1946 choseon (korea). beautiful and brilliant dr. maria arden returns to the country of her birth as the medical advisor to the u.s. army—a stranger in an unfamiliar land ravaged by wars and corruption. there, she meets dr. kyeongju lee, an alluring, mysterious woman shunned by society. their innocent flirtations turn into a heated forbidden love affair, as an illegal trade in opium threatens choseon’s fragile stability. two outsiders drawn helplessly to each other, but… everything was a lie.
yifang found herself transported into the body of a villainess in an otome game. as the villainess yvonne, she was supposed to be hated by the readers as she bullies the FMC and helps the main characters come together. but there seems to be something wrong with this game’s main character elsa!
“hey, I told you not to come so close!”
“oh yvonne… so how would you like to bully me today…”
the story of a reincarnated gamer pursuing her villainous lady love at a fantasy girls’ academy! ordinary office worker oohashi rei has just woken up in the body of the protagonist of her favorite girls’ otome game, revolution. to her delight, the first person to greet her is her favorite character, claire francois—who just so happens to be the main antagonist of the story. now, rei is determined to do what the game never allowed: romance claire instead of one of the male leads.
aya is a high school student who is captivated by the mysterious “onii-san” who works at a CD store. the real “onii-san” is actually mitsuki, a girl in her class with whom she had never spoken to before.
sora is the top student at the prestigious jaeil all-girls high school but she suddenly finds herself lying to her classmates about a boyfriend she doesn’t have, which leads her to accepting the near-impossible task of getting the delinquent haena woo into college. but in return, haena will have to find “mr. right for sora” so she doesn’t get caught in her lie. yet strangely, instead of some boy, sora finds her heart beating for haena…
england, the early 1900’s. alice, a young noblewoman, has a japanese maid named hanako working in her household. the two have a fairly typical relationship…until the day alice begs hanako to kill her. as hanako tries to figure out why her mistress would make such a terrible request, she and alice grow closer until an entirely new feeling begins to blossom between them.
maki’s first love was her high school classmate, a girl named midori. but midori broke up with maki at graduation, saying they were now “too old to be fooling around dating girls.” ten years later, maki still can’t get midori off her mind, and when the two women reconnect after a chance encounter, maki realizes that, while her feelings haven’t changed, midori has long moved on—in fact, she’s engaged. yet the more maki hears midori talk about her soon-to-be-husband, the more red flags she notices
kuromi girls’ academy is a refined, elegant school that expects the very best in deportment from its young ladies. aya got into this peerless rich-girls’ institution on a scholarship, and hopes to grow as lovely as her fellow student and idol shirayui. but shirayui hides a terrible secret: she’s a trash-talking, combo-chaining, newbie-stomping, ruthless hardcore gamer! could a mutual indulgence in no-holds-barred video game combat grow into a deeper rapport between these two girls?
after a heated argument with her mother, keito runs away from home without knowing where to go. when she helps an old woman to carry her bags home, the woman offers to put her up in one of her rooms. keito accepts and starts to pick up the pieces of her life. when she’s not drawing her own comic, which features a black jazz singer named angie, the young woman works at a record shop. that’s where she meets and falls in love with niki.
cooking is how nomoto de-stresses, but one day, she makes way more than she can eat by herself. and so she invites her neighbor kasuga, who lives alone. what will come out of this dinner invitation?
Opium