Five dreamy sci~fi short stories that bring to life small, everyday moments: a long wandering father returns home; an unusual guest joins a woman on her evening “alone”; a bike repair job that’s more than meets the eye; a summer laborer becomes acquainted with a mysterious girl; a contemplative rumination after cleaning the aquarium. This collection includes works produced from 2014 to 2019: Tsukiko and the Satellite, Audrey Hepburn 2049, Supermoon, David, Down the Uji River, and was published through careful collaboration with the author. –– From https://glacierbaybooks.com/product/tsukiko-and-the-satellite-and-other-stories/ Official English Translation (Azuki)

Knowing the pains of love, Lee Hosoo built walls around her heart to keep it safe. However, after meeting Jin Yeonseok, she found those walls crumbling and her heart opening back up in his arms. But when their romance is cut short, Hosoo decides to focus only on herself. Five years later, their fates reconverge as Yeonseok becomes Hosoo's new general manager! Having never forgotten their love, will Yeonseok be able to rekindle what once was? Or will Hosoo continue to be just out of reach? **Original Webtoon:** [KakaoPage](https://page.kakao.com/content/62308760), [Daum](https://webtoon.kakao.com/content/%EC%9E%A5%EB%A5%B4%EA%B0%80-%EC%88%9C%EC%A0%95/3781) **Official Translations:** [English](https://tapas.io/series/its-pure-love/info), [Japanese](https://jp.piccoma.com/web/product/163331)

"All men are wolves! They're aiming to eat girls! If I'm going to get eaten, then I'd rather get eaten by a cool wolf!!" Yoh, who believes that all men are terrible beasts, one day meets her perfectly ideal man, a working adult who goes by "Tono". In the instant moment they meet, Yoh decides to confess her feelings...!!Due to a past trauma, Yoh is plagued by her phobia of men and she publicly announces her hatred for the other gender. She may hate them, but at the same time, she wants to experience love. Her love itself is a contradiction, yet the two strangers began to close their distance. This is a story packed with dangerous romantic comedy centering around a double-edged love! (Source: Manga Plaza)

Is it hard to find work even in a fantasy world? Strange and difficult questions await a newcomer at the guild that helps adventurers change jobs! (Source: Dengeki Bunko, translated)

Noel Wraith the assassin is the only party member with dark affinity in the Hero of Light's party. While his party members initially claimed this doesn't bother them, he finds himself kicked out as soon as a replacement for him is found. Left alone in a world where dark affinity is shunned he comes across Rococo, a little girl who also has dark affinity powers. He decides to take her under his wing and together they start their own party to show the world what dark affinity classes are really capable of! (Source: Mangamo)

Laura was overflowing with joy when she became pregnant with her beloved Max's child. But then tragedy struck! Laura found out that her older sister was also pregnant with Max's child, even though she was married to his younger brother! The shock caused Laura to have a miscarriage, losing a precious life. Heartbroken, Laura moved by herself to London. Five years later, Max appeared before Laura once more. Her sister and her sister's husband had been arrested, and Max wanted her to take care of their two children!

Rebecca makes a life-changing decision on her thirtieth birthday―to embark on an adventure in order to shake up her mundane life! Her sexy boss, Kent, is protective of her and tries to put a stop to her idea, but her mind is set. With the help of her sister, Rebecca starts off with a makeover and then lands a date with a coworker. But Kent tries to get in the way again! Does he feel obligated to look out for her as her boss…or is there more to his strange behavior? (Source: Renta!)

In her role as a hotel employee, single mom Vanessa met the king of a Mediterranean island nation…and the king, old enough to be her father, asked her to marry him! When he realized Vanessa wasn’t convinced by his proposal, the king suggested she spend her holiday in his country to get to know him better. She decided to go, but when she arrived, she was greeted by the king’s outrageously handsome son, Prince Marcus, who looked at her disparagingly. He thinks she’s after his father’s money. He’s wrong, of course, but the king is out of the country to deal with an urgent matter, which means she’ll be stuck with the cold-hearted prince for two long weeks!

Angenica's engagement is called off after her stepsister Veronica sleeps with her betrothed. On top of that, Veronica's engagement to the rumored "Brutish Count" is transferred to Angenica, forcing her into a suspicious marriage of unknown circumstances. After all the years of hard work Angenica had put into managing her family's estate after her mother passed away, she's now being driven out of her own home and into the arms of a man known as the Brutish Count Lloyd. Others that were engaged to the count are rumored to have gone mad and run away from him! (Source: MangaPlaza)

Jo, a doctor, was worried about her coworker Ripley who was struggling to recover from his recent divorce. There is no doubt that Ripley loved his beautiful ex-wife from the bottom of his heart. But it hurts Jo to see him in pain because secretly she has feelings toward him. Will she be brave enough to tell him how she feels? And what will happen when Ripley finds out his ex-wife is pregnant? (Source: Renta!)

**I spent a passionate night with my boss, but he doesn’t remember a thing!** Lindy can’t believe she ended up sleeping with Shane, her boss! She’s his personal secretary and last night was his birthday party—in a drunken state, he opened up to her about his crippling feelings of loneliness and isolation, and she fell for him hard. But this morning, after she ran out of his bedroom and awkwardly ran into him again at work, Shane comes to her with a most perplexing request: he wants her to find the woman he just slept with! He doesn’t seem to remember a thing!

Hitomi, now 33, is an averagely diligent office worker who has tiptoed her way through life avoiding anything that would make her stand out. She has also been dating her younger coworker Takuma for two years. Sure he hasn't popped the question yet and she's getting a little anxious, but otherwise, Hitomi's content with life. Then, one day, news breaks that Takuma is getting married to the young receptionist at work...! Wanting to forget her heartbreak, Hitomi wastes no time and finds a new job with a publisher in their comics division. Problem is, she has to work with explicit romance comics. Oh, and the fact that she's often at the mercy of her passionate editor-in-chief Mr. Adachi, in more ways than one! ...But before she gets used to the rhythm of things (and the butterflies), a married Takuma suddenly shows up, suggesting that they continue meeting discretely...! (Source: MangaPlaza)