"He is a prince of the palace, and she is only a commoner."For her, he was even willing to give up the fight for the throne.However, she didn't want to see her man ordinary for the rest of his life.The Imperial Palace seemed calm and unperturbed, but it was a place to fight openly and secretly."Until the day she couldn't take it anymore, when she chose to explode ..."

Japan in the early seventeenth century was a wild place. Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night, while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace, drinking saké and watching kabuki dancing in the presence of the emperor's principal consort. Among these noblewomen was an imperial concubine named Nakanoin Nakako, who in 1609 became embroiled in a sex scandal involving both courtiers and young women in the emperor's service. As punishment, Nakako was banished to an island in the Pacific Ocean, but she never reached her destination. Instead, she was shipwrecked and spent fourteen years in a remote village on the Izu Peninsula before she was finally allowed to return to Kyoto. In 1641, Nakako began a new adventure: she entered a convent and became a Buddhist nun. Recounting the remarkable story of this resilient woman and her war-torn world, G. G. Rowley investigates aristocratic family archives, village storehouses, and the records of imperial convents. She follows the banished concubine as she endures rural exile, receives an unexpected reprieve, and rediscovers herself as the abbess of a nunnery. While unraveling Nakako's unusual tale, Rowley also reveals the little-known lives of samurai women who sacrificed themselves on the fringes of the great battles that brought an end to more than a century of civil war. Written with keen insight and genuine affection, An Imperial Concubine's Tale tells the true story of a woman's extraordinary life in seventeenth-century Japan.

, the modern girl, had her necklace stolen by two Man in Black s after a nightmare.In the Amethyst Nation where Six Realms were crystallized, Princess Ling Ruo encountered the Amethyst prince Zi Ye Yu. After being attacked by the Amethyst with a bow and arrow, she had fainted, regained consciousness, and was then taken advantage of by words, causing her to feel disgust towards him. After that, on the way out of the Amethyst Palace, Ling Ruo met the Priestess Summoning Wings, who was in the midst of a sacrificial ceremony.The Goddess indicated to Ling Ruo that she was a descendant from the legends of the Six Realms, and that they needed to find the six Priests who protected the Six Realms in order to return to their original world. Therefore, Ling Ruo and, along with Zi Ye Yu and Qi Yi, began their journey together.On the other hand, Qi Yi was skilled in magic, and she had taught Ling Ruo the simple art of defense. The two of them had different talents, making Ling Ruo feel extremely inferior, and realizing her own incompetence, she went to the south of the Xuan Ming Realm to cultivate, at the same time, bringing Qi Yi, who had been injured by a bat, along to recuperate. Zi Ye Yu, who had thought that Qi Yi and Ling Ruo had escaped together with his wife, led his army and gave chase, and cracks appeared in the master-subordinate relationship between Qi Yi and Zi Ye Yu.Ling Ruo's concubine was forced to become He Lian's concubine, the strong and arrogant He Lian who was the overlord of the Yun Barbarian Realm. Because of her status as a Heavenly Girl, she was respected by He Lian, but she also received jealousy from the other concubines.After escaping from He Lian Qin's hands, Ling Ruo had set up her own Heavenly Girl Army, attempting to unify the entire Six Realms. The Heavenly Girl Army had reclaimed all the nations in the Yun Barbarian Realm that were not convinced by He Lian's rule, but in the end, they still lost to Zi Ye Yu.However, she remembered from her previous life that she was the favorite concubine of the of the Six Realms God Realm. She had died in battle in the era of myths against the God Realm God of Heaven, the one with the highest Six Realms, Extreme Gods. And the Night Emperor who received divine punishment after his defeat was, in this life, none other than Zi Ye Yu.Ling Ruo, who had recovered her memories from his previous life, reunited with the heavily injured Zi Ye Yu, bringing him to his current life to recuperate from his injuries. The two of them decided to return to the Six Realms after recovering from their injuries. They wanted to save the last Holy Priest imprisoned by the extreme gods and rebuild the destroyed Night Heaven Palace."

Xiao Budian had no intention of travelling to the outside world, but had been sold to the Azure Dragon Country and even became the crown prince's consort. On the night of the wedding, in order to protest against this marriage, Crown Prince Xuanyuan Qi had actually put on a stunning show in front of her, using the woman's dying red to give the emperor a huge advantage.In order to fight for a chance, Xiaoxiao had actually made that girl, Ling'er, into her little girl. However, she didn't know that such a decision was meant to raise a tiger, and that she had also dropped a chess piece for the Dark Faction that she had been plotting for a long time.Where would she go without her child?

The invincible Heaven Fighting Saint was betrayed by his celestial wife and brothers. He was reborn in his youth and swore to become the War God Emperor in this world. He would crush all strong enemies and peerless beauties and beat them up! A hot-blooded battle with no end in sight! In the vast and boundless Pangu Continent, large and small sects, ancient sacred lands, ancient aristocratic clans, and ten thousand different dynasties competed against each other; in the many secular dynasties, the imperial power was supreme, ruling over ten thousand miles. Was it to become an ant or an ordinary spirit, or to condense battle qi to become a warrior, to awaken the three types of battle spirits, to experience hundreds of battles to comprehend the four types of battle force, to become a peerless expert, to become a Holy Land of War, to shatter the void, and to compete with the Heavens! This was a world of warriors, cultivating battle qi, transforming the soul of war, condensing battle force, and rising above all worlds!

In the Western imagination, the Middle Eastern harem was a place of sex, debauchery, slavery, miscegenation, power, riches, and sheer abandon. But for the women and children who actually inhabited this realm of the imperial palace, the reality was vastly different. In this collection of translated memoirs, three women who lived in the Ottoman imperial harem in Istanbul between 1876 and 1924 offer a fascinating glimpse "behind the veil" into the lives of Muslim palace women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The memoirists are Filizten, concubine to Sultan Murad V; Princess Ayse, daughter of Sultan Abdulhamid II; and Safiye, a schoolteacher who instructed the grandchildren and harem ladies of Sultan Mehmed V. Their recollections of the Ottoman harem reveal the rigid protocol and hierarchy that governed the lives of the imperial family and concubines, as well as the hundreds of slave women and black eunuchs in service to them. The memoirists show that, far from being a place of debauchery, the harem was a family home in which polite and refined behavior prevailed. Douglas Brookes explains the social structure of the nineteenth-century Ottoman palace harem in his introduction. These three memoirs, written across a half century and by women of differing social classes, offer a fuller and richer portrait of the Ottoman imperial harem than has ever before been available in English.

Wang Ren, an orphan without money or food, accidentally acquired the Apocalypse System. Under the outbreak of the biological crisis, relying on the Apocalypse System, he walked step by step to the peak, establishing an immortal dynasty of survivors, fighting zombies, killing the mutated beasts. When Wang Ren took back the lost land of the entire human race, he realized, this was a conspiracy, a conspiracy of an alien invading Earth.