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She remembers her past life at her own wedding feast, just in time to smell the poison in her cup. These original romance novels follow the Japanese web novel and light novel tradition, drawn in anime style: heroines reborn inside the novel that was supposed to kill them, cold dukes and arranged marriages, and revenge served with a smile. Short chapters built to end on a hook. The first half of every series is free to read.
Free to the last chapter
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The Stepsister Who Followed Me Through the Shrine Gate
Hinata is summoned through her family's shrine gate to be a kingdom's saint, and her new stepsister Mai grabs her hand and is dragged along as baggage. The saint's bath may only be attended by household, so Mai washes her back.
femme x femme · forbidden love · forced proximity
24 chapters published
Completed · Every chapter free
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Reborn as the Villainess's Bodyguard, I Refused to Stop at Bodyguard
Haruka wakes as the guard captain who will hold the axe at the villainess's execution, so she kneels in the cell and swears to guard her instead. Seraphine knows she will die and wants to live every one of the fourteen days.
bodyguard-romance · femme x femme · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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The Villain Duke's Butler Served Him Too Well
A Japanese salaryman wakes as the butler of the villain duke in a BL novel he hated, the duke who dies at twenty-one. To save him he serves too well, and the night before the birthday the duke holds a knife to his throat and asks who he is.
redemption arc · male lead · rebirth
24 chapters published
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The Demon General Is My Ex's Little Sister
Rin Tachibana walks into the enemy camp under a white flag and finds her ex's little sister pouring tea in armor. The Demon General is Kaede, the hero is coming to kill her, and neither woman has any intention of letting that happen.
femme x femme · forbidden love · forced proximity
24 chapters published
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She Dreamed Her Empire Would Burn, So She Set Out to Break Four Collars
An elven princess dreams the night her empire burns and the four collared beastkin who bring it down. She has twelve days to earn their hearts before the dream comes true.
female lead · royal palace · fantasy kingdom
24 chapters published
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My New Boss at the Yokai Pharmacy Is a Fox Who Cannot Lie
Haruna Sakamoto, 25, takes a night job at a Kyoto pharmacy that opens only after midnight, and her first prescription is for the owner, Kuzunoha, a fox spirit who has not told a lie in forty years and has never been asked what she wants.
femme x femme · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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Left Behind by the Hero, I Opened an Inn and the Sword Saint Never Checked Out
The Hero marches out and calls her a good neighbor. She hangs a lantern on her grandmother's empty house and opens an inn, and that night the Crown's retired Sword Saint takes Room Three and never leaves.
female lead · age gap · fantasy kingdom
24 chapters published
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Every Fight Turns Him Into a Woman, So the Whole Kingdom Kneels
A game tester sent into a sealed VRMMO region to hunt an exploit finds a ruined temple and a class that turns him into a woman every time he fights. A starving knight-captain, a laughing thief and a stone hound join him, and a goddess who isn't what she says.
sci-fi · male lead · fantasy kingdom
24 chapters published
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The Dismissed Saint Became the Beast King's Healer
The Prince replaces her with a 'real' saint, the High Priest burns a silver seal into her shoulder, and she is dismissed. She walks north into the one country the Temple warns children about and becomes healer to the Beast King, who has never let a hand touch his back.
exile · female lead · fantasy kingdom
24 chapters published
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The River Kami Asked Before Taking My Hand
Akari Shirakawa, 19, moves into her late aunt's house to study, and the river kami who lives there treats her as the next wife. Akari says no, and the kami asks permission for everything after that.
femme x femme · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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My Stepsister Is the Idol Everyone Wants to See
Emi Yoshida, 22, works nights at a convenience store and has never heard a single song by her new stepsister Kokone Arai, 20, Japan's hottest rising idol. When a scandal photo forces Kokone's agency to hide her in Emi's tiny flat, the only person who doesn't want anything from her becomes the one she wants.
femme x femme · contemporary · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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The Exiled Sword Saint Hired Me to Cook, Not to Fight
Tomoe Kisaragi walks out of a bad kitchen and up a snowed-in mountain, where the exiled Sword Saint pays double for miso soup and a bed warmed by someone not afraid of her. The pass closes, the dojo has one futon, and the saint has been cold for a year.
femme x femme · exile · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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Grandmother Left Half the Onsen Inn to the Chef
Sakura Mizuno has run her grandmother's hot-spring inn for three years, and the will splits it with a stranger from Kyoto. Yuzu Hayashi is a chef who gives orders, they share one room, and the only bath is theirs after midnight.
femme x femme · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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My Succubus Landlady Has a Contract With My Grandmother
Nanami Hoshino takes a flat so cheap it must be a trick, and the landlady who comes for the first rent night is a 214-year-old succubus holding a contract her late grandmother signed.
femme x femme · contemporary · female lead
24 chapters published
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The Saint Who Healed Everyone and the Knight She Couldn't
The summoned saint heals every wounded soldier at Fort Gallowmere, but the commander's scarred body throws her magic back, so Yui nurses Brunhild at night with warm water and her hands.
femme x femme · female lead · forced proximity
24 chapters published
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Anime & Light Novel Romance Novels
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Reborn as the Villainess's Doomed Maid, I Keep Getting Caught by Her Knight Brother
Tilda wakes up as the maid who hangs beside the villainess in her favorite novel, and she has one night to stop the first crime. The villainess's cold knight brother catches her with the spanner in her hand, and he does not let go.
forbidden love · female lead · royal palace
24 chapters published
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At Our Wedding Feast, My Husband Introduced His Mistress, So I Asked the Bishop for an Annulment
At her own wedding feast the duke presents his mistress as "the lady of the north wing", and the bride remembers a past life as a pharmacist and the novel she's in: tonight she drinks poison. She smells it in her cup, raises it to the happy couple, and asks the bishop aloud how fast she can annul him.
female lead · rebirth · fantasy kingdom
24 chapters published
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The Dying Duke's One-Year Wife Is a Nurse
She wakes mid-signature on a one-year marriage contract to a duke who is supposed to die at its end, and the first thing the former ER nurse does is knock the lancet out of his physician's hand.
medical · terminal-illness · female lead
24 chapters published
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At the Year-End Party He Thanked Me for Doing His Paperwork, So I Took the Microphone
On stage at the company year-end party, her boyfriend of four years announces his engagement to the director's daughter and thanks her as "the one who did my paperwork". She walks up, takes the microphone and tells three hundred people whose contract it really was, and the client's cold vice-president at table 3 stands up to agree.
contemporary · female lead · fake relationship
24 chapters published
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My Rival Is My Anonymous Hookup
Tomoya Arisaka and Ren Kisaragi have fought over every ranking at Tsubame Beverages for six years. Then the stranger from the hookup app walks into the love hotel room wearing the company lanyard, and the only thing worse than the truth is that he wants more of it.
contemporary · male lead · forced proximity
24 chapters published
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I Indicted the Yakuza Heir, Then Married Him
A junior prosecutor's star witness vanishes, and the price of getting him back is a contract marriage to the yakuza heir she once indicted. He is polite, devoted and terrifying, and he wants a real wedding night.
contemporary · female lead · contract marriage
24 chapters published
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I Became the Final Boss's Nameless Fiancée and I Have One Season to Stop Him
Reborn as the demon prince's nameless fiancée in the otome game she played, Rina has one season before he burns the kingdom, and he wants to know why the bride the court sent to die isn't afraid of him.
female lead · forced proximity · rebirth
24 chapters published
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My Strict Boss Is the Secret Artist Drawing Spicy Comics of Us
Sota reads a spicy office webcomic in a bathroom stall until the hero looks exactly like him, the boss looks exactly like his terrifying section chief, and every chapter draws something that really happened that week. When he finds the artist's half-inked next page, he answers through the comments and starts acting out the panels to see how long the chief can keep a straight face.
contemporary · romantic comedy · male lead
24 chapters published
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My Useless Tamer Skill Tamed the Emperor
Summoned to another world with a skill the stone calls useless, Hinata is handed the black panther that eats keepers. At sunset he turns into the missing Emperor, and the mark on her wrist says he is hers.
female lead · royal palace · forced proximity
24 chapters published
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The Lion King's Reluctant Mate
A survivor of a dead world wakes in an exiled wolf's body and wants only a quiet cave and a full stomach. The lion king next door has laid a fresh kill at his door for thirty-nine nights and is about to get forceful.
survival · male lead · fantasy romance
24 chapters published
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The Hidden Route Picked the Friend
Briony knows she is only the heroine's helpful best friend in a dating game, and she plans to stay out of every route. Then she binds the wounded hand of the court's secret assassin at midnight, and the hidden route locks onto her instead of the heroine.
female lead · royal palace · forced proximity
24 chapters published
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The Dragon God's Bride Asked for a Divorce
The village throws its plainest daughter into the lake as the dragon god's bride. She survives, finds him bored and lonely in his underwater palace, and hands him a divorce request. He reads it and says, "Denied. Try again tomorrow."
female lead · fantasy romance · public-scandal
24 chapters published
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Transmigrated to Raise Panther Cubs
A line cook wakes in a lynx beastman's body with a stick raised over a starving panther cub and a huge black panther mate who has never been let inside the cave. He breaks the stick, feeds the cub first, and starts cooking a family into being.
single parent · male lead · fantasy romance
24 chapters published
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Feed the Dragon Something New or Be Dinner
A Tokyo line cook falls out of a grill fire into a dragon's mountain kitchen and is told to cook something he has never tasted by moonrise, or be dinner. She feeds him rice balls, and his hand shakes.
female lead · forced proximity · fantasy kingdom
24 chapters published
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The Exiled Elf Prince Next Door Dies on Day Seventy
Reborn as the farmer of her favorite slow-life game, Aoi finds the grumpy neighbor on Plot Two is the exiled elf prince who burns on Day Seventy. She has seventy days, one pear jam and a very sharp hoe.
exile · female lead · rebirth
24 chapters published
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I Audited the Demon King's Castle, and He Won't Let Me Leave
A Tokyo accountant is summoned to audit a bankrupt demon castle. On page forty she finds the missing nine thousand crowns paid for her own summoning, and the Demon King will not let her leave until he knows who bought her.
female lead · forced proximity · fantasy kingdom
24 chapters published
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