Liselotte Clarence, daughter of Count Clarence, has been set to marry the Frost Adelgrant of the Marquis's family... but she has despised him since they were just children. After years without seeing one another, it seemed as if Frost might have changed for the better- but in only an instant it was clear that the same rude, distasteful boy had not changed in the slightest. Liselotte's had enough of it all. With one loud yell the engagement was called off and she left her home in a rush. After all things were settled, she now finds herself working for a magic tools shop and meets another young man named Snow, but something about him seems familiar...?
"You and I are fated mates, bound by the blood pact." Set in the Leonid Kingdom, vampires are worshiped as saviors, and in this country, all nobles possess magic power. However, Serenade was born without any power, and because of this, her family ab*ses her. She had even lost the will to live. But then one night, Alvis, the Lord of the Vampires, approaches her. He tells Serenade that she has Mithril Blood, a mystical blood to vampires, flowing through her veins. For Serenade, a young woman who had hit rock bottom, is this a blessing? Or a curse...?
The Saintess Clarice is suddenly cast aside, engagement broken off by the prince. Now her sister Lycia is set to marry him. On top of all of this, Clarice is now made to marry the prince's brother, Duke Alto, who is said to have a horrendous face. Upon arriving at the estate, it was clear that the darkness cast around the duke's face was truly horrifying enough to take one's breath away. With how things have been with his face, Duke alto has spent his life as a recluse, closing himself off from all who would try to reach him. However, Clarice seems to be the first to change something within him. For the first time, there seems to be hope for the future as the two begin to grow close to one another.
So is this what it means to have roommates now?! Office worker Rinko, 24, lives alone and is secretly an otaku. One day, her apartment gets connected to the two neighboring rooms through a "hole" in the wall. In the room on the left is a fresh-faced yet mysterious guy who is overly-sweet to Rinko. The room on the right is occupied by a guy with violent tendences who is similarly mysterious... But wait! "I... I think I know him!" Rinko's only source of solitude, her apartment, has been turned upside down. Now, every day is full of heart-pounding surprises!
"I can't believe the talented hands that make me such amazing food are really brushing across my lips..."
Office worker Miki is nearly 30, but her small stature makes her seem much younger, which scares off all but the creepiest of guys... With that on her plate on top of the stress of work, Miki keeps her spirits up with a weekly "treat": dinner and drinks at a local bar run by the handsome Chef Kayaba. Just a glimpse of his sinewy arms as he works has Miki daydreaming about what his hands would feel like running over her body, but she's content just to watch...until one day she gets a chance to drink alone with him after the bar closes and all of a sudden things are moving fast!! Yet, for some secret reason, he says he can't make love to her...
"Beatrice used her family's influence to impose herself as my fiance. It's not what I wanted." Beatrice is the daughter of an influential Duke in the Kingdom, and has just overheard some of the girls saying that her intended, Prince Ernest, said those exact words. Beatrice has been despised by others in the academy for her relationship with the popular Prince Ernest but is determined to turn that around and live the way she wants to live! "I've been so occupied with trying to please Prince Ernest, I've never taken the time to get to know those around me. What have I been doing all this time?" However, when she starts to get to make some friends, talk to some handsome gentlemen, and finally enjoy her life at the academy... her salty fiance seems to become more and more assertive...!
Iris is a dropout in a family of magicians who cannot use magic. When her fiance is stolen by her sister and Iris is forced to leave home, she finds work as a maid at a certain house. Soon after believing that her new life as a maid would be more peaceful than as a dropout, for some reason, her master, an extremely beautiful genius magician, takes a liking to her...
After Cinderella rejects the crown prince's proposal and elopes with a magician, her older sister Adelina gets forced to take her place. Although the popular and handsome prince marries Adelina, he tells her he does not intend on falling in love with her. Adelina could care less, however. To her, all that matters is that she be able to enjoy living quietly with her adorable animals at the royal villa, eventually getting an amicable divorce and a ton of alimony. Who cares if the prince gets a mistress or two? But the prince, who didn't care for Adelina at all, begins to show some interest in her...
Yufilia is the daughter of a count. She has never felt any love from her family, and they always put her little sister first. Yufilia decided to just live her life with no one to count on. One night, while finding solace on her balcony, a small, injured owl lands in her palms. Then, for some reason, the next day she receives a passionate proposal from the neighboring emperor?! "At last. Surely, all this time, I've been searching for you since the day I was born." With his melting gaze and sweet words, the emperor ruthlessly eliminates those who try to stand in the way of their romance. But isn't this love a bit too overwhelming?! A Cinderella story about the strongest marriage between a mistreated girl and an emperor!
"A beauty... So otherworldly it's frightening." For generations, the Kuguu family's daughters have been born with purifying power, acting as shrine maidens for the village. Yuzuki was born into this family as the older sister of twin girls. While possessing purifying powers far greater than that of her sister, Mizuki, she is neglected by her family due to a mark that resembles a dragon on her back, which is seen as an ill fortune. The family conveniently uses Yuzuki's powers to make Mizuki look like a princess shrine maiden, who the villagers deeply admire. Tired of being used as a tool, Yuzuki dreams of her freedom and leaving the family to find the source of the mysterious voice she's heard occasionally since childhood. However, when that dream is crushed and she falls into deep despair, a God of calamity in the form of a huge dragon appears in the sky. Yuzuki is offered as a sacrifice, and she suddenly sees a flashback of her past life. Then, a dragon god, Sogyoku Seotsu, appears in human form and embraces Yuzuki. "I'll never let go of you again... My bride." The true princess shrine maiden is offered as a sacrifice in her younger sister's place and learns of the promise made between the dragon god and his bride in her past life.
Chiharu Saeki is just your average woman working in an office... except she has a loan to pay after her father's company went bankrupt. One day, the young heir to one of the biggest companies around, Ritsu Kaido, is told that the only way he can inherit the company and his father's fortune, is if he were to marry Chiharu. Even without love in this marriage, there must be a way to make this work... is what Chiharu thought until she learns that Ritsu has a secret lover?!
Since she was just a child, Lydia was determined as the daughter of a Marquis to do everything in her power to support the royal family. However, everything seems to be changing before her very eyes as her fiance Rogerio begins showing romantic interest in a lowly noble aide to the princess. While ignoring their duties, the two seem to be getting awfully familiar... and yet Lydia seems to only be treated as an antagonist when confronting the situation. Feeling betrayed, her manners and patience have reached their limit...!
After her mother passed, Lucia was left with a family who had barely a care in the world for her. Her only value to her father and stepmother was that the second prince had chosen to marry her. But all it took for her to lose him too was a little temptation from her younger sister Nina. Not only has Nina been revealed to be with child, but the prince now wishes to wed her instead! When Lucia is about to lose all hope, she meets the kingdom's rumored archduke...
Yuriko, 35 and single, leads a humdrum everyday routine of work and looking after her disabled father. At the kindergarten where she teaches she's treated as an old maid, and at home her father won't listen to a thing she says. And of course she has no plans to marry... after all, she's just going to live out the rest of her boring life here in the countryside anyway, right? But while she's lost in thought over it, she causes a fender-bender. She doesn't know how to react, but Sosuke, the man in the other car, tells her he'll forget it ever happened... if she has sex with him! But after she goes with the flow and "just does it," it turns out that he's actually the father of one of her students?! And as if that weren't enough, Takumi, her kindergarten's cheeky young chief director, arrives on the scene...? Thus begins a clumsy love triangle for a flawed adult who had given up on love.
Marriage can change a person. But those changes can also mean new arguments, a loss of respect for your partner, and sometimes, the ultimate betrayal -- an extramarital affair. Introducing a collection of tales depicting marriages on the brink of crumbling and women seeking revenge on their cheating, good-for-nothing husbands.
Suddenly one day, the marquess's daughter Lobelia realizes that she's inside the world of "The Eternal Cage," an adult dating sim she played in her previous life. What's more is that she's the villain of the story, while her dear sister Lily is the protagonist! However, "this time," Lobelia vows not to bully but protect her sister, especially from any "compromising circumstances." Thus begins Lobelia's struggle against fate, and the beautiful yet lusty men it throws her and her sister's way!
"From now on, you belong to me." Despite being born into a family of priestesses, Kotoko only possesses a slight amount of spiritual power. Being compared to her twin sister who has strong spiritual powers, Kotoko has been mistreated as the disgraced priestess since childhood. One day, in order to save the village that has been experiencing a terrible drought, her parents decide to offer Kotoko as a sacrifice to the ruthless Fox God. Kotoko agrees for the sake of the village. However, when the Fox God, Kannagi, appears before her, he tells her that he will take her as his wife... A lonely girl is sacrificed to a God and finds love for the first time!
Adiyah was born as the next Holy Maiden of Awakening, inheriting the power to banish demons known as Dream Thieves. However, her younger sister conspires with a Dream Thief to steal those powers, leaving Adiyah to be disparaged as "the impotent holy maiden." Caught in her sister's cunning trap, she is terrorized by her peers and family alike, cast aside by her fiance, and left with nothing. After years of this torment, she reunites with a boy she saved in a dream world when she was young... and he turns out to be an imperial prince?!
After becoming afflicted with a curse that leaves her with only one year left to live, Sophie comes to her fiance Laurence, the prince of the kingdom, asking to break off their engagement so that she can live freely before her life ends. The two had a somewhat cold relationship, but for some reason Laurence is unable to except the idea of breaking of the engagement...? A Love story that begins with the beginning of the end.
Karin's wedding is just around the corner, and while she is enjoying a blissful meal with her family, her fiance Chris and his father suddenly inform her that the engagement is off. Though shaken by their unexpected declaration, Karin asks Chris for the reason, and he reveals that he has fallen for Mary, Karin's best friend. With her honor and dignity tarnished by Chris and his father's thoughtless actions, Karin plummets into despair. However, her brother asserts that they will give them "a taste of their own medicine." The Rhedsum family shall not be trifled with! Dive into a refreshing and elegant fantasy of nobility and revenge!