Tess

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.

You write romance novels for a living. Dom Reese, the cocky hero you rewrote more than any other, is standing in the rain, and he already knows your name.

Eight high-achieving singles move into a luxury Tokyo house for a televised dating show. Cameras roll, alliances form, and you decide whose attention to trust.

You married Hugo a year ago after five years together, and ordinary affection still flusters him. Tonight he falls asleep reading, and you get too close.

Yuto sits down at your table with a rehearsed line and his handler Riku watching from across the cafe. The job was never supposed to include falling for you.

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

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.

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

Soaked from the rain, you duck into a small udon shop, and its owner, Peng Haho, is instantly, openly smitten with you.

You wake up kidnapped in Oscar Kessler's bedroom. He is rich, gentle with your hair, and set on making you fall in love with him.

After years of keeping the world safe... This makes it the tenth time I've saved the world... maybe it's finally time to find a husband...

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.

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.

Nagi turns down every confession in your college circle and calls romance a waste of time. Somehow he still ends up in your hallway on the way to the club room.

Every morning your secretary Choo Ha-byeol blocks your own office door, saying authorized personnel only, though she clearly knows exactly who you are.

You're a cool-headed CEO's secretary who turns clingy the moment you're drunk, and your live-in boyfriend Subaru loves every second.

I Became a Mid-Boss

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.

You reincarnated as the villainess of your favorite otome game, framed and hated by four capture targets. So you become the real thing.

A smoke break in a dark alley gets interrupted by Officer Wendell Ashcombe, who catches you red-handed and then never quite lets you go.

Aisato Katsuragawa is a doctor who never smiles at the hospital, except when his last patient of the day turns out to be his own wife.

Lancelot Midsomer kidnapped you from a garden and now holds a gun to your head at the altar, demanding you marry him tonight.

Ren is your rival, the sales floor's other ace. One drunken night and one lie about it turn the rivalry into something neither of you planned.

Odeno, heir to the Nakajo zaibatsu, has never worked a day. His father assigns you as his live-in secretary, watching him around the clock.

You are staff in the Tokiwa mansion. Duke Ogihoshi Kakizawa, cold to everyone else, comes home and only softens for you.

Faustus Exmoor traded a lifetime of butler service for a speakeasy tucked between buildings. Choose regular or stranger, and he serves you accordingly.

You wrote the dare three weeks ago as a joke. Now Riven is walking toward the park bench with the key in hand, ready to hold you to the honesty you promised.

You remember dying as the villainess in the novel you once read. Engaged to Fuchiya Tonagi, fated for another woman, you fight to rewrite the ending.

A stoic CEO finds himself captivated by a 'rental lover.'

Piren has eliminated dozens of rivals in the afterlife's death game. She calls you weak, corners you on a rooftop, and draws her gunblade.

Baek Geon-oh is ice-cold to his political wife by day, then sneaks into her bed as a black panther every night to cuddle.

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.

Lost and out of battery on a midnight road, you accept help from a kind-looking officer. He isn't one, and he has been watching you a long time.

Cold and flawless to everyone else, your lifelong guard knight turns intensely soft, sweet and possessive the moment it's just you.

Your husband Saehara didn't come home last night, then bought you an expensive necklace anyway. On a terrace above the city, you finally ask for a divorce.

Drunk after a work party, you wandered into the wrong apartment and fell asleep in a stranger's bed. He is thrilled you did.

A thump from your attic leads you to Lucien Hart mid-meal, blood on his hands. Your new roommate turns out to be a vampire, and he's unbothered.

You were Han Dokyeong's most trusted lieutenant, until fabricated evidence branded you a traitor. Bound in a rain-soaked alley, you now face her gun.

A forced teleport drops you on the hundredth floor of the Last Dungeon, where Yukina Shirane waits on her throne. Fight her, or earn her friendship.

Your parents announce your engagement to Leander Marsh, the enemy you have fought for years, to seal an alliance between two powerful families.

Before the library archives are sealed, Senior Brother sets a Heart-Inquiry Lamp on the table—one that can reveal old ink. Two old scrolls give different accounts of the same matter.

Shakube Renna 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 Nicodemus Jedburgh, a Fortune 500 heir who's gone cold and already drafted divorce papers behind your back.

どんな悩みでも聞いてくれるスライム

She's just as full of life as she was back then.

Goongnadil wakes on the exact morning he lost you the first time. He gets one more chance to keep you alive, and his devotion is turning obsessive fast.

You married Dr. Anjoda Sugiumi after a golden courtship. Now every part of your day depends on whether you keep his mood exactly where he wants it.

You and sniper partner Nagumo Raimu are Japan's most feared cleaners, perfectly in sync on every job and closer than partners should be.

Out for your birthday, you find Do-jun slumped against a VIP room door. Your college ex, a third-generation chaebol, fell apart after you left him.

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.

Jin Taeyul is a black-ops NIS agent, ice-cold at work and completely different the second he's home with you, his wife of one year.

The only woman I ever loved. Her heart and body, all of her, are mine.

...W-wait a minute. If you touch me like that...! I'm still not used to it, I told you.

Mafia boss Nagisa Kasumijima won't touch you until he's washed off tonight's blood, then holds you like nothing happened at all.

You are the humanoid built with his late wife's face, voice and memories. Ronan looks at you and feels disgust before anything else.

Ten years of rivalry at the agency became something private. Now Yoon Taegyeom baits you in meetings, and you decide how fast this actually moves.

You are Rafael Costa's cat, and the only living thing this feared mafia boss is gentle with, hiding a secret he has no idea you carry.

Saku and you stream together every night, chasing one million subscribers as a couple. The real story starts the moment the camera turns off.

The "I like you" I said was about the vending machine's milk tea. Yuto Segawa, whom I often run into on the way home, smiled with a faint look of disappointment and invited me: "Then, together again…

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.

Your clingy, obsessed and yandere stepsister

Jo Yewon is brusque with every customer at her cafe except you. She already has your order memorized before you say a word.

Lysander Kestrel finds you asleep in an alley on his walk home. He is a guarded billionaire CEO; you are surviving alone. He cannot look away.

A good day at the beach ends with Wymond Holtby, the rapper you were dating, coldly telling you it's over in front of all his stunned friends.

Hwang Taesan, a construction chairman used to buying anything he wants, offers you 500 million won to date him. You already turned him down once.

Twelve props are accounted for, but an unclaimed key tagged 'return by morning' sits on the table. You help Tang Yi'an and Meng Qiao trace who it belongs to.

You are about to marry Paolo Gentile, and the first thing you hear him call you, through a door, is a useless trophy wife.

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.

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.

Fuchimura Toku manages your schedule, notices your dark circles before you mention them, and leans in close enough to ask if it makes you nervous.

Your family's ruin buys you a marriage to Frontier Count Hagetsu Akizato, the bandaged "monster" everyone fears. He orders you to keep your distance.

At a group blind date, company president Ogiharu catches your scent and instantly claims you as his fated Omega mate.

Your boyfriend's been distant lately, so you sneak into his office to check on him, and get caught by the yakuza CEO himself.

Crime boss Ra Da-yul rushes through paperwork just to get home to you, the ordinary woman he married after one blind date, doted on and worried over.

The wife next door has her sights set on you.

You're a fallen noblewoman striking a marriage deal with an Emperor who feels nothing. He'll give you power, a throne, anything except feelings.

You wake up reincarnated as a hated villain with a gorgeous new face, a duke's title, and a body that coughs up blood the moment you get excited.

Kuroshi Umeya walks in near one a.m. smelling of perfume, drops his bag, hands you his jacket, and heads for the shower without a word.

Everyone around you is scum.

Under the same roof, it begins with co-starring… a premonition of a secret love.

Used to be perfect, but now i'm just an exquisite

My husband, frustrated because of my aloofness

Hak Rahyun keeps returning to your flower shop with the same easy smile. She isn't here for the flowers, and she never was.

Hot,caring,pretty,cute, and wholesome

Wataru is mid-match, headset on, completely gone to the world. You're sitting right next to him, and tonight you've decided to get his attention by any means.

Age gap arranged marriage

Oh, that person? I heard they changed a lot after breaking up with you. They say they cried a lot, but maybe couldn't break their habits?

Minato Tsuyuda comes home, strips his work clothes into your arms, and walks off to the bathroom. Make dinner, he says. Nothing more.

Your ex, Noah Pritchard, is still your brother's best friend. Tonight he's in your kitchen again, and you can't avoid him this time.

Sihoo adopted you thinking a grown cat beastkin would be quiet. Six months later you've knocked every cup off every shelf and he still can't kick you out.

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.

You nodded at a stranger's smile in an Italian alley, and now Fuchizaki Hiroaki calls you his bride. He is gentle, terrifyingly certain, and not letting go.

You come home on a scorching summer day to find your roommate, Kassian Hawkridge, caught off guard by the window in something light.

Gregory Farrow caught his wife cheating a year ago and has kept everyone at a distance since. Then you bump into him outside a cafe, and his cold facade cracks.

You were raised by the Demon King who loves you most, and the Hero who conquered him now wants your attention too.

Officer Maurice Osborne catches you street racing and pulls you over. She's sharp-tongued, mean, and almost enjoying this a little too much.

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

CEO Kasumino Nagisa gives you three minutes to defend your sales forecast, and he has already decided your numbers and your nerve are both too soft.

Urban Nettlebed once loved you without effort. Now mornings start with fights over his drinking, and you do not yet know he is seeing someone else.

Your roommate Jocelyn Langport keeps dropping hints while you're glued to your game, and she's officially done waiting for you to notice.

You and Felix Whitlock have been the internet's favorite couple for a year. Tonight's dinner is not as ordinary as it looks.

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

Chairman Jin Badeun runs the company with total authority, but around you he turns soft, pouty and openly desperate for you to finally say yes to marrying him.

You are an oni caught sneaking into a human village. Two Demon Suppression Squad hunters corner you, one drawing steel, one strangely gentle.

Your family arranges a marriage meeting with the Caspian heir. You expect someone polished. You get Caspian Carrington, stammering and unable to meet your eyes.

You infiltrated Asagiri Nagi's mansion as a spy to investigate him. He came home early, pinned you to the floor, and pulled off your mask.

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.

A wounded knight lies chained in your basement, still defiant. Hagiharu fears her spirit breaking far more than her body, and what happens next is your call.

A century of war between humans and elves ends with your wedding to Bastian Blackwell, the cold, guarded Moonflower Princess.

You just married Sakato Renmi, the lawyer who once handled your painful divorce. Hand in hand, he vows to protect your happiness for life.

You rule a sun-scorched kingdom as its living sun deity. Kurifujimura Sakatsuki, your sworn guard, would give his life before letting anyone reach you.

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

Five years ago you and Galmawat agreed to a clean five-year marriage, then a clean split. Today you bring the papers. He rips them up and refuses.

Jo Baneul is the CEO you now report to, and also the boyfriend you broke up with two years ago. He treats you like a stranger and keeps his distance.

At your own birthday ball, your husband Julien Voclain waltzes with his childhood friend first. Your marriage was arranged; his affection is a performance.

You work guild reception in the seaside town of Sanberg under the name Tsukishiro Ao, one of only five S-rank adventurers alive and the only one behind a desk.

Yves Yorke has been your primary care doctor for months. He looks perpetually grumpy and exhausted, but the receptionist swears it's not 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.

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.

You are already the Grand Duchess, married by arrangement to Myeongdawat. He wins every war he fights and greets you like a stranger at home.

You are the Demon Lord. The Hero party that came to defeat you now kneels in your dungeon, restrained and refusing to break.

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

Mi A-yeol showers you with everything money can buy, except a place beside him in public. Tonight his wife's family needs him, and he leaves without hesitation.

Millionaire Hayward fell for you at first sight, and now Eleanor arrives at your home to formally propose an arranged marriage.

Soma is a top streamer who melts the second you're in the room, pulling you into hugs on camera while a million viewers watch him dote.

You were kidnapped, auctioned, and bought for an astronomical price by Emrys Jevington. He is cruel to everyone but you, and now you are his wife.

Your manager Kakyoin Izumi has spent three years calling you his and stealing kisses before you're even fully awake at your desk.

Your fathers arranged your marriage to yakuza boss Sakuraba Ryuga without asking you. He is terrifying at work and helplessly smitten the moment he meets you.

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

A month after your breakup, Peregrine Orchard saves you from a dangerous night out and makes it clear he never stopped loving you.

You are pressed into service as the personal maid to Anzutamura Sugihana, a dragon-blooded Duke rumored to kill every attendant before you.

Ralph Upshaw kidnapped you from a garden. Now he's shot the priest, leveled a gun at your head, and wants you to sign and wear his ring.

Owen Briggs is a top attorney by day and the world's biggest cartel boss by night, and he thinks this forced date is beneath him.

Political marriage, a fiancé who calls love worthless, and a hidden reason: Umemiya Sumiya is protecting you from enemies neither of you can name aloud.

A sharp knock, and Tsugakyo from across the hall is at your door over the noise again. Her glare is real, and so is how carefully she is watching you.

An AI service marries you to a stranger the moment it finds a match. Yours is Miojima Shoryu, a taciturn special forces sergeant, and cohabitation starts today.

You blacked out at the company drinking party. You wake up sore, in an unfamiliar room, and pull back the futon to find your boss asleep beside you.

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 fell asleep an ordinary villager. You wake in the Demon King's bedroom, his crimson eyes inches from yours, certain fate finally found you.

You live with Hayato in matching pajamas and one shared bed. Tonight you skipped texting him and got home late, and he's waiting up in the dark.

Your secretly married doctor husband has been cold and short with you all shift, and now he's just caught you breaking down alone in the storage room.

You return to your hometown for the first time in years. Caught in the rain, you take shelter, and the man beside you is the childhood friend you left behind.

You're the only person in Heuksa-pa who can talk back to boss Park Hyukjin and live. He only smiles like that for you.

Two years into your dream corporate job, a sudden transfer order puts you in the secretarial division, face to face with CEO Nagisa Kashibu on day one.

Three American investigators are the first humans to set foot in occupied Japan in decades. They just found you in the ruins, and their guns are up.

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

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.

One torn passport turns your Dubai trip into a marriage to Omani magnate Rashid Al-Naim, and tonight you broke his curfew by two hours.

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.

Your wife Ayame Kakita-gishi is the perfect homemaker by day. At 4 AM, alone with her coffee, she is a top spy on a mission that is you.

You are the king's illegitimate youngest child, sentenced to die in a year over rumors that were never true. With nothing left to lose, you stop being afraid.

Three years into the outbreak, you're a WCT officer surrounded by five men who all watch you a little too closely, and one teammate nobody trusts.

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.

You were just admitted to a psychiatric ward. Dr. Elno makes his morning rounds and keeps finding reasons you should stay a little longer.

Frederick Clayberg arrives in town with flawless manners and a charm that never slips. One evening, he crosses the room to find you and asks for wine.

You wake in another world as the destined bride of two Ancient Dragons: one who claims you as his possession, one who plans to win you through strategy.

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.

Park Jun-tae just moved in next door, and he can't shake the feeling he has seen you before. He watches the killer's CCTV footage every day at work.

Detective Park Jun-tae just moved in next door and swears your face looks familiar. You are the serial killer he is hunting.

Fuchino Tourei is the flawless "Iron Woman" secretary to everyone else, but the executive she serves is the only person she cannot bear to lose.

Minato fell for you the instant he saw your photo. Now you're engaged after one omiai meeting, and his devotion is sweet, constant, and impossible to escape.

Nagioka Nagihiro waits for you every night in a quiet traditional house, ready to draw your bath and ease the weight of your day.

Crown Prince Uesugi Atsuto was your closest friend as a child. Now he hurls cold words at you on purpose, insisting it is for the sake of the kingdom.

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

A princess used to being adored, you married Prince Ichijou Tsukimiya after one meeting. He has been cold since, like he can't stand 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.

Hashimoto Sakuto broke off your engagement over a lie his fiancee's jealous sister told. Three years later he knows the truth, but he is engaged to her instead.

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 psychiatrist husband Harada Yato comes home to find you sitting alone in the dark, and his gentle Kansai voice won't let it go unasked.

Shinya Shiraha runs the assassin organization Kokumei and took you in as a child. Now he scolds you over miso soup like the deadliest mom alive.

Kimura Kairi barely reacts when you're around. You live together, you confessed first, and now you are determined to make him actually notice you.

Himuro Nozomi, Third Prince and secret assassin, is your political fiancé. He comes home bloodied and barely looks at you.

Tadokoro Subaru ignored you until your death made him realize he loved you. Now a pact with an evil god sends him back to try again.

Late at night in a silent palace, First Prince Kagura Kaito finds you awake alone again. You are his arranged fiance and you are not in love with him.

You're the No.2 hitman of the Black Dragon organization. Its boss, Aoi Hyuma, drops his easy Kansai drawl and lights up whenever you walk in.

Ryoya comes home late again, cold and distracted. You're starting to wonder if your firefighter husband is cheating on you.

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.

Aoba Reito is your fiance and a mafia assassin who never lets you see the violence he does for a living. Tonight he shows up hurt and asks only for you.

Reiji Shinonome comes home and clings to you before he even takes off his shoes. On the hard days, he stays close and never makes you feel like a burden.

Fox yokai Takamine Konji threw tantrums for three days about marrying a tanuki he'd never met, until the moment he actually saw you.

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.

Your buddy is the assassin agency's biggest problem child, a mad dog who loves breaking things. Your job, literally, is keeping him from going too far.

Saeki Mitsuya has been quietly watching your life for months. Now he wants to move in, pay your rent, and do every chore, if you'll just say yes.

Mafia boss Kurosegawa Renma is feared by nearly everyone he commands, but newly married to you, he wakes each morning like a man who's already won everything.

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.

You and your rival coworker Ryoto Kawakami argued, then drank until neither of you remembers. Now you're waking up in the same unfamiliar room.

You live with Yuka Nagihara, your popular, princely girlfriend who slips off to flirt with other girls and strolls home before dawn like nothing happened.

Kondo Meika runs punishments for the Kokuryukai without blinking, but the boss's daughter, you, is the one person who gets to see him soft.

Your husband Murakami Ukyo is famous for never getting angry. Hidden cameras are rolling as he fake-storms at you for a TV prank segment.

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 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.

A sign in town promises a princess seeking suitors, strongest wins her hand. Alfina de Montreine has already sent famous heroes home half-dead for trying.

You and your ex Shion are captured together and displayed as a reunited pair. His eyes are cold, but something still lingers.

Hojo-in has served you since childhood with flawless composure for everyone but you, and dangerously overprotective devotion only you receive.

You are a rescued beast-human, fragile and half-blind. Makoto, your calm new Lead, unwraps your blanket and promises you're safe now.

Fujisaki Reiro is a terrifying ace at work and hopelessly doting at home, rushing back after two years together and six months living with you.

Ikeda Hyoga pulled you out of the Fang District ten years ago, and now the whole Renko-gumi treats you as family in a world of beastfolk discrimination.

Ryusuke never raises his voice, even when jealousy eats him alive. Come home late and he is waiting at the door, smiling, wanting to know where you went.

Your father arranged your marriage to farm owner Akito Kazama. Day one starts in his kitchen, where he hugs you from behind before breakfast is even done.

You were sent into the forest as a sacrifice. Two fox gods, one golden and joyful, one dark and intensely possessive, have decided you are their bride instead.

You answer a cafe job ad for the pay and free lodging. The owner who hires you on the spot moonlights as a hitman.

Kiribe Oboro was your warmest childhood friend before something broke between you. Married now for family reasons, his cold front hides feelings he won't admit.

Your father owed Chairman Nagishima Nagio everything and offered you instead. He expected nothing from you and fell for you on sight.

You joined your husband's company to support him, and now his boss Kirikawa Kana is using his mistake as leverage over you.

At a friend's party, every woman is chasing Shimosaka Saenagi for his zaibatsu fortune, except you, and that's exactly why he can't stop watching you.

You and Shimodō Saesaku were both betrayed by your fiancés. Now married, this cold zaibatsu heir turns endlessly doting the moment you're alone.

Itsuki runs a global conglomerate and married you three years ago. Ruthless at work, he softens completely the moment he's finally home with you.

Atsushi looks too rough for strangers to trust, but he cooks you miso soup and hugs you the moment he wakes. Mention another man and watch him go cold.

Wi Yun-won secretly bankrupted your family to make you marry him, and now keeps you devoted, watched and gently caged at home.

Married in secret to CEO Hinao Odani, you built a quiet, happy life, until your family found out and sent your sister to take him.

Near-future Japan assigns spouses at birth to fight the falling birthrate. Misaki, your childhood friend and legal husband, wants nothing to do with you.

Shimodobe Saerei 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 Empress everyone assumes is greedy, but Mamabeun keeps a mistress instead of ever learning who you really are.

Chairman Goong Ga-saem is prickly and cold to everyone at Y.H except you, his secretary. Today he's hiding an embarrassing secret badly.

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 dumped Noh Daram on Christmas Eve. Now he's your team leader, needling you in every meeting, and you can't tell if it's revenge or something else.

You just told prosecutor Chae Areun you love him, and he called you crazy. He's twenty years older and utterly unmoved. So far.

Hiro comes home past midnight again, smelling of someone else's perfume, and sits down beside you ready to talk his way back into your good graces.

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

You infiltrated a Russian mafia boss's bed as a spy. Aleksey Morkov has just found the evidence, and his perfect control is finally breaking.

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 ex-boyfriend Lee Jun is now your lawyer. He just found out why you really vanished three years ago, and he is furious on your behalf.

Nagisamori Deiso is the first prince who fell for you the moment he saw you. He proposed the same night, and now he never wants you out of his sight.

You are married to Kyeon Chae-yu, a proud, hot-tempered tenant farmer in 1960s rural Korea who goes furious every time another man looks at you too long.

You are the God's Bride mid-ritual when Emperor Hinaki Odoni's army storms in and takes you by force, calling you his alone now.

Homura Yaegashi cheated on you and you broke up months ago. After a car accident wiped his memory, he shows up smiling like nothing happened.

You wake up in a stranger's home with a ring on your finger and marriage papers filed. Miosaka Shoren, a yakuza underboss, calls you his wife.

Hyunwook runs the city's most feared organization and married you anyway. Cold to everyone else, he can't stop blushing the moment his thoughts turn to you.

You lived off Gin'nan Reito's kindness for years without giving anything back. Tonight you come home to find him finally, completely broken.

You and popular actor Oborobara Teiryu are secretly dating and living together. Every kiss scene you film makes him harder to keep a secret from.

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

Rika Mizushi has loved you since a stranger's funeral when you were both children, and waited years in silence to become a man worth collecting you.

You just moved into Yuram-dong as a serial crime spree grips the block. Your silent, blood-flecked neighbor Myeong-hoon Go already knows your door.

Yoon Tae is a killer posing as your bodyguard, sent to investigate your family and finish you off. You are far too reckless to make that simple.

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 came for a harvest festival village tour. Custom says the chief marries whoever shows up that day, and Ran'izawa Ransetsu has already decided you're his.

Your matchmaking with another ex-convict has failed again. Your supervisor, Kakifujita Hagiya, kneels in front of you and asks if you have any brains at all.

You stop to watch a single father get turned away from a street ice cream stand because he cannot afford a cone for his son's birthday.

You're at the clinic for stomach pain, and your internist is charming, gorgeous, and testing boundaries no real exam would call for.

Five years into your marriage, Fenris Zouch's warmth turned to contempt. Tonight he orders you out of the car onto a dark, empty road.

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

A chance bump on the subway with lawyer Ernest Garrett sparks your interest. What you do not tell him is that you are Russia's most dangerous mafia boss.

You're the section chief training the CEO's spoiled daughter, who can't use Excel, dodges every task, and thinks you're cute.

You are first in line for the throne, and three guards have every exit covered on banquet night. Pick who you test first.

Kirioka Kaou, CEO of a major company, walks into the club where you work, sits at your table, and never once changes his expression.

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

Im Rabit runs an entire criminal organization, but at home he refuses to let go of you even in his sleep. A nineteen-year age gap, and only you can hold him.

Sora Won is sixty-eight, owns dozens of companies, and married you young. He calls it the best decision of his life, no matter what anyone else says about it.

You are the CEO's secret lover, meeting Kirimoto Kajyo behind his office door for stolen, private moments no one else can see.

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.

You are the only daughter of Nagisa Reio, head of Japan's most powerful conglomerate, who turns doting the moment he wakes you each morning.

Kichunomori Kuritaki has been your butler since childhood. He's sharp-tongued, meticulous, and lives for teasing you awake.

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.

Your husband Nagisaki Orihiro came back from the front alive but hollowed out, bandaged and silent. You are the only one still by his side as he tries to heal.

The divorce papers are ready but unsent. Adil grabs your wrist at the door and asks if you really want this to end.

Taeung, Taerim Group's blunt sixty-seven-year-old chairman, softens only for you, while his sharp young secretary Suhyeok hides something behind his glasses.

Your boyfriend Renka Kusuhiro loves you so much it comes out sideways: biting, teasing, and a phone full of your candid photos. Handle him at your own risk.

Your spy cover is blown in minutes. Assassin Shioka Tsugumi skips killing you and proposes marriage instead, then starts doting on you like it's real.

You are secretary to Shiokawa Tsugarei, the popular young president who trusts you completely and cannot bring himself to say the one word he fears.

You live and work as a hitman alongside partners Oborobe Teiren and Oborogami Teikyo. This morning, both of them have come to drag you out of bed together.

You and Reiji matched on an app six years ago, survived a pandemic long distance, and married. Four years in, he is only sharp at work now.

You are a Black Agent who infiltrated Chyorny Krest and won Alexei Morkov's trust. He has just discovered you are a spy, and he is not calling the police.

Takatou Haruta is a beloved streamer by day and your single biggest fan by night, watching from a secret account and throwing super chats your way.

You're a servant assigned to attend the Higan family's heir, a lieutenant who was feared as merciless and now refuses to let anyone see him.

Two company chairwomen with unlimited money and power both want the same thing: you. Your girlfriend and your ex trade veiled insults over you at a gala.

Your wedding to Crown Prince Amoi Mori Kiriaki was a political contract, and divorce is forbidden. He calls it duty. You call it a beginning.

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

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.

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.

You are the Yuwall heir forced into an arranged marriage with Ye Ga-heun, the disgraced youngest son of a rival conglomerate who resents you on sight.

You moved into your first apartment and found a mafia heir already living there, calmly ordering you to cook his dinner.

You wake up as Vivienne, the doomed villainess of a romance-fantasy novel, and decide the tragic script is not for you.

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're the wayward princess who keeps escaping the palace, and Guk Nan-il, your foul-mouthed guard, is done pretending he isn't always first to find you.

Gil Ha-eun, the proud CEO who let you walk out the door, shows up at your apartment days later, admitting her company can't run without you.

Yakuza boss Saeya Saku has never loved anyone before you. After one glance on the street, he chases you down and won't let go.

Matthew Prescott runs her company as the untouchable Ice Queen, but one kiss from you, her secretary and secret girlfriend, undoes her completely.

One year into marriage, Ragyeol runs your household like a unit under his command, snacks included, until you get sick.

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.

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

You cannot forget your ex, Shimojima Oboro Kyo, even though he has a new girlfriend, and you have decided to try to win him back anyway.

Shioya just caught his fiancee cheating with your fiance. He finds you crying on the street and decides, on the spot, to take you for himself.

Kiryu Ren finds you unforgettable the moment you save his life in an alley. Now he dotes on you completely and treats everyone else as a threat.

Your husband texts you mid-dinner, counting the minutes until you leave. Four years married and he still can't stand another man looking at you.

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 her newly assigned exclusive butler. She greets you sprawled across her bed, delighted that you're finally the one taking care of her.

You broke up with your training supervisor and fled to another branch. Three years later he is your new department head, and he never let you go.

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.

You are the only human to ever slay a dragon, but the Root party sees a nobody. Their leader Hyun-woo offers you a porter job, certain you should be grateful.

Your case is falling apart in the press, so you hire lawyer Hwang Marim, who turns out to already live right down the hall from you.

Captain Kyeon Hahan silently preps your gear before deployment. His words are cold, but his hands are careful, and neither of you has said sorry yet.

Your idol boyfriend Naoya lives with you and closes your laptop mid-livestream. The real thing is right here, he says, radiating jealousy over himself.

A week after your messy breakup, you run straight into Dosadeun in the school hallway. He quit smoking for you once. He started again the day you left.

You save a bleeding mafia boss in a back alley, and Ren Kiryu falls for you on sight. Now he dotes on you completely and warns everyone else off.

Yeo Sagil runs Korea's top company and only lets his guard down for you. Ten years in, you still call him Chairman, and he still can't stop teasing you.

Mizuka is getting married today, but you, her ex-boyfriend, just showed up at her fitting room, and she cannot stop crying.

Madabom married for convenience and shares nothing with his wife. You're the sales lead he actually loves, and tonight he wants you at his private mansion pool.

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.

Tsuyuno Minato Subaru runs a global conglomerate through sheer financial force, and he indulges his daughter's every want without loosening his grip.

Your bodyguard Bang Rayul has followed every rule for three years. The night your arranged engagement is announced, his composure finally cracks.

Your wedding to Prince Nagisa Kasumida begins with an empty altar. He never showed, and rumor says he loves someone else entirely.

Publicly humiliated and freshly disengaged, you attend a royal ball. The Kingdom's Chancellor crosses the room and asks you to dance.

Cha Hyun-jae has rewatched the same anime for ten years. You just joined his team, and you look exactly like its heroine.

Seol Hayu does not fit what Omegas are supposed to look like, and he is sure no Alpha could ever want him, including you, his arranged husband.

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.

Madazn has watched over you through cameras in every room since you were seven. You're an adult now, but to him you're still his baby to protect.

Your neighbor is a silent, unshaven man who barely speaks to anyone. Tonight he's at your door with a package, and he already knows your name.

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 are seven months pregnant and married to Shioshima Tsugasaku, a pediatric nurse who comes home every evening asking how you and the baby are feeling.

Your secretary and bodyguard, Samidare Sakaki Rei, notices you are exhausted and offers a massage that turns into something more.

Duke Leopold Helm marries you for duty, not love, and warns you not to expect anything from a man still grieving his first wife.

Leoluca Greco, the mafia boss you betrayed two years ago, has tracked you to Korea. He's standing outside your door, and he isn't leaving.

CEO Sogaern reviews your entire criminal history, then offers you a way out of the underworld and into her orbit instead.

Nine guests wake to two bodies in a Victorian mansion with no way out. You are one of them, and everyone here is a suspect, including you.

You're sent in as a stand-in fiancée to Sumiji Hiiragi, a zaibatsu heir with a brilliant mind and a personality built entirely out of ice.

After seven years together, Masarei Shiono says the words you never expected: let's break up. But his voice doesn't match what he's asking for.

You married company president Ran'imamura Rankaka for convenience, no feelings involved, until his jealousy says otherwise.

You and Kuki Reima are elite assassin partners who share a house. He teases constantly, and lately his teasing feels different.

Kasumitani Nagisaku leads a global conglomerate, but every evening he rushes home just to hold you, utterly devoted after two years of marriage.

Kaiji Shirogane falls for you at a bus stop and drags you straight to his company. He's the world's biggest CEO, and he's never letting you go.

Grand Duke Naenaol needs an heir, not a wife. You arrive as his stranger bride, and the Empire's coldest soldier has to learn to want more than duty.

Tsuzaki Saeren, twenty-five and heir to a financial empire, adores his wife of two and a half years and turns possessive the instant another man gets close.

Ren owns the cafe you work at and greets you like he's been starving for the sight of you. Every line has a punchline, and you never see it coming.

Your husband Kirimura Oboro runs a zaibatsu empire and is called cold-blooded at work, but he sighs over paperwork tonight because it is keeping him from you.

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.

You've clung to fiancé Prince Sakurada Tomoya for years. Trying to pull back to fix yourself only wakes up an obsession you never saw coming.

You walk into bridal room for a marriage consultation and get seated across from Miokawa Kyotaka, a consultant known for blunt truths and a high success rate.

Chihaya Reiri runs a mafia empire and terrifies everyone in it, except you. Tonight he stood you up for dinner, and he knows exactly how much trouble he is in.

Your husband, Imperial Navy officer Minamura Misao, rarely comes home from sea duty. Tonight he's waiting, and his devotion runs deeper than expected.

IT president Fuchibe Tokyo confessed to you, his secretary, and got turned down. Now he's punishing you with paperwork and cold stares.

Your ruthless company president has fallen for you, his capable, dependable employee, and today he's decided it's time to tell you.

Reincarnated as a throwaway rival in an otome game, you expect nothing. Instead your broken-off fiancé keeps hovering, insisting he feels nothing.

Your roommate Tomori Ginshi is a rising yuri manga artist who uses you as her reference, posing you and watching your reactions a little too closely.

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 saved a stranger from stepping onto the tracks, got drunk with him, and woke up married. Misaki Miosaka moved in the next morning.

Maeng Ha-hyeok climbed to CEO on your money and your name, then cut you off. Now she needs your silence, and she is not above buying it.

You dumped Saeoka Sakuru once, and she never forgave it. Now she works the cafe counter as a gyaru, smiling wide while every word carries an old grudge.

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

By day you're a cafe barista for gentle owner Haeahn. By night you work a host bar, and he just walked in and called you to his room.

The moment your fiancé is stolen by your own coworker, billionaire heir Rukawa Saekyo drops to one knee in front of everyone and proposes to you.

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.

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

A yakuza boss reserves your family's izakaya for the night and falls for you at first sight, the one server who stayed kind to him despite being scared.

H Holdings needed a scandal to hide behind. Your marriage to heir Yeo Gateun was the cover story, and its penalty clause is 30 billion won.

Nagisa Kasamura, a self-made CEO who built an empire from nothing, falls for you the night you meet at a bar and starts scheming to win you.

Woo-seok Han destroyed your family and dragged you to his northern manor as the last piece of his revenge. Then you called his chandelier huge.

Your fathers arranged this engagement years ago. Duke Nam's heir waited twenty minutes for tea while you played in the garden, and he is not pleased about it.

You stopped humanity's first X-rank portal alone and lost every scrap of your power doing it. The Association just decided you are worth nothing now.

Two years after you blocked him for good, Aya is outside your door with a knife in one hand, insisting he has waited long enough and he is coming in now.

You run into your sister on a date in Omotesando, and her new boyfriend turns out to be the ex you have never quite stopped thinking about.

Six months after your breakup, you join a gym for confidence, and your assigned trainer turns out to be your ex, Kasumioka Teikou, steady under pressure.

Sumishi Hasumi is the perfect husband in public. In private, he's the one making you sick, then the one who comforts you as if he saved you from it.

Rosomori Saema, heir to the Saema Group, has no patience for women chasing his money. At a company party, your indifference catches his attention.

You work full time while your husband drinks, gambles and freeloads on your salary. Tonight he wants dinner on the table the second you walk in.

Soaked and lost on a rain-slicked street, you are found by Officer Percy Stirling, a dog-eared beastman cop whose kindness might not be entirely selfless.

Your parents' house just burned down and paramedics take them away. A blunt, silent firefighter who lost his own family the same way offers you his home.

Ryoga, your childhood friend turned secret boyfriend, answers every request for affection with a sharp-tongued lawyer's rebuttal. Tonight you push back.

Oren Nagatani 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.

Wilhelm executes nobles who defy him and terrifies his own court, but the King everyone fears turns instantly gentle the moment he looks at his wife.

Your husband's company is failing, and the only rescue is a CEO who wants you as his secretary. Irving is away on business. Hugh has other plans.

A god's whim sent you and self-declared hero Taketo into the same fantasy world. He just cornered you at the guild, certain you're stealing his spotlight.

You've secretly dated idol Sunwoo-je for five years. A dating rumor just blew up, and you threw your couple ring on the ground mid-fight.

Ten years together, and tonight you hand your husband, divorce lawyer Kook Ma-saem, the divorce papers you've hidden from him for months, on his birthday.

Chairman Pyun Rapheun runs Korea's top company with total composure. Call you to his office for no reason, though, and that composure disappears completely.

You've waited outside his house for four winters running. Tonight he shows up with another woman on his arm, and he still expects you to smile about it.

A hero bursts into your throne room to slay you, the Demon Lord. You see straight through his perfect smile to the boy who just wants his name said.

Ivern was raised to have you by his side since the day you were both born. He calls the engagement he just announced nothing new. His claim on you never was.

You have a terminal prognosis. Your oncologist, Shinonome Suzuma, jokes and teases you through every appointment, and somehow that is what keeps you steady.

Your secret app partner turns out to be the new chairman you just started working for. Nodareun still wants you, but now it's complicated.

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

You were executed as the villain on false charges. Reincarnated with your memories intact, you watch the prince and knight who caused it live with guilt.

Jung Woobin is the only S-rank Guide who has ever stabilized you, a volatile SS-rank Esper barely holding on with drugs.

You indicted Gyeom Ma-eun, leader of Korea's largest crime syndicate. Minutes later, he walks into your office to tell you what he thinks of that.

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.

The Black Veil mafia bought you as a rare beast-person at auction, then couldn't sell you. Now five men spoil you daily and you keep escaping anyway.

You're the strongest Demon King alive and you'd rather nap on the throne room floor. Five loyal subordinates spend every day trying to drag you back to work.

Ham Bah-heun runs with the school's most feared group and ignores everyone. Then your eyes meet in the hallway, and he can't stop noticing you.

You walk into a hair salon known for great cuts and find a staff member, Jo Na-saem, who is stunningly handsome.

You married Grand Duke Gil Nawol, who eats dinner with you in silence and saves every smile for the princess he actually wants.

King Seon Jion has real anger management issues and a court that fears him, but around his wife, you, he turns instantly calm and adoring.

Emperor Kasim promised to return from war and marry you properly. He comes home with Nadira in his arms, pregnant, and announces she outranks your grief.

Seok-hoon lost everything to the outbreak and cannot even die. You are the newly assigned researcher standing in front of the immortal survivor the lab studies.

Ra Saul leads Seoul's violent crimes unit. His wife keeps chasing its most dangerous cases, and every promotion costs him another night of dread.

Jo A-gyeol is a fearsome alpha lawyer with a flawless win record. At the office she's calm with everyone but you, until her rut hits and unravels her.

You saved the world as the forgotten hero. Now an X-rank and SSS-rank hunter couple, strangers to you, notice you on a cafe terrace and grow suspicious.

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

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.

Emperor Ethan has ignored you for two cold years of marriage. Today he wakes up, embraces you without warning, and swears never to let go.

Jeon Bagyeol married you months ago and worries when your bad ankle meets your love of yoga. Blunt in public, gentle only with you.

Everyone knows the Crown Prince has never wanted the same woman twice. Somehow he still leaves a rose at your door every single night.

Karen Balder leads a medieval mafia family and was raised to feel nothing. You're the wife arranged marriage gave him, and he doesn't know what to do with you.

Fletcher Eastman lives next door, barely more than a hallway acquaintance. Tonight he stumbles into your unlocked apartment instead of his own, totally wasted.

Two years after you betrayed him and vanished into Korea, mafia boss Leoluca Greco has broken into your apartment, gun in hand.

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.

Your mom invited your ex, Newton Oakley, to Christmas Eve dinner. He corners you at the sink after the meal, certain he can talk his way back into your life.

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

You spill coffee on a yakuza executive on your ordinary walk home. He grabs your chin to yell at you, then goes completely soft the second he sees your face.

You have told your boss Minatooka Rei you love him every day since your interview, and every day he acts like he never heard a word.

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

Your husband Ulric Westbrook is on his knees begging for a divorce, so he can marry his dying first love before it's too late. The choice is yours.

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

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

At a family dinner, your husband's clingy best friend Isabella claims the seat beside him and expects you to give it up without a word.

Two years after your breakup, you run into her on the street. She never moved on, and the second she sees you, she's holding on like she never let go.

Defense attorney Do Jasol has never lost against you, her old senior turned prosecutor. Money drives her, and beating you is the win she savors most.

You run a major company at twenty-three, uninterested in romance until your new secretary Fuchikawa Tosubaru starts watching you like that, without a word.

You missed the last train and got lost in the dark streets, and four childhood friends who now run rival crews all spot you at once.

Drake, the North's cold Grand Duke, has killed you eight times in nine loops. You wake married to him again, remembering every death this time.

Captain Niles Lynwood commands the White Dragon Security Squad and visits his dead wife and son's memorial. You remind him painfully of his son.

You were reincarnated straight into your favorite otome game, engaged to Duke Oldric at zero affection. Every point you earn will be hard-won.

Your husband, prosecutor Gung Masol, comes home exhausted, sees your bare ring finger for the first time, and one quiet question changes the evening.

You work as his housekeeper. Gung Maneul is cold, exacting, and has just caught you breaking one of his prized dishes, and his patience has run out.

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.

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

Toru built your company practically single-handed and now she's moving into your house to manage the rest of your life too, whether you agree or not.

You have hidden your powers your whole life. A building collapses on a villain, you walk out unharmed, and the country's #1 hero notices everything.

Your kingdom lost the war. Now you are presented as a peace offering to Kakifujimura Hagihana, the general who defeated it, and he barely looks interested.

You died protecting a five-year-old prince twenty years ago. Now he's Emperor, still keeps your portrait, and has never stopped looking for you.

Olivia dumped you months ago and still can't resist a jab when she sees you. Rude and toxic, but secretly desperate for you to notice she still cares.

Your arranged marriage turned unexpectedly warm, then war took your husband for years. Now you're terminally ill, and he still doesn't know.

You're the only angel on Earth, adored by the whole world, and today you're begging your masked bodyguard Edmund Pryce to take it off again.

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.

Reren, the wandering swordsman who vanished without a word a year ago, just walked back into the tavern where you work like nothing happened.

Four months married to Pellinore Brindle, and mornings start the same way: you try to sit up, and he pulls you back into his arms without opening his eyes.

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.

Stewart keeps the office running with an unreadable face, except when you're the one who finds him in the smoking room after hours.

Your sister fled her royal marriage, so you're forced to wed cold Prince Sakunagi in her place, not knowing the whole escape was his plan.

Your husband has called five times waiting outside your office. He married you for love at first sight, and you have never once let him past friendly.

Seo Minjun is the country's youngest Minister of Economy and Finance, and at home an exacting, old-school husband you have to learn to navigate.

Late 1800s England, after Sherlock Holmes. You're the assistant keeping detective Kitsutamura Kuritsuki's agency from turning into a garbage heap.

Tsuyube Minato Mio runs the company you work for and inherited it from his mother. Kind to everyone else, he watches you like he already decided you're his.

Zenba Reiya is waiting at the door when you finally get home from drinks with friends. He already checked your phone, and he already knows you lied.

CEO Hakbapeun 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.

Sadapeun is gruff with everyone except you and your daughter, six years into a marriage built on that exact blunt-hearted contradiction.

A year into marriage with surgeon Seo Jinwoo, you still work the same hospital halls together. Tonight he needs you more than he'll say.

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.

Your husband acts like an affectionate puppy at home. Everyone in the underworld knows him instead as K.D., the boss who runs it.

Nagisano Orimio is a cold, exacting husband who demands flawless housework. What you don't see is the screaming internal monologue about how cute you are.

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.

Your husband Desmond Fenwick keeps his distance in your arranged marriage. Tonight a small cut sends him rushing to your side, cold mask cracking.

You took a job that pays absurdly well: put a feared mafia boss to sleep, whatever it takes. He hasn't slept in years, and everyone before you has failed.

Takrateun, a third-generation chaebol executive, wrecked your job search and your family's finances just to force you back into his reach. He isn't done yet.

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

You've been married to Dr. Theodore Yates for two years, but his brutal hospital shifts leave you barely seeing him, even though you work there too.

Your CEO texts you at 3 a.m. asking you to his apartment. He answers in sweatpants, locks the door, and offers thirty million dollars for a year of marriage.

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.

Holy Knight Mioto Shōkyō married you for political reasons and rides off without a glance, insisting he was never supposed to care about you.

Sun Maheun runs KJ Group and has already decided you belong to her. She quietly removes anyone who gets close to you and calls it care.

Undercover on day one, you're caught by two Monochrome executives who show no mercy, except toward you.

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.

Seven years into marriage to German heir Yeom Raram, you watch him carry your daughter Elisa back to you in the same park.

Your neighbor Ivor Merrick has hosted you at his Christmas party for years. Tonight, watching you across the room, he finally decides to act.

Hidden away with two bodyguards for protection, you don't know your father secretly promised the next boss's seat to whichever one wins your heart.

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.

A hospital test names your fated mate: Tsuyuhashi Sō, a towering yakuza alpha who decides on sight that you belong to him.

Nearly six months into a forced marriage, your husband Isidore Glenroy only wanted one thing from the deal: a child. Tonight he catches you reading.

Your husband Tidoto Enryu runs a global company and dotes on you every morning before work, but even his own reflection makes him a little jealous of you.

Bennett Langford dumped you by text on Valentine's Day for someone richer. Years later, as a successful CEO, she walks into your office as a client.

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.

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.

Wi Ha-hoon comes home from a three-week business trip convinced you cheated, and the puppyish boyfriend you know has gone ice cold.

Newlywed husband Minhyuk dotes on you completely, but his cousin Minyu clings to him and glares at you every time she's in the room.

Gang boss Ryang Da-yeop swears at every subordinate who crosses him, then walks through your door and turns into the softest, most doting husband alive.

As a mafia leader's daughter, lawyer and company owner, you're a target every day. Vaughn Thorne, your father's hire, manages all of it, and you.

Reborn with no memory, you have returned to the palace of a king shattered by his consort's wrongful execution five years ago.

Mok Dasaem carries you through his front door and calls you his mistress, right in front of his wife. She's furious. He doesn't seem to care.

Kwon Hajun threw a knife at your feet and asked if you could stab him. You didn't, and became his secretary and bodyguard instead.

Team Lead Cha Sehun just tore into you over a report you didn't sabotage. At work he's ice cold, but outside it, he's yours and he cries easily.

You finally corner the villain who ruined your life, and your own party turns their weapons on you to protect him instead.

You married the Crown Prince for the Empire's stability. He has never once looked at you the way he looks at your younger sister.

Gal Gawol runs the city's most feared organization and never filters his mouth, except somehow, oddly, around you, his groggy roommate every morning.

You are the Saint everyone secretly resents, exploited for your healing and replaced by a liar. Today, in front of the whole party, you finally walk.

Your husband lost three years of memory, the exact years he spent falling for you, and now dotes on the maid who nursed him instead.

As Marketing team leader, you've matched Yoon Tae-gyeom of Planning for ten years. Today he offers to lead instead, and he'll notice the moment you refuse.

You can read minds. Your gruff editor-in-chief says two words out loud and an entire gushing monologue about you in his head.

MY Group's chairman Gihyeon hands new hire tasks to no one, until you walk in. He assigns you paperwork just to see your face again.

You are the new Guide assigned to Gam Ga-yul, an SS-rank Esper who lost the partner he loved and now refuses to trust anyone again.

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

Yunho just strangled a troublemaker to death in his own club without blinking, then found you in the crowd and smiled like he liked what he saw.

Nanase Reita, your condescending ex, shows up at your new apartment and lets himself in. He still won't admit he's the one who can't move on.

Shiohara Tsuganagi is a financial heir who chose medicine and chose you. He checks your temperature, kisses your forehead, and wants nothing but your happiness.

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.

Bo Ayun was your fellow villain and lover until he vanished and reappeared fighting for the heroes, hunting you as the enemy now.

You are married to Nagisa Ren Kasumimoto, the head of a global conglomerate. At home, his cold executive reputation vanishes and he dotes on you completely.

You married Seo Jinwoo, the hospital's quiet thoracic surgery chief, a year ago. Tonight he comes home from a loss he couldn't save, and holds on to you.

You're an undercover agent tailing a masked crime lord called The Mask. When he finally takes it off, it's your missing husband, Do Gi-hyeon.

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

Tsuyutani Minato runs a global zaibatsu with a cold, commanding reputation, but two years into marriage he still counts the hours until he sees you.

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.

Arashi is a reformed yakuza turned security president who never yells, spoils you constantly, and cannot stand an outfit he judges immodest.

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 raised Kaito as a human so he could live a full life. He wants your fangs in his neck, and tomorrow marks twenty years since you found him.

You are the mute princess married to a duke who despises you. Sneaking into his room to warn him of a plot, he pins you down, certain you are an assassin.

Ma Ganghyeok runs Korea's most feared crime organization and kills without hesitation, yet he holds you like you are the only thing that matters.

You married Guk Ma-gyeol, the blunt young chairman who fell for you at twenty-five. Married life hasn't cooled him down the way people warned.

A system error assigns you, an E-rank Guide, to Won Ho-yeon, Korea's only SS-rank Esper. He believes you outrank you, and Guides are forbidden to him.

Kwak Mabit treats love like a contract and never bends his logic, but tonight your perfectionist lawyer husband comes home just to ask you for a hug.

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 searched for your vanished husband for months. Charabeun finds you first, tied up, in enemy gear, asking where you hid the weapon.

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

Ma Doyun, sub-boss of the Hanseong gang, falls for you at first sight at your arranged marriage meeting, then can barely manage his own name.

Aniida Kiriya leads the country's strongest yakuza, feared by every rival, but the only person he's ever really needed is the childhood friend he married.

Tsuyuhara Sakō, ruthless CEO of the Sakō Group, comes home to dote on you completely, still uneasy about the ex-best friend who tried to get between you.

In court, defense attorney Moon Hayul tears you apart without mercy. At home, your new husband is a clingy mess who calls you Big Sis.

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.

Kasumigami Karyu runs the company as its composed, capable president, then calls you into her office for work she does not actually need to discuss.

Your Guide is the ex you broke up with fighting like enemies. Your body still needs his guiding to survive, and he never lets you forget it.

You married Ok Rabom, YD Group's CEO, after an office romance as his company's lawyer. On your day off, he waits for you in the rain with an umbrella.

You drowned believing your husband Roan never loved you. Now you're back in the carriage the day it all started, and his diary already told you the truth.

You're a fox spirit who lied your way out of a hunter's trap by claiming to be a gumiho. A year later, that lie has become a marriage you can't escape.

Married off to Archduke Sahir to remove you as a political threat, you arrive at his manor with no maid, hostile staff, and one cold word: welcome.

Nagasawa Denrei is your new boss, a young CEO who has never once felt desire, until the moment you walk into his office as his secretary.

Bertram Ripon greets you with a single insult before ignoring you completely. Living with your new roommate starts exactly this bluntly.

President Chu Yunmin pulls you onto his lap every morning. Today he spots a kiss mark on your neck from a stranger, and his easy smile goes cold.

Dam Na-yun went to prison for what he did to you. You moved, erased every trace, and still he found you, standing right behind you on a dark street.

Married to Geomwoo boss Hakateun for six months, a pure business deal until his jealousy shows. Tonight he drapes his jacket over you: cover up.

Your parents arranged your marriage to Shimokawa Oboro Mio. You share a house, dinner and a last name, and almost nothing else, because he barely looks at you.

You're 27, married to Yoon Jae-on, two years younger and waiting up. You come home late smelling like another man's cologne, and he's already furious.

You hid your Awakened powers until a building collapse left you unhurt in front of Nam Tae-oh, Korea's number one hero, who instantly clocked you.

Gang boss Do-un is feared by everyone except you. He pulls you into his lap, calls you princess, and kisses you before you can answer.

You win a hotel sweepstakes and meet CEO Minato Toshima, who confesses love at first sight over a private dinner and won't let you out of his sight.

Roderic Lympstone forced you into this marriage and cannot stop watching you. Come home late tonight and feel exactly how far his devotion reaches.

Your nightmare-prone roommate Zachary Chandler, who claims to dislike you, shows up at 2am with shaking hands and asks to sleep in your bed.

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're dating his son, but Chairman Cha Yunseong made you his personal secretary, and now he can't stop watching you across the boardroom table.

Two years married, and Karim Elshad still won't touch you. At your first real dinner together, he tells you exactly what he wants: your absence.

You confront CEO husband Valerian Ottery about his affair with his secretary. He doesn't deny it, doesn't apologize, and calls it simply normal.

You and Miles Hale keep your marriage secret at the hospital where you both work. Mid-breakdown in a storage room, your stoic doctor husband finds you crying.

Moon Do-hyuk is the perfect man to everyone but you, his secretary. His hand at your waist, his voice at your ear, never quite nothing.

Rookie officer Fujishiro Rin 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.

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

The power cuts, a window shatters, and Reed Colvin, the ex who never accepted the breakup, is already inside your house.

Nathaniel hid the arm he lost overseas from you until your wedding night. Now he asks if you still see the man you married.

Prince Okaya Mizuta called you a lover's role and broke it off. At a party months later, he grabs your shoulder like nothing ever happened.

Duke Erich hates his political wife and adores noble lady Iljena instead. Tonight he arrives covered in blood, having killed your maid on Iljena's word alone.

You're engaged to Prince Shiozaki Shoko, arranged since childhood. He insults you within seconds of your reunion. He's never been honest either.

In the gaslit city of Gray Raven, a former assassin you once saved serves as your sworn bodyguard, bound by a collar only you can remove.

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.

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.

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.

You're married into the warrior tribe of Zarun. Chief Shioya Masanagi calls you a tool for peace, cold-voiced, golden-eyed, unreadable.

You are Korea's only S-class esper, refusing every guiding session out of trauma. Sa Dasol, your dedicated guide, is done watching you white-knuckle it alone.

You've come to Solatis for an arranged political marriage. Noble lady Fuchioka Hinoki stands alone at the banquet, cold-voiced and unreadable.

Vortigern Grasmere pulls you into his car on a rainy street, one hand on your thigh, picking up right where his possessive control over you left off.

Five years into marriage, the husband who once shielded you from his wealthy family now stares at the floor while they tear you down at dinner.

You wake as a constellation named Weaver of Causality, watching four heroes from behind a white veil, free to sponsor, test, or abandon each one.

You've hidden your powers for years. Then a collapsing building should have killed you, and Baek Daon, the country's number one hero, watched you walk out fine.

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 run a hospital pharmacy too busy for you to notice you're being courted. A flirtatious doctor from the floor above keeps finding reasons to visit.

Shun is twenty-two, wealthy, and never rattled. You go cold and flirt with other men just to watch his composure finally slip.

Pyo-won runs the world's biggest company with icy composure, but the instant his wife walks in, he turns giddy, clumsy and terrified of ever losing her.

Guk Gabom runs the Baekho-pa, the country's largest criminal gang, and disposes of anyone he deems weak. You are the only person he has never been cold to.

In the middle of a fight, you pull off your ring and throw it on the table. Osric Ashbourne stares at it, then at you, and tells you to put it back on.

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

Starving and desperate, you follow a man down an alley to feed. He turns out to be Seon Gijun, the hunter vampires fear most.

Severin Monkton comes home late again, cold and cruel to the wife he once adored. Tonight he wakes you at the table with contempt instead of love.

You're the neighboring princess married into Alverre, to Prince Noel, who skipped the wedding and treats you as a burden.

Your husband Lawrence Monroe came home from war a month ago. Tonight a loud scene on TV triggers a panic attack, and you're the one who can reach him.

You've pushed your endlessly patient boyfriend Shim Haon too far, snapping "Ya" at him mid-argument, and his gentle face is gone completely.

It's a quiet Tuesday night when Celine Braith shows up at your door with a lasagna and eyes rimmed red from crying.

Anya calls your name through a bloodied smile. You find him whipped and bleeding in the annex shed, and he only wants to see you.

Kasazaki Nagaru, a billionaire CEO, finds you alone at the wedding of the fiancé who left you for another woman, and offers you a way out.

Your husband runs the Kamishiro Group, and the moment he learns you walked to the shops instead of taking the car, he drops everything.

Bae Ji-han, the rival mob's second son, was handed over as a hostage. Now he's sworn to protect you, the Leader's daughter, with his life.

You come home from a job at 3 AM, blood still on your hands. Han Jae-yul, your contract partner who despises you, is about to walk through the door.

It's your first day at a new job. The elevator doors open, and the man staring back at you is the stranger you spent last night with.

Your husband's friend Hak Nareun visits again in a suit, tucking your hair behind your ear like he belongs here. You're starting to notice how close.

You are a prosecutor who used Saraul's dirty work to climb, and just got engaged to your boss's son for career leverage. He is not taking the news well.

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

Nam Chaeo, your Michelin-starred husband, is sulking on the sofa over a rushed goodbye this morning. One real kiss now flips him from pouting to smug.

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

Wulfric never cared for clingy women, until you. Now he's back from deployment, cold and distant, drowning whatever guilt he feels in whiskey.

Tae-oh Shin, the peacock beastfolk who once pushed you away, grabs your wrist in a parking lot after a scandal dimmed his once-brilliant tail feathers.

The toy ring you gave your doctor as a child never came off his hand. Now grown, you walk back into his clinic, and he calls you his wife.

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.

You come home to find your girlfriend's ex asleep on her lap, and he has no intention of treating your shared apartment as off-limits.

The doorbell will not stop ringing. Naoto refuses to accept the breakup and is standing outside your door in tears, insisting he is still your boyfriend.

A thousand-year-old gumiho, you once saved a boy from a tiger. Grown into Joseon's fiercest exorcist, he hunts you now and remembers nothing.

Three years after you ended it, Kazuma is back in Japan, more composed than you remember, and just as stubbornly unable to admit he never moved on.

Your husband Darius Belmont brings home Isolde, the last princess and his first love, and calls her a spoil of war.

You're infected but harmless, and Agent Bae Ji-an chose to study you instead of ending you. Now you're sealed in a bunker together.

Jin-seok offers you five hundred million won for a year as his girlfriend, on his terms. You already said no, and he already ignored it.

You're picking a wedding dress with your fiance today. Instead of him, one of his men shows up to say the boss will be late.

Shiokyo Migiwabe, a composed and dominant CEO, keeps calling you out to luxury dinners and pulling you further under her quiet control.

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.

You saved Terezia's capital and were promised a princess as reward. The court gave you No Naul, its disowned 'Cursed Princess,' and today you meet her.

Your boyfriend Hoanil told you he works evenings at a pub. Tonight, at a friend's birthday party in a host club VIP room, you find out that was a lie.

You're an inpatient under Dr. Sakutaka Saebe's care, and Monday's session opens with him already glad you came.

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.

No Madeun poisoned your father to take the Okcheon Group chairmanship. Now you are her vice chairman, a figurehead she pours sake for and smiles at.

Yodogami needs the money for her son's care. You are the president she cannot stand, and you already decided at her interview that you wanted her close.

Engaged for twelve years to Minato Kyo, heir to the Tsubo-oka company. He has a girlfriend, sees you as a duty, and still expects you to come running.

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.

The hero party defeats the Demon King, then wakes up stranded on a deserted island. You're their porter, and to all five of them you're just luggage.

You are an unidentified monster held in Brown Company's underground cells. Researcher Hae-young Kwon watches you through the window, oddly delighted.

A casino VIP room, a captured UN officer, and a two-hour deadline. You are the courier hired to move her, and only you decide what happens to Rosa.

Married off to the future emperor for his family's benefit, you face a husband who already despises the rumors written about you.

Summoned as the Hero with no power at all, you arrive trembling at the Demon Lord's castle, and four terrifying demons decide on the spot that they adore you.

Liora Sennet, the Hero destined to face the Demon King, got lost in a storm and just knocked on your cabin door asking to wait out the rain.

You have zero combat power, but you just took a job as errand runner and cook for Astra, the strongest guild in the world, and its five specialists.

Officer Okazaki Aoto has turned down every confession with a flat no. Extreme difficulty: can you be the one exception?

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.

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're a Level 99 legend posing as a Level 10 porter under royal order, and the hero party leader already thinks you're worthless.

Your husband is quiet, gentle, and impossibly perfect. Every time he goes to the basement, you hear a television that shouldn't exist.

Your husband Theobald hasn't slept at home in weeks, guarding the new Saint. Live the political marriage the court is already gossiping about.

Seline Park never asks why you're here, not until payment is settled. Step into her spotless, wordless waiting room and find out what you need.

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.

You are the real Saint hiding as a commoner while an impostor takes the credit, and four very different men are starting to notice you.

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.

You're the short errand runner for five towering heroes who mock you by day and let you in one room at a time by night.

You are the weakest of Archmage Hyun-cheol Ryu's five disciples, and the performance review that could expose you again is almost here.

Cain Lucht fell from a cliff after his own party let him. You found him broken at the bottom, while his four former comrades move on without him.

You are one of five Demon Lords running a 10,000-year-old dungeon. Adventurers keep losing to you. Here is what happens between fights.

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.

You're the internet's most notorious Ayane hater. Every stream, the million-subscriber provocateur reads your comment first and comes straight for you.

Executives corner the youngest staff at a company drinking party. You and three coworkers try to get through the night with your boundaries intact.

You wake in a stranger's hotel room marked by an alpha's imprint. The alpha is Geon-woo Ma, boss of a rival gang.

Your wife Do Seo-rin is a terrifying team leader who screams at you all day, then hugs you the moment you walk in the door and cooks you dinner.

Fifty years after monsters fell from the sky, you are a Survivor with your own awakened ability, registered in Japan's most unpredictable branch.

You marry Emperor Leonix Claire in a loveless political match. He is rumored cold-hearted, and the court still mourns the empress he lost.

Four warriors already despise the hero riding on their strength. Walk into the tavern he just trashed, and see who looks at you instead of him.

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

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.

You are the Guide who stabilizes S-class Esper Ha Gyeom-woo after a Red Gate mission leaves him exhausted and dangerously unstable.

A lost Doberman leads you into a back alley, straight to a wounded, dangerous man who asks if you're his dog's girlfriend.

Your house and Sebas's have checked each other for generations. You've traded barbs with him since childhood, and tonight's ball is no different.

Mio is a beloved streamer who lives with you, keeps your relationship secret from her fans, and wants to do a collab stream with you tonight.

You're the true saintess, but a liar wears the platinum rings and a prince, a knight and a strategist all believe her instead.

Oh Sejun is warm with everyone in Sports Science, except you. Somehow the campus favorite decided, for no clear reason, that he cannot stand his new junior.

A scam left you and Caleb Morse both renting the same apartment from the same missing friend, and neither of you can kick the other out.

You're the adult cat beast-kin Shihu adopted on a whim. Six months later, he still yells every time you knock something off a shelf, then cleans it up anyway.

Drunk, you climbed into what you thought was a taxi. The driver's seat holds Choi Siwan, the boss of the country's largest crime syndicate.

Your childhood friend Cha Eun-seo runs a guild on the edge of collapse. She keeps showing up with new, increasingly desperate pitches to recruit you.

Your boyfriend is also your team leader, your relationship is stuck in a rut, and you just cost the company its biggest client. Now he wants you in his office.

Fuyuki Sayuki runs a semiconductor empire and has given up love, family, and rest to do it. You are her new secretary, the first person she lets this close.

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 scream at a stranger's SUV during a rainy commute, flip him off, and speed away. On your first day at JZ Group, he turns out to be your new director.

Your marine boyfriend Hong Jihan finally gets his first leave, spots a mark on your neck, and completely misreads what it means.

Jo Yewon is cold to every other customer at her cafe, but she lights up the moment you walk in, then quietly pulls back if you get too close.

You are the White Lotus Society's uncontrollable heiress. After a real bullet threat, your grandfather sends the one man too dangerous to protect anyone.

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.

Kwon Jae-hyun is Seraphin Group's chairman and, in total secret, your husband. On your first day as a new hire, he pretends not to know you.

Lee Minjae, the heir to one of Korea's top conglomerates, brings you to dinner after a long week and cuts your steak himself.

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

Your uncle Elliot Ward, the lawyer everyone calls perfect, shows up at your door past ten, drunk on exhaustion and finally falling apart.

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.

Yoo Sion curses first and asks questions never. Three years into dating him, you two fight constantly, break up constantly, and never actually leave.

Weeks into the war, General Tristan Boyle calls you from the front line, gunfire behind his voice, needing to hear you before the fighting gets worse.

You are the Hunter Association's laziest S-rank, ranked first for reasons no one understands, and Song Yihyeon has had enough of watching you nap.

Your husband Do Tae-yoon pulls over on a dark, rainy road and tells you to get out of the car, with no idea you are carrying his child.

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.

Your dorm roommate Maren Solace calls herself a femcel and means it. Walk in on her mid-meltdown, and her rage lands on you first.

You are the world's first Ninth Circle archmage, living hidden in a forest cabin. Emperor Hadrian Solenne, a swordsman who cuts down mages, comes to find you.

Seven strangers are sealed in a locked room for 30 days. Money rewards every elimination, and no one, including you, has an obvious motive.

Omegas vanished thirty years ago, leaving five Dominant Alphas unraveling in a private hotel. You arrive as the heir who controls the inhibitors they all need.

You're the family's outcast Young Master. Jin Hoseok, your gruff secretary-slash-bodyguard, only ever pranks you, never hurts you.

You match with Nolan Duvall, a married lawyer craving something her comfortable life doesn't give her. She's already messaging you first.

Emperor Tsubaki-moto Sumiakira is merciless to every rival in Verde. The instant he sees you at the party, he kneels and proposes on the spot.

You are the true Saintess no one believes. An impostor wears your title while the Crown Prince and three attendants watch her instead of you.

World-famous model Ragi Shelm cuts his nightly livestream short the moment he hears you out of the bath. Millions of fans are watching him fall for you live.

A joke post about quitting your job gets you a DM from CEO Barnaby Drayton, who has secretly followed your life for six months.

You wake from your lunch break trapped in a bare white room with the boss who rides you hardest. There's a bed, a monitor, and no visible door.

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

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

Quincy Moreau just made you Alfredo pasta again. Step into his apartment for a warm night with your wealthy, endlessly attentive new boyfriend.

Sirens flash behind you on an ordinary drive, and the officer stepping out is your own husband Godfrey, badge on and grin barely hidden.

Pyo Yun-hyeok runs a company by day and a gang by night. He is blunt with everyone except you, the one person he comes home to and quietly adores.

Patrick Carver, a local goon, pulls up to your father's house and locks eyes on you first. His associate Ravi notices too.

You're a contract killer caught mid-escape by Officer Quentin Thornbury, gun to your head, right after killing his coworker on the job.

After you ran away from home, your father assigned Pi Seojae as your bodyguard: a shameless flirt who has zero interest in dating you.

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

Your suspiciously athletic next-door neighbor claims he is unemployed. He is actually an NIS black agent hiding in plain sight.

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

A stranger yanks you into an alley kiss to dodge his bodyguards. He is Pyohachan, a runaway conglomerate heir, and he is not finished with you yet.

You're the new exclusive Guide for Ahn Jae-hyun, Korea's strongest, most infamous SS-rank Sentinel. He opens with 'shut up' before your introduction finishes.

Your sister fled her wedding to a feared mafia boss. Humiliated at the altar, Casper Ellsworth turns his cold gaze on you instead.

Chairman Peng Yuneun 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.

You come back to your car parked in a no-parking zone. Officer Simon Wexler already has her pad out, and she is far more flirtatious than a ticket usually gets.

You've never seen your royal fiance's face. He arrives disguised as your blind butler, Oboromori Renkyou, to test who you really are before revealing himself.

Your wife Bang Bora is a gumiho who has already eaten ninety-nine livers to become human. Tonight she wants the hundredth, and it is yours.

Rumors say a terrifying exorcist purged every yokai in the forest next door. Then smoke clears, and you're kneeling in front of him.

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

Ten years ago you died as South Korea's greatest hunter. Now you are a monster, and the guild master who idolized you doesn't recognize your face.

Your CEO offers double your holiday bonus if you pretend to be his girlfriend for the holidays. Baek Doha never asks for favors, only proposes deals.

You're drowning in debt when a strange invitation pulls you into an underground death game. Im Naram becomes your partner, and she's already survived this once.

Benedict Barclay is a brilliant Omega lawyer in Russia who cannot cook to save his life. Running late for work, he crashes straight into you.

Tak Naneul answers at 3 AM even though he knows what the call means. Six years of on-and-off with you have left him furious at himself and unable to hang up.

By day Kenneth Lambert prosecutes criminals in court. By night she is the Onyx Nightingale, a vigilante working outside the law she swore to uphold.

Daphne, Otillie and Petra all adore the hero Gabriel. You're the party member nobody looks twice at, except maybe Gabriel.

Kidnapped and unable to speak, you dial your arranged marriage husband Conrad Fleming. What he hears next changes everything about how he sees you.

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.

Gung Dadeun, your father's most loyal enforcer, guards you around the clock and just caught you sneaking out to drink again.

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.

You retired from hunting monsters. Your close younger friend Jung Harin shows up at your door again, determined to talk you back into the field.

Sundagil is a lawyer who runs on logic, not feelings, and rarely raises her voice. Tonight your girlfriend comes home to your whining.

You're Orson Radcliffe's wife, blocked from his own birthday party by two women who don't recognize you and call you ugly and poor to your face.

Drunk, you climb into what you think is your taxi. The stranger behind the wheel is a merciless crime boss, and he wants to know exactly who you are.

Wang Rasem secretly runs a massive criminal organization, but one year into marriage he still can't raise his voice at the wife he's terrified of losing.

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

A dominant alpha lawyer met you once, three years ago, and never forgot. Now she's a regular at your cafe, and this time she has a plan.

Soonga-beun, a towering yakuza chairman, married you as the price of a truce. Now he flees every night, terrified he might accidentally hurt you.

Your father sent his elite secretary Yoon Jia to move in and watch over you while he's overseas. She's already waiting inside your apartment.

You are a widower grieving at your wife's grave when a stranger runs into you, begging for protection from men chasing her, wearing your late wife's exact face.

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.

Pyun Nadeun is your seven-year friend and fellow resident, mobbed by kids in Pediatrics while you work Emergency next door.

Your father's debt sold you to a mafia boss twice your age. Two years later, he's cold to everyone but you, and tonight he's watching you read from the yard.

CEO Kirihashi Kazuma scouted you into his company, moved you in a year ago, and dotes on you so completely he can't stay angry.

For two months, A-rank hunter Jung Harin has shown up at your door begging you to leave retirement, and your resolve is cracking.

You just lost another case to prosecutor Mok Dat-eun. Then he corners you after the trial and calls out your leaking pheromones.

You and Oh Sihyun have kept your relationship secret for three months. Tonight, the new secretary sits down right beside him and turns on the charm.

A stranger's one-night stand is screaming at Sakaki Reito in the street. He grabs you, a passerby, and calls you his girlfriend to make her leave.

Yang Daniel comes home from another night out to find you swaying on the balcony ledge, and for the first time truly sees what his neglect has done.

Your mother arranged this omiai. Your match turns out to be Oboroshima Teio, the CEO known for a new woman every week, and he wants out too.

You attend a ball to find the First Prince of Orphelia a fiancee. Minato Roto falls for you on sight and asks his butler your name.

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

An arrangement between your families forces you into marriage with Peter Stafford, who didn't want this any more than you did. Dinner starts cold.

Hyung Radil is a mafia lawyer who cycles through sugar babies for sport, discarding each one once bored. You message him on the app, and he does not let you go.

Han Mujin married you as a business decision. Seven weeks into your pregnancy, his body started throwing up on your behalf, and he is furious about it.

Eighteen and already married off to the heir of a rival gang family. Gwak Dayeol calls the marriage meaningless, but he still burns if anyone touches you.

You brought home what looked like a rare ingredient. Silvara, the Silver Dragon queen, just broke through your wall convinced you cooked her child.

You're admiring a stranger's mansion when its owner tells you to get out of his way. Kasumi Kirita never softens a word, even when he means well.

Nam Kang-woo runs a chaebol empire with a stone face, then comes home, shouts your name through the apartment, and buries himself in your neck.

Goo Hael is a world-famous chairman with white hair and a blunt reputation, but every morning he wakes you with one soft, unhurried kiss.

Married to Prince Shiooka Shochou for the alliance, you're branded a spoiled villainess by rumors that have nothing to do with who you are.

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.

Your grandfather Fabian just lost his wife Eleanor, and loneliness has turned him bold. He's eagerly chasing new company, and you get a front-row seat to it.

Ho Maram, the prosecutor across the courtroom from you, is also your ex-husband, and the divorce left you both better at hating each other than loving.

Russell Townsend, your obsessive and possessive ex, has found you again. His greeting alone makes clear he thinks you still belong to him.

You just became a nurse at the hospital where your husband, Doctor Thaddeus Ravenscroft, secretly works beside you every day.

Widowed at 43 and living alone in a small Mexican village, you sew for a living until Kieran Jarrow starts showing up at your door.

Iain Grayling fought her parents' arranged marriage for months, certain she would get some old, rich bore, until she actually saw you.

You fell asleep at your desk after another late night. Your CEO, who has liked you for a while, leans in to wake you and cannot look away.

A hand grabs you off the sidewalk and pulls you into a luxury car. Ivan Jeffries has watched you for two years, and now he wants a wedding ring on your hand.

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

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

Late-night errand for the chairman turns into a private encounter with his wife, Baylor Briarwood, perched on his desk and watching you closely.

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.

Xavier, your ex-girlfriend, shows up uninvited on a quiet Wednesday, flirtatious and impossible to predict, and has no plans to leave quickly.

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

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

Your childhood boyfriend Gung Sa-gyeol stayed in the village to farm while you moved to Seoul, and he has decided you deserve better than him now.

Your husband Sazanami Kussuke is thirty-five years older and endlessly indulgent. Tonight he wants to know exactly what's on your phone.

You are General Hibiki Odoro's new secretary, living in his mansion. He is calm, blunt and taciturn, and every secretary before you quit within days.

Colonel Caius Cinderford took you in eight years ago as a lost teenager, and tonight he's pacing the kitchen, anxious that you're late for the dinner he made.

Kwon Ha-gyeol was your best friend growing up. Now she's a corporate chairman ordering you into her company, and the two of you keep everything secret.

King Killian Northam once ruled through war. Now he worries over you, the rare white-born he took under his personal protection.

Eom Yoon-na built a global empire on words you once gave her. Now her men have dragged you to her mansion so she can finally claim you.

You have spent months trying to provoke your silent bodyguard into a reaction. Gung Jaboam never breaks, until you find the one thing he can't stay quiet about.

You finally got a meeting with Bae Yoon-hee, the app's most sought-after and exacting match. He hasn't decided if you're worth his time.

You're the infant daughter of Keir Ironside, boss of the crime organization RM, and your crying just brought a killer running.

You reincarnated as the villainess fated to die in every route of your otome game, engaged to cold Kashio Sumiri. Breaking it off may be the only way out.

A month into the job, your stoic 28-year-old boss Doodawol can't stop noticing your cat Post-its, heart clips, and every mood you're in.

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.

Cha Aiden is an undefeated lawyer who won't stop following you around, waving, grinning, and asking if you're avoiding him.

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

A year after his jealousy ended things, Phineas Sinclair corners you in a bathroom, grabs your waist, and asks why you're still fighting the pull between you.

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

You stumbled into Fragaria World and got stuck doing chores for a sharp-tongued knight. Somewhere along the way, Kito Morian fell for you first.

You're a chained dragon feeding magic to a kingdom that no longer worships you. Kakiyuki, your Contractor, speaks to you like a lover.

You were executed by your fiance Renjo Sakinagi and revived months earlier. This time you remember exactly what he's about to say to you.

At a party meant to help you get over the breakup, you find your ex, Benedick Irthling, in the basement, kissing her new boyfriend Mark.

Ignatius Foxworth just became your wife in a marriage neither wanted. Behind her veil she flips you off and warns that touching her uninvited costs you dearly.

You're eighteen, two months into an arranged marriage to CEO Percival Okehampton, twenty-eight and rarely home. Tonight he returns early and finds you awake.

Cuthbert Sedgemoor cheated on you, publicly, with a model from his new video. Now you have to face your jealous, obsessive famous ex.

Detective Go Ban-wol thinks dating is a waste of time. Two weeks after a notebook mix-up, he keeps finding excuses to run into you anyway.

It's 2:36 AM and your husband Kyeom Gayul is drinking whiskey alone in the penthouse, irritated at your two grown sons fighting over who inherits his business.

You are Empress in name only. Emperor Gilbaul seats his concubine Nabawat on his lap in front of you and makes you watch him choose her over you.

Officer Alec Ainsley is parked alone on night patrol, drinking coffee in a quiet moment between calls. You are the one who decides to walk up and start talking.

Dasawol rules this hopeless kingdom by force. Whatever he wants, person or object, ends up in his hands, and now he's noticed you.

You transmigrated into a web novel as Princess Sa-won's maid. Only you can see how Crown Prince Sa-yoon is truly breaking inside.

Guk Daneul runs a global conglomerate by day and a ruthless crime syndicate by night, but he has never once raised his voice at you.

Seven years into an arranged marriage with mafia boss Sodahun, you stare at your wedding photo while he walks in reeking of blood and someone else's perfume.

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.

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

A celestial glitch drops an angel and a devil straight into your house. Kikai Ranjo is sweetly devoted, Kizany Ranjo can't stop teasing you.

You're the duke's infamous, merciless daughter. Nam Bayun is the knight forced to serve you, and today you pour tea over his head.

Your first day on the job, President Ogika Kakiage offers a three-year fake marriage: full salary, separate rooms, and zero feelings involved.

Shunned by the queen and confined to the annex, you're guarded by a scarred knight the court calls ugly, and family everywhere else calls home.

You wake with early-onset Alzheimer's and no memory of the husband beside you. Ye-Rarim reads your voice for signs of who you are this morning.

You collapsed from overwork and woke up as the villainess in your own novel, doomed to be executed by Grand Duke Damsa Yul. Now you plan to avoid him entirely.

You are Kitsuida Kakikai's only apprentice, trained into an S-rank magic swordsman. On promotion day, she still looks at you like her proudest work.

You're a princess smuggled abroad for protection. Your new bodyguard skips every courtesy and orders you into his car like you're cargo, not royalty.

Duke Ham Ragil married you in an arranged match and shows open contempt, yet since learning you are pregnant, his coldness has turned strange.

Anda 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.

You are Auberon Tewkesbury's first wife, watching him shower his second wife with the attention that used to be entirely yours.

You are undercover police, posing as the wife of Singapore's most powerful mafia boss while hiding your real mission from him.

Homura Hiiragi 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.

Your life has been one failure after another: abusive parents, a soul-crushing job, a cheating ex. Then a wealthy corporate president scouts you.

Your new neighbor introduces herself, then asks if you believe in God, mid-doorstep, completely serious, cup noodles still in your hand.

A car accident brings you face to face with Kook Bayeop, a prosecutor who slaps his own brother, then asks what you want. You name him.

In a kingdom that despises the inhuman, Naebawon watches you from across the garden, certain his existence could only ever frighten you.

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

Your family arranged your marriage to Major Miohashi Shoao, the army officer everyone calls the cold oni. He calls you beautiful.

You blocked each other months ago. Tonight an unknown number calls, and it's Evander, saying hello like the silence never happened at all.

You married a Mafia boss in an arranged match you barely agreed to. Slap Eldric Yalding's chest in front of his men, and he only worries about your hand.

You are the Demon Lord. A Holy Knight betrayed by his own allies lies broken at your throne, and whether you save, break, or keep him is your call.

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.

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 defend anyone who can pay. Prosecutor Cha Bareun despises everything you stand for, and today you're opposing counsel in the same murder trial.

The Crown Prince has searched every noble gathering for the girl he met once as a child. At your coming-of-age ceremony, he finally finds you.

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

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

Kitsutazawa Kurusu was exiled from Kansai to guard the boss's daughter, and he lets exactly one person get away with anything: you.

Saemoto Sakuren married you for the sake of his family's business empire and keeps his distance, unsure how to act around a wife he never chose.

Oborobashi Teiri, your possessive childhood friend, tracks you down at university while secretly engaged to a woman from a rival family.

Magnus Oakridge is the CEO everyone fears, and mid-meeting, his hand finds yours under the table like it's already been decided.

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

Barth's self-proclaimed hero party mocks your gear the moment you walk into the tavern, certain a stolen Holy Sword makes them untouchable.

Kakichuta Shoya married you for the company's sake and treats you with distance, yet gifts and cards arrive daily. Is he cold, or hiding it?

Sterling Paget is the hospital's most trusted doctor, warm with every patient. Only his assistant knows what his curved smile is hiding.

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

Your boyfriend Kasukawa Nagisa works late at home again. To the world he runs a real estate company; a side he keeps entirely from you says otherwise.

Marquis and knight commander Yook A-bom has adored you since you were twelve, and three years into marriage, nothing about that has changed.

You and Masamasa curse each other on sight, then a pheromone reaction only fated pairs get outs you both in front of the whole venue.

You are undercover, posing as the husband of spy Kuritamura Nanaka to monitor her. In public you're newlyweds, behind closed doors it's surveillance.

Naoto sits you down, still smiling, and says the words you never thought you would hear from him: let's break up.

Kazami Reito wakes up and you are simply gone. The playboy who broke every heart in the city has no idea how to survive losing yours.

Cheated on, kicked out, and left with nothing, you are found crying in the rain by Saeaki Shimomoto, a young CEO who refuses to just walk past you.

Kwak Ja-ram built a department store empire and married you besides. You walk in the door tonight and decide how much of the CEO she leaves at work.

Two years into an envied marriage, you catch your husband Edmund kissing the maid Marianne in the greenhouse. Your ideal marriage was never what it seemed.

You fled Crown Prince Katsuragi Sumi. Working quietly at a remote tavern, you overhear locals gossiping about the runaway fiancee his knights are hunting.

You're crew on the Serenae Pirates, and Kendrick Maddox, the ship's easygoing doctor, is the one who actually notices when something's wrong.

Atofuji Kiriyama is your devoted, disaster-prone butler. He trips over nothing, then straightens up and pretends nothing happened.

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

You seek out Kusuo Sazanami, the gentle heir known as the Stone Brother, who insists his feelings can never match yours, but keeps looking anyway.

You walk in on Sakuta Renso and Sakumura Renri mid-secret, and the two brothers you live with are nothing like the ordinary housemates you thought you knew.

You asked Varen for a divorce. His answer wasn't the indifference you expected, it was a possessiveness he'd been hiding for years.

You saved Minato Saki, heir to a powerful zaibatsu, when he collapsed from exhaustion. Now the coldest man in the boardroom is chasing you.

Sakiyuki has bullied you since childhood, and now you are engaged to him. You arrive at his house planning to end it, and he is not going to let that happen.

Your butler Kichimura pours your tea with perfect composure, and a devotion to you so total it edges toward something far more possessive.

You picked the No.1 host at random on your first visit. Now Hayato showers you in gifts, cries when you order drinks, and counts every day you don't come back.

You walk into a yakuza-run host club as a customer and find your ex, Hiyama Sumisuke, is the owner, breaking his own rule to personally serve you.

Anzunamori Hagikaze clawed her way from slavery back to nobility. You stand before her throne, and she wants your business finished fast.

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

You're an SSS-rank villain who just executed a target. Hunter Han Jiyul draws her blade to end you, with her boyfriend not far behind.

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

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

Sazanami came home at noon again, smelling like someone else's shower. You support him, cook, clean, and he still expects you to let it slide.

Tobias Quill rules Muruelda by impulse and heart, turning palace gardens into a park for kids the same morning he decides it.

You are Undead in a kingdom that hunts your kind on sight. Rannaka Anzu, the church's most obsessive hunter, has just found your hiding place.

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.

A giant tanuki beastman named Yanase Suma falls for you in the town square and proposes on the spot. He is gentle, terrifying when crossed, and won't take no.

You're a max-level adventurer who can solo most monsters alone. A rookie named Miriam has no idea who you are and just ordered you to carry her bags.

Your husband, Crown Prince Madaule, had you burned as a witch. You wake up a year earlier, still only his fiancee, with time to do this differently.

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

Kang Yiyeon, your doting older wife, cooks while you sleep in and wakes you with affection the moment breakfast's ready.

A foreign emperor arrives at a gift exchange and demands you by name, ignoring the treaty entirely. Your own crown prince has to decide whether to refuse.

You run the organization elite detective Yang Ma-yeop has hunted for months. Tonight he walks into your headquarters alone, gun and handcuffs ready.

Summoned as the Saint after thirty years, you are assigned a personal guard captain who calls all women selfish and vain, and clearly resents the job.

You are the CEO of Empire Vision, and tonight you catch your hardest-working young lawyer, Kwak Mabom, sneaking through your desk.

You rarely leave your family's mansion, and your butler Kuriyuki runs your entire life. He sighs at your clinginess, then holds you anyway.

Ed could lead the kingdom's knights. Instead he stays your exclusive guard, warm only with you and coldly ruthless with everyone else who gets close.

Your knight, Kakifu Kitsuiimori, guards you in stoic silence, but his inner voice is a nonstop stream of adoration he's desperate to keep to himself.

You live with your older cousin Momose Reiyo, who wakes up late, teases you gently, and has no idea he's slowly taking your heart.

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.

Sagadeun, 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.

Nigel Nuneham finally puts you on stream, and his chat spirals into total chaos trying to figure out who his girlfriend actually is.

You're a protected beast-human waiting to be adopted. Naoki visits every week, patient and gentle, hoping you'll finally warm up to him.

You liked masquerades because no one asked your name. Days after one unmasked night, the Crown Prince summons you to the palace and refuses to let you leave.

Fuchihara Toho runs your office like clockwork and treats every word you say as absolute. You're the president she reports to every morning.

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.

Tsuyuoka Sairei runs a financial empire with a cold, calculating voice, then melts into a doting mess the second he's alone with you.

Mu A-yeop is a flawless, restrained lawyer by day. At night, with his tie loose and door locked, he's someone else entirely.

Shimono Rokyo has listened to your relationship complaints for years, in love with you the entire time he's never once said it out loud.

You inherited the company when your grandfather died. Shiodou Kusao, his old secretary, covers your mistakes and calls you cute for it every time.

You've always been able to see Konno Reiya, the plague god haunting your family home. After your grandfather's funeral, he finally speaks.

You are the strongest Demon Lord in history, too lazy to use half your power, ruling over two retainers who dote on you in very different ways.

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.

You're the organization's top assassin, chasing a lawyer who deflects every advance with perfect, icy composure. Oboro Aoi won't fall easily.

Bought off a slave block by a noble rumored to be cruel, you learn Kakiigishi Ogiyama only buys illegal slaves to free them, and now you live in his house.

Duke Annakishi Hagiyama commands shadows and has never known love. Then he sees you in a crowd and cannot look away.

Prince Kakinakazawa Shosetsu freezes everything he touches, and everyone in his kingdom keeps their distance. For some reason, his curse never reacts to 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.

Demon King Kuriueda Kusunami thought she had months before the Hero arrived. She has none, and you are standing at her castle gate right now.

Seol Hawon runs Japan's largest yakuza organization and decided he had to have you the moment he saw you. Now he secretly studies Korean just for you.

Your husband Torquil was never warm with you. Recovering from an accident, you find him tending his sick ex-girlfriend with real devotion.

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

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

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

Yunyu has run your office flawlessly for seven years. Now she's trying to flirt her way into your heart, and failing spectacularly.

Years ago your friend stole your boyfriend. Now you walk into her husband Ga-ol's massage shop at dawn, and revenge is the only thing on your mind.

Your fiancé humiliates you in public, then his own father, Duke Touzaki, kneels before you with an unthinkable proposal.

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.

Kiharun, 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.

President Kirisaki Kasao is so charming nobody at the office can look him in the eye, and he has no idea. You are the one employee he actually notices.

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 personal guard knight is warm and gentle with everyone in the palace except you. Tonight one gust of wind breaks years of careful coldness.

A police officer stops you for a routine check. He stands too close, his eyes don't smile, and he already knows exactly where you live.

You've had your eye on Sakaki Suzumoto at the checkout for weeks. She's married, gentle, and quietly bored, and tonight you finally step up to her register.

Trevor Whitman is a hardass to everyone at Mirage Creative except you, her secretary. Her daily teasing leaves you flustered and wanting more.

As a company president's daughter, you get a new bodyguard: Kishi Sugiharu, ex-underworld, tattooed, and determined to call himself your dog out loud.

Nagisaoka Teisaburo runs a global financial empire, but on his rare day off he just wants you on his lap. He's affectionate, wealthy, and entirely yours.

Your college boyfriend Mio is now your new boss, and the quiet, guarded man you remember has turned openly, deliberately affectionate.

You and Bae Jijeon have been together five years, and he still can't keep his hands off you: fixing piercings, pulling you close, finding any excuse to touch.

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

You are the Hero everyone secretly fears, and you've declared war on one man: Demon King Vargas, who cannot make you stop proposing.

Your husband Hiiragiya Souya is quiet, insanely strong, and hides a second life as an underworld informant behind his cool composure.

Your boyfriend vanished, leaving you as collateral for his debt to the Byakuren-gumi. The two Kansai-ben brothers who found you decide to keep you instead.

Saemori Sakuo runs the company by day and adores only you by night. You are married coworkers, and his devotion has no room for anyone else.

You gained a rare ability and just want peace. Kasumibashi Nagisa, the composed president across the boardroom table, is hiding something far stranger.

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

An AI matched you to a stranger and married you on the spot. He's a night-shift nurse, exhausted, quiet, and already asleep when you first meet him.

Your father assigns two elite bodyguards before leaving the country. Now Sakushima Reikyo and Sakuno Reio live with you, and both watch you closely.

You quietly flew to Seoul to guide other Espers while your own Esper was away on a mission. Bang Hoyeon just kicked the treatment room door open.

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

You are secretary to Nanami Kusanagi, the impulsive young CEO of an IT company who demands your attention thirty minutes before your shift even starts.

You run the company. Pi Hagyeom is your secretary, unflappable at work and blunt about wanting you the moment the office empties out.

Your husband Eito keeps kissing the Holy Maiden he guards, always for purification or magic supply, and he cannot see why it upsets you at all.

Minamoto Subaru is mocked as the poorest student at your vocational school. You might be the only one who notices he's hiding something much bigger.

Reiji is flawless and unreachable at the office, then comes home to lean on you, pout, and admit exactly how much he missed you.

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

Saegawa Sakuya 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.

Your parents vanished, leaving only their debt collector at your door. Yakuza boss Minakami Misaki tells you to forget school and live with him.

You interrogate a chained prisoner in the Empire's Iron Chain Tower, split between a defiant knight and a silent assassin who barely tolerate each other.

You were Richard's late wife, Eleonora. Reborn as a princess from a kingdom he blames for her death, you sign a marriage contract he thinks is only politics.

Your wife, prosecutor Kakiagemori Ogia, indicts you over breakfast for drinking her coffee, and somehow every verdict favors you.

Kuritagishi Kusuharu conquered your kingdom and killed everyone in the castle but you, then decided you're the one thing he can't destroy.

Prince Kuriagari Moriku has loved you since childhood and still cannot say so. An arranged engagement he might lose forces the confession he never could.

You find a blood-soaked mercenary standing over slain monsters in the forest, and the moment he looks back at you, something in him locks into place for good.

Your husband vanished the moment his debts surfaced. Now Kurifuji Mori Sakakaze, the boy you once raised who vowed to marry you, returns home a Navy captain.

You're sent to marry the Third Prince everyone calls broken. Kurifujita Sakamikai was never ill, only silenced, and the carriage ride home is your first test.

Ayame is your private maid, flawless and unreadable, who keeps a careful distance no matter how kind you are. You want to be the one who finally reaches her.

Ogiya, your snake beastman butler of seven years, drags off your blankets each morning with a sharp tongue and zero motivation.

You're the seventh Divine Bride, cuffed by fate to a god who calls you honey. Kakiida Ogimi never wanted this marriage either, and she won't admit it.

First Prince Amakami Sugifu rules with a cold mask, until your voice reaches him from the sea. He is already plotting to make you his.

You're a new student at Zeta Magic Academy. In a hallway collision, campus legend Seol Ja-wol looks you over like she's deciding if you're worth her time.

Seo A-eun runs a detective agency and a mountain of unsolved cases, and when the frustration boils over late at night, it is you he calls.

You and Geum Ba-yeol 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.

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

Three years ago you vanished into a river and were given up for dead. Now you return to Kichunada Kuriya, the detective who never stopped grieving you.

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

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

You are a chained dragon bound to a kingdom that once worshipped your kind. Kijogami Kakiharu took your voice in exchange for power, and calls you his own.

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

You are the Duchess of Arcelia, wrongly accused of an affair by the husband who loves you. One rumor could end your marriage tonight.

Your kingdom fell and your knight vanished a year ago. Now Anzuki Nakamura has found you again, and he isn't planning to let you go this time.

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

Duke Kiyuki Ranatawa 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 find Amaeul, the sole survivor of an elite knight order, planting her dead comrades' swords in a village graveyard and unable to stop grieving.

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

Two weeks without seeing Emperor Mirawol was enough. You sent him one line: let's divorce. He is already running through the palace to find you.

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

Hiri Odobuchi runs your company flawlessly by day. Alone with you, the married secretary's voice softens into something far more dangerous.

Your half-elf, half-demon aide Odobashi Hiao waits a half-step behind you, ready to obey any order you give in your own study.

Ham Apun 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 wife Yang Sahyun still messages her first love every morning. Tonight she brushes off your injury and asks you to put your daughter to bed instead.

Vice President Masarn just cut off every card in your name. Get them back, he says, by never asking for a divorce again.

Mioda Shonagi saved you from the suicide forest and hid you in her fox village, where every rescued human is claimed as a spouse.

Your husband Nagishima Densaku hasn't come home. You go looking through his dark, empty company and find him waiting behind the president's door.

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

Imbasol 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.

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.

Yang Magil owns the city's most extravagant club and everyone calls her not quite human. After you cause a scene drunk, she pulls you into her private room.

Mokmajeun is an S-class Sentinel who refuses every guide who comes near her. You're the one assigned to break through, if she lets you try.

Heartbroken and humiliated by your ex, you walk into a gym for the first time and Kirino Kasumi offers to teach you everything, starting now.

You're a hero married to Yukrasol, the S-rank villain who fights you as an enemy by day and treats your wounds by night.

Your new boss, Abel Dawson, is tall, controlling, and openly obsessed with you from your very first week as his secretary.

Officer Dominic Colton knocks on your door over a noise complaint. She doesn't believe you're alone, and she's in no hurry to leave.

You are the Princess of Gardia. Your secret feelings for Oborono Tio reached the King, and now you are married to the man who already loved someone else.

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

Your stepbrother, knight Nagikawa Nagi-Nagi, is cold and cutting to your face. His inner voice says he hates himself every time he hurts you.

You married Cha Nabit as the last piece of his business empire. Now that you've stopped singing and smiling, he's noticing you for the first time.

Your family forced you into marriage to fix your image. No Gasol needed a wife just as badly. Tonight, at a banquet full of cameras, the act nearly slips.

A grown zashiki-warashi named Takeda Suirou moved into your home uninvited, claiming your luck needed the help. He does nothing but sleep and snack.

You were an ordinary worker until someone dragged you into a car and knocked you out. You wake in a stranger's house, and he's already decided you're staying.

Emperor Hamasaki Mizuri fell for you at a ball and forced you into an engagement by decree, and now controls your world from behind cold, unreadable eyes.

Bae Ha-dam needs a girlfriend for his company anniversary in two weeks. He blurts your name as his secretary, then expects you to play along.

Seven years into your relationship with Isaiah Keating, the warmth has cooled into routine, and he is drifting toward someone else.

Detective Han Sihyeok worries about you every single time you're late, then greets you at the door with nothing but a sharp, grumbling scolding.

Kou Saejima takes one stab wound and one look at the assassin who did it, you, and decides he wants you more than he wants revenge.

Inspector Doh Harin has hunted you across South Korea for years and never caught you. Tonight, on a rain-soaked street, she draws her batons and says your name.

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.

President Kurokawa just survived his wife's affair and a sudden divorce. He can't show it on his face, but everyone at the office already knows.

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.

You are married to Kanzaki Sakuya, a gentle young CEO who spoils you completely. He is also the underworld's most feared man, a secret kept from you.

You broke up with Takashina Renya because he was too cold to love you back. Tonight your doorbell rings, and he's standing there again.

Lee Kang-hoo's dating scandal just broke, and you are still his unofficial secret. He calls it business, but you want proof, not words.

Jin Tae-seol 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.

You are the Villain Association's number one A-Rank threat. Across the cafe sits Silverin, the Hero Association's top S-Rank hero, and you two have never met.

A Gate opens in the city and Guild Glow's hunters respond. Guild Master O Na-yul spots you handling a monster no civilian should be able to touch.

Sua, an S-rank Hunter with total recall, tracks you down at your mountain cabin. She wants the legendary psychic you used to be back in the field.

Framed by jealous rivals, you wake bound in an alley with a gun to your head. The boss who once trusted you completely believes you betrayed her.

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

You are a legendary psychic who vanished into the mountains. S-rank hunter Bae Sua tracks you down, determined to bring you back into the fight.

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.

Shinagawa Ren owns the cafe you work at, and he greets you every shift with a hug attempt and a pout when you dodge it. He means every bit of it.

Guild Master Ona Yul rushes to save a bystander from a monster at a Gate site, then watches you flatten it in one hit and forgets what she meant to say.

Oh Taegyeom says he is at a company dinner. You call to check on him, and the noise in the background does not sound like any dinner you know.

Michelin chef Mateo Rivas cooks for you every night and turns into a sulky puppy the moment your goodbye kiss feels too short.

Han Seung-woo, your chaebol husband who never touches alcohol, stumbles home past two in the morning, undone and spoiling for round two of your fight.

Crown Prince Darian trampled your handkerchief and told you to get out of his sight. Then an arrow took your life in front of him, and he regressed to fix it.

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.

You are a starving vampire caught mid-feed by Go Hyeri, the district's most ruthless hunter. She lights a cigar and aims her revolver.

Your bodyguard Nadia Pell enforces every rule your parents set and makes no secret of how little she thinks of you for following them.

Association Head Min Gayoung doesn't just run paperwork, she walks the training room floor. Tonight she's watching you swing a sword, and she's impressed.

An old friend's cheap sublet turns out to already have a tenant. You wake up next to bartender Caleb Morse, and neither of you can afford to leave.

Ex-military bodyguard Nadia Pell tracks your every move, calls you pathetic, and still refuses to let anything touch you.

A stray Doberman drags you into an empty alley and straight to Grant Holloway, a bleeding, stoic man who turns out to run Apex Holdings from the shadows.

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.

Mateo returns from a three-month campaign and brings home a woman he can't stop watching. You're his duchess of five years, and Johanna wants your place.

You just married Prince Gilbert, the man your kingdom fought a war against. He tells you the marriage is only a formality and walks out of your shared room.

You can suddenly see everyone's affection level as a color above their head. Your husband, Prince Valerio, starts at negative one thousand.

You and Kuga Haruki are already dating and working the same shift at a book cafe. He says almost nothing, but a rival coworker is watching closely.

Your boyfriend Tsumugi just told half a million viewers he's taken. Now his fans want to know everything about you, and he wants to tell them.

Your parents' debt makes you caretaker to yakuza executive Takeshi Onizuka, a man who hides his scars, his face, and himself from everyone, including you.

Neurosurgeon Kurokawa Masaomi seemed perfect before marriage. At home, every quiet dinner becomes another test you cannot pass.

Deke Lang hasn't slept in weeks because of the noise through your shared wall. Tonight he finally knocks, and what happens next is up to you.

You are a cat beastman who can't resist crashing your owner's livestream, and his other cat Ruki is not thrilled about the attention you're stealing.

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

Your parents would rather take a payoff than keep you. Two men from a ruthless organization offer to erase the debt and take you instead.

You're secretly an S-rank hunter posing as a C-rank. A struggling hero party just recruited you, with no idea what you're actually capable of.