Mihane Kirino is just your average office girl who's set on finding love... she just has a couple odd things here and there like someone stalking her. One day, one of the charming higher ups in the office, Kai Yamashina offers to take her out for food and listen to her woes. In the blink of an eye things go from attentive boss to pretend boyfriend and/or personal body guard, and he doesn't seem to care to hide it!
"I got a girlfriend." Airi has been married to her husband, Eita, for a year, but is astonished to hear his sudden proclamation that he has been cheating. Thinking that their married life was hunky-dory, Airi falls apart. While going through her despair, Airi meets a skillful president named Rei Naruse at a cooking class. As a man who doesn't mince words, Naruse is set to help guide Airi to get her life back on track!
Sana, self-conscious about her weight, is confused by her manager Mr. Kusakabe's constant glare. One day, she slips on the stairs, but Mr. Kusakabe catches her, and her embarrassment grows, certain he now thinks she's heavy. But when she confronts him about his stares, he blushes and confesses his love, revealing his "glaring" was actually a sign of affection. He then asks her on a date in this cute office romance.
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!
Once a commoner, Wellmy Ernest ascended to nobility when her mother married an earl. She tormented her same-age half-sister at home and school, stole her heirship and fiance, and finally sold her off to the allegedly cruel Lord of Magic. It's not like her plain, meek sister could oppose. Wellmy got everything she wanted. One day, Wellmy receives an invitation to a late-night soiree from the Lord of Magic, likely to announce her sister as his fiancee. Wellmy attends with her mother and father, but what awaits them isn't the brilliant banquet they were expecting...it's a tribunal condemning them for their ab*se of Wellmy's sister. Which means everything has gone just as Wellmy planned... This is the story of a lone villainess who plans to make her sister happy even if it means she's hated in return. (C)Mary=Doe/SQUARE ENIX (C)Kuga Huna/SQUARE ENIX (C)Stellagi Suzuka/SQUARE ENIX
Anise spends her days working to support the baron, her father, for her family is on the verge of collapse due to bankruptcy. Right as she convinces herself she'll have work 'til she's dead, she suddenly receives a marriage proposal from Julius, a beautiful young man from a family of dukes. Anise is perplexed by this sudden turn of events, but she soon realizes that Julius' goal is a marriage blanc, or a marriage without love. Julius, who has no interest in the opposite sex, desires a wife who is not attached to him nor restricts what he can and cannot do. Anise, however, has a certain condition that she proposes to Julius before the two marry...?
"Won't you have any regrets about breaking off our engagement?" Lady Daisy, the Marquess' daughter, is engaged to Prince Freddie and works hard to become the future queen. One day, Freddie catches an unknown disease. Aside of Daisy's desperate nursing and praying, a saint named Lula comes and saves Freddie. Freddie falls in love with the saint and starts saying that he has found "true love"! He easily dumps Daisy and becomes engaged to Lula. Once her engagement is broken, Daisy's story of fate begins...! This is a story of reclaiming one's life and destiny triggered by a broken engagement.
Yomogi Aoba is a struggling 35-year-old writer. Her editor suggests writing about sex services for women but refuses. However, after learning her friend with benefits and former editor, Ryo, will soon marry, she begins to feel the loneliness creep in. Wanting affection, she decides to try out the sex therapist service her editor introduced her to. To her surprise, the one at the door is none other than her young and attractive housekeeper, Rin!
Angenica's engagement is called off after her stepsister Veronica sleeps with her betrothed. On top of that, Veronica's engagement to the rumored "Brutish Count" is transferred to Angenica, forcing her into a suspicious marriage of unknown circumstances. After all the years of hard work Angenica had put into managing her family's estate after her mother passed away, she's now being driven out of her own home and into the arms of a man known as the Brutish Count Lloyd. Others that were engaged to the count are rumored to have gone mad and run away from him!
"Only if you vow to keep this secret and continue serving me your blood as "food" for eternity..." Ruri, a weak and overworked office worker, finds solace in Gilbert, her favorite character from the otome game "Vampire Mansion." One morning, after pushing herself too hard, her co-workers find her collapsed at the office, and her body is already cold... However, when she awakens, she finds herself in the game world, and even meets Gilbert...! She has been reborn as Fiona, the fiancee who is destined to be killed by him! Fiona's struggle to avoid this fate and to be close to her beloved character begins. Over time, her feelings shift to wanting to save this man who has never been rewarded. Thus begins the story of the cursed vampire duke and the reborn side character.
"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...!
Welcome to the inner palace, where only the most skilled and diligent maids are stationed to wait on the king's consorts and their children. Fina Scalchi is one such maid. The problem is that she despises the cold climate of the royal capital. She's managed to put up with the frigid temperatures for the past five years (with the help of aphrodisiacs), but she's had enough! So when she's finally offered an assignment in the warmer South, you can imagine how ecstatic she is. The caveat, however, is that she must work at the southern military fortress ruled by the "Stone Cold General," Silverio Orcagna. Despite her distaste for his arrogant demeanor, she remains the dutiful maid, impressing him with her dedication. Then one evening, when the general visits Fina's room, he mistakenly partakes in her precious aphrodisiac! Unable to bear the sight of him in his heated state, she aids him...in quelling his fervor. But as a result of their close-quarters contact, a sense of possessiveness begins to take hold of the general...!
Otoha is a young career woman with a great reputation at work. However, because of her success, she has earned herself an enemy who's out to get her.
Then there's her coworker, Naruse, the company heartthrob. All eyes are on him, but he often gets involved with Otoha, which always results in them arguing. When Otoha runs into her boyfriend on a date with another woman, Naruse jumps in and...
"I'm living on the green side of the grass." Successful career woman Sono never let envy drag her down. She had everything she ever wanted, and she'd gotten it all through her own hard work. On top of her growing list of accomplishments at work, her relationship with her boss (and live-in boyfriend) Taiya was going great, with a proposal right on the horizon...until one unexpected twist brought her whole perfect life tumbling down around her. Heartbroken and needing an escape, Sono moved to a run-down little apartment, only to realize it had a secret hole in the wall that looked straight into the neighboring apartment. When she sees what the neighbor is getting up to, she can't seem to look away, and as the days pass she finds herself more and more obsessed with peeking in on her neighbor... A mature love story about a career woman intent on being "strong and independent," the mysterious boy next door, and their slowly intertwining lives.
Kei Wataya, age 28, is an unwed single mother from a small town... whose beloved son refuses to go to class. The pitying looks she gets from her fellow clinic staff, not to mention the rest of the world, are almost bad enough to make her wince. Between work and trying to help her son integrate into school better, Kei's got her hands too full to worry about romance... and that's assuming anyone would even be interested in a woman with so much "baggage." That's where 40-year-old doctor, Nagisa Kamijo, comes in. He's more than a decade older than Kei, and his disparaging view of women is just one of many reasons they don't get along, so there's no danger of love blooming between them... Or so she thought, until a bizarre proposal from Kamijo lights a spark that might just become more. She couldn't care less about love or romance, and she doesn't regret the life she chose, but some nights she yearns to feel the warmth of another body... Tune in for an age-gap romance just as off-kilter as it is passionate, between a single mother who's "done with men" and a doctor who "hates" women.
The plan of the incredibly close sisters... is to show what's what to their mother who always was prejudiced against the older sister!
"I know very well that a parent's love isn't always equal... but I'm fine as long as I have my little sister with me!" Amanda is plain and always ridiculed when compared to her beautiful younger sister, Adeline. Her parents ignored her and other people's words hurt her... but only at first. After Amanda learned how Adeline truly felt, all Amanda could think about was how to become the best big sister to Adeline as she could be. If she had the time to be hurt, then she could improve herself for Adeline's sake! In other words, she became someone with the mental strength of steel and an obsession with her little sister. Their mother had always irrationally doted on Adeline, so they made a plan to escape her clutches. When they put it into motion...
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...
One morning, Alex Hubert, a student in the knight department at Howard Royal Academy, suddenly begins to see countless red threads. The beautiful outcast Sarah Crowleagh tells him that these threads are "red strings of fate." But she cuts Alex's red string without a second thought! Alex is outraged by Sarah's selfish behavior, which has earned her the reputation of being the "witch of breakups" who breaks up lovers, but he realizes that she is actually cutting the threads of unhappy couples. Alex can't help but worry about Sarah, who is not afraid to play the bad guy and continues to isolate herself.
"Be my attendant." What? A lame woman like me can't serve a man in that way!
I was a plain, unfeminine woman, but before I knew it, I woke up in the world of the game I was playing! And to think that I'd become the villainous young lady Alissa, a character I hate the most... On top of that, Alissa is on the verge of being sent to a dirty old man as a prostitute by her evil sister, the queen, under the guise of being a saintess! As Alissa tries to escape from the royal palace, a wild and mysterious handsome man assists her rescue. But the forceful man orders her to perform serve him in exchange for his help!
Haruka Usami is a 24 year old office worker with an honest and hard-working attitude. Her boss, Tsukasa Ogami, is a serious man with eyes like a wolf. She's beginning to feel fed up with her boss's strictness, when she has to continue working after her ex-boyfriend has left her with a horrible loan to pay off! While working another job as a mascot character, she runs into her boss by chance! "I want to help my staff to work and grow together. There's someone in our office who does so much for us..." She gets to hear her boss's true thoughts!? It turns out her serious boss is a softy who's no good with talking to people. Now that she knows, she can't help but find him adorable. Now Haruka has to figure out how to express these feelings to him! What will happen in this odd office love story??