by Lyvierre
SCIENCE FANTASY - MYSTERY - ROMANCE A character-driven story about memory, connection, and the secret that refuse to stay buried. BANG! One shot was all it took to shatter Ashtre’s world. One moment, he was on a university field trip with his best friend, Lein. The next, Lein was lying motionless in a pool of blood. Ashtre had always known that life in the Lower Lands wasn’t perfect. Compared to the technologically advanced Erzania Plate where he had grown up, it was a world left behind. But here, with Lein by his side, he’d found something he’d never had before: a life he was content with. Then he sees her. A girl he has never met. A girl he somehow recognizes. Because she has been appearing in his dreams. When Ashtre makes one reckless decision to help her, he sets in motion a chain of events that will change everything he thought he knew about his world, forcing him to confront a past he thought he had escaped—and another he cannot remember. Because Lein’s death was only the beginning.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 08:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 08:28 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
11%
Two or more lists
7%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Romance → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi + Romance (3%).
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
#7056 of 12,180 · 7006 below RS #50
By genre
beats 21% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 68% of similar stories
Readers arrive, few stick
Traffic is strong, but conversion trails comparable stories. The usual suspects are the blurb, the cover and the opening chapters — fixing the hook multiplies everything the existing traffic brings.
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 over the recent window.
