The Silent Warden of Ashdown
By @john1208
Dr. Kenjiro Ishida is a Remission Specialist, a state psychologist tasked with evaluating the mental fitness of individuals deemed societal threats. His new assignment is Kyouko Hino, the 'Witch of the Ashdown Ward,' a woman infamous for her ruthless acquisition of crumbling district properties and her chilling indifference to the families she displaces. The State believes her a sociopath, a danger to be contained. But as Kenjiro probes the unyielding fortress of her mind, he uncovers inconsistencies: glimpses of a profound sorrow, a fierce, hidden protectiveness, and a network of 'ill-gotten' wealth that vanishes without a trace. While Kenjiro wrestles with his professional ethics and the echoes of his own buried trauma, he realizes Kyouko isn't just hiding a tragic past; she's guarding a secret that could save the city's forgotten children, or cost them both everything. Can he unravel the truth before the State declares her incurable and silences her for good?
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A Vow of Thorns and Silver
By @john1208
After her father's sudden death leaves her family destitute, Danuta Rostova sacrifices her future by accepting an arranged marriage to the enigmatic Duke Ziven Radomir, a man who has not been seen in society for years. Her only goal is to secure a safe life for her sickly younger brother, Alek. But the sprawling, isolated estate of Kresnik Spire holds dark secrets, and her new husband is a man of shadows and sorrow, kind one moment and terrifyingly distant the next. Danuta's kindness slowly chips away at Ziven's walls, revealing a gentle soul trapped by a horrifying curse: every full moon, he becomes a mindless, bloodthirsty beast. As their arranged marriage blossoms into genuine love, she learns the curse can only be broken by a willing sacrifice from someone who truly loves him. When a former suitor, Baron Verian, arrives with the intent to expose Ziven and claim Danuta for himself, she must make an impossible choice: protect the man she loves by condemning him to a lifetime of monstrosity, or save his soul by surrendering her own life?
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The Barista's Last Latte
By @john1208
I'm Renzo, or at least I was. All my life, I've been a shy but stubborn barista with two passions: crafting the perfect latte and battling a disease that was slowly killing me. On my deathbed, a mischievous elder deity offered me a deal: one year of perfect health in a stranger's body. I took it without a second thought. I woke up as Dr. Callista 'The Ice Queen' Verrano, a surgical prodigy with hands that can save any life but a heart colder than a morgue slab. My new life is a chaotic mess of medical jargon, terrified interns, and a complete inability to boil water. The only bright spot? The sunny barista at the hospital cafe who insists on bringing me meals, his kindness a beacon in my cold new world. The problem? He's me. He has my old body, my old name, and apparently, a massive crush on the woman I've become. And as I learn more about Callista's own secret suffering, I realize my year of 'perfect health' is far more complicated than I ever imagined. How can I melt her frozen heart when I'm stuck inside it, and will he still love the woman she is when he finds out who I truly am?
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Sweatpants and Secret Billionaires
By @john1208
I just wanted to nap. But after striking a desperate deal with my nagging mother - one blind date in exchange for six months of absolute peace - I dragged myself to the meeting spot in my favorite stained sweatpants, fully expecting the guy to run for the hills. Instead, Corso, a remarkably handsome but supposedly broke freelance techie, didn't even blink. I proposed a strictly fake, tax-benefit marriage of convenience to solve both our family problems. I thought I was a genius who had hacked the system. I was wrong. I completely misunderstood the rules: the marriage was legally binding, and my 'broke' husband was playing for keeps. Now, I'm exhausted. I'm secretly Korsaka City's top retrieval operative, forced to fight off rival syndicates while pretending to be a normal civilian housewife. Meanwhile, Corso keeps spoiling me, treating me to stays in a hyper-luxurious mega-mansion that he swears is just an 'Airbnb he got a promo code for.' I almost believed his poor-guy act, until his ultra-rich, terrifyingly snobby mother kicked down the door of our crappy cover apartment, screaming about her billionaire heir living in a dumpster. Just who exactly did I marry?
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SPARKWEB: Nasi Goreng Radioaktif
By @Gilbert Joel
Gilbert Rahanra, a boisterous middle-schooler with an intense arachnophobia, accidentally ingests a radioactive spider during a field trip to Nusantara Bio-Tech Lab. This bizarre incident grants him an array of arachnid-like powers, from wall-crawling to electric venom strikes. Burdened by his newfound abilities and the terror of discovery, Gil crafts a secret identity as 'Sparkweb,' a masked vigilante. Aided by VIOX, his snarky AI assistant, he must battle the sinister Aurum Corp, who seek to reclaim their genetically engineered Arachne-7 for nefarious purposes. Gil grapples with the crushing weight of responsibility and profound loneliness, all while attempting to navigate puberty and keep his electrifying secret from his friends and family in a modern Indonesian city. His journey is a quirky blend of slapstick humor, heartwarming moments, and detailed, high-octane battles against a shadowy corporate enemy.
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Married to my bully
By @Ina Ina
Anya Sharma’s meticulously crafted life unravels when a corporate crisis forces her into a marriage of convenience with Liam Vance, her high school tormentor. Bound by legal ties and a shared family legacy teetering on the brink, Anya is thrust into a luxurious, yet suffocating, penthouse life with the man who once made her existence a living hell. Her quiet strength and unwavering empathy are her only defenses against Liam’s icy disdain and the persistent echoes of his past cruelty. As she grapples with her new reality, Anya must navigate the complex web of secrets entangling their powerful families. Can she unearth the truth, heal old wounds, and confront the undeniable, forbidden attraction blossoming between them, or will their forced proximity only deepen the scars, threatening to destroy everything they're trying to save? The stakes are not just corporate assets but the very fabric of their futures.
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The Slumbering Calamity of Half-Float Teahouse
By @john1208
Told in close third person, the story follows Shen Tinghe, who has spent ten years perfecting the art of doing absolutely nothing. As the owner of the Half-Float Teahouse, he naps through sect tournaments and ignores the arrogant cultivators drinking his mid-tier jasmine tea. He has a good reason: his cultivation base is so overwhelmingly dense that merely flexing his Qi would fracture the foundational pillars of the Yuancang Realm. He desires only a peaceful, melancholic fade into obscurity. But his quiet life shatters when a midnight courier drops off a sealed mahogany box containing a demon-blooded orphan and a cryptic letter from a dead rival. Too lazy to find a proper master for the boy, Shen casually tosses him a discarded cultivation manual once used to prop up a wobbly table. He expects the boy to give up. Instead, the outcast rapidly mutates the flawed technique into a world-shocking art, drawing the very attention Shen sought to avoid. With his best friend acting suspicious and a tragic villain attempting to collapse the heavens to save a dying world, will Shen shatter the sky to save his disciple, or let the realm suffocate?
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Return of the Jade Exile
By @john1208
I'm spitting blood onto the rain-slicked docks of Paldora, knuckles bruised from fighting off three smugglers to protect my three-legged mastiff, Grit. That's when the old jade pendant is ripped from my neck, catching the neon light. Less than twenty-four hours later, the Morvante family helicopters arrive. Dragged back to the glittering estates of Alta-Riva, I'm paraded as the pathetic, uncultured daughter, ruthlessly mocked by high society and Lyssia, the flawless fake heiress who took my place. They think I'm just a dirty immigrant worker with a volatile temper. They don't know I've spent the last decade aggressively shadow-investing my meager dock wages, building a secret fortune. Alongside Cielo, a fiercely protective, ousted socialite who matches my broken edges, I begin buying up the elites' precious assets to wipe the arrogant smiles off their faces. But digging into the Morvante databanks uncovers a devastating, melancholic truth: I wasn't stolen. My six-year-old self orchestrated my own exile, leaving behind the pendant and digital breadcrumbs so I could return with enough capital to survive. Will the crushing emotional weight of my past self's sacrifice break me, or can we finally forge a hopeful future from the ashes of their empire?
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The Trillionaire's Midnight Delivery
By @john1208
Karys Fend, the brilliant but alienated heiress of the Fend Corporation, suffers from severe stress-induced anorexia due to her family’s ruthless expectations. The only food she can keep down is the simple, rustic midnight takeout delivered by Orik, a deadpan courier for a run-down ghost kitchen. To Karys’s elitist family, Orik is nothing but a 'slop-peddler' ripe for cruel mockery whenever he tracks mud into their penthouses. They have no idea that Orik is actually the vanished Sovereign of the Zarris Syndicate - the anonymous tycoon who secretly owns the city’s entire debt and real estate grid. Orik retired to find peace in cooking, but Karys’s fierce defense of him against her own abusive relatives slowly melts his cynical heart. When the Fend patriarch attempts to force Karys into a predatory marriage by hosting a lavish gala to impress the mysterious Zarris Sovereign, they make the fatal mistake of throwing Orik’s delivery moped into the fountain. As Karys stands alone against her family's cruelty, will Orik finally take off his delivery helmet, claim the VIP throne, and instantly foreclose on the very ballroom they are standing in?
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Where the Silent Rivers Bloom
By @john1208
Kirana lives a simple, cheerful life, documenting forgotten corners of the city and selling his photos for pocket money. Everyone sees him as a charming, slightly ditzy wanderer, a perception he carefully maintains. But his world shatters when a brutal chase through the city's underbelly forces him to use an old jade pendant to save his life, unleashing a dormant power he never knew he had. He is the last heir of the Cendana Clan, a legendary family of martial artists who control the underworld from the shadows. Dragged into a world of immense wealth, deadly politics, and ancient feuds, Kirana must learn to wield the 'Aliran Hening,' a unique art that turns stillness into unstoppable force. His tutor is Amira, the clan's most formidable guardian, a woman bound by duty to protect him yet burdened by a secret order to eliminate him if he fails. As they navigate assassination attempts and betrayals, their forced proximity sparks a slow-burning connection that could save them both - or doom the clan entirely. Can Kirana master his power and sharp mind in time to protect his new life, and can he trust the woman whose heart is as guarded as her lethal hands?
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The Sunstone Gardener
By @john1208
Lempi Isotalo, a botanical genius whose greatest talent is avoiding work, wants nothing more than a quiet life tending her plants. But when her family's fortunes crumble, she's forced into an arranged marriage with Lord Valo Koskinen, the reclusive master of the mist-shrouded Virela estate. The deal is simple: her presence will secure her younger brother's future. Lempi plans to nap her way through the marriage, but she soon discovers her husband's secret: a creeping petrification curse is slowly turning him to stone. The only cure is the mythical Sunpetal, a flower so rare it's considered extinct. As Valo's condition worsens, the curse manifests as aggressive, stone-like growths, making him more monstrous and withdrawn. Lempi realizes that saving him might be the most challenging project she's ever faced. But with her trusted mentor guiding her from afar and the curse actively fighting her efforts, can this brilliant slacker cultivate a miracle before her husband becomes a permanent statue?
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My Smile Hides a Thousand Blades
By @john1208
Everyone in the Azure Sky Clan knows Bai An is a lost cause. Poisoned into mediocrity as a child, his boundless optimism is seen as the delusion of a fool. But on the brink of death, a spark ignites within his family's heirloom - a broken, rusted sword. He awakens not just with his spiritual pathways cleared, but with the soul of Xun Feng, the last general of a fallen dynasty, roaring for vengeance in his mind. Xun Feng offers Bai An a path to power: feed the broken blade, the 'Gluttonous Shard,' the weapons of his enemies, and it will grant him forgotten, devastating techniques. With a grin on his face and an ancient catastrophe at his fingertips, Bai An enters the Imperial Ascendancy Tournament, ready to shatter the arrogance of everyone who ever looked down on him, including his own fiancée. Yet as he carves his way to the top, he uncovers a chilling link between the petty jealousy that crippled him and the shadowy cabal that annihilated Xun Feng’s world. His quest for a cure is now tangled in a war that threatens to consume the empire. Can a smiling boy hiding a tragic soul win a war that a legendary hero already lost?
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My Husband, the Blighted Saint
By @john1208
My father's funeral pyre was still warm when the marriage contract arrived. To save my ailing younger sister, Rila, from a life of poverty, I agreed to wed Lord Valerik of the Frostfang Hold - a man no one had seen in a decade. I expected a recluse, not a monster whose very touch withers life to ash. He is a prisoner in his own home, gentle in his solitude but tormented by a curse that makes any affection a death sentence. As I navigate the cold silence of our stone halls, protecting him from the zealous 'Purifiers' who hunt him, an unspoken love blooms in the space between us. I've devoted myself to finding a cure, a legendary ritual requiring a great act of selfless love. But the closer I get to the truth, the more I fear that this ancient rite isn't meant to save him. It's meant to transform him. Can I break his curse without unleashing a far deadlier power upon the world?
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The Alchemist of Rust and Mercy
By @john1208
In the smog-choked city of Brehn, where industrial alchemy pollutes the very air, Inquisitor Alaric Voss is a man of singular purpose. His younger brother is dying from the Rust-Lung, a horrifying affliction sweeping through the city's poorest districts. Alaric's investigation into the plague's origin points to one culprit: Liesel Vande, the cold-hearted and calculating matriarch of the Iron Guild, infamous for her brutal consolidation of the city's alchemical trade. Known as the 'Iron Hag', she is whispered to have engineered the plague to eliminate her rivals. Alaric vows to bring her to justice, even if it means dismantling her empire piece by piece. But as he closes his net, unsettling truths emerge. Liesel's ruthless actions seem to inadvertently shield the weak, and her movements align suspiciously with anonymous donations funding the very plague clinics Alaric relies on. The closer he gets to the truth, the more he realizes the monster he's hunting and the savior he's searching for might be the same person. Can Alaric unravel the conspiracy connecting them before his crusade destroys the only person capable of saving the city and his brother?
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A Scent of Bitter Myrrh
By @john1208
I woke up clinging to the shattered chandelier of the Exarch’s bedroom, the gravity-wards failing as the apocalyptic Null-Tide storm finally broke. Below me slept Kivanc, the tyrant I was arranged to marry in my disguised, 'hideous' persona. I had ruthlessly used him to survive the freezing blackout, stealing his ambient heat and leaving before dawn. But in my haste, I dropped my blood-signed emancipation contract. Now, he is tearing the city of Yaldiz apart to find the mysterious woman who dared to bed him and run. By day, I play the part of his cursed, ash-scarred fiancée - the very woman he is aggressively trying to divorce so he can scour the underworld for his midnight thief. My survival depends on my quiet ruthlessness, staying one step ahead of his obsessive manhunt while living in his own estate. I thought I understood the rules of our deadly game: he wanted to execute the thief and divorce the ugly bride. But what happens when a drop of my bitter-myrrh perfume exposes my secret, and I realize the contract I left behind wasn't a death warrant, but a mating rite - and he has been hunting me to save my life?
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Faking Celibacy to Survive My Nemesis
By @john1208
Tazia Moranza wakes up from a terrifying prophetic nightmare with one stark realization: her infuriatingly perfect academic rival, Zorano, is destined to murder her. To escape this fate, Tazia does the only logical thing. During the grand opening of the semester's most anticipated dueling tournament, she drops to her knees, publicly repents for her 'sins,' and declares she is swearing off all earthly desires - especially men - to become a devout Sister of the Chaste Prism. It's a foolproof plan, right? Wrong. Her sudden pious transformation from a famously cheeky, competitive menace into a burlap-sack-wearing saint only makes Zorano highly suspicious. Fascinated by her bizarre behavior, he begins tailing her every move, determined to unravel her secrets. But her nightmare left out one tiny, terrifying detail: the celestial alignment marking her death isn't years away - it's happening in exactly thirty days. With the clock ticking and a bitter rivalry threatening to boil over into blazing attraction, can Tazia maintain her holy facade long enough to survive, or will being trapped in an illusion matrix with her surprisingly gentle executioner be her ultimate undoing?
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The Echo of a Name I Should Not Know
By @john1208
I am Ilona Varga, a mapmaker's girl with an ailing father and an empty purse. When a winter storm forces me into the shadowed halls of the forgotten Varad Manor, I find more than just shelter. I find its master, Zsigmond, a man cursed into a form of shifting thorns and sorrowful shadow, a beast to all who see him. But not to me. In his desolate eyes, I see the kind stranger who has visited my dreams since childhood, offering comfort I never understood. The local lorekeeper, an old woman named Csilla, tells me the path is clear: to break his curse, I must willingly accept his monstrous form. As I grow to love the gentle soul trapped within the terrifying shell, our unspoken bond deepens. But the curse fights back, twisting Zsigmond into something more dangerous, and a strange familiarity about the manor whispers that I've been here before. Why do I recognize a melody no one has played for a century, and how do I know the beast's true name when even he has forgotten it?
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The Midnight Facade
By @john1208
Standing at her mentor's deathbed, world-weary and fiercely sarcastic Tazrin Volen learns a terrifying truth: her aggressive stalker, Kryton Bhelz, has initiated a one-sided blood-pact. She has exactly ninety days before her autonomy is permanently bound to his family. To buy time for her cold, calculated revenge, Tazrin strikes a deal with Chasen Dhalor, the city's most notorious playboy, using his scandalous reputation as a political shield. Tazrin expects a shallow arrangement, but the lines blur almost immediately. When Kryton attempts to corner her at a Grav-Strike tournament, Chasen's careless grin vanishes, replaced by a terrifying possessiveness that culminates in a breath-stealing, world-stopping kiss on the stadium's kiss cam. The true shock comes when the blood-pact's toll leaves Tazrin violently ill; Chasen abruptly cancels a luxury yacht trip with a dozen models just to sit by her bed, feed her rare glow-kelp soup, and play the heartbreakingly emotional music he secretly composes. He is entirely, hopelessly in love with her. But as her ninety-day deadline looms, Tazrin uncovers a devastating twist. She isn't the only one running out of time - what happens when she discovers the unspoken, fatal countdown ticking away inside Chasen?
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My Roommate is a Bloodsucking Calamity
By @john1208
Gisela von Kessel is a horticultural genius, or she was, until a spectacular (and very public) failure involving explosive snap-peas left her career in ruins. Her only path back to prestige is to find the Silversoul Bloom, a legendary flower said to cure any ailment. When a freak storm shipwrecks her on a forgotten isle, she takes shelter in a decrepit castle, only to find herself the unwilling guest of its master: Valerius, a monstrous, shadow-wreathed beast who subsists on life force. He's morose, sarcastic, and cursed to the bone. Gisela, proud and prickly, is more annoyed than scared. She's stuck with a monster who keeps trying to 'politely' sip her energy, a ridiculously pompous suitor from back home trying to 'rescue' her, and a kleptomaniac moss-lemur named Pip who keeps stealing her research notes. As Gisela begrudgingly helps Valerius manage his curse, she realizes the monster and her mythical flower are connected in a way that could either save them both... or get them permanently killed. Can she cultivate a cure for his curse without sacrificing her own ambitions, or will her obsession to reclaim her reputation be the very thing that dooms them both?
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The Saint of Soot and Cinder
By @john1208
Kaven Volkov was the pride of the Vodyan Technomantic Institute, until his own brilliance left him crippled and his career in ruins. His only path back is a deal with the devil: Zorina Rostova, the 'Soot Saint', a reviled state enforcer whose Cinder-born power is blamed for every disaster in the smog-choked city of Veridsk. Forced to become her aide, Kaven is certain she's the monster everyone claims. He sees only a cold, ruthless woman who wields her destructive ability without remorse. But as he works by her side, he glimpses the truth beneath the ash - a calculated plan to dismantle a corrupt system from within and quiet, desperate acts of unregistered kindness. Kaven finds himself becoming the sole defender of the woman who ruined his life, caught between the city's powerful elite and the ticking clock of her volatile power. As he falls for the woman behind the fearsome mask, he must ask himself: can he save a saint who is determined to be remembered as a sinner?
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A Thousand Sparks in the Mist
By @john1208
Ruan Zhihe’s ordinary morning of brewing herbal tea and feeding the local ghosts is violently interrupted when her courtyard’s ancient furnace spits out a blood-stained blueprint - written in her own handwriting. Recently discarded by the prophesied hero, Zhihe couldn't care less about her ruined reputation or her exile. Her sole, consuming obsession is forging the Heaven-Mending Crucible. As she wanders the misty, cursed peaks seeking rare spiritual ores, her profound kindness and eerie, unshakeable focus draw the attention of the realm's most dangerous men. Yet, Zhihe greets their obsessive advances with gentle pity. Believing romantic attachment is a horrific affliction that shatters a cultivator's Golden Core, she holds their hands, looks at them with absolute compassion, and lectures them on spiritual hygiene before offering them rehabilitation tea. Her rejections only fuel their madness, prompting a Supreme Deity to descend from the upper realms just to elicit a single emotional reaction from her. But why does the blueprint require the shattered obsessions of heavenly beings, and what terrible truth did her past self seal away to ensure she would never be capable of love?
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The Cipher of Somnus
By @john1208
Rinat Aliyev is a Resonator, a psycho-therapist of the mind, renowned for his ability to bring even the most fractured psyches into Harmony. His quiet ruthlessness has earned him the toughest cases within the Spire of Serenity, the sanatorium for the psychically unstable. His new assignment is his greatest challenge yet: the infamous Inessa Rostova, a woman whose Dissonant Resonance is so powerful it warps reality around her. The world sees her as a monster, a cold-hearted weapon who shattered the city's peace. Rinat's job is simple: break her emotional walls, neutralize the threat, and earn a coveted place on the Altan Council. But as he navigates the labyrinth of her mind, he finds not a monster, but a fortress built of grief. Behind her icy facade is a woman secretly funneling her family's vast wealth to a hidden sanctuary for psychic orphans. As Rinat unravels the truth of her past, he becomes her sole defender, willing to risk everything to protect her from the very system he serves. But what if the 'cure' he is meant to administer - the Harmony everyone craves - is not a reward, but a trap designed to enslave them all?
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I'm Just Here to Write the Kiss Scene
By @john1208
I was Leo, a romance author who quit my most popular web-novel, 'A Petal on the Wind', halfway through. Now, I'm Prince Leocadio de Valenti, a sickly, forgotten royal in that very story, and I've woken up just in time for the engagement party of my protagonist, the earnest Duke Bastien, to his intended bride. My goal is simple: stay in the shadows, pull a few strings, and give my beloved characters the beautiful, heartwarming ending they deserve. The problem? The heroine, Marisol de Estella, a brilliant swordswoman with a temper as sharp as her blade, seems more interested in challenging me than falling for the Duke. Worse, a mysterious 'Reader' has also entered our world, a powerful variable who knows the plot and is twisting it for their own cruel amusement. Now I'm locked in a battle of wits against a rival who wants to destroy my story, and a heroine who is rewriting her own fate... and maybe mine with it. Can I create a happy ending when my own heart is going completely off-script?
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My Afterlife Retirement Plan is a Complete Disaster
By @john1208
Bogdan Chekhovsky, the greatest magical strategist in the history of the Svardian Empire, had one simple goal: die and stay dead. After a lifetime of overwork, all he wanted was a permanent nap. He even left a perfect plan to ensure his legacy would protect the Empire so he could rest in peace. Centuries later, he wakes up in the body of his own profoundly lazy descendant, also named Bogdan, at a state funeral. The guest of honor? The infamous 'Witch of the Frostwood', Lady Anja Volkov, the woman blamed for a magical disaster that crippled Bogdan's new body. But as strange memories and directives from his past self begin to surface, Bogdan realizes his former self wasn't just a genius strategist, but also a master-level troll. He has been railroaded by his own ghost into a mission: prove Anja's innocence. Now, this apostle of apathy must unravel a conspiracy, defend the ice-cold woman who supposedly ruined his life, and manage a secret orphanage, all while desperately trying to get back to his nap. Can the laziest man in the Empire fulfill the ambitions of its most irritatingly proactive ghost?
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A Scripted Vow
By @john1208
The morning after a disastrous audition and a drunken night of heartbreak, Zinnia receives a strange velvet envelope containing a certified marriage license. The groom? Julian, the arrogant, struggling actor she clashed with yesterday - and the man she drunkenly mistook for a hired gigolo last night. Desperate to become a lead actress without compromising her morals, Zinnia refuses to let this accidental marriage derail her new internship at the prestigious Kinematic Studios. While she and Julian bicker endlessly in their cramped apartment, establishing a fierce rivalry, Zinnia suddenly begins to land roles that were previously blocked by industry predators. What she doesn't know is that Julian isn't a penniless gigolo; he is the elusive billionaire CEO of Kinematic Studios. Behind his mocking smiles, her doting husband is systematically destroying anyone who stands in her way. But with her trusted mentor pulling sinister strings in the shadows, will Zinnia discover her husband's true empire before her career is permanently sabotaged?
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Ink and Instinct
By @john1208
All I wanted was a quiet corner in the Velisario Archives to take my afternoon naps. Instead, I’m cornered by Raxen Vor, the blood-soaked Alpha of the Kargath Pack - a syndicate of supernatural assassins feared by monsters and men alike. We strike a reluctant deal: I use my linguistic genius to decode a primordial werewolf relic for him, and in exchange, he doesn't kill me. We despise each other instantly. He’s a ruthless, feral beast; I’m a fragile human who considers walking up stairs a tragedy. But there’s a massive problem. Translating the text accidentally hardwired my brain to the Kargath pack-link. I can now hear the murderous thoughts of every wolf in the city. Worse, Raxen is desperately hunting a mythical 'Thought-Thief' stealing their secrets, never realizing his irritating human rival is the culprit. Throw in a den of jealous she-wolves who want me dead for standing too close to their Alpha, and my peaceful life is over. Every time I wander off to find a reading spot, I end up in danger, and Raxen goes absolutely berserk to save me. How long until he realizes the fragile mate he's protecting is the spy he swore to kill?
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The Gilded Cage's Only Key
By @john1208
As a Knight of the Varangian Guard, I, Zoryan Voronin, am bound by oath to protect the Imperial family. My life's curse is the 'Gaze of Veracity' - a maddening ability to see the shimmer of every lie and illusion. It’s a lonely existence, until I am assigned to guard Lady Anasztasia Volkov, the 'Winter Witch' of the court. Reviled for a crime she confessed to - sabotaging the Empire’s arcane defenses - she is a prisoner in all but name. Everyone sees a monster, but when I look at her, my Gaze sees only unwavering truth. She is innocent. Forced into her silent, icy world, I find myself shielding her from daggers both real and whispered. Beneath her glacial facade is a woman fighting a secret war against a rot that festers at the heart of the Empire. She pushes me away, but I am the only one who can see her for what she is: a saint in a villain's mask. As the lines between duty and devotion blur, how can I save a woman who is determined to be damned?
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My Billion-Dollar Bullseye
By @john1208
Pavel Orlov has two goals in life: deliver his parcels on time without tripping over his own feet, and maybe work up the courage to talk to Anja, the girl from the bakery. His world of wobbly bike rides and day-old pastries is shattered when a high-speed chase involving a rocket-powered samovar ends with him being rescued by a woman claiming to be his long-lost aunt. Pavel isn't just an orphan; he's the last scion of the legendary Volkov clan, a secret family of 'Kinetic Charmers' with immense power and even more immense wealth. He was hidden away for a normal childhood after his parents' mysterious demise. But 'normal' is over. Now, thrust into a life of opulent danger at the Volkov Grand Spire, he must master his chaotic powers under the watch of his stern aunt and navigate a society of super-elites who want him dead. His inheritance isn't a gift; it's a trap designed by his parents, and the key to understanding why they were killed. Can a boy who can't even carry a tray of tea survive a world where a handshake can level a city block?
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My Darling Dandelion
By @john1208
Zoya Vasilievna seems like the perfect, harmless bride for the stone-cold heir of the Volkov empire, Kaelan Volkov. Their marriage is a simple business transaction, a merger of old money and new power. To everyone, especially the scheming Sokolov family who arranged the match, Zoya is a cheerful, glitter-obsessed ditz, a dandelion puff to be blown away at their convenience. But beneath the saccharine smiles and pastel outfits is a razor-sharp mind, armed with a secret backer and a deathbed promise to protect her family's true legacy. Forced to collaborate with her indifferent husband on a high-stakes ecological architecture project, Zoya juggles sabotaging the Sokolovs' plans, winning over her skeptical in-laws, and keeping her own formidable intellect a secret. But the Sokolovs' matriarch has a desperate, tragic reason for her machinations, one that is deeply entangled with Zoya's own past. As the stakes get higher, can Zoya protect everyone she cares about without revealing the brilliant woman she truly is?
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Bloodline Override
By @john1208
Vashka spent his life scrubbing floors at the Morzana Ascetic Order and secretly hacking corporate satellites for fun. But his life takes a lethal turn when he wakes up drowning inside the submerged cooling tank of the Vrost Conglomerate’s master mainframe - an impossible, hyper-secure vault. He soon discovers the dark truth: Chairman Vrost’s dying will named Vashka the true heir. To steal the inheritance, the fake heir, Orenze, executed a flawless digital identity swap. Now, Orenze is playing the tragic, long-lost temple boy, while Vashka is legally branded as the disgraced, ousted fake heir. It’s a brutal trap - unless the victim is a cheeky, shameless hacker who loves playing dirty. Embracing his new identity as the 'disgraced elite', Vashka teams up with Lescara, a cold-blooded cybersecurity chief acting as his double agent, to weaponize Orenze’s own network against him. As Vashka systematically humiliates the snobs who think they’ve already beaten him, the clock ticks down on the grandfather’s encrypted will. Can Vashka crack the final biometric lock before Orenze physically erases him from the real world?
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The Whisperwight of Varjakka
By @john1208
In the gilded city of Varjakka, where magical talent is both a blessing and a cage, Ilona Varkonyi is known as the 'Whisperwight' - a callous manipulator who uses her rare Umbral Weaving to ruin reputations and shatter dreams for the clandestine State Chancellery. Publicly despised but secretly a protector of the magically ungifted, she maintains her villainous cover with shy, stubborn resolve. Her latest target is Miklós Kallio, a gentle Glasswright whose burgeoning fame threatens to expose a state secret. Ilona carries out her orders, tarnishing his name and isolating him. Yet, Miklós, who should hate her, sees flickers of kindness beneath her icy facade. As he quietly investigates the Whisperwight, he uncovers a network of shadow-charities she secretly funds and a conspiracy far more dangerous than her manufactured villainy. With the true threat preparing to strike, can Miklós convince the world - and Ilona herself - of her true worth before her final, self-sacrificing act dooms them both?
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Heart of Alloy
By @john1208
In a world protected by elite, System-gifted warriors, Janek Kazimir drew the short straw. His [Lesser Blacksmith] class is a cosmic joke, capable only of mending broken tools, not fighting the chrome-fanged Chimeras that breach the city walls. While his peers earn glory, Janek spends his days cheerfully hammering dents out of practice dummies, an object of pity and ridicule. But when a strange, data-corrupted package arrives containing a shard of unidentifiable alloy, his life changes forever. The system prompt isn't for repair, but for 'Integration.' Experimenting, Janek discovers his true calling: he can't just repair items, he can repair and infinitely upgrade his own body, fusing flesh with steel. He's not a Blacksmith; he's a living forge. As he secretly grows stronger, he clashes with the academy's prodigy, the cold and brilliant Zosia, who sees him as an anomaly to be dissected. When a catastrophic attack cripples the city's defenses, can Janek reveal his impossible power to save everyone, or will his unique existence make him a bigger target than any monster?
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I Vowed To Be Lazy, But The Villainess Keeps Dying On Me
By @john1208
Inspector Marek Hasek, a man whose genius is matched only by his profound laziness, is finally on his deathbed, ready for the eternal nap he's craved his entire life. But his final rest is interrupted by a vision: he’s back at the start of his most infamous case, investigating Zofia 'The Iron Widow' Niemczyk, the woman accused of orchestrating the Great Lumoss Heist that plunged the city of Praskov into darkness. Everyone knows Zofia is a monster, living lavishly off her crimes. But as Marek reluctantly relives his investigation, he uncovers the truth: Zofia is secretly funding an orphanage with her 'stolen' fortune. He finds himself falling for the woman he's meant to condemn, becoming her sole defender in a world that hates her. Just as he clears her name, she sacrifices herself to stop a city-wide catastrophe. Then he wakes up, on his deathbed, again. Forced into a time loop by a cryptic elder, Marek must repeatedly save the tragically self-sacrificing villainess he's come to love. Can a man who just wants to sleep finally break the cycle and give the city's secret saint the peaceful life she deserves, or is he doomed to watch her die forever?
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The Patisserie Paradox
By @john1208
Jadwiga 'Jaga' Orlecka wakes up with a perfect smile, a love for baking ridiculously intricate confections, and a complete blank where the last five years of her life should be. She's also married to the notoriously cold Krystian Morozov, scion of the global logistics empire, OmniCorp. Krystian sees her as nothing more than a vapid, decorative bride - a tool in a truce between their warring families. But when Jaga discovers a hidden recipe book from her past self, she realizes the instructions for 'Vengeance Vanilla Slice' and 'Blackmail Black Forest Gateau' are not for baking. They are a series of brilliant, coded strategies to dismantle the very foundations of the Morozov family and their rivals, the Rostoks. Guided by the ghost of the genius she used to be, Jaga must play the cheerful fool, outmaneuvering cutthroat executives and smiling assassins, all while her decorative husband starts to suspect his sweet-toothed wife is the most dangerous player in the game. Can she reclaim her past and win the war her former self declared, or will this half-baked plan crumble before she even gets to the final course?
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The Forty-Day Ruin
By @john1208
I died screaming in a sterile delivery ward, my last sight a news broadcast of my husband, Farjad, draped over his mistress on a sun-drenched yacht. When I wake up on a completely ordinary Tuesday, frothing his morning espresso, I realize I’ve been sent back exactly forty days before my death. But there’s a catch no one warned me about: a jagged, black vein creeping up my wrist, ticking down the hours until the synthetic poison he secretly fed me stops my heart for good. I don’t have time for a slow, subtle game. I have forty days to dismantle his illegal energy syndicate. Suppressing my explosive temper, I play the clueless, doting pregnant wife to steal his encrypted ledgers right from under his nose. To survive, I’m forced to ally with Kiyan - the brilliant, infuriatingly observant detective who has secretly loved me for years. We dodge assassins and orchestrate high-stakes data heists, culminating in trapping Farjad's mistress in a rigged underground casino where she loses millions in syndicate cash. But as the black vein reaches my shoulder and my feelings for Kiyan deepen, will my vengeance cost me the very future I'm fighting to rewrite?
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Plotting Her Ruin, Freezing My Knees
By @john1208
Briska Karsev is the prickliest, proudest woman in the frozen city of Glazov. Her life is a meticulously balanced house of cards: hiding her family's absolute destitution, forging her late father's decrees, and fiercely protecting her sickly younger brother. When a bizarrely aggressive delivery of screaming ice-mandrakes destroys her foyer, it brings 'Mischa' into her life - a bumbling, sympathetic scribe who quickly becomes her only confidant. But Mischa is actually Mirek Danilov, the ruthless survivor of a house Briska's father supposedly bankrupted years ago. Mirek's plan? Infiltrate her lonely life, become indispensable, and publicly shatter her at the Winter Gala. His revenge goes off without a hitch. The trap springs, her darkest secrets are bared to the high nobility, and she is ruined. There is just one problem: Mirek immediately realizes his victory tastes like ash. His lavish flat feels empty without her biting insults, and he is agonizingly in love with her. Now, the most feared man in Glazov is freezing his knees off in a snowdrift outside her slum door, begging for forgiveness. But with Briska's trusted cousin pulling strings in the shadows, will Mirek survive his own pathetic groveling phase long enough to save her?
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Curse Eater's Appraisal
By @john1208
When the world ended, humanity was teleported to Katal, a savage continent governed by a game-like System. For Bayani, the apocalypse was personal: his twin brother, Datu, a legendary strategist, died in his arms during the transition. To survive, Bayani assumes Datu's identity, hoping to leverage his brother's fearsome reputation. But he's stuck with the System's most pathetic skill: [Appraisal]. While S-Rank heroes carve paths of glory, Bayani is a fraud, only able to see the stats of rocks and sticks. His deception crumbles when he appraises a cursed survivor and sees not just the debuff, but its intricate, breakable code. He reaches out and shatters it, uncovering an exploit that turns his useless skill into a god-tier power: he can permanently cleanse any curse, debuff, or hex. Now, the powerful guilds who hoard cursed artifacts and rule through fear want him, not as a hero, but as a slave. Can Bayani maintain his charade long enough to master his power, or will his true identity be exposed, leaving him defenseless?
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A Colder Kind of Vow
By @john1208
Every morning at eight, Linnea Rostova pours Stellan's coffee. She knows his brutal boardroom glare and his absolute rule against personal attachments. But when an ordinary Tuesday is derailed by a stray terrier breaking into the building and a lobby swarming with scandal-seeking, gold-digging exes, Stellan makes a desperate move to save his stock price: he puts a ring on his assistant's finger. It is purely transactional. Yet, confined to his rain-lashed penthouse, the boundaries blur. Through alternating perspectives, we see Linnea discovering the cracks in his ice - especially during thunderstorms, when the terrifying CEO is paralyzed by childhood trauma and clings to her for comfort. Meanwhile, a second drama unfolds: Stellan is hunting 'The Peregrine', an anonymous, legendary mediator needed to salvage a doomed corporate merger. He has no idea his introverted fake wife is the mastermind he is searching for. As Stellan’s fierce, irrational jealousy flares whenever rival executives approach her, the contract frays. But when Linnea catches a severe fever and collapses, Stellan's cold logic shatters entirely. Will he realize his empire means nothing without her before the revelation of her secret identity destroys their fragile trust?
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SPARKWEB: Nasi Goreng Radioaktif
By @Gilbert Joel
Gilbert Rahanra, an overly talkative middle-schooler with an intense arachnophobia, accidentally ingests a radioactive spider during a field trip to Nusantara Bio-Tech Lab. This bizarre incident bestows upon him an array of arachnid-like powers: wall-crawling, web-slinging, electric shocks, venom strikes, camouflage, and a potent 'spider-sense.' Burdened by a profound sense of isolation, Gil crafts VIOX, an advanced AI assistant, to navigate his new reality. Now, as the masked hero Sparkweb, he must thwart the shadowy Aurum Corp's relentless pursuit of the very creature that changed his life. Gil struggles to balance his secret identity with the demands of heroism, all while grappling with the crushing weight of loneliness and the true meaning of responsibility. His journey is a hilarious, heartwarming, and action-packed tale of self-discovery.
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