I was the one who wanted to spend my birthday with her.
Her mother has been sick, so our plans are completely empty.
Now what shall we do?... more>>

My friends help me, but I am already broken.

What was the last decision I made? <<less

Physically confronting your abusive superior might be cool and satisfying when it happens in a drama, but, as Kazuo Sugishita is learning, it's less cool when you're sitting at home afterwards, terrified to learn how you'll be punished when you return to work the next day. The sentence he faces sounds surprisingly lenient - just a temporary reassignment to the company's entertainment department while things blow over. But he changes his mind when he gets the specifics: Kazuo has been assigned as manager-in-training (read "servant") to Shiro Hoshizono, the "Star Watcher": A pompous, showoff-y, completely insufferable talent with no actual talents except using his sickeningly sweet words and foreign model looks to seduce lonely middle... more>> aged women into paying for the privilege of hearing him speak.

The day after his new assignment, Kazuo and Hoshizono leave for Saitama Prefecture, where Hoshizono has been recruited to become an image character for a campground in the mountains, alongside a group of other colorful characters, including a romance novelist with the looks of Cleopatra but the personality of someone's grandpa and a UFO obsessed conspiracy theorist.

But the morning after their arrival, their host is found strangled to death in his lodge, the road back is buried in an avalanche, and... you can probably see where this is going.

Turns out, despite how he comes across normally, Hoshizono is actually a genius detective!

The novel features a unique chapter naming scheme where each chapter is titled as a three to four sentence summary of its own contents, focused upon what information about the case is discovered and what evidence appears, for ease of reference.

A nominee for the 50th annual Mystery Writers Association of Japan Award, long story category. <<less

"I want to break up." That was the conclusion I reached.... more>>

My childhood friend and girlfriend, Kotoba Aihara, was a perfect beauty, completely out of my league.

"I can't stand it anymore!"

*Bam!*

"Masoppu!"

Eh?! W-What just happened?!

"Don't mess with me! I absolutely won't break up with you! If you ever mention breaking up again, I'll punch you! No, I'll beat you up!!"

Um... What's going on? <<less

"Rather than building up a worthless pride, it would be cuter to beg for help.” ... more>>

The Lord of Disaster. To Yeonseo, Woo Taeheon was like that. Yeonseo, who had been working as a resident caregiver for the Sewon Group, unexpectedly became Woo Taeheon’s personal assistant. Love engulfed her like a wildfire. It was hot and intense and there was no way to avoid it.

She knowingly started a love affair that would hurt her. But because she wanted to breathe and feeling burdened by her solitary love, she chose to run away. Unaware that she carried a part of Taeheon's life inside her womb.

***

Yeonseo, whom Taeheon had been desperately looking for over a month, was right in front of him. Just a few steps away, just within a short reach. Yeonseo, whose hair is waving in the air, whose eyes are shining, and smiling.

“Can't you tell me with your own mouth if that’s my child?”

“We broke up, and I've repaid all the debts. Now, it just feels awkward seeing each other like this again.”

She became a tainted sinner in the dark. Her heart felt like it was being torn apart, causing excruciating pain. <<less

I like my sugar daddy.... more>>

To win his heart, I strive to be a good canary.

But he remains cold and distant toward me.

Until I discovered, he has another canary.

He only becomes infatuated, shy, and nervous around her.

Heartbroken, I stripped my sugar daddy and tied him up.

... Then I ran away.

A year later, we met again at a blind date, very awkward.

He squinted at me: "Like tying people up?"

"Come on, tie me as much as you want." <<less

Once, during middle school, Sou had confessed to his childhood friend Rio, only to be swiftly rejected. Several years later, out of the blue, Sou was informed by his mother that Rio had become pregnant. Rio's pregnancy led her to become reclusive, and Sou was unexpectedly asked by his mother to persuade her to come out of seclusion.... more>>

The next day, as Sou debated whether to meet Rio, his best friend Haruaki expressed a desire to speak with him alone. After finding themselves alone on the school rooftop, Haruaki revealed one shocking revelation after another to Sou... <<less

Secretly Captivated was a somewhat annoyingly low-profile Internet CV (Character Voice). In all of his life, he had only dubbed in two radio dramas, yet he stably sat on his throne of the number one CV in the Internet dubbing circle.... more>>

He was romantic, gorgeous, charming, and touching. When he spoke, you would think that he was looking at you with a somewhat smiling expression in his eyes that made you hold your breath.

Would you fall in love with a person because of his voice, regardless of his appearance, age, or family background? Would you fall in love with this person without the slightest hesitation solely because of his voice?

If you asked Mo Lan questions like these, she would definitely say she would while nodding her head without the slightest hesitation.

Mo Lan believed that the first time she met Gu Yemi was on the high-speed railway that was driving towards Hangzhou, when she had kindly reminded him that the railway train already reached the station. However, the first time Gu Yemi met her was actually very late at night in a train on Line 2 of the Nanjing Subway.

Afterwards, the Internet dubber CV Secretly Captivated who had already mysteriously hid away for three years announced that he would begin acting in new projects and became active in the Internet dubbing circle again. And after that, he announced that henceforth, he would withdraw from the circle again.

Actually, the fact that Gu Yemi only briefly retired in order to find that girl who made a smiling expression from the corners of her eyes to the tips of her eyebrows when talking about him was probably not even known by Mo Lan. Afterwards, he told her that in the second half of his life, he only wanted to be captivated by her. With these sincere words, he offered to give me his only and eternal life in the Internet dubbing circle. <<less

"You're quite fearless."... more>>

His voice was soft.

"Do you feel safe because I said I won't lay a finger on you? You're not just trying to see how far I can endure, right?"

The moment she lifted her head to look at him, she felt something drop in her chest. Sunwoo took a step back. His pupils were calm, but they were as restless as the heat flowing from his body.

"Don't cross the line."

He said and gave a slight smile. That smile was perfectly affectionate, so it felt rather contrived. Goosebumps rose from her arm.

"What happens if I cross it?"

"I might swallow you up." <<less