"I want to make you mine." A private lesson in love with the perfect, handsome CEO.
Kotone has a hard time standing in front of crowds due to a past traumatic event, but a talented and handsome CEO recognizes her abilities and invites her out to dinner. Captivated by the kind smile of the president, who is famous for never smiling, Kotone drinks too much and gets drunk. When she wakes up, she finds herself in a hotel suite! "Did I... spend the night in a hotel with the CEO?"
The very tall Kiyoko Naito is 5'9". She's outgoing, dependable, and is like a big sister to everyone. As a child, she dreamed of becoming a beautiful princess, but as she grew older and taller, she found herself becoming more like the "knight" that protects the other girls around her. Mikoto Himeno is a younger guy who works at the same office as Kiyoko. People call him a gloomy and incompetent loser, which makes Kiyoko worry about him. One day, she finds an opportunity to talk to Mikoto properly and discovers an astonishing truth about him. Himeno decides that she's going to step up and help this guy, whom everyone has the wrong idea about. She promises to protect him if he gets into any trouble and urges him to stop hiding his true self! From then on, he becomes the "princess" and she his "knight"...!
A romantic comedy about a boy as beautiful as a princess, and the girl who serves as his "bodyguard"!
Kagamiya is a lot of things: superb researcher, dedicated worker, and the most charming man in the department. However, he's got one major issue... he's totally not what everyone thinks him to be. He looks stoic and charming, but really he's just a ball of anxiety who can't change his facial expression anymore. He's kept up with what's been expected of him, and is always trying his best at work, but that's left him lonely. That's where his savior comes in: Nonoi. Nonoi's the only person in the department to ever treat Kagamiya as a person as opposed to some almighty charming man. One day, the two of them are drinking on the roof when she suddenly asks him if they could spend the night together...?!
Kannawa-senpai is considered many things, but smooth is definitely not one of them. Then she meets Kamegawa, her new Kouhai. He's cute, a little nerdy, and easy to talk to. How will this awkward Senpai be able to handle these new feelings?!
Takase Tsubaki, a 29 year old saleswoman, isn't good with romance and is still a virgin. She finds herself developing feelings for the rising star in her company, the notorious playboy Azuma Ryuhei. Tsubaki manages to gather up her courage and invite him to spend the night with her at a hotel. He agrees, but things don't work out the way either of them planned...
When Ao(26), has her boyfriend stolen by a coworker, she goes to the bar run by her best friend to drown her sorrows. It's here that she meets a beautiful younger guy with the same name as her who she ends up spending the night with. She thinks it was just a one night stand until she runs into him again and learns that he currently doesn`t have a place to live. "Will you take me in?" These words are the start of a whirlwind romance like no other...
Already Yoshiko Kawai's life was not going the way she had planned it, but when her boyfriend breaks up with her a few days before her 29th birthday she is at an all time low. She bumps into her handsome coworker Yuki and confides in him that she's worried about not being able to get married before she turns 30. "In that case, if you don't find a partner in the next year, how about we get married?" Initially Yoshiko brushes his proposal off as a joke, but could it be that he is actually being serious?
By day, Uta Kono is working hard to be the best nurse she can be, but there's more to her than meets the eye. In her free time, she loves writing BL (Boys' Love) novels. During her time as a nursing student, she observed the close friendship between Iwasaki and Takeuchi, two talented surgery residents, and decides to model the characters in her stories after them. However, everything takes an unexpected turn when the immensely popular Iwasaki and Takeuchi discover Uta's work. Now she has to face the jealous scorn of her fellow nurses as she gets swept up into even more misunderstandings and romantic intrigue.
Nanao has always kept her feelings for her sister's boyfriend a secret, but one night, he drunkenly spends the night with her?! Two years later, still haunted by regret and unable to move on, Nanao drowns herself in a superficial relationship with the mysterious and handsome Haruto. Just as she tries to forget the past, it comes back to haunt her when a man she never wanted to see again reappears...
Keina witnesses her boyfriend's affair at his place. Six months into their relationship, and with marriage in mind, she is cheated on and dumped with a single message... Furthermore, when she tries to get back the money she saved for the wedding, she is scorned as a 'disgrace'. "You have no right to call me a disgrace! I will never cry myself to sleep over such a scum!" Swearing to get revenge, she agrees to a proposal from her handsome boss, Usui: "Wanna marry me?" Her goal is to hurt her ex-boyfriend's ego by marrying a superior-ranking man in front of him, but there's a high probability that he won't be convinced that she's marrying Usui, given how little she knows about him. They start by going out on a date to get to know each other better, but the more she learns about Usui, the more she feels a growing emotion towards him...
A rose desperate to hide her thorns finally blooms in this office romance. Suzu Takamine, the office's unattainable beauty who turns down anyone that asks her to date, is carrying a painful secret. Whenever she tries to be intimate with a man, they faint for some reason. Suzu wants to get married someday, but with her condition ruining her dating life, she's losing hope for any happily ever after. When the office playboy, Kinase, learns of her unbelievable secret, Suzu is shocked to hear him offer his "expert assistance" in resolving her problem. Now she has to decide: Will she give him a try?
Akari is good at her job, beautiful, and her sense of style is beyond compare... but she has a secret. She's almost 30 and she's still a virgin! One fateful day, a new department chief takes over -- the handsome Shinomiya. "You're my subordinate now, which means from today, you have to do what I say." Shinomiya is a condescending bully and he and Akari clash from day one. Akari finds herself drinking her worries away at his welcome party and before she knows what hit her, she's completely smashed. She wakes up the next day to find -- Shinomiya emerging from her bathroom half naked?!?! Thus begins Akari's comedic office romance with her callous new boss!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-6 of "From Zero to Office Romance"
Hiyakawa-san's handsome but perpetually frowning face strikes fear into the hearts of his co-workers. But around Tetsuhara Miori, his facade slips--often getting clumsy, careless, and blurting out his true thoughts. Now she's dealing with a mumbling, bumbling, blushing boss! (C)Isuzu/SQUARE ENIX
This workplace romance josei features two opposites-attract coworkers helping "train" each other to overcome their fear of intimacy.
Narumi, a hardworking but plain office worker, hides a secret from her colleagues: her traumatic dating history, which has led her to take on her alter ego, the popular live streamer Minarin. Her charming coworker, Shinonome, seems like her opposite - handsome, charismatic, and admired by all - but struggles with his own insecurities. When an unexpected taxi ride forces their secrets into the open, they make a deal... to help "train" each other to overcome their touch aversion and fear of intimacy!
As Narumi begins to see Shinonome as a path toward healing, they must confront their pasts together. Can this mismatched pair help each other find solace in shared vulnerability?NOTE: This book contains mature content and is intended for readers 18 years of age and over.
Natsuki, an upwardly mobile career woman and a bit of a workaholic (who also happens to be quite short), has no inclination to look for a romantic partner -- especially not in Hiromichi, a junior employee who she finds unappealingly mild-mannered (and who happens to be quite tall). But a few chance encounters later, Natsuki finds herself beginning to see the other good qualities hiding under Hiromichi's meek exterior. Could she be falling for her junior coworker? Check out this adorable new workplace romance from Studio Nadeshiko!
I won't date my coworkers. But marriage should be fine, right?
"When he looks at me like that, I feel like I'll get the wrong idea..." Manaka, who loves handicrafts, works in the Planning Department of Brown Sugar Honey, a hair accessory brand she dreamed of joining. She had a crush on Itsuki, the young chairman and founder of the brand, but when she found out that Itsuki had a policy of not dating his coworkers, she secretly put a lid on her feelings and immersed herself in her work. But then Itsuki called her name in a sweet voice and gently held her hand... As they gradually grew closer, the feelings of love she had almost given up on began to bloom again.
At the office they're CEO and employee, but in the kitchen they're student and teacher!
Himari's office job doesn't allow side hustles, so she keeps her weekend job as a personal baking teacher a secret. One day, her student coincidentally turns out to be Kosuke, the CEO of her company! Where will their secret lessons take them?
"No one else can do this but you." She's engaged to her CEO for one night a week?! Miri, a CEO's secretary, has recently been dumped by her boyfriend for being too much of a workaholic. Meanwhile, Mr. Takatsu, the CEO she works for, is rumored to be a womanizer with a new girl every day of the week. While Miri is on a date her mom set her up with, Mr. Takatsu suddenly appears and throws everything into chaos! Miri is angry at the sudden interruption, but Mr. Takatsu asks her out of the blue to be his fiancée every Wednesday...?! "I'm so glad my fiancée is such a go-getter." Miri finds herself ensnared by his sweet words in this strategic adult game of love!