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For 20 years, Hyeonseok fought monsters in another world before finally managing to save it and be sent back to Earth as a reward. Now a former deliveryman named Chanseok, he looks forward to enjoying modern conveniences, only to discover that Earth is very different from what he remembers. Monsters have started appearing from Erosion Points that pop up at random, and people with innate abilities become Hunters to defeat them. Reluctantly, Chanseok applies to become a Hunter himself, mostly for the money. He saved the world once before, so how hard can it be the second time?

When Sahui’s quiet life at Yeonghwadang, a secluded shaman house where she spent her whole life, is disrupted by imposing CEO Tae-eon Jeong, she wants nothing more than to keep her distance. Scarred by abandonment and a childhood accident, she has no interest in love. Yet Tae-eon’s arrogance, charm, and relentless attention begin to break through her defenses, stirring emotions she thought she had buried for good.

After a life of neglect and a cold, loveless marriage to Duke Johann Leopold, Olivia Blanchett’s desperate attempts at love fail… until one day, Jian Han awakens in Olivia’s body. She seeks a divorce and flees to a rival kingdom, where she meets the charming but cunning Marquess Edgar Lancelot. Olivia is eager to start over and live her own life, all while her ex-husband secretly watches from afar. Will old flames be rekindled in this tale riddled with regret and revenge? Or will new love bloom?

I'm sick of the same dreary life and food every day. There has got to be more to life than this! Isu's life was never the same after his parents died, and he barely held on until one day, when a mysterious portal suddenly popped up in his apartment and sucked him into the fantasy village of Raudoren. With so many things to explore and most importantly, food that makes him drool, Isu starts to make himself at home.

Ten years of relationship go down the drain when Haeru discovers that her loving boyfriend, Se-o, spent the night with another woman. What begins as a series of small misunderstandings snowballs into something much bigger as the college sweethearts wade through love, temptation, and workplace drama. Well, what better way to get back at her cheating boyfriend than to take the most rotten revenge ever?

Ji-in Yang is just an average otaku until a boy who looks exactly like her favorite anime character transfers to her class. Mireu Shin is overly friendly from the start, and she eats up the attention, much to the dismay of her longtime friend, Bongjun Choi, who begins expressing his feelings more openly. Even Dongsu Mun, her quiet academy comrade, wants to spend more time with her. To complicate things further, swimming sensation Hyeonu Gwon appears, acting like they’ve known each other for years. Suddenly, it feels like every guy in Ji-in’s life wants to keep her all to himself!

Rosa remembers her past life. She remembers reading about the Helios Empire in a novel before dying suddenly in an accident. Reborn as Rosa Veronica, she works hard to make ends meet until someone from the Duke of Estella's estate comes to fetch her. Meeting her biological father turns her life upside down as she's forced to live the life of Rozenta Estella, the sole heir and only son of the Duke of Estella. She decides to embrace this new life as the narrative unfolds. Despite knowing the story, she's surprised the male and female leads have not become the characters she's read about. Rosa learns to navigate Rozenta's life while fostering a budding friendship with Theodore and Vivian, though happiness doesn't last as all three grow up and enter the roles they've been born into.

Crazy Dave—the babbling-yet-brilliant inventor and top notch neighborhood defender—helps his niece Patrice and the young adventurer Nate Timely fend off zombie invasions that threaten to overrun their peaceful town of Neighborville! Their only hope against Dr. Zomboss’s hordes and hapless plans is a brave army of chomping, squashing, and pea-shooting plants!

I spent a decade cleaning up after Duke Havenik Brauno’s mess only to be murdered by him? Reincarnated as Aerin Brauno, an illegitimate child of the Brauno family, she’s horrified to find her adoptive father is none other than the man who killed her. This time, Aerin refuses to let him control her fate. Armed with the knowledge from her past life, she’s determined to escape his grasp and find a new path. Can she rewrite her destiny, outsmart the deadly Duke, and maybe even save the Brauno family?

After thousands watch his messy breakup stream, Simon goes from star streamer to heartbroken social outcast. But everything changes when Rina, a curious runaway android who looks exactly like his favorite VTuber, gives him a brain-rewiring kiss that turns his reality into a living dating sim. Suddenly, Simon is hunted down by lethal agents and assassins seeking to recapture the state-of-the-art bot. Now forced to use "date triggers" to survive these high-stakes encounters, Simon must protect Rina while rediscovering what love really means. In this Romcom Survival Dating Experience, it’s Date, or Die!

Nina the cat lost the Zodiac Race by one spot, and she's held a grudge for millennia. When she forces a divine do-over, unlucky student Cosmo Lee becomes the reluctant referee. His mission? Gather twelve Zodiac Spirits for the ultimate competition. The catch? They've all possessed girls from his school. Can an ordinary boy survive refereeing an extraordinary battle between Heaven-sent superpowered heroines?

Peony Marshall, a noble-born girl with nothing to her name but the memory of her childhood friend and first love "Zach," prepares for nunhood. Every day, she prays to see Zach one last time... until one day, Zach, whose real identity is King Ernest Edward, finds Peony and takes her away as his imperial concubine. In the palace, Peony realizes how erratic Ernest's behavior is and begins to fear for her life. Will Peony survive long enough to figure out the cause behind his strangely split personality, or is she doomed to wilt in Ernest's clutches?