Her family always put her brother first. Her fiance always put his best friend first. However, after Sylvia has been looked down on just for expressing her desires her entire life and too many betrayals from her fiance to count, she decides enough is enough. She declares that she's done being everyone's afterthought and is going to prioritize herself from now on. That very day, a split-second judgment to rescue a young street urchin turns out to be a decision that will change her life. She quickly realizes that the young boy is actually the emperor's illegitimate child Leon, and her own talents are soon discovered by the emperor's half-brother, the "Battle-Crazed Duke", Wilhart. Wilhart asks Sylvia to be Leon's attendant in the Imperial Palace, and for the first time in her life, she feels needed. And despite the rumors of Wilhart's cold, war-hardened demeanor, Sylvia finds him gazing at her with a passion he's never shown anyone else...!
"The Daily Oddity", is created by the distinctive author Gami, who adapts bizarre events experienced firsthand and random things observed in daily life into various "abnormal" short stories. Examples include the magical glue that helps foster friendship and the weird daily life of corporate slaves. This is a new type of Taiwanese suspense comic that combines thrills with dark humor! Have you ever carefully checked out your own daily life? Creepy phenomena might already be growing right around you...
In noble society, while most people care more about house or status than love when seeking a partner, this couldn't be any less the case for Grace Shellgrave, the daughter of a marquis with memories of a troubled past life. Seeking a true connection with someone who feels the same way, she attends a masquerade ball in secret. After spending a romantic night with Alan, a man who seems to share the same values, she soon finds out she's become pregnant... and to make matters worse, Alan is actually the heir to House Ward, the sworn arch-enemy of the Shellgraves! Alan aggressively pursues Grace, but she refuses to let her baby become a pawn for another typical noble. Does he just want an heir? Or could it actually be... love? Two equally awkward opposites attract in this aristocratic love story!
"What did I just 'feel'...?" The daughter of a baron, Melvy Renoir, has a peculiar constitution that impedes her ability to feel anything. Derided and oppressed by her family as an unsettling "defective product," she is ordered to marry Duke Gerald Valrier, feared as "The Bride-Slaying Duke." Feeling her life in danger, she reluctantly visits the duke's mansion. Upon meeting him, Gerald declares, "If you don't lose consciousness when I touch you, I will make you my wife." The moment his fingertips touched Melvy, her body, which should not feel anything, is overcome by a sweet, numbing "pleasure"... That encounter would come to serve as the prologue to a story in which two "flawed people" learn about love...
Poison and venom are harmful to life... and my girlfriend is highly venomous. She was perfect - her personality, her hobbies, our physical chemistry; everything about her made her my ideal partner. But no one is truly perfect. I found out she was hiding a dead body in her bathroom... and I didn't have time to think. I covered it up to protect her. That's all. I mean, who wouldn't do something like that for the love of their life? Isn't it only natural to do whatever it takes for someone you care about? But what I didn't realize back then... was that her venom was slowly consuming me and everyone around me.
I've spent my 30s dating my boyfriend for ten years without a forseeable future and giving up my dreams. Triggered by a certain reunion, I'm trying to step out of my old self...
Young girls, made to eat nothing but flowers, a barbed wire fence stretched round about them… Is this a girls' flower garden…? Or a nightmarish prison…?
A 2 million dollar ransom-replaced by a pile of some ditz's underwear!When a case of mistaken identity results in her kidnapping, the would-be target is tasked with handing over her own ransom... But one thing leads to another and then everything turns topsy-turvyin this bizarre kidnapping story!
An internet uncle using way too many emoji and cheesy lines to write to a high school girl... This uncle she looked down upon, was actually a real monster...!
Morgan Bastille is a mortician. Not an ordinary mortician though, a mortician gifted by death. Morgan is looking for a missing person; in order to find that person, he goes to the Detroit Police Station to get help from the captain of the Detroit Exorcism Division, Millenia Browning. Within minutes of his arrival, however, Morgan is taken hostage by a couple of demons! Who exactly is Morgan looking for and will he escape the clutches of the demons?
It was only supposed to be an innocent hike... but when this group of friends took shelter in the mountains, their lives changed forever thanks to one book. Find all the twist and turns that ensue, as these teens slowly yet surely whittle down.
"Our academy is a place that teaches murderers how to kill other murderers." Spring, fresh blood splashing over the school bus. I, a more than common girl, was chosen as a specially admitted student by a murderers school...