MTL - Darkness is Coming - Chapter 20 Adversity Paradise

It begins on the mountain.

With the glint of a knife, a flash of steel in the hands of a sworn brother. A betrayal.

Stabbed and pushed down the mountain, Zi Chen lied within the red-stained snow, left to die.

This is where it begins; he is given life by lightning,
baptized by thunder.

Those who had once betrayed him should all suffer in his cruel revenge.

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[WARNING: MATURE CONTENT]Dual cultivation is an art, a paradox that sustains the survival of life as we know it.Through it, mankind rose to heights of the divine… but also opened the floodgates of doom.In the new world… the pleasure world...Together forever doesn't exist, only eternal benefits.Nathan, a citizen of the United States of Immigrants (USI), and Aiko, a citizen of the Republic of Japaniro lived their everyday lives till...Now thrown into the pleasure world, they find themselves in a dilemma that breeds a silent storm.In a world where dual cultivation is a course and one has to pass with exemplary colors to ascend...Nothing short of outstanding performance is expected.Welcome to the pinnacle of dual cultivation.Welcome to the pleasure world.

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The story of a trash prince who was banished from the palace at the age of 15 and died at the age of 31. He repeats his life exactly where he was banished and is killed again at the age of 31. Ultimately, his total number of repeats reaches nine times. He has tried various things, from being a merchant and an S-rank adventurer to helping reform his kingdom.Ironically, he is always killed by the same imperial queen all nine times at the age of 31, either directly or indirectly. In his tenth life, he intends to go directly to the queen, who was still studying at the academy as an imperial princess, not to kill her, but rather to help her and prevent a tragedy that would ultimately make her the cruelest queen.But when he enters the academy, he discovers new things he never knew in his nine lives, completely throwing his plans into disarray. Furthermore, the queen, nicknamed the “Cold Queen,” holds more or less the same secret as himself. How will the trash prince fare in his tenth life with the Ice Queen who always kills him?