Fake It Till You Mean It

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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?

The Garden of Borrowed Light

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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.

Stand Down, General

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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.

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.

The Frequency of You

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Aiden Cross is a reclusive college student haunted by the Soul-Echo — an involuntary ability to hear the raw, unfiltered inner cries of anyone experiencing extreme grief, fear, or loneliness. To survive the noise of a world in constant emotional agony, he hides behind matte-black headphones and a carefully maintained distance from everyone around him. He does not want to be needed. He especially does not want to be loved. Then he meets four girls whose silence is louder than anything he has ever heard. Evelyn, a blind piano prodigy whose inner world speaks in symphonies of grief. Lyra, a Siren pretending to be mute, whose true voice only Aiden can hear without being destroyed. Serena, an ice-cold heiress stalked by an ancestral shadow wraith that has been whispering darkness into her mind for years. And Iris, a girl trapped in a year-long coma whose astral projection wanders the campus, invisible to everyone — except him. When Aiden answers the silent cries each of them has given up on anyone ever hearing, something irreversible begins. For the first time, someone truly listens. And when four wounded souls find their only anchor in one person, the line between being needed and being loved becomes the most dangerous frequency of all. As a soul-devouring enemy closes in — one who engineered their wounds and now wants to harvest them — Aiden must choose between the distance that kept him safe and the love he never believed he deserved. Because the girls have already chosen. The only question is whether he will finally let himself be heard.

The Grandmaster Group Chat

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Alan Frost just wants to survive four years at Lumina Academy of High Magic without anyone noticing him. Then a glitch in the Soul Awakening Rite binds his soul to five legendary Grandmasters who sealed the Abyss a thousand years ago: a ruthless swordmaster, a mad scholar, a possessive saint, a teasing shadow queen, and a blunt blacksmith. Now they live in his head like a group chat he cannot mute, and he has exactly 100 mana a day to feed them all. Between secret schedules, jealous rivalries, a Church that hunts heretics, and a father who vanished into the void, Alan must learn that love is not a resource to hoard. It multiplies when shared. A slow-burn magic academy harem rom-com with a guaranteed happy ending.

Before the Meadow Fades

sarayeyo

In a small postwar town on the Central European steppe, three childhood souls find their way back to each other after years apart. Elodie Voss, a doctor returning to care for her ailing grandmother, carries a love she has never spoken aloud. Vera Solano, a young woman preparing to leave for law school, has spent years quietly loving the one person she believes she cannot have. Soren Aldemar, a sailor with a scar on his right arm and music in his hands, has learned not to expect anything from the places he loves. As the meadow gold of postwar reconstruction slowly fades into autumn, all three must reckon with what they kept, what they lost, and what it means to finally stay. A story about silent love, the weight of friendship, and the kind of home that lives in people rather than places.

The Boy Who Forgot Our Tomorrow

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After dying in an accident on Morrow Bridge, Mira Everwyn wakes up seven years in the past at nineteen years old, on the first day of her enrollment at Aureline Institute of Arts. In this new timeline, Noel Ashbourne — the man she loved for seven years — does not remember her. Determined to keep him alive, Mira resolves to stay away from him. But her film photographs begin to change, old city maps redraw themselves, and the memory of a love only she carries keeps pulling them back together. As the date of the original accident draws closer, Mira uncovers a truth that reshapes everything she believed: Noel did not die because of her. He died because he was trying to save her — and because someone with power chose silence over lives. A bittersweet contemporary fantasy about memory, sacrifice, and the kind of love that ends not with two people holding on, but with one person learning to let go.

The Echo of Your Smile

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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.

Aurora Keeps Your Name

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In the northern city of Aurevik, where the aurora borealis can resurrect lost radio signals, Elianor Vale has spent seven years restoring the final transmission from the Frostline 19 ice train disaster — the night her fifteen-year-old brother Niven vanished beneath the frozen lake. When Einar Rook, the sole survivor from the last carriage, returns to Aurevik to permanently close the old Frostline route, Elianor wants only one thing: to know why he lived while her brother disappeared. But the truth is colder than the ice. Niven did not die abandoned — he pushed Einar out of the sinking escape door and made him promise to let his sister have someone to hate, believing her grief would keep her alive through the first winter. As Elianor and Einar are forced to work together to expose the corporate negligence behind the disaster, proximity becomes something neither of them knows how to survive. She cannot love the man her brother died to save. He cannot deserve a woman whose brother gave his life for his. And yet, beneath the aurora that holds the names of the lost, something is asking both of them to stay.