ROMANCE

Her parents left home with only a note, and she had to support herself by modeling for a magazine company in her spare time. Two years later, one day, a handsome boy found her, claiming that he was created to make her happy and he himself was an artificial intelligence. Although being astonished by his remark, Xiao Ci found him wearing a pendant which belonged to her mom. Is this really for Xiao Ci so that her parents created this artificial intelligence…

Like other office workers, Kawashima wakes up, goes to work, goes home, and relieves the stress that built up throughout the day. But, while his colleagues are out drinking and eating together, Kawashima goes home, opens his laptop, and turns on his camera. Every night, Kawashima streams himself as he touches and pleasures himself for adoring fans. Little does Kawashima know, one of his fans might know him beyond the screen... This volume also contains Memories of a True Ending and The Old Man and the Demon, short stories about couples who find love (or just lust?).

From Attractive Fascinante: Shijima Rui, a potter, and Ubukata Toriko, a cram school teacher, finally got to live together. Just like any newly-wed couple, because of their different backgrounds and lifestyles, they had to learn how to accommodate each other. Learning how to take care of a baby and getting their families' recognition were also the challenges they needed to face. But how would Shijima going to prove his love for Toriko when they met with a new love rival?

Collection of oneshots. 1) Physical Attraction When I met the cool stud Narusawa at college I said half-jokingly, "Screw me next!" Before the day was out, he had. Our relationship was supposed to be just physical, but now I realize I'm falling in love with Narusawa. Looking back on it, it's a one-way love I brought upon myself. I'm much too embarrassed to tell the purely physical Narusawa "I love you" now! 2) February Rain One rainy night, part-time worker and university student Chihiro stops a kid from dine-and-dashing. Turns out this kid, Masami, doesn't have a place to go... 3) Anti-Dramatic (Sequel to 'Baby Maybe') Shiba and Yushima had been together a while now, they're off to college and it's time they move in together. Now they have to deal with the little everyday problems in life. 4) Let me Knock on the same Door Imamura and Toyohara work at a game software company together. They're close friend... and Toyohara also has some interest in Imamura. 5) Cooled Passion Arisaka's next big story is supposed to be about Tsutsumi, now a politician and his old friend. 7 years since their parting, what will happen if they're suddently reunited? 6) Loving Attraction (Physical Attraction Extra) A nice little extra about Kurata and Narusawa from Chapter 1 who are wondering if they should be going on a summer vacation or not.

Ye Yan finds himself reincarnated as a disciple within the Yunyan Sect, where he is secretly held as a sacrificial "cauldron" for the sect master's use. On the verge of death, a mysterious system activates and bestows upon him a powerful Nascent Soul Pill, significantly boosting his cultivation level. Armed with this newfound strength, he sets his sights on fleeing the Sect.

An unwilling marriage, an unexpected love. Young noblewoman Ariel Patrick has always dreamt of romance and passion. To her dismay, she is instead faced with a political marriage to the cold-hearted "devil" Duke Austin Alfred. Despite his rejection, can Ariel conquer the heart of a man who knows nothing but war and loyalty to the emperor?

Yuto follows Mikoto, a childhood friend and high school girl who is one year older, to enter the same high school. When she goes home with Mikoto for the first time in a year, it turns out that Mikoto only sees Yuto as her younger brother. Yuto is a little dizzy about the difficult road ahead, but an alien "onee-san" in a very erotic outfit appears in front of the two...!? "One Shota" space opera opens here!!

Kira Kira has been made fun of all his life due to his name which loosely translates as sparkly sparkles. On top of that, his rich parents have been giving him money indiscriminately, and most of his "friends" only hang out with him for financial reasons. Then, one day, his friend gets crushed by a pillar, and a mysterious winged creature chases him down! The angel-like guy introduces himself as a celestial guide and he begs Kira to teach him how to be scum like him! And that's just the beginning of their unlikely romance!

Working hard is supposed to take you far – but into the world of your best friend’s novel? For Lucy, being whisked into a life of ballrooms and picnics isn’t exactly what it’s cracked up to be; at least, not when everyone has mistaken her for the villain flagged for death. To escape this fate, Lucy must transform from modern workaholic to high society schemer if she even has a chance at returning home. Will she make it? Or will this world of beautiful outfits, strawberry desserts, and dashingly handsome gentlemen seal her fate?

Seo Hyun-jin, a student in the Korean Language Education Department at Korea University, has been in love with his senior in the same department, Sun Jungwook, for seven years. However, since Jungwook considers Hyun-jin as his junior, the outlook for Hyun-jin's love life is bleak. Meanwhile, Hyun-jin feels a sense of crisis when Chan-yung, who has exactly the same taste for Jungwook, appears! "I like Jungwook hyung. In the sense that I want to sleep with him and touch him." To make matters worse, Chan-young asks Hyun-jin to help him get along well with Jungwook. Hyun-jin tries to protect Jungwook from Chan-young by any means possible, and Chan-young tries to steal Jungwook away just for fun! What was the one thought that occurred to Hyun-jin at that moment? "If it's just for fun, then it doesn't necessarily have to be Jungwook hyung, right..?" Will Hyun-jin be able to regain his purity?!

Middle school English teacher Mr. Miyata is bummed at the idea of having to supervise the kendo club from spring, all because he's bad at getting along with sporty types. At first, he also thinks that Mr. Samehara, the affiliated high school's P.E. teacher in charge of coaching the kendo club, will be a meathead, too. But, he begins to feel that there might be something going on behind his fleeting, fake smile. Unable to resist the urge to find out what he's hiding, Mr. Miyata takes a leap of faith and...

During a big campus carnival, five people escaped to the beach to play a card game. Lin Weixia then got the chance to ask Ban Sheng a question. Lin Weixia: "What do you want to be?" Ban Sheng: "A shark." He then paused and asked, "What about you?" "A fish tank." she answered. Everyone knows that sharks and fish tanks can never be together. The handsome and arrogant boy × the cold and cool academic girl.

After seeing Tama in a high class suit by chance one day, Rikuo starts to notice discrepancies in his feelings...

Mere weeks away from her wedding, Natasha moyles finds her fiancé entangled in a lovers’ embrace with her younger sister Cindy. Desperate to get away, she accepts the aid of an unlikely ally: her fiancé’s brother, Leo Christakis. As she’s wondering to herself why leo is helping her, his warm and endearing tone turns menacing. It turns our that Natasha is the collateral for the millions of euros her ex-fiancé embezzled from Leo’s business!

A brand-new anthology brought to you by the highly popular doom-avoidance-strategy romantic comedy! This book features nine stories focusing on the heroines and their dazzling emotions!

Renta: Aiji Kano has a crush on a student who goes to the same cram school as him, but it's game over before he can even confess his love. Just as he's feeling down, he's warned by his cram school teacher, Yoshito Ayabe, about his dropping grades. Irritated, Aiji claims his sexual frustration as the reason. He provokes Yoshito, who has a similar presence to Aiji's unrequited love, and in the heat of the moment, Aiji covers his own eyes, tells Yoshito not to make a sound, and takes him right there. As they continue their twisted relationship, something happens and Aiji comes to know a surprising side of Yoshito. With that, his feelings toward Yoshito change bit by bit... In addition, a love story starring Aiji's crush from a different school, Shu Tachibana, is also included! This manga contains the following works: "Let's Get Along!!" "Let's Get Along Really Well!!" "Let's Get Along Forever!!" "What Other Reason Could There Be?" "Time Travel Sex Fantasy" "What Substitute Could There Be?" "Sometimes, People Are Reckless" "Summer Night Love Letter" Includes a bonus page exclusive to Renta!

On a sweltering hot day, a man on his way to the library collapses in the street and wakes up in a room filled with the scent of tea. It was Hide, the eldest son of the Maejima family, who runs a teahouse in the shopping district, who helped him. Hide who teaches him many things he didn't know, and shakes his heart as everything rapidly begins to change...

Social-phobic Sora and shut-in Shiro form a genius gamer sibling duo. The two find the world to be a lousy game…until someone claiming to be God transports them to a world where everything is decided by games! Will these two failures at life become the saviors of a strange, new world?

Audra is an accountant at a wedding-planning company. In spite of its elegant concept, the company is on the edge of bankruptcy and Audra feels responsible. She leaves the office one day and runs into her childhood crush, Dominic. Dominic asks her for help taking care of his nephew, whose parents were killed in an accident. To her surprise, he offers enough compensation to save the company! But now she has to live under the same roof as the corporate tycoon, notorious for his playboy lifestyle!

5-6) Bokura wa Tada Hashiru Dake For ten years Kousuke has followed Tomonari-senpai, from high school to college and now the company at which they both work, all the while telling himself that their friendship is enough for him. Kousuke's world tips upside down when he finds out two shocking facts in one evening that change his perspective on Tomonari drastically. 7) Call Me One day the phone rings and its some guy you met at a business function some time back. For some random reason he keeps calling once a week at the same time. Simple chit-chat, nothing special. Just when did that routine phone call begin to make me feel this way?

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Lucy is secretary to Aristoteles,the CEO of a worldwide trading company. A playboy whose relationships with women never last long,he always ends them with an expensive gift before breaking up. He even has Lucy arrange this as part of her job. However,one rainy day,he sees Lucy changing her clothes,and their relationship begins to change. "You were hiding such charm beneath your plain clothes," he whispers sweetly in her ear,pushing her onto a desk and kissing her passionately. And now,the two of them are to leave together on a business trip to Athens...?

Born into poverty, Boole fights to rise through the ranks of the personal guards for one sole purpose, and that is to be closer to the Saintess. However, in a series of events, he winds up being the royal family's pawn to to defeat the church. On one hand is the girl he has longed for since ages ago, but on the other is the omnipotent crown prince. Which will the young knight choose?

The spunky Lady Dillion didn't realize she was the villain of a romance novel until she encounters Marquess Cedric. Seeing him jogs a dormant memory of the novel's plot, in which her beloved younger sister dies in childbirth after marrying Cedric. Determined to prevent this, Dillion marries him herself, but what fate awaits her when she knows he's meant to fall in love with the real female lead later? In this marriage of convenience, it seems nothing turns out quite how either of them expects...

The lone young boy in town, Haneul, is happy to meet a boy his age, Namu. Haneul wants to get close to him, but Namu keeps avoiding him. Namu becomes the village's helper who fixes things here and there. Then one day, Haneul hears a voice outside. "Is there a place that needs repair work?" This is a chance given by the heavens!

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Could a makeover really change Cindy’s life? Cindy, a secretary, is in love with her workaholic boss, Kyle. But to him, Cindy is nothing more than a trustworthy coworker. He forgot her birthday and she knows she’ll never turn his head with her looks. But maybe someday a Kyle will fall for her intellect. Cindy’s friends decide to help her out, and so for her birthday they get her a makeover. Transformed on the surface, Cindy is still the same woman she always was, but Kyle’s reaction to the change leaves Cindy shocked!

One day, Taejin began to see the desires of other people. The first desire Taejin encountered shocked him, as it was from his aunt who’d raised him like a mother… “I wish Taejin would see me as a woman…”

On the eve of Su Wei’s wedding, she catches her groom being intimate with another woman. To add insult to injury, the groom doesn’t even show up at their wedding. Will she swallow the insult and put up with a marriage without love? Adorable Wife Falling From Heaven Tian Jiang Meng Qi Tiān Jiàng Méng Qī 天降萌妻

Takayama is gay. While at work he begins to take note of successful and peerless Ishikawa, whom he eyes hungrily. Ishikawa finds out that Takayama is gay when he sees him in a compromising position with a hook-up, but surprisingly he does not out him at work. When a deal of Ishikawa's goes bad, he is infuriated. In a fit of rage, Ishikawa forces himself on Takayama. Takayama decides that he can forgive him for this one-time incident, but can this sordid physical relationship continue?

Keeping a secret in her, Ayu went back to her hometown. She decided not to fall in love anymore, but....?

TW: dub-con --- "We'll be together forever..." My childhood friend is now a crazy yandere! He pounds me until I cum over and over...

Julia, a resident of the high-society apartment building at 721 Park Avenue, meets a successful businessman named Max in a café and has a magical night with him. Then, she finds out she's pregnant. She tries to tell Max but he doesn't believe her. Soon after, the threats begin....

The count, her contractual husband, cruelly tramples her feelings… Christina, dressed in her bridal gown, prepares herself to walk down the aisle. Even though she and the groom, Max, are marrying for reasons other than love, she is still holding out hope. However, on her wedding day to the count, she receives a message from him that he’ll be waiting for her in Italy! Not willing to give up hope for their future, Christina heads for his castle, only to be met with even more cruel treatment!

From Hoshikuzuu Scans: While studying horticulture in England, Minoru lands an internship as the assistant to Sakura Yuji, the brother of his favorite lecturer, Mika. However, despite Makoto’s stellar grades in school, Sakura has only been using him for common chores and cleaning up his personal belongings. He’s got a bad attitude and lives a messy life. But in terms of work, he is perfect. Will Makoto be swept up in this Sakura…?

Every little girl dreams about finding her prince charming and becoming a bride, nursery girl Rino is no exception. Precocious Rino falls in love with the timid and weak but very handsome and kind nutritionist Kazuki. And so carried for that love, she declares firmly "If you marry me, I'll definitely protect you!!"

Fifty years have passed since mankind began migrating to the new frontier: Mars. It's an age where most culture is produced by AI, and people are content to be passive consumers.There's a girl. Scrapping a living in the metropolis of Alba City, she's working part time while trying to become a musician. She's always felt like something is missing. Her name is Carole.There's a girl. Born to a wealthy family in the provincial town of Herschel City, she dreams of becoming a musician, but nobody around her understands. She feels like the loneliest person in the world. Her name is Tuesday.A chance meeting brings them together. They want to sing. They want to make music. Together, they feel like they just might have a chance. The two of them may only create a tiny wave. But that wave will eventually grow into something larger...

While delivering a sword to the Captain of the Holy Knights, Léa accidentally discovers a secret. Escorted by a knight named Baltha, Léa returns home to find her parents have been slaughtered and her sister is missing. Now she must survive in this harsh world while seeking out her sister.

"Did you come to meet Jugeon? ...I am Jugeon." Ding! Once again, he receive messages from people mistaking him for Hyeseong, just like any other day. He thought it was one of Hyeseong's pranks and tried to ignore it… However, that day, the messages pouring in were from genuine customers! Amidst extreme work stress, he receive a message from 'Hyeondal' who arrived. Jugeon unexpectedly responds to Hyeondal's message, mistaking him for Hyeseong. As the contacts continue, the two of them gradually become closer, and the long-awaited first encounter of them who seemed like they would never meet is approaching... A mistaken identity leads to an Alpha x Alpha romantic comedy that starts with misunderstandings! ( He’s not my type though? ) Begins!

Weddings should be a joyful occasion?the beginning of a rosy life with the one you love. But for Fenella, this wedding is the scene of a crime, and she’s the main suspect. After changing places with the real bride, now Fenella’s taking the vows instead! When the groom, Heraklion, discovers he’s been deceived, he vows to punish her for it. But the truth is, Fenella’s in love with him. Their marriage is off to a bittersweet start… Frailty, thy name is woman!

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"Abdominal Perforation Syndrome" - when children enter puberty, a hole forms in their belly. It closes automatically as you grow up, and having gone through this experience is a sign of adulthood. This story centers around junior high school student Asahina Chimaki and those around her, as they are torn between childhood and adulthood.

Hibari is a young professional who works long hours and inevitably rides the last train home. It's not all bad. She also runs into the train station worker, Yokose. Yokose is kind and polite and is always looking out for Hibari as she often sleeps defenselessly (and with a bit of drool) on her way home. Their brief encounters are a bright spot in her hectic days.

Team Captain Yoichi Kouda is a high school track athlete “specializing“ in 200m distance running. He has neither the speed for short distance, nor the stamina for long distance. And other events are out of the question because he has no agility whatsoever. What he does have is determination to train longer and harder than anyone else.

On the first day of school, Wu Niannian learned that her childhood friend, who was repeating a grade, was going to be her classmate. He had even caught her drawing a boy's love comic. It was embarrassing for her. Nianian had been longing for a fresh start. But she realized it was not as simple as she had imagined. Besides the stress of her studies, she had to deal with a classmate's harsh criticism. What choices should Niannian make at this crossroads in her life?

An earnest little demon ends up in dire straits as he's summoned by a human with a libido rivaling that of a devil. A college student Satoru Shiiyama had a crush on Jun Mariya ever since middle school, but the object of his affections dies in an accident. In the midst of his grieving, Satoru accidentally summons a demon and gets a once-in-a-lifetime offer: "In return for your life span, I'll grant you a wish." Having lost all hope, Satoru agrees. Just what is the wish that he made...? This is a heart-warming(?) love story between a selfish, lustful guy and an honest, cute little demon.

Alicia's love life is perfect in her fantasy journal, but in reality she's desperate to get her crush's attention in school. When her journal leads her to a popular upperclassman, she gains an unexpected wingman—who only has more strings to pull as feelings start to unravel in everyone around them. After all, is love ever as simple as fairytales make it seem?

In an unexpected turn of events, Toki, a high school boy, started dating Fumi Munetsugu, the school's superheroine. After hitting it off to a good start, they faced the next hurdle in the path of romance: a kiss.Completely out of his element, Toki was unable to go for it.The fate of the world, however, depended on it...