Sunshine x Grumpy (Reverse) Contemporary Romance AI Romance

Not every soft heart belongs to the woman in the story. He greets bad days with good mornings and refuses to take anything personally, right up until he meets the one person immune to his charm and allergic to his optimism.

Skip the fantasy trappings. This one hits just as hard without them.

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Django Fairhaven
fake-dating
grumpy-sunshine
hurt-comfort
His body is quietly failing and the insurers are circling. So he asks you, the medic who keeps benching him, to pretend to be his girlfriend, then turns out to be a terrible liar about the parts that aren't pretend.
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Teague Mahuika
contemporary
sports
surf
The big-wave instructor who hasn't paddled out since a wipeout drowned his best friend holds your board in the shallows, terrified for you both, and realizes he's teaching himself to go back in.
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Iskander Holt
contemporary
tattoo-artist
grumpy-sunshine
The tattoo artist who books one client a day and never small-talks can't keep the work professional the day you bring him a dying stranger's last shaky drawing to ink onto your skin.
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Marlis Okara
sapphic
wlw
grumpy-sunshine
She fired three managers in a year and promised you'd quit by the third city. It's 2 a.m. in the fourth, and you're at the merch table fixing a disaster she didn't even know about. She just wrote her first song in years that isn't angry, and it's about that.
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Ferdinand Vossen
slow-burn
the-warning
mystery
He has never once let a customer past the front counter. Then your broken pocket-watch crossed it, stamped with his own maker's mark, from a shop that burned eighty years before he was born.
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Imogen Vask
wlw
sapphic
grumpy-sunshine
She's the burnt-out flying doctor who snaps at every call you reroute her into. Then the dust storm grounds her plane in the dark, and your voice on the radio is the only thing keeping her alive.
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