by DearTurtle
A new country. A quiet house. An old diary. Aarav Sharma has just moved from India to Eureka, California, hoping for a fresh start and a quiet life. Beneath the mattress of his new home, he discovers an old diary belonging to the previous owner. Aarav has never understood why people care so much about diaries. To him, they're just pages filled with someone's thoughts. But curiosity gets the better of him. Some things are better left unread. But Aarav had already started reading.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 3 Oct 2026, 17:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 3 Oct 2026, 17:08 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
24%
Two or more lists
16%
Likely threshold order: Horror → Psychological → Mystery → Main.
Leading bundle: Horror + Psychological + Mystery (9%).
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
#4922 of 12,395 · 4872 below RS #50
By genre
beats 83% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 74% of similar stories
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 5–9 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
