The Garden of Borrowed Light

hakgyeisoso

In the coastal kingdom of Elyndor, where the elite believe light can preserve human emotion through glass and botanicals, Seraphine Vale — daughter of a botanist who died under suspicious circumstances — is invited to Luminara Hall to restore its legendary Glass Conservatory. Its master, Lord Cassian Ardent, carries the reputation of a man who let his former fiancée die. Seraphine arrives seeking the truth about her father's final work. Cassian keeps her close because the garden responds to her in ways it never has before. From a cold contract, they become allies, then each other's only shelter. But when the secret of borrowed light is finally revealed, Seraphine must choose: save Cassian from his past, or expose a truth that could destroy the love just beginning to bloom.

404: Strategist Not Found

Morgan

Julian Vance was once a brilliant strategist who served an emperor's rise to power, only to drink poison and step quietly into death when the laws of survival at court demanded it. Reborn into the body of a failing chess and RTS streamer buried in debt and a twenty-game losing streak, he turns ancient stratagems into modern spectacle, resurrecting a career everyone had given up on. But when he is recruited as Head Strategic Advisor for the national esports team, he collides with Elena Reyes, the team's data-driven Head Analyst who believes algorithms are the only truth worth trusting, and who views Julian's psychological warfare as reckless nonsense. As their rivalry over method becomes something neither can out-calculate, Julian and Elena must learn that no algorithm can replace understanding the human heart.

Fake It Till You Mean It

bean.mt

Han Seo-yeon works as an R&D employee at Daejin Foods, armed with a golden palate honed in her family's small restaurant — and a secret she cannot share: her mother is hospitalized, waiting for a surgery she cannot afford. When her best friend begs her to stand in at a blind date, Seo-yeon only wants the evening to collapse as quickly as possible. But the man across the table — cold, impossibly arrogant — turns out to be Cha Do-yoon, the newly appointed CEO of her own company. And he has a proposal: she plays his girlfriend to deflect his grandfather's relentless marriage pressure, in exchange for a sum that could save her mother's life. Now Seo-yeon must live two lives — the polished girlfriend of a chaebol heir in front of his family, and the invisible junior employee inside the very company he runs. How long before everything unravels? And when it does, which will fall first — the contract, or their hearts?

His Melody

mila.rosier

Adrian Vance is the twenty-eight-year-old CEO of Vance Entertainment and the uncrowned king of Aurora City's music and film empire. Cold, ruthless, and quick to anger, he owns everything he touches, and everyone around him knows better than to cross him. Mila Reyes is a twenty-one-year-old performing-arts student with a voice made for the stage and a dream of becoming an idol, surviving the cruelty of the relatives who raised her with a stubborn kindness and a temper she keeps buried. When her aunt and uncle force her to serve drinks at the industry's most glamorous gala, a powerful producer corners her, and she snaps, hurling a glass of wine in his face. Adrian witnesses her defiance, steps in, and claims her under his exclusive protection. Bound to a man she can't stand, hunted by forces that want her gone, and caught between the family that resents her and the empire that could make or break her, Mila must decide how much of herself she is willing to surrender. Will the industry's coldest king learn to love without owning, and will his gentle songbird burn everything down before she lets him in?

The Last Sun of Astraria

Icuyanba

Ethan Vance, a battlefield combat medic from Earth, dies saving others and awakens in the body of a disgraced, powerless nobleman in Astraria — a matriarchal magical realm where a centuries-old curse has left men rare, fragile, and sheltered like glass dolls. But Ethan's reincarnated soul carries a singular anomaly: a mana core that radiates an Aura of Absolute Rejuvenation, purifying the realm's lingering blight and supercharging any mage who grows close to him. Enrolling at the elite Aegis Magic Academy to study healing magic and live in peace, his quiet acts of kindness and his rare, intoxicating mana draw the attention of the four most powerful women in the realm: a cursed High Elf paladin counting down her own death, a dragon-kin commander whose instincts mark him as her treasure, a holy saintess whose faith died long ago, and a dark elf rogue sent to abduct him. Each is pulled toward what Ethan can give — until, one by one, they begin to want the man himself. As a doomsday cult moves to shatter the continent's failing Mana Core and unleash the old curse anew, the healer who has never let anyone heal him must decide whether to sacrifice himself for the world — or finally learn to be saved.

The Echo of Your Smile

sarayeyo

In the neon-drenched, melancholic city of Oakhaven, Zackariel "Zack" Glintwolf is a man drowning in guilt after the death of his girlfriend, Ren. When a mysterious translucent blade appears at his doorstep — a relic with the power to pierce the veil between dimensions — Zack makes the desperate choice to enter the Static Void, a hostile purgatory where souls linger before fading forever. What he finds is not the peaceful memory he cherished, but a Ren trapped in the loop of her darkest moments: the hidden emotional wounds and deep worthlessness she concealed behind a fragile smile while she was alive. To bring her back, Zack cannot rely on his blade alone. He must confront the truth that he failed to truly see her when she was breathing — that he loved her in the way he thought was right, never in the way she needed. As the Void slowly strips away his humanity the longer he stays, and as Ren edges closer to accepting her own disappearance, their journey becomes a slow-burn romance of mutual healing. Ren must find the courage to believe she is worthy of being saved. Zack must learn to listen to the quiet cries beneath the smile. Together, fighting both literal shadows and psychological demons, they forge a path back — to the living world, and to each other.

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.

The Chrono-Alchemist

hakgyeisoso

In the gaslit streets of nineteenth-century Florence, Adeline de Monet — a brilliant but ostracized female engineer haunted by phantom smoke from a childhood tragedy — storms into the life of Raymond Vance, a disgraced cognitive perfumer whose scent formulas can force the mind to confront its deepest truths. Bound together by mutual necessity and mutual suspicion, they forge an uneasy alliance to build a machine capable of resurrecting the final memories of the dead through scent. But as their invention threatens the stranglehold of the powerful Baroness Viviane de Valois over Florentine society, Adeline and Raymond must reckon with a more dangerous discovery: the formula for their greatest creation may be the only cure for the wounds they have spent years perfecting — if they can learn to trust each other before the world tears everything apart.

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.

Shardkin: The Stone Who Taught Monsters to Wash Their Hands

Green Onion

A tired elementary school teacher dies of exhaustion and awakens as the Oracle Stone of a dying Kobold and Goblin tribe on the brink of extinction. Unable to see the future, he can only speak - and uses his voice to teach the monster children hygiene, farming, communication, and cooperation, one misunderstood 'divine decree' at a time. Years later, the world discovers a civilized monster tribe with iron discipline, refined manners, and agriculture far surpassing humankind's - and has to decide whether that is a miracle or a threat.