A collection of Hanako Yamada stories all originally published between 1988 and 1992.

A harlot named Asagiri resides in a low class brothel called Yoshiwara, living out her days experiencing neither joy nor sadness. Once her contract ends, she will leave. That is, until she falls in love for the...

Chiaki, a boy who doesn’t go to school, has been missing for about a month. The only person who knows where he is is his classmate Konoha. In a corner of an abandoned housing complex, there was a quiet...

The story of a high school girl, Gong Hyeon-ha, who becomes the target of bullying at the beginning of the semester. To her dismay, Ji Hye-jin, a girl admired by everyone, reaches out to her. When Ji Hye-jin...

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...

What kind of love is worth bearing in mind for a lifetime. She is the mother of a four-year-old, and he is the overwhelming President. She spares no effort in keeping the secret that she once had saved him, but...

Are we bound by the fate of our blood? Or do we possess it within ourselves to change our destiny? Growing up between families as a child, Dora Blunt is elated when she finally finds a place to call home in the...

When I died in an airplane crash, I thought I'd finally escaped my hellish life. However, I found myself in another nightmare when I awoke in the body of Rudbecika de Borgia, a minor villain from a novel...

Rihannan Alessin, a queen rotting in prison. Despaired and without hope, she drank poison and died. But… unbeknownst to her, the deity gave her a second chance at life. She was twelve again. And this time, she...

Reborn as the daughter of a count she read about in a novel, Lady Valeta knows the story ends in tragedy at the hands of her lowly house pet, Reinhart. Having never wanted him in the first place, Valeta tries...

After she was nearly killed and then rescued, Ruan Ruan lost all her memories. Her savior, Ding Xiao, treated her with all the tenderness in the world; she completely let her guard down in the face of his...

In her previous life, she was a dedicated fangirl of Abel Louvremont, the main character of her favorite novel, Persona. Caught in an unfortunate car crash on her way to a book signing event, she wakes up in...

The love and hatred that began three hundred years ago caused Jiang Muxia and Ren Juntian to brush past one another. When these star-crossed lovers meet again after three hundred years, will she fall in love...

Orphaned at a young age and drowning in her father's debts, Anastasia spent her days starving despite being a noble. One day, her uncle, Count Everdeen, proposed to pay off her family's debts if she agreed to...

Welcome to a world divided into 12 Mines - each of them its own land - dominated by a rigid social class structure in which the 'Habit' exists to rule and the 'Spar' exist to serve. Their future dim and...

Lu Wang Xin is the Miss of Yun Jian province. She fell in love with Xia Hou You. However, after Xia Hou You ascended the throne, he put Lu Wang Xin into the Cold Palace. Heartbroken, Lu Wang Xin died. Reborn at...

In a world where saints have the power to protect their country, Lelia's powers as a saint awakened when she was twelve and moved to the royal palace from her poor viscount family home. She spent happy days...

In his second collection of short stories, Mohiro Kitoh recounts the tragic fates of people living in a half-futuristic, half-fantasy city whose inexorable structural decay seems to be mirrored in its citizens’...

Yumiko Kawahara's disturbing short stories explore the strange and codependent world of dolls and the people who own them. These cautionary tales must come from some desire to teach people a lesson, for in each...

The story takes place in old Tokyo, the Tokyo of August-September 1923 (Showa 12). At this moment in time, the city is a mixture of extremes... past and present, rich and poor, good and bad. This is a city...

I am "kept" by the mad love of these twins. What is the sweet ending to this twisted form of love...? When Hokuto Yonaga turned five, her father took her to the Fudou Zaibatsu mansion. There they met the heirs...

From the outside, Dr. Cha Hanjoo has the perfect life. He’s handsome, loaded, and the head of a famous dermatology clinic in Seoul’s richest neighborhood. If that wasn’t enough, he also has the perfect wife...

She is a street-walking prostitute; he is a cog in the law enforcement machine; they live in different worlds, but life has brought them together. This is a beautiful love story, this is a series of mysterious...