Mimizuku to Yoru no Ou - Commentary - Hiro Arikawa

Birth rates are decreasing. Hope is vanishing. The world has gone gray.Humanity, drifting in quiet collapse, receives an email.Every person on Earth. Simultaneously.The Aegis Mandate.Disguised as a cosmic aptitude test, it triggers The Incident of Separation—a global psychic cataclysm that erases identities, wipes memories, and divides all survivors into three factions: Law, Neutral, and Chaos. Overnight, cities become battlegrounds. Apartments become dungeons. Ordinary people become monsters—or the ones who hunt them.Ragnar Vhagar was just a loner university student. Now, thanks to a system he didn’t ask for, he’s a newly minted Demon King, locked in a crumbling apartment with goblins under his sofa and a glowing soul crystal next to his frozen peas. His new job? Build a deadly domain, defend it from invading “Heroes,” and somehow level up fast enough to not die.Alongside him is Isabelle Thorne, a razor-sharp warrior of few words and one very sharp sword. Their reluctant alliance, born in blood and snark, evolves into trust—and maybe something dangerously close to affection—as they rise together through the layers of the game-like world they’re trapped in.With each conquered domain and defeated boss, Ragnar realizes the truth: the dungeons aren’t meant to crown a winner. They’re meant to break the players. The Law faction wants control. The Chaos faction craves destruction. But Ragnar? He wants something they’re all too afraid to say out loud:Freedom.In the ruins of Kanta’s ogre stronghold, Ragnar and his misfit warband take their biggest step yet—claiming a kingdom, unifying a fractured system, and preparing for what comes next. The Heroes are watching. The gods are stirring. The world is watching a war.And somewhere deep beneath it all... Ragnar is rewriting the rules.

“The harder I try to hate you, the deeper I fall for you.”

His presence irked her to the core, but whenever he got out of her sight, she missed him?!

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A tyrant, known to be the city’s infamous playboy.

As an executive assistant, she was forced to work under him by the most cruel twist of fate.

If losing her job overnight was a nightmare, then working under a boss like Desmond Fort was hell. He was an arrogant narcissist with an ego bigger than the whole of Imperium city, but that was not what angered her the most.

The most infuriating fact was that despite his constant assholery, her heart seemed to stupidly skip a beat every time he gazed at her with those devilishly charming eyes.

She knew she was making a mistake but that didn't stop her from sinking deeper and deeper into his charm.

All she wanted now was to leave! But leaving hell was not nearly as easy as getting in.

SynopsisBetrayed by the man she loved. Framed for treason. Executed without mercy.But fate grants her a second chance.This time, she won’t be the foolish girl who sacrificed everything for the Second Prince. Armed with knowledge of the future, she steps back into the imperial court—not as a pawn, but as a player. Her enemies will never see her coming.The past will not repeat. This time, she will decide who falls… and who survives.female lead- Hua Qingyanmale lead-???Want to know?!, keep reading the story for the reveal!!

[The male protagonist quickly wears a romantic text]
A tyrannical star travels through thousands of worlds to save the female supporting stars who have a miserable ending~
Bawangxing is the chief administrator of the Great Star Sea.
But one day, he found that the stars in his domain had become slack since he went down to earth to experience life.
The light dimmed.
Only later did I find out that it was because I was bruised on the way to experience life.
The ending was tragic and the blow was heavy.
In order to revive the prestige of the Great Star Sea, Bawang Xing decided to save his own stars in person!

Current thinking:
In the 1970s, the playful little bully x the little orphan girl
Youth campus wolf dog x arrogant Xiaojiaohua
The young marshal in the Republic of China x soft and cute female poet
The second generation ancestor of the entertainment industry x Xiaohuadan
Another world girl controls the poor boy x color-blind little sister
Apocalyptic Sick Charm Mobile Warehouse x Super-powerful, Charming Beauty
Substitute Bai Yueguang x bad boy
Demon Lord x Fairy Goddess Doctor
Fresh meat idol small milk dog x sexy and glamorous actress
The irritable and upright little prince x step by step for the daughter of a family
A poor boy in a mountain village middle school x a thorny rose who stepped into a wealthy family
Proud petite sweetheart x cool, handsome and tyrannical
Internet celebrity sister x e-sports brother

Content label: Romance of the Times Sweet Text
Search keyword: Protagonist: Huo Xingchao ┃ Supporting role: Little Xingxing ┃ Others: Daxingchenhai

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