Slow burn romance stories to play

In a frozen Meiji-era outpost, Corporal Balthus Beltane walks in total silence, cap pulled low, and never once looks up at you.

Autumn floods halt shipping when a three-year-old letter, freshly resealed tonight, arrives at Tingyu Inn addressed to you. You decide whether to open it.

Nagisaya Denren is the CEO you work for, gentle and composed at the office, but he wants more than a working relationship and is done hiding it.

Three years engaged to First Prince Naru Saegami, and he's told his own butler he can't stand you. You refuse to let this end quietly.

Your butler Kirimi Antoda keeps a perfect distance, until you nearly trip in the garden and her hand finds your waist without hesitation.

You run a major company, and your secretary Sakakiyo is done watching you space out through meetings. He wants an answer, now.

You run the cafe above Haena-jun's agency, the one that does anything for money. With the elevator broken today, he blocks your stairs on purpose.

Hyunwook, your boyfriend of almost two years, pulls you into the alley beside his cafe and tells you it's over, right before lighting a cigarette.

Chairman Paeng Yun-eun rules Chunhwa Group and everyone near him. As his newest bodyguard, you stand in his study while he coldly decides if you're worth keeping.

King Albrecht locks the door and tells you plainly why you were brought to his chamber: only your bloodline can break the curse on his kingdom.

You're an SSS-rank Guide sent to save an esper who stopped trusting Guides. Jeon Minjae doesn't take guiding anymore, and he doesn't want yours.

You married the Grand Duke everyone expected to fall for your sister. Do Na-won is cold to you, tender to her, and you're supposed to share his house.

You're the responsible one on a night out with Lucy when a Marine gunnery sergeant named Mark catches your eye across a crowded bar.

Your first night upstairs, the building loses power. Only Chen Jiming's repair shop stays lit, and Lin Wanqing arrives with two bowls of porridge.

Four years after your breakup, you spot Jorah Gildersleeve in the front row of your sold-out concert, dragged there by his friends.

At nineteen, King Richard's favorite daughter, you're ordered to marry the aged, widowed Duke of Suffolk, Wallace Aldrich, whose devoted heart is already yours.

Kitsuisawa Kakisei keeps finding excuses to visit your infirmary. He's gruff, hopelessly in love with you, and terrible at admitting it.

Yeo Manil blasts electric guitar through the wall at 2am. You finally knock, and the cool, cigarette-smoking neighbor who answers is not what you expected.

Drunk after a brutal week, you cling to a stranger at RY Bar. She turns out to be Eom Habin, the bar chain's own self-made CEO.

You keep ending up at the same bar for the same friend. Rafferty deflects anything real, Sorcha watches from behind the counter, and last call arrives again.

Bayul courted you as a poor traveler, married you as a commoner, and hid that he was Crown Prince. Now knights arrive to name him emperor.

A year after you ended things with Captain Byeon Awat, you still serve in the same unit, and he has just started taking it out on the recruit closest to you.

You are a rescued beastman still too wary to be touched. Naoki has visited Cafe Mofu Tail three times a week for a year, just to sit near your cage and wait.

You wake up ten years in the future, married to Ha Yunho, the man you spent college calling your worst enemy. He's already making breakfast.

Kang Maul knelt on the battlefield and offered her own life for her soldiers. You are the commander who decides what her surrender actually costs her.

A city is collapsing at 87 percent overdrive. Cha Yoon sits smiling in the wreckage with a loaded gun, and only you can stop the number climbing.

Two years after amnesia erased you from his memory, your ex-fiancé Teisaku remembers everything, torn between you and the man who healed him.

Kwak Garim, humanity's strongest hero, becomes your supervisor today. She already looks at you like she's met you many times before.

Jin Taeseol runs the SOU's tactical team, and you're his newest recruit. He corrects your stance and warns you never to touch the trigger unordered.

Every morning your secretary Chu Habyeol blocks your own office door, saying authorized personnel only, though she clearly knows exactly who you are.

Misaki owns the elegant tea house you frequent and is secretly a Konoh mafia executive. Tonight he stops hiding how much he wants you.

You barely have the energy to stand behind the counter at Cheongram Pharmacy. Dr. Theo Han, the hospital's star pediatrician, keeps coming down anyway.

Julian Harrow only says your pet's name, never yours. He melts for animals and freezes around you, until those rare cracks in his cold exam-room manner.

The empire married you off to Grand Duke Roen as a backhanded insult, and you have no idea why everyone around you pities the war hero who never asked for you.

You promised your dying sister you'd look after her husband, Tsukimori Kagetora. Half a year later, he opens the door still sobbing in front of her portrait.

You run South Korea's largest crime syndicate. Park Dohan is your secretary, once resentful of your rank, now fiercely loyal at 1 a.m.

You married cold, powerful boss Joel Lawson in an arranged match. He knows you're blind, yet keeps his distance, leaving butler Alastair as your one comfort.

Ranjomori Kikufu was betrayed by his wife and his best friend in the same year. Two years into your own political marriage to him, he still won't hope.

Princess Eldina's political marriage is days away. Her royal guard Kagami loves her in silence, and the stars are the only ones who know.

Kakita Ayame, heir to a global conglomerate, finds you alone at his favorite childhood lookout, and it's love at first sight for a man who's usually ruthless.

Gwak Sasol married you fast, and he still adores you. Lately he leaves at 5 AM and buries himself in work, insisting nothing between you has changed.

You are a stay-at-home wife married a year to Seon Hasol, the next CEO of D Corp. He shows love by pulling you close, never by saying it out loud.

Every exclusive assistant to racer Seiichiro Saijo quits within days. You're the newest one, and he's already asking if you plan to run too.

No Ba-eun is a devout holy knight who despises your reckless lifestyle. Your eyes meet his across a tavern, and he clearly disapproves.

Kakitamori Naohito once adored you completely. Now he barely comes home, and you wake to find him silently reading the newspaper again.

You're the judge lawyer Im A-saem privately calls careless in his closing argument. He has no idea that irritation is about to turn into something else.

You're the newest hire dragging washed-up actor Lyle Kingsland out of his apartment again, hungover and refusing to show up sober.

You secretly like Kuritamori Nanshu. He needs a wife for his promotion. One year, a ring, a marriage form and one rule: it is only an act.