What's in store for a 32-year-old virgin feeling insecure about her lack of experience?! Maiko Kousaka is your average office worker, except she has a secret that absolutely can't get out! Even though she's over 30, she still hasn't done "it". Desperate to change things, she decides to take matters into her own hands.
"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!'
Mei had always believed that money was the most important thing in life?more important than love, relationships, or anything else. But when her apartment burnt down, leaving her with nothing but a pile of ashes, her carefully constructed world crumbled. In her moment of despair, "Wanna stay over at my place?" Takayuki, a coworker she despises, stood before her, his offer as genuine as his gaze. His simple words were a key that unlocked her heart, melting the cold, steel armor she had built around herself for so long.
"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.
Falling for the man with an obsessive love will... Kasumi Kirishima is constantly asked by her coworkers to help them with their tasks and works overtime every day. She's too put together, which creates a rift between her and her boyfriend, Sota. One day, Kasumi finishes her work early, but when she gets home, she discovers Sota is cheating on her with her coworker, Ota!
After having her world turned upside down, Kasumi pretends to be unaffected and runs out of their apartment. In the middle of her breakdown, the office heartthrob, Jun Kayanuma, comes to her rescue. At first, she doesn't know what to make of his frankness with her, but she gradually falls for him. However, there's more to Jun than meets the eye...
"I thought I was the happiest person in the world... Until that day." Aya is twenty-nine and in her second year of marriage. She was enjoying a peaceful life with her husband, a handsome and faithful man who was the envy of those around her. One day, Aya sees a certain message on her husband's cellphone, and now he's starting to come home late... "Is he actually busy with work? Or is there some other reason...?" Should Aya question her husband and risk destroying her marriage, or should she keep her doubts to herself and protect the peaceful life she has...? A marriage life of uncertainty is about to unfold...
"You're already 30 years old! Women are only appaealing when they're still young!" were the cruel words my husband spoke. Masumi and Shinichiro have been maried for seven years. With their five year old daughter, the three of them make up a happy family... Or so it seemed. The last time Shinichiro and Masumi had sex was three years ago. From wife to mother to 30 years old in the blink of an eye. Will Masumi spend the rest of her life simply aging and losing sex appeal? "... I won't stand for this!" Masumi's ready to polish up her charm and salvage her relationship with her husband... But then this...
Unassuming tourist Mio Hiraishi is finally taking the trip she always wanted... only to find herself face-to-face with the Prince of the Hua Feng crime family?! Standing at the top of the infamous Yuehong Syndicate, Liu Xian is ruthless, gorgeous and powerful-- and looking for a mistress! But as a dangerous liaison turns into a passionate romance... will Mio leave her new life of luxury, or risk it all for love?
Shiori works at the same online apparel company as her boyfriend, Keiichi. But on the day of their 3rd anniversary, she discovers that he's been cheating on her. Heartbroken, she goes to drown her sorrows and ends up passing out at a bar. The man she meets takes her back to a hotel to rest, but as he tries to leave, Shiori pulls him back. Moved by his sincerity, she asks him to spend the night with her. She thought she'd never see him again, but in a cruel twist of fate, he has become their company's new CEO! Moreover, Shiori discovers she's pregnant with his child?!
"There's no such thing as sincere love..." Mianna Caroline was raised strictly as a light mage user from a young age. After her mother passed away, her father remarried and adored her stepsister, ignoring Mianna. Then, to make matters worse, her fiance broke off their engagement, saying he wanted to marry her stepsister instead. Mianna always believed that living honestly would be rewarded, but this betrayal makes her fall into using "dark magic" that humans aren't supposed to have access to. But in the next moment, she wakes up to find herself returned to the day she was born! Then, God tells her, "I'll give you a second chance." With a fresh start, Miana's journey to find love and heal her heart begins again...
Yuriko, 35 and single, leads a humdrum everyday routine of work and looking after her disabled father. At the kindergarten where she teaches she's treated as an old maid, and at home her father won't listen to a thing she says. And of course she has no plans to marry... after all, she's just going to live out the rest of her boring life here in the countryside anyway, right? But while she's lost in thought over it, she causes a fender-bender. She doesn't know how to react, but Sosuke, the man in the other car, tells her he'll forget it ever happened... if she has sex with him! But after she goes with the flow and "just does it," it turns out that he's actually the father of one of her students?! And as if that weren't enough, Takumi, her kindergarten's cheeky young chief director, arrives on the scene...? Thus begins a clumsy love triangle for a flawed adult who had given up on love.
While secretly practicing piano in an empty music room, Mikoto Moriwaki is suddenly kissed by a mysterious, handsome stranger. Flustered, she flees... only to encounter Kanade Sakuranomiya, the former pianist she's long admired. Kanade kindly offers her a place to stay and formal piano lessons, but her unexpected kissing partner, Keito - also a brilliant pianist and Kanade's brother - strongly objects...! A spicy, sensual tale, now in manga format!
Marriage can change a person. But those changes can also mean new arguments, a loss of respect for your partner, and sometimes, the ultimate betrayal -- an extramarital affair. Introducing a collection of tales depicting marriages on the brink of crumbling and women seeking revenge on their cheating, good-for-nothing husbands.
After losing her parents at a young age, Yae Sachiyama was taken in by her uncle. Since then, she's been living under his roof while he and his wife drain her of both freedom and money. The only place she can truly relax is at her workplace, Kuga Industries. There, she quietly harbors feelings for the CEO, Tomomitsu. Because of her difficult home life, however, she can't bring herself to tell him. Her feelings for Tomomitsu only grow stronger with each small act of kindness he shows her.
But one day, when Yae returns home from work, her cousin's attitude suddenly takes a strange turn and she finds herself pushed further into a corner...
The story of a sweet but complicated marriage, born from a life of mistreatment.
I want to be loved, as a person, and as a woman. - Misaki Nakamichi (35) is a teacher who has been married for 5 years to her attractive husband. She appears to have a life that many would be envious of. However, the truth is that she has been concerned about her marriage due to the lack of intimacy - Her husband only sleeps with her once a year, on the day of their wedding anniversary. As she continues to question her husband's sexual desire for her, their next anniversary arrives... and she receives a shocking confession from him!
Shizuka is a housewife who's been living a sexless life since her husband has changed into an overworked and somewhat abusive man. One day, she discovers that he's been having an affair and runs off to a "rental boyfriend" that her friend introduced her to. She has one goal in mind: take back her confidence as a woman. She ends up meeting the most popular of the men in the rental boyfriend service, a man named Aki, and slowly begins to remember what was all like before her marriage. A new forbidden love is born... can a housewife really have this dream?
"Your housekeeping skills are 20 points. And as a wife, you're a zero."
Since Saki married her husband, Naoya, he's completely changed. He's become a manipulative man who constantly judges and "scores" her. But for the sake of her daughter, Saki puts up with his controlling behavior.
To rub salt in the wound, Naoya praises their neighbor, Madoka, as a "100-point woman." When Saki discovers he's having an affair with her, she sets out to get revenge on her toxic husband and his arrogant mistress!
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.
Yoshiwara, 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...?!
"I'm going to be the next queen...?! I may have 'devil-black hair,' but I'll raise these two angelic twins to be splendid adults!" Since childhood, Julia has been discriminated against by everyone, including her family, because of her hair color. In the past, those with black hair have committed many horrible deeds, and this prejudice runs deep within the country. Because of this mistreatment, when she awakens her magic and special power, she keeps them hidden so she can live a peaceful life.
However, things don't go according to plan when King Louison chooses her to be his next queen?! What's more, he wants her to raise his twin sons as their stepmother?! At first, she wants to turn him down, but upon meeting them, they're too adorable to resist! Julia feels for them as they possess no magic and will be looked down upon should the public learns their secret... Determined to protect the twins from the awful prejudice she faces, she accepts King Louison's offer. "I'm going to protect their smiles!"
The curtain rises on this heartwarming fantasy tale about raising two angelic twins with overwhelming family love!