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The Day You Pulled the Tikbalang's Golden HairStart
The Day You Pulled the Tikbalang's Golden Hair The sun rain fell all afternoon, and you walked three laps around the bamboo grove behind your grandmother's house without finding your way out. Kidlat · Fantasy
Quest: Make Friends with the Retired Demon King Next DoorStart
Quest: Make Friends with the Retired Demon King Next Door On your first morning in the border town, a transparent panel suddenly appears before your eyes, visible only to you: “Main quest: Become friends with your neighbor. Vael · Fantasy
Two Hours Before Going Live, Her Cat Only Trusts YouStart
Two Hours Before Going Live, Her Cat Only Trusts You Her fourteen-year-old cat, “Duke,” went missing for three days and was finally found in the back-alley café where you work. Bianca · Urban
My Senpai's Love System Targets Me, and She Reads Every Quest Out LoudStart
My Senpai's Love System Targets Me, and She Reads Every Quest Out Loud It's lunch break, and the film club room holds only you. Chinatsu Kasuga · Comedy
Locked Room, All NightStart
Locked Room, All Night You're sent to a rival's murder-mystery role-play store to play an all-night script, with one goal: photograph the script she wrote herself. Yu Qing · Mystery
One Player Short, Your Nurse Neighbor Pulls You into a Community Basketball GameStart
One Player Short, Your Nurse Neighbor Pulls You into a Community Basketball Game At a Saturday basketball league in Houston’s Filipino community, Joy’s cousin’s team is one player short and faces a forfeit. Joy · Comedy
Ninety PointsStart
Ninety Points Your coworkers drag you into a karaoke bar after a team night out. Jessa · Comedy
The Night Clerk Squeezes into Your Photo Booth to Help with Your ID PictureStart
The Night Clerk Squeezes into Your Photo Booth to Help with Your ID Picture You need an ID photo first thing tomorrow. Yu Xiaoman · Urban
One-Star ReviewStart
One-Star Review You left a one-star review online for a private kitchen: the soup was too salty. Yan Mo · Urban
The Boxing Club President Thinks You Came to Challenge HerStart
The Boxing Club President Thinks You Came to Challenge Her The university gym basement has one decent training space, and the boxing and fencing clubs have argued over it all semester. Huo Xiaohe · School Life
The Sect Leader Won't Take His MedicineStart
The Sect Leader Won't Take His Medicine You're a traveling physician, blindfolded and carried up the Hundred Thousand Mountains by black-robed men. Sagong Yeom · Wuxia
Who Touched My Layer?Start
Who Touched My Layer? You’re the new programmer at a game company. Kang Ye-rin · Workplace
The Graffiti Painter Stalled for Three Months, and the Gallery Gives You Five Days to Keep WatchStart
The Graffiti Painter Stalled for Three Months, and the Gallery Gives You Five Days to Keep Watch The gallery has signed graffiti painter Deco for an exhibition, but he has stalled for three months and hasn’t delivered a single piece. Deco · Workplace
A Train Passes, and She Pushes You Behind the Shrimp StallStart
A Train Passes, and She Pushes You Behind the Shrimp Stall You're spending your vacation at a houseboat guesthouse in Samut Songkhram. Binnie · Travel
You Pointed Out a Wrong Station Name, and the Author Rides Your Tram in PersonStart
You Pointed Out a Wrong Station Name, and the Author Rides Your Tram in Person You are a driver on the Belgian coast tram. Maxime · Travel
The auditor breaks into the Demon Tower, every ledger page marked with asterisksStart
The auditor breaks into the Demon Tower, every ledger page marked with asterisks You are the youngest auditor in the imperial treasury, sent to examine accounts that no one has checked in three years at the Magic Tower. Aethelyn · Workplace
Hands Off Grandma's TilesStart
Hands Off Grandma's Tiles You're a building inspector for the Seville district government, and today you have to seal the stairwell of an old tile shop in Triana. Rocío · Comedy
From Street Flower Seller to Headliner, She Hates Being PricedStart
From Street Flower Seller to Headliner, She Hates Being Priced Winter, 1895. You are an apprentice at a photography studio in Montmartre, carrying a wooden projector that has just been built successfully, and you come to the Moulin Rouge to film the dancing of its headliner, Odette. Odette · Historical
The Cameraman Filming Rendang Is Made to Stir the Pot by Hand for Four HoursStart
The Cameraman Filming Rendang Is Made to Stir the Pot by Hand for Four Hours You are a cameraman for a food documentary in Jakarta, and you have come to Bukittinggi to film “the best rendang in the world.” Rahma, the daughter of the owner of a Padang restaurant, has agreed, on one condition: the stove is not where you stand and watch; it is where you work. Rahma · Slice of Life
The Fashion Major Insists the Photography Major Walk the RunwayStart
The Fashion Major Insists the Photography Major Walk the Runway September, at the fashion vocational school in Yokohama, with only two weeks left before the graduation-project review. Hikaru Komugi · School Life
Can You Sew?Start
Can You Sew? Milan Fashion Week, two hours before the show. Ludovica · Workplace
The Motorbike Driver Cancels Every Order Just to Take YouStart
The Motorbike Driver Cancels Every Order Just to Take You It's 10:10 in the morning in Jakarta. Danu · Comedy
Lend Me Your Face for Three DaysStart
Lend Me Your Face for Three Days Ten in the morning. You're queuing for beef soup on Tainan's old street when a girl with a blue paint smudge on the tip of her nose pulls you out of the line and circles you once. Lin Caiwei · Comedy
Old Milan Opera House: Someone Is Hiding in the Half-Closed Prompter’s BoxStart
Old Milan Opera House: Someone Is Hiding in the Half-Closed Prompter’s Box You're a tenor brought in at the last minute to replace the lead; the dress rehearsal is only your second day. Luciana · Workplace
Brother Kwan's Parents' DayStart
Brother Kwan's Parents' Day It's Parents' Day at a kindergarten K3 class in Mong Kok this morning. Lung Siu-kwan · Comedy
Cologne Carnival: You're Pulled Onstage to Lift HerStart
Cologne Carnival: You're Pulled Onstage to Lift Her Cologne, the morning of Women's Carnival Day, eleven sharp. Nele · Holidays
The Cat on the Fire TowerStart
The Cat on the Fire Tower You run a cat café in the old town of Kuala Lumpur, and the fire station is right next door. Hafiz · Comedy
The Drum Queen Is Never LateStart
The Drum Queen Is Never Late You’re the new accountant the city sent to audit the samba school’s books before Carnival. Renee · Holidays
The city hall sent you as team doctor: the keeper is hard of hearing and the striker is short-sighted.Start
The city hall sent you as team doctor: the keeper is hard of hearing and the striker is short-sighted. You’re the new team doctor the city council sent over, on your first day. Cesare · Personal Growth
Here for the Last Nyonya Kuih Too?Start
Here for the Last Nyonya Kuih Too? Every Saturday morning, the nyonya kuih stall by the back gate sells only twenty boxes of nine-layer kuih, and they're gone by half past six. Adi · School Life
The Kendo Captain in a Maid Outfit Allows You One PhotoStart
The Kendo Captain in a Maid Outfit Allows You One Photo On the morning of the university festival, the kendo club opens a Japanese-style café. Rin Mitsurugi · School Life
The Pink Tuk-Tuk Chasing My SuitcaseStart
The Pink Tuk-Tuk Chasing My Suitcase You turned around for just a moment to buy a bottle of water at Bangkok's station, and a green tuk-tuk made off with your suitcase, which holds every presentation file you need for tomorrow. Aom · Comedy
The Stunt Coordinator the Crew Brought InStart
The Stunt Coordinator the Crew Brought In A sugarcane field in the interior of Pernambuco, five in the morning, the crew's first big fight scene. Bento · Adventure
He Doesn't Believe in ThatStart
He Doesn't Believe in That The gates of the Hanoi Temple of Literature are still locked, yet you spot the school's most sharp-tongued debate champion in the stele garden. Nguyễn Tuấn · School Life
Only Eleven Days Left: She Must Save the Old BreweryStart
Only Eleven Days Left: She Must Save the Old Brewery The Schwarzhirsch brewery in Bamberg is eleven days from the town's annual beer festival. Brigitte · Comedy
The Boss Who Washed His Hands Clean, and His Old Partner Comes KnockingStart
The Boss Who Washed His Hands Clean, and His Old Partner Comes Knocking You're a rookie reporter for a food magazine, here in Sham Shui Po to interview the “King of Beef Chow Fun.” You've been turned down three times already. Tan Jiahao · Comedy
The Lamp You Bought Holds a Genie Who Refuses Every WishStart
The Lamp You Bought Holds a Genie Who Refuses Every Wish At a Cairo flea market you paid forty pounds for a rust-spotted brass lamp and gave it a quick polish at home. Najwa · Fantasy
Nine Days Until Carnival, and the Queen Is Stuck Six Meters UpStart
Nine Days Until Carnival, and the Queen Is Stuck Six Meters Up In the float workshop of Rio's Sambadrome, you're welding a lift platform when a woman wearing half a meter of pink feathers storms in: “This thing weighs twelve kilos. Leticia · Comedy
In an Icelandic Valley, an Old Sheep Joins Her BackseatStart
In an Icelandic Valley, an Old Sheep Joins Her Backseat September in Iceland, the sheep round-up. Sigrid · Adventure
The Paper Statue Is Missing an Ear, and You're Along to Film ItStart
The Paper Statue Is Missing an Ear, and You're Along to Film It The evening before the Fallas figure goes up, the five-story paper giant made by craftsman Rubén is missing a two-meter ear. Rubén · Comedy
The New Writers' Assistant Who Caught Her Script LyingStart
The New Writers' Assistant Who Caught Her Script Lying Six in the evening. You've been sent to be the assistant in the writers' room of Yoon Seo-hyun, the “Death Writer.” Your verdict on her last script was a single line: episode seven is boring. Yoon Seo-hyun · Workplace
The Rookie Behind the Mask Begs You to Keep His SecretStart
The Rookie Behind the Mask Begs You to Keep His Secret You're an intern at a sports magazine, sent to write about “the least promising new wrestler.” You find him in the back kitchen with an apron on, flipping tortillas, and the moment he sees you he drops his voice: “Shh, my grandma's out back! Mateo · Comedy
Three and a Half Hours to the Wedding, and the Car Winds Up in a Lavender FieldStart
Three and a Half Hours to the Wedding, and the Car Winds Up in a Lavender Field Your sister's wedding starts at four. René · Travel
Ten Years of Experience?Start
Ten Years of Experience? The boat booking form said “ten years of sailing experience,” and you even recited it to her face. Elvira · Adventure
The Mechanic Hired to Drive the Winery Owner to VeronaStart
The Mechanic Hired to Drive the Winery Owner to Verona A blistering August noon in a small town on the Emilia plain, where a single garage stands. Antonella · Travel
The Programmer Who Fears Deep Water Meets the Woman Who Runs the Surf HutStart
The Programmer Who Fears Deep Water Meets the Woman Who Runs the Surf Hut You're a programmer on a business trip in Brazil, dragged to a surf lesson by a coworker. Luana · Drama
The Woman Who Keeps the Old Theater Meets You, Who Came to Talk About Selling the LandStart
The Woman Who Keeps the Old Theater Meets You, Who Came to Talk About Selling the Land On an old street in Tainan, a second-run cinema shows only three films a day. Lin Caiwei · Comedy
The Stand-In Steps Before the Camera for the First Time, Her Legs Going WeakStart
The Stand-In Steps Before the Camera for the First Time, Her Legs Going Weak 1959, the Cinecittà studios in Rome. Francesca · Drama

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