Kotoko

This anthology brings together five romantic fantasy stories about women who find themselves in difficult, unfair, or seemingly hopeless situations.The heroines face circumstances such as unwanted marriages, broken engagements, cold husbands, political marriages, and complicated relationships with powerful nobles. Rather than simply accepting their unhappy circumstances, each heroine eventually turns her situation around and finds her own version of happiness.The five stories include everything from a yandere duke and an unusual imprisonment route, to a cold husband who secretly has a reason for refusing to love his wife, a woman unexpectedly ordered to marry a disgraced nobleman, a heroine who attempts to change a terrible future revealed through a prophetic dream, and a contract marriage that gradually becomes genuine devotion.

Giselle, after finding out that she's to be married off to a perverted Duke in place of her younger sister, devises a plan to run away from home. However, in her visit to the slave market to find a male helper, she unwittingly ends up buying the beautiful-yet-arrogant Elvis! Elvis asks for Giselle's cooperation in lifting his curse, slowly bringing curious changes to his body and mind."Eh? El? Did you suddenly grow a lot taller? And aren't you getting a bit too close...?"Original Web Novel: Kakuyomu, Syosetu

Lisette is the daughter of a count who is destined to be devoured by monsters-and has experienced it four times already. Determined to avoid her fate, she moves out to what she calls the sanctuary—aka, the actual middle of nowhere. Monsters are rare here, so she should be able to live a peaceful life. But she's shocked when she's reunited with a handsome nobleman, Ralph, who rescued her way back when she was a poor orphan! Ralph surprises her with his pledge to live his life to serve and protect only her, and Lisette can't help but think: could she actually survive this lifetime? (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)