# 🖤 **KIND BUT SELFISH** Diara never believed that kindness made her a good person. She could be caring, but she could also be selfish. She could sacrifice everything for someone one day and choose herself without guilt the next. She was clumsy, emotional, stubborn, impulsive—and sometimes impossible to understand. But perhaps that was exactly what made her human. At twenty-two, Diara leaves behind a life that has never felt like home and begins working in Beijing, determined to build a life of her own. She isn't searching for a perfect romance. She doesn't need a rich man or a prince charming. She just wants freedom. Then she meets **Tian Xu Ning**. Tian is everything she isn't—confident, playful, warm, and effortlessly charming. His smile makes people trust him, and his presence slowly becomes Diara's favorite part of an ordinary day. What begins with awkward encounters and innocent friendship gradually turns into something neither of them can ignore. For the first time, Diara thinks she might have found someone who truly understands her. But love rarely comes alone. Tian's past returns. An old relationship resurfaces, bringing jealousy, insecurity, and secrets that threaten to tear them apart. And somewhere in the middle of it all stands **Jin Zhao**. Tian's best friend. A man who rarely speaks more than necessary. Cold. Controlled. Observant. The kind of man who notices everything but reveals nothing. At first, Diara is simply an irritation to him. She's too loud. Too clumsy. Too emotional. Too unpredictable. Yet somehow, he begins noticing things about her that nobody else does. The way she feeds stray animals. The way she smiles when she's trying to hide sadness. The way she pretends she doesn't care when she cares too much. Little by little, curiosity becomes fascination. Fascination becomes attachment. And attachment becomes obsession. Jin tells himself that he is only protecting her. Then he begins deciding who deserves to be around her. He tells himself he's worried. Then he starts watching. He tells himself he hates seeing her hurt. Then he realizes he cannot stand seeing her happy with someone else. Especially Tian. The friendship between the two men begins to crack as feelings neither of them expected start turning them against each other. And Diara remains unaware of just how dangerous Jin's feelings have become. Because Jin Zhao doesn't simply want to love her. **He wants to be the person she chooses.** And if she doesn't choose him? He isn't sure what he'll become. As romance turns into jealousy, jealousy turns into possession, and possession begins crossing boundaries, Diara is forced to confront a terrifying question: **When does love stop being love and become obsession?** Meanwhile, Diara must fight battles of her own—family expectations, loneliness, insecurity, career struggles, friendships, and the painful realization that choosing herself may hurt the people she loves. Because being kind doesn't mean she never puts herself first. And being selfish doesn't mean she has no heart. Sometimes, choosing yourself is necessary. Sometimes, loving someone means letting them go. And sometimes... **someone can love you so much that their love becomes the very thing you need to escape.** ***Kind but Selfish*** is a dark romantic story about imperfect people, complicated relationships, friendship, jealousy, obsession, emotional dependence, and the blurred line between loving someone and wanting to possess them. Because not every love story is about finding the right person. Some are about discovering **who you become when you love the wrong way.** 🖤

She never believed time could remember a person. Until the night it brought her to a place that shouldn't exist. Twenty-two-year-old **Elara** has spent her life trying to escape the feeling that something—or someone—is missing. Then, after discovering an old pocket watch belonging to a man who died more than a century ago, she begins having dreams of a stranger calling her name. A stranger she has never met. Until she wakes up in the past. In a world where her clothes, language, and very existence make her an outsider, Elara meets **Adrian**, a mysterious man who looks at her as if he's been waiting for her all his life. But Adrian knows something she doesn't. **She has been here before.** As fragments of a life she never lived begin returning to her, Elara discovers that their meeting isn't an accident. Someone has been altering the timeline—and every time they try to change their fate, something else disappears. A memory. A year. A person. And eventually, **one of them may have to be forgotten completely.** Because some love stories are meant to last forever. And some… **were never meant to exist at all.**