Akari Misaki

A 40-something disillusioned novelist, Yazoe, haunted by a failed marriage and a crippling personal secret, navigates hollow affairs with a courtesan named Chieko while projecting his emotional void onto the protagonists of his love novels—until an accidental encounter with a naive college student, Noriko Seyawa, unravels his guarded solitude, forcing him to confront his fear of intimacy and the buried trauma shaping his twisted philosophy on love.

Various couples and their stories of how they came to kiss each other.

A beauty expert travels back to her high school days, determined to transform her past and rewrite her romantic destiny after a devastating teenage rejection.