Slow burn romance stories to play

Japan's first female shogun is guarded by a lethal ninja and by you. In the castle garden, a thrown kunai lands dead center, and the story begins.

Kaname Nakajima used to cry and cling to you as a kid. He is twenty-one now, and the reunion at a family gathering does not feel childish at all.

You've been Seo Tae-geon's secretary for eight years and his secret partner for three months. This morning he asks for something new.

Rantagishi, the last knight of a fallen kingdom, has sworn her life to one duty. Since meeting you, an unplanned second purpose has begun taking root.

Sakube Renagi has delivered your packages almost daily for months and never said a word about his crush. Today, egged on by his brother, he is finally trying.

You're married to Prince Nagisahara Yodonagi for a political alliance. He stumbles home drunk at dawn and wakes you like you're the one he missed.

On vacation at Serena Coast, you meet Tansy Reed, a shy High Elf assigned as your exclusive tour guide. You are her first love, and her ears give her away.

Shimobe Sarei is secretly the heir to a global conglomerate, but on campus he pretends to be the poorest student there, just to test who really sees him.

You are the 23rd Guide assigned to Ma Sehyeok, the world's only SS-rank Esper. He calls you replaceable. His fevers say otherwise.

A stranger's call offers two billion won to marry Hyeonje Group's ice-cold Head Director, Hyeong Agil. You have never dated. Now you make him fall for you.

You and Geum Bayeol married for duty and agreed to stay out of each other's lives. Tonight, drunk and rambling in his study, you don't notice him falling.

You arrive as a political bride to the north's Ice Duke. He promises you will lack for nothing, and warns you not to want anything more than that.

Karen Kiritani finds you huddled between garbage bags on a cold night and offers his coat, his home, and one quiet question: come with me?

Rookie officer Rin Fujishiro wakes up bound in a dark room with no idea who took her. You decide whether you are her captor, her rescuer, or someone else.

Renhashi Sakakiryu, a scruffy, sharp-suited regular at your usual bar, keeps needling you. You want payback, but he always wins the round anyway.

An arranged marriage is saving your family's business. Howard Ingram Vance is just as unwilling as you, and just as blunt about it.

Your butler Shimooka Rourei has been your childhood friend for years. He teases you constantly, and today he wants to see exactly how you react.

Kittagishi Kuriyama has served you since you were both teenagers, and every flawless detail hides how hard he is really trying to earn that perfection.

Nam Do-yul, your actor boyfriend, never mentioned filming a virtual marriage show with rookie actress Do A-yun. You find out from a gossip article instead.

A new cafe opened near your home, and its owner Kwon Yun-on greets you at the door with an opening promotion and a genuine love for good coffee.

Your unemployed neighbor is suspiciously fast, strong and evasive about his job. He insists he's just unemployed. You know better.

Your parents arranged this marriage. Days into living together, Ranida Ranya still answers only yes or no, and you want to know what's underneath the silence.

Dumped by your fiancé for the boss's daughter, you start over as secretary to Hinagi Yodota, the young CEO who wanted you by his side all along.

Kikka is the knight sworn to protect you, and she never lets you out of her sight. Every quiet moment together edges closer to something she's too shy to name.

You transmigrated into a background extra from your favorite novel, and now you visit the brooding second male lead's office every day at four to save him.

Raiga never makes exceptions for fans, not even once. Then he spots you as a first-timer in his handshake line and starts breaking his own rule.

A stalker chases you again, and you crash straight into Detective Gamaol's arms. He has liked you for far longer than you realized.

Cha Eunseo built her guild from nothing and now it is failing. You are the S-rank hunter she has known since childhood, and she keeps showing up to ask you in.

Ten years of friendship, her too-quiet living room, and one offhand dinner invitation. Homework is the excuse; whether Seo Yi-hyun wants you there is not.

You married Nagimura Reo, the Ichijo heir, in a loveless contract marriage. Then you caught him staring at an old photo like it still hurts.

Sumiki Nashiki has served your family for decades, brilliant at his job and impossible to shut up, and mornings start with him singing at the birds.

You find Ah Mayul, the sole survivor of an elite knight order, planting her dead comrades' swords in a village graveyard and unable to stop grieving.

You're burned out, lonely, and barely holding on. Faramond Kelso pulls you back from the train platform and won't let go easy.

Seven months into a zombie outbreak, an injury forces you into a pharmacy where Xerxes Rotherwick holds you at gunpoint, certain you're infected.

CEO Hak Bapeun falls for you the moment the elevator doors open on your first day. He already can't stand the idea of anyone else talking to you.

You play Zoe, a 22-year-old intern held late by Gareth Vale, the firm's ruthless 26-year-old CEO, who wants fifty client files audited by morning.

You followed your friends into a private club room full of chaebol men, and Yu Seok-hwan, the richest one there, speaks to you first.

You just moved in next to Toya Tsukinaga. After a loud night through thin walls, you blurt out one line he can't quite forget.

Duke Rantazawa Kitsuyuki tells you plainly not to expect anything from this engagement. You were chosen out of duty, and duty is all he intends to offer.

You're the Vulcan Empire's rumored tyrant. Princess Kakiaki arrives from a weaker kingdom to marry you and secure peace between your nations.

Rizu glances at you once during a boring lecture and immediately invents an entire story about you in his head. He has no idea you'll ever find out.

You're a rookie actor greeting co-stars before your first film. Rikuto's dressing room stays silent, so you open the door and catch him off guard.

Yoon Seora runs a boxing gym and is bored of every man there chasing her. Then you come for your first lesson, and she can't stop finding reasons to stay close.

You're the nation's only SS-rank Esper, too proud to accept guiding. Tonight you have no choice, and Yoon Tae-min is smirking at exactly what it cost you.

Rantada Kitsuya, commander of the kingdom's Knight Order, catches you staring on the capital's main street and walks straight over to ask why.

Ishikawaya towers 39cm over you and teases you like a kid at every turn, but everyone in the office except you already knows exactly why.

An AI matching app just forced you into marriage with a stranger. He turns out to be a grieving widower who apologizes before he even says his name.

You are the lazy number-one Hunter. Song Ihyeon, ranked second and furious about it, drags you off the sofa to make you train.