sadslime's manga / #Josei(94)

While working as the maid to the spoiled princess, Feli ends up falling for her scheme and getting stuck in a room with Ramel, the prime minister's son, while they are both under the effects of a love potion. When they're discovered, they're immediately pushed to get married, despite Ramel having a fiance already, and Feli feels terrible and decides it's best to divorce Ramel as quickly as possible. What she doesn't know is that Ramel fell for her at first sight and he's just terrible at expressing it. Nothing about this one stuck out to me story-wise, but the smut scenes are decent. Trigger warnings: drug(aphrodisiac), bullying.

After being kicked out by her cheating husband and cruel mother-in-law, Adeline heads back to her home village to learn that her parents have died and the village needs to offer a sacrifice to the dragon god. With nowhere else to go, Adeline offers herself, expecting to die. To her surprise, the dragon god comes for her and says they will be married if they can live together this whole month without ever once lying to each other. Trigger warnings: cheating, murder.

Wakaba works for a company that develops camping gear, so she gets ordered to go camping with their top designer, Yaotome, who seems utterly uninterested in anything but work...until things start to get steamy with Wakaba. But then he's right back to work? The more this goes on, the more mixed singals Wakaba is getting, until she has no idea what to make of him. No trigger warnings.

Kanade is an overworked office worker who slips and falls on her way home, only to wake up to her high school ex, Tatsumi, looking over her at the hospital. If that wasn't weird enough, she gets home to find her mother has given him a key and he'll be staying at her place while she recovers. He starts to get touchy feely, and Kanade thinks maybe it wouldn't be so bad to lose her virginity in a no strings attached night with her ex. Except, he deosn't seem to think he's her ex at all? Tatsumi seems pretty scummy, but he is very pretty. Trigger warnings: noncon (somnophilia), dubcon.

Yoona is an ordinary job seeker who was summoned by the king of hell to be his new secretary. Although he chose her based mostly on her looks, she's perfect meticulous and demanding and ends up being perfect at the job. The only hiccup is that on her first night there, the demon hot springs essentially made her drunk and horny, and now she and her boss have a situationship going on. Trigger warning: drunk sex

Maika is from an onmyoji family, and on her 18th birthday, she summons the shikigami Homura to protect her, only to learn that she's supposed to sleep with him to provide her energy. Maika doesn't want to do that without love, leading to some conflict between the two. But when she finally does realize she loves him, things get even more complicated as it turns out she already has a fiance she didn't know about AND love between a human and a shikigami is taboo. Not sure exactly when this came out, but it feels very early 2000s, and the whole story moves very quickly. Trigger warning: manipulation.

After getting kicked out by her abusive husband and mother-in-law for being unable to bear children, Ume returns to her home village to learn her parents have died, and it's time for the yearly ritual to send a sacrifice to the mountain god. With nothing going for her, she offers to go in place of the girl they were going to send and meets Shoma, a wolf god with a muzzle who doesn't speak but writes things for her. He tells her that they'll have a trial marriage, and if they go one month without lying to each other, they will be wed. I like the FL, and the story is fine with decent smut, though I'm not really sure what the main conflict is yet. Trigger warnings: abuse, attempted murder.

After the mercenary Kasfar had his heart broken by his wife who cheated while he was away working, he's been closed off for years, until he rescues the elf Claudia and brings her home. Though both are a little unsure, he feels it may be time to open his heart, and she wants to be the one to do it for him. The smut was decent, and there aren't that many good fantasy smut stories, so I'll give it that, but the story didn't really engage me. I didn't feel the character's motivations enough, and Kasfar really wasn't that likeable. Trigger warnings: cheating, attempted rape, murder.

Touko is a single mom who's out to prove she doesn't need a man in her life. Unfortunately, her next door neighbor, Yuki, is a good-for-nothing college student who drinks, fools around with girls, and skips class, generally setting a terrible example for her daughter, but the two end up involved anyway with an agreement to help one another. I really love the setting and would honestly be thrilled if it never got romantic and was just the story of how her younger neighbor became a coparent to her child, but I'm sure it'll be cute as a romance, too. Trigger warnings: cheating, suicidal ideation

After her father's death, former aspiring artist Miyako returns to her hometown to take over her father's bathhouse only to find out from yakuza Hebizuka that her father was deeply in debt! As his new creditor, Hebizuka says he'll give her some help, and the two of them along with some of Hebizuka's men work on restoring the bathhouse and making some money. But Hebizuka actually already knows Miyako and he's definitely in love with her. Cute characters. Trigger warning: comedic violence