Road to be the Best Chess Player in the World! - Chapter 116: Reykjavik, Here We Come!

“Help me, please,” Bella pleaded, grasping his hands.His dark eyes, devoid of warmth, pierced through hers with an unsettling coldness. “Why should I mess with those goons to help you?” he asked callously.“I’ll do anything you say,” she said without thinking, desperate. “Just save me from them.”He demanded something that Bella had never anticipated even in her dreams.A contract marriage!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bella Dawn was already in distress to pay her step father’s debts. To add her misery, her mother was diagnosed with liver disease and needed immediate transplant.Where would she get that much money?Then, like a cruel twist of fate, she accidentally encountered a handsome man, Theodore Reid, the enigmatic CEO of Ace Group.Rumors said that he was a ruthless businessman with a heart as cold as ice. Yet, to Bella, he was kind, rescuing her from the clutches of those who sought to exploit her.She was grateful to him until he demanded something weird, shattering her pervious assumptions. He wanted to marry her.NoHe wanted a contract marriage.In exchange, he would take care of her mother's treatment and compensate her generously at the end of their arrangement.For Theodore, it was a solution born out of necessity, a means to appease his grandfather's demands for an heir while he searched for the one who had once saved him, his angel.Bella’s appearance reminded him of his savior. So, he offered her a contract marriage. It was a temporary solution to his grandfather’s demand to get an heir until he found his angel.With no other options left, Bella reluctantly agreed to the terms of the contract. But little did she know it would test her resolve and resilience like never before.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Remember one thing, never fall in love with me,” he said, cold and dangerous.Bella gulped, nervous. “What if I do?” A sliver of defiance, a foolish question escaped her lips. She was already attracted to his handsome appearance.He squeezed her jaw and hissed, “You will regret it.”“What if you started liking me?” she dared to ask.He leaned closer, his breath warm against her ear. “No chance,” he scoffed. “You're not my type.”Bella’s heart sank.

Monster Invasion, Blue Star's rules have changed, leading to a great turmoil in the world. Rules have descended, and human girls awaken with fierce beast templates, transforming into animal-eared girls who can summon fierce beasts alongside contracted boys.There are all sorts of animal-eared girls like Pegasus, Flying Tiger, and White Snake.Fluffy animal-eared girls, delicate animal-eared girls.Xiao Ye awakens the God-level Beast Master System, which allows for unlimited contracting, the ability to detect others' templates, and rapidly enhance the forms of summoned beasts.After being dumped by his girlfriend, Xie Mengxuan, an SSS-class Nine-tailed Fox template school beauty, immediately proposes: Be my boyfriend.Xiao Ye is stunned, as he considered her a bro, yet she wants to be his wife!Cheng Bingxi smiles sweetly: Take advantage of the overly shy deskmate and coax him into being a husband!There's also the Nine-tailed Fox demon school beauty, Five-clawed Golden Dragon bearing girl, Soaring Kunpeng queen, and the Divine Beast Qilin empress.Xiao Ye, looking at a nest full of SSS-tier animal-eared girls, expresses: Bring on more!

The world is destroyed, the era is restarted, and the survival qualification called the lord is issued to everyone.

Territories, heroes, arms, treasures, resources, all the servers achieved by thousands of continents are open.

Qin Muye looked at his own panel like a cannon fodder, with a broken suffix, and he was rather weeping without tears.

There is no god-level talent, no hidden hints, and no anti-sky career.

“If that’s the case, then there is only one way to live.”

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One day, Keith woke up in the middle of the night, only to find himself in the company of a completely naked slave he now owns. It also leads to the discovery that he is now the scum villain in an MMORPG he had played a long time ago where the scum villain gets killed by the main character once he reached adulthood.So the only way to prevent this? To make sure he remains out of the game's content while not affecting the story.But that's hard to do when the scum villain is connected to everything that happened and is the major contributor to what happened.What's more? Keith is a normal human who has no golden finger the 'real' master had in the game. All he has is his knowledge of this world and a history of acting.Will it be enough to make sure Keith lives past his death scene? Watch as Keith tried to stay alive, avoid being found out as a fraud master, and gain a harem all on his own. And maybe, also discover the secrets of why he was brought into this world in the first place.And, what other secrets does this MMO hold for him? And why does all kind of weird situations keep happening to him? How did he end up with a Harem when all he wanted was to protect his identity?What's that? He's being hailed as a master?Watch him and his Loli demon cat goddess (also his jailer) try and survive in this new world