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.

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.

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.

For the Cameras

Mushroom With Smile

For the Cameras is a contemporary royalty romance set in the fictional kingdom of Haevon, a small and wealthy monarchy where every move the royal family makes is watched, analyzed, and turned into a headline. When Crown Prince Kael Veris needs a carefully crafted public image to counter growing criticism of the royal family's cold and distant reputation, his PR team proposes an unlikely solution: Naia Yim, a 24-year-old freelance illustrator whose quietly viral children's book about a lonely prince captured something painfully real. The plan is simple: ninety days, a fake relationship, controlled and professional. Both parties agree for their own reasons. Neither expects it to become complicated. But proximity has a way of dissolving careful boundaries. Behind the rehearsed appearances and scheduled events, something unscripted begins to take shape, in the questions Kael asks that were never in the brief, in the sketches Naia keeps making that were never meant to be seen, in the silences between them that stop feeling empty and start feeling like something else entirely. What neither of them anticipates is how much the performance will cost when it starts to feel like the truest thing either of them has ever done. At its core, For the Cameras is a story about two people who have spent their lives performing different kinds of survival, one behind a crown, one behind a careful distance, and what happens when the performance runs out and something real is left standing in its place. A slow burn romance about the courage it takes to stay before you know the ending.

Only a Second Life

allbright

Elara Voss has spent three years dreaming of a dead man. When Caelan Arden walks into her coffee shop very much alive, she recognizes him instantly: the prince who loved her in another world, the academic director who has no memory of any of it. As two worlds fracture and a promise made across lifetimes demands its reckoning, Elara uncovers a devastating truth: she begged the universe to bring him back, and paid for it with pieces of herself she never knew she lost. Now she cannot tell whether his love is his own, or simply the debt she created. A romantic fantasy about memory, agency, and choosing the same heart when no one is asking you to.

The Glitch That Loved Me

Ivy Violet

When tech mogul Victor Sterling falls through a space-time rift and crash-lands on struggling content creator Chloe Vance's balcony, he loses everything that ever defined him: his empire, his AI assistant, and his ability to operate a rice cooker. Stranded in a "primitive" world with a 30-day countdown to reactivate his only way home, Victor strikes a deal with Chloe: he'll star in her viral comedy videos in exchange for room, board, and survival lessons. But as their fake-it-till-you-make-it arrangement turns their lives upside down, both discover something neither expected -- that being truly seen matters more than being in control. With Victor's corporate empire scheming to declare him dead and Chloe's own wounds warning her not to trust anyone with a camera pointed at them, they'll have to choose: the world they know, or each other.

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.

Painted Fool

Ms. Olympus

In the kingdom of Haeyeon, where noble houses still arrange marriages and ancient courts stand alongside modern cities, the name Ryu Woohyeon has always meant one thing: fool. For thirteen years, the young lord of House Ryu has moved through the world in silence, dismissed, sidelined, and quietly used as a shield by the uncle who destroyed everything he once was. Three days before his betrothal ceremony, something changes. Woohyeon wakes up different. Jin Seonu, a psychology researcher from another world, finds himself inhabiting the body of a stranger with no way home and no map for survival. He has three days to learn an entire life, the customs of a court he has never seen, the enemies he has never made, and the woman he is about to marry. Seo Yeonhwa is not what anyone expects a bride to be. Sharp, unbending, and born with a rare gift called Sigeul that lets her sense the true desires behind every face, she has spent her life reading people like open books. She has never met anyone she could not read, until now. What follows is not a simple love story. It is the story of a man learning to inhabit someone else wounds, a woman learning to trust what she cannot explain, and a soul long buried in silence finding, at last, someone willing to listen. Around them, old betrayals surface, dangerous alliances fracture, and a second stranger from Seonu's world moves quietly through the court with plans of her own. Painted Fool asks a question it takes fifty-eight chapters to answer: when everything about a person, their name, their body, their place in the world, belongs to someone else, what remains that is truly theirs to give?

Sentenced to Brilliance

Ivy Pixie

In the fog-drenched empire of Valerand, where gothic spires pierce a sky thick with arcane sorcery, a modern criminal profiler awakens inside the body of Vivian Voss — a villainess condemned to death for the alleged poisoning of the Crown Prince. Armed with nothing but twenty-first century psychology and a Black Dossier system inherited from the body's original soul, she must do what no court sorcerer has managed: profile the true killer before the Grand Arbiter's verdict seals her fate. That arbiter is Gavin Blackthorn — a disgraced prince turned empire's most ruthless judge, whose heterochromatic eyes can detect any lie ever spoken. He sees through every deception in the realm. Every deception, except hers. As each murder case pulls them deeper into the shadow of the Church's most dangerous conspiracy, the line between adversary and ally dissolves — and the most perilous thing either of them will ever face is not a nameless killer, but the moment they allow the other to truly see them. In a world that sentences the wicked to death, brilliance may be the only crime worth committing.

Miss Sterling's Villainess

Morgan Forrest

Julie Lin, a modern-day QA tester, wakes up transmigrated into the body of a scheming green-tea villainess bound to a System that forces her to sabotage the story's true heroine, ice-cold CEO Vanessa Sterling. Armed with a tester's eye for loopholes, Julie turns every villainous task into a harmless farce, never suspecting that Vanessa has seen through her clumsy act since the very first night and is falling for the woman underneath it.