Code can be rewritten. Destiny cannot. Brilliant. Independent. Skeptical. Olivia Lim trusts algorithms, not people. A Tsinay (Filipino-Chinese) cybersecurity analyst raised between Manila and Vancouver, she's built her career defending networks and keeping threats at bay. She doesn't believe in fate or curses until cyberattacks exposed threats no firewall can stop. Ruthless. Controlled. Haunted. Ji Hoon Park is a chaebol CEO who never planned to marry-until his empire comes under siege and a 237-year curse targets his young nephew. He needs a shield, not a wife. THE BARGAIN A contract marriage with an expiration date. He provides resources and protection. She provides digital defense and the prophesied mark his family needs to break the curse. Calculated. Professional. Temporary. THE GLITCH Corporate espionage collides with ancient curses. The analyst discovers the three marks she's carried since birth aren't birthmarks. They're the key to breaking what seven generations couldn't. The controlled CEO realizes he would burn his empire to keep her safe. THE K-DRAMA VIBE 🇰🇷✨ For Fans Of: The protective romance of Crash Landing on You, the chaebol angst of Queen of Tears, the supernatural destiny of Goblin, and the urban fantasy stakes of Alchemy of Souls. TROPES: Contract Marriage, Forced Proximity, Touch Him And Die, Protector Romance, He Fell First and Harder ACCOLADES 🏆 #1 in Tech (Mar 19, 2026) 🏆 #1 in Kilig (Apr 13, 2026) 🏆 #1 in ActionRomance (Jan 18, 2026) 🏆 #5 in SupernaturalRomance (Jan 18, 2026)

They say some doors only open once. Luna lied to her father about a research trip to the Philippines. She didn't mention the impossible theory her vanished mother left behind. The pot swallowed her whole. Now she's crawling out of it into pre-colonial Madja-as during a pirate raid, where bodies fall like rain and survival isn't a skill you learn in international schools. The pot won't reopen. Her geometric tattoos burn with power she can't control. And somewhere in this brutal, beautiful world, there's a Keeper she's supposed to find. Except the Keeper is dead. Luna has spent her whole life trusting no one, needing no one, surviving alone. But here, blood soaks into communal earth. Here, warriors die with their crew's names on their lips. Here, villages share their last handful of rice. Isolation isn't strength when survival is measured in how many hands pull you back from the edge. It's extinction. The cosmic layers are fracturing. An ancient god is clawing his way back to power. And the prophecy that dragged her through time demands something she's never learned how to give: trust. She crossed time to find her mother. She found a war, a prophecy, and the reason some people never make it home. 🔗https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Q39SmQjhz2NSrzYz8NUya

As an avid- and fairly unsuccessful- writer of fantasy fiction, I know that dragons are pretty much the pinnacle of existence. I dare anyone to argue. So, when my mundane existence comes to an end and I am offered a choice of whatever race I liked upon reincarnating into a fantasy world, of course I chose dragon. Little did I know that my life as a dragon would take more than its fair share of twists and turns. But hey, I was a dragon... Everyone knows you don't mess with dragons. This is the next one to be added up on Royal Road in a couple days, once Broken's current chapters are done being added :)