The Calculated Hearth
By @john1208
Velsia Durn doesn't feel warmth; she calculates it. After a devastating public humiliation leaves her blacklisted by the elites of Vaelox, she secures a position as a nanny for Rocher Galdris, a reclusive billionaire traumatized by a wife who abandoned their chronically ill son. Desperate to fund her own secretly hidden brother's medical care, Velsia engineers the perfect sunny persona. Her meticulously timed smiles and perfectly spiced stews become an addictive, melancholic anchor for the broken father and son. This quiet domestic sanctuary is threatened when Fellina Kest, a rival CEO’s daughter, demands a political marriage with Rocher, violently seeking to purge Velsia from the estate. As Rocher fiercely defends the nanny who brought life back to his home - and as the trio bonds over Grit, a mangy stray dog Velsia smuggled inside - Velsia discovers Fellina's cruel jealousy masks a tragic desperation to save her own sibling from a brutal corporate syndicate. Told through the alternating perspectives of a calculating nanny and a weary father, can Velsia’s cold logic protect this fragile, strictly platonic found family without breaking her own heart?
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The CEO's Runaway Kidney
By @john1208
Minola Vespari played the meek, devoted wife for three years, right up until her billionaire husband, Oswin Jerrick, cornered her in a hospital to forcibly extract her kidney for his sniveling mistress. Minola’s response? Hijacking a catering cart, sprinting out of the ward, and throwing the signed divorce papers at his head before leaping into a getaway car. Returning to her true identity as the flamboyant, elusive CEO of Gilded Mantis Holdings, Minola thrives in chaos. Meanwhile, Oswin’s empire is crumbling. Desperate, he begs for a meeting with the legendary CEO of Gilded Mantis to save his company - only to walk into the boardroom and find Minola spinning in the boss’s chair, unapologetically eating his favorite imported truffles and rejecting his proposal. As Oswin realizes he threw away a diamond and launches a pathetic, laugh-out-loud campaign to win her back, Minola is busy sparring with her infuriatingly handsome corporate rival, Duke Davorin of Kastelvia. Oswin thinks winning the bidding war for an experimental 'miracle cure' will prove his devotion, but he doesn't know the reward is a trap designed to make his mistress violently allergic to lying. Will Oswin's public humiliation be the ultimate cherry on top of Minola's vindication?
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