Nanao has always kept her feelings for her sister's boyfriend a secret, but one night, he drunkenly spends the night with her?! Two years later, still haunted by regret and unable to move on, Nanao drowns herself in a superficial relationship with the mysterious and handsome Haruto. Just as she tries to forget the past, it comes back to haunt her when a man she never wanted to see again reappears...
Content Warning: this title contains material that may be distressing for some readers. "Do you really wanna kill me that badly?" His lips and his breath get closer as he says those words... Ever since her parents died, there's been a man Mayumi wants to kill. That man is the Kurose clan's young head, Yuya Kurose. One day, she sees him at the lounge she works at, and comes up with a plan to kill him. However, Yuya sees right through her. He takes the only keepsake she has of her parents and tells her, "Come with me quietly and I'll give it back to you." He takes her to the Kurose clan's estate. "You can kill me when winter comes around. Until then, be my 'soulmate'." What will Mayumi do? A suspenseful love story intertwined with hate and passion begins!
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?!
(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.
"I am not in love with you." -- Those were the words Abigail's groom uttered to her on the first night of their marriage, causing her to break out in a panic. Sure this may be a marriage of convenience...but what is she to do for meals now?! Abigail has been mistreated all her life by her family despite being of nobility (or the fact that she was a Dark Lord in her previous life). A refreshing take on the romance genre that follows a noble lady and her quest to discover happiness through scrumptious food and...being hand-fed by her new husband?!
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...!
Sayo has been working at a high-end hotel as a concierge, but due to some complicated circumstances also deals with some difficult work in a night club as well. One day, a younger yakuza leader from the Suou Clan by the name of Taki Kasai checks in to his booking for the suite room... and would change Sayo's life forever. After seeing how Sayo is unmoved by his Yakuza presence, holding firm and treating him like any other guest, it becomes clear that she's different from other women to Taki, and he begins to stay more regularly in the suite room. At the same time, Sayo begins to notice that the man who she thought was just some terrible Yakuza is actually sort of charming... perhaps even sweet...
Leah is the guardian saint of her kingdom, and has been bullied by her older sister, Priscilla, for as long as she can remember. Despite the constant beratement, she has been using her powers to heal the townspeople, fight with monsters, and protect the kingdom. However, one day, Priscilla made her final move. She convinced the prince to call off the holy engagement, claiming that she herself is the true guardian saint, and forced Leah into exile. Having been sent to the forest of illusion to carry out her exile, it was no different than a death sentence. However, that changed in an instant as she comes across a young prince from the neighboring kingdom who is in serious need of healing!
After being abruptly jilted by her fianc?, noblewoman Iris is left heartbroken, only to receive a sudden proposal from the fearsome knight known as the Icy Wolf, Wolff. Though hesitant, Iris accepts, believing it her duty as a noblewoman. But her new husband is just as intimidating as the rumors claimed, and he greets her with a cold and distant demeanor. Worse, he leaves for the battlefield soon after they're wed, abandoning her in a hostile household where she endures cruel whispers from the servants.
Convinced she's a burden on Wolff, Iris finally makes up her mind: she'll ask for a divorce. But after she does, his icy fa?ade gradually melts away and his true feelings are revealed...
A heartfelt romance between a loyal yet awkward knight and a gentle heroine, bound by fate and a ring that changes everything!
"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!'
The Saintess Clarice is suddenly cast aside, engagement broken off by the prince. Now her sister Lycia is set to marry him. On top of all of this, Clarice is now made to marry the prince's brother, Duke Alto, who is said to have a horrendous face. Upon arriving at the estate, it was clear that the darkness cast around the duke's face was truly horrifying enough to take one's breath away. With how things have been with his face, Duke alto has spent his life as a recluse, closing himself off from all who would try to reach him. However, Clarice seems to be the first to change something within him. For the first time, there seems to be hope for the future as the two begin to grow close to one another.
"I'll never love someone this much again..." She gave birth to his child in secret.
Seri, an unmarried woman raising a child, works at the hospital where Haruka Takato has arrived to work as a newly appointed surgeon. Seri fell in love with him six years ago. However, it was only a passing fling for him, and she only realized she was pregnant after Takato went abroad to study. When he reunites with Seri, he becomes forceful for some reason despite having abandoned her. "Now you won't be able to show your body to anyone other than me." Seri melts as he kisses her so forcefully that it leaves a mark...
"Lady Amalthea, will you marry me?" Amalthea receives an unfathomable proposal from the cold prince who hates women! However, their marriage is only a contractual one. Even so, with how kindly the prince is treating her, Amalthea feels she might get the wrong idea... Amalthea has exceptional skill when it comes to territory management. Her talents brought about expectations in the kingdom, and she has been asked to wed the future count, Thomas. However, Thomas takes Amalthea's proposals, leaving her name out of them and claiming them as his own. Not only that, but Thomas also has a lover. When Amalthea points this out, he causes a scene and calls off the engagement. Just when Amalthea had enough and was ready to leave, Prince Kirfas, who happened to witness everything, suddenly proposes to Amalthea?!
"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...
The Saintess of the kingdom of love was used and discarded by the prince. She is then reincarnated to the time before her engagement, rejecting the prince this time around, only to find him madly in love with her...!
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...
"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.
On a moonless night... I hear your voice for the first time. Ume was abandoned by the family she married into because she was unable to bear children. She returns to the village where she was born but finds herself alone as her parents die from a spreading disease. As told in tales of sacrifice to the gods, the village also begins to experience a shortage in the crops of their farms that will only continue until someone is offered. Ume is not able to bear a child but as she does not have any children, she is able to lie her way into being offered to the gods. Waiting for her at a shrine deep in the mountains is a wolf god with silver hair and beautiful nails that shine in five different colors... what will come from this encounter between a despised god and an unhappy girl?!
"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?!
After her mother's passing, Mio is left completely and utterly alone. One day, a man shows up out of the blue, taking her in after claiming to be her father. Mio is soon used as a tool for a political marriage. She is told to marry into the Ichijo family, and to give birth to a son within a year. The Ichijos are prestigious; they have ties to the imperial family, work under the emperor, and have served as exorcists. However, the head of the Ichijos, Kazuomi, shows no interest in Mio, and even refuses to speak to her. A fate worse than death awaits Mio if she can't give birth to a son in time... Mio spends day to day in despair, but one day, she learns of a major secret about the Ichijo family. Kazuomi's tune begins to change once it becomes clear that Mio also possess a special power that connects her to this secret!
"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!
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...?
Charlotte, the first princess of the magical land of Eris, a kingdom loved by the gods, has been mistreated by the queen. One day, she falls in love at first sight at a ball and marries Ediron, King of Dhanas, dreaming of happiness. However, on her wedding night, she is suddenly stabbed to death by Ediron...! Charlotte's life ends in regret and despair... but for some reason, she gets stuck in a loop where she dies if she gets married...? Five times! Now, in her sixth life, Ediron asks again for Charlotte's hand in marriage. Though Charlotte swears in her heart that she will never marry in this life, Ediron looks at her with such passion...?! This is a love fantasy between an oppressed princess and her sworn enemy, His Majesty!
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!
Noah has lived his life as a man. What are these new feelings inside of her?
Noah was raised as a boy since she was born in order to take over as the heir to the Phaistos family. However, she decided to hide the fact that she is actually a woman, left the family for her younger brother's sake, and joined the army. Noah has continued to rack up military achievements in order to become the commander of the federation army, and one day was handpicked to join Prince Johann's bodyguard squad. The prince's bodyguard squad was made up of unique individuals that were the creme of the crop: Noah; her adopted older brother, Kai; the twins Jaden and Benjamin, Dominic, said to be the strongest soldier in the military; and the youngest, Osker. However, Johann often acts like he's not a member of the royal family and is actually a flippant flirt! But as Noah serves Johann, she gradually comes to know how Johann actually feels...
Kensuke, an older student whom Tamaki had admired since high school, moves into the apartment next to hers. Kensuke had become a successful CEO of an IT company and acquired a huge fortune, moving up in the world. In order to protect Tamaki, a magnet for useless men who is being harassed by her ex-boyfriend, Kensuke decides to pretend to be her boyfriend! In exchange, Tamaki must clean up his messy apartment. Although it was only supposed to be a pretense, Tamaki is flustered by the older man's gentle protection...
Estar is an herbalist working at a botanical garden in the Kingdom of Blutoire. She is fed up with Grayson, the Garden owner's son, following her around every day. Full of jealousy, Grayson's fiancee Katia frames Estar and makes her appear as a "villainess" who poisoned and attempted to murder her. Unable to prove her innocence, she is exiled from her homeland. When she is attacked by wild dogs while wandering in the woods by herself, she is saved by King Lacelvist, the ruler of a neighboring kingdom, known for being ruthless and without a shred of mercy in his heart. And, due to certain circumstances, she ends up pretending to be his fiancee...! Immerse yourself in a romantic fantasy that begins with a fake engagement between a girl branded as a villainess and a fearsome king rumored to be a ruthless beast!
"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?!
Reizera was on the verge of breaking off her engagement, and at the same time bad rumors were spreading about her family's wine farm. But one day, a duke's son asks her to marry him, she starts the life of LADY....
Isabella has reincarnated into the game world of "Princewell Royal Academy: Steal the Prince's Heart!" as the villainess. Although she attempts to avoid the "bad ending," it is all for naught when her Fiance, Crown Prince Samuel, who's fallen in love with the heroine, breaks off their engagement. As if that weren't enough, she is stripped of her status and convicted of a crime she hasn't committed. Thus, she leaves her estate, hoping to lay low until things blow over, but she is abducted and sold to a high-class brothel on her way to her destination! How will she escape her horrid situation?! Take a read and find out!
Satsuki has been dating her boyfriend Itsuki for three years. They now live together and are considering marriage, but it's far from smooth sailing. While she is struggling with that at home, one day Satsuki discovers at a company barbeque that Itsuki has been cheating on her with her coworker, Kana. When she freezes in the face of this discovery, her attractive and popular junior, Fujisaki, suddenly asks her out...! He's always kind and looking out for her. So, when he asked her out, it was just to lighten the mood when she was feeling down... or so she thought. But it seems like Fujisaki meant what he said. As Satsuki tries to figure out her feelings, Fujisaki continues to shower her with love. She's gone from controlling trash to adoring treasure?!
Tiara Rose, the fiancee of her kingdom's crown prince, suddenly realizes that the world she's living in is actually the setting of her favorite otome game from her previous life! But she's not the heroine...she's the villainess!? By the time she remembers, it's already the day before the graduation party where she's destined to face "annulment of engagement" and "banishment from the kingdom", just like in the game's scenario. Everything seems to be following the original plot...until the handsome crown prince of a neighboring kingdom suddenly proposes to her!? A love story where the supposed villainess is adored by an ultra-perfect foreign prince!!
After Cinderella rejects the crown prince's proposal and elopes with a magician, her older sister Adelina gets forced to take her place. Although the popular and handsome prince marries Adelina, he tells her he does not intend on falling in love with her. Adelina could care less, however. To her, all that matters is that she be able to enjoy living quietly with her adorable animals at the royal villa, eventually getting an amicable divorce and a ton of alimony. Who cares if the prince gets a mistress or two? But the prince, who didn't care for Adelina at all, begins to show some interest in her...
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!
"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...?!
Suddenly one day, the marquess's daughter Lobelia realizes that she's inside the world of "The Eternal Cage," an adult dating sim she played in her previous life. What's more is that she's the villain of the story, while her dear sister Lily is the protagonist! However, "this time," Lobelia vows not to bully but protect her sister, especially from any "compromising circumstances." Thus begins Lobelia's struggle against fate, and the beautiful yet lusty men it throws her and her sister's way!
"I hereby void our engagement!" My name is Yuriath, daughter of Count Noggar, and my fiance, the son of a Marquis, has just announced the end of our betrothal. All this because my now ex-fiance is smitten with Julie Vanash, the common-born illegitimate daughter of a Count, who recently transferred into our private academy. She's convinced that she's the star of a popular romance series, and has cast me into the role of the "jealous and haughty villainess".... Truth be told, the engagement itself was just business, so I have no lingering attachments to my fiance. A contract is a contract, though, so in addition to the nuisance fee, I must demand restitution! But then there's His Highness the Crown Prince....
"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...!
In the Kingdom of Woodrow the royal line of succession is based on magical ability. Because of this, Prince Schwartz was sure he would never claim the throne since he had no talent for magic, unlike his twin brother. After losing to Weiss in a duel and spending 5 years familiarizing himself with every brothel the city has to offer, the "unworthy" Prince Schwartz is called back home by his father the King. It turns out his brother has eloped and the King wants him to impersonate Weiss in order to save the country from ruin. Could this be a chance for Prince Schwartz to finally win the throne?
At the Valery manor, the count Lord Frederick is enamored by his mistress, whose whims dictate where his finances go. Unsurprisingly, his servants begin to leave one after another, refusing to become collateral damage. Meanwhile, the count's wife Liese enlists the help of the chancellor Lord Alwin so she may finally save enough money to escape her hellhole of a marriage!