Ayame is enjoying her life working hard and building her career. It can be hard sometimes, but her coworkers depend on her and the job is rewarding. One day, she hears that the president's son will be taking over while the president takes some time off. The news doesn't interest her much, as she is content as long as she can do her job. That night, Ayame meets an overly friendly, somewhat shallow, but attractive man named Tsubaki. Swept along by the atmosphere and alcohol, she ends up sleeping with him. Ayame tells herself that what happened was a mistake and that she can't become serious about him, but her heart yearns for Tsubaki...!
"Just relax and enjoy yourself for me." He's usually so gentle, but now his sharp gaze is full of desire as he devours her with his eyes. Her body melts under his hands; the heat of his touch lingers on her lips, chest, and thighs and fills her mind like a fever. Her hips twitch of their own accord and despite her embarrassment a moan escapes her-... Overtime. Working from home late into the night. In the glitzy world of fashion magazines, publishing editor Fumi was run ragged in mind and body by her demanding work. Her only solace was visiting the local private pharmacy run by handsome and refreshing pharmacist Okada. Worrying over her on post-overtime mornings or at night after an exhausting workday, he kept her body in good repair. But that was just his kindness toward a regular customer - or so Fumi thought. While drunk after a mixer, she passes by the pharmacy; the usually kind Okada is acting oddly and suddenly drags Fumi into the pharmacy's waiting room...
Yuka, a careerwoman, is in love with Jamil, the prince of a desert kingdom, Izdihar. When the two meet again on a work related project, he suddenly asks Yuka to marry him, saying "Be my queen!" At every chance he gets, Jamil passionately embraces Yuka in intense romance...?
"I'm not making a move on you. I'm just helping you masturbate."
Kanade loves deep voices, especially her boss, Mahiro Shijima's. Every time he whispers into her ear, her heart skips a beat. He's a great guy, but because of her past failed relationships, Kanade finds love and dating to be a big hassle. She's now fully enjoying her single life. However, one day, she ends up having to stay at Mahiro's place for a while. Sleeping in the same bed with her boss every night... What's going to happen?!
A princess, daughter to the former emperor, but also number 1 in the "Shut-in Rankings" for 10 years straight. Her name is Yomei. Her favorite pastime in her shut-in life is writing various whimsical novels based on her experience having been rescued by a beautiful woman from mysterious assailants 3 years ago. Yomei's never felt the desire to be married, but everything changed after someone has come before her again...!
"Whoa. You're this wet just from my scent?" "N-No! Mm....Nh!" Pressed up against the sofa at our office, underwear pulled to the side, his big, burly hands gently and lasciviously attacking her sweet spot... Jinkawa, a known womanizer and president of an architectural firm, happens upon a young woman named Asami being harassed by some delinquents at night and helps her out with ulterior motives in mind. She refuses his advances, saying, "I can't! That old man smell of yours is-...!" A few days later they're reunited, and she's the new intern at his company?! Feeling self-conscious, Jinkawa tries to keep his distance but it seems like the problem isn't that Asami dislikes how he smells... but that it really turns her on.
"Would it bother you if I asked you to go out with me?" Hotaru, who works at an advertising production company, is not very comfortable with men due to her past experience with a crappy boyfriend. However, her daily life changes little by little when she meets Nagisa, a good-looking, fem stylist. It's Nagisa's feminine nature in fact, that leads Hotaru to believe that she might be able to go out with him, despite him being a man. As the nature of their relationship becomes unclear, Nagisa steps up and confesses his interest in Hotaru?!!
Narumi Kiriyama: your average office worker, getting on in her mid-20's and falling into the rush of people around her getting married and doing life, and finding herself at a matchmaking party. She's spent a long time not really being able to find the right guy, and catches herself with thoughts like, "If only I could experience more romance..." However, because of that jerk from high school, Narumi's never been able to get over her frustration and grievances with the idea of romance. Right as she's thinking that the matchmaking parting isn't going to go anywhere, a superstud by the name of Wataoka reaches out to her. One thing leads to the next and after some quality time together she realizes that she wants to get to know him better! However, just as things seem to be settling into place, it turns out that Wataoka has something of a secret he's been hiding...!
Suddenly told she was going to inherit all her grandmother's kimonos, Hotori needs to learn kimono dressing in a hurry. But with her intense stranger anxiety, there's no way she can go take a class for it! Just then, a man named Ichigo - who runs a kimono shop - helps her in the street and offers to teach her kimono dressing if she'll work part-time at his shop. At first she declines, but Ichigo's gentlemanly manners put her at ease so finally she takes the job. And no sooner does he say, "Well, let's get you undressed" - could there be a devil's face hiding behind that kindly mask?!
Hina is a female omega whose pheromones trigger strong sexual responses from alphas, an elitist second sex. She's had traumatic experiences in the past because of this. In adulthood, she now works in a majority female workplace and leads a life that keeps chances of being assaulted low. But at the urging of her parents, she decided to go on a blind date with an alpha male. A cool and smooth lawyer named Akihito shows up at the site of her blind date. Although they meet for the first time, an inexplicable rush of attraction courses through their bodies simultaneously...could this be destiny? Instantantly married off, Hina, a virgin, goes into heat on her wedding night and has passionate sex with Akihito...!
Unable to forget her first love, Yuki prioritizes work over romance, and now finds herself in her late 20s. Anxious with everyone around her getting married, Yuki starts to feel that she wants to fall in love as well. On her way home from work, she runs into Sho, a younger student from her college days, who asks if he can stay over for the night. Though she thinks about refusing him, she couldn't leave Sho out in the rain soaking wet like an abandoned dog... and decides to have him over. Though motherly instinct convinced Yuki to have Sho over, he gets carried away and ends up having physical relations with her.... Shortly after, Yuki's first childhood sweetheart would ask her out, shaking up the the feelings that just began to grow between her and Sho...?!
I'm the next king's fiancee, and he looks exactly like a manager at work?!
Nanoka Kuroe works in the office where she's been isolated by her coworkers due to her refusal to give in to harassment. Her only solace is Renji Wagu, a manager of another department. One day, after being harassed by a coworker, leading to her work being deleted, she is forced to stay late and work overtime. To relieve her stress, hugs Renji's coat jacket, only for him to walk in on her! Embarrassed, she runs home and falls asleep, trying to forget everything that had happened. When she wakes up, she finds herself in another bed, lying next to Renji without his clothes on?!
In her dream world, she's the fiancee of Glen, the next in line to be king of the Kingdom of Noswald, who's the spitting image of Renji. Everyone else in the castle also resembles Nanoka's coworkers! Will things turn out better for her in this new dream world?
When work gets her down, overwhelmed office worker Chikage turns to her one and only pick-me-up: her favorite pop star, Satoi. She'd always admired her fave from afar as one of his countless fans, but who would have thought he was actually her neighbor?! And just what will happen when an unexpected series of mishaps leads to the two of them sharing a kiss...?
"Don't lick me there...!" "I told you not to be so rough!" Going to go crazy from the pressure felt for the first time as he gently and gradually loosens it up and slowly enters... I never thought that my first time would be with the person I hated the most in the world... I don't want to fall in love with you. Futaba, the only daughter of a tea shop owner, is set up for an arranged marriage match making with Mr. Kobayashi (a super wealthy man) by her parents in order to get out of financial difficulties. Futaba has a fear of men and has never been in a relationship before, but for the sake of the family business, she decides to go through with it. However, to her surprise, the blind date turns out to be with Taiga Kobayashi, her classmate from elementary school who caused her fear! When he hears that he's the reason she's afraid of men, he decides to help her get over this fear and take care of her as her husband...
A collection of stories about first loves. Saki is a shy and socially awkward virgin who dreams of finding her prince charming. The only person who has ever fit her idealized image is her little brother, Ryo! Frustrated by his sister's wild fantasies, Ryo introduces her to his handsome friend. However, a love triangle soon ensues!
A one-sided love is like a train running underground, always hidden. Nozomi followed her crush, Shusuke, to a university in Tokyo, hoping to get closer to him. When he gets a girlfriend, she decides to stay on the sidelines and keep her feelings hidden. However, her quiet campus life is turned upside down when Atsushi, a handsome upperclassman, sets his sights on her.
Saito is the secretary for Aizawa, the CEO. Aizawa is a capable man, but he's a womanizer. In order to keep him on track, Saito seduces the new receptionist, Minami. But Minami's pure feelings have him on the verge of falling for her?!
"If you're okay with me, I'll sleep with you." Nene is suffering from insomnia due to her overworking. She can't fall asleep at night, and is falling apart by every afternoon... But just when she's about to pass out at work, the ace from sales, Hidaka, comes to her rescue! Nene feels so relaxed in Hidaka's arms, without thinking, she blurts out that she wants him to sleep with her. But once the two get in the bed together, their hearts start to beat and things start to take a turn?! It was supposed to be just innocent sleeping, but now Hidaka's touch and his voice whispering in Nene's ear is making her body hot...
"Getting so into it in this situation. What a dirty girl." - I can feel you through my shirt, your skin brushing against all the most sensitive parts of my body, your fingers slipping inside me. You whisper for me to keep quiet so we don't get caught...but I just can't...!
One night, Kaede accidentally locks herself out of her office, but then she runs into Shioya, the guy she's been crushing on, in the hallway outside it. He helps her out and even ends up offering to let her crash at his place for the night! Except that's when Shioya's roommate gets home, and the two of them panic and rush to hide in the closet. Their bodies are pressed so close together that Kaede's heart starts racing... Then Shioya's lips brush against Kaede's breast, and suddenly things are moving fast!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-5 of "Seal My Lips With a Kiss"
"Koharu, you've had a fiance since you were born..." This is what my grandfather confesses to me one day out of the blue. But how could I, a 25-year-old stranger to love, possibly have a fiance? And on top of that, instead of living by myself while my grandfather is in the hospital, I have to live with him instead...?! He's tall, handsome, wealthy, and a CEO... not to mention 12 years my senior! We've got nothing in common! But his kindness and his unexpected naivete touch my heart, and before I know it...?! Between our short-term cohabitation and an marriage pact made by our grandfathers, this is one romance we can't let anyone find out about...