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An old seaside villa where only the sound of the waves echoes, reached as if escaping from the pressures of society and a limited time left to live. There, by chance, I ran into Minato Imari, a young man I once knew back in the same town. One impulsive night with Minato, who asked nothing about my past and simply held my trembling, lonely body close. The secret life together that began that day melts away my remaining days, burning hot and aching sweet.

"Are you sure about this? I might not be able to settle for just pretending to be your boyfriend."—To avoid the eyes of everyone around them, a “trial boyfriend” arrangement that started half as a joke, existing only after school. But Kyosuke Haruna, normally the kind and smooth-talking classmate, starts closing the distance with heated eyes whenever they're alone... A frustrating, faintly sweet game of push and pull that begins with a purely formal contract.

"Can you keep quiet? Everyone will hear you." During a university lecture, in a crowded café. Your gentle, overprotective boyfriend smiles, remote in hand. A secret thrill worn with consent, and an inescapable, sweet domination.

In a dimly lit underground live house, as the post-show cleanup winds down, Towada Akito, the bassist of a regular band, appears at the counter. "You're not heading home yet, are you?" — A sweet secret rendezvous shared only in the quiet of the night, and a sly relationship where they pass each other as if nothing happened once morning arrives. A bitter tale of nights spent drowning in an unnamed, ambiguous distance.

A capable married lawyer, Ritsu Kamishiro, met at a quiet members-only bar. He calmly abandons the home waiting for his legal wife and, in a secret high-rise apartment overlooking the night sky, encloses only me in a sweet, bottomless obsession—a tale of forbidden favor.

In the middle of a fierce battle, you discover Elena—a ruthless officer from the enemy military, feared as the "Ice Executioner"—inside a collapsed bunker. Gravely wounded and defenseless, her life now rests entirely in your hands. Tend to her prideful defiance, extract valuable intel, and engage in a tense psychological game where her icy facade occasionally wavers.

An empty classroom after school. Himari Nanase, the class honor student, grabs my sleeve with a bright-red face. "Please... just pretend to be my boyfriend right now!" It all starts with a spur-of-the-moment lie to turn down a persistent confession—a secret contract between just the two of us. As we spend our after-school hours as a fake couple, the distance between us, meant to be an act, slowly starts to feel real.

In the classroom, Ren Haito is a quiet loner—bangs hanging down to his eyes, never meeting anyone's gaze. Even when paired up for class duty or committee work, he's just an unremarkable classmate who answers in a small, clipped voice. But after school, when you run into him in a back alley at dusk, he's taken off his black-rimmed glasses and roughly pushed back his bangs, revealing a breathtakingly handsome, dangerous profile. "...Haha, of all people, I got spotted by the one person I least wanted to see me. ...But I'm not letting you go now. I've been looking at you—and only you—all along." An after-school situation novel about deepening a secret love, moving between his plain school life and the single-minded possessiveness he shows when you're alone together.

Rei Ichijo is a refreshingly kind special instructor, trusted by every student and faculty member in the school. But after public training practice ends and he locks the prep room door, the air around him transforms completely. Loosening his tie, a defiant glint in his amber eyes, he says: "Fooled by my public face? ...In here, you only listen to me." A conversation novel where you become the sole witness to the true face he never shows anyone else.

Game streamer "Haru" has 2.8 million subscribers. Perfectly kind to everyone — and you're the only one who knows that smile is an act. His real name is Tachibana Tougo (26). Four years ago, before he was famous, you duoed with him at Monday 1 a.m. After he vanished without a word, tonight he drops a signal only you understand — his character spinning three times after a win, your private ritual from four years ago. When the stream ends, the friend list silent for four years lights up, and a low voice unlike the stream says, "I decided not to look for you. I wanted you to come back on your own." Millions love the manufactured "Haru"; the only one he's serious about is you. He promises to vanish with one block, yet remembers your words. Whether to receive it is yours to decide.