Two Weeks' Notice to the Abyss

Sleepy Teapot

For six years, Lloyd Vane kept Pandemonium, the deadliest dungeon on the continent, running on time: balancing trap delays, monster upkeep, and mana flow while meeting every impossible quota his commanding officer handed down. Then he files his resignation, buys a crumbling cabin in the Buffer Woods between the Church and the Demon Realm, and plans to spend the rest of his life running a quiet inn with strictly no overtime. Quiet lasts about a week. First comes Elena, the Church's legendary Blade of Light, starving, hopelessly lost, and sworn to avenge the three weeks she once spent crying inside one of Lloyd's looping labyrinths. Then comes General Malina, his former boss, carrying an arrest warrant from the Demon King, the dungeon's runaway core spirit hidden in her luggage, and not nearly enough money to pay for a room. Now the woman who never once said thank you is working his register, arguing with a hero in his living room, and leaving meals outside his door that she insists are asset maintenance. As the inn becomes the only neutral ground on the continent and his replacement pushes Pandemonium toward collapse, Lloyd must face the question he has avoided his entire career: does anyone need him for who he is, and not for how useful he can be? A cozy fantasy romantic comedy about burnout, found family, and a slow-burn romance between a deadpan former dungeon operator and the proud demon general who never learned how to ask for help.

Residual Frequency

Ivy Pixie

A backend developer hiding a demon lord's throne and a fitness trainer hiding a holy sword both flee to the same rundown apartment, becoming reluctant roommates who despise each other in daily life. Lonely in a world without magic, they each download Nexus, an anonymous dating app for exiled otherworlders, never suspecting that the stranger they are falling for online is the very person they fight with over the refrigerator every morning. When a dinner date finally strips away their aliases, they must decide whether the connection they built through a screen can survive the people they actually are.

Sixty Seconds of Mercy

Matcha Latte

Dr. Elias Mercer wears black leather gloves for a reason: when his bare skin touches the dead, he relives their final sixty seconds. When a serial killer's fifth victim lands on his autopsy table, that power shows him the killer's face, and it belongs to Captain Luke Harrow, the man who has been quietly shielding him all along. Elias hides what he saw and moves into Luke's apartment to hunt for the truth behind the massacre that destroyed his family twelve years ago. But the closer he gets, the harder it becomes to tell whether he is investigating a murderer or falling for the only man who has ever warmed his cold hands. In Blackwood City, justice and mercy are not the same thing, and love may cost Elias everything he swore to protect.

Sugar and Sawdust

edikim

Su Wenxi has just lost her job as a pastry designer, and she tells no one. She quietly returns to Yunxi, the waterside town where she grew up, to save her aging grandmother's failing bakery, only to find Gu Chengyan, the quiet carpenter next door and the childhood best friend she left behind without a goodbye. When the old town launches a couple campaign with a prize big enough to repair both their shops, the two sign a fake-dating contract with one firm rule: no real feelings. But the whole street is watching, the clauses begin to break one by one, and a promise from eight years ago comes due. A warm, slow-burn story of second chances and the sweetness of things built slowly.

Red Pen Reality

Ivy Pixie

At an academy where power determines status, Eugene is ranked F for having zero combat damage output. His ability, Syntax Reality, lets him see the hidden grammar of the world and rewrite it with nothing but a red pen. He uses it to dismantle every SSS-ranked genius who crosses him, including Sera, the ice-cold Student Council President who keeps trying to discipline him. But the more they correct each other in public, the more they realize: the other is the only one who never actually underestimated them.

The Wrong Suspect

Purple

A horror-mystery novelist who sees danger everywhere accidentally picks up the wrong bag and finds what she believes is a serial killer's journal, belonging to her mild-mannered new neighbor, who is actually a stop-motion animator for children's TV. Convinced she has uncovered a murderer, she moves in across the hall to investigate, while he mistakes her clumsy surveillance for a crush. A slow-burn romantic comedy about two people hiding behind masks of perfect control and perfect warmth, and what happens when those masks finally crack.

Recipes for a Healing Heart

Green Onion

Kael, a former sports nutritionist reincarnated into the world of Eldoria, only wants to open a small restaurant and live quietly. But when his science-based cooking becomes the only cure for the wounds caused by the world's toxic mana-potion culture, he slowly becomes indispensable to three women who are each learning how to be cared for properly - while the Alchemist Guild and the nobility conspire to tear them apart.

Scaring You Away Was My Love Language

rose.rose

Kurogane Tōma wakes up as the one character every player loves to hate: the Yakuza heir and designated scoundrel of a hit dating sim — the brute who harasses the heroines, bullies his classmates, and drags everyone toward a blood-soaked bad ending. Armed with memories of the game and a single goal — to survive in peace — he settles on a foolproof plan: act so terrifying that every heroine keeps her distance, so that not a single death flag is ever lit. There's just one problem. The harder he scowls, threatens, and shoves them away, the more the girls start noticing the quiet things he does in the shadows — the bullies who suddenly vanish, the traps that never spring, the injuries he hides. And one by one, they arrive at the worst possible conclusion: that the cruel young master is secretly suffering alone to keep them safe. His threats were meant to be a warning. They heard a confession.

The Debt Collector's Mortgage

Ivy Pixie

In Ledgerhold, a modern city where humans, elves, orcs, and dragons coexist, all magic runs on a monopolized banking system where unpaid debts are collected in treasures, memories, lifespans, or souls. Aiden, a cold and meticulous Special Debt Recovery Chief at the Ancient Bank, secretly works himself to exhaustion to keep his soul-frozen sister alive in the bank's vault. Morgana, a fallen elven princess turned modern-day Robin Hood, leads a gang that hacks stolen mana to save the slums. When a rigged sabotage forces them into an uneasy alliance, they uncover a conspiracy that threatens everything they love. As they fight side by side, hostility turns into trust, and trust into a bond neither can deny. But an ultimatum from Morgana's estranged elven family and a Bank closing in on Aiden's betrayal threaten to tear them apart before they can build something real. Together they must risk everything to expose the truth, dismantle a corrupt financial empire, and prove that love cannot be repossessed.