The daughter of a viscount, Eleanor Townsend lost her parents at a young age andhad been receiving sponsorship from the Duke of Griffith. This sponsorship led to rumors that Eleanor must be the Duke's illegitimate daughter.... more>>

Suddenly, the Duke declares that his heir, Daryl, must maintain a one-year marriage with Eleanor, or he won't inherit the title. Daryl approaches Eleanor and proposes a contractual marriage for just one year.

"If you want to repay my father's favor, you'll have to accept my offer. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have to go through this absurdity."

He was a cold and arrogant man.

Throughout their contract marriage, Daryl's tongue had been like a poisoned blade, cutting through Eleanor.

"Don't delude yourself into thinking you're a real duchess. Live as if you were dead for a year. Don't speak to me."

She endured it, waiting only for the day when this marriage would end.

However, why is it that the one who never took her side, not even once, is now trying to hold onto her?

**.

"You're the one who said it only needed to be a formality; you're the one who asked me to marry you in the first place; you're the one who brought me a contract stipulating a divorce after a year; you're the one who coerced me into paying the favor the former duke had given me."

"......Eleanor, back then, I was."

"You told me not to delude myself into thinking I became a real duchess, and live like dead for a year. You practically treated me like I didn't exist the entire time."

"......"

"It was a lonely life, many, many times more lonely than the one I lived alone in Townsend Street, but I put up with it, because it was a promise, because I thought it was my way of making amends for the trouble I'd unwittingly caused you, and so I put up with it, because it was only a year, and I can't put up with it any longer, and I don't want to."

The calm way she spoke to Daryl contained all the truth Eleanor had kept bottled up inside for a year.

"Now please leave."

"......"

"If you don't leave, I will." <<less

Mariella is a maid who dreams of rising through the ranks by becoming the mistress of a nobleman.... more>>

She is convinced that a blind man she meets by chance is a noble,

and she takes great care of him, pretending to be Lady Marianne.

One day, the man disappears, leaving a proposal for marriage.

Unaware of Mariella’s true identity, he sends a proposal to the Riedenburg family.

Mariella worries that her identity will be discovered.

A disorientated Lady Marianne offers to marry him off in her place…

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“I’ll go.”

“What?”

Mariella repeated, unable to understand.

“I’ll marry into the royal family. For you, in person.”

“…”

The young woman said, sounding eager.

A hint of amus**ent in her eyes behind her gentle expression.

Mariella knew what Marianne was thinking.

She was jumping for joy at the opportunity.

The chance to be the heroine of the popular novel she always carried with her. <<less

“Wanna play a VS game with me? Kiss me for 1 million won VS just live your life.”... more>>

Despite being a rather mismatched pair, Hweeo and Seongjae are close friends, and while out drinking beer together, the topic of VS games comes up. Seongjae is seemingly uninterested, but when Hweeo says that he can do almost anything for money, his eyes seem to sparkle. How far will this daring game take the two?

*A short story originally released as part of Pocket BL Collection by WisdomConnect, VS Game has now been published on its own. <<less

Whenever the night of the full moon arrives, the wolf that goes into heat must find its elixir.... more>>

And that elixir is unexpectedly…

Interspecies mating.

*

The destitute white wolf king of the grasslands is about to enter a political marriage with the princess from beyond the Northern Plains.

*

Purely fictional, do not take it seriously.

If there are sensitive individuals, please refrain from reading.

A short piece, I wish you an enjoyable reading experience. <<less

Isabel, who runs a bookstore alone, has had one recent worry. The worry is none other than her customer, Björn Turner, who has been visiting the bookstore every day for three months without buying a single book.... more>>

Then, one day,
Isabel happened to come across a mysterious book and made a wish that Björn would stop coming to the bookstore...

From that day on,
Isabel's secret dream began.

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"Huhh. Ah..."

Her face, flushed with pleasure, looked so unfamiliar. The woman's moans were heard as the man's movements slowed down and his large hands moved, massaging on her waist.

She couldn't believe she could make such a le*d expression. A shocking realization passed by, leaving only tearful doubts behind.

"Why am I with Björn Turner, and in that way!"

She couldn't understand it. She didn't even want to understand. Something was definitely wrong.

Isabel roughly brushed her eyes with her fingertips and blinked several times, even trying to open her eyes wider. However, the scene in front of her did not change.

Rather, the two on the bed seemed to mock Isabel as they exchanged affectionate kisses. The woman's gestures on the man's neck were quite assertive.

"Why... No, no. This is a dream! It can't be!" <<less

“Poor Boy X Little Prince: Reunion and Reconciliation Healing Sweet Story”... more>>

Yu Yue is a little prince. At the age of sixteen, he went to a barbecue shop outside of school with his classmates. There, he saw a boy working, dressed in black, with slightly long hair tied behind his head. His features were unbelievably attractive.

Yu Yue quietly asked someone who he was, and they told him that the person’s name was Xu Yuanzhe. After getting to know Xu Yuanzhe, Yu Yue has been enduring a tough life. His birthdays weren’t celebrated by celebrities, and his tiny 40-square-meter house was in a terrible state. The bathroom light was never fixed, and the windows never closed properly. Yu Yue thought he would eventually run away from Xu Yuanzhe. But he didn’t. He only grew to love Xu Yuanzhe more.

Until one day, Yu Yue felt like Xu Yuanzhe suddenly didn’t love him anymore.

Xu Yuanzhe was a poor boy who worked part-time at the barbecue shop outside of school. When he saw Yu Yue coming to eat at the shop, he fell in love at first sight. But Yu Yue was the star among stars. At the age of eighteen, Xu Yuanzhe, without fear, secretly loved Yu Yue for two years. After Yu Yue came of age, he finally won over the little prince.

Xu Yuanzhe held Yu Yue in the palm of his hand and wanted to give him the life of a prince that he had once lived. But Xu Yuanzhe realized that he had nothing. He worked tirelessly at multiple jobs but could only afford a small house for Yu Yue. He could only buy a regular cake for Yu Yue on his birthday and deal with the constantly malfunctioning bathroom light.

Even though Yu Yue never complained, Xu Yuanzhe regretted his decisions one after another. Finally, one day, Yu Yue asked for a breakup and completely disappeared from Xu Yuanzhe’s life.

In that moment, Xu Yuanzhe finally understood what true regret meant. <<less

My 365 Days of Confessions (WN)
Every day, Ophelia confesses to her beloved lord, Kyle.... more>>

“Good morning, Lord Kyle. The traces of sleep lingering on your beautiful eyes makes my heart pound. I love you.”

“Good morning, Ophelia. Unfortunately, your confession did nothing to abate my disdain towards women.”

…As anyone could see, the result was disastrous.

Nevertheless, it was alright, since Ophelia never wished for him to reciprocate her love.

A story about a girl who only had a year to confess her love due to circumstances, and her beloved. <<less

One day, I found a Grimoire in the Royal Library and inadvertently summoned a devil. The devil is said to grant wishes in exchange for... more>> souls. I decide to ask the devil to kill my ex-fiancé, who betrayed me and broke off our engagement, and my friend, who slept with him...…. <<less

I have a pheromone matching rate of 85% with Xu Qi, but he dislikes me intensely.... more>>

Once someone who matched him at 95% appeared, I consciously left.

Later, I was framed, drugged, and thrown into the room of the new CEO.

I heard that this CEO was not fond of beauty, and his heart was ruthless. However, he held me tightly, his eyes blazing red.

"Where do you think you're escaping to now?" <<less

My sugar daddy asked me if I would die of grief if he passed away.... more>>

I put on my pants while smoking and said I wouldn’t.

I would just switch to the next one immediately.

He laughed until he cried and scolded me for being heartless.

Later, when his heart disease was so severe he was near death, the only solution was a heart transplant.

I looked at our compatibility report.

And decided to give him my heart. <<less

The Princess is secretly in love with the Lady Knight.... more>>

However, the Princess’ Mother does not know about them and tries to use her daughter as a political pawn.

The Princess who is to be married elopes with the Lady Knight…

It’s an extremely chaotic Yuri fantasy romance. <<less

Yu Cheng and Qin He met by chance. Yu Cheng was a famous little tyrant in middle school but was trained by Qin He to become an obedient dog.... more>>

Gradually, they developed feelings for each other but were reported, and one was forced to transfer schools while the other was left suffocating in insults.

The interrupted contact became the last straw. People were buried in it, and cries were isolated. Qin He finally became a person buried in love.

The obedient dog became a crazy dog again, and the once bright and showy teenager became a walking corpse…

Yu Cheng (Gong) X Qin He (Shou) <<less

The most gentle and sensible little lover around Yan Chen ran away.... more>>

A person who he even kept track of medical expenses for and owed him money, but when leaving, also took along two unlimited credit cards.

Watching the big spending records with cold eyes, Yan Chen's interest grew stronger.

Finally, one late night, he cornered the person in a luxury hotel's presidential suite.

Seeing the third person in the suite, Yan Chen gritted his teeth, "Didn't you keep saying you love me? How long has it been, and you’re already fooling around with someone else."

An Yi smiled, returning Yan Chen's own words to him word for word.

"I love you, but I never said I only love you."

An Yi stood on the rooftop.

Before falling, he wanted to pull out all the knives Yan Chen had stuck in his heart.

He also wanted to indulge in the pleasures of the flesh and understand why Yan Chen didn't want his love but preferred the worldly pleasures.

*Yan Chen (top) X An Yi (bottom), two years apart in age, Happy Ending.

*Bottom (An Yi) is reserved and paranoid in the early stage, but confronts the top (Yan Chen) later.

*The top starts off arrogant and promiscuous, then cries and begs later on.

*First, the bottom is tortured, then the top, and after breaking up, the bottom has relations with someone else.

*Dramatic and over-the-top, feel free to criticize the characters but not the author.

*Not sure if it counts as a wife chasing crematorium. <<less

A story between a nouveau riche who didn’t graduate from elementary school and an educated poor.

Lu Ming feels like he is worse than a beast, as he has been involved with his good friend's sister, who is mentally disabled and only eight years old.... more>>

(The female lead is an adult but has the mental capacity of an eight-year-old.)

Tags: Simplified version / High H / 1V1 / BG / Sweet story <<less

In the 1900s, amidst the winds of parties and free love for young men and women, London of the modern era still maintains a coexistence of love and secularism.... more>>

Mabel, the maid under the stairs, encounters a handsome gentleman at a party, hiding her identity. They dance, converse, and have a good time, but that's all it is. After all, he is a man of a social class beyond her reach.

However, things take an unexpected turn. Mabel, once a maid under the stairs, transforms into a distinguished university student, and even gets the chance to become a professional writer of romance novels for other maids.

Moreover, why does he, whom she thought she would never meet again, keep appearing before her?

"It's been over a month since we exchanged numbers. Why haven't you contacted me?"
"......"
"Am I the only one hoping we could become more than just acquaintances?"
"Uh......"
"I've had that thought."

From William Edmundstone, an aristocratic politician from a prestigious family, to Leon de Percy, the brother of a friend from America, and even the male students of the neighboring London School of Economics.

What could have turned Mabel's life upside down from being just an ordinary maid under the stairs? <<less

In high school, the tall, slender Wang Zhen Zhen and her fat, clumsy deskmate, Zhu Zhong Qian were a pair of mischievous children who always stuck together. After graduating from high school, they parted ways when Zhu Zhong Qian left to further his studies abroad while Wang Zhen Zhen pursued her dreams.... more>>

Years later, Wang Zhen Zhen, a little-known poor cartoonist, who was unable to make any achievements in her career, was forced to change to become a newbie in selling insurance.

At a classmate reunion dinner, she met her old deskmate, Zhu Zhong Qian who had turned into a slim and handsome man while she had bloated up into a larger version of her old self…… <<less

Recently, Boss Lady had become infatuated with a milk tea shop—’s Little Shopkeeper.... more>>

Boss Lady was a female who loved females. She loved to play around freely when it came to relationships, but surrendered herself when she met Little Shopkeeper.

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Urban, easygoing sweet text; absolutely sugar inducing with HE. Short story that’s less than 20,000 characters.

Chic and wanton boss lady vs. cute and gentle milk tea shopkeeper. <<less

Ariana, who endured abuse from her stepmother and sister, weds a rich commoner. She was in a contract marriage that was picture-perfect.

“Duan Zhu, Ji Bie.” ... more>>

The story of The Iceberg Young Master and the boy Xiao Ji, whom his family adopted. <<less

The once wealthy and powerful Ryuuzen clan has been all but destroyed. Their misfortune began in 1960, when a majority of the family was wiped out when their vacation villa was buried under a landslide. However, search and rescue teams discovered something even more shocking: A majority of the bodies they discovered showed obvious signs of having been mu*dered before the landslide.... more>>

As though it were a trigger, what came to be known as "The Curse of the Ryuuzen Clan" spread throughout the descendants of the family's only survivor. By mu*der, by su*cide, by accident... it seemed none who held the name "Ryuuzen" could live to see the age of 35, and now, the family has been reduced to a single woman, lying in a hospital bed, days away from death.

Kamo Touma was once just another of the endless parade of sleazy tabloid journalists looking to exploit a prominent family's tragedy to sell magazines, but Ryuuzen Rena's kindness melted his frozen heart, driving him to quit his old job and become an investigative journalist specializing in overturning cases of false arrest. Eventually, he and Rena were married, but now, the curse threatens to steal away their happiness.

Kamo prays for a miracle, and his prayers are answered by the Hourglass of Miracles, an artifact spoken of in rumors and urban legends, said to grant one wish to anyone who obtains it.

"Meister Hora", a guide for those who obtain the hourglass, tells Kamo there is only one way to break the curse and save Rena: He must travel back in time to the year 1960 and catch the culprit of the original Ryuuzen Family massacre.

Who was the culprit of the mu*ders that took place almost 60 years ago? Why did they steal away the lives of the Ryuuzen clan? What is the true nature of the "Curse of the Ryuuzen Clan?" And perhaps most mysteriously of all... What is Meister Hora's goal in all this?

Winner of the 29th annual Ayukawa Tetsuya Award. <<less