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[Original Webtoon](https://manga.line.me/product/periodic?id=Z0002070)
**Original Webtoon:** [LINE Manga](https://manga.line.me/product/periodic?id=S145034), [eBookJapan](https://ebookjapan.yahoo.co.jp/stories/145034/) **Official Translations:** [Korean](https://page.kakao.com/content/66833707) Hated since birth and raised in confinement as a "Cursed Princess," Iris wears a mask sealed by a curse, living each day with no hope. She accompanies her younger sister, Diane, who possesses exceptional healing abilities, to her wedding, but is left alone in a dangerous forest! Attacked by monsters and bracing herself for death, she is rescued by her fiancé, Prince Leon. Her days as her sister's stand-in are filled with new discoveries and happiness... but when her sealed abilities awaken and she accepts Leon's advances, the Demon King Zaid, who claims to be her true companion, kidnaps her...?!
Will you come with me? "Waka" - A waka poem about being oppressed by her sister-in-law and mother as the daughter of a fallen family. He was once a member of a family that married into the "King of the Four Seasons," but lost his family in an unexpected accident and now lives a life of being treated coldly. Then one day, the Winter King, with a cold, snow-like gaze, appears before her. Waka thought that a daughter from a fallen family would not be a potential bride, but the Winter King chose her without hesitation... The gears of fate quietly begin to move. **Original Manga:** [BookLive](https://booklive.jp/product/index/title_id/10012493/), [Cmoa](https://www.cmoa.jp/title/329523/)
Hideo Yamada compiles 18 stories about loneliness. Presented through themes of straggling, futility, insanity, seclusion, and an epilogue. **Rakugo** (落伍): 1. **Chikatetsu wo Orite.......**(地下鉄を降りて……) \[Daijiro Morohoshi\] 2. **Ohenro-san** (おへんろさん) \[Takashi Imashiro\] 3. **Oshiroi Komachi** (白粉小町) \[Youko Kondou\] 4. **Kuroi Chou** (黒い蝶) \[Kakusai Han\] **Muyou** (無用): 5. **Kamen** (仮面) \[Shinji Nagashima\] 6. **Ishi wo Kai ni Kita Onna** (石を買いに来た女) \[Motoyuki Oota\] 7. **Otsuuya no Kyaku** (お通夜の客) \[Yuu Takita\] 8. **Kibishii Shiren (from Pattman X)** (きびしい試練「パットマンＸ」より) \[George Akiyama\] 9. **Nichijou Seikatsu** (日常生活) \[Jun Kagari\] **Fuukyou** (風狂): 10. **Omoide no Occhan** (思い出のおっちゃん) \[Jun Urata\] 11. **Yoru no Semi** (夜の蝉) \[Tadao Tsuge\] 12. **Aburemon** (あぶれもん) \[Kaiji Kawaguchi\] 13. **Hisashiburi** (久しぶり) \[Shinichi Abe\] **Inton** (隠遁): 14. **Shounan (From Musashino)** (沼南「武蔵野」より) \[Junichirou Saitou\] 15. **The Salamander** (山椒魚) \[Yoshiharu Tsuge\] 16. **Shimi** (紙魚) \[Shigeru Mizuki\] **Epilogue** (エピローグ) 17. **Sorekara** (それから) \[Hozumi\] 18. **Hitotsu no Hi** (ひとつの火 カシワイ) \[Kashiwai, original story: Niimi Nankichi\]
