"No way... What is this feeling...? I've never done this before...!!" Seeing someone and having eyes meet, falling in love, dating, it's all exhausting... a load of BS. Sex is the only thing a person needs to feel refreshed, and I need it ASAP. Even just a hug from a hunk with nice broad shoulders would be enough to keep me going for the rest of the week... but it can never be that easy when you're just some office worker with no time to go out, huh! It looks like that just might change tonight, though...
Mieko works at her dream job as a wedding planner and is about to turn 30. Unfortunately, not all is rainbows and unicorns as she constantly feels pressure from her friends and mother to get hitched herself. When she gets teased at a company dinner for being single when two of the younger girls at the office just got married, she begins downing glass after glass.
Seeing her in her inebriated state, Shuji, her young yet reliable (and not to mention hot) coworker offers to take her home. Once they arrive, Mieko's loneliness reaches its threshold, and with her inhibitions already dulled, she does the unthinkable! Come morning though, when the guilt begins to settle in, Shuji proposes that they move in together once he graduates college! Should she feel joy? Should she worry about their age gap? What's a woman to do?!
Cram school teachers, Mr. Aguro and Mr. Shirai are always at odds, and this time, both have their eyes on their student. He rejects both as they know nothing of real love. If either of them wants him, he proposes the date each other temporarily until they discover what it means. Starting out as a simple wager over who gets to date their student, the two begin their complicated relationship. Can these two love virgins find what they're missing?
Yuasa is a capable worker on the fast track to success. He has a nice face to boot, but his personality is a bit of a problem..! As he carries on with his power-harassment toward the new trainee, the amicable Iguchi, it soon comes to light that Iguchi is the CEO's son... In exchange for not telling his dad about said power-harassment, Iguchi offers him a deal...?!
Uru and Ibuki have been childhood friends for years. He was practically her big brother. Uru has always admired him, but now that she's in college, she wants something more. Ibuki, now an extremely handsome and popular model Eve, has every girl after him. He still sees Uru as a little sister and refuses to see her as a woman. Using her womanly assets, Uru will go to any lengths to seduce him. Can Uru finally make him hers, or will Ibuki need to teach her a thing or two about being in an adult relationship?
On a moonless night... I hear your voice for the first time. Ume was abandoned by the family she married into because she was unable to bear children. She returns to the village where she was born but finds herself alone as her parents die from a spreading disease. As told in tales of sacrifice to the gods, the village also begins to experience a shortage in the crops of their farms that will only continue until someone is offered. Ume is not able to bear a child but as she does not have any children, she is able to lie her way into being offered to the gods. Waiting for her at a shrine deep in the mountains is a wolf god with silver hair and beautiful nails that shine in five different colors... what will come from this encounter between a despised god and an unhappy girl?!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-5 of "The Lying Moon Princess's Marriage: I Will Gain the Wolf God's Favor"
Yoshiwara has been reborn in modern-day Tokyo.... In this new Yoshiwara, beloved actresses whose talents grace the screen by day spend their nights selling both their bodies and the idea of romance to their male clientele. Thrust into this world is the ingenue Asuka, who's been sold out by her foster parents to pay off their debts. While at first oblivious to the nature of Yoshiwara, she accidentally barges in on a "transaction" between a courtesan and her client. Confronted with her new reality of being bought and sold, she longs to make a break for it... but is there anyone around her she can trust...?!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-8 of "Worth a Billion: Modern-Day Courtesan"