Everyone knows Nishimura Riki as the school's biggest troublemaker. Everyone knows Nakamura Ruka as the untouchable Ice Queen - the man-hater the boys privately call a heinous bitch. One look from her and you're already dead. So when a stupid bet dares Ni-ki to make her fall for him before the school festival, he takes it without blinking. It was supposed to be a game. Until one unexpected kiss made it real. Now the whole school is watching... waiting to see who'll be the first to kiss and tell?

𝖞ou never had a soulmate mark, until the day it finally appeared the moment someone lied to you. 𝖓ow everytime you see him, it burns. 𝖆nd when an unknown number starts sending stalker messages, you start to wonder if love was ever what this 'bond' was meant to be. [UNDER HEAVY EDITING] ཧོ soulmate au idol au fem! reader

"That's Nishimura Riki, the top of the school's bad boy game. Girls line up to play, but no one wins." In which a girl tries to escape her traumatic past by moving in with her mom's childhood best friend... only to end up under the same roof as the most heartless boy, who also has his dark secrets. He gets dared to make her fall in love with him... but some games don't follow the rules, and some hearts don't break the way they're supposed to. Mature Content: trauma, mentions of abuse and alcoholism, gang violence ©JWONTONI 2025

"You ever think about dying?" Riki asked suddenly, his voice softer now, almost tender. Ryu's heart skipped, but she didn't let it show. "Sometimes," she admitted. He nodded, as if her answer made sense, as if it was the only answer that could make sense. "It's not the dying that scares me," he said, flicking ash off the edge of the rooftop. "It's the not feeling anything before it happens." She didn't know what to say to that, so she said nothing. Instead, she watched him, the way his hair fell into his eyes, the way the silver of his necklace caught the last light of the setting sun. He looked like a boy trying to be a ghost, or maybe a ghost trying to be a boy. She couldn't tell which. Riki turned to her then, his gaze locking onto hers with a quiet intensity that made her chest tighten. "You know what the worst part is?" he said. "What?" "You remind me of me."

[Book #1 of the 'Lover Boy' series] "Who did this to you?" Ni-ki asks, his eyes darkening. Ria tries to close the door, the boy blocking it with his foot. "Go home, Ni-ki." She says quietly, letting out a tired sigh. Ni-ki shakes his head, pushing the door open and stepping into the apartment. "I'm going to ask one more time." He says as he steps towards her, only stopping when Ria's back hits the wall. "Who did this to you?"

❝One stupid digit, and suddenly I can't get rid of you.❞

𝙉𝙄𝙎𝙃𝙄𝙈𝙐𝙍𝘼 𝙍𝙄𝙆𝙄 𝙁𝘼𝙉𝙁𝙄𝘾𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 .ᐟ ❝stop staring at that stupid plant!❞ ⌗ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 ━ Niki noticed a girl counting the dying leaves outside her window every night, but the closer the last leaf came to falling, the harder he fought to keep her from letting go - entangling two strangers in a love story balanced between hope and goodbye. « © JWKHVZZ 2026 » « ONGOING » « last leaf au + strangers to lovers »

He promised to marry you back in high school- When you were young, in love, and naive enough to believe it. But then he left. No goodbye. No calls. Just silence. Now, five years later, he's back. Not as your classmate, but as an idol loved by millions. And yet, when his eyes meet yours again... Why does it still feel like he's yours? (extended blurb inside) #2 in iland #2 in highschoolromance

Mei and Nishimura Riki of ENHYPEN-a love that grows in stolen moments behind stages, under city lights, and between silence-filled schedules. He is an idol the world watches. She is the one who only ever knew him when no one was looking. But love built in secrecy always comes at a cost. And when the distance between their worlds starts to win, they're forced to ask the same question: Was it ever real... or just something they both needed to survive? A story about growing up too fast, loving too hard, and learning how to let go when "us" stops fitting into the life you're living.

(me crashing out) i cannot deny our history together whether it be the past, present, or future you annoyed me i despised you you cared for me i wanted to talk to you you left me so this is the way i loved you. ☆ may or may not be based on real life ; journal - words i never got to say. if you do not understand this book, don't worry because me neither. i don't understand it either. i don't understand him at all. edit: i think i finally understand now. the answer was right in front of me this entire time. -- the past tense in this title.