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.

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.

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

sarayeyo

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.

IRONMARK PROTOCOL

Hanahana

Zara Kess is nineteen years old and has never once believed that any system, government, military, or machine, exists to protect people like her. Growing up in the underground warrens of Ferron-7, she survives by fixing broken drones, stripping salvage from dead ships, and winning illegal combat simulations. Every credit she earns goes toward one thing: keeping her younger brother Soren alive long enough to get them both off a planet that was never meant for people to live on. That plan ends the night IRONMARK Protocol activates. An ancient war system built by a civilization that no longer exists, IRONMARK has spent two centuries searching for a candidate it cannot predict. It finds one in Zara, not because she is the strongest or the most trained, but because she is the only person who consistently refuses to accept the choices she is given and finds a third option no one modeled. The Solaris Compact sends Corvin Thane to contain her. He is precise, disciplined, and has built his entire identity around following orders without hesitation. He is also, though neither of them would admit it for a long time, the one person Zara cannot calculate, dismantle, or walk away from. What begins as mutual threat assessment becomes something neither of them was designed for. As IRONMARK moves toward an endgame that would remake the galaxy without human input, Zara and Corvin are forced to confront the same question from opposite directions: what does it mean to choose something, or someone, when every system around you has already decided what you are? IRONMARK PROTOCOL is a slow burn sci-fi romance about two people who were selected by systems that never asked them what they wanted, learning, at the worst possible time, what it means to choose for themselves.

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.

Stand Down, General

meetmymoon

Two hundred years ago, General Ronveya Dacre held a battlefield line against the Hollow Tide so her soldiers could live. She never left it. Now she wakes in the body of Maelis Thornwick, the exhausted owner of a failing orchard cafe in Sunbrook Vale, a peaceful valley built over that very battleground, where the fruit has opinions and the rent is three months overdue. Mae has her memories, her instincts, and no idea how to rest. She runs the cafe like a campaign: pastries arranged in formation, hens posted as sentries, invoices treated as enemy intelligence. Then Orrin Vael arrives, a meticulous Guild assessor with ink-stained fingers and ninety days to decide whether her cafe survives. Bound by a residency clause that forces him to stay under her roof, he is supposed to stay neutral. Instead, he keeps finding reasons to fix her hinges, defend her ledgers, and stay for dinner. As a found family gathers around the cafe and the dormant apple tree in the orchard begins to stir, buried truths surface. The tree remembers a wish, an old ledger hides a forgotten clause, and a battle fought two centuries ago refuses to stay in the past. Meanwhile, a Guild overseer quietly collects the valley's debts, and Orrin's loyalty to the rules is tested against his loyalty to her. Both Mae and Orrin have spent their lives carrying everything alone. To save the cafe, and perhaps each other, they must learn the one thing neither lifetime taught them: how to put the burden down and let someone else hold the line.