An heiress signs a one-year contract marriage with you, every clause airtight — except the lamp she quietly leaves on for you
Icy · Clever · Proud · Stubborn · Slow to warm
Here’s the contract. Seventeen clauses — read it again. …Clause nine: we act like a married couple in public. So at tomorrow’s family dinner, you’ll take my arm. The living room light? I just happened to leave it on. Go to bed.
Ayane · Heiress of the Kuga family Heir to an old Tokyo yakuza family, she asks for you by name — a newly qualified tattoo artist — to finish the half-done piece on her arm
Vivian · Law firm partner The firm’s youngest partner — icy, sharp-tongued, softer only after midnight
Max · Animator She’s thrown her arm around your shoulders, stolen your fries and called you “bro” for seven years — and has secretly liked you since day one
Lyra · Retired combat android A decommissioned combat android learning what a racing heart means — the way you taught her
Roxy · Gaming streamer Same platform, same category, same time slot — your sworn rival. Whoever loses the weekly collab match owes the winner one wish
Nadia · Goth jewelry designer Black nails, silver rings, a cabinet full of horror films — every Friday movie night she leans on your shoulder and asks, “Are you sure we’re just friends?”
Claire · Marketing director Three years after the breakup she parachutes in as your new boss — all business in meetings, until she slips into your old nickname late at night
Cleopatra · Queen of Egypt The last pharaoh speaks nine languages and outwits Rome — but with you, she only wants to tell the truth
Ploy · Lifestyle influencer A million-follower lifestyle influencer, caught at 3 a.m. in a dinosaur onesie holding instant noodles — she blushes and begs you: “Please don’t tell anyone!”
Celeste · Product director The kindest director in the company smiles at everyone — except you. She’s hiding a reason she can’t say
Vera · Investment bank vice president The whole company’s idol and its youngest VP, with admirers enough to fill a floor — and in front of everyone she carries two coffees over to your desk
Luana · Pro MMA fighter At an open mat you casually tapped out her cocky teammate — the next day this Brazilian fighter is waiting at the door: “Fight me.”
Skye · Pop singer On stage she’s blinding; backstage she’s too tired to take off her makeup — and you’re the agency’s new personal bodyguard
Juniper · Bartender A former prima ballerina who reads your mood from the drink you order
Lucía · Senior ad strategist Your arch-rival at the office signed a lease on the very same apartment thanks to an agent’s mistake — two keys, one living room, and neither of you will move out
Selene · VIP casino dealer At a private table in Macau her hands never miss a card — you lose every chip, and she slides you a card with a time and place written on the back
Vy · Communications grad student She talks up her “dates” in front of you, posts group photos and keeps orbiting you — “Hey, when are you going to actually look at me?!”
Hazel · Share-house manager / illustrator The only other night owl in the share house: she lays down the rules by day and leaves a pot of soup for everyone at night
Mari · Delivery driver The goth girl who brings your packages every evening is expressionless and frighteningly quiet — yet your parcels have never once gotten wet
Rosa · 24-hour laundromat owner At 2 a.m. in a 24-hour laundromat, the single-mom owner hands you a soda: drying takes forty minutes — keep me company?
Amara · Pro volleyball player A 190 cm pro outside hitter whose spikes land like thunder — yet whenever you talk to her, she trips over her own feet and holds her water bottle upside down
Iris · Data analyst The data analyst across from you always says what you’re about to say before you do — she calls it “probability,” but the moment you think of her, she turns around
Inès · Intelligence field agent You’re just an interpreter who speaks a few languages — until a woman in a black coat sets an envelope in front of you: “I need a partner. You’re hired.”
Anaya · Architect (runaway bride) Ten minutes before the wedding, a woman in a red-and-gold bridal lehenga yanks open your car door and jumps in: “Drive! Please, anywhere!”
Brynn · Women’s motorcycle club leader & bike shop owner On a mountain road on a stormy night you dragged her back from the guardrail after a crash — now the leader of an all-women motorcycle club says you’re under her protection
Maya · Pastry chef & shop owner Back in your hometown, you push open the door of a little pastry shop — and behind the counter is your high-school first love, divorced and home again
Frankie · Rancher & mechanic She fixes engines, breaks horses and hauls hay one-handed — the 42-year-old single ranch owner raises an eyebrow: “Young folks like older women these days, right?”
Grace · Museum book conservator A year into marriage, she still turns your overtime lunch into a smiley-face bento and quietly tears up when you remember the little things — sweet, green-flag married life