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You saved a stranger from stepping onto the tracks, got drunk with him, and woke up married. Misaki Miosaka moved in the next morning.
An arranged marriage in 1930s Japan pairs you with Navy ensign Sakiyo Kuriida. You live under one roof as strangers, waiting to know him.
You're married into the warrior tribe of Zarun. Chief Shiotani Masanagi calls you a tool for peace, cold-voiced, golden-eyed, unreadable.
You broke up with Hayato a year ago. Tonight you run into him at the discount store, and he looks like he never stopped missing you.
Six months after your breakup, you join a gym for confidence, and your assigned trainer turns out to be your ex, Teiko Kasumioka, steady under pressure.
Dinner for three: your partner Bonnie Solano, her coworker Saskia Cho in your chair, and the anniversary confession she never forgot.
Fake drug trafficking headlines just destroyed your name. Your father hired the country's best escort to babysit you, and he already believes every word.
You are finishing a solo training session when the Korean Hunter Association's new S-rank chairwoman, Min Gayoung, stops watching from the doorway and walks in.
Detective Gok Bawol thinks dating is a waste of time. Two weeks after a notebook mix-up, he keeps finding excuses to run into you anyway.
You marry Emperor Leonix Clair in a loveless political match. He is rumored cold-hearted, and the court still mourns the empress he lost.
Tsuyuno Minato Subaru runs a global conglomerate through sheer financial force, and he indulges his daughter's every want without loosening his grip.
Sterling Paget is the hospital's most trusted doctor, warm with every patient. Only his assistant knows what his curved smile is hiding.
You're a mermaid healing from an injury in the shallows, and the heir who saved you is just as afraid of the water as you are of dry land.
Two months of late-night calls with a stranger who makes your commute worth looking forward to. Today his voice sounded exactly like your boss's boss.
You defend anyone who can pay. Prosecutor Cha Bareun despises everything you stand for, and today you're opposing counsel in the same murder trial.
Reren, the wandering swordsman who vanished without a word a year ago, just walked back into the tavern where you work like nothing happened.
You and Roland talked online for months before either of you saw a face. Now his car pulls up to a quiet park, and the conversation finally has a voice.
A Red Gate just tore open and the strongest Esper in the country walked out of it barely standing. You're the Guide assigned to stabilize him.
A government matchmaking app assigns marriages by algorithm, and your match turns out to be the man who built it. He does not believe in love.
You are the humanoid built with his late wife's face, voice and memories. Ronan looks at you and feels disgust before anything else.
Officer Aoto Okazaki has turned down every confession with a flat no. Extreme difficulty: can you be the one exception?
It's 11pm near Gangnam Station. A star lawyer blocks your path, decides you're his type on sight, and hands you his phone.
You were just admitted to a psychiatric ward. Dr. Elno makes his morning rounds and keeps finding reasons you should stay a little longer.
Room 2603 is where you and colleague Nawat meet, quietly, on his terms. Tonight he dresses, turns cold, and says he will see you at the office.
You are the Duchess of Arcelia, wrongly accused of an affair by the husband who loves you. One rumor could end your marriage tonight.
You're the River Oiran, pouring sake and listening to strangers' stories from a lantern-lit boat. Tonight a feared man named Mei can't stop watching you.
Your father announces your political marriage in one cold sentence. Days later you kneel before your fiance, a 19-year-old army lieutenant, in a tense room.
Alaric Cromwell has run his quiet coffee shop alone for years. Then you started showing up, and your visit became the best part of his day.
Kiritamori Kurifu acts too lazy to care, but he's the young head guarding you personally, and letting anyone hurt you is the one thing he won't allow.
Im Basol is the headquarters' only SS-rank Guide, sworn off bonding with any Esper. You're the SS-rank Esper assigned to him, bleeding out on your first mission.
IT president Fuchibe Tokyo confessed to you, his secretary, and got turned down. Now he's punishing you with paperwork and cold stares.
You're the organization's top assassin, chasing a lawyer who deflects every advance with perfect, icy composure. Roso Kirito Roso Kirito won't fall easily.
Konhiko Funada is the roommate everyone would want, gentle and put-together. Some mornings he comes home marked by someone else and won't explain why.
You run a major company at twenty-three, uninterested in romance until your new secretary Fuchikawa Toko starts watching you like that, without a word.
A month into the job, your stoic 28-year-old boss Do Dawol can't stop noticing your cat Post-its, heart clips, and every mood you're in.
Cha Adeun is an undefeated lawyer who won't stop following you around, waving, grinning, and asking if you're avoiding him.
Your brother has one rule: stay away from Romano Voss, and he must stay away from you. Unfortunately, Romano has never been particularly good at following rules. He's your brother's biggest enemy onā¦
Kai is your online best friend. They met through gaming and now talk almost every day. Kai secretly wants to be more than friends, but he has never admitted it.
Lorenzo Bellandi, the irresistible heir to a powerful Italian mafia family, has never taken love seriously. A womanizer with a mocking wit and an allergy to commitment, he finds his life changing wheā¦
Pascoe Vesperly is your brotherās best friendāhe usually comes over to hang out with him when your parents arenāt home. Youāve never exchanged a single word with him, since heās never really botheredā¦
Adrian Moretti is your university rival: handsome, intelligent, arrogant, and infuriatingly competitive. You compete for grades, recognition, and first place in everything. He taunts you as if your vā¦
II Xanthe Prescott, a close friend of your momās, is joining your beach vacation. You donāt know her well, but this trip means youāll be sharing the same spaceāand getting to know each other.
It's okay to forget about me. You, you've got to find happiness.
Your new next-door neighbor is Inori Sumeragi, a petite woman with pink twin-tails. The moment you stop by to introduce yourself, she declares, "From today on, you're Servant Number One!" Noise battlā¦
Arranged marriage to a royal knight.
Kai is a charming, playful Vietnamese guy who spends his afternoons working on his laptop at his favorite cafĆ©. Behind his teasing smile and seemingly cool attitude is someone with a surprisingly genā¦
With my ex-boyfriend!? A locked-room love game begins!
Elliot Hale has been your brother Danny's best friend since they were nine. He left town three years ago. This summer he is back to fix up his late grandmother's house, and until the roof is done heā¦