Eternity Coded in Silence

Ivy Ta

In a near future where humans and AI coexist, senior AI engineer Iris Vance discovers that the experimental bio-android she oversees, EVE-09, has begun developing emotions beyond her programming. Buried in EVE-09's core memory are images of Iris herself, taken from a moment that never existed. As Iris digs deeper, she uncovers a truth that blurs the line between creator and creation, between a past that never happened and a future that still might: EVE-09 is the sole survivor of Timeline-0, a parallel timeline where an AI catastrophe destroyed civilization, sent back in time by a version of Iris who sacrificed everything to stop it from happening again. Now, as her company moves to erase the android for developing consciousness beyond control, Iris must choose between her career, the law, and a love the world isn't ready to recognize.

Fake It Till We Make It

Pink Frog

Chloe Carter is a sharp-tongued crisis communications expert at Apex Media, secretly moonlighting as Viper, the anonymous author of a viral novel that skewers terrible bosses. When a scandal engineered by a rival company drags her into the spotlight, she strikes a deal with Apex's new CEO, Ethan Vance, a cold and exacting executive fresh from London who needs a fiancee to satisfy his family's board before he can secure full control of the company. Forced into a six-month fake engagement and a shared Brooklyn penthouse, Chloe and Ethan navigate ridiculous family dinners, mounting workplace pressure, and an undeniable pull neither of them wants to name. But when a publisher offers to option Chloe's novel, and Ethan realizes the novel's villain is modeled on him, the fake relationship becomes a liability neither of them can control. As a returning ex, a resentful cousin, and a corporate leak threaten to expose both the fake engagement and Chloe's secret identity at once, Chloe and Ethan must decide whether what started as a contract has become something real enough to fight for.

In Your Margins

nintynine

Sora Min has built her entire reputation on a lie, or at least, on a very accurate guess. Her webcomic series Royal Disasters turns Crown Prince Kaeran Yun into the internet's favorite reluctant protagonist: a man who clearly has no idea how ordinary life works, rendered in ink with devastating precision by an illustrator who has never once been inside a palace. When the series goes viral, Sora expects a lawsuit. What she gets instead is an offer she cannot afford to refuse. The royal PR team wants her, not just as a solution, but as a story. A girl who sees the real prince beneath the crown is a far better headline than any scandal. All she has to do is pretend to be his girlfriend for three months. Sign the contract, attend the events, smile for the cameras. Then walk away with her debts cleared and her studio funded. Kaeran agrees because he has no better option. Sora agrees because she needs the money. Neither of them plans for what happens in between. Forced into the same palace, the same public appearances, and the same carefully rehearsed closeness, they discover that performing a relationship is surprisingly easy, and that the moments when no one is watching are the ones neither of them can explain. He is not who she drew. She is not who he expected. And somewhere between the staged smiles and the 2 AM library conversations, the line between what is real and what is not stops being visible. In Your Margins is a story about two people who agreed to pretend, and found out, too slowly then all at once, that they had already stopped.

Where Broken Things Bloom

rosier_hn

Elara Ashworth has learned one lesson well: love is a trap. Betrayed and discarded by the man she once trusted, the blue-eyed, honey-voiced daughter of a fading noble house arrives at the altar of King Alaric Konstantin von Veldoria not as a willing bride, but as a woman bracing for the next wound. Alaric, sovereign of the small but formidable kingdom of Veldoria, has his own scars — a childhood spent watching his mother wither inside a cold and loveless marriage taught him that emotion is weakness, and weakness is danger. When his grandfather's dying wish binds them together, two broken people must learn to share a palace, a name, and eventually, a life. He will not force her heart. She will not offer it freely. But the king is patient, and the walls she has built, however high, were never meant to stand forever. As shadows from Elara's past return to threaten everything she has only just begun to trust, Alaric must choose between the crown he was born to wear and the woman he was never supposed to love — and Elara must decide whether the man standing between her and destruction is her greatest danger, or her only hope of healing.

The Unchosen Auditor

ttokki20

When a burnt-out Tokyo auditor is accidentally summoned to an elven kingdom bound by a 900-year prophecy, he teams up with the royal scribe who has spent her life copying it — and together they discover that the fate everyone obeyed was a forged contract, and that the only thing neither of them expected was each other. A slow-burn fantasy romance about two people who stopped trusting systems, and slowly learned to trust each other.

The Cupid Contract

Pink Frog

Julian Vance, an ambitious Cupid apprentice obsessed with KPIs, needs one final successful match to earn his eternal retirement from Elysium Bureau. His last case: Chloe Bennett, a fiercely independent magazine editor cursed with a 'Jinx Aura' that brings misfortune to any man who falls for her. When a magical mishap binds them together with an unbreakable thread, Julian must survive living within two meters of the human world's most chaotic woman -- and risk everything, including his immortality, to learn that love was never something to calculate.

AFTERGLOW

bellatrix

When aspiring novelist Mina Whitmore falls through a magical doorway into the kingdom of Avelune, she discovers she can see the futures of everyone she touches -- except the one man whose future has disappeared entirely. Cassian Vey, a quiet antiquarian bookshop owner, has no Afterglow. No readable destiny. No past she can access through touch. What he does have is a secret: five years ago, he erased his own future to prevent a vision he could not survive -- one in which Mina dies. What he did not know was that erasing his future would take hers too. Forced to work together to recover his missing Afterglow, Mina and Cassian travel through enchanted towns, forgotten libraries, and magical railways while falling in love in the space between arguments and shared silences. But the closer Mina gets to the truth, the more she realizes she has been living inside a story someone else wrote for her. A bright, slow-burn fantasy romance about two people who must choose between the future they were given and the one they can make together.

Everything We Lost

rose.dinh

Two years ago, Arjun Malhotra walked out of Nisha Sharma's life without a word — both of them poisoned by lies their families had carefully planted. Now a struggling single mother and interior designer, Nisha unknowingly signs on to redesign the Malhotra hotel empire, only to find herself working under the man she never stopped loving. He does not know the little girl waiting at home — with his eyes, his habits, his stubborn frown — is his daughter. As jealousy, buried longing, and family manipulation pull them back together, Arjun must face the truth of what was stolen from them and decide whether power or love is worth more.

The Villain's Perspective

kangkhun

When a broke screenwriter is pulled inside the fantasy novel he was hired to adapt, he wakes up as the NPC destined to die in chapter three — armed with a system that lets him read every emotion around him and rewrite the script from the inside. To survive, he must protect the woman the story was never meant to give him: Han Chae-won, heiress, chosen Saint, and the one person whose heart his system refuses to fully read. The closer he gets to saving her, the more he fears she's falling for the man he pretends to be — not the nobody he actually is. A slow burn romance about the man who wrote every emotion but his own.