humans once stood tall.

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I read a few comments from Chinese readers that compared this novel with Lord of Mysteries because of similar elements: Lovecraftian, western fantasy, first industrial revolution, and steampunk. However, I have yet to finish reading Lord of Mysteries to do any actual comparison, but I do think those who have enjoyed that novel would enjoy this as well. Also, the author of LotM, Cuttlefish That Loves Diving, also did a shout-out for this novel, so I guess he approves of it too?

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Pinning her tall body against the hard wall, he looked into her beautiful emerald green eyes as he spoke in a deep voice, “I have two options for you,” his body came closer to hers as he continued, “Be my girlfriend. Or,” his lips turned into a sly smile as he whispered close to her ear,“Be my boyfriend.” He even dared to wink right before her as his dark orbs glinted amusingly.

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There are plenty of things that break not just a heart but a person as a whole.

Some people get broken by love and some by family. But she was broken by life itself.

She left her clan to discover the world but she forgot something her grandfather once told her, ’The world outside is a scary place. It’s filled with people who would want to befriend you only to devour you alive. People like us are an anomaly. And the world calls us monsters but they forget; they are also the monsters wearing a mask of an angel.’

To grow stronger, she seized as much power as she could by Ruling Europe under the disguise of a man- Lord Alev Knight. But now, she’s forced to come back to China where she buried her memories along with herself over a decade ago.

What will happen when those buried painful memories will come to haunt her again. Will she choose the path to destroy the people who betrayed her or someone will alter her idea of revenge? And what exactly pushed her to live with multiple identities? What made her disguise herself as a man? Will she be able to find the hidden truths of her own existence? Or she’ll be buried herself with those truths?

Xiao Zhiren left China when he was a teenager. Now, he’s back in China to find the answers that were left unknown as he watched his mother being murdered before him.

Will he be able to find the enemies wearing the masks of friends? Or he’ll have to wear a mask himself?

’I can conceive death but betrayal is not allowed.’ She had left those words behind for him. Will he be able to find the person who left him with a promise to come back? Or like every promise, he’ll be forced to believe that promises are only made to break you?

After being bound to the melon-eating system, Jiang Ning, who is a turtle, knows what everyone in the entertainment industry thinks, but she doesn’t know that everyone can hear her voice.

So everyone discovered that wherever Jiang Ning went, there were melons.

[The Wen Run actor is actually a pua wife, a rotten person who bullies his assistant! 】

[The agent who copied the composer was an undercover agent bribed by his teammates to sell his music scores to his teammates? 】

[The divorced Xiaohua was actually cheated on by her biological sister, and she also has a collecting hobby? 】

[The popular young boy is actually an old dog who changed his name by six years and replaced his teammates in the debut? 】

Everyone followed Jiang Ning to happily eat melon, and found that Jiang Ning’s status had quietly changed, and the entertainment industry had also undergone tremendous changes.

Investors, the director actually gave countless resources to each of them, just asking her to predict whether the project would be profitable and popular.

One day, the entertainment industry suddenly made an announcement that every employee must pass an exam before they can stay in or enter the entertainment industry. Then everyone discovered that during the online proctored exams for actors, singing editors, rap editors, etc. , the invigilator sitting above was none other than Jiang Ning.

Netizens: 6

A few years later, the Flower Kingdom took off in all aspects, and the person receiving the Best Contribution Award in the news was the 18th-line Jiang Ning who was ridiculed in the past.

Netizen: 999 (6 times turned over)

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