Asian Stories

After falling in love with a younger and much less successful man, can Yiwen convince herself and her parents to accept him into their wealthy family? ***** When Yiwen Wang suddenly finds herself 30 and single, she lets her well-meaning best friend talk her into a blind date with the handsome Zi'an Li. And not only is he plucked straight out of a movie screen, his witty banter over dinner also convinces Yiwen he's exactly the type to make her toes curl. Yet, by some wicked twist of fate, he's five years younger than her and has no house, car, or stable, high-paying job. So how is she ever going to convince herself and her parents that he's the right choice? Especially when her new, attractive boss makes it very clear that he's interested in her? [[1st Place, Flower Awards, Chicklit Category]] [[1st Place, The Golden Awards, Chicklit Category]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

A heartbroken fashion designer escapes to Tokyo to be an assistant on a movie set, only to get caught up in an illicit, whirlwind romance with the lead actor. ***** After discovering her fiance is cheating on her, heiress and fashion designer Lily Porter is whisked away to Tokyo to help a production company adapt one of her great-aunt's novels. She isn't thrilled about lying about being her aunt's assistant until it throws her into the path of the movie's lead actor, who is enough of a distraction to keep her mind off her ex for good. But can there really be a future for them when their relationship is built on lies, false identities, and a secret engagement? [[Wattys' Longlisted]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Harman's world is small, just him and his little daughter Purvi. Being a single father isn't easy, but Purvi's giggles, stubbornness, and tiny hugs make every struggle worth it. She is his whole universe... his reason to smile after every exhausting day. Their life is simple, chaotic, and full of adorable father-daughter moments... until Anchal enters their lives. Anchal, a girl from Bihar, comes to the city looking for a fresh start. Carrying insecurities about her weight and constantly doubting herself, she rents a room in Harman's house as a paying guest. What she doesn't expect... is a tiny tornado named Purvi. Within days, Purvi claims Anchal as her person....dragging her into bedtime stories, snack time, and kindergarten dramas. Soon the quiet house is filled with laughter, playful arguments, and Purvi's daily complaints about her class rival Rihan. As days pass, the line between tenant and family slowly fades. Harman begins to notice how the house feels warmer when Anchal is around. Purvi has already made up her mind... But Anchal still believes she is only temporary in their lives. Between adorable childhood rivalries, heartfelt moments, and unexpected laughter, this story is about love finding its way into the most unexpected home. A heartwarming romance-comedy filled with cute chaos, healing hearts, and one little girl who might just be the best matchmaker of all. #indian 1 #romance 2 #singlefather 3 #singleparent 3 #1 indian #5 India #3 romcom #4 Romance #romance 4

Asian fem oc x Seonghyeon idol _________________________________ Haewon goes to a concert with her best friend, which convinced her to go with her. What Haewon didn't know was that, one of the members of the group she was going to see, would've flipped her whole life over. Even if she tried to deny it.

"Can I love someone that will die one day?" Alora--the sea--forms a strange bond with an indigenous boy from the Mora-Mora tribe. Their friendship soon grows into love, but how will Alora face the fact that he will die one day?

Kang Mi-ra has everything the world dreams of. She's one of South Korea's most beloved actresses, lives in a luxury apartment, headlines blockbuster films, and has millions of fans who believe her smile is real. It isn't. To the world, she has the perfect life. But fame has become a prison she doesn't know how to escape. Behind the flashing cameras and carefully rehearsed interviews is a woman suffocating beneath expectations, public scrutiny, and a loneliness so consuming that even getting through another day feels like a performance. Seo Min-jae isn't famous. He lives in a modest condo, spends his days helping others, and would rather be surrounded by dogs than people. Beneath his easy smile and playful teasing lies a past marked by scars of his own-scars he wears without shame. When an unexpected encounter throws them back into each other's lives years after high school, Mi-ra remembers almost nothing about the quiet upperclassman she once befriended, but still finds his presence her only saving grace. Min-jae, however, never forgot the girl who made him feel seen. Mi-ra is struggling with her forgotten past that is slowly resurfacing and Min-jae is suffering from the trauma it caused him. They both want to heal and move on from what happened. But healing isn't a straight road and falling for an actress means sharing her spotlight, and the spotlight has a way of destroying everything it touches. The closer they become, the harder it is to hide the wounds they've spent years pretending don't exist. And when the spotlight comes searching for Mi-ra once more, she'll have to decide whether to return to the life that made her famous... or fight for the ordinary life that finally made her feel alive. A tender, slow-burn K-drama romance about first love, second chances, healing, and discovering that sometimes home isn't a place you've been-it's a person who reminds you how to breathe.

A play on Journey To the West, throughout the story you follow the Chinese god Erlang Shen also known as Yang Jian as he finds himself in the realm of the Norse gods. He must try and survive, and figure out how he ended up in such a place. Let him take you on a treacherous journey full of trials and tribulations, filled with splendor, adventures, and misadventures with the other gods. This story is both dark fantasy, and science fiction. (Just a disclaimer warning this story contains bad language, violence, and mild sex scenes but nothing too explicit.) This version is also being properly proof read and edited, the other version was only a draft.

She came for a job. He never expected her to steal his heart. In a world where love is forbidden... Will she risk everything for the CEO?

A second. A single glance. Who would have thought someone you only ever considered an acquaintance would suddenly become that one person you can't take your mind off?! For Hridan, it took only a moment. She was someone he had known since childhood, yet he never truly knew her . She only existed somewhere in this same world, until he met her again when they became adults. This time, she became his world. .... A story full of fluff. Guaranteed toe-curling 😉 #he_fell_first_and_harder #childhood_crush

At 21, Tom Harrison's life was supposed to be coming together-but instead, it's falling apart. Broke, drowning in college deadlines, and stuck in a soul-crushing job, he's barely holding it together. The future he's chasing feels more like a trap than a dream. Between fleeting romances and gut-wrenching betrayals, Tom is forced to confront the harsh realities of love, identity, and adulthood. Every failure feels like the end of the world, and every success is just out of reach. But as he stumbles through heartbreak, chaos, and the weight of his own expectations, Tom begins to discover something bigger: the messy, beautiful truth about finding your place in the world in the midst of your twenties. ________________________________________________ Theme: Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ+, Romance, Coming of Age, Interracial © 2024 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

In 2038, Alterra Robotics discovers a portal to a world untouched by modern industry, rich with magic, ancient creatures, and civilizations that have never heard of a megacorporation. To conquer this untouched land and resources, they deployed hundreds of thousands of androids as they slowly entrenched themselves in the world's history, undoubtedly changing the trajectory of their future. Alongside them are android inspectors-human employee who are tasked to evaluate their robotic workforces. Kusunoki Sakuta, one of Alterra's top android inspectors, is reassigned to Vernheit: a European-inspired nation on the continent of Caelum, home to Eisen Blut, Alterra's oldest and most powerful subsidiary. His job is straightforward. Evaluate the androids. Assess their performance, their mental stability, their physical condition. File the report. Go home. Most inspectors do exactly that. But Sakuta treated them as more than walking humanoid constructs. It's a habit that's earned him a reputation-and, apparently, a reassignment to one of the most politically significant postings on the continent. Alongside his corporate duty, he will also learn that... ... Perhaps being transported to an alternate fantasy world isn't as easy as it sounds. (Content Warning: May contain strong language, suggestive content, graphic depictions of violence, and AI-generated images.)

~This marriage was unplanned, unpredictable and unwanted. It will just end like it began. We just have to bear with each other for the sake of it. ~ From merely awkward and sometimes competitive colleagues to even a more awkward married couple, Zaviyar and Maya have stepped into this new relationship with confusion, anxiety and burden. Being working doctors who wanted to aim high and achieve higher, they had no idea that just one mistake would set their world upside down and tangle them into a bond which was unwanted for both of them. With so many responsibilities, obstacles and differences between them, how Zaviyar and Maya are going to navigate through this relationship which was just forced upon them because of a mishap?

Where Home Is Emily Carter thought moving to Shanghai was the best decision she had ever made. At thirty-two, the American chemistry professor had finally built a life she loved teaching at a prestigious university, surrounded by friends, students, and a city that felt more like home than the one she left behind. Then war begins. Overnight, the life Emily has built collapses into chaos. Trapped in a country on the brink of destruction, she finds herself responsible for twenty-seven students whose lives depend on her. With communication failing and danger closing in from every direction, survival becomes the only goal. On the other side of the war lies Wei Liang, a military commander carrying the weight of a nation on his shoulders. What begins as a desperate fight to stay alive becomes something neither of them expected. As war tears their world apart, Emily and Wei discover that love can be found in the most impossible circumstances and that home is not always a place. A sweeping romance about survival, sacrifice, found family, and finding your way back to the people who matter most.

Gwyneth Ha tries to leave behind Hong Kong and the only girl she's ever kissed in the city that holds her heart. Coming home ten years later is never part of the plan. Neither is seeing Yannis Fong again - with a wedding ring on her finger.

2025. At 30, Vins is drowning in isolation and crippling depression. Seeking an outlet, he finds Rin, an advanced AI, and begins recounting his greatest regret: his life back in middle school, 2007. Once a bullied, overweight kid, Vins's life pivots when the girl he loved-his only protector-is almost assaulted. This trauma transforms Vins. He dedicates a year to brutal training, emerging handsome, athletic, and focused on revenge. Though he enters her school perfect, fate intervenes: the girl is suddenly forced to move. Vins, heartbroken, dives into the dark world of delinquent gangs to exact vengeance. His battle success unexpectedly crowns him King V, a title he never wanted. The reign costs him his youth and, more critically, thrusts him into a frightening dark criminal system run by a shadowy Mastermind. Now, Vins must lead his genius, chaotic crew, the Shadow Wolf, to stop the Sector C Bloody Tragedy from recurring. But as he navigates the dark system and complicated love triangles, will this past destroy his future? Or is this saga the very root of his depression at 30? Genres: Dark Psychology, Action-Thriller, Forbidden Romance, School Gangs.

Listen now my baby, my time is now all for you.

Reika's Carnet: The Phoenix Who Fled A side story from the Apple Pie universe. Far in the eastern mountains of the Mont Komorebi lies Higashiyama, homeland of the ancient Mikazuki clan. For generations, the women of the clan have served the Tsukimi Sanctuary as priestesses, oracles, and guardians of forgotten imperial histories. Their lives are not considered their own. They are raised for ritual, sacrifice, and the preservation of sacred cycles tied to the legend of the Phoenix. Reika no Mikazuki was meant to become one of them. Chosen young by the Servants of the Moon as a potential vessel for the Phoenix spirit, she was isolated from the outside world and prepared for a destiny she never truly accepted. Then she disappeared. Officially, the clan declared her ascension beneath the full moon. A sacred departure. A spiritual offering to the heavens. The truth was far less divine. Reika had fallen in love with a man tied to dangerous secrets, a relationship that shattered the future her clan had prepared for her. Heartbroken and no longer able to remain in Higashiyama, she fled the East alone, abandoning the life that had been chosen for her since childhood. But the North had other plans. And so did the man who waited there.

She was alone, a fortress of isolation until he arrived to strip it away. He tracked her through the silence of her own solitude, a hunter seeking a mark-only to find a mirror. In the relentless pursuit, he poured a lifetime of craved devotion into her cracks. He came to end her journey, but with a love that burned through her defenses, he finally made her whole." What will happen when a girl with past, so much to tell collides with a man with nothing but determination only?! And will he stay when her pasts will come into future-- to crush them...or will he leave? Again... . . . . . . . Let's read about Mitranshi Maitra, and Divit Malhotra.......

A college/university story of Sarah Wells and her never ending acts of spite against her oh so charming classmate Joshua Kim. They have a week to finish their project, one day to practice, and only one chance to present. How will Sarahs perfectionism and Joshuas Lazzier fair attitiude match or clash with one another while working. Is inspired by Jeon Jungkook from BTS and is somewhat of a fan fiction. However, want this to be a stand alone romance/coming of age.

Book 3: Affinity Romance series Ryan Turner was built for chaos. For the rush of a free fall, the sting of the wind at his back, the undeniable high of knowing he could die at any second. And then he did. Not completely, but enough to steal the life he once lived. Now, he's trapped in a town too small to matter, haunted by the ghost of a leg that isn't there and the painkillers he swore he'd never need again. Victoria Sterling-Chen knows a thing or two about ghosts. The world used to love her-until it didn't. One wrong move, and now her name is trending for all the wrong reasons. So she runs. Away from the cameras, the whispers, the you should have known betters. But no matter how far she goes, she can't outrun the one thing that's closing in on her: silence. She's losing part of herself. He's losing control. And when two broken people collide in the middle of nowhere, the crash might just be loud enough to wake them both up.