NotQuiteNormal



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    Shen Yuan wakes up to the sound of crying.

    He lies there for a moment, feeling like cling film stretched too tightly over something pointy, in danger of tearing down the middle but holding on by his fingernails. It’s dark, it’s smelly and he is laying face down against a heated stone floor, or maybe it’s just some faux stone tiles for the nature aesthetic. It feels like his brain got replaced with moss or cotton or balled up, wet paper towels that’s coming apart. In the stretched out moment where he takes it all in, he decides this fucking place sucks, and he will never visit again.

    The crying is to his left.

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    Shen Yuan wakes up in the Ling Xi caves, and he is not alone.

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    19 Jan 2026

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    Previous gen peak lords suck ass. Sy is truly a feral gremlin in this one.
    Ch. 2

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    A man—tall, refined, devastatingly handsome—met his dazed gaze with a gentle, unhurried smile.

    “If Xiao Yuan agrees,” he said mildly, “a little company. Nothing nefarious. In return, Xiao Yuan gets the first male lead role.”

    Shen Yuan stared, mind desperately trying to put this absurd situation into some kind of valid context. Was he being propositioned?

    What company, you big-eyed wolf?

    Do I look like an escort?!

    “No,” Shen Yuan said sharply.

    The man's smile froze. He actually had the audacity to look surprised.

    Shen Yuan just died and somehow transmigrated into the chaotic world of a dog-blood entertainment industry novel.

    Now he has to survive as a newbie actor, navigate contract requirements, learn acting asap, and avoid planting death flags—all that while definitely steering clear of the too invested CEO Yue Qingyuan and his White Moonlight slash childhood friend, Shen Jiu.

    Maybe just kill me already...

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    19 Jan 2026

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    SO looking forward to more!
    Ch. 4

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    Shen Yuan is the most normal Huan Hua disciple in this whole Palace. He's going to live his life, normally, as a background character of no importance, and nothing bad will ever happen to him! Easy, right? It can't be that hard to act like a normal kid. Teenager. Whatever.

    He's totally got this.

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    18 Jan 2026

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    Incredible! Amazing character building and setting exploration, really excellent understanding of sy's twisted mind (almost devastating lack of emotional awareness and processing ability)
    Ch. 10

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    “Shane,” Rose says gently. “I don’t think Eva is good for you.”

    Shane sighs into his water glass. This again. You get one shoe thrown at you during an a argument and suddenly everyone thinks you’re being abused.

    Or: Shane ends dating Rose’s co-star rather than her, and soon finds himself in an abusive relationship. Illya and Shane's friends need to put aside their differences in order to keep him safe.

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    14 Jan 2026

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    Hmmm, very good.
    Ch. 15/17

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    Tim pulled out a notebook and clicked his favorite green pen. His mother would criticize him for making a project plan without doing a SWOT analysis first, but he figured he could get away with breaking corporate protocols for this particular project.

    Tim’s 7 step plan to get Bruce to adopt Jason, he wrote with a flourish.

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    Or, eight-year-old Tim hatches a plot to convince his neighbor to adopt the street kid he brought home with him and gets more than he bargained for in the process.

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    16 Jul 2025

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    Tim is committing to adop5 Jay out to Bruce like a puppy, but Jay knows for sure that Tim is the one who needs a parent. He volunteers
    Ch 9 /19

    Finished 20/20. So good!