The Chrono-Alchemist

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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.

The Wrong Suspect

Purple

A horror-mystery novelist who sees danger everywhere accidentally picks up the wrong bag and finds what she believes is a serial killer's journal, belonging to her mild-mannered new neighbor, who is actually a stop-motion animator for children's TV. Convinced she has uncovered a murderer, she moves in across the hall to investigate, while he mistakes her clumsy surveillance for a crush. A slow-burn romantic comedy about two people hiding behind masks of perfect control and perfect warmth, and what happens when those masks finally crack.

Shadows Between Our Blood

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Two sisters, bound by blood and broken by a ritual nine years past, must face the truth buried beneath the city they call home. Evelyn Vance, a Blood Alchemist hiding in the shadows of Oakhaven's underworld, has spent years sharpening her hatred for her sister Rosamund — the woman she watched hold the knife over their brother Silas. When Julian Sterling, heir to a cursed bloodline, arrives seeking a forbidden compound, an accidental blood covenant binds them in ways neither can escape or deny. Meanwhile, Rosamund, haunted by an oath of silence that has cost her everything, is forced to work alongside Gabriel Cross — the Dark Judge whose signature once condemned her, and whose hands have quietly protected her ever since. As Hollowed bodies surface across Oakhaven and the city's dark engine begins to fail, all four are drawn toward a conspiracy that reaches back to Silas's death and forward into something that could consume them all. In a city where blood is currency, silence is control, and love has always meant sacrifice, four people must learn that choosing for someone else — however well-intentioned — is its own kind of wound.

The Boy Who Forgot Our Tomorrow

sarayeyo

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 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.

Vows in Rust and Roses

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When Oakhaven's Aetherium reserves near collapse, Duchess Emmeline Holt accepts a marriage contract with Lord Rhen Voss of the resource-rich but isolated Northreach, a transaction designed to save two territories, not to build a life. Rhen wants his land free from the consortium that has exploited it for decades. Emmeline wants to prove she is more than a diplomatic instrument. Neither expects to need the other for anything beyond their signatures. But in the frozen halls of Ironstone Keep, surrounded by the slow warmth of Aetherium pipes and a greenhouse she is quietly coaxing back to life, something begins to grow that neither of them planned for. When a ruthless trade consortium begins dismantling the marriage from within -- forged documents, fractured trust, and the dangerous truth about a decade-old mine collapse -- Emmeline and Rhen must decide whether the vows they made for duty are the same ones they now want to keep for themselves.

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.

A Product Owner in Aethelgard

Ivy Pixie

Charlotte, a sharp-tongued modern Product Owner, wakes up in the body of Lyra von Aurelia — a bankrupt noblewoman in the dying fantasy world of Aethelgard. A mysterious System forces her to treat the crumbling domain as a startup product or face deletion. Just as she begins to turn the ruins into a thriving economy, Kaelen Valerand von Obsidian — an exiled war duke with an army but no budget — arrives to investigate her as a suspected spy. What begins as a cold standoff between a woman who speaks in KPIs and a man who speaks in steel slowly becomes something neither of them has a framework for: trust, partnership, and a love that refuses to be optimized away.

The 432Hz Coda

hwahwachan

In the fictional port city of Aegis Port, a reclusive instrument-maker named Riku Shinohara survives a life of chronic sensory agony — his supernatural synesthesia transforms every sound into an assault of color and pain. The only exception is the 432Hz frequency of a traditional Korean flute played by Bae Chae-won, a prodigy quietly racing against the silence of progressive hearing loss. When necessity forces them into a reluctant arrangement — her music for his craft — they build something neither intended: a bone-conduction instrument that lets her feel sound through vibration, and a connection that threatens every wall they have spent years constructing. As the Asian Symphony Grand Prix draws them into the light and a powerful entertainment conglomerate moves to tear them apart, Riku and Chae-won must choose between the safety of isolation and the terrifying possibility of being fully known by another person. A slow burn romance about loss, chosen interdependence, and the frequencies that find us even in the dark.

Seven Stops to You

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Ten years ago, Rina Sayo and Toma Kanzaki were seventeen and chasing a hand-drawn map through the forgotten corners of their coastal city, Amahara. They found seven hidden stops, a first kiss, and each other — until an accident at the sixth stop took Toma's father and Rina's courage in the same night. She left without a word. He waited without an answer. Now they are twenty-seven, working in the same glass tower for Mirai Axis, a corporation that has quietly turned their shared past into a commercial product. The seven stops they once ran through after school have been rebranded, polished, and sold. When Rina and Toma discover that the map Akio Kanzaki left behind was never a game but a system of buried evidence, they are forced to finish the journey they abandoned a decade ago — through sealed archives, tidal islands, and a rooftop that shows the city's two faces at once. To expose the truth, they will have to cross the distance ten years of silence built between them. Some maps lead people to places. Seven Stops led them back to the parts of themselves they had left behind.