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"I always believed I was the only one who should stand by his side..." Prince Ashley, the first prince of the Kingdom of Sforzia, and Lady Violetta, a duke's daughter, are engaged to be married. Although their engagement was arranged for political reasons, Violetta has worked hard to support him as the crown prince since they were young. However, as she became busier, they started spending less time together, and Ashley became close to a cheerful and naive young lady, who is Violetta's complete opposite. Then, Violetta hears a shocking rumor: "Poor Lady Violetta. Imagine being cast aside by the crown prince!" Rather than let another young woman take him away, Violetta makes a firm decision: 'Fine, I'll be the one to end this engagement!' -
USD 0.99 / 99pt ~ USD 1.49 / 149pt"Even if it's just for show, I wouldn't mind being loved by this man"Countess Ruzette has been searching for a husband ever since her debut in high society, but her engagements always end for the same strange reason. After yet another broken engagement, she finally discovers the truth at a debut evening party: people have been mistaking her for the popular debutante "Luzette Datal", who shares both a similar name and appearance!As she tries to move past the confusion, Ruzette receives a marriage proposal from Duke Laures Visant, a man renowned for his status and prestige. Convinced this is just another misunderstanding, she plans to help him realize the truth and call off the engagement. But no matter what she does, the duke's relentless and passionate pursuit of "Luzette" shows no signs of stopping, even though she's not the "Luzette" he thinks she is! -
USD 0.99 / 99ptAkari 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!
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USD 1.99 / 199pt"I detest vulgar men."
Salivia is a blossoming aristocratic lady who refuses to bend the knee to any man. She has never known love, but she must find a fiance by the time she turns 17 or her grandmother will choose for her. One night, Salivia encounters the "cunning knight Uld," who, to her shock, is a romanceable character in a dating game from her previous life!
"Naughty girl, you need to be punished."
Uld is the worst kind of man, notorious for making women cry with his overbearing personality. But when Salivia rebukes him, he turns his full attention towards her! Using any excuse to meet with her, Uld closes in and never lets Salivia out of his grasp. Now, Salivia is the one being romanced?! -
USD 1.99 / 199pt"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. -
USD 1.99 / 199ptIris 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... -
USD 1.99 / 199pt"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...! -
USD 1.49 / 149ptHead over heels for the first time in 10 years!! 29 years old and with no one to call a significant other, Haruka's been focused on her work to keep her mind off the turmoil of her (nonexistent) romantic life. That all changed though when she bumped into Chikage, a student at the nearby university... love at first sight! This is all so new... or rather it feels like it since it's been too long... but now Haruka's got to figure out how to close the distance and learn more about this person she just happened to be looking at from afar for so long. One day, on her way back from work, Haruka decides to browse the bookstore near her office when, lo and behold, Chikage's working the register! Who would've thought it'd be Chikage that pops the question?! "Will you be a practice girlfriend for me?" ...Practice?!
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USD 1.49 / 149pt"Booze! Bring me more booze!"
Melissa is down in the dumps after her engagement is abruptly ended. With nowhere else to turn, she heads to a local bar to drown her frustrations. Overhearing, a mysterious figure hidden beneath a cloak strikes up a conversation with her. Although a little bossy, Jules gets along well with Melisa. Intrigued by her brazen yet delicate nature, invites her to meet again for drinks. Suspicious at first, Melissa gradually warms to him, and their bond deepens over shared drinks and lively debates. Just as things seem to be looking up, her ex-fiance, Sam, barges in! Is this Melissa's chance to finally give him a piece of her mind?! -
USD 1.49 / 149pt"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... -
USD 0.09 / 9pt ~ USD 0.99 / 99ptYoshiwara, old Edo's paradise of pleasure, has been reborn in modern-day Tokyo.... In this playground of the powerful, where money rules all, women sell both their bodies and the idea of romance to their male clientele. Thrust into this world is the ingenue Asuka, who's been sold out by her foster parents to pay off their debts. While at first oblivious to the nature of Yoshiwara, she accidentally barges in on a "transaction" between a courtesan and her client. Confronted with her new reality of being bought and sold, she longs to make a break for it... but is there anyone around her she can trust...?!
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USD 1.49 / 149ptKanane Shinohara's been in plenty of relationships, but they've never panned out. Now, she's in her mid-30s and has become incapable of falling in love. As she drinks her sorrows away, she convinces herself that the reason she can't find a decent man lies within her. However, before Kanane has a chance to fully accept her "harsh reality," a handsome man named Shirosaki appears before her. Has she finally met her Prince Charming? Or is there something more to him?
Deep down, all Kanane wants is her own Cinderella story, but her experience tells her she's too old for fairytale romances. Using age as an excuse, she attempts to make a break for it and leave Shirosaki behind. However, he might not be so willing to let her escape his reach. -
USD 0.99 / 99ptSara is one of four daughters of the Balks dukedom. Born with golden hair and eyes which are said to be those of a witch, she's a blemish on the family name.
Sara has endured all the mistreatment from her family in hopes of living freely once she becomes of age. However, when one of her sisters is to be wed, she is cast out into the land of the beastfolk, for fear she'll bring a curse upon the family. In a land where no humans are said to be able to survive, the cruel emperor of the beastfolk empire, Cael appears before her. Their eyes meet, and their fates are forever interwined... could this be fate?!
The curtain rises on this fantastical romance between the discarded lady and the wolf emperor who doesn't believe in fate! -
(We pretend to be the happy "main characters.") Kina's friend group from college is made up of two girls and two guys. She had feelings for Tsukasa, one of the guys, but kept it a secret because he was dating her best friend, Rui. However, when Tsukasa and Rui announce their engagement, Kina aches with the feelings she thought she'd squashed, and she spends her days hating herself for struggling to find closure. To help plan the wedding, Kina meets up with Yutaro, Tsukasa's best friend. As the two are talking, Yutaro makes an unexpected suggestion... This is a love story that starts with a lie and sprouts bittersweetly from the leftovers. -
USD 0.99 / 99pt ~ USD 1.99 / 199ptHana Ichise is born into a family of practitioners, but her powers pale in comparison to her gifted twin, Hazuki. As she yearns for freedom from her parents' expectations and ridicule, she makes a shocking discovery when she turns fifteen that changes her life! -
USD 0.99 / 99pt"If it isn't the lovely girl from before!" The emperor's true feelings are too sweet. I don't know what to do!
Born into a renowned family of sorcerers, Elestia can't use a single magic spell. She spends her days blissfully buried in the books she loves, far removed from high society... Or that's how things were supposed to be until the ruthless emperor suddenly orders her to become his first concubine!
"I don't want to be the empress!" she laments to no avail, and the dreaded bedding ceremony arrives. Elestia steels herself to close off her heart until she suddenly hears the supposedly cruel emperor think, "Wow! Her glistening eyes are stunning!" For some reason, she can hear the emperor's inner thoughts...?!
Will Elestia open her heart as she spends her days with the unexpectedly loving ruthless emperor...?! -
USD 0.69 / 69pt"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... -
I'm fed up with love and marriage... But, my body still has cravings... Akira Yamase (32), divorced. She came back to her hometown after her divorce, but she's tired of the rural social relationships that keep butting into her private life. One day, Mori (36) who moved in thanks to the test residency program appeared in the supermarket she works for. The villagers were spreading bad rumors about him walking around town with untidy clothes and messy long hair. Asked to deliver products, Akira carries them into his house. Being close with a man for the first time in a long time, she gets self-conscious and fantasies herself opening her body to him...
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"Do you wanna be with me?"
Saint Blanche continued to fulfill her duty as the Saint, even while being oppressed by her fiance, Georg, the prince of the neighboring country. However, she was suddenly told that her engagement was canceled-because Georg had found the "true" Saint-and exiled Blanche from the country.
Blanche returned to her hometown, but... her worried brother suggested that she make a fake engagement with her childhood friend, Raymond. Suddenly turning into a C
childhood crush to a fiance, Blanche is constantly flustered by Raymond. A love fantasy of unrequited love begins to unfold from their fake engagement! -
Ms. Aoi, I'll do anything if it's for you. Even though he should be someone I hate, why is my heart pounding...!? Aoi has a few secrets - not only is she the daughter of a prestigious family, she has a fiance. The person her parents decided on is Masaomi, the exquisitely handsome heir to a large corporation. "He's always had such a creepy smile. I can never tell what he's thinking about. I absolutely refuse to marry someone like that!" That's what she always thought, but... her parents forced to live with Masaomi!? Though troubled by the sudden cohabitation, she gradually comes to learn of the considerate Masaomi's kindness and earnestness... A story of misunderstanding, between a girl who is afraid of romance and a high-spec heir!
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