![Citizen, Contaminated [Dark Urban Fantasy]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.royalroadcdn.com%2Fpublic%2Fcovers-large%2F169944-citizen-contaminated-psychological-urban.jpg%3Ftime%3D1779777939&w=640&q=75)
by kobukee
If the government realizes what Min and her brother are becoming, containment won’t mean treatment. It will mean cages... After years clawing her way out of her parents’ poor immigrant life and up the corporate ladder at ArborDyne, Minseo Lee has finally made it. Then sabotage tears a worldgate open. The arcane explosion leaves Min with a clawed lizard arm and her brother with monstrous eyes. Contaminated, they’re both now under government surveillance. Worse, a Federal Adept - a government-leashed magical weapon - starts looking at her like she’s a problem he intends to solve. But Min’s biggest problem isn’t administrative.Something ancient and hungry is waking under her skin. The first person she kills is an accident.The second one won’t be. Now Min has only one priority: keep herself and her brother invisible. But what’s inside Min has its own calculus - and it isn’t patient. Expect: - Body horror, contamination & hunger - Corporate magitech & extraction politics - A competent anti-heroine making progressively worse decisions - Messy sibling loyalty & found family - SLOW-BURN enemies-to-allies-to… - Psychological deterioration & moral compromise - Magical surveillance states & ICE crackdowns Notes: --> Book 1 is full drafted & beta-read. Posting Tuesday / Thursday (12 Pacific /15 EST / 21 CET) --> If you're interested in beta reading all of book 1, DM me ! The fee: comments & feedback ;)
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:19 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:19 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.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
4%
Two or more lists
3%
Likely threshold order: Horror → Psychological → Romance → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Horror + Psychological + Romance (1%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#9065 of 12,142 · 9015 below RS #50
By genre
beats 64% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 29% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
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