Chloe, I want you. Can I plead like this?... more>>

Unknowingly, I had married my husband, who appears as a recruiter three months before our divorce.

Eyesel, waiting for the divorce while living her second life as a chocolatier, is perplexed by Siheon’s active pursuit, not even recognizing his own wife.

Yet, Siheon feels a destiny to not let go of Eyesel, both professionally and personally.

“This marriage means nothing, right?”

“I’ll divorce you in three months. Until then, let’s be a real couple.”

Will their cohabitation, bittersweet like chocolate, end in divorce or marriage? <<less

Your esteemed master must not have told you. You have to leave a mark on this body to become the master of a beast. Otherwise, the wild beast will burst forth and rampage. If you must leave a mark, make it deep and rough.... more>>

The Emperor, with amber eyes, lifted one corner of his mouth and stretched out his long neck. Arabell, the unwanted daughter of a charlatan healer living off a rural noble’s relative, saves a dying black panther in the woods, only to be approached by the red-eyed Emperor inviting her to the palace.

Asked to enter the palace as a candidate for Empress to break a curse, she firmly declares with enchanting lips not to even dream of becoming Empress.

Somehow, the man she must not desire causes hundreds of butterflies to flutter in her heart. Resolutely ignoring her growing feelings, she joins the competition for Empress to lift the Emperor’s curse…
Sharply sensing the piercing crimson gaze on her nape everywhere she goes. Maxwell, the absolute sovereign who wields his sword between good and evil, and Arabell, the owner of a pure soul, the key to his curse.

The story of a man who sacrifices everything for a woman who taught him the emotion called love, and the journey of Arabell, once a despised nobody, rising to become the respected and loved Empress of the empire. You are invited to their poignant and beautiful fairy-tale-like love story. <<less

Min Yeon Hwa, the Queen of Yeo, who had been locked away secluded in the palace for 10 years.
She was to be the sacrificial offering at the coronation ceremony of Kang Yoon, the Crown Prince of Ahwan, who had destroyed her country!... more>>

Realising that his lost memories are related to Yeon Hwa, Kang Yoon decides to keep her close by.
As time goes by, Yeon Hwa also becomes confused at her discovery of Kang Yoon’s resemblance to her first love whom she had sent away…

“It’s been engraved on my heart. This lowly one has always been yours.”
“So it turns out that at the end of my pain, you’ve always been there.”

The heartbreaking love story of two people whose only salvation is each other. <<less

In the Age of Faded Faith. As a candidate for the Interrogator of Heresy.

In the original novel, she possessed a villainous empress who was burned at the stake. ... more>>

She tries to improve her reputation to avoid being burned at the stake and live a peaceful life after getting divorced, but her bank balance is zero and her family is completely destroyed.

Can she achieve the life she wants in this strange world where even the plot of the original story is completely twisted and she can’t see a single step ahead?

This is a story about a villain who goes from being an official public enemy of the empire, called a witch and hated by everyone, to an accidental hero of the nation. <<less

"You made me miserable.”... more>>

My husband, Carlothian, loved the saint of the empire.

After the ugly jealousy, what remained was the stigma of cursing the saint.

It happened when I gave up everything after so much regret.

"So the body I'm possessing is the villainess of the century who cursed the saint?"

Oh come on, Not me. A singer who lost their voice in a car accident, 'I,' opened my eyes. With a body that could no longer sing, I intended to die just like that.

"I won't let you die.”

My husband, who once loved the saint, is acting strange. Why now?

I am not Ariadeline who was drowning in love.

"What on earth are you thinking?”

"I'm thinking of making you love me again."

Unlike my confused self, Carlothian smiled.

"You already loved me once."

Since you already loved me once, won't loving me twice be easier?

The teary sound filled the room thickly. <<less

She knew that the water she was drinking was rotten.... more>>

She was just a child, thirsty to the point of dying, hoping that drinking the rotten water would not kill her.

Born the daughter of a common peasant, Summer was swept into a spiral of misfortune when her father had an affair with the lord's daughter.

She tried to live resolutely while taking care of her younger siblings alone, but...

[Just the sound of the Duke's footsteps makes my heart freeze. Summer, it hurts so much and I'm scared. I want to cry, but I can't even cry here.]

[Summer, save me, please.]

Summer's world was eventually destroyed by the Duke of Valronek.

One day, a rumor spreads that the youngest son of the Duke of Valronek is looking for a personal assistant.

Seeing it as an opportunity for revenge, Summer, posing as an aristocratic young lady named Adele, went to find the famous son known as a scoundrel…

"How about this then? What if I hire you?"

This scoundrel, something about him is strange.

"Or should we just stay here?"

The scoundrel of this era. The brother of the enemy who must not discover her plans.

At the same time, he's compassionate and beautiful, like the savior who will pull her out of this quagmire of revenge.

"Did you feel it, Adele?"

“......."

"Yeah, you're doing well."

Every time she looks into those languid blue eyes, she feels herself falling into a swamp of emotions deeper than revenge.

━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━

"Young…Mast…er, Mast..er...."

"Yes, Adele."

His entire body's muscles were as vigorous as a wild beast in motion, but his voice, murmuring like a bird, was as gentle as feathers. It was disgusting and pleasant at the same time.

"You should be... thankful for the wrapping paper...."

The pretty wrapper kissed her again, or rather, the young master kissed her again.

"Adele, can I do it one more time?"

"You said earlier... it was the last one, didn't you?"

“But you said that stealing, which I learned late, is a scary thing.”

Oh... God.

"Well, that's not what a thief would say..., is it?" <<less

Olivia, Empress of the Rhone Empire, died as a result of the Emperor’s, her husband’s scheming. She awakens in the body of a unnamed woman... more>> dwelling in the slums. Soon after, she visits her former betrothed, Duke Lucas Viterpan, the legitimate heir to the throne, who was deposed in a coup d’etat. Concealing her true identity, Olivia proposes forming a marriage alliance to Lucas for the sake of each other’s revenge. Will they succeed in their quest for revenge? <<less

“Send me to the past.” That's how the first step toward revenge began.

“I’ve come for my son.”... more>>

Just before she was sold to an old lord, Adele spent a night with a stranger. She ended up pregnant with the child of a wandering knight whose name she didn’t even know.

And now, four years later.

The messenger of the battlefield, the cruel butcher Vanhelm Von Alfred…

The man who appeared as an Emperor wanted only her child.

Adele was taken with him to protect her beloved young son.
But in the suffocating, prison-like imperial palace, she was confronted with a reality she had never expected.

“I am the one who will be your mother. Your Highness Leo.”

A woman who dared to say she was the mother of Adele’s child.

“It is foolish to spend your life in recklessness.”

The Emperor’s strategist told Adele not to covet the Empress’s seat as it was something that a commoner like her shouldn’t have.

“From now on, you’re not allowed to leave the castle.”

And the emperor.

“I will not let you go. Never.”

The emperor, who was cruel and cold, somehow became obsessed with Adele…….

Adele’s life began to get caught up in a whirlwind of intense political strife.

‘I want to be happy as a person, and I want to love as a woman.’

She wished. In the Imperial Palace where she would live in the future…. <<less

A dreamlike marriage with the man she fell for at first sight as a child.... more>>

Yet, her husband remained the object of her unrequited love. Hyunseo lived as if she had lost her soul, having lost her first child and even her mother to her malicious in-laws.

Then, a gift came her way, another chance she couldn’t afford to lose.

“Let’s get divorced.”

Her always indifferent husband was unexpectedly shaken, but Hyunseo’s resolve did not waver.

She leaves without revealing the truth to her unloving husband or to her monstrous in-laws. <<less

A commoner girl.... more>>

Olivia didn’t develop immunity to those disgusting words. Titles such as the first female university student and the best graduate became meaningless.

But one day…

The Herod royal family offered her the royal flower, Noah Astrid. Even though it seemed to be a flower full of poison, there was no way not to hold it and she couldn’t help but love the first flower she held.

Because it was like salvation.

“Where is the princess? She is supposed to attend an event with me today?”
Herod’s cynical and self-righteous King, the father-in-law.

“Olivia. If there is anything that you’re upset with Noah, tell me anytime.”
A beautiful queen, the mother-in-law.

“You’ll stay with me today, right?”
Even the cute youngest member of the royal family loved Olivia.

Except for one person, her husband, Noah Astrid.

He knelt down on his knees, put shoes on her feet, and held a glass of water to her mouth, telling her to drink it.
Then, he whispered cruelly with that beautiful face.

“Think carefully about what I should have received and what you have to pay me in exchange for marrying you. It’s not difficult.”

What she must pay for her salvation

It was the thing she hated the most in the world.

* * *

Noah watched in a daze as his salvation fell over the sea.

“OLIVIA!!”

She was limp, bleeding and dying.

Only then did he realize that her existence alone was already salvation.

The price for salvation should not be paid by her… but by him. <<less

This story is fiction. The characters, ideas, and events in the work are unrelated to reality.... more>>

Some games require agreeing to this statement in order to play.

Even if it's not necessary for the game, the game typically begins with a similar disclaimer guiding the player through the precautions.

Although the advantage of a game is the 'immersion' that no other medium can match, starting with such a statement disrupts the immersion from the beginning despite everyone knowing the work is fiction.

There is no mandatory need to include such a disclaimer, so why do it?

It is likely to emphasize a fact that everyone should always remember.

[The purpose of fiction is not to dictate beliefs existing in reality.]

This message is for the developer themselves.

[Nothing in fiction can replace reality.]

This message is for the players who will share the journey of the work's story.

So.

Do you agree?

**

The man with tattered clothes and an old sword said, "So, I *can* kill."

He did not have any particularly memorable appearance.

He was likely not a well-known person, at least, not to the mercenary he was killing.

The important fact was that the man who had been stabbed by the worn-out sword was now dying in front of him.

"Ugh..."

When the man pulled the sword out of the mercenary, the mercenary's legs gave way, and he fell to his knees. He no longer had the strength to resist.

He wanted to raise his arm to swing his sword, but he didn't have the strength to do so. He gritted his teeth and wanted to cast a spell, but he lacked the focus to do so.

"Why... you... how?"

Thus, the mercenary chose to give up on resisting and opened his mouth to speak.

Why had the man suddenly attacked him? He had only seen him collapse and moved him to a nearby cave.

What kind of person, what kind of thoughts had led him to do this as soon as he woke up?

The mercenary was so curious that he asked the question.

"How fascinating."

The man stroked his chin as he stared at the dying mercenary.

The sight of the man in his worn-out clothes pondering was somewhat terrifying.

Soon, as if he had reached a conclusion, the man broke his silence.

"I never knew I could attack an NPC. Is that how the game is made?"

"...What?"

The mercenary couldn't understand the man's words.

NPC, not knowing an attack would work, game. He couldn't make sense of any of the words the man said.

Having spent his whole life living as a mercenary according to his "setting," he could never understand what the man was saying.

'No, you must respond properly. Properly—'

But he couldn't continue his next words or even think about the meaning of his response, and the mercenary's consciousness began to fade.

A killing driven by nothing but curiosity, with no reason.

That was the first death experienced by NPC Aiden Oliver. <<less

The church is corrupt, and the world is destined to end.
The only thing that can stop this is the returned priest.

I always dreamed of becoming a wizard. ... more>>

By utilizing all his life-long learning from his previous life, he used it in the world where he was reincarnated. A place where not only humans but also various other races lived together.

In this world, there was a special organization created to prevent various conflicts and discrimination between different races.

His magic begins to work for the equality and coexistence of different races.

"Hello, I am from the Special Unit for Addressing Concerns and Resolving Disputes among Different Races." <<less

"It's up to you whether tonight will be the right one. You're going to have to stir my heart."... more>>

She wasn't shallow when she was told that if she couldn't seduce him. On the contrary, she looked as noble as a saint trying to show her mercy.

"What's your name?"

Kaian suppressed his seething desire and asked his bride, whose name he hadn't revealed.

"This is Claudel Quinn Vermont."

Gnome's Vermont.

"Whether or not you can become Claudel Quinn Temnes depends on your effort tonight. I want you to try." <<less

"Hang on, and I'll save you."... more>>

On the birthday of my favorite character, the worst game's update killed him. As if that wasn't enough, now I've been possessed to become the demon lord that my favorite character has to kill in the game.

Having come to this, I decided to save and take my favorite character for myself…, but he keeps driving me crazy without knowing my feelings.

"From now on, no approaching within 5 meters."
"...What?"

Clatter. The fork I was holding loosened its grip and fell onto the plate.

"You said you'd make me trust you. Then I hope you'd listen to my request as well."
"……."
"And I strictly refuse any unnecessary contact. Please respect that."

You're telling me to suppress the desire that surges every day when the person I like is right in front of me.

***

If I just leaned forward a little, our lips would touch. Lian was asleep, close enough for our breaths to meet.

Without his shirt on.

"Could it be that we…."
"That's not it."
"…did?"
"Are you crazy?"

Lian was terrified.

If it wasn't that, then why are you shirtless?

"Today, I fulfill my long-held wish."
"……?"
"If you wanted it so badly, you should have said something last night."

Even in the morning light, the sharp contrast of light and shadow on his tense muscles was clear. A warm heat rose from where our fingertips touched.

I'm going to devour you today. <<less

“I’ll put a cup of poison in your hand.”... more>>

Judith, the Princess of Tien, who became the Royal Princess of the Roteia Kingdom in exchange for money.

Sick, underdeveloped for her age, and depressed, she spent years of suffering.
Her husband, Prince Franz, gradually went crazy due to his stepmother’s constant harassment, and Judith, who was falsely accused of committing wrongdoings with her brother-in-law, got trapped in a tower.

Judith, who died in despair, returns to the age of 17, before meeting Prince Franz.
Vowing to get revenge not as a little girl from a minor nation, but as the Crown Princess and future Queen of Roteia.

“Pitiful and precious Prince Franz, I will put a cup of poison in your hand. If you can’t retaliate, swallow the poison.” <<less

Magic has returned.... more>>

Those who have safeguarded the most worthless knowledge will begin to dream the most epic dreams. <<less

I knew that now that I was an adult, I would be sold.... more>>

However, I did not know that I would be used as a sacrifice.

“Were you abandoned?”

What waited for Bianca, who entered the empty reception room alone, was not despair, but Jillian Baloch.

He was a young and beautiful duke called the Dragon of Termina.

Not being oppressed by anyone or anything, including force, wealth, and power.

A man who seemed infinitely distant and did not seem human.

“Duke Baloch.”

The man who would tear me to death, the poor duke who lost his ancestral Duke at the hands of her father, The Emperor.

He laughed when Bianca called in a trembling voice. Sweetly, not like a smile directed at me, the daughter of an enemy.

And then he slowly called Bianca.

"Yes, madam?”

I was a sacrifice. An imperial sacrifice offered to the angry dragon of Termina.

“Duke?”

“The word 'Duke' feels too distant. Please call me Jillian, madam.”

“.......”

“Husband and honey are fine too.”

The beauty of a smiling man..

The man was crazy sweet. So much so that my heart was pounding without even knowing the reason. <<less

Ibelia Caroline was a Princess in disguise. It was a marriage she chose to empower the Crown Prince, but all she got in return was her husband's coldness, her lover's ignorance, and the courtiers's persecution.... more>>

Life in the sad palace intensified after her formal husband, Lyurian Petrov, left for battle.

A year later, he appeared.

Late at night, without warning.

"It's late."

"Yes, It's late."

"..."

"That's why I found this place. I'm going to make up for my one boring year on the battlefield here."

She thought it was meant to humiliate her, but Ibelia couldn't believe it.

Lyurian came to visit her and climbed to her bed.

That wasn't the only confusing thing. Everything about Lyurian was strange.

Just as her suspicions were at their peak, he whispered the most unbelievable words.

" I want to love you." <<less

*This novel is set in a fictional time and place, with numerous occult and horror elements... more>>

Layla, who was born as the daughter of a witch, had the ability to see 'things that should not be seen' from the moment of her birth.

I don't want to see it, but I see it, I don't want to hear it, but I hear it.

She didn't want to see, but she saw; she didn't want to hear, but she heard. Although she was a powerful psychic, her life was filled with horror as she could see and hear things she shouldn’t.

A man suddenly appeared in front of her as she lived alone and was ostracized by the village, it was Eustar Hyianmoric.

He was the Crown Prince of the Shearlow Kingdom and the head of the knightly order ‘Tentinella’. He desired Layla's extraordinary eyes and ears.

Layla, who became Eustar's spouse on the surface by the King order, paired up with him to solve the eerie phenomena of the Shearlow Kingdom in exchange for tremendous compensation, honor, and freedom.

What was the King plotting, and what was Eustar hiding?

And what was the initial secret that even Layla herself didn’t know? <<less

Fernan Caesar, the ruler of the North who came back from the war. ... more>>

The man, who was perfect in everything, was the only good memory of Julia’s unhappy childhood.

When she was told that he was going to be her husband, Julia believed in the existence of God for the first time.

But…

“If there’s anything you want, feel free to do it. It doesn’t matter whether you remodel the castle, buy jewelry, or throw a party.”

“…….”

“But I don’t want to see you in the morning, so refrain from doing that.”

The gentleman of her memory was no more.

There was only a cold man standing there who did not have a trace of affection or warmth.

“Your heart is of no use to me.”

But loving him to the end was Julia’s biggest mistake.

****

Standing at the edge of the cliff, Julia slowly carved her husband’s once-worldly face into her eyes.

If not now, she would never be able to escape it forever. She would come to love him again.

She didn’t want to be bound to him any longer.

“Julia!”

Looking at her desperate husband, Julia threw herself down the cliff. <<less

“This s*upid woman, if only she had died.”... more>>

While her husband, Duke Klaus, is silently observing the situation.

“Is this how you raise your children in the future?”

Her mother-in-law despised her from head to toe.

“The one your husband loves…… is only me.”

Her closest friend betrayed her.

In the body of the abused duchess, the notorious villain ‘Cheon Yeongryeong’ awakened.

“Is revenge truly meaningless?”

There’s only grief for those who have never truly sought revenge.

However, celebrating in the enemy’s grave always brings joy. <<less

Just days before his final discharge, Sergeant Shin Young-joon, a military chef by profession, witnessed the doom of the world.... more>>

An apocalypse, that came out of nowhere and ruined the world that he used to know.

In the blink of an eye his battalion fell into shambles, all the communication lines, and radio frequencies were severed, and before him was a message stating:

[Congratulations on your awakening!]

[Occupation: Rookie Chef Lv.1]

If only he had a profession like a warrior or an assassin, he might have attempted to stand his ground alone.

But what was given to him was clearly the supporting job of a chef.

With the recent development in progress there wasn’t any choice for him, other than saying, “From now on, I’ll be the one to feed you all.” <<less