A naive female scientist is being played with by her forceful, hot CEO! "Starting today, you're my girlfriend." We first meet because of a misunderstanding... and then I end up having to play the role of his girlfriend!
Haruka Ono, a scientist with no experience in love, ended up trying to snare her company's CEO, Takashi Kanzaki, in a honey trap in an attempt to stop him from canceling her research project. She attended a party dressed unusually for her, in high heels and a low-cut dress, and somehow ended up meeting him quite easily... He escorted her sweetly, looking at her with a passionate gaze as if they were lovers, and she almost forgot her true mission! However, it seems like Takashi was under some sort of misunderstanding!
The narcissistic high school teacher Mamoru Hizaki has a thorn in his side: his handsome young colleague Junichi Namiki, who has been stealing the spotlight ever since he came to Mamoru's school. When the faculty go out drinking one night, Mamoru sees his chance to get revenge. He is going to drink Junichi under the table and show him who rules the roost. However, things don't go exactly as planned, when it turns out Junichi is not quite as mild-mannered as he appears...
Akari 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!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-6 of "From Zero to Office Romance"