Reina, the princess of the Kingdom of Fromesia, has always been looked down on as an illegitimate child amongst royalty. As part of an agreement to maintain peace between two kingdoms, Reina is sent in place of her stepsister to be married to the prince of the kingdom of Beastmen. On arrival, Reina expects to be welcomed by Prince Cain, rumored to be fearsome and almighty. However, the man who appears before her is anything but! With shining golden eyes, delicate charm, and an emotionally mature demeanor, Prince Cain welcomes Reina to his domain, and the wedding proceeds without a hitch. However, as they meet for their first night as husband and wife, Prince Cain states that this marriage is only for current circumstances and will only be temporary... what could he possibly mean...?
If I have another life, this time I want a family to love and be loved by... Odette is tasked with caring for prisoners from an enemy country. While nursing a dying man back to health, she is taken along with him by soldiers who come to rescue him, and she ends up living in the enemy nation of Krastera. The rescued man, Captain Theodore of Krastera's knights, treats Odette with respect as his savior and begins to feel something special for her. However, Odette, who has never been blessed with family or marriage, is simply doing her best to just live. This is a heartfelt, pure love story about two people with troubled pasts who find connection and hope in each other.
Odette, the daughter of a count, is arranged to marry Alphonse, the royal guard she has long admired. But this marriage isn't born of love; it's a royal decree.On a rainy day, Alphonse, a master of both swordsmanship and magic, saved Odette from a bandit attack. Struck by his gallant presence, Odette fell deeply for him. However, she soon heard a troubling rumor that Alphonse and the princess were secretly involved as lovers.Despite her heartbreak, Odette kept her feelings hidden. Years later, a marriage proposal arrived, and her intended husband was none other than Alphonse. Knowing the marriage was a cover to hide his forbidden relationship with the princess, Odette still accepted, unable to deny her longing for him.And so began a bittersweet tale of unfulfilled love, destined to be marked by heartache and quiet yearning.
Far removed from the capital, in the village where immortals reside...there grow fragrant fruits filled with divine Qi. Only beautiful girls, blessed with the Qi most holy, are selected to consume it daily. They will become vessels for heaven's blessings whose supple skin radiates the scent of the peach. They are the "Immortal Peach Princesses". Sons of the Emperor couple with one of them, seeking divine favor through the union of man and woman. Zha're was chosen to be the White Peach Princess, the White Prince's bride. She was honored to be chosen, but the prince didn't come to her bed on the First Night...when she was supposed to give divine blessing to him. Both of them didn't know what love was... A sweet and beautiful Chinese fantasy.
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!
"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...
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.
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...
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.
Before, she was just an ordinary girl with a penchant for cooking. Now, she has been reborn into another world as Aria, a princess of the Kingdom of Estrella. Remembering her love for the kitchen from her past life, she spends her days peacefully, cooking to her heart's content. Then one day, she is sent off to Jhero Empire as a candidate to be the cruel and merciless emperor's bride. However, due to unexpected circumstances, she ends up staying in the capital and working as the chef at "Cafe Happiness," all while concealing her identity. As her Japanese cooking fills the customers'hearts... and stomachs with joy, the diner becomes the talk of the town, with lines pouring out of the shop each day. Then one day, a mysterious and attractive young man named Lindt decides to pay the restaurant a visit...
You're great just the way you are. Even though Miku is 25 years old, she hasn't learned a thing about how to do her own makeup -- but her boyfriend, Haru, tells her that he prefers her that way. Miku and Haru live together, after all, and they might get married, in which case she'll just quit her job anyway, so it's probably fine never to learn... At least, that's what she tells herself. One day, a boy with a special love for makeup suddenly appears in her life. The beautiful stranger does Miku up gorgeously and Haru's reaction to her new look is almost unbelievable--? A story of starting anew and taking one's life back through makeup!
Felia, a country girl born to a not-wealthy lord, was chosen as the King's consort. Her family specializes in farming medical herbs, and she enjoyed working in the fields...but now she must join the competition to be the King's wife. And Felia was the "31st" consort, which means that the King will come to see her only on the 31st of the month. No one thought she will be chosen, even Felia herself. But she didn't care and started growing vegetables and herbs at her manor! The King becomes attracted to this unique, strong girl before he knows...
"I don't want to fall in love again!" Due to unfortunate circumstances, 31-year-old single mother Yuki has to live with her daughter's younger handsome kindergarten teacher?
Sakurako is rather plain, doesn't think very highly of herself, and since she began working at her current job, she's secretly been in love with her section chief, Agatsuma. Agatsuma is good at his job, kind, and everyone loves him. Sakurako is a late bloomer and she never could quite muster up the courage to tell Agatsuma how she feels, so she settles for watching him from afar. Soon, it is all too late for her when Agatsuma is transferred to the company headquarters and out of her life. A heart-rending adult love story about hopeless, whole hearted feelings -- the first chapter.
"Don't ever forget how it felt when I made love to you." -- One year ago, never-been-kissed Hitoe entered a marriage of convenience with Kei, her company's new president. She had been secretly falling for him and was full of hope that their marriage might blossom into romance, but her hopes were soon dashed. They sleep in separate bedrooms and have never once spent a night together... In fact, she barely ever sees her husband at all! With reality falling so far short of the rosy newlywed life she'd dreamed of, Hitoe decides to put an end to her fruitless, one-sided love by getting a divorce. But first... "Even if I can't have him forever, I want to be with the man I love at least once." Still hiding her true feelings, Hitoe asks Kei for something to remember him by: one last - and first - night together as man and wife. She's braced for rejection, but to her surprise, he lays her down in his bed and whispers, "How do you want me to make love to you?" This couple was stuck on the starting line, but the idea of divorce will finally get them moving forward...!
"Here's to enjoying the second stage of my life!" Kazuha Ono is now a 35-year-old divorcee after ending things with her cheating husband. She works up the courage to declare, "I am officially divorced!" at her workplace, the editorial department of a fashion magazine, and much to her dismay the handsome new employee happens to be there at the same time. She thought it would make things awkward between them, but it seems like for some reason it's drawn him in closer?!
Philia is the daughter of an Earl and wishes to spend her life enjoying her hobbies and doing the things she likes. She has no interest in socializing with other socialites of her age and in dating the opposite sex. She enjoys reading books and listening to the stories of the coming and going merchants. She relied on her parents when it came to marriage. That is when Philia receives a marriage proposal from Duke Claude Morris, who is admired by everyone. Being unable to decline, Philia marries Claude. ? On the first night of being married, they return to the Duke's estate where he suddenly pushes her away saying "don't come near me." With a stern face, Claude says "I don't plan on having a man and woman relationship with you," and Philia begins to ask the reason but...
First Princess of the Elixir Kingdom, Roselia is referred to as the 'Poison Princess' and is hated by many. She was unfortunately born with the power to create poisons rather than the ability to create 'Cure Potions'--a healing power passed down in the royal family. Roselia was given the chance to have her position solidified as the heir to the throne after her mother died. That was the condition? To be able to create Cure Potions before the age of 18. Roselia, alone, tries her hardest to create Cure Potions, and then she meets the one of the few people who have ever treated her nicely, Lord Elliott, her cousin! She finds herself drawn to him and he proposes!"Do you wish to rewind your life?" At her lowest moment, overcome with despair, the Poison Princess's fate changes, and she heads off onto a new journey to find happiness and... maybe even love...?
Under her father the margrave's command, Lewis Ballantine is enlisted in the Monastery Knights to perfect her swordsmanship skills. While it's common knowledge to most of the swordsmen that Lewis is indeed a woman, crown prince and heir to the Flamelance throne, Gerald, is blind to this fact. The night of the ball for knights, Gerald appears suddenly in Lewis's room. While surprise visits are commonplace, Gerald is overtaken by this figure of Lewis he's seen for the first time?!
I know I shouldn't be falling in love, but I just can't help it.
Chikako, who had dreamt of going on a luxurious world cruise since she was a child, finally makes her dream come true. During her trip she is rescued from an accident by Masato, the CEO of the cruise company. She ends up staying in his suite and getting taken care of. Masato is the perfect gentleman, teaching her how to dance and showing her kindness, and Chikako's heart can't help but be drawn to him. However, out of the blue, he says, "I'd like to make a business transaction with you."