Gardenia's Heart - Chapter 9: A promise

He shattered the heavens… and got isekai’d into a crazy desert survival game!Xu Tao cultivated for ten thousand years, defying death and destiny to reach the Divine Heaven Immortal Stage.But just as he touched the heavens—The heavens kicked him into a world based on a full-dive VR game.Now he’s got no Qi. No weapons, no cultivation… and no pants.Just a desert full of monsters, a glitchy “Lost System” that won’t shut up, and knowledge forged from millennia of clawing his way to the top.Enemies? Weaklings.Mystic beasts? Drop garbage loot.Level caps? He’s Xu Tao.He didn’t spend ten millennia chasing immortality just to get wiped by a scorpion in a tutorial-zone!But he’s definitely not here to play. He’s here to ascend—again.Even if this time, he has to grind EXP and punch sand beetles to do it.But wait... That's not all...? He could also... What?!

Dante, one of ten heroes summoned to save a world, was betrayed. Chosen by the Death Goddess as the fearsome Death Monarch, he wields a mysterious system that fuels his meteoric rise to power.With an army of undead, beasts, and dark creatures at his command, he embarks on an epic quest to annihilate the realm that scorned him, only to become what he spent years fighting. Along the way, he encounters evil, seductive women whose dark charm draws him in while causing complete chaos wherever he goes.[If you don't like pure villainous MCs who have no mercy, no conscience, and will kill anyone along the way. The only thing he doesn't do is rape or any of that degenerate shit - then this isn't the novel for you]

As an illegitimate daughter of the late Count Rotschild, Vivianne's life has been a living hell since her father's death from the plague, along with her mother.Forced to live as a servant in the Rothschild mansion, Vivianne's fortunes take an even darker turn when her powerful stepbrother, the current Count, arranges for her to marry the tyrannical emperor, Dietrich Erengrad.However, Dietrich rejects Vivianne as his mate due to her unique pheromones, which continue to attract other alpha werewolves even after he marks her.Tossed aside without protection, Vivianne becomes trapped in a nightmare, unable to control her own heats as she is mocked, used, and treated as a mere lust object by the lustful alpha wolves of the imperial palace.After enduring three years of this living hell, Vivianne sees no other choice but to take her own life. In her final act, she curses those who have abused her, praying that if she is ever given another chance at life, her tormentors will experience an even worse fate.Miraculously, the gods hear Vivianne's plea and grant her a second chance, sending her back in time three months before her horrific ordeal began. Now, Vivianne is determined to escape this cruel destiny by any means necessary, no matter the cost.

Ryoho Kyohiko transmigrated to Konoha.Good news, he awakened a system.Bad news, it's the “Hokage System,” which means he gets stronger by governing and expanding the village, but the problem is—He's not the Hokage!To grow stronger, Kyohiko has no choice but to climb step by step to the position of Hokage.“Kyohiko, your strategy is too radical; we must be wary of the Uchiha clan for now.”“Enough, Hiruzen, I am the Hokage!”“???”---