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Born into royalty as the sole heir and baby girl to tyrant emperor Caitel, Ariadna lives a life of luxury… minus a few grievances. Her nannies fuss over her way too much, and her father constantly threatens to kill her. The stress of it could make any baby cry, but Ariadna rarely does. What makes her different? Does it have to do with her ability to see Sir Dranste, a spritely habitué, even when he’s invisible? There's a goldmine of daddy issues here, so what's a baby girl to do?

Chapter 29 in Naver's 2023 Rookie Short Story Collection (2023 루키 단편선).

What’s a little fondling between best friends? After accidentally grasping Baekgyung’s silky smooth sack, Jeongmin can’t get the sensation out of his head. To him, the obvious solution is to create increasingly absurd situations where his hands might get to hold his friend’s luscious goods. Meanwhile, Baekgyung is enjoying Jeongmin’s attention in a way he can’t quite pin down, but he’s sure there’s a legitimate, wholesome reason their relationship is suddenly so...intimate.

After seven years together, Yohan suspects his relationship with Mugyeong is on the rocks. Maybe it's the time they spent apart during military service. Maybe it's the pressure of university. Or could it be Mugyeong's ever-present groupmate, Seunghyun Cho? Whatever the reason, Yohan feels himself fading from Mugyeong's life. Mugyeong says nothing's changed, but words weigh less than actions. With the way Seunghyun looks at him... can Yohan really trust him?

In the realm of martial arts, you’re either strong or dead. Ilyong Kim learned this the hard way after spending seven years training, only to die at the hands of a master. Resurrected in his home dimension, Ilyong’s experiences have granted him the power he’s sought all along. As an Awakened with no mana, Ilyong struggles getting a guild to accept him, but his fighting prowess quickly sets him apart from other new adventurers. But can he keep up with the monsters he must now face?

Suzie’s a normal girl with an extraordinary ability: when she has sex, she stops time. One night she meets John… who has the same gift. And so they do what any other sex-having, time-stopping, couple would do: they rob banks…

Seyun Jung, a 20-year-old rabbit beastfolk, starts college while facing pressure from her family to marry the last dragon beastfolk so they produce offspring. Driven by love, she rejects the push from her mother and vows to find love at university. She soon falls for a senior fox beastfolk while a mysterious senior snake beastfolk keeps appearing whenever she tries to get close to her fox-love.

Chapter 30 in Naver's 2023 Rookie Short Story Collection (2023 루키 단편선).

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Capella Axinon is the only daughter of Corvus Axinon, the man known as the "Grim Reaper Duke." When Capella is framed for the murder of her fiancé Oberon, the second prince of the kingdom, her father abandons his daughter to the guillotine. Capella swears revenge on her father and, as she is killed, wakes up in the past as a baby. Now she has years in his shadow to enact her revenge! But what’s that voice...? It can’t be that she can hear her father’s thoughts?!

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An unknown streamer Long Jieran fed a stranger on his way home from the supermarket, then he found the stranger got symptoms of food poisoning! Long Jieran, who had originally wanted to leave returned at the end because of the stings of conscience. And he helped the self-proclaimed homeless canine orc Xibo."If we can share the rent, everything will be good".

In this world sits an endlessly tall tower. The inhabitants work tirelessly to reach the tower as soon as they can, but when asked why, not a single person can answer...

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Chapter 31 in Naver's 2023 Rookie Short Story Collection (2023 루키 단편선).

Aiden is a quarterback and Seowon is a chronically-ill forest boy. Could it be any more obvious? Seowon can’t quite bring himself to believe that a popular football player has been crushing on him for years, but Seowon’s remote forest home might be the perfect place for romance to take root. But Aiden is only visiting Korea–is two weeks enough time to establish a relationship, or…a family?

Aiden is a quarterback and Seowon is a chronically-ill forest boy. Could it be any more obvious? Seowon can’t quite bring himself to believe that a popular football player has been crushing on him for years, but Seowon’s remote forest home might be the perfect place for romance to take root. But Aiden is only visiting Korea–is two weeks enough time to establish a relationship, or…a family?