muse ✨'s manga / #Possessive lover(23)

An unfaithful college student cheats on his boyfriend and ends up working as an office boy for a gangster - whom he'd actually met as kids. With time, they fall into a relationship which eventually becomes dead serious and eventually romantic. Lots of drama, but I think it's worth reading for the love story! Lots of dubcon along the way, though. So. I didn't realize I was into this story until it was 9:30am and I hadn't gotten up to go to work at 10am. It took a while for me to like the characters, but by the end, I really liked them. No tears for me but a lot of emotion. Head's up: there is a sexual relationship between a father figure and a person he raised. It's denied at first, but it's A Thing. You don't really see it on page or get any specific details, but it's talked about.

1) After his parents' business goes bankrupt, a young man turns to crime after they're forced to leave their family home. Years later and estranged from his parents, he returns to the house under the pretense of visiting his former butler with the real motive of robbery. But the butler has no intention of letting him leave. 2) Shuu actively ignores his roommate Chitose, an insatiable playboy famous for his habit of sleeping with any woman on campus named Aki. Only Shuu understands the cruel reason: it was Chitose's nickname for him, a misreading of his name, but Shuu forbid him from saying it after they slept together and quietly suffers jealousy. This is no "how to" guide for how to land a boyfriend, but it's an entertaining read.

Explicit, disturbing yakuza love story. I liked the couple a lot and it was nice to see their love develop. A man struggling with ED goes to a specialist...who turns out to be the childhood friend he used to hook up with, whom he blames for his impotence, and then has sex with in the office. PWP. Coworkers hook up after realizing their years-long mutual interest, and then they have breakfast! Features the wonderful "of course you're not still here in the morning, I was an idiot to get my hopes up, but oh! you were just out buying groceries!" trope.

Six months after the man he loved got married, Sora learns Rui has gotten divorced and goes to see him. Rui suggests they live with one another again, since Sora still suffers from a fear of thunderstorms and can't be alone during them. Plus it seems Sora wasn't the only one hiding his feelings The second story is about a man who rescues a young man named Daryl on the side of the road and makes him his servant and lover. Skippable.

A company's future president is in a relationship with his long-time tutor Chiharu - a possessive, emotional man who is so afraid Kazuki will leave him, he takes him to a cabin and slaps a chain on his ankle for a few days. Not the healthiest relationship - I wouldn't recommend anyone DO this - but it's fiction and they're really into each other.

Another commenter mentioned that this has a lot of cliches but was a great read, and I agree - it's absolutely charming and the feelings between the characters seem to jump off of the page. There's wonderful emotional buildup, as well as some heartache, even in the final chapter, which is a one-shot and unrelated to the rest. A young man, Hanamura, is conned into designing for the company where he works by the boss he adores, who takes credit for his work under the veil of kindness - in order to leave Hanamura out of the spotlight. When it's announced his boss is engaged to a woman, Hanamura cries in the break room and is discovered by Takase, a well-known designer from another company, who recognizes Hanamura's talent and sleeps with him. Hanamura, realizing he's been taken advantage of by his current boss, quits his job and comes to work at Takase's company. But he's left wondering if what they had was a one-night stand and if he'll suffer another one-sided love. TEN POINTS for Hanamura's ABSOLUTE LOVE of having sex. It says a lot for this genre that that detail stood out to me, but so often it's "no, don't, stop" - as though an unwilling or hesitant partner is romantic. Hanamura begs for sex, says what he wants, and is not ashamed that he's gay. In fact, none of the characters in this story were dealing with internalized homophobia. What a fun read! The final story is about childhood friends who begin to live together.