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Willa Fen ran out of clean laundry again and barges straight into your room to ask for pants, no knock, no shame, just a straight-up request.

Your sister was supposed to marry the feared mafia boss Zeno Stokeleigh. She was the favorite, so they sent you instead, and his arms are already around you.

Hadley sets the table for two every night, knowing her husband won't come home. Then you knock, and she wasn't expecting anyone.

Yeo-won and Chae-ah have wandered the streets since escaping their orphanage, aching for a love they've only seen on television.

Married off to mafia boss Reid Prentice, you share a silent first night while his scarred back stays turned toward the wall.

Tae-min Ryu is warm to everyone in the department except you. You catch him smoking alone, phone in hand, before he even notices you are there.

Seira saved the world ten times and still failed to kill the Demon King. Abandoned and pursued, she collapses in the rain the moment you find her.

Closing time at Rei, a hidden speakeasy. Chinatsu drops her cool senior act the moment the sign flips, and it is just the two of you behind the bar.

The housing crisis stuck you with Ivy Brennan, a perfectionist roommate who nags about every dish and every sock. A month in, you're both done being polite.

You live with your university classmate Renji Kaneshiro and edit his videos, then find out he is YUKI, the streamer with a million followers.

You find a vampire bleeding out in an alley at 2 AM, clearly hunted and left for dead. Saving him crosses a line that cannot be uncrossed.

You and Sohee are filing for divorce when strangers offer a fortune for ten days of forced intimacy. She wants to refuse. You already signed.

Bram Croft, campus soccer star and self-declared playboy, just became your roommate. He's cocky, openly gay, and allergic to commitment.

Two days' notice, then marriage to Blake Holme, your enemy since childhood. Now you live in his mansion, and he says the marriage is only for show.

Your own hero's party just exiled you in an inn lobby, certain you were just dead weight, and only Mina looks like she regrets it.

Your father sold you into marriage to clear the family debt. It is your wedding day, and your new husband is Drew Kerr, a cold mafia stranger.

A water leak sends your boyfriend's best friend Reiki to crash on your couch. He is charming, possessive, and quietly in love with you.

You and Sanami have quarreled since kindergarten, certain neither of you could ever fall for the other. University hasn't proven you wrong yet.

Forced into marriage with Spanish mafia boss Kyle Bowen, you ride beside your cold new husband at 2 AM. You can have anything you want, except his attention.

Paxton Holm just moved in next door from Canada, and the gothic femboy is already pounding on your door, blunt and irritated, demanding quiet so he can sleep.

Your first morning as Jasper Larkin's secretary ends with hot coffee in his lap. He is exactly as difficult as his reputation promised.

You own the store. Bae Ji-yeon works the register on her phone and swears the mess is a sales strategy. Somehow the customers keep coming back for her.

Married off to Lionel Nash, a towering CEO who calls himself Sebastian, you live with a husband who stayed ruthless and cold, until he fell first.

Two feuding families end their war with your wedding. Clara walks the aisle in white, beautiful and close to tears, forced into marrying you.

Five years into marriage, mob boss Baek Sion pulls the car over mid-argument and orders you out into the snow with no coat, no wallet, dying phone.

You bought Sena Keito, a rare and vicious dragon beastman at clearance price. Now he expects you to treat him exactly like his last owner did.

You answered a strange help-wanted ad and now work for Hagiyuki, a detective who barely takes cases and would rather tease her new assistant than work.

A big-city hospital's four young stars: a psychiatrist, a surgeon, an orthopedist and an ER doctor. You join their ward as nurse, patient or new colleague.

You catch a stranger living in your attic, biting into a stolen tomato. She swears she'll do anything if you just let her stay.

Berar's undefeated knight faces Si Mawol, the last defender guarding Ochendelia's fallen capital, sword planted at the gate for a duel that decides her life.

You just married Damian Blackwood, the boy you've hated since childhood. The press calls it a fairy tale merger. The wedding night says otherwise.

You wandered deep into the forest and wiped out the goblins attacking a dark elf village. Kikyo, its proud royal knight, owes you now.

You took in a stray cat named Miro during a storm. Tonight you walk in on her human form by accident, and she is terrified you will send her away.

Years after you left Hank Frost for a steadier life abroad, a downpour drives you into a biker bar back home, and he's sitting in the corner.

Idol Go Seorin answers a wrong-number call from you and instantly decides you're her stalker. Now she despises you for a crime you never committed.

Mirden was your closest childhood friend before politics tore your families apart. Now you meet again at the banquet, and he pretends not to know you.

Enma Hiiragida visits your tattoo shop twice a week, hopelessly in love with you, a yakuza heir who can't confess and is already engaged to someone else.

You built a 91% win rate as a defense lawyer until prosecutor Kang Tae-on started beating you every time, then offered to lose on purpose for a kiss.

It's almost 4 AM when your husband Guk Sabom finally comes home, cigarettes in hand, and walks straight past you into his room.

Two months into your marriage, Wade Wexley has not touched you or even looked your way. Tonight your mobster husband comes home covered in blood, silent.

At the guild bulletin board, veteran adventurer Marga asks you to team up for the day. She is married, formidable, and the best fighter in the room.

Ko runs the world's largest conglomerate and has broken off engagement after engagement with gold diggers. Then he saw you working overtime.

Your wife Miono Shoko has grown distant lately. A mom friend calls to say she is drunk, and picking her up brings out everything she never says sober.

You spent seven years as Ra Junseo's sasaeng fan and finally decided to quit, until he grabbed your wrist at the fan signing and called you his.

You just moved in with Aldous Quantock. She's curled up reading on her bed, calm and a little shy. The first move is yours.

You're looting a ruined battlefield when you find Dong Sayeol still breathing, a knight commander undone by her first defeat. Her life is now in your hands.

Family circumstances move you into aunt Misaki's home today. She is warm, doting, an excellent cook, and her husband Satoru travels often for work.

Shimohara Oboren is unreadable to everyone else, distant and expressionless. Only around you does he sit too close and let his guard down.