The Gloam King's Hollow Bride
By @john1208
Veleshka woke up in a freezing, opulent bed, coughing up black blood. She had transmigrated into the doomed human bride of the terrifying Gloam King, Olekshar, precisely at the moment of her supposed demise. Knowing the original plot dictates her agonizing death as his sacrificial vessel, she plasters on the smile of a bubbly, clueless airhead to lower his guard - and bolts into the night. Desperate for a quiet, mundane life, Veleshka settles in the impoverished, fog-choked village of Kryvoda. Armed with unwavering cheer and a secret, sharp-witted ruthlessness, she lives peacefully growing marsh-tubers. But when she pawns a seemingly useless obsidian hairpin to buy winter supplies, she makes a fatal mistake. Now, the shadows in Kryvoda are whispering her name. Olekshar is closing in, his monstrous devotion twisting into feral madness with every near-miss. But Veleshka is unaware of the grim truth: Olekshar wasn't trying to sacrifice her, he was performing a ritual to absorb her lethal curse into his own body. As the Gloam King's terrifying obsession bleeds into her sanctuary, will she manage to outrun the monster, or will she realize his suffocating cage is the only thing keeping her alive?
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Hiding in the Yandere Tycoon's Broom Closet
By @john1208
Tullia Morcant had one simple goal when she remembered her past life mid-stride down the wedding aisle: avoid her destined death at the hands of her yandere fiancé, the ruthless tycoon Sorenzo Ghalib. Tossing her bouquet at his head, the fiercely proud villainess fled high society to embrace the quiet, unremarkable life of a minimum-wage cleaner. Her brilliant hiding spot? The basement broom closet of Sorenzo's own corporate mega-tower. It was the perfect disguise - until a clumsy moment forced Tullia to use her unique, aristocratic Vitri-Mend magic to repair his shattered heirloom teacup. Now, the cat-and-mouse game has begun inside the very building he owns. Sorenzo’s dark, possessive shadow looms over every floor, his terrifying devotion thinly veiled as extreme micromanagement. As Tullia narrowly dodges his obsessive traps with the help of a bumbling mailroom clerk, she begins to uncover the tragic, bittersweet truth behind Sorenzo’s monopolies. He isn't hoarding the city's magical resources out of greed; he’s desperately using them to stitch their collapsing novel-world together so she won't be erased. But if this terrifying man finally catches her, will she become his prisoner, or the queen of a dying universe?
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