Respectfully, Absolutely Not [EN]

Italian levels of drama. Scandinavian levels of emotional repression. Somehow, that's a romance.

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Nunzia Spadafora has a blueprint for her life, and it definitely doesn't involve spending the rest of her days smelling like garlic and tomato sauce at her grandmother's traditional Italian restaurant. A passionate, sharp-witted indie game developer, she's ready to build entire virtual worlds from scratch. All she needs is a foot in the door.

Enter Sebastian Henrik Guttorm.

As a notoriously brilliant, ice-cold, and socially catastrophic indie game producer, Sebastian is the ultimate industry gatekeeper. Arrogant, impossibly rigid, and possessing the emotional warmth of a frozen Nordic fjord. When Nunzia finally forces him to look at her passion project, his critique doesn't just sting-it makes her want to shove him headfirst into her nonna's pizza oven.

But when a twist of fate forces them to collaborate, their clashing worlds collide in a spectacular glitch of banter and sparks. Nunzia is determined to prove that her vibrant, chaotic vision is exactly what his sterile corporate gaming world needs. Meanwhile, Sebastian is about to learn that no amount of clean coding can protect his carefully structured heart from a girl who refuses to follow his script.

Can a proud, awkward genius and a fiercely independent tech-rebel patch their bugs, or is their story destined for an epic crash?

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