The Ones Who Stay

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Two PhD researchers at the University of Edinburgh — once close, separated by class divide and words never spoken — are forced to work together in opposing labs. Lin Sicheng, a fourth-year Taiwanese PhD student carrying his supervisor's legacy like armor, and Song Yutong, a brilliant first-year from mainland China proving she belongs in a world that doubts her, must navigate academic rivalry, cultural tension, and the wreckage of a past neither has fully faced. As Edinburgh's long winters close in, they discover that the wounds they built their ambitions around were never really about success — and that staying, this time, is a choice they have to make on purpose.

Blood Alliance

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Forced to marry her family's oldest enemy to forge an alliance against a third house plotting to erase both their bloodlines, Millicent Darmos — a fierce Greek mafia princess who has never let a man close enough to touch her — and Costantino Accardi — a ruthless Sicilian underboss who believes love is the weakness that destroys empires — must share a bed, a name, and a war. She lost her mother to a man like him. He lost his mother to a man like her father. Both swore they would never bleed for love. Now they have one year to play husband and wife before the Volkov-Sartori family swallows their territories whole — but the marriage they swore to fake is becoming the most dangerous thing either of them has ever felt. As bodies pile up and old wounds bleed open, Millicent and Costantino will have to decide whether love is the weakness that destroys empires — or the only thing strong enough to survive them.

Unscripted: The Dark King's Awakening

Morgan Forest

An ordinary office worker dies from overwork and wakes up inside a popular urban fantasy novel — not as the beloved heroine, but as Kang Chae-won, the infamous villainess destined to be eliminated by chapter 50. Armed with knowledge of the entire plot, she receives a brutal system mission: successfully conquer Kwon Si-woo, the story's most dangerous hidden villain, before the world enters its final S-rank Awakening. Si-woo is everything the story warned her about — cold, ruthless, cursed with a dark power that drives everyone away. But the more she tries to complete her mission with calculated distance, the more she realizes he is not following the script either. As dungeons grow deadlier and the apocalypse draws near, two people who were never meant to matter to each other discover the one thing no story can predict: that falling in love is the most unscripted thing of all.

An Average Guy's Guide to Surviving a 1:7 World

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Leo Evans wants one thing: a quiet, ordinary life. But after an accident drops him into an alternate England where men are one-in-seven and treated like fragile treasures, his perfectly normal kindness - holding doors, sharing lunch, offering a smile - is mistaken for irresistible seduction. Before he knows it, he has accidentally captured the hearts of four powerful girls: a fierce student council president, an athletic school idol, a genius introvert, and a dominant heiress. As an all-out romantic war erupts to claim him, Leo desperately tries to stay invisible - never realizing that in a world that treats everyone like a prize, being seen as a person is the rarest magic of all.