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Every night at 10, Dong-gyun locks himself up in his room, grabs a box of tissues, and watches a live cam boy show hosted by Alex, a BJ (broadcast jockey). Timid Dong-gyun admires not only Alex’s ripped body, but his candor in sharing his sexual experiences with viewers. One night, Dong-gyun downs too many drinks at a school networking event and passes out. When he wakes up, he’s in bed staring up at a shirtless hunk. A hunk who looks an awful lot like...Alex.

Bear my child. Even though I hate it, my body reacts to the feel of his fingers inside... Even my childhood friend is driven wild by my Pregmen pheromones.

Kim Euihyun has decided he doesn’t want to live. He feels nothing anymore. He has no future to look forward to. Now, he’s looking into the abyss, holding in his arms the only thing that was keeping him alive. It’ll all be over soon. But someone grabs him from the water’s edge, and pulls him from the darkness. Euihyun, whose sole possession is a mountain of debt, has been rescued by Taeju. Now Taeju has offered Euihyun money, a house, and a job to help him out of his mess. But what will Taeju, who is intoxicated by Euihyun’s smell, ask for in return? Could Taeju be the person that finally brings Euihyun out of his eternal twilight…?

“… I want to engrave you. In a form that never changes... .” A city full of high-rise buildings, Matthew Raynor, a sculptural student who lives in a disconnected relationship. Jin feels fate and makes a model proposal, but contrary to his intentions, the relationship between the two is gradually twisting... . Jin Cheong-woo, a Shinhaepa executive who swallows pains that seem to be cut off in a cruel world stained with dirty money and betrayal. Matthew, who approached him by himself, gives him another pleasure... . “However, there are conditions. First, you obey my words unconditionally.” The story of a man who built a wall with the world, a man who looked at the world in a funny way, and two men hiding different desires begins.

Kang Sihyun is an SS rank agent from a private intelligence company. Code name: Red Candy. Intelligence gathering and even gunfights - Sihyun’s skills are something he’s proud of, but he’s actually being held up in his home country? To complete his mission, he needs to subjugate Hajun, a promiscuous gay (?), and look for a research paper! This is an erotic romance between Hajun, who knows nothing, and the secretive spy Sihyun.

Woo-won is a pizza delivery guy down on his luck, and Seo-an is wealthy man suffering from panic attacks and social phobia. You wouldn’t think these two would have any reason to get to know one another, but one small kindness leads to a series of encounters that bring the two men closer together than either of them anticipated. Maybe they can find the solutions to their problems together…or perhaps they don’t need solutions, but simply each other.

Carlyle, a non-dominant Alpha born in an aristocratic Alpha family, had difficulty having a mandatory relationship with an omega and even received counseling. The counselor encouraged him to have sex with an Alpha in order to overcome his difficulties. As Carlyle searches for a partner, he gets to meet Ash by chance. The two once shared a kiss on New Year’s Eve but unfortunately, the aristocrat doesn’t seem to remember. As Carlyle began to meet Ash more frequently, he started to develop feelings for him. What will happen at the end of their relationship?

Chiwoo’s got issues. Upon returning to school after the “incident” last year, he vows to keep to himself and stay out of trouble until graduation. Easier said than done: his bad boy reputation has made him the talk of the school, and Kyujin - class president and model student - won’t stop being friendly. Trouble arrives soon enough in the shape of Jihyun, a tattooed hunk from Chiwoo’s dark past. It’s gonna be a tough year…

“Kwon Taekjoo, go to Russia. And find ‘Anastasia’.” The ace of the National Intelligence Service, ‘Kwon Taekjoo’, was urgently dispatched to Moscow for a mission to identify and uncover ‘Anastasia’, the lethal weapon created in a secret partnership between Russia and North Korea (a.k.a DPRK). But, just as he gets dispatched to handle the work in Russia for the first time, things immediately go south, and a man named ‘Zhenia’ who appeared and introduced himself as a local partner assigned by the NIS, makes Kwon Taekjoo even more confused. ‘Zhenia’ , who appears to be an influential figure among Russian business and political figures as well as having connections with underworld mafias, seems to always be laid-back and cheerful. But at the same time, his violent erratic temperament keeps Kwon Taekjoo on edge. Meanwhile, ‘Zhenia’ starts showing a newfound interest in ‘Kwon Taekjoo’, who feels unperturbed by any hardships.

Jung Jaehan, a third-generation chaebol, is an influential person in the entertainment industry and he’s bored to death. Tired of drugs, alcohol, and pleasure, he meets the new movie director Yoon Heegyeom—the same Yoon Heesung, who was a rising rookie actor that retired even at the peak of his acting career because of a drug scandal

Lee Gi-Rin, who is looking for revenge for his little sister, who committed suicide after being gangraped by members of a secret club, approached Kang Mu, who is known to be a member of the secret club. Although he pretended it to be a coincidence, Kang Mu realized that Lee Gi-Rin had a different motive, and so instead, Lee Gi-Rin agreed to do Kang Mu a favor, in exchange for joining the secret club as Kang Mu's partner. But Eventually, Lee Gi-Rin, who ended up participating in the secret club’s meeting, was told that he had to have sex with all of the members of the club in the initiation rite..?!

I reincarnated in a novel inside the body of a villainess named Elise who poisoned herself when her fiancé, the prince, married her childhood friend, the maid Helena. From the moment I realized this, I had only one goal. Escape from the world in this novel. Even after death, I tried to get out of this world but the world did not allow it. However, after rejecting the path of Elise in the original novel, the men who had persecuted and ignored Eris began to beg for her interest and affection. “Who are you?” the priest who revived Helena asked. “You... are you really Elise? even the warrior who pledged eternal loyalty to Helena asked. “You have changed,” said the prince who rejected Elise in order to marry Helena. It was strange. No one was interested in Elise before. I don want to get affectionate even as time passes. She has no confidence in loving this world.

The hit short story Placebo returns as a series!“Let’s play…”All Seo Woo-yeon wants is a simple university experience away from his intensely annoying step-brother, Woo-jin. So imagine his frustration when Woo-jin not only gets into the same university as Woo-yeon, but also follows him to the same major and even the same classes! Woo-yeon’s determined to make the world see how awful his brother truly is, but…well, his memory has been really spotty these days and, to top things off, Woo-jin seems to be acting even more smug than usual. Just what is going on in the times Woo-yeon can’t remember, and what does Woo-jin have to do with it?“Playtime’s over.”

A life in the spotlight is a dream for many…but it’s behind the scenes where the real drama takes place. Baek Yeongwoon plays manager for Seo Hae-yool, an up-and-coming actor at All One Pictures with a secret: his success is fuelled by an industry “sponsor” who loves more than just his talent. So when a love affair between the young star and a mysterious figure threatens the livelihood of their company, it is up to Yeongwoon to track his client down and put an end to their risky romp. But the truth may be too much for him to bear, as the other party turns out to be top model - and Yeongwoon’s first love - Han Seo-in. As Yeongwoon struggles to reconcile his unresolved feelings for Seo-in with his sense of duty toward his work, the two fall into a intricate web woven of unanswered questions and lingering emotions that changes the trajectory of their lives forever...

Jeongmin is a loner in high school being bullied by the Queen Bee, Juhyeon. The two were friends in elementary school before their friendship ended because of Juhyeon’s demand that Jeongmin should only be friends with her. Juhyeon uses this “betrayal” to fuel the classmates' insults and isolate Jeongmin in misery. Jeongmin has only one way to escape, through lucid dreams. One day, a mysterious man enters her dreams and offers to help her get revenge on Juhyeon…

My family and my husband killed me. Because of the inheritance. Returning to the past, I made up my mind. “I have to protect my life and my inheritance.” Grand Duke Lapireon of the cursed family. I offered him, who was not interested in property and women, a one year contract marriage. Now, all we have to do is get a divorce… “Lady, do you think you can leave me now?” My husband is weird. “Would you like a land or a mine? Or an empire?” “Sasha, did Theo do something wrong?” “Mom, don’t leave me.” “Sister… I can’t live without you.” Even my in-laws began to obsess over me. (Taken from NU)

A thoughtless finger slip leads Joe to snap a picture of Yeongwoo (Ian) smoking on his balcony - and thus, their fates begin to intertwine. Joe can't stop fantasizing about the tall, handsome stranger on the balcony, and and he grabs any chance to get to know him better. Unfortunately, he doesn't realize that Yeongwoo does the dirty work for one of the region's largest, most unsavory gangs... and is the ""lover"" of one of their most powerful people. A violent struggle for succession within the gang drags Yeongwoo deeper into this hellish cycle, making him the target of both detectives and other gang members, and it only makes him crave Joe's bright innocence even more. Although they undeniably yearn for each other, Yeongwoo's darkness might be enough to consume them both. Will Joe be able to free Yeongwoo from despair, or will he succumb to the violence and corruption himself?

Wanna play a game? The only catch is, you’re not just playing it, you’ve got to play your way out of it. That’s exactly what is happening to Bada. And he’s been at this for a while, trying to gather clues and items to find a way out of this damn horror RPG. The killer, the NPCs, the setting, Bada’s now familiar with them all. He’ll just have to endure a couple more games, maybe get killed a few more times… But in this session, Nam Doha, someone who Bada thought was just an NPC, is suddenly acting strange. Has he been another player this entire time? Bada has to be tortured to end this storyline and start over and Doha has volunteered to do it, but the look in his eyes suggests he has other, even more sinister intentions in mind… What sadistic horrors must Bada endure to break free from this Dreadful Night?

Prince Etienne de Frederick was born a dominant omega, but in a world where omegas can’t become the emperor, he must pretend to be a beta due to the empress’s greed. When his childhood friend, Grand Duke Rishar von Eckhart, returns after three years as a war hero, there’s no time to share a happy reunion as Rishar is a dominant alpha and his rival in the fight for the throne. The two continue to maintain a precarious relationship until, one day, Etienne has a sudden heat cycle, and Rishar finds out the truth. “Etienne de Frederick. You were... an omega?”

Choi Moonhyuk used to be a fighter for an illegal club. He will do anything to protect his brothers. On the day of his supposed 15th consecutive win, he ends up losing and is sold to Daebuho's son, Seo Yeonjin. In accordance to the shameless Yeonjin's plans, Moonhyuk ends up being his mad dog and winds up under his leash.

Skylar has a secret hobby - taking photos of his crush, Chan-il. But when Cirrus stumbles upon Skylar's cloud storage with its impressive collection of Chan-il's photos, things escalate pretty quickly. At first confident his secret is safe with Cirrus, Skylar continuously finds himself in compromising situations, making him question Cirrus' true motives.