An intense university hockey romanceHe's the hockey player everyone wants. She's the girl who has absolutely no business falling for him.Evelyn Laurent has a plan.Get through her third year at Kingston Lakes University, keep her scholarship, secure the research opportunity she's been working towards, and leave university with a future that belongs entirely to her. Romance isn't on the list. Neither is getting distracted by a ridiculously handsome hockey player with an ego almost as big as his reputation.Then she meets Callum Reid.Twenty-two, infuriatingly charming, and the star centre of KLU's hockey team, Callum is used to getting what he wants. On the ice, he's fearless. Off it, he's the guy everyone wants to know, the one who can turn a room upside down with a grin and talk his way out of almost anything.Almost.When Evie is assigned to study how athletes make decisions under pressure, Callum becomes her most inconvenient research subject. He challenges her patience, makes her laugh when she has no intention of laughing, and looks at her like he knows there's more to her than the careful girl she lets everyone see.She tells herself he's just a distraction.He tells himself she's just another girl he can't resist teasing.Neither of them is telling the whole truth.Because somewhere between their arguments, stolen glances, late-night conversations, and the tension that keeps building every time they're alone, the rules begin to change. The attraction is impossible to ignore. The kisses become harder to forget. And the line between research participant and the man she's falling for gets dangerously thin.But Callum has a secret that could cost him the future he's spent his life chasing. Evie has an opportunity that could take her hundreds of miles away from everything she's beginning to want.And when their private feelings become public gossip, they'll discover that falling in love is the easy part.Trusting each other might be the hardest game either of them has ever played.Callum knows how to fight for a win.Evie knows how to walk away from anything that threatens her future.But what happens when the person you're falling for becomes the one thing neither of you can afford to lose?One hockey player. One girl who refuses to be impressed. One love story neither of them planned for.And a game neither of them knows how to play without getting hurt.

I Just Wanted to Raise My Beast in Peace!Shen Qingyu has lived a life filled with responsibilities. After an unexpected death, she gets a second chance in a world of cultivation.Reborn with a supposedly defective spiritual root and little more than an ordinary servant's status, she has no interest in fame, power, or becoming the strongest cultivator.All she wants is a quiet courtyard, good food, enough spirit stones, and perhaps a little companion to keep her company.Then she meets Bubu_a strange, scruffy little beast with an appetite almost as big as his personality.What begins as a simple desire for a peaceful life soon takes unexpected turns.After all, Qingyu only wanted to raise her beast in peace. How difficult could that possibly be?

Lily has always been the odd one. Since childhood, something ancient has lived in her blood an insatiable force that whispers of destruction, crawls beneath her skin, and hungers for release. She has spent her life resisting it, clinging to the fragile remnants of her sanity while chaos trails her footsteps like a curse. Then she meets him. He appears when the whispers grow loudest, when the world around her begins to burn. He is salvation wrapped in temptation - beautiful, dangerous, and unnervingly familiar. In his presence, the voice quiets. In his touch, it stirs. As bodies fall and cities crumble, Lily is forced to confront the truth of what she carries within her. To love him may be to lose herself. To surrender to the power in her blood may mean the end of everything. Because some loves are not meant to save the world. Some are meant to end it.