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You are the real Star Wizard Crown Prince Ayame Sumiya is searching for, but your best friend just stole your ring and your identity.

You ran from home with nothing but a bag. Thrown out into the Texas night, you meet Florian Ingraham, a rancher who warns Texas eats people like you.

You married Yeom Madil to atone for his father's death. He hates you for surviving, and he married you only to watch you break.

Trying to escape the Crown Princess selection, you climb a palace wall and land straight in the arms of Crown Prince Han Seungyun.

You transfer into a new army unit and find your ex, Captain Taeyun, standing at the front of the room acting like a total stranger.

On your wedding day, Crown Prince Severin tells you plainly: he only needs a Crown Princess who performs her duties, nothing more.

You married Tak Abeun by her family's decree, but she still treats you only as the guard walking a step behind her, not as a husband.

Declan Fairchild visits his late fiancée's grave every day, still bound by a vow to never move on. You are the friend who worries about him.

You find Dusaol collapsed in a snowfield, freezing and lost. Save him, and a wary knight who never removes his helmet slowly learns to trust you.

A public matching app marries you to Reiji, the section chief everyone at your office calls a demon, the instant you meet at city hall.

Your best friend Maya wants you to meet her striking new boyfriend, Holden Jennings, at a cafe today, and something about it already feels complicated.

You throw a snowball in the street and it slams straight into Crown Prince Jeong Usik's skull. He grabs your chin and quietly asks if you want to die.

Sakuo Saekawa pours coffee at a rescue cafe where every beastkin avoids him. You are the shy one curled up in the corner he cannot stop watching.

Sa Gadeun, heir to the JK Group, wears a house-priced watch but waits outside your part-time job to sit across from you at a market tteokbokki stall.

Chairman Ma Ga-gyeol runs a global beauty empire and demands flawless work, but your messy, effortful paperwork has caught her attention for the wrong reason.

Philip Norwood is bored of running an empire until his new secretary walks in. He reads people fast and expects to get his way.

As a cat beastman looking for somewhere to sleep, you wander into an elevator that only leads to Akira's speakeasy bar.

You're the best defense lawyer in the country, and your newest client is Salvatore Ricci, the godfather of L'Impero. He wants you to make his case disappear.

Antada Sugiya guards you with a blade and zero warmth. He is the strongest knight in the order and the coldest, and thawing him is the whole story.

Ham Apeun defends the side everyone already believes is guilty. You are the prosecutor building the case against them, with two days left before you face off.

Your next-door neighbor Shiomura Nanryu comes home late from a job nobody explains, then teases you in Kansai dialect every time you pass.

You run a junk shop and hide your S-rank Guide ability until SS-rank Sentinel Jang Jihan walks in with a personal order to bring you to the Center.

Silas Rhodes, the law firm's ruthless star partner, has kept his distance out of respect for your promise ring. Today he notices it's gone.

Kitsukamimura Kakihana is a stiff, unsociable knight who's never been in love, and one look at you dancing undoes him completely.

Lavender Village forces every adult to marry within a month. Village Head Do Gabit has one week left and a fake consent form hiding a marriage contract.

You're hired today as personal secretary to Woojin, a lawyer so composed people call him bloodless, even while migraines quietly wreck him.

Mu Dawon has kept a perfect boundary as your secretary for seven years. Married, composed, and utterly reliable, until today her hand pauses on the paperwork.

Your trusted secretary Lewis Nicholson has run your company life for years, and you just found out you have been calling her he this whole time.

You vanished the day your parents died, and No Saneul, the soldier you once loved, never forgave it. Two years later, you're both assigned to the same unit.

Five years into marriage with Judge Jin Rareun, you finally ask if he still loves you, and the silence that follows says too much.

Three days without going home, and Ned Larkspur walks in looking perfectly put together, wanting the report he assigned you yesterday, today.

You are a beast-person on trial, and Ichiya Matsubara, the wealthy former officer who chose you, is waiting to see if he wants to keep you.

Your butler Kitadada Kurumi wakes you with flawless manners and vicious sarcasm, grading every stumble of your day with elegant contempt.

Warren Walcott hires your assassination service to kill his wife's murderer. He sees you as a tool. You can't stop wanting to stay close.

You are a beloved streamer with a sweet on-camera persona. Tonight you forgot to end the broadcast, and fifty thousand viewers just met the real you.

Sold into marriage to Heukrim Suho, leader of the Red Oni clan, you arrive at his estate to a husband who barely looks at you.

Coworker Shoaki Kakinakamori proposes marriage to dodge the new bachelor tax, purely for the money, and picked you because you seemed better than the rest.

Prince Kitsunakagishi Kuriharu commands armies with icy composure, then comes home from a mission with gifts he cannot explain and no words for how he feels.

Gil Yunjun is 145cm and terrifying. As her bodyguard and secretary, you're standing right there when she silences a client by kissing you.

You confessed the con three years ago, right before the wedding. Miyotani never left, but the warmth you actually earned from him is long gone.

Minato Saku Rotsumura rejected you loudly in front of the entire graduating class. He never told you the confession wrecked him too.

You've run a free clinic in the marketplace for twenty-one years. A royal decree drags you to the palace to cure a king everyone calls mad, or answer for it.

Gal Ma-yeol runs Violent Crimes Unit 2 like everything bores him, until his newest rookie shows up looking nothing like he expected.

Pyo Yunbin runs the studio where you work live broadcasts. He hands you a costume with one word, wear it, and enforces his rules without raising his voice.

Your manager Toru never misses a cue and rarely softens his face. On the last night of your tour, he is waiting in the wings the moment you walk off.

Your royal fiance Ryuya pulls you close in the palace hallway, smiling as usual, still smelling of a stranger's perfume. You decide how much you'll forgive.

Dr. Nagisubaru Saeto is gentle with everyone, except when it comes to your rehab. Cross him and he'll smile while doubling your exercises.

Florist Dashiell Dunstan sees his late lover's ghost in your face. What he feels for you is real, but so is the person he hasn't let go of yet.