The Love Concoction (Short Story, Romance Fantasy, Boys Love, Yaoi, English)


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Summary Hailing from a noble family in a distant land, Inain serves as an apprentice under the court magician of the empire. In an era where magic is waning and swordsmanship holds high esteem, life as a budding magician is anything but easy. To make ends meet, Inain's master concocts 'Love Potion' for sale to the nobility. This potion holds the power to make one fall in love with the first person they lay eyes on after consumption. The handsome crown prince, also a master swordsman, becomes a frequent purchaser. The question that arises is - who has captured the prince's heart? This vibrant and well-woven short story features lively prose and vivid character portrayals that kindle curiosity and deliver a gripping narrative. Dive into this Asian love story that bridges the world of new adult romance with elements of secret love and Boys Love. The intricate blend of romance and magic crafts a unique, steamy romantic book, laden with intrigue. Who is the mystery lover of the prince? Join Inain as he navigates the complexities of town life, destiny, and hidden affections in this enthralling romantic love story. The infusion of magic and mystery promises an engaging journey through the realms of love and enchantment. #western #imperial #strongGong #uprightSoo #sweetAndLovely * This short story of yaoi/BL is translated from from the original Korean short web-novel (text-only, no illustrations) Tables Of Contents Title Page Body Content Copyright (34 pages in approx. print length) Preview What are the true conditions of love? Archmage Rudilas Miroa Genuery wondered that. Why are young people so desperate to know what's going on in the other person's mind? They're just not that into love....... When they break up, they talk about it all the time, and when they're together, they want to make sure they're in love by causing all kinds of trouble. Rudilas was honestly tired of it. He'd spent his entire youth practicing magic, and all he wanted was a love potion. "Silly things!" Rudilas gritted his teeth. It was a waste of a life to become a witch for so little money. Rudilas didn't care about other people's love. It was none of his business if they were in a lovely relationship or if they broke up and went on to become enemies. All Rudilas wanted was the pursuit of truth. Or more precisely, the perfection of pure power. It was the only thing that kept him alive. He knew better than anyone that a man's heart could not be artificially changed, but today he poured ingredients into the cauldron, stirring them carefully with a spatula. "Inain!" "Yes!" "Go and get the birthing bats. I told you they were supposed to be in the potion. What have you been up to?" "I'm sorry, sir. Just give me a minute!" "Bring it on, you lazy bastard!" Rudilas exclaimed. "How could you ever be my pupil? Anyway, the young ones these days are......." Inain quickly ran away. He knew that once Rudilas started grumbling and complaining, there would be no end to it. Rudilas would often call Inain a brainless idiot and a worthless piece of shit, and would even refer to him as a useless mouth. Several times, Inain had resisted the urge to ask him about love potions and why he didn't refuse to make them. Rudilas spent his days making pills to improve marriages, amulets to find runaway wives, and pills to make lost pets come home. In front of his students, he would puff up his chest as the greatest sage in the empire, but in practice, he was no better than a back-alley medicine peddler. Inain didn't follow Rudilas out of any deep-seated respect. He stuck with Rudilas because he was one of the most knowledgeable mages in the empire in terms of pure magic, and because he was one of the few mages with access to the Imperial Library. Additionally, Rudilas was the only mage who fed and bedded Inain in the place so close to the Imperial Palace. "Inain!" "Yes, I'm coming," Inain gritted his teeth. He was getting tired of all the insincere pretense and flattery. Morning and night, he'd be carrying around a bat wing he didn't recognize, and he'd be thinking, 'Ew, that's frustrating. I'm going to beat the crap out of him.......' Of course, he was only thinking to himself. And his sage with little mind was shrewd. "Here it is." "Go ahead and put it away. Have you washed your hands?" "Oh, right." "Sheshe. Anyway, he's useless, spoiled, and....... These days, things are......" The nagging was almost a habit, and had Inain reconsidering, should he quit the job? Inain sighed and shook his head. It was a position he'd earned hard, having disobeyed his father. An apprentice, but a wizard is a wizard. He had no intention of moving out of Rudilas's house, no matter how badly he felt. Other Books By JellyBeanEnter The Love Of VR (By Nimdorusin) / Yaoi The Summer In The Hut (By Epillia) / Yaoi Your Personal Shopper (By Goddess Somi) / Yaoi What You Do With A Possessed Body (By Cypress) / Romance The Pill Of Regret And Fall (By Jjabjaljjab) / GL About JellyBenEnter Based in Korea, JellyBeanEnter is a publisher specialized in ebook. Since 2017, JellyBeanEnter has published the ebooks in yaoi, romance, and GL categories. Get more info at @jellybeanenter (instagram or twitter).




Boys Love Manga and Beyond


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Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation. In recent decades, “Boys Love” (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This genre was first developed in Japan in the early 1970s by a group of female artists who went on to establish themselves as major figures in Japan's manga industry. By the late 1970s many amateur women fans were getting involved in the BL phenomenon by creating and self-publishing homoerotic parodies of established male manga characters and popular media figures. The popularity of these fan-made products, sold and circulated at huge conventions, has led to an increase in the number of commercial titles available. Today, a wide range of products produced both by professionals and amateurs are brought together under the general rubric of “boys love,” and are rapidly gaining an audience throughout Asia and globally. This collection provides the first comprehensive overview in English of the BL phenomenon in Japan, its history and various subgenres and introduces translations of some key Japanese scholarship not otherwise available. Some chapters detail the historical and cultural contexts that helped BL emerge as a significant part of girls' culture in Japan. Others offer important case studies of BL production, consumption, and circulation and explain why BL has become a controversial topic in contemporary Japan.




Lightbearer


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Once upon a time, the devil knocked up a delivery guy.Not your typical intro to a romance, but I promise, it is one. The devil in this scenario would be a sexy horned demon named Apollyon and the delivery guy would be me, Levi Curtis. Just an average guy who got in way over his head trying to keep his twin sister from selling her soul.See, in order to do unleash Hell's demonic wrath upon the earth, Apollyon needs a mortal vessel to contain the seed of his demonic army. It wasn't supposed to be a literal pregnancy, but my overactive imagination has always caused problems. Big problems, in this case. A whole Legion of 'em.I may low-key hate Apollyon, but we're gonna have to learn to tolerate each other in order to keep our little bundle of infernal joy safe and hopefully not destroy both our worlds in the process. But hey, on the plus side, you know what they say about guys with big horns. Lightbearer is an 82k fantasy mpreg romance with dark humor. This is a meta-narrative with intentional tense switching as the story jumps timelines.




Hotline


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Zack never intended to become a phone sex operator, but his options were limited. Sure, he gets his fair share of creeps and unconventional requests, but he's in no danger of breaking his one rule: never fall for a client. Until a man named "John" starts calling.




Winter Demon


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When three ruthless fire demons come to terrorize the monk Hakuin's village he's forced to seek help from Fuyu, the snow demon who tormented him a year ago. Fuyu is thrilled to see his beautiful monk again. He'll defeat the demons only if Hakuin becomes his willing slave. Fuyu realizes too late that the fire demons are out of his league. Even worse, the lead demon thinks the fey Fuyu would make a nice slave in his own right. When Fuyu is put in the same position he put Hakuin a year ago he starts to realize the error of his ways. Maybe, in time, he can even be redeemed to his beloved monk. Also, a pacifist is forced to bring an assassin to a rival lord. It doesn't help that the assassin is part of the group who wiped out the pacifist's race. So why are they sleeping together?




Over and Over Again


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A ring of braided grass. A promise. Ten years of separation. And memories of an innocent love with the power to last through time. When Luca Ward was five years old, he swore he would love Imre Claybourne forever. Years later, that promise holds true-and when Luca finds himself shipped off to Imre's North Yorkshire goat farm in disgrace, long-buried feelings flare back to life when he finds, in Imre, the same patiently stoic gentle giant he'd loved as a boy. The lines around Imre's eyes may be deeper, the once-black night of his hair silvered to steel and stone...but he's still the same slow-moving mountain of a man whose quiet-spoken warmth, gentle hands, and deep ties to his Roma heritage have always, to Luca, meant home. The problem? Imre is more than twice Luca's age. And Luca's father's best friend. Yet if Imre is everything Luca remembered, for Imre this hot-eyed, fey young man is nothing of the boy he knew. Gone is the child, replaced by a vivid man whose fettered spirit is spinning, searching for north, his heart a thing of wild sweet pure emotion that draws Imre into the compelling fire of Luca's frustrated passions. That fragile heart means everything to Imre-and he'll do anything to protect it. Even if it means distancing himself, when the years between them are a chasm Imre doesn't know how to cross. But can he resist the allure in cat-green eyes when Luca places his trembling heart in Imre's hands...and begs for his love, over and over again?




Fangs, Volume 1, Volume 1


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Bitten by a vampire at a club, nineteen-year-old En barely survived. Taken under the wing of Ichii--a member of the health and welfare division of the vampire rights organization known as FANGS--En learns he's to be taught about this new "world" he must survive in. In order to control the urge to suck blood and attack innocents, FANGS established a "pairing system," where two vampires support one another with regular meals. As a young, virginal vampire, En is highly sought after by many senior vamps. That is, until he declares his intention to pair with his guardian, Ichii...




Curtsies & Conspiracies


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Does one need four fully grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner table for six guests? Or is it six foxgloves to kill four fully grown guests? Sophronia's first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality has certainly been rousing! For one thing, finishing school is training her to be a spy (and won't Mumsy be surprised?). Furthermore, Sophronia got mixed up in an intrigue over a stolen device and had a cheese pie thrown at her in a most horrid display of poor manners. Now, as she sneaks around the dirigible school, eavesdropping on the teachers' quarters and making clandestine climbs to the ship's boiler room, she learns that there may be more to a field trip to London than is apparent at first. A conspiracy is afoot--one with dire implications for both supernaturals and humans. Sophronia must rely on her training to discover who is behind the dangerous plot-and survive the London Season with a full dance card. In this bestselling sequel to New York Times bestselling Etiquette & Espionage, class is back in session with more petticoats and poison, tea trays and treason. Gail Carriger's distinctive voice, signature humor, and lush steampunk setting are sure to be the height of fashion this season.




Lab Partners


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Heartstopper meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this addictive love story When Elliot becomes lab partners with the new boy at school, Jordan, his life suddenly becomes much more interesting. He's never met anyone like Jordan before - someone so good looking, charming and smart. And soon school becomes way more than just boring lectures and bad cafeteria nachos. For the first time ever, Elliot can't wait to go to chemistry class. The butterflies Elliot has around Jordan finally start to make sense when Jordan unexpectedly kisses him . . . but that's also when everything else stops making sense! As Elliot tries to figure out how he really feels about Jordan, and what that might mean, he'll realise that sometimes the last thing you're looking for is the one thing you need the most.




False Start


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Football, a kitten, and 14 dates. Zhanna Hale THEN My father is a legend. Some call me football royalty, and in my hometown of Louisiana, I suppose I am. His legacy didn't prepare me for Bryant Hudson. The quarterback. I swore I'd never date football players. Permanently. Yet Bryant had other plans.Three dates and a handful of conversations, I handed him my heart without realizing it. But, Bryant shatters my soul. I'm left picking up the pieces. If only erasing him from my heart was as easy. Bryant Hudson NOW I lost at the only game that matters. And it wasn't even a game. It was and is my forever with Zhanna. I am the best quarterback out there. That should be enough, right? Achieving my dreams. But none of that matters without my woman beside me. When she left, she took my heart with her.Now I'm back. To remind her of what we had. To see me-the man whose heart she owns, not the quarterback.Our love is fate. Our lives are forever intertwined. I refuse to let a false start signal our end. I'm ready to repeat the play and show Zhanna she is my everything.