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Acting as his girlfriend is what I have to do to protect my family… "Pretend to be my girlfriend and I’ll give you a second chance." Hearing these cold words uttered by her ex, Leo, Helena is at a loss as to what to do. Seven years ago, her father forced them to end their relationship and she was left alone to give birth to a stillborn son. Now she must push aside her painful past to confront Leo in hopes of stopping him from taking over her father’s company. But what Helena doesn’t know is that Leo has every right to seek revenge on her father…

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Olivia, the eldest daughter of the prestigious Balfour family of Britain, is forced to work in Australia as punishment for disgracing the family name. Worse still, she has to work for billionaire, Clint McAlpine, who has a strong business connection to her father. “Why don't you come down from your ivory tower, Ice Princess,” he sarcastically remarked before regarding her high status. But what does he think of who she is now? What’s waiting for Olivia at the airport is hot, humid weather, and Clint. The stubble on his chin makes him look like a wild animal… At that same moment, she has a sudden rush of blood to the head, causing her to lose consciousness…

Chiharu's been doing pretty well for himself recently. He has a fulfilling job he enjoys, and a super-hot boyfriend who picks him up every day on his big bike...what's not to love? What's not to love is that from the very start of their relationship, his younger boyfriend Tomoya has been making up rules for their romance - rules that say they can't go further than hugging until Tomoya graduates from college! Tomoya probably means well, but Chiharu's restraint can't take it any longer...will his plan work?

He’s the sun god Helios... Jessica can barely look at Alec, he burns so bright. The genius photographer asked Jessica to dinner, but she turned him down. The young actress takes some time away from filming, but she just can’t get her mind off of him her sun god. She’s falling for Alec and powerless before his charms.When their romance sparks, they're sure they were meant for each other from birth. Never in their wildest dreams did they imagine the day would come when they'd be torn apart…

She’s no princess…so she mustn’t let herself fall for this dashing prince! Shey goes to the airport to wait for Prince Tanner; however, he isn’t expecting her. He’s expecting Shey’s friend Parker, a flighty princess from a neighboring country…and his fiancée. Parker refuses to agree to a political marriage and so she is doing her best to avoid him, but the prince is adamant. Thinking he’ll find Parker if he sticks with Shey, he ends up staying with Shey at her place. Little do Tanner and Shey realize that being around each other all day, every day will spark unexpected feelings.

A grieving young woman tempted by love… Callie lost both her mother and beloved stepfather, Jeff, in the span of six months. While still mourning her losses, a lawyer informs her that Jeff has left her a fortune and his family wants to meet her. Callie visits them but finds them cold and unwelcoming, and they plan to take her inheritance by orchestrating a marriage between her and their son! Meanwhile, she meets a gentleman named Logan and becomes attracted to him. But will there only be romantic tragedy in store for Callie?

After hearing that her father is in the hospital, Emma returns to her hometown. There, she bumps into her first love, Casey, who turned her down when she confessed her feelings eight years ago. Devastated, Emma had gathered what little money she’d saved and left town. Now she’s a grown, independent woman with her own business in Chicago, but being around Casey makes her feel like a lovestruck teenager again. Why do his eyes burn with passion when he looks at her? And will Emma be able to tell him her deepest secret?

Even though I already like someone else, the younger classmate I drunkenly spent the night with professes his love to me almost everyday... Of course, while I decline his advances, I don't feel disgusted or weirded out by him. It's just that I like someone else. And right when I decide to tell this someone about my true feelings....

Amber has a crush on her boss, Bradley, the wealthy son of a family who owns an oil company. He seems so far above her and they haven't even spoken once, but for Amber it was love at first sight. One day there's an emergency and Bradley asks Amber to drive him to the hospital. His grandmother, the chairman of the board, is in critical condition. Amber waits for him in the hospital corridor, and when he emerges from the ICU his face is pale, and he asks her, "For my grandmother's sake, will you be my fiancée?"

A wedding invitation sets an old love back in motion! Belle is in bed with influenza. When she answered the door and saw her ex-husband Luke, she loses consciousness. Belle had been working at a major investment consultancy company when she met Luke, who was only a postgraduate student. They fell in love and married young, believing that the difference in their incomes and position in society would make no difference to their love.... However their marriage did not last and seven years have passed since their divorce. In the flesh once again, Luke appears almost terrifyingly handsome, and she is spellbound by his mature manliness. But why has he appeared now...?

Stella Greco’s child, Nicky, is the result of artificial insemination. Stella has no intention of ever bringing the anonymous donor, or any father for that matter, into their lives. Unfortunately, the anonymous donor is Vasco Montoya, King of Montmajor, who is eager to seize this chance to continue his family line without being forced into a marriage. He wants his son in Montmajor, and Stella isn’t willing to give up her child. To compromise, Vasco invites Stella to work restoring ancient texts in the palace library for a month, so she can see what life would be like for her and Nicky. Neither of them ever expected to fall in love, but then, loving a royal isn’t easy.

Shayla attended a party organized by the Dante clan...not to celebrate with them, but to find ways to exploit them. While there, she came across a marvelously beautiful man-Draco. In no time, he and Shayla were in bed together. Shayla fulfilled her wish of giving up her virginity to someone wonderful. However, she has yet to notice that she is falling in love...and Draco, her lover, is destined to lead her either to heaven or to hell.

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I’m still attracted to my first love, the man who tore my heart into pieces… Sorrel is a mature, sophisticated woman who lives in an expensive apartment in London. Eight years ago, she fell in love at first sight with Ellis. But after leading her on, he mercilessly rejected her. That experience made her wary of people and has hindered her from living a normal life. Though that pain is now in the past, she refuses to fall in love ever again. But then she runs into Ellis…

Arrogant and cold-hearted. That's what I thought, but I was attracted to him… I'm the sister of the CEO of this company! Juliana shouted as she was about to be kicked out of a huge building in Barcelona, but she had made up her mind. I can't leave until I see him. Xavier de la Vega, the CEO of a global corporation and the richest man in Spain with a reputation for ruthlessness. She had come to give him the letter that her late stepmother, whom she had loved so much, had written to him, her estranged son. Juliana's heart fluttered as soon as she was granted access and faced the handsome man. But then he assumed she was just a fake relative looking for money...

How wonderful dormitory life is!Two students killing time in the laundry.

When her father remarries, Chiharu suddenly has four new brothers. They're all good-looking and kind...which is no surprise, since all four of them work as hosts! They all start living together, but actually Chiharu doesn't really like hosts, so she tries to draw a line somewhere. Then, the second son, Minami, who had been nice before, suddenly starts chasing after her! "If you won't do what I say, why don't I just force you?" he says devilishly, and starts messing around with Chiharu "down there"...! Thus begins her life with these four suddenly changed hosts...!

A series of short one shots. 1)Plan - O.N.O. ~ Pgs. 11-42 Misawa has fallen for the captain of the school's track team, but doesn't know if his captain feels the same way about him. 2)Lip Sevice ~ Pgs. 44-67 Katsuhiro is the bad boy type, irratated due to his father always telling him not to make him look bad, he gets into the habit of stealing books. The only one who truly understands him is his father's secretary and his chauffeur, Yoshizaki. On the way to a celebration for his grandfather's recovery, things get a little...intense between Katsuhiro and Yoshizaki. 3)The Lucky Star of The Night ~ Pgs. 68-96 Aoyama has a crush on his cheif, Matsuzawa. After a night of a little too much drinking Aoyama ends up at Matsuzawa's home. 4)Holiday ~ Pgs.98-125 Natsuki, company president’s son, was forced to cancel his weekend plans to go on a family retreat in the family villa for a party. Unfortunately, his father arranged the party in hopes for him to meet with potential brides. Just as Natsuki was about to execute his escape plan to steal a boat, the dutiful bodyguard, Kishida, jumped into the boat with him… As fate would have it, the two ended up stranded in a remote island where Kishida started his feverish pursuit of Natsuki.[from Fantasy Shrine:] 5)My Bodyguard ~ Pgs. 126-157 Continuation to the "Holiday" 6) Partner ~ Pgs. 159-190 Still the continuation to the "Holiday" 7)Stubborn Vice President Nacchi ~ Pgs.191-196 Still the continuation to the "Holiday"

Jenna Deane—who has a four-year-old at home and an ex-husband who shows up more than she'd like—can't afford to lose her job. When she finally meets the "boss from Hell" her coworkers have been warning her about, she might have trouble keeping things professional. What can you do when your boss takes you on a business trip, buys you gowns…and is engaged to someone else? Does Jenna have any choice but to be his secretary mistress?

Collection of oneshots. 1) A strange man hired a younger man to act as his new lover to get rid of his ex-boyfriend who's stalking him. It turns out the younger man is a student in the class of the older man... Sweet and a bit of angst. 2) True Blue - Momo and Harumi are childhood friends, and Harumi has always relied on Momo. One day he sees Momo walk into a hotel with an older man. 3-5) The Lover in the secret room - Kou and Natsume are good friends and also happens to the Captain and Assistant Captain on the schools soccer team. Natsume has always liked Kou, until he finds out that Kou is going to study abroad in France. Oda, who's also on the team has liked Natsume from afar. He confesses his feelings for him and then chains him up in his home. (slight bondage) 6) Kaoru and Sei have been living together ever since Kaorus' dad was sent overseas for work. Kaoru catches Sei making out. Sei tells him that he likes someone else, but he can never be with him.

The man she helped on the train now wants her to pretend to be his fiancée to protect his nephew! When nanny Ainslie accidentally witnesses her employer’s wife having an affair, she gets fired for a crime she never committed. Hopeless and jobless, Ainslie finds herself lost in London’s train traffic, where she meets a handsome man holding an upset baby. Seeing the man struggling to comfort the baby, Ainslie offers to help him. The man turns out to be Elijah Vanaldi, a successful real estate mogul and an Italian millionaire. The baby, Elijah’s nephew, recently lost his parents and Elijah is trying to protect him from his brother-in-law’s notorious family. Which is why he needs to convince the caseworker that his nephew will be happiest living with him and Ainslie…who he says is his fiancée!

I love him so much, but I’ll never be able to make him happy… Is there really such a thing as fate? Zia is a resident in pediatrics, taking a quick vacation, when she meets Michael Brennan, the CEO of a major shipping company that he built from the ground up. It was pure coincidence that Zia saved Mike’s nephew from drowning, but from the moment they meet, everything seems to just fit—they’re a perfect match. Now they’ve met each other’s families and they’re even collaborating at work. Zia is concerned things are going too well! And when she sees how much fun Mike has playing with his nephew, it only reminds her of a painful truth: Zia will never be able to have children. Why couldn’t she tell him sooner?

Mii is an innocent girl, and she thinks that the act of sex should be romantic, tender, and beautiful. One day, however, her boyfriend Renji adopted a provocative attitude, and kissed her. The moment Mii experienced that kiss, it gave her a pleasant shock. The works by Yuna Sasaki, a new star of Comic Monthly Cheese, that describe girls' real feelings are collected.

From The Back Door: Shiba-kun is Kishitani Shougo-kun's muse. He thought it was mutual love, but Shougo has started acting strange...?

Naomi, who works at an antique store, has a chance meeting at the opera house with Bran, a celebrated artist. Her older sister, Diana, urges Naomi to apply to be his personal assistant and gather information for her. Bran has a distaste for the media, and Diana is a journalist who has been searching for the inside scoop on him. Unable to turn down her beloved sister’s plea, Naomi sends Bran her résumé. She’s hired in a flash and, hounded by guilt, goes to work for him under false pretenses. And she soon learns that Bran has a horrible secret!

My first love who never loved me back…is now my fiancé! Adelaide is shocked when her boss, Dempsey, suddenly declares their engagement at a press conference. To think he would resort to such a lie to keep her from quitting! Dempsey and Adelaide grew up together in a poor neighborhood and he was her first love. But he made it clear back then that he only ever wanted to be friends… So why does he want to be engaged to her now?

Yoon Haneul has always been a pushover, someone who would never say no. Then one day, she opens her eyes and realizes that she has become Aila Mertensia, the antagonist of a novel she had written ten years ago. Haneul is content to live the life of a rich couch potato and binge-read novels. But to her dismay, she soon finds herself stuck in a time loop where her day repeats endlessly, and the only way to escape the loop is to act like Aila Mertensia! Haneul doesn’t know the first thing about acting like a villainess. Luckily for her, a mysterious warlock by the name of Killian offers to help her become a true villainess. Her only option is to make a deal with him, but can Haneul really trust this devilishly handsome man?

This is the kind of guy girls dream about. That was Julie’s first thought when her new boss, the world-renowned doctor Professor Simon van der Driesma, entered the room. She’s taken aback, however, when this tall and handsome man tells her that she’s not the kind of secretary he would have chosen to hire! Simon orders her to travel abroad with him for work while she’s still feeling sore about it. Will their strained relationship develop in an unexpected direction on this trip?

The story of a cicada that hates buzzing like other insects.

Andrew has an important goal in mind: he needs to get married so he can take over the family law firm. Kat has an equally important desire: she needs to find a father for the child she wants to have—but it has to be a man she has no chance of falling in love with. They can combine forces to attain their own personal goals—but can they keep their marriage purely contractual?

He holds her family’s future in his hands! Ella was in a predicament. On top of her father’s furniture store being on the brink of bankruptcy, their house was about to be confiscated. Their creditor was a Greek businessman, Nikoros, the same man who stole a kiss from Ella one year earlier, right after she lost her fiancé. Now Nikoros is willing to clear her family’s debt…if she agrees to live in his mansion as his mistress for the next three months! For her family’s sake, she has no choice but to accept, but little could she know how much her time with Nikoros would change her!

Why can’t l be my true self when I’m with him? While dressed as a hooker for a costume party, Zoe meets a highly judgmental yet concerned gentleman. She fails to convince him that it is merely a costume and gets scolded for her profession. The next day, Zoe clears her mind from her embarrassing encounter and gets back to her true form as a serious and prudish accountant. However, her new client is James Cade, CEO of a world-class pharmaceutical company and the man who scolded her! Can he tell she’s the same woman from last night?

Libby gave birth to her child without telling her ex-boyfriend, Samuel, whom she’d fought and broken up with eight years ago. Her heart aches to see that her child resembles her father more each day. Then Libby gets in a car accident and falls into a coma… (The Promise) When Jolie was pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend, his brother, Drew, was the one who saved her. He married Jolie and did everything to help support her and the baby. Now, seven years later, Libby’s ex has come back! (Taggart’s Bride)

[From Fantasyshrine] Collection of oneshots: Sakurai is a new hire who is having a secret relationship with his boss, Chief Akimoto. Even though the chief is gentle, suave, and unexpectedly, a pro when it comes to the H-department, he’s still an “old man” in Sakurai’s eyes! However, Akimoto sees right through the rather naive Sakurai and spoils him to the point that keeps him demanding for more… until they both come to regret it! This is the debut of Yoshihara Yuuka’s salary-man romance! Quick Reference of story titles and pages they begin at: 1.Boss’ Favorite (pg 10); 2.Secrets Under the Suit (pg. 36); 3.Until There’s Love (pg. 60); 4.Cat Lover (pg. 84); 5.Butterfly and Flower Lovers (pg. 120); 6.Secretary’s Choice (pg. 144); 7.The Favorite Subordinate (pg. 170)

Catherine has been living half a globe away from her husband, Vito, for three years now. For as long as he can remember, their son, Santos, has never seen his mother and father together. Vito was looking forward to the next of Santos’s periodic visits, but his new lover, Marietta, isn’t happy about having Santos in the picture. To protect Santos from Marietta’s cruelty, Vito hatches a plan to live together with his wife and son as a family once more. Though her old wounds haven’t healed and the fire of their love has long since gone cold, Catherine finds her heart racing at Vito’s touch. Are they living together for Santos’s sake alone?

Never meet your streamers in real life. Author's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tora723-natsumi

Tomoki enters the school's Boy's Beauty Pageant to find out his rival is the "Perfect Prince" Shiratori who says to him, "If I win the pageant, please go out with me!"

Marimo has a job to do... but it's too cold and she doesn't want to leave the kotatsu.

[Batoto Scans] "How can I not spoil you...!" Tired of city life, former office lady Mizuho returns to the countryside. As part of her rehabilitation, she starts working for her father's friend, Sugahara Taisei. As she spends her days peacefully working with Taisei, whom she has known since she was a child, she slowly regains her cheerfulness. Taisei's offered her nothing but unconditional kindness ever since she came back. But as it turns out, the special feelings behind that kindness don't belong to just an "old friend."

Souta is in love with his kind and handsome boyfriend, Yoichi. And they're living together! Shout thought they could be in love forever, but it seems like Yoichi has been hiding something lately?! When he started to worry about, he saw a suspicious email...

Harriet’s a logical planner—it’s what she does—but can she plan for love? Harriet wants to get married and have kids someday, so she decides to make a checklist for an ideal husband. For instance, he can’t be too handsome or too ugly, nor can he be too rich or too poor. Her boss, Alex, is dumbfounded when he hears this. Who would she want to marry such a boring man? It’s no wonder Harriet broke up with her fiancé. Despite being born into a poor family, Alex has become a successful real-estate developer. He more than checks off Harriet’s list, but she’d be an idiot to fall for a sworn bachelor like him. So what will she do when he asks her to spend a passionate weekend with him at a five-star hotel?

A summer fling…with a blind man? On a solo trip to her uncle’s beach house for summer vacation, April is shocked when she comes face-to-face with a completely naked man. According to her uncle, this mysterious nudist is none other than the famous sculptor Hugh Davies, who is staying in the next house over with a friend. His movie-star good looks make April’s heart flutter, but Hugh does nothing but ignore her. April decides to confront the man about his bad manners, only to discover that he’s blind!

Sayori has had bad luck with men all her life. One day, she gets drunk and starts reminiscing her old clubmate, Kimika, when she moves in next door! What sort of past do the two have and what sort of future will they have now that they've met again after all these years?

He will do anything to protect his little angel’s smile. Marissa is a single mother who teaches people how to care for infants. While teaching, she meets a new student, the gentlemanly Alec. He lost his beloved wife a year earlier and decided to take Marissa’s course to learn how to care for his daughter. But after seeing Marissa pacify his daughter, he asks her to become his live-in babysitter. Marissa already has her hands full with work and her own son. But she also has to move out of her home, so she accepts the job and moves in with Alec. She promises herself she won’t become romantically involved with him, but that promise may be harder to keep than she thinks.

Charlotte Ramsey has a nice life laid out for her. She's getting married in a few weeks, but a certain excitement is missing from her life. Her goal is to have a comfortable life with children and a nice husband, but comfort alone can’t spark the flames of romance deep in her heart. Damien Wynter, after a chance encounter on a boat, may be the raging inferno of passion that'll ignite those flames…but should she play with fire? She may just get burned.