by You Are A Fish
It seems that Roy's only reward for loyalty to his King and the Saint is being left to die. Now that time has given him another chance, Roy vows to change the events of his life and escape from the Crown Prince's grasp. To save his childhood friend from her execution and live his own life! So why is the villainess acting so strangely? And what is a dating sim? Changing the past is a lot harder than it appears. (Updates every 3 weeks!)
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 4 Oct 2026, 09:48 UTC
Entry forecast updated 4 Oct 2026, 09:48 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
9%
Two or more lists
3%
Likely threshold order: Romance → Adventure → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Romance (6%).
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
#9305 of 12,320 · 9255 below RS #50
By genre
beats 91% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 17% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
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.
