Lidia is a young empress with a pendant that has a counterpart out there somewhere – which is carried by a young thief tamed Keitsu who runs with wolves. The thief and the empress become friends fairly quickly as they figure out the significance of their respective pendants, but they don’t realize that the entire world is about the be changed by them…

In Meiji Era Japan (1884), art scholars Ernest Fenellosa and Okakura Tenshin opened a sealed temple that had been built 1200 years before. Inside, they found many swords and a bodhisattva statue wrapped in cloth. Why was this temple sealed in the first place? The truth lies back in the Asuka Period (645), at a time when there is political tension concerning the power of the Soga clan. Prince Naka no Oe is beginning to set a plot in action against the main branch of the Soga family, targeting Soga no Iruka.

Lin, the eldest daughter of the Takato family, who runs Umetou, a long-established dried plum company in Wakayama, has a prodigious memory, but spends her days in the plum grove observing the plums. However, misfortune and mysterious events begin to unfold when Mei-hua from Taiwan marries Dan, the eldest son of the Takato family, the president of Umetou. When Lin, who has a hunch that Mei-hua is not an ordinary woman, questions her, Mei-hua tells him about her unexpected past!　 The unpredictable drama of women shaking up a world heritage site opens with a shocking twist!

****Volume 8 : Butler 2**** 1. Mr. Finding by Takayama Shinobu 2. Butler Hassle by Saeki Yashiro 3. From Today, I’m a Butler! by Miyamoto Fukusuke 4. Butler Game by Asahina Asato **5. Le Droit d'aimer by Haibara Yaku** 6. The Apprentice Butler and His Mistress by Yoneyama Setsuko 7. Brilliant Emerald by Seno Tatsune & Takamiya Aya 8. The Nagging Butler Likes Troublemakers by Geni Yuu 9. Tarte Tatin by Mikanagi Touya 10. The Mistress’ Favourite by Kawazoe Mariko & Nakamura Sachiko 11. A Distance at Which Tea Doesn’t Cool by Kosugi Mayu 12. The Master, His Butler and a Magical Book by Mazaki Haruka 13. The Courtyard Secret by Ishikawa Mushi & JAM 14. The Butler Is Useless? by Asada Yasuka 15. Butler-Battle by Akizuki Ichiha 16. Mr. Butler by Usaki Hitomi