"don't blame me, love made me crazy, if it doesn't you ain't doin' it right" Failed by the justice system, forensic psychologist KUROKI RIN tries to uncover the motives behind her mother's murder. She works tirelessly, besotted in her studies of the human mind, desperately seeking answers the police had failed to give her. Fascinated by her motivations and fortitude, SUNATO BANDA proposes an alliance. He realises her intelligence can be of great use, and knows just how to burrow himself in the forefront of her mind. At each other's throats, the unlikely pair venture through a world unknown, putting their lives at risk in deadly games to obtain the necessary information for their personal goals. But when the competition wears off, RIN and BANDA realise they're more alike than they'd once believed, like two halves of the same whole. Will they get their happy ending? Or will a foundation constructed by deceit and betrayal crumble their shared sanctuary of respair?

Thanks to rainythoughts for the cover! "Show me where it hurts so I know where to love you the hardest." IN WHICH Yeon Yume - Sieun's off limit sister. the girl that would give you chaos in a candy wrapper and laugh when you ask her to apologise, meets a boy who's her opposite. No - worse. Her reflection. Geum Seong-Je. The guy whose name was whispered like a knife between conversations. What happens when two mirrors are forced to live together?

╰┈➤ 𝐃𝐑. 𝐘𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐈 𝐍𝐎𝐙𝐈𝐊𝐈.. had spent the last five years navigating that delicate intersection between medicine and heartbreak. A congenital heart surgeon at Sakurazaka University Hospital, she specialized in the anomalies of the heart-not emotional ones, but physical. Correcting heart defects in newborns and children was her domain. Her hands, small and steady, carried the weight of fragile lives daily. 𝐃𝐑. 𝐒𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐑Ō 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐘𝐀, however, was an entirely different story. A cardiovascular surgeon at the same hospital, he was known for his razor-sharp intellect, clinical brilliance, and the unsettling stillness of his expression. If Yurei was warmth disguised as frost, Chishiya was frost with no disguise at all. Where she softened every interaction, he stripped his down to necessity. His presence in a room made silence feel heavier, not warmer.

KOKORO MEIKA was always one point ahead from Chishiya, if it was from meds school to being a doctor - or even at the borderlands. She was always one step ahead. In the borderlands, there's only survival. Not friends. So, when Chishiya stares at Meika while she ruins his plans he couldn't be anything but impressed and quite irritated from the audacity

𝗥𝗨𝗜 𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗞𝗔 never liked living the way he did. Most people thought he lived a pretty ordinary life, yet nobody could ever understand when he tried telling them about the noise that always played in his head on repeat and wouldn't stop. Nobody knew how hard it was for him to live in misery. He desperately tried to escape the chaos of his mind but failed. Tried to fit in, yet, no matter where he was, everybody noticed him. Something was wrong with him. And he wished he could escape it. [ oc x canon ] [ alice in borderland ] [ koiibwuns 2025 ]

a mystery horror book set in the 2000s Sydney had to go camping with her class, so she was on the trip having an amazing time with her friendgroup and didn't know this would Have a gruesome outcome

𝐒𝐄𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐋 ❣︎ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 ❣︎ • The next generation never believed the stories. Their parents spoke of a strange world called the Borderlands, of deadly games, impossible odds, and mysterious playing cards. But to their children, those stories sounded like old nightmares or trauma twisted into fantasy. The world seemed normal now. Safe. So they didn't listen. They should have. When the Borderlands returned, it wasn't the same. The games were harder. The rules were darker. And the cards? Tarot now, cryptic, symbolic, and far more dangerous. The new generation wasn't prepared. But neither were their parents. And survival may cost more than ever before.

╰┈➤ 𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐑𝐈.. observed people to understand them. Chishiya observed them to use them. And for the first time in her life, she wondered.. was her ability to see through others a gift? Or a curse..? ** COMPLETED ** IMPRESSIVE RANKS!!: 1 in #aib 1 in #chishiya 9 in #majorcharacterdeath 31 in #ocean 27 in #comfort

╰┈➤ 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐈.. returning on tour was more than a physical journey, it was a pilgrimage to reclaim the parts of her soul lost in the constant spotlight. With bittersweet resolve, she prepared to step away from the life she had meticulously built, ready to search for a new melody that spoke of healing, of authenticity, and of the hope that even the brightest stars sometimes need to find their way back to darkness to truly shine. ** COMPLETED ** 132,528k words !!! <33 (including all A/N's and character intro chapters.)