Novels Tagged 'Modern Day' - Page 11

After suffering from a heat stroke while working under the scorching heat of summer, Lu Zhou, a hardworking but poor university student, somehow becomes the owner of an advanced technological system. With the cheat given by the system, his university life changes overnight.A Master's degree? Easy.PhD? Not a problem.From a nobody, he quickly becomes a huge celebrity in the world of science. With the missions given by the system, he is on his way to winning a Nobel Prize."System, can points be exchanged for money?""No.""F**k, what use are you then!?""This system will make you the ultimate scholar, the kind that lords over all of humanity. What use will money be to you?"

Ye Chong was a denizen of Trash Planet-12. On one fateful day, he discovered a treasure that would forever alter his destiny from a pile of junk Mu Shang, an unknown machine with artificial intelligence and a lost memory. Together, they venture into the vast galaxy as the isolated "caveman" that was Ye Chong began absorbing all sorts of knowledge and meeting people from all walks of life. He gradually discovers more and more about his own mysterious past as well as his partner's. Read to find out more!

This is the story of the youth Wen Leyang, born into the family with an expertise in the cultivation of the Art of Poison.

10 years ago, after "the Gate" that connected the real world with the monster world opened, some of the ordinary, everyday people received the power to hunt monsters within the Gate. They are known as "Hunters". However, not all Hunters are powerful. My name is Sung Jin-Woo, an E-rank Hunter. I'm someone who has to risk his life in the lowliest of dungeons, the "World's Weakest". Having no skills whatsoever to display, I barely earned the required money by fighting in low-leveled dungeons at least until I found a hidden dungeon with the hardest difficulty within the D-rank dungeons! In the end, as I was accepting death, I suddenly received a strange power, a quest log that only I could see, a secret to leveling up that only I know about! If I trained in accordance with my quests and hunted monsters, my level would rise. Changing from the weakest Hunter to the strongest S-rank Hunter!

Lin Luoran is a 27-year-old girl from a rural family. She doesn't have a college degree, let alone any money. After cheated by her boyfriend, Lin Luoran accidently finds a mysterious space in her heirloom. At first, she only tries to use the magical spring water in that space to grow medicines like ginseng to help out her family. However, Lin Luoran never thought that she would become the last female cultivator in the world. The family of cultivators have not been seen on earth for thousands of years. Lin Luoran strives to cultivate herself in the metropolis, to complete her first-ever journey to immortality. As for love What will happen to Lin Luoran, a girl that is so different? Let's open the book and find out.

On the night of her coming-of-age ceremony, Nan Zhi is lured into a trap by the people closest to her and falls pregnant.Four years later, she returns with her son.A respected and domineering man suddenly barges into her world."Speak! Who is the child's father?"An adorable child holding a water gun appears out of nowhere, shouting, "Who is this wild man? How dare he snatch Brother Jie's goddess?!"From then on, two small domineering brats and a manchild are added to her world.In the middle of the night, he sneaks into her room, pressing a heated kiss onto her lips."Woman, do you know what's the result of stealing my seed?""What?""From now on, you have to let me kiss and pamper you everyday."Erm How was her inability to walk the next day, the result of his pampering?

Inexplicably reborn in the year 2003, having failed terribly in his previous life, the prevailing concern with Xu Tingsheng, that stands above all else, is none other than her. But alas, he is just months away from entering university, while she is but in her first year of junior high Regarding this, all he can do is wait silentlyfor now.

Ji Qingqing was at the end of her rope. When she was on the brink of wretched poverty, she received a system. The system told her; Lu Lixing came from a family that was rolling in money, but he was coming to the end of his allotted lifespan. If she married him, she would gain his enormous inheritance.Lu Lixing was seriously ill. Just as he was about to die, he gained a system. The system told him: Ji Qingqing was young and beautiful. She was rich in vitality. If he married her, he could continue living.Ji Qingqing happily came to Lu Lixing's sickbed.And then, Lu Lixing woke up.***Lu Lixing's friends discovered that after Lu Lixing woke up, not only did this person that had always kept his distance from women gotten married, he spent every day being super clingy towards his wife.Young Lu, can you be a little less embarrassing and act your age? Will you die if you take one step away from your wife?Lu Lixing clutched his chest. His little heart had almost stopped beating because Ji Qingqing had left him for half an hour. He weakly waved his hand. He couldn't be separated from her, not for the rest of his life. She was his life.

Pausing time, turning back time, reversing times of specific objects/person, and even predicting the futureTaking advantage now that Su Lin has control of time within his grasp. Being able to stop time; can dodge incoming attack and avoid mishaps, Su Lin is steered clear of harm's way. Reversing time; can forever never regret, no need to overthink when acting. Inverting time of specific object/person; can repair any object and heal any person, Su Lin becomes a miracle doctor. Predicting the future; can hide from natural disasters, can buy the winning lottery tickets and stocks, listening to Su Lin is always right. - Description from Novelupdates

She is the rising (new) movie queen of the entertainment circle, who is also Beijing's Ye Family long-lost Second Young Miss. Everyone knows that the Ye Family Eldest Young Miss is the chairman of Fenghai Group; Ye Family Third Young Master is a Major General of the military area; and yet, Ye family wants the second young miss to come back home, but she is just a flower vase (pretty face) of the entertainment industry.Father doesn't love her, Mother is not fond of her. However, no one knows that she is merely a vase on the surface. In fact, she is actually the top special agent that gives endless headaches to all international big shots. She, is higher (loftier) than the military industry added together!But she didn't imagine that, with one slip, she unexpectedly got bound to a system that draws energy from completing tasks.From then on, she crossed numerous parallel worlds and rewrote all kinds of miserable lives. Regardless of which world, she lived flourishingly. But she did not expect to attract a mysterious force's big shot during these tasksWhen she draws the energy to return to the summit of reality, With the body of Ye's family second miss, she can have whatever she wants, but the family business can't accept it. It's just that it's not good to have a man who is always behind her, how can she be worthy of the title Top Secret Agent' given by the international big shots?! Wait for her to unmask her identity, one by one, it is precisely the time for the Phoenix to overlook the land under the heavens.One is a mysterious teenager who is frighteningly outstanding. The other is a top agent who is famous all over the world. It's a love showdown between the strong and the strong. - Description from Novelupdates

A rich young master, a hedonist, has the Hedonist Sovereign System forced upon him. Follow this hedonist on his adventure of becoming a Hedonist Sovereign through doing real life quests, filled with action-packed battles and hilarious moments. A lazy and slothful hedonist doing exercise in the morning? A spoilt and self-entitled hedonist starting from the bottom as a salesperson? Watch as Qin Feng is changed by the Hedonist Sovereign System, inside and out!

11-year-old Jung Si-woo always had to play alone during PE class."I'm excluded from any ball games.""Are you kidding me? Why are you the only exception?""If I play with the rest, everyone will be excluded. Physically."The strength that Jung Si-woo has is not from any hard training but just a power he was born with.When he turns 16 years old, the world faced a cataclysm, a huge castle appeared over the Earth out of nowhere. It began selecting special humans to grant them wings making them a Player and that soon changed the world.10 years passed.Jung Si-woo with a supernatural strength has still not been able to forsake his dream to be a Player. While he was enjoying his jobless life, he saved a falling Player and unknowingly met the requirement to be a Underground Player'.He became more special than anyone ever is! Now, Jung Si-woo brilliant dungeon strategy play begins.

"I have to squander; otherwise, won't it be a waste of my parent's talent at earning money?" Hong Dali answers a reporter's question matter-of-factly. Just after the interview ends, Hong Dali opens the Great Prodigal System's interface and looks at the various good stuff displayed in it. Stroking his chin, he mumbles to himself, "I just need to squander 200 billion yuan more to exchange for the blueprint of the core technology, Engine Destruction, found in the strongest humanoid mecha weapon, Neo Granzon. Looks like I'll have to work harder!" "I want to splurge! I want to squander!"

There's SIS in great Britain, CIA in the US. In Huaxia, there's Dragon Division, known as the mysterious power of the East.

He Bai won the lottery, became rich, and reached the pinnacle of life. Then, he inadvertently took a picture of the Film Emperor Di Qiuhe being killed. And after reporting this case to the police, he was reborn in a midst of confusion.He Bai: I don't have any horrible relatives to abuse. Why was I reborn?Di Qiuhe: But I do.He Bai: I also haven't been betrayed or harmed by anyone. Why was I reborn?Di Qiuhe: But I have.He Bai: I just want to have some money to live freely and eat well. I already achieved that goal, so why was I reborn?Di Qiuhe: I have money, but don't live freely or well.He Bai angrily flips the table: So what's the use of my rebirth! Just to make me suffer again?!Di Qiuhe (Holding and Touching He Bai): Be my lover, you're only responsible for eating "lollipops," you won't eat any bitterness.He Bai: Leave!

Tired of the schemes and strifes of city life, Bei Feng finally returned to his hometown in the countryside

Hero Zhang Han was frustrated in life originally, but he stepped into the Cultivation World by a stroke of luck. Possessing divine natural gifts, he ascended into the disaster-crossing period step by step. He had imagined his life would not have any hardships anymore, but unfortunately incurred the god thunder since he violated the fate. After he woke up, he was surprised to find that he was reborn, going back a few years ago. He found that the world was different from what it used to be after his rebirth and he had a lovely daughter.Zhang Han's fate thus underwent a huge transformation. In the fast-paced urban life, he opened up a place for his daughter to have fun. Because of his daughter's enthusiasm for food, he opened a restaurant, which attracted countless diners. His business was booming and money did roll in. In his spare time, he also wrote songs to earn extra income. At the same time, he performed a sweet love story with his daughter's motherAfter his rebirth, he became a godly stay-home dad in the accumulation of experience. "Dote on my daughter and love my daughter" became his life creed. Although a few nasty guys occasionally appeared in his life, they were all beaten off by virtue of his mightiness.Let's take a look at how this godly stay-home dad lived in the city and how Zhang Han led his happy life. - Description from novelupdates

In the previous life, she was a swindling charlatan who had neither learning nor skills and was beaten to death.Upon opening her eyes again, she had returned to when she was five years old. An impact from a clay Buddha opened her divine eyes, gave her photographic memory, astonishing talent, ability to view another's past, able to sever the ties of disaster and fortune of life and death, a heaven defying rejuvenation technique, and a technique to recognize treasures.In the last life, her family became ruined and she ended up a homeless wanderer.In this life, she will defy heaven to change her fate and take back her happiness.In the last life, she had nothing, had no education nor skills, was despised by others, and was looked at with indifference.In this life, she exerts herself to become a real master of metaphysics, stands in the summit of the world, became a legend in the business world, sought after in the political circle, and a VIP of the underworldThose who owe her, all will be given one's due!He, like a deity who shows disdain for the world not only treats her with familiarity but also guards her like a loyal dog.Her life became an unprecedented and unique existence. - Description from Novelupdates

After five years, Ning Xi has returned and is out to take revenge on the sister who turned her parents against her and the childhood sweetheart who betrayed her for her sister. She aims to fulfill her childhood dream and become a famous actress. However, her sister is still out to get her, and she has to avoid all her underhanded schemes.One day, after falling into one of her sisters' schemes, she meets an adorable kid and saves him. This is how Ning Xi found herself staying at the autistic little kid's house to help him come out of his shell. Slowly, his father, Lu Tingxiao, starts falling for her too. - Description from novelupdates

Ryan Quicksave Romano is an eccentric adventurer with a strange power: he can create a save-point in time and redo his life whenever he dies. Arriving in New Rome, the glitzy capital of sin of a rebuilding Europe, he finds the city torn between mega-corporations, sponsored heroes, superpowered criminals, and true monsters. It's a time of chaos, where potions can grant the power to rule the world and dangers lurk everywhere.

In a world of shallow-minded, materialistic mortals, what would one from humble beginnings whose face had been stomped on, spat on, oppressed for the longest while by the arrogant, pampered upper echelons of society do, when a mysterious application pops up on a brand new phone that was meant to be the birthday gift of an ungrateful girlfriend? What if the application takes the form of a chatroom where its occupants, bearing the names of mythical, fictional beings, start giving out Red Packets', all the while spouting nonsense?

Several hundred thousand players are trapped in a gritty zombie apocalypse survival game just after game launch. There are hints that deaths in the game might be serving some other terrible purpose in the background of reality

Being able to learn any skill immediately, and just by raising its proficiency, stand at the summit. He is the World Chef Association Honorary Chairman, having the title of the World Chef God. He is the greatest composer, pianist, and conductor after Beethoven and Mozart. He also has the title of Underground Racing King, Fist King, Gambling King, Giant of the Stock Exchange Market, Arm of the Industries and King of the Skies. He who has a miraculous learning ability and can stand at the apex of all things if he so wishes for it, the Omni Genius. - Description from Novelupdates

After an accidental electric shock, Jackson traversed into a parallel world filled with supreme beingsbeings whose might and strength could hold the skies on their shoulder.At first, Jackson preconceived the idea that he'd only traversed on the other side of the world, the United States, until that is various peculiarities popped up.While watching the news channel, Jackson wondered whose the big green guy jumping up and down the buildings of New York without care.Who is that bodybuilder statue donned in a red-blue uniform standing tall and proud in the Memorial Hall?And who is that man flying the skies with a big hammer calling himself a God?Jackson wondered if he should advise his parents to move away from New York.But after a moment of thought, Jackson pulled out his mobile phone and dialed a number. "Mr. Stark, for the safety of mankind, I think it's necessary to discuss the developments of technology and advanced armors with you."This is the story of a young man living in the world of Marvel who only wished to live a quiet and stable life but as fate would have it, fate had other plans for him.Author's Note: The story is based on the Marvel World. - Description from Novelupdates

Doomsday was approaching

When Su Yaya awakened, she found herself in a novel world as the CEO's Substitute Wife-a mere cannon fodder. Knowing that divorce and a tragic ending was awaiting her once her look-alike, the President's first love returns, Su Yaya only trusted one thing: Money.She curried favor with her husband each day, saved up resources, and served him as a faithful wife. It was better to leave a good impression on him before separation so she could avoid her death flags.The overbearing President was very satisfied with her and personally gave her his platinum card: "Take it and buy anything you'd like!" Su Yaya happily accepted. Of course she would take advantage of his pampering before the female protagonist appears!As the CEO unexpectedly falls deeper despite this transactional relationship, he never imagined that his wife would one day disappear from his side. - Description from Novelupdates

Wang Yi was reborn into a world that swallowed the starry sky. After eighteen years of ordinary and extraordinary, he finally met the conditions on the eve of graduation from high school, activated his own golden finger, and signed in for the first time.[Ding, congratulations to the host for successfully signing in, signing in for the first time, and signing in to the earth, special rewards will be given to reward the first karma of the Nine Tribulations Secret Code! [Your genetic level has increased three times! "" - Description from novelbuddy

At first, when he learned that he was forced to go to many different routine worlds and be reborn into all kinds of cannon fodder, he was against it.Because villains usually all only have a moment of satisfaction, the endings of cannon fodder are also frequently quite miserable.But the man who gave him the system told him that this system not only has all types of powerful functions, but he can also break the routine lives of the cannon fodder. If he achieves this satisfactorily for each world, he can even become a god.He's already experienced over a thousand reincarnations, but hasn't yet been a god. Since it sounds pretty great, why not just try it out.From that moment on, he began the irreversible path of tyrannically oppressing people, while conveniently tearing open those white moonlights and so-called righteous people's hypocritical masks.His goal: wearing the villain's role to walk other people's righteous paths, leaving them no path to follow. - Description from novelupdates

There's a legendary Bishoujo Game that has become popular among Japanese gentlemen.

One day, a mysterious tower suddenly appeared in the city. The people decided to call it a dungeon, and while it was full of rugged terrain and dangerous monsters, it was also a land of opportunity, where countless treasures awaited. When Sejun, a young man living an ordinary life, is invited to the dungeon by chance, he is thrilled at the prospect of becoming rich, but he is stranded in a hidden area of the mysterious tower. All he has is a few seeds and his body. Now Sejun must farm, collect resources, and figure out his own survival strategy!