"Even if the string tangles, it never breaks..."

Everyone thinks Ling is cold, brilliant, untouchable. They don't know she cries quietly after holding up her wife's empire alone. Everyone thinks Orm is heartless, ruthless, born for power. They don't know she breaks in the bathroom so no one hears. Their marriage didn't explode. It eroded. Now a national scandal pulls them back into the same storm and the only way out is side by side.... or not at all.

"Some loves burn too bright to be hidden." Orm Kornnaphat lives the life everyone envies - a perfect marriage, two children, and the image of success. But beneath the surface of duty and devotion, she hides a longing she has never dared to name. When a chance meeting in Singapore introduces her to the captivating Lingling Kwong, desire begins to blur the lines of loyalty. What follows is a story of temptation, choices, and the dangerous cost of wanting more than the life chosen for you.

Three fingers of Jameson. A piece of chocolate cake. The woman in the corner booth unravels Orm's carefully controlled life one Tuesday night at a time. Orm knows better than to let this woman into her apartment. Into her bed. Into her life. Knows better than to fall for someone who can't be hers. But Orm falls anyway, for Ling, whose life is tangled with hers in ways neither of them anticipated.

A tragic psychological romance about grief, denial, and learning to let go of someone you love-told through a haunting illusion of love that refuses to fade.

They sleep together the night they meet. What takes time is everything else. What Stays is about intimacy that grows through attention, care, and choosing each other deliberately.

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz is visiting her aunt and namesake in London for the social season, enjoying her last year of freedom before her father arranges a match. There she meets a curious woman who does nothing but drive her mad with her hatred for the season and her disbelief in love. Eloise Bridgerton is not ready for her debut season and is doing everything in her power to avoid it, that is until she meets Charlotte who only fuels her hatred for the season and also increases her desire to participate for reasons not yet known to Eloise. [eloise bridgerton x fem OC] [bridgerton season 2]

"She was supposed to teach me Chinese. I ended up begging for her in every language." Ten years after vanishing into the glittering world of London high society, Orm Korn Sethratanapong returns to Bangkok with a designer suitcase and a smirk that hides a thousand secrets. Rich, reckless, and used to getting what she wants, Orm is tasked with managing her family's Chinese-investor-backed company. There's just one problem-she doesn't speak a word of Mandarin or Cantonese. Enter Lingling Sirilak Kwong: gorgeous, intelligent, emotionally unavailable. A private Chinese tutor with strict rules, including one she never breaks-don't fall in love. Especially not with clients. Especially not with smug, boyish flirts with blonde hair and honey eyes who can't stop crossing the line. Their lessons quickly spiral into arguments, heated glances, and late nights that end with torn clothes and breathless silence. They promise it's just sex. Just tension. Just nothing. Until Ling disappears. And Orm is willing to tear apart the world to find the woman who swore she'd never love her.

Ling Ling Kwong is elegance personified-mature, poised, and breathtakingly beautiful. At 30, the half-Hongkonger, half-Thai businesswoman has built her reputation with brains and grace. When she starts dating Amun Sethratanapong, Thailand's cargo empire billionaire and devoted single father, everything seems perfect-until she steps into his mansion and meets Orm. Orm Kornnaphat Sethratanapong is everything Ling isn't: 23, reckless, bold, spoiled, and terrifyingly magnetic. With her off-shoulder blonde hair, wicked smirk, and dominant energy, Orm isn't just unimpressed by Ling-she's hostile. Amun wants peace and insists they spend time together, hoping they'll grow close like family. But fate has other plans. What starts as cold stares and biting remarks turns into secret glances, shared nights abroad, and an undeniable spark neither of them saw coming. The woman meant to be her stepmother becomes the woman Orm can't stop thinking about. And Ling, once so sure of her path, finds herself torn between the man who loves her-and the daughter who makes her feel alive. Some love stories aren't supposed to happen. But sometimes, the heart chooses chaos.