A Japanese-style ayakashi Cinderella story! "You're the bride I've been searching for all this time." The ayakashi and humans coexist in harmony. The ayakashi, having superior abilities and beautiful appearances, sometimes find their partner among human women, making them their "bride". The bride, in exchange for bringing prosperity, receives absolute love from the ayakashi. Yuzu is constantly compared to her sister, a bride of a demon fox, and is resented by her family every day. One day, when Yuzu just couldn't take things anymore, a man appears before her on a bridge. This man is the most beautiful man Yuzu has ever seen... and he's calling her his wife?! "Just be quiet and let me hold you." The most powerful, "cold-hearted" ayakashi is pouring his heart out for Yuzu?!
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.
"I would like you to become my lover." Daughter of a viscount, Freya Villiers was being pressured into taking back her ex-fiance, Nathan, after their engagement was broken off due to him cheating on Freya with her sister. In order to flee her parents, who are all for her reconciliation with Nathan, she visits Count Bloodbury, feared by the nobles as a "vampire." With nothing to lose, she asks him to pretend to be her lover and...?!
"I want you, Moka..." There's a popular guy in class, and he can't stand the way the other girls look at him. The only girl he wants all for himself... is the plain girl sitting in the seat in front of him?! Moka Asano is your average high school girl, and sitting behind her is Izumi Kurosaki. Kurosaki's the captain of the soccer team, and is so popular that the neighboring schools have fan clubs for him! The girls always crowd around his desk, so Moka can never get a chance to sit down at her desk in the morning... but everything changes when Moka gets the chance to be close to Kurosaki when they see each other in the old school library. Even though Kurosaki hates being around girls, and tends to give everyone these cold stares, he looks at Moka with a bright smile and asks her "do you wanna date for real?" It's like he's a completely different person!
[Please note that #14 contains episode 10.5, which falls between #10 and #11 in the story.] Byletta, daughter of a viscount who has talents for swords and business, has been married to Arnald, son of a count, for eight years...however, he was away at war, and they hadn't met even once. When the war ended, she decides to ask for divorce even before she sees his face. She writes Arnald a letter saying "Dear Sir, I would like to ask for divorce." Arnald, handsome but had never loved someone, and Byletta, who was rumored to be a villainess, meet for the first time in their bedroom. He asks for a wager, and guarantees her that he will divorce if Byletta wins. If he wins, they will stay married forever. "If I can get you with child in a month, I win." Arnald says. That was something Byletta could never imagine.
Eight has been forced to fight in an arena as a slave day by day for as long as she can remember. One day, however, all of that changed when a garrison of troops staged a raid on the arena, led by a Dragonkin named Celeste. In the frantic fighting and fleeing, Eight is seen fighting against her master... and in that moment Celeste realizes that he has found his destined partner... his mate.
Content Warning: this title contains material that may be distressing for some readers. Yuta, who is attending the best high school in the prefecture, is subjected to extreme bullying by the student council president and their two lackeys. Despite the horrible bullying, Yuta endures it all for his precious younger sister, but they eventually get to her too, "breaking" her. Then one day, a mysterious transfer student, Mirei, comes and says she's going to "start her mission to set society right"?
Ten years ago, Maribelle suffered a severe chest wound while protecting her young brother-in-law, Leon. However, in aristocratic society, women with physical scars are despised and ridiculed. For this reason, Maribelle left the ducal family she grew up in, but even at a local aristocratic mansion where she worked as a servant, she was called a marred woman and spent her days being mistreated by the countess and the servants. Even now, she is betrayed by the only kind person in her life, and when he attempts to assault her, she is rescued by a heroic knight in black who has stopped by town on his triumphal return. He, whom Maribelle did not recognize, tells her he has come for her.
At what should have been her engagement party, Violet, daughter of a noble house, is cast aside by the second prince. Born without talent and relying only on her lineage, she's socially condemned by friends, family, and even society itself.
Left to die alone in a burning mansion, Violet regrets her arrogance and prays for a chance to start over. Her wish is granted when a divine blessing awakens within her - the power to turn back time.
Waking one year before that fateful day, Violet vows to change her life and use her gift to seize happiness. Her path soon crosses with Ulysses, the head court mage shunned as a monster. But behind the title lies a kind and gentle man, the complete opposite of her former fiance.
As their bond deepens, Violet learns she alone can touch him without pain. When she prevents the assassination of the Crown Princess, she becomes entangled in a dark plot that threatens the kingdom and her second chance at peace.
"You will go in place of my daughter to be wed to the Duke of House Dubarry." Leonora has been working tirelessly to ensure her family is fed and out of harm's way. One day, however, she is kidnapped and brought before the notorious Duchess Godot who has one strong demand: pose as her daughter Angennia to be married into the rival house Dubarry, and spy on the Duke for her. Leonora can't refuse, as House Godot now holds her family hostage. Though there are many rumors of the Duke of House Dubarry being a cold and menacing man... Leonora finds herself before a kind and charming gentleman with nothing but warmth! It may be impossible to keep her identity a secret before the wonderfully kind Dinando Dubarry...!!
Ever since she was separated from her mother at an early age, Eliza has been treated as an untouchable in the house of Adal Luna, the lord of the house. One day, however, she is summoned by the lord and told that she is his blood daughter and that she is to marry the third prince, Leo, who is rumored to be promiscuous and arrogant. Eliza is perplexed, but Sati, the lord's wife, tells Eliza an even crueler truth... Is this love a trick or the truth? Can Eliza, who has lost everything, find happiness?
Minoru Sayo is an office worker who lives an upright but mundane life. That is, until one day, he turns into a vampire. Unable to forgo his scruples, he refuses to feed on humans and attempts to soothe his thirst with cat blood. On one such night when he's out prowling for a feline friend, he runs into his coworker in the same department, Yamadera. After a few drinks at a bar, Yamadera falls asleep at the station leaving his vexing neck exposed and vulnerable. Overcome with annoyance and hunger, Sayo takes a bite and discovers...? Will Sayo find a way to become human again? And what really lies behind Yamadera's sweet mask? Take a read and find out in this emotional and twisted tale between a 40-year-old virgin and his sadistic junior colleague!
Hana Ichise is born into a family of practitioners, but her powers pale in comparison to her gifted twin, Hazuki. As she yearns for freedom from her parents' expectations and ridicule, she makes a shocking discovery when she turns fifteen that changes her life!
On the day they met, they got married and started living together?! While out drinking, Haruhi, a construction worker who's always surrounded by men, meets Nagato, a middle-aged man with salt-and-pepper hair. She drunkenly tells him to marry her, and just like that, they get married and start living together! A heart-pounding rom-com about a shotgun wedding between a middle-aged man and a blue-collar working girl!
Otoha is a young career woman with a great reputation at work. However, because of her success, she has earned herself an enemy who's out to get her.
Then there's her coworker, Naruse, the company heartthrob. All eyes are on him, but he often gets involved with Otoha, which always results in them arguing. When Otoha runs into her boyfriend on a date with another woman, Naruse jumps in and...
Private detective Ousuke found an unexpected guest on his doorstep one day: his old friend Yaichi, now an ex-yakuza with a strange new power... and a mission for revenge. He was looking for the man who killed his beloved mentor, and Ousuke agreed to help him. He never was able to resist rescuing the guy. Even worse, almost as if he knows Ousuke is pining for him, Yaichi crawls into his bed whenever he has nightmares of his mentor's death, tormenting Ousuke without even realizing it. All Ousuke wants is to get away from Yaichi once and for all before his old feelings take over again, but that might be harder than it sounds... Enjoy the "buddy cop" hijinks as this lovesick detective's heart is toyed with by his oblivious assistant!
"If I had never met you..." Those were the last words Rosa heard from her husband, Claude, on the day he was killed. Although her marriage was politically motivated due to her failure to become a saintess, Rosa truly loved him and believed she was the cause of his death. Overcome with despair, she lost consciousness. When she awakens, she finds herself six years in the past! Determined to save her love, she resolves to avoid their marriage, but fate has other plans for them.
After witnessing a tryst between her subordinate and an executive one late night at the office, Mihaya Hoshino suddenly finds herself betrayed by someone she trusted, and transferred to her company's branch in the boonies (also her hometown). Dejected and drunk after returning to her childhood home, she runs into Koda, the delinquent who confessed to her as a prank back in middle school. Years later, he now runs a farm that happens to be one of Mihaya's business partners. Acting as the new liaison, she must now work with the last guy on Earth she wants to see! It's an unexpected reunion between one clumsy-in-love former head class representative and a bad boy-turned-farmer!
In a world where humans and demons have been in constant conflict throughout history... One day, the demon king, Gil, visits Hazelbard Kingdom in the human territory. Gil proposes a truce on the condition that both races do not cross between each other's territories. However, in order to make this agreement her son Clemont's achievement, Queen Catalina forces her step daughter, Estelle, to marry the demon king.
Liz, the daughter of a margrave, is told that she could never be loved, and has her engagement called off by her former fiance, a baron by the name of Physalis. After years of facing ab*se from her family and mysterious pains, Liz is finally forced her out of the estate with her family set on offering her up to as a bride to the "cursed duke"... formerly a hero of the kingdom, Lord Rishin. Rumor has it that he himself had an engagement called off due to his apparent violent nature, but things turn out to be quite the opposite...! After years of never finding someone to understand the pain they've carried, the two set out to find true happiness!
Mira, who grew up in an orphanage, was born with the ability to absorb magical powers and was forced by her father-in-law, Baron Weston, to purify miasma-tainted swords and magical tools. As a result, her body was so ravaged that doctors told her she would not live more than a year. One day, Mira collapses in the temple and is saved by a beautiful woman, Annalise. Her brother, Darius, is the first duke and head of the Order of the Holy Knights, but he suffers from a disease called hypermagia. Annalise proposes a certain way to save her brother in exchange for saving Mira from the baron...
"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!
After getting hit by a car, I was reincarnated into the world of "Cinderella"! I used to be a driven, hard-working person. And now, in this life, I live as Cinderella's stepsister Petra. Cinderella is a beauty, but also very lazy and sloppy. In the hopes of bringing her and the prince together in marriage just like the fairytale goes, my other sister and I did our best to educate Cinderella. People witnessing mistook our strict ways, and the rumors of "the evil stepsisters" spread around... However, despite the obstacles, we successfully saw Cinderella married off to the prince! Happily ever after!... Or so I thought until I met a mysterious gentleman named Eric. He approached me at the ball just so he could rudely accuse me of bullying Cinderella out of jealousy! Well, he chose the wrong person to pick at because this "evil stepsister" isn't going down without a fight!
(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.
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!
The Palace Locksmith, Yuri, is suddenly framed for embezzlement and is driven out without any funds or titles to keep. It is likely that with him out there will come a great danger in the Demon King's seal that has been kept under control by his family for generations, but more pressing matters come to Yuri when the first person who reaches out to him happens to be a legendary S rank adventurer named Astoria! Yuri is completely unsure of what to make of this adventurer wanting someone completely inexperienced in adventuring like him to join her, but it seems that the magic he has been trained in to keep the demon king at bay, Key Magic, has a lot more utility to it in this world than meets the eye!
Aoi grew up constantly being made fun of and bullied for her appearance. After going through one bad experience after the other in school, she finally gets to marry the man of her dreams who loves her for who she is. However, he too eventually seeks out someone better-looking and cheats on her, resulting in their divorce. Oddly enough though... the woman he cheated on Aoi with is the same girl who bullied her throughout their school years...! Now Aoi's on a mission to get revenge on the man who cheated on her who is now married to the woman who made her life miserable. She has her face reshaped, her name changed to Sumire, and slowly begins to find her way into their lives...
Aoi Yagi is secretly engaged to the company's rising star, Sota. They've already met each other's parents, and she now eagerly anticipates their wedding. But out of nowhere, he tells her he wants to break off their engagement.
Hurt and betrayed, Aoi finds herself in the midst of her misery, only for the young, visionary president of their company, Haruto Kujo, to appear. Known as the "tyrant," he appoints her as the project manager of a new business venture aimed at revolutionizing the education sector and commands her to be his right-hand woman?!
"You're the one behind Sota's success, aren't you?"
How did he uncover her secret? Why does he have his eye on her? And why is he so enamored with Aoi?
Louie, the sixth prince born from an affair between the king and a maid, has a secret he can't tell anyone. Suddenly, he is sent off by the king to be married to someone in a foreign land as a "princess," being promised that his mother will be safe only if things go smoothly. The kingdom he is being sent to is the neighboring kingdom, where people live in harmony with wolves. However, the evening the ceremony is finished, Louie's new "mate" Prince Zeth soon discovers that he is not the princess he was said to be... now begins a new story in the kingdom of wolves!
Coral is self-conscious about her rust-colored hair. Neither her family nor her childhood friends ever cared for her. To make matters worse, she was sold by her stepmother to a man living in the remote frontier. Her husband, Jade, is a marquis and head of the noble house that commands the dragon knights. Bound by a contract to continue his bloodline, Coral is required to welcome him into her bed each month.
"Even if you're scared, you can't stop me."
Although it began simply as a contract, Jade can no longer hide his growing affection for his devoted wife?!
Sana's first boyfriend, Yamato, was not exactly the looker, but he was kind. And that's what Sana loved about him. So when he suddenly dumps her without warning, her heart is left completely shattered. Having lost faith in the world, Sana vows to leave her past self behind, and transforms... into a full-on delinquent!
3 years later, when Sana had all but forgotten how it feels to love, two guys unexpectedly appear in her life. Koichi, the student council president and school celebrity. And... Sana's ex, Yamato?! Sana barely recognizes her ex, who has undergone a complete transformation of his own, becoming a heartthrob teenage actor! With conflicted memories and emotions on the rise, where will our protagonist's innocent heart take her?
Akari had wanted to be a novel writer for as long as she could remember. However, that all changed after what her high school friend did to her. She couldn't help but put as much distance as possible between herself and her stories. Years later, a moment comes where she thinks that she may want to write again. In that moment... a cameraman starts snapping pictures of her?! He even comes to her workplace telling her to come with him... what could possibly come from this mysterious guy???
"You idiot..." Hina, a housewife trapped in an abusive marriage with her husband, Yuji, has been convinced that she's living a privileged life. After graduating from vocational school, she married Yuji and became a full-time housewife, never holding a job. When a friend offers her a part-time job, Yuji refuses unless she can maintain her housewife duties flawlessly. On the day of her interview, Hina receives a tour of the office and meets Totsuka, a man who seems to know her from somewhere. As she takes her first steps out from under Yuji's watchful eye, the gears of her life begin to slip, and her world starts to shift, all because of this fateful encounter!
Once upon a time, in the not too distant past, a holy maiden was summoned. Not just any holy maiden-one hailing from modern Japan. But this story is not her story. This is the tale of the humble accountant, Kondou, who accompanied her and his trials and woes as he accounts in a new world... But no tale is complete without a love interest. And who better to play that role than the handsome knight captain Aresh? Will he begin a personal quest to save said bean counter-who toils around the clock-or is Kondou doomed to be married to his work evermore...?!
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 other woman I want to be with but you, Kanade." Kanade entered a contract marriage with Kazuomi, the cold and calculating CEO of a real estate development company. After a year of wasted efforts and endless disappointments, she decided to file for divorce and move out without a word. Determined to start her life anew, she soon finds herself drawn back to working for her ex-husband due to a string of unexpected events. Can she uncover what lies hidden deep within Kazuomi's heart of ice?
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!
"Back then, we were young. We merely wandered the planet, not knowing what it meant to love, to be." Wait? Is this one of those "second chance love letters" that everyone's talking about?
Just three months into Sayuki's marriage, tragedy struck. When she comes home early one day, she hears her husband and another woman speaking sweet nothings to each other in their bedroom. Without a moment's hesitation, Sayuki files for divorce and decides to have a fresh start, giving up on love and marriage. A few years pass and a guy at work starts talking her up. But before she has time to worry about him, she begins receiving love poems from her ex-husband! What happened, and why is he suddenly trying to act all romantic?!
As the illegitimate daughter of a count and his maid, Katrina was born into miserable circumstances. And now that she's lost her mother, the treatment from her stepsister and stepmother the countess has only grown worse. One day, her stepsister receives a royal order to move to the northern outskirts due to her unseemly behavior at a recent party. There, she is to learn proper conduct under the tutelage of the resident prince, rumored to be a cruel man. Not wanting to subject her daughter to such punishment, the countess decides to send Katrina instead. Katrina arrives in the north shaking in fear. But contrary to the stories, the "merciless and cold-hearted" prince is kinder than she believed. Might the pure-hearted Katrina find love in the wintry countryside?
"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...