Eun-Sang Hahm just caught her boyfriend cheating, and Gyeong-U Gang, the CEO of her company, is engaged to someone he doesn’t love. They both agree to a mutually beneficial fake relationship. After all, it’s just a business deal, so… what could go wrong? But as the two begin their scheme, it is clear that their connection runs deeper than what is written in their contract. With his rich family set on finding out the truth, and her nosy coworkers and the media watching their every move, how long will they be able to keep up the charade? (Source: Tapas, edited)
Attorney Kim Mooil usually only takes simple copyright cases to keep his practice afloat, so when his landlord comes to him and confesses to killing one of his tenants, Mooil thinks it'll be an open-and-shut case. But the day before they're to go to the police, his landlord seemingly takes his own life. As Mooil and his team of sleuths try to solve this mystery, he learns the incident may be linked to a police cover-up, revenge porn, and a murder from seven years ago. So much for open-and-shut! (Source: Tapas) *Note: Includes three side story chapters.*
Born of an illegitimate emperor and his cunning concubine, Luana oddly inherits the true imperial family's traits: blonde hair and blue eyes. After 8 long years of her wicked mother's abuse, she foresees an even bleaker fate in a dream: her death at 18 by her mother's hand. Determined to alter destiny, she looks for the true empress, crossing paths with her half-brother, Crown Prince Loudon, who reviles Luana's family. Can she defy fate, survive, and grasp the life she's meant for? (Source: Tapas)
In a world where the remnants of civilization depend on the Awakened, humans with special powers, to fend off otherworldly monsters, Kim Sunwoo is forced to survive as a mere guide for the Awakened. Just when he thinks his nightmarish days will never end, he's given a mission to protect one of the few remaining safe cities in exchange for a better life. It is then that a strange voice echoes in his head, and he discovers a power that could change the course of the war against monsters forever. (Source: Tapas)
Ines Eledine is known far and wide as the God of Investments, using her secret ability of reading others’ misfortunes to choose wisely–that is, until her ability vanished one day. Thinking her investing days were behind her, Ines is shocked to discover that her ability returns whenever she touches the handsome, broody master of the demonic sword, Calad Arsdeon. To keep him around, she asks him to be her fake lover…but this arrangement might not be the safe investment she thought it was. (Source: Tapas)
Vampire Count Eichner Wittgenstein spends his days knowing that every human companion will die before him and leave him alone with his rose garden and violin. Still, in the 18th century, he falls in love with a young human girl named Elizabeth. Torn apart from him by her arranged marriage, Elizabeth is reborn first in the 1990s and and then 2150, as the count searches for his lost love. Also includes the short story "The Magic Box", about a diamond cutter who wastes his life away with his career, only to get one more chance.
A minimalist meets a hoarder. Jin-Su is a hoarder, Hae-Yeong a minimalist. But together, they make the perfect team! After meeting at a bakery as boss and employee, the two start visiting their customers' homes to help them organize their closets and rediscover themselves in the process. (Source: Manta, edited)
Princess Apollonia may seem weak and dim-witted, but the truth is, she’s not as clueless as she seems. She must keep up her act of ignorance to foil her cruel father’s political schemes and weave her way out of his arranged marriages. Her ultimate objective is to avenge the deaths of her mother and grandfather and shape her own destiny! With a few secret powers, a handful of trustworthy allies, and some schemes of her own... will Princess Apollonia successfully reclaim her throne as the rightful heir? (Source: Tapas)
Sielle is an ordinary handmaid working for the Grand Duke Ferzei Yekarte. The thing is… she knows he's a villain of a story she read in her previous life on Earth. With her prescience, she managed to foil an assassination attempt on her master, only to be framed for the crime! Worse yet, when she drank the poisoned wine to prove her innocence, she turns into a little girl... And now the Grand Duke wants to ship her off to a notorious family of assassins? Will she manage to survive through all this, even if she knows how it will all end?" (Source: Pocket Comics)
When Ami Won’s mother was still alive, she always told her to grow up to be an exemplary woman. And the chance presents itself now that her dad has been elected President of Korea. Thus begins this klutzy girl’s transformation into the girl her mother had always hoped she’d become. However, in the spotlight and imbued with a kind of social power she never expected, Ami is now beset on all sides by the jealous and the dismayed. Her cousin Bi-Na leads this parade. Bi-Na considers herself naturally charismatic and infinitely more charming than Ami Won, so she feels she deserves the role as Korea’s First Lady. (Source: TOKYOPOP)
That song… It sounds like my brother’s unreleased track! Just before his untimely death, Su-In’s beloved older brother recorded an album dedicated to him – a final gift that was soon forgotten in a desk drawer. Years later, Su-In hears one of those tracks on TV, and it’s being claimed by his brother’s former bandmate. Now, Su-In must take the stage, beat the competition, and take back his brother’s songs… all through music. (Source: WEBTOONS)
All Casia ever wanted was a happy home and a doll, but the former went out the window when the emperor forced her mother into marriage. Life as a princess was isolating but bearable... that is, until her mother was unjustly branded as a criminal. Now, with the help of her trusted aides, including the youngest prince, Casia is forging her own path outside the palace. As owner of her own doll shop, will she finally be able to escape the imperial family’s clutches and find her true happiness? (Source: Tapas)
