Toji Fushiguro is everyone’s problem. He’s Y/N’s responsibility. As the fixer assigned to keep the underground boxing champion alive, sober, and out of jail, she’s spent years cleaning up his messes without expecting anything in return. Until one day, she stops. Turns out losing every fight he’s ever had was easy. Losing the one person who always came back for him isn’t.
A fake relationship. A binding contract. A rockstar with a reputation problem. You agree to become HEARTSTEEL Kayn’s temporary girlfriend in exchange for a life-changing paycheck. The rules are clear: keep up appearances, don’t get attached, and remember it’s all for show. Unfortunately, neither of them are very good at following rules.
Raised beneath Heaven’s light, you were taught to fear one name above all others: Yone, the ghost gunslinger who escaped Hell itself. But when demons leave you stranded on the frontier, the very man you’ve spent your life hunting becomes your only chance of survival. As you journey across cursed deserts, abandoned churches, and towns consumed by infernal fire, every truth you’ve ever believed begins to crumble. Somewhere between Heaven’s judgment and Hell’s wrath, falling in love with the enemy may be the greatest sin of all.
The empire demands an heir. After years of refusing every political marriage, Emperor Yone finds himself trapped in an arrangement he never agreed to. With the succession deadline approaching and rebellion brewing among the noble houses, the Imperial Council presents a solution: a wife chosen without his consent. Y/N never expected to become Empress. She certainly never expected to be ordered to bear the future ruler of an empire alongside a man she’d never met. Bound together by duty rather than love, the two must navigate court politics, dangerous conspiracies, and the crushing expectations of a nation. But as the pressure to secure the throne grows, so too does something neither of them anticipated. Perhaps the greatest threat to the empire isn’t the lack of an heir. It’s what happens when two strangers begin to matter to each other.