The World's Malice Named Love

[Updated daily at 9 p.m.] [Next original work: Enemies and Pigs Get Married in a Ghost Wedding] * Yamada Midori had known since birth that her life would be ordinary. Ordinary looks, an ordinary personality, an ordinary family. Her powerful classmates would click their tongues at her and say, “Stay away from me.” The gentle boys in her class never gave her more than a smile. If they saw her at the convenience store, they'd look away indifferently. Her alcoholic father sold her to a wealthy family called the Zenin, hoping to marry her off as a concubine. The first time a blond young man saw her, he smashed his cup and told her to get out. Midori was miserable. Nobody liked her. Then, in a shop she happened to wander into, she found something called a Wishing Willow. [Wishing Willow: I can grant any wish, but you may make only one wish in your lifetime.] “...I wish everyone would like me.” That was her wish. She thought it was just a prank, but the next day, after returning to Tokyo, two tall young men were waiting outside her door. “Hey, hey, you're not joking, are you?” Her powerful classmate smiled, but there wasn't a trace of warmth in his eyes. “You'd do something like this and not care if it made Suguru and me angry?” The gentle classmate stepped forward and took her hands. “Are you having some kind of trouble in your life? We can help you. Just... don't think about marrying another man for the time being, okay?” Not knowing what to do, she slowly nodded. One day after school, the blond young man in the kimono suddenly showed up at her home. “You live in a place like this?” He looked thoroughly disdainful. “This house is a dump, and your clothes have no taste at all... Hey, what are you hesitating for? Hurry up and agree to the engagement. Be with me.” Midori didn't know what to do. Everyone seemed to have become so strange. * Reader's guide: 1. The Wishing Willow: from a movie. It grants one wish in your lifetime, and the wish is guaranteed to come true. 2. Female-oriented, with out-of-character portrayals. 3. Written in first person. Feel free to imagine yourself in the protagonist's place. 4. This is a trashy story with trashy kinks. Be warned: it's explicit. [Check out my friend's crossover fic: Guda, Sai Cai, Help Me Out] Theme: Time shapes us into brave, strong people.