Koyuki Hikawa isn't great with people and always puts up a wall between others. She had been spending her high school days alone, but one day meets the overly friendly Minato Amamiya. The loner, Koyuki, the popular girl, Miki, the guy with no personal space, Minato, and the laid back member of the basketball team, Yota... The story of these four somewhat awkward students in their bloom of youth begins!
Mayuri, twenty-six-year-old, is a sales worker at one of the leading advertisement companies in Japan. She is beautiful, sociable, and clever. However, there is something she is troubled by...her stalker. This someone follows her no matter how many times she moves. One night, she spots a suspicious man fumbling in her trash. She realizes that he is Ryo, her classmate from high school. He must be the stalker! Mayuri, feeling pure rage, suddenly comes up with a plan...let him think she is in love with him, then dump him! A love story full of suspense!
"What did I just 'feel'...?" The daughter of a baron, Melvy Renoir, has a peculiar constitution that impedes her ability to feel anything. Derided and oppressed by her family as an unsettling "defective product," she is ordered to marry Duke Gerald Valrier, feared as "The Bride-Slaying Duke." Feeling her life in danger, she reluctantly visits the duke's mansion. Upon meeting him, Gerald declares, "If you don't lose consciousness when I touch you, I will make you my wife." The moment his fingertips touched Melvy, her body, which should not feel anything, is overcome by a sweet, numbing "pleasure"... That encounter would come to serve as the prologue to a story in which two "flawed people" learn about love...
A detested villainess and a proper prince are instinctually drawn to each other's bodies before they have a chance to develop feelings. What will their destiny be?!
Ito, who loves to watch Anime all alone, has a twin sister, Oto, who is an actress known all over Japan. One day, Oto disappears...and Ito has to take her place! Oto is married to a famous actor Manato, and Ito needs to live with him...someone who reminds Ito of her favorite character in the Anime! Soon Ito finds out that their marriage is fake, but Manato seems to have a secret... When Ito falls in love with him, he starts to change...what is his intention? An awkward love story.
Airi, a daughter of a small bakery owner, was hired by a large food producing company. It was a dream-come-true for her. On her way home, she was suddenly taken to the CEO's house to meet their son, Akinari. He was an Otaku, loving this character "Love-chan" so much that he refused to marry anyone in the real world. And this Love-chan looked exactly like Airi...! Airi starts to live with Akinari, and in return her father's bakery gets support from her company. Akinari is handsome and sweet...Airi starts to have feelings for him while working close to him in the company. But she is not sure...does Akinari loves her, or just Love-chan!?
Her family always put her brother first. Her fiance always put his best friend first. However, after Sylvia has been looked down on just for expressing her desires her entire life and too many betrayals from her fiance to count, she decides enough is enough. She declares that she's done being everyone's afterthought and is going to prioritize herself from now on. That very day, a split-second judgment to rescue a young street urchin turns out to be a decision that will change her life. She quickly realizes that the young boy is actually the emperor's illegitimate child Leon, and her own talents are soon discovered by the emperor's half-brother, the "Battle-Crazed Duke", Wilhart. Wilhart asks Sylvia to be Leon's attendant in the Imperial Palace, and for the first time in her life, she feels needed. And despite the rumors of Wilhart's cold, war-hardened demeanor, Sylvia finds him gazing at her with a passion he's never shown anyone else...!
Chihiro, twenty-five-old, is madly in love with her colleague, Nakaba. He's cool, clever and handsome. They go for a drink almost every day, so she knows that he likes her too. However, she can't ask him to go out with her, since part of her thinks she's happy the way they are. One day, her good friend tells her that she should tell Nakaba right away that she loves him, or else he'll be some other girl's boyfriend. Chihiro decides to tell him, but she's got a big project to handle in front of her... Can they become lovers?
Reizera was on the verge of breaking off her engagement, and at the same time bad rumors were spreading about her family's wine farm. But one day, a duke's son asks her to marry him, she starts the life of LADY....
Constanze (Connie), a marquess's daughter, is told by Crown Prince Wilhelm that their engagement is broken off. It seems the prince has found someone he loves-and what's more, that person is apparently a saint who only recently appeared. After two whole years of serving as the de facto Crown Princess, Connie is left crushed by this utterly heartless pronouncement. Yet then, out of nowhere, memories of her past life come flooding back-and she realizes she has been reincarnated as the "villainess," the throwaway love rival in a romance novel she used to devour in her previous life. "Give me a break. I want no part of that role-I'm going to live my life as a lord!" This is the story of Connie, drawing on her innate talents to thrive in a remote frontier domain far from the imperial capital!
Rua is a saintess-in-training blessed with healing powers-but her gift comes with a cruel flaw: to cure others, she must take their pain and afflictions into her own body, suffering the consequences herself. Branded "defective," she endures the scorn of the other saintess candidates-except for her closest friend, Arianne, who always stands up for her.
One day, Commander Garrot-the man Rua secretly loves-lies at death's door. Rua heals him completely, only to collapse and hover between life and death. When she finally wakes, it's a nightmare: the credit has been stolen, and Garrot is already engaged to Arianne.
Betrayed and cast aside, Rua swears she will never heal anyone again. Then the second prince, Sven, offers her a deal: revenge on those who humiliated her. Armed with a hidden power-to inflict on others the very ailments she once took into herself-Rua joins hands with Sven and begins a new life... not as a "saintess," but as a villainess.
She's finally got her shot at a nice job at one of the biggest companies around... working as the CEO's girlfriend?! Asahi hasn't been able to find work but has been getting by on a delivery job while looking for a more permanent arrangement. When she gets into her next interview, she realizes that she's just walked into a less-than-favorable reunion. Taiga Kagura, managing director of the company, is heading the interview. Just a day ago Asahi accidentally ruined his suit while chasing down a taxi, and now he wants compensation... for her to be his girlfriend in an elaborate contract. 3 Months. Asahi doesn't like the sound of it, but what other opportunity will she have for her resume...?
"Your scent grows sweeter when you're excited." "It's embarrassing..." Born to a mother of the fox clan and a human father, Mio was left in the care of cruel relatives, treated as little more than a servant. Her whole life changes when Kyosuke, the high lord who rules the city, becomes captivated by her scent. Falling in love at first sight, he sweeps her away and quickly marries her. Though anxious about their wedding night, it all melts away as Kyosuke draws closer, her body burning up as if in heat! Their souls intertwined by fate, can their love withstand those who wish to tear them apart?!
Lunatia, a viscount's daughter who possessed the ability of "Future Reading," had been used by her family as they pleased. Exploited even by her fiance, she eventually lost sight in one eye, the price of her ability. If things continued as they were, all five of her senses would disappear, and the only future awaiting her was to become little more than a shell of a person...... And so, Lunatia left home, aiming to "live freely and, at the end, meet a clean death." She made her way to the mansion of the "Moon-Devouring Marquess," a man said to be searching for a bride. Before Marquess Nox, feared as cruel and wicked, Lunatia put forward her terms: "If you would make me your bride, I will read the future for you once a day." "Of course, I have no need for a husband's love." "And when I am no longer needed, at the end, please kill me by your hand." Thus began a married life built on mutual advantage. She kept the price of her ability secret, yet cracks gradually began to show, and in time, her husband, who should have been cold and ruthless, came to turn devoted love toward her...?
"You want to make a baby with me, right?" Having never made love before, The Prince and his wife are in for a steamy night. Once they get a taste, they'll never be able to go back.
Julia, a lowly servant from the marquess' estate, has no idea how she lost the ability to speak. With no memories from before the age of twelve, she's simply been told that a traumatic incident is to blame. While everyone at the estate treats her harshly, Julia has barely been able to survive with the help of Camille, the marquess' second son. Camille even helps her speak again using his special power, "Arcana." However, that's when jealous servants plot against Julia and throw her out of the estate. The duke's eldest son, Glen, stumbles upon the injured Julia and takes her in. Caught between Camille's obsessive passion and Glen's genuine affection-where will fate lead Julia?
Lilia, the newborn daughter of a marquis, has the memories of her previous life! With cheat-like gamer knowledge she aims to become the strongest girl in this new "other world"!
In noble society, while most people care more about house or status than love when seeking a partner, this couldn't be any less the case for Grace Shellgrave, the daughter of a marquis with memories of a troubled past life. Seeking a true connection with someone who feels the same way, she attends a masquerade ball in secret. After spending a romantic night with Alan, a man who seems to share the same values, she soon finds out she's become pregnant... and to make matters worse, Alan is actually the heir to House Ward, the sworn arch-enemy of the Shellgraves! Alan aggressively pursues Grace, but she refuses to let her baby become a pawn for another typical noble. Does he just want an heir? Or could it actually be... love? Two equally awkward opposites attract in this aristocratic love story!
"Even if you never loved me, I still wanted to save you."
Lunia, the daughter of Count Persephone, lived a lonely life-rejected by her father and treated as a mere tool by her half-brother. When a priest selected her as the bride of Duke Hades, master of the cursed Khronoa family, she seized her only chance to escape by marrying into the duke's household.
The Khronoa family, feared as the "Dark King" for handling the empire's darkest affairs-affairs that could kill anyone who became involved-was bound by a curse: unless the duke married the bride chosen by the emperor, his life would be cut short. Unlike the rumors, Hades's presence captivated Lunia at once. Yet he made it clear he had no intention of loving love her.
Confused by his rejection when her very existence was meant to save him from the curse, Lunia deceived him to keep him alive, sharing one fateful night with him before disappearing, unaware that she was now carrying his child...
Seven years later, Hades finds Lunia-and this time, he is determined to bring her and their child back home...