❝ it was only meant to be a marriage of convenience ❞ Grieving her mother's death and stuck in an engagement she never agreed to, Min Gaeun makes the mistake of accepting Jang Wook's hasty proposal-one he blurts out after sneaking into her family compound uninvited, climbing over her balcony in the rain, and completely misunderstanding what the knife over her wrist meant. Eager to escape being the talk of the town again, Wook offers a simple proposition to his childhood friend; to live together as husband-wife in the eyes of Daeho while they both pursue their own personal interests in secret. Bereaved, lovelorn, and trapped, Gaeun agrees to the deeply flawed plan that Wook is wrongly confident about. How she wish she hadn't. ───※ ·❆· ※─── ⚘ Alchemy of Souls ⚘

After experiencing a near-death experience, Arisa Grimharts finally escapes her nightmares in the center of Rixtonal, the City of the Heart. She takes on a new identity, and new life, cutting off all relationships with her past. However, fate has something else in store once she faced a member of S.P.I.R.I.T., a well-known guild in this world, that keeps the balance and protects people from evil creatures. Will she successfully blend in or will she be brought back into her past? Do be warned that there are BL and GL's relationships in the novel so if you don't like it, don't read it. Thanks for the support!