Grovel, Darling, Grovel
By @john1208
Zinnia Corvell wakes up suspended in a zero-gravity spa pod with no memory of the last three years. The last thing she remembers is her husband, Garrick, moving his pregnant first love into their mansion. Luckily, Zinnia’s past self left a video explaining everything: to skip the grieving phase, she wiped her own memories, reclaimed her hidden billionaire heiress status, and became the elusive CEO of Corvell Industries. Her past self also left behind a set of heavily perfumed, tear-stained diaries detailing her "tragic, silent suffering." Now, Garrick has found those fabricated diaries. Utterly shattered by the diamond he lost, his groveling has reached embarrassing, laugh-out-loud extremes. Meanwhile, Zinnia is busy clashing with Bastian Rohe, the exasperating CEO of a rival syndicate. Told in alternating third-person perspectives, Bastian has secretly loved Zinnia for years, but now he must navigate a fiercely hot-tempered amnesiac who treats flirting like a declaration of war. With Garrick’s own assistant acting as her double agent, Zinnia's petty vengeance is going flawlessly. But what happens when Bastian decides he is done playing by the rules of business and plays for her heart instead?
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The Drowsy Weaver's Trap
By @john1208
Roshanak wants nothing more than to nap in the sunlit courtyards of Feroza, but her infuriatingly perfect rival, Iskandar, insists on challenging her to exhausting artisan duels. Worse, her neighbor Zerrin has developed a habit of sneaking into her home to steal Roshanak's favorite trinkets, desperate to replace Roshanak in her perfectly loving family. Unaware that Zerrin harbors a parasitical System designed to siphon her fate, Roshanak simply assumes her neighbor is a petty, unhinged kleptomaniac. Annoyed that her precious downtime is being repeatedly interrupted, the lazy genius meticulously plots a cold, ruthless revenge to publicly ruin the thief. Meanwhile, Iskandar is fiercely investigating a series of dark supernatural anomalies draining the city's fate. As Roshanak's mundane traps perfectly align with Iskandar's magical investigation, Zerrin's System begins to catastrophically short-circuit. Every time it touches Roshanak’s aura-drenched belongings, the sheer density of her latent power fries its interface, violently draining Zerrin's own luck instead. Will Roshanak ever realize she is fighting a cosmic battle, or will her quest for the ultimate uninterrupted nap accidentally save the world?
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