A Kindhearted Innocent Queen x A Cold-Hearted Prince of a Rival Nation From a marriage of convenience begins a life overflowing with love-
"Do you feel it? Sleeping with the man who hates you..." He embraced me to get revenge, but my body drowned in sweet pleasure. Alexia suddenly became queen at the young age of 19, succeeding her brother who died suddenly. Leon, the prince of a neighboring country and her first love, is sent to be her partner in an arranged marriage from a hostile ally as a condition for peace. She fell in love with him but was separated from him three years ago. It was a fateful reunion... but he mistakenly thought that Alexia had betrayed him and hated her. Leon embraced his wife out of obligation with a cold gaze. He knew there was no love in his actions, but he couldn't suppress his feelings for his beloved...
"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...
"I'll become your partner." Yuito Kitaoka, a Sub who works as a teacher, hides his secondary gender from the school he works at due to past trauma. Just when he was troubled by his suppressants not working well anymore, a new teacher who is a Dom, Kagura Ogi, found out that he is a Sub...! Yuito had always been uncomfortable with role-playing, but Kagura's commands are gentle, and being pampered by him feels so pleasant... "Don't hold back, okay?" Drawn in by his eyes, his overwhelmingly skillful touches make the depths of Yuito's body slowly drown in pleasure... A scheming Dom in his first year of teaching, with an older teacher who doesn't like role-playing - satisfying their desires, they role-play in secret.
"Were you lowering your guard because I was just a brilliant junior colleague?" Never thought I would cross the line with a difficult junior at work...! Yuiko, a company employee, found out that her boyfriend was cheating on her 30th birthday. She books an erotic massage out of self-despair, and the therapist that came was her junior colleague, Akutsu! "Let's feel good and forget him." He clings his tongue while kissing and starts touching her body. "I'm gonna overwrite your body and make sure you remember me." He soothes her inside using his fingers and tongue, so gently that she feels like she's loved. But then he thrusts his thing deep so that she can't escape. Yuiko can't tell what Akutsu's thinking, but she can't help sending him a burning gaze...
After almost a year of his ex-boyfriend walking out on him, Hisashi is still trying to move on. Single and lonely, he decides to pour his energy to work, where he meets his senior, Yukio Koda, whose charming personality had Hisashi developing a crush. The two of them make a pair in the office as the duo of luck where coincidentally, good luck came to people who come in contact with them.
Unluckily for Koda, he wounds up getting bad luck, much greater this time, when his apartment building burned down. Concerned for his senior, Hisashi offers Koda to stay with him. The two start living together, and Hisashi finds that his crush quickly turns into love.
Cecia attends the Royal Academy as a double for a noble lady. If she can graduate with top scores, she'll be free from her life of poverty working as a maid. Enduring bullying at school and harassment at work, our heroine fights on with the support of her one and only red-headed female friend. But when things start to fall apart, why does the second prince run to her defense?
Original Story: RINGO Art: NAZUNA NANAKO Character Design: TSUKAZA, SATSUKI
Yuno Aida is an office worker who takes her job?and herself?very seriously. Stranger to romance, she's an unlikely target for the office's most popular guy, Soma Kuze, who seems to flirt with her at every opportunity. Yuno tries to ignore him, but she can't resist a growing pull that leads them both to a hotel. "Just thinking about touching you turns me on," Soma breathes, his words a seductive hum against her ear. She loses herself to an overwhelming pleasure she never knew was possible. This is a story of unexpected love between a driven, elite man and the quiet, complex woman.
A strong arm catches Nanako just before she falls, followed by a passionate kiss. "No, I can't reject such..." Nanako is utterly in love with her boyfriend, Kotetsu?the charismatic and brilliant CEO. As she anticipates the proposal, her dream turns into a nightmare by getting kidnapped. Kotetsu arrives in a desperate, last-minute rescue, but he takes a blade to the back. The small space of the cut reveals a terrifying secret: a tattoo of a tiger. "I'm actually a yakuza." The true story of a dedicated yakuza's unexpected, all-consuming love
The plan of the incredibly close sisters... is to show what's what to their mother who always was prejudiced against the older sister!
"I know very well that a parent's love isn't always equal... but I'm fine as long as I have my little sister with me!" Amanda is plain and always ridiculed when compared to her beautiful younger sister, Adeline. Her parents ignored her and other people's words hurt her... but only at first. After Amanda learned how Adeline truly felt, all Amanda could think about was how to become the best big sister to Adeline as she could be. If she had the time to be hurt, then she could improve herself for Adeline's sake! In other words, she became someone with the mental strength of steel and an obsession with her little sister. Their mother had always irrationally doted on Adeline, so they made a plan to escape her clutches. When they put it into motion...
I've loved you since the day I was born. A romantic comedy unfolds between an overly passionate prince and a reborn idiot who insists he's straight. Even though he likes girls, he's been reborn as Gill, the 'heroine' of a romance manga. He tries to keep his distance from the protagonist, Darion, but Darion has been pursuing him since they were born-following Gill's route. He attempts to flirt with some girls in front of Darion, but Darion takes him to an empty classroom and kisses him. "I won't let you go until the day I die," he says, smiling... Is Gill going to be fucked by Darion?!
In a world where the secondary sexes of Dom and Sub exist...
Office worker Shino is aware that he doesn't even make the cut for the lowest tier of the Sub population, which wrecks his confidence and makes it hard for him to find a partner. One day, he happens to run into Triple S-tier Dom and super hot model Aoha, whose mesmerizing gaze causes Shino to faint right on the spot. The two test out their physical chemistry strictly as a means to take care of their health, and Aoha's commands resonate throughout Shino's entire body. After a wild night where they both lose themselves to pleasure, they decide to continue their arrangement... Perhaps love really can blossom from dominating and being dominated...
[Plus Digital-Only Bonus]Arima is a gay adult film actor who's frustrated by the lack of great sex in his life. Then, one day, he meets Eiji, a film crew member who's extremely well-endowed. Arima approaches him and offers to sleep with him, but Eiji isn't interested! In addition to this love story that starts as a purely physical relationship, this collection features a horror BL story and a battle for dominance! Don't miss this steaming hot anthology that'll bring even the most evil of spirits to their knees!
After World War III, with humanity on the brink of extinction, the world's nations began researching cloning technology in earnest. Kris, a scientist, has successfully managed to clone a human being. However, despite his success, he's tormented by the feelings he harbors for his colleague and best friend, Seth. The stronger Kris's feelings grow, the more he suffers, as Seth is currently engaged to be married to his sweet and beautiful fiancee. As Seth's engagement party grows closer and closer, Kris comes up with a plan - one he can never reveal to his best friend...
I'd like you to sleep with me. The day after my birthday, the chief I look up to made me a shocking request. I agreed wanting to be useful to him, but... he suddenly pushed me down looking nothing like himself!! Mikan Sasaki, an office lady who can see spirits, is pretty worried about all the evil spirits attached to Chief Akutsu, whom she's one-sidedly in love with. Moreover, she's been feeling a truly wicked presence among them lately... That very night, when she was drinking in the park in the name of a birthday party alone, he just happened to pass by and bring her back to his place... She then woke up with no memories of the previous night and her handsome chief sleeping right next to her!! I'm wounded and there's a bandage on it, meaning that I caused him trouble, right...? I asked him what I could do to pay him back, but for some reason he asked me to sleep with him!? In his room, in his bed filled with his scent, my heart is about to explode just from lying down next to the one I've loved for a long time. I can't believe I'm this close to him, whom I've always only watched from afar... A bed time love story about how an awkward pair get a bit closer every passing night.
You're burning hot inside... squeezing my fingers so tight. Unknown pleasures spread through my body as he relentlessly assaults me with a beastly look I'd never seen before... My childhood friend and housemate, Nao, has turned in a marriage form without the other's agreement... Wait, that's me!? I'm forced to live as a married couple when I've never seen him as "man" before... Moreover, now that he's my husband, he starts touching me saying "I'll make you fall for me!" ...He's doing things backwards Don't tell me, that he's gonna steal away my first time, too!?
"I would like for us to be friends... perhaps even lovers?" "Wh-... a noblewoman shouldn't say such things...!" The noble daughter of duke Giljester, Velarde, has drawn in and formed an alliance with Noin, an assassin targeting her father. With memories of her past life driving her to wear the mask of a villainess, Velarde is set on finding a way to be free of the antiquated responsibilities thrusted onto women in this world. Noin, finding himself drawn to this unique girl, allows himself to be placed under her influence. Can the two of them attain freedom from the powers that be and find the revenge that Velarde craves for her brother and father? And what of the feelings Noin may have for her...?!
Ukigaya is a lively man in his 40's who's decent at his job, single, and hasn't had a partner in years. One day he meets Shindo, an elite younger man who is incredibly good-looking. Their relationship is strained at best, as Shindo is always bossing him around and looking down on him. Upon noticing how attractive Shindo is, Ukigaya, who spent his youth seducing any attractive straight man he could get his hands on, wonders if he would have gone after him back in the day. Initially, he laughs off the thought. But what will happen to their relationship when he discovers Shindo's big secret? An age gap romance between a sharp-tongued younger man and an older former man-eater!
Kazuya finally became the strongest player in the VRMMORPG he devoted his life to and gained the title "Fist King." Just as he became number one, he was reborn in another world like the game, where monsters roam free! In this new world where firearms are favored over melee weapons, Kazuya takes up a club to once again pursue his ideal strength!
A princess, daughter to the former emperor, but also number 1 in the "Shut-in Rankings" for 10 years straight. Her name is Yomei. Her favorite pastime in her shut-in life is writing various whimsical novels based on her experience having been rescued by a beautiful woman from mysterious assailants 3 years ago. Yomei's never felt the desire to be married, but everything changed after someone has come before her again...!
I promise I'll make you happy, so don't leave my house ever again. The doting, shackled life of a super-obsessive top and an admirable but pitiable bottom is about to begin! Futaba is a college student who works part-time every day earning money to support his parents' toxic lifestyle. A kind and handsome regular at the bar he works at named Nikaido has recently started helping him out when he's in trouble. When Futaba's parents extort him for more, Nikaido decides enough is enough and claims that he'll be kidnapping Futaba! Futaba doesn't understand what Nikaido means or why he wants to do so much for him, but he follows Nikaido back to his home for the pampering of a lifetime! Just when Futaba's starting to feel comfortable with Nikaido's gentle touch, he says a few things that give him a little pause...
One night, while walking out of a hotel with another man, Keisuke Ibuki is spotted by his ever-so-uptight colleague, Masatsugu Taga. Keisuke attempts to make Masatsugu his partner in crime by sleeping with him, but Masatsugu ends up proposing to him right after they do the deed...! This is the story of a battle between a straight-laced, purehearted office worker and his boss who's experienced in bed but inexperienced in love! Read on to find out how these two muscular men in suits seal the deal. Includes a full-color bonus story.
Rion Amagi, center of the popular idol group "VIRTUOUS," is the perfect idol when he's in front of the fans. But in truth, he's an obsessive man who loves his "uptight manager," Kazuki Takase, more than anyone, and wants to have him all to himself. "Look only at me. You're mine, Kazuki..." Rion's possessiveness grows with each passing day. His jealousy flares when he sees Kazuki chatting with the other members, and his obsession only deepens. Even so, Kazuki tries to keep his distance, telling him, "I'm doing this for your own good." That attitude only drives Rion's heart further into madness. On stage, he's the national idol everyone envies, but behind the scenes, he corners his manager with frenzied whispers of love: "Look only at me." Eventually, Rion's obsession breaks the chains of reason, and pushes him toward a line he must not cross... "...Make me yours. Will you give yourself to me, and only me?"
Toa is a "jewel child". When he cries, his tears turn into gems. With no memory of his past, blind, and working at a brothel, he lives a miserable life. One day, he is bought by a man named Rio, the eldest son of a lord, who is bound by tradition to marry a jewel child. At their first meeting, Toa is bewildered by Rio's cold dismissal as he tells Toa he will never love him. And yet, Toa feels a sense of familiarity in Rio's voice. Rio also senses the likeness of his childhood fiance, who vanished without a trace, in Toa...
Akihiko has never known his true worth. Ever since he was a child, no one has ever needed him. On the verge of giving up on life, he's saved from certain death by Kazushige, a vampire who's doomed to an eternity of loneliness. To repay Kazushige, Akihiko continues to visit him, much to Kazushige's chagrin. Fed up, Kazushige drives him away. But he soon realizes that Akihiko's awkward kindness has touched a part of him that now yearns to learn more about Akihiko.
Hana is in love with her childhood best friend, Kanata. One day, Kanata invites Hana to share a room, which she accepts. For a while, living with her crush seemed manageable for Hana. However, on the other hand, Kanata realized she likes spending time with Hana a bit too much and doesn't really know what to do with her newly found feelings.
Shiho Sakuraba, the new CEO to her company, is having issues with her employees as they only see her as a nepo baby. And to top it all off, the much more experienced Sales Manager, Ren Saotome, seems to reject every single one of her proposals. One day, another company tries to headhunt Saotome right from under Shiho's nose, and so, in order to stop him from leaving, Shiho invites him to drinks. It's there he says that he'll stay... so long as she accompanies him for the night. When she asks him why, he responds... "Any man would wanna have sex with the girl he's in love with." Now that she knows his hidden feelings, she tries desperately to not get carried away by his passionate and invigorating moves! But with his teasing fingers and masterful tongue, how will she fair!?
"Cumming while making a pathetic sound." A sickeningly sweet, BL love story about discipline between a dog with a peculiar kink and a devoted delinquent! Belligerent university student Haru has unrequited feelings for his caring childhood friend Suzu. Haru imagines Suzu roughing him up until he passes out, until one day Suzu nonchalantly shares his desire to be a pleasure master! Suzu wants to find someone to practice on and Haru puts his hand up with ulterior motives. Can Haru handle the unimaginable S-tier discipline from Suzu - a man so cute that he triggers a woman's maternal instincts?!
Misano has lived her life responsibly, but she's finally had enough. Determined to be a free-loving woman, she decides to try a one-night stand. One thing leads to another, and now they're friends with benefits. Things couldn't get any more out of hand until he transfers to her company?!
Chapter 5 is a one-shot written by this author, and is not related to the main story.
"I'll make you feel so good you won't be able to forget..." Shinogu works in an office by day and sits in a bar as a regular at night... and recently has been talked into going to a hotel with a charmer named Shindo. For Shinogu, sex is reserved for Fridays and is limited to one-night-stands but Shindo has other plans, and makes it clear. "I'll make you mine." Sweet, loving embrace unlike anything felt before. Shinogu can't resist the strong compassion and straightforward words of kindness... this was supposed to be a one-time deal. Just as things seem to be getting back to the norm, this special someone appears as the newest client in a project...!
The first time his feelings are returned, the first time having a boyfriend and the first time truly being in love... Tomo is a shy botany graduate student who is scared of love. When he sees Yoji, a rather intimidating new lab member, barely making ends meet, Tomo suggests Yoji move in with him. Despite appearances, Yoji is very kind, and Tomo begins to value their time together. Just then, Yoji suddenly confesses to Tomo, and he accepts. Yoji treats him with lots of love and kindness, but this being the first time dating someone, Tomo struggles, not knowing how a boyfriend should act... *This story contains material that may be distressing for some readers.
Kaori was supposed to have the perfect life. She has a kind, caring husband and a welcoming home, but there's a sinking feeling in her gut. After changing careers and taking a remote job, her husband, Kanji, began to change. Despite also working, he leaves all the housework to her and belittles her when she slips up. Still, Kaori believes in their marriage and does her best to communicate, hoping to work things out. After a long talk, Kanji promises they'll start planning for their future. But when Kaori happens to glance at his phone and sees several suspicious messages, she grows suspicious. When he dismisses her, she finally reaches her limit!
RUSH TO THE ROYAL CANDY FAIR! Anne Halford is a candy crafter determined to follow in her mother's footsteps and become a Silver Sugar Master-a title bestowed only by royalty-by winning first place in the Royal Candy Fair. The journey to the capital will be dangerous, however, so she purchases Challe, a handsome but foulmouthed fairy, to be her bodyguard. Anne wishes to befriend her new companion, but in this kingdom where fairies are treated as property, Challe wants nothing to do with humans. Will this journey with her change his mind? And will Anne arrive safely at the fair?
Have you ever cried while looking in the mirror...? "With this face, if I talked about fashion or went out to buy cosmetics, I'd be a total joke." Living with such thoughts, pitifully ugly office worker Tachibana Rin passed the days miserable and taunted by fate since she shares a first name with the most beautiful woman at her company, Kaizuka Rin. But that's just how it had to be. After all, for ugly girls, life's over before it begins... Then one day, Rin wins 11,910,000 yen in the lottery!! "Life's over for ugly girls, but for me this is just the beginning."
Personality, education, status, money... Everything about him was perfect! Ayako Makuuchi, an up-and-coming office worker in Tokyo, has put her shameful past behind her and now struggles to become one of life's "winners". She's set her sights on Nagata, a senior colleague and her ideal man, and as the distance between them decreases day by day, she seems well on the way to a blissful wedded life... or so she thinks. Enter her childhood friend Eiji, who knows her dark secret and somehow ends up crashing at her place in the city...?!
One day, my older brother came home with a young coworker, and I'd never seen someone so innocently, earnestly, uselessly in love as this guy was. What does he mean, just looking is enough for him? Getting off is obviously the better option here. His attitude was a novelty to me, as a notorious slut (and card-carrying bottom to boot). So at first it was out of curiosity, plain and simple, that I laid hands on him without a second thought (figured I'd let him show me the sexual side he can't show to the one he so virtuously loves). That was the idea, at least...
There was a time when, overflowing with love, I let myself run wild without a thought for the other person's feelings or the people around us, and soon enough my love crashed and burned. Traumatized by this, I've now developed a bad habit of avoiding anyone I have eyes for, to keep my affection from showing. Then one day, my coworker invited me out to a bar, where I met Sawaguchi and fell in love with him at first sight - but thanks to my avoidant tendency, I ended up making him hate me... No matter how many times I reflect and repent, I just can't get this bad habit of mine to change. I want to be able to say "I love you" to the person I love! With my conviction made, I set out to see a counselor, but there I find none other than-?!
College student Ichiki can't help but beguile everyone around him with his dazzling smile. But the one person he's head over heels for is... his ultra ordinary manager Mr. Yomura! Homely but hardworking Mr. Yomura stole Ichiki's heart, and after a tireless pursuit Ichiki managed at long last to get his hands on boyfriend status. Now, three months since they started dating... they still haven't made any progress in their relationship?! Even with all the romance tactics popular-guy Ichiki has at his disposal, Mr. Yomura is a formidable conquest...
"It's not that I don't want to get married. I just want to be accepted for who I am. Is that so much to ask...?" Suzu is a thirtyish woman with a cute-and-fluffy exterior that belies a strength no man can hope to match. But when she tells off her insistent mother by saying she'll only marry a man stronger than she is, she's set up with... a ninja?!? Is that his job...? How does he earn a living...? But Akitsuki the Ninja just smiles away, oblivious to Suzu's confusion. There's no way she could take him, and yet this kindhearted man, who nonchalantly accepts the true self that put off every other suitor she's ever had, secretly makes Suzu's heart flutter...