HIROMI KOBAYASHI

Knowing that time is running out, Sally confronts her despicable, two-timing father demanding he show a shred of decency in her mother's final days. To her dismay, her father exploits the situation and uses Sally as leverage to save his own skin after embezzling millions from takeover king Zac Delucca. Well aware that she can't to pay her mother's medical bills on her own, she reluctantly accepts Zac's outlandish ultimatum and becomes his mistress.

"It's time we got married." That's what Alexander, Loren's first love, has the audacity to say to her after stepping out of his helicopter. He is the eldest son of the legendary del Castillo family. The family rules an island kingdom in the Mediterranean, and Alex always treated Loren like a kid. He hasn't contacted her in ten years, so why is he suddenly proposing to her now?

Andi lost both her father and her fiance in the same car accident, and now she's been saddled with all the debt her father left behind. The only solution is to sell her family's mansion. In the depths of despair, she meets Linus, an up-and-coming real-estate tycoon who's interested in purchasing the property. He's a calculating man and makes her an offer of his own-she can stay and live in the mansion with her mother...if she'll be his secretary. Andi feels anxious whenever she's around him, but with no other options, she decides to accept his offer so that she can stay in her home with her mother. But what if Linus's real goal isn't just the mansion, but Andi herself?

Rina, a dispatch secretary, was dumped by her fiancé of five years one week before her wedding. Suffering from a wounded heart, Rina accepts an invitation from her twin sister, Sara, to come to Isla Sagrado—a country on the other side of the world. When Sara meets Rina there, she shoves a letter into Rina’s hand and then immediately flees. Inside the letter is an expensive ring and a written plea for Rina to pose as her sister. “How can she ask me to deceive her fiancé when she knows mine just broke up with me?” To make matters more difficult for Rina, the fiancé, Reynard, is essentially royalty, and he’s a gorgeous millionaire!

When millionaire Benedict del Castillo alighted from the yacht and Mia's eye fell on him, she thought her heart was going to stop. She had once made love with him, despite not knowing his name.

Ginny, who works at a hotel, and her boss, Rourke, have a cat-and-dog relationship. Ginny is repulsed, despite his attractiveness, by how Rourke constantly changes girlfriends. Rourke, on the other hand, thinks Ginny is pretty but cold and stubborn. Their quarrels are entertaining for the rest of the employees, yet when it comes to working on projects together, they make an undeniably excellent team. Then one day, Rourke asks for Ginny’s assistance with a very personal matter…

Caroline can interpret Russian flawlessly. If only she could interpret her own heart as easily! Caroline, a scholarship student studying Russian and struggling to make ends meet, can’t turn down the gig her classmate has found for her. She is to work as an interpreter at a business dinner while pretending to be the client’s mistress and lover. Despite its being a fishy job, Caroline decides to go along with it… She meets her client at the appointed place and time and is stunned by his debonair beauty. Lucas would take anyone’s breath away! Nevertheless, Caroline pulls off the job perfectly, as planned. What she didn’t plan for was waking up in Lucas’s bed the next morning!

“I came to wrench everything away from you. Your house, your wealth and, of course, your virginity.” Maggie’s father has died, leaving a debt behind. At his funeral, Maggie meets a man she has never wanted to see again. His name is Caleb Cameron, a global businessman who used numerous ruthless tactics to drive Maggie’s father to the brink and his company and family to ruins. Caleb approaches Maggie slowly with a cold, cruel smile as if toying with the family’s future. Maggie knows what Caleb wants? “He’s never forgotten that night six months ago.”

She’s just an ordinary girl, but fate has extraordinary plans for her… Elizabeth Partridge lives a humble life working as a full-time nurse. In a rush to get to work one morning, she accidentally bumps her bicycle into someone and is surprised when he simply smiles and forgives her. Later, she finds out he is Alexander van Zeust, a Dutch medical professor who is temporarily working at her hospital. One day, Alexander’s sister is brought to the hospital in need of emergency surgery. While his sister is recovering, Alexander asks Beth if she would watch his sister’s children for a week. But one week turns into longer and Beth soon finds herself attached to both the kids and the doctor!

She was reborn a new woman, and yet she ended up falling in love with him all over again… After suffering gruesome injuries from an accident, Jacqui wants a new identity so she can start her life over again. Plastic surgery gives her a new face, and she gives herself a new name—Brooke. As Jacqui, she fell in love with her husband, Rafe, and he promised to love her forever. But she found herself in a miserable marriage to a high-class tyrant, and it wasn’t long before Jacqui was cast out of his estate, surrounded by nothing but bad rumors about her marriage. Now, as Brooke, Jacqui sneaks into her ex-husband’s life just to see her dearest son once more.

Sarah has just lost her beloved sister and is drowning in sadness when her gaze freezes on the man in front of her. She can't believe her eyes. That man is Alex Terzakis, a Greek businessman with a dizzying level of wealth and power. Sarah loathes this man: he knew that Sarah's sister, who was born with a weak heart, was pregnant, but he stole everything from her, anyway, and now he wants to take the child that Sarah's sister gave her life to birth. "I'll never let him get what he wants!" But Alex easily brushes off Sarah's desperate resistance, and the threats he whispers into her ear leave her limp and weak. "Oh, no...I can't do a thing."

"I’ve finally realized who is truly irreplaceable to me." After suffering a major heartbreak, Harold, a handsome CEO, meets Flora, a beautiful woman who reminds him of an angel. As he discovers his attraction for her, for one reason or another, his cousin Angela can't help but interfere…

"I’ll run anywhere to protect the woman I love." Madeline’s always busy, working as a secretary to a CEO at a big company and running around taking care of her family when she isn’t at the office. Her motto is business before love… but she can’t stop thinking about Silas, a mysterious man she sees during her lunch breaks…

How can she focus on her goals with this handsome man distracting her? Anna dreams of becoming a wedding dress designer, but her boy-obsessed tendencies have always held her back. She finally has a chance to prove herself with her latest designs, but right before the photo shoot, the model is nowhere to be found. She has no choice but to model the dresses herself. The model playing the groom, Ryan, is absurdly handsome. Anna can’t let herself be seduced… Otherwise, everything she’s worked so hard for will be for nothing!

A romance will blossom beneath the moonlight... Olivia is invitedto the kingdom of Seljarmia to research an epidemic. There, she falls for the country’s third prince, Sheik Rasheed.

Rachel likes Nathan, but he thinks she’s a tramp. Rachel’s grandmother then asks for Rachel’s and Nathan’s help to get back her love letters which was stolen that could lead to a scandal.

No matter how much we look alike, the prince will never love me. Hannah, an American secretary, agrees to switch places with Princess Emmeline, just for two hours. There must be a reason that made her ask me for such a favor. Besides, it’s only for a few hours. But Emmeline doesn’t return for days, and Hannah ends up having to meet King Zale of Raguva, pretending to be the princess!

Actress Dana is "sold" as a prize in a charity auction to Ashraf, a mystery man who "buys" her for an unspeakable sum of money. They share a passionate kiss before he disappears without a word… When he turns up again, Dana suddenly finds herself mixed up in the search for the lost Rose, a priceless family heirloom!

The cruel man insisted that Belinda return to his mansion after her discharge so she could recuperate under his watchful eye! When Belinda miraculously woke up from a long coma, the man who came to her bedside wasn’t her boyfriend, Ricky, but his brother, Vincent. Vincent had always tried to break up her and Ricky, and she hated him for that. Showing no signs of sympathy, Vincent delivered the heartbreaking news that his brother had married another woman while she was in her coma. Then for some reason, the cruel man insisted that Belinda return to his mansion after her discharge so she could continue recuperating under his watchful eye!

“You’re just as important to me as my whole country.” When Flora met the unassuming Roy for the first time in Graduate school, the two of hit it off immediately. But now, she’s being pursued by the assertive Prince Stefan, by all means the ideal man. Who will Flora choose…?

A love more romantic than even the starry sky. Chloe visits Selgermia to build a hotel. She tells a man she meets by chance about how to effectively use the country, but that man happened to be the second prince, Nardel! Chloe felt awkward, but Nardel seemed to like that frank personality of hers!

I’ll be the woman he wants me to be. I’ll make him regret it when he sees the real me! The blue eyes that attract any woman… His deep gaze… Rachel cannot stop her heart from pounding when she sees her beloved Nathan, a breathtakingly gorgeous man from her work. But for some reason he thinks she is a cunning and promiscuous woman and always gives her the cold shoulder. One day, Rachel’s grandmother makes a shocking request, and Rachel ends up going on a trip alone with Nathan. Her job is to act as Nathan’s girlfriend and get back her grandmother’s stolen letters.

How long do I have to live this way? Eve wonders. She was tricked into becoming her boss’s mistress. Then one day, she meets a man at a party—his name is Carl and he’s a movie director. She is instantly attracted to him, but the moment he learns that Eve is Max’s mistress, he throws hurtful words at her. Max then makes a most cruel request: he wants her to play a role in Carl’s upcoming movie in order to ruin it! If only she had the power to say no to Max’s demands…

King Mustafa rules over the Kingdom of Zehrjamia, and Rana is his childhood friend. She loves the king, but seals away her feelings for him. However, when Prince Jahlil of a neighboring country comes and proposes to marry her, her feelings for the king grow even stronger...?

Rina, a dispatch secretary, was dumped by her fiancé of five years one week before her wedding. Suffering from a wounded heart, Rina accepts an invitation from her twin sister, Sara, to come to Isla Sagrado—a country on the other side of the world. When Sara meets Rina there, she shoves a letter into Rina’s hand and then immediately flees. Inside the letter is an expensive ring and a written plea for Rina to pose as her sister. “How can she ask me to deceive her fiancé when she knows mine just broke up with me?” To make matters more difficult for Rina, the fiancé, Reynard, is essentially royalty, and he’s a gorgeous millionaire!