“If I can’t have you, no one can.”Hestia killed her beloved brother Ian with her own two hands. Three months later, he reappears in front of her seemingly unharmed; however, he has seemingly lost all his...

A Drunken Dream is a collection of literary short stories by Hagio falling into multiple genres, created between 1971-2007. The stories were selected by translator Matt Thorn to be an introduction to Hagio for...

In the Eden Brozue Empire, the peace of the nation is guarded by a saint named Bethcherian. But who could have thought the next Bethcherian would be a five-year-old girl from the slums? Despite facing doubts...

Bonita is a pharmacist who works with rare ingredients that require foraging in dangerous places. She hires Ivan for a short-term contract as her bodyguard, but things take a turn on their first day when he is...

When Hana wakes up in a novel as Cielina, a character who is destined to die, she decides to keep a low profile—until disturbing rumors surface that her husband, Duke Killian Seyfried, killed his own niece and...

This is a collection of stories about the various romances of men and women set in cafés. Obi wo Hodoite Latte ni Shite (from Renta!):You know how it feels to want to untie the sash of a man in a kimono, don't...

A college student, Tsuyoshi, picked up a hand-some guy, Ren, who happens to be a son of the Jinguji corporation. He told Tsuyoshi that he ran away from home...Ren tries to pay the rent by his body, but Tsuyoshi...

Zhanhao is a dedicated cultivator who wishes to reach the top spiritual level before he turns 18. But all cultivators know that the road to leveling up is filled with ups and downs. Zhanhao's challenge comes...

Gardening and solving crime aren’t what straight-A student Yeon Han thought she would be focusing on at her new school. But when she discovers a notebook that contains clues to a 15-year-old murder mystery, she...

When she wakes up, Mila immediately notices that she has been inexplicably transported to the year 1940, during the time when the Dutch Colony was reigning supreme in Batavia. Confronted with this perplexing...

Sell me! I'll be the most expensive lady to obtain. While scheming to get out of an arranged marriage, Cesare runs into Adele, a shoeshine girl from the slums. The two make a 3-month deal to help Cesare elude...

Evangeline O’Hara has it all—wealth, privilege, and the most coveted engagement in the empire. But when tragedy strikes her family, the future duchess can no longer ignore certain truths. She is alone now, and...

Trapped in a game where she's a spy tasked with seducing the men of the Empire, our protagonist finds herself in a twisted reverse harem scenario with no way out. "Did I log in to the game last night? But I don...

1-6. Hyakusou no Uraniwa (Entangled with You) Once upon a time, Marcel's sister injured herself in the forest while gathering herbs. Marcel was at a loss for what to do until a fearsome horned man appeared...

Of all the things to wake up as, a squirrel is the last thing she expected. Sure, she’s technically a divine beast from a novel, but she’s a squirrel all the same. Determined to make the best of it, Momo—Inky...

As soon as Reinhardt Lincke wakes up 15 years in the past at her father’s funeral, she stabs her husband, the crown prince, in the leg. Even though he is the one at fault, Reinhardt is the one who is punished...

After a close call with death, Iris has a sudden revelation: she's been living inside a novel from her past life. But if her memory's correct, all the characters in the novel, herself included, ultimately meet...

Elizabeth is the richest heir in the empire. But after her parents’ sudden death, she’s told she must marry her uncle to claim her inheritance. No, thanks. So she fakes an engagement with her maid, runs away...

Young girls, made to eat nothing but flowers, a barbed wire fence stretched round about them... Is this a girls' flower garden...? Or a nightmarish prison...? The place where the main character Haru awoke is a...

The Devon family sits on a mountain of debt and they are on the brink of bankruptcy. This is no fault of hers of course, but Courtney Devon has always been the one painted as the villain in her family. However,...

Hazuki meets the gardener, Sakaki, in the garden of her fiance's hotel. He left a terrible first impression when he yelled at her during their first meeting, but she slowly starts to fall for him when she sees...

The enchanting flower maidens of Moonlight Garden are coveted by all, as they are known to provide sexual pleasures beyond the imagination. But Dohwa, a young flower maiden who has not yet “bloomed,” concocts...

When Hazel Mayfield is sent to live with the Martins as a child, she falls in love with rural life and vows to have a farm of her own one day. Eleven years later, she receives an unexpected windfall as her...

In a politically arranged marriage devoid of love, Lily is wed to Theodore, the head of a rival family. Theodore loathes the union, but little does he know that Lily despises her own family as much as he does...

Baron’s daughter Chelsea was persecuted by her mother and twin sister. Every day, she is forced to clean before dawn and receives corporal punishment such as being whipped and deprived of some meals. Suddenly...