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by sunshinehours
After a failed attempt at elopement with her boyfriend the month before her arranged wedding to a prince she's never met, Li Ban finds herself back at square one - without a plan, without her man and without hope. But the appearance of a mysterious man named Lu changes everything. He provides just enough information for Li Ban to start on a journey to bring her lover back and send her in a completely different direction.
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 6 Oct 2026, 01:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 6 Oct 2026, 01:38 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Rising Stars history is uncertain, so no precise projection is shown.
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Traffic and conversion are both below comparable stories. Cadence is the first lever — stories posting near-daily reached 25 followers 17% of the time; stories posting every few days almost never did. Get the flow going, then re-check conversion.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 5–9 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
