An inner palace romance caught between a mission to assassinate the emperor and forbidden love.
Xue Hua has been fed poison by her stepmother for years, until her very body becomes lethal - capable of killing with a single kiss. "It's time for us to take back our throne." Ordered to enter the inner palace and assassinate the emperor, Xue Hua unexpectedly reunites with Zi Lian, the first love who once promised to marry her. But with poison running through her veins, Xue Hua can never remain by his side... The first volume of an inner palace intrigue where fate and pure love collide.
Bright-eyed gyaru girl x Diamond-in-the-rough average joe - where will this unlikely pair's topsy-turvy love lead?! "I'm, like, totally serious about you, Rakupi! I love you soooo much...!" Flashy gyaru girl Tamao moves to the big city and starts living in Machida, in the far far corner of Tokyo's city limits. There she meets Yamada, a cashier at her local supermarket who's nothing special at first glance, and falls head over heels for him.
"Starting today, I'm your husband." The man I've admired from afar for so long is suddenly my husband?! I, Honoka Takatsuki (age 22), have had a crush on the same man since high school. He's my father's subordinate, the aloof and handsome but secretly gentle Nagakura Kosuke. Then one day, out of the blue, Kosuke became my husband...! - "Honoka, darling..." Kosuke whispers into a bewildered Honoka's ear, and...?
"You're stronger than you look, Tsubaki... But you left yourself wide open," he said, as he pinned me down... Just what is he?! - Our protagonist, Tsugumi Tsubaki, wants a romance straight out of a girls' comic. Her heart is set on her upperclassman and fellow literature club member Yamato Tamai, but just when she is about to ask him out, she overhears him say, "If I'm going to date, I'd rather be the one to ask." So, she decides to make him fall for her instead! To do that, she plans to hide the martial arts skills she's gained in her family's dojo, but then a mysterious group of punks sneaks up on Tamai... When Tsugumi steps up to protect him, what will become of her hopes for love...?!
"Selling my virginity for money." Appearing before me were two beautiful men. The outcome being me working for their escort service...?! This is my chance to show off my knowledge, sex appeal, and acting ability! I'll be bringing you your ultimate dream!!
"When this person touches me, I become strange..."Nika, who works at the body care store, "Ma chambre nature", doesn't like others touching her hands because she worries about her dry skin. But, one day, the ace of the product proposal and development department, Fumiya, took a liking to her hands! What's more, he asks Nika to help him with product development as a tester. "It can't be anyone else, but you." He says, as Nika falls for him. He affectionately touches not only her hands, but her whole body...!? This is a story of pure love and fetishism where reason and instinct are at odds!
Look, it's not like Azusa doesn't want to get married. She's a wedding planner, after all, and in spite of her boss's biting sarcasm, she actually finds a lot of comfort in her job. Her boyfriend of five years, Ayumu, just hasn't really brought up the conversation, that's all. Or at least, that's what Azusa thinks, until she catches Ayumu having an affair! Though usually extremely unpleasant, Azusa's handsome boss, Kiryu, offers her sudden and uncharacteristic kindness: "If you don't get married, then I'll step in." What's that supposed to mean?! The sudden tension between Kiryu's usual offensive nature and his sweet words has Azusa wrapped around his little finger, and she's not sure if she can get away... or even wants to?!
Asami works at her dream job as a wedding dress designer for an apparel company. But her life is completely turned on its head when her father, a company investor, sets up an arranged marriage interview for her and Takafumi, her company's CEO! Despite Takafumi's professional competence and good looks, Asami bluntly rejects the offer, refusing to have to tie the knot with such an incredibly brazen and rude man. Despite this, Takafumi, realizing he gets turned on by her rejection, devises a plan which ultimately forces Asami into marriage and moving in with him! Is this the beginning of a sweet married life between Asami and her annoying boss?!
"Well then, how much will you pay to have me?" - Office worker Sumika has lived in perpetual mourning since losing Haruki, her first love who once lifted her out of the grief of losing her only family. A friend from work drags her out to a party, and there she meets Mr. Katsuragi, the vice president of the company hosting the party. It ought to be their first time meeting... and yet, he gives off the impression of already knowing Sumika very well. On top of that, just when Sumika is at her wits' end trying to think of a way to save the family that took her in, Mr. Katsuragi offers to buy her hand in marriage...?
Kotobuki has been asked to handle a meeting with her company's business partner. But their sales agent, who is extremely handsome by the way, turns out to be none other than Tsuzuki, Kotobuki's high school classmate from 8 years ago! Back then, everyone knew him as the heir to a large corporation, and he was incredibly popular, always surrounded by girls. By comparison, Kotobuki was modest and unassuming. She absolutely dreaded dealing with Tsuzuki, who would often pick on her. Though terrified at first, as Kotobuki continues working with Tsuzuki, she realizes that he's changed. Could this be the budding of an unexpected romance?
"This is the real me." -- Having no defined sense of self, Suzuno spends each day simply trying her best to be the ideal woman. She somehow manages to impersonate a very capable woman at the stationery company where she works. One day, though, her handsome, prince-like coworker, Watarai, finds out what she's really like! Once they are alone together, Suzuno realizes that Watarai, himself, is not actually the princely type he seems to be... What's more, Watarai finds out that Suzuno is shouldering her parents' debt. The morning after Suzuno reveals all to the office prince, she wakes up in her own bed... To none other than a naked Watarai sleeping beside her?!
Every day, Haru Inui (27) goes hard in both her personal and professional lives. And every day, her boyfriend tells her that he loves her. Those words alone give Haru the strength to work hard -- until the day she discovers that her boyfriend has been bringing other women to her house when she isn't around. How could she have believed his simple "I love you"s?! Haru feels like an idiot... when suddenly, her junior at work, Okuma, tells her that he has feelings for her! Determined to win her heart, Okuma promises to tell Haru, who doesn't believe in those three little words anymore, that loves her once a day, every day. Seemingly aloof, Okuma turns out to be unexpectedly bold! Haru doesn't know when, and she doesn't know where, but Okuma's surprising daily "I love you"s quickly turn into the office romance she didn't know she needed.
Aya was deserted right before her marriage and was left without a place to live. One day, she finds herself wandering back into the house she was supposed to own after her wedding. To her surprise, the cold-blooded boss she hates from work had moved in as the new owner! A dangerous love ignites under one roof between the girl who lost love and her sadistic boss, presented by Yumi Hisawa!!
"Why do I have to be the one to 'put it in'?"Shun Mizuo has always got a smile on his face. He's popular amongst his coworkers and he's good at his job... but he's useless in the bedroom. One day, heartbroken after discovering his girlfriend cheating on him, he drinks himself into a stupor and reveals his "situation down there" to Amachi, his beautiful-yet-frosty coworker. What happens when, suddenly, Amachi says that she feels that this moment with Mizuo must be fate?! An office romance between two people both hopeless in the bedroom!
Emi Machida has led a hard life, but she's learned to be an optimist...even if her first housekeeping job is at a dilapidated house. Which, that would be one thing, but the home's resident happens to be Akihito Fukase, a popular novelist of an erotic mystery series...and quite the erotic himself. Emi puts her foot down when he tries to use her to help him get material for his books, but when her house suddenly burns down and he offers her a place to stay...somehow, she can't resist!
Literary editor Erina suddenly finds herself stuck in another world: the world of famed romance novelist Haru Yayoi's most recent book, that is. Yayoi gives Erina an absurd order -- enter the story and spice it up! That's how Erina finds herself turned into Ellie, the lady in waiting to the duchess. And somehow, she also ends up needing to collect the ingredients to make the legendary "Blue Forbidden Fruit." The fate of the kingdom depends on it! Unbeknownst to Erina, Yayoi's younger brother Kiito follows her into the story, and the two meet there for the first time... A fantasy story about finding one's true love within the pages of an unfolding romance novel!
"Did you want to exchange husbands?" One husband is all about the bedroom, where the other just wants to sleep. What would happen if these two women began living with the other's husband...?!
Kisa, who works hard at the family business, is a country girl that has never once been in love. One day, Amane, a young CEO who is the descendant of an old noble family, visits her family home on business and suddenly proposes to her. "I'd like to marry you." When Kisa asks why, he confuses her even more by simply stating, "I can just feel it." Eventually, his straightforward words win over her heart, and she agrees to live together with the premise of marriage. Despite his cool and collected exterior, his sweet and gentle actions bring them closer, but their new life together may encounter more trouble than expected...?!
"Time keeps rewinding to one month before my divorce...!?" Will this hopeless husband, completely unaware of his crumbling family, realize his mistakes and escape from the time loop...!?
"I will never draw comics again... so please forgive me, mother." Megumi is a girl who received a sponsorship award for her manga comic at only 16 years old. However, it caused such a great distress amongst her family that it forced her out of her home. Now. 15 years later, she's living with her partner Tamaki while working as an assistant in various jobs. Out of nowhere, a famous manga artist by the name of Unsui Genda appears, putting into motion something in Megumi's life that has been at a standstill for too long.