The Cursed Princess and the Knight of Evening Blossoms

by countingfoxes

Female LeadFantasyShort StoryLesbian RomanceRomance Subplot

Shadow rank ~67–83 in Short Story

My affair with the princess started with a kiss and ended with a knife in my gut. As the world reaches its end, a knight must rescue her princess to save their struggling kingdom. --- Short story written for the June 2026 Community Contest!

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Started

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Ranking History

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Shadow RS Climb

Rank updated 15 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC

Entry forecast updated 15 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC

Overall Rising Stars shadow rank

top ~37%±0

deep field · ~#2575 of 6,878 · 2525 below #50

Followers/day (7d)+0.3

vs #50 follower pace-72/wk

P(enter ≤14d)0%

By genre

Reader Funnel

How efficiently views become followers — benchmarked against 8,060 active stories with 10–19 chapters

Views

1.2k

17.6 follows / 1k viewslast 30d

beats 96% of similar stories

Followers

0.15 favs / follower

beats 12% of similar stories

Favorites

Traffic (last 30d)27 views/day

beats 67% of similar stories

Conversion trend

Coolingrecent 17.6/1k vs lifetime 21.8/1k

Firing on all cylinders

Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.

Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.