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Ex-convict Park Mokhwa wants nothing more than to keep his head low and stay out of anything that has to do with his past. However, his new-found tranquility as a florist is shattered by the appearance of Kim Nakwon, a corrupt cop and unabashed hedonist. Nakwon is sure that Mokhwa’s the key to cracking an important case, and he’ll do anything to get the taciturn man to talk. The best way to make someone confess is to cause them pain, and Nakwon thinks he knows just what’ll hurt Mokhwa the most. But despite Nakwon’s best efforts, Mokhwa continues to stay silent. It’s not often that life doesn’t go the way Nakwon wants it to, so his obsession with Mokhwa only grows stronger...

I was possessed by a 19+, filthy, filthy, mermaid reverse harem novel. But not a mermaid, but a tree raised by a noblewoman? ...After that, I possessed salt shakers, jellyfish, canaries, etc., and finally succeeded in possessing a raccoon mermaid after the 17th possession!!! But this time, it wasn't easy either. A chimney sweeping extra, a spy of the Holy Kingdom who would die if caught, and the worst of all was... an albino who couldn't transform into a mermaid. Just die...! Just when I was thinking about starting over, "Won't you be my daughter-in-law?" The greatest villain in the world made me a daughter-in-law offer. Will I be able to survive as a daughter-in-law in this bloodless villain family?!

Alicia, the Marquis’ daughter who missed her chance to marry. Now, she has only one option left— to become the seventh wife of the "monster" Grand Duke! But the moment she opened her wedding gift, she fell straight into hell. In order to survive, she shattered the demonic castle of hell— and returned to the time before all the tragedies began. To twist fate, Alicia goes straight to the Grand Duke. …Wait a minute, no one said he’d be this handsome?! "Marry me, Your Grace!"

Park Taewon never expected to fall in love with an alpha, let alone one twice divorced with a teenage son. But when tragedy strikes, Taewon finds himself alone with that son, Ahn Sangwoo, a boy he never managed to understand. Then Sangwoo starts getting closer. Too close. And when Taewon unexpectedly presents as an omega, what was once grief and confusion curdles into something far more dangerous. Now entangled in a bond steeped in grief and sin, Taewon is consumed by guilt he cannot confess, and a craving he cannot cleanse. Some attachments aren’t born of love... They’re worn like a crown of thorns.

Gunmu Cha’s final mission is to steal a precious diamond. While gathering intel at a club, he saves Teo Yeon from getting blackmailed. But what business does he have with a rich kid who’s always at the center of drama? Gunmu needs to avoid getting involved with Teo for the sake of the mission, but their natural chemistry leads to one steamy encounter after another. As the secrets keep building between them, who will get burned first?

All Yun Jejin wanted was to succeed in life by climbing his way out of misery and misfortune - but his life takes a nosedive when he ends up a debt collector’s target, all because he co-signed a loan for a friend. With nothing to his name and revenge on his mind, Jejin decides to pay it off the hard way...by becoming a gangster himself. But unbeknownst to him, someone’s been watching his back: Choi Taekmu, a thug with a heart as big as his muscles, and a not-so-secret crush on the rookie mobster. As the two work together toward Jejin’s goal, vengeance might not be the only thing that’s coming in red hot…

"""Mr. Esper, I told you already. I’m a B0-grade guide."" Lee Yeoni, a powerful dual-blood, has spent years hiding his striking looks and exceptional abilities while working in a quiet, rural town. But when circumstances force him to transfer to the capital, he finds himself entangled with Tae Hajin—an elite grade-S+ Esper with an intense, domineering presence. Sensing that Yeoni is hiding something, Hajin becomes determined to uncover the truth. Using every trick at his disposal, he digs deeper into Yeoni’s secrets, setting off a tense battle of wits and wills. Desperate to protect his identity, Yeoni resists Hajin’s pursuit—until he realizes he can turn the tables. If he must be exposed to danger, why not use Hajin as his shield? And so, he makes a bold decision…to become Hajin’s exclusive guide. A gripping story of hidden power, dangerous attraction, and the fine line between hunter and hunted."

With the press of a button, Yu Sol’s life is about to turn upside down. When a mysterious post with the power to transport the user to their favorite fictional universe pops up on his feed, Sol clicks “share” and falls asleep…only to awake the next day as a round, winged puffball! Try to speak as he might, he can only mutter one word- er, sound: “Peep!” With his new avian appearance, Sol must navigate the land of Sevon under the guiding hand of his new (strikingly handsome) owner, Karhan Barthés, while trying to find a way back to world from which he came.

The slave she thought was dead has returned—as a king. Now, he takes her as his concubine to destroy her kingdom and avenge his past. "My love wounds him. His love condemns me."

“I won’t let things go according to the novel’s plot—!” One day, the protagonist wakes up to find herself reincarnated as Maria, the villainess from her favorite fantasy novel. Maria is the stepmother of the story’s villain, Alfred, and because she abused him when he was a child, she is fated to be killed by him in the future— In order to prevent Alfred from becoming a villain—and to avoid getting killed herself—Maria desperately tries to get along with him. However, he fears her and runs away. To make things worse, Alfred seems to possess a special ability that wasn’t revealed in the original novel…!? Thus begins the heartwarming yet thrilling daily life of a former villainess stepmother and her future villain son!

The daughter of a duke, Belinda, has lived a clumsy, diligent life as the fiance of the crown prince, Raymond. However, he dislikes the earnest Belinda and has to rely on her half-sister, Margaret, for help. "I must be grateful to Margaret. If I work hard, Raymond will surely love me someday...!" Belinda believed this, but one day she was arrested on suspicion of "murdering the queen," a crime she had no memory of. As she was dragged to the execution platform, she learned in her final moments that Raymond and Margaret were in a romantic relationship, and that it was Margaret who killed the queen. She had been framed by the two of them all this time... Belinda, burned by the flames with strong regret, woke up again to find that she had returned to death two years before her execution. "I won't make any more mistakes in this life. I will walk the right path so they won't use me again." With this determination in her heart, she approaches "a certain person" who was the cause of her execution in her previous life...!? Belinda was slandered as a "wicked woman" in her previous life, but using her superhuman diligence and the knowledge from her previous life as weapons, she rises to the top of aristocratic society!! The Duke's daughter's satisfying revenge begins now.

A love contract romance between a seemingly cool wolf prince and an oppressed poison witch! A turning point arrives to the daily life of Mabel, who spends her days oppressed as a "Poison Witch." After she helps Jude, a wolf tribe prince, he proposes a contract marriage to her. With nowhere else to go, Mabel accepted Jude's offer and began a new life. At first, Mabel was afraid of Jude, but as they spend time together, she gradually realizes his kindness and hidden affection—?