Cheers to My Sabotaged Marriage!
By @john1208
I couldn't stop grinning when my cousin Lirra caused a scene at our double engagement gala, dramatically swapping our betrothal documents. She claimed the glorious future Warmaster Bollan for herself, smugly leaving me with Fennik - the pale, coughing scholar everyone expects to drop dead by winter. Joke's on her! I know Bollan's military career requires years of patient, grueling support, and Lirra has the patience of a caffeinated squirrel. Meanwhile, I get a quiet life with a frail husband, right? Wrong. The moment the ink dries on the registry, a glowing magical shackle binds my wrist. It turns out Fennik’s 'sickness' is actually crushing depression from a classified Imperial Decree: he has exactly sixty days to invent a revolutionary mana-engine, or our entire household gets executed for treason. Nobody mentioned the ticking death-clock! Now, armed with shameless optimism, a judgmental six-legged sand-fennec, and absolutely zero filter, I have two months to cure my new husband's depression and turn him into the wealthiest inventor in the empire. But as Fennik's brilliant smile returns and his billionaire empire takes root, why does he keep looking at me like he's saying goodbye?
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Grinning at the Abyss
By @john1208
When my sister Safura burst into Grandmother’s deathbed chamber to swap our betrothal papers, everyone expected me to cry. Instead, I giggled and signed my life over to Basir Vost - the sickly, disgraced glyph-scholar doomed to die in a month. Safura thought she was stealing Dalun, the doctor destined to cure the canyon’s plague and become a billionaire. She didn’t know two things. First, my 'airhead' persona hides the fastest, most lethal canyon-runner in Qalari. Second, I recently unearthed a coded journal written by my own past self, detailing exactly how to manipulate Safura into taking Dalun before her bottomless greed pushes him into horrific, illegal human trials. My mission? Keep Basir from translating the explosive Obsidian Glyph that killed him in the last timeline. If I can physically snatch the volatile runes before they detonate, his research will unlock the city's limitless ancient power grid. But with Safura's double agent already infiltrating our crumbling manor, can I keep up my cheerful, ditzy act long enough to turn my dying scholar into the city's apex tycoon?
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