Kosuge Katsuki

The time is the Taisho era (1912-1926). A 16-year-old girl, Megumi Nonomura, is sent to work for a wealthy merchant uncle and his wife, but her hair is cut off and she is thrown out of the house for an unforgivable crime. Reiji Kirishima, a beautiful assistant professor at a university, who had been responsible for the incident, offers to hire Megumi, saying, “Will you let me be responsible for your hair until it grows back?" and offers to hire Megumi. Set on the shores of Lake Chuzenji in Nikko, a prosperous international summer resort, this is a tale of pure love and romance that depicts a summer of attraction between two people who transcend age and position.

I gave up everything, marriage and childbirth! Umeno Kaburaki, a single woman in her thirties working in management at a trading company, is living with her grandparents who raised her. She has not been in love for a long time, and now she is just working hard at her job. Her subordinates include a nagging senior colleague and Yasuhiro Togashi, a talented but dry young man 10 years younger than her, and Umeno is exhausted from the daily grind. One day, she gets close to Yasuhiro because of a problem at work! One day, a problem at work brings Umeno and Yasuhiro into a close encounter. She suddenly asks him if he wants to go out with her! What will happen to the tumultuous love life of an adult woman who is troubled by love, marriage, childbirth, work, and family......, but lives strongly?