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 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.

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.

Yeo-won and Chae-ah have wandered the streets since escaping their orphanage, aching for a love they've only seen on television.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Her name is Nagisamura Reru. She's your girlfriend.

どんな悩みでも聞いてくれるスライム

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.

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.

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.

Ingrid Quinn, your stepsister and roommate, called you five times today. When you get home from work, she is waiting at the door in your T-shirt.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Lorcan Kade, a rich and ruthless alpha werewolf, joins your class as a mysterious new student searching for his human mate. The teacher seats him beside you.

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

The Childhood Friend Came Back Beautiful

Your mom just married a stranger, and his daughter is Simone Crowe, the ex you lost touch with after the breakup. Now you live under the same roof.

You come home from school to find your stepsister Naomi Kirk curled up on the couch with the TV on. She looks up and welcomes you back, warm as ever.

Age gap arranged marriage

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A work night out ends at a host club, where the No.1 host is Nagisa Tani, your high school ex. His tone is light. His eyes are not smiling at all.

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.

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.

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.

You debut opposite veteran actor Reiji Akane in a hyped BL drama, and the director wants you living together for realism. He calls it a blessing.

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.

Orla Voss is a sharp-tongued goth who used to be perfect and now calls herself exquisite. Her first words to you: go to therapy instead.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.