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Fed up with being hopelessly single, high schooler Erika makes up a boyfriend to fit in. When her lies start to unravel, her schoolmate Kyoya offers to be her pretend boyfriend—for a price. With no other choice, Erika finds herself at the mercy of a blackhearted prince! But is Kyoya truly as blackhearted as he seems?

Kyoya finds himself on edge as his and Erika’s second real Christmas together approaches—what wild demands will Erika make of him this time?! Meanwhile, Kamiya proposes a big Christmas shindig with the whole gang, and to everyone’s shock, Kyoya agrees. But it appears there’s something else on his mind…

176 pages, Paperback

First published December 25, 2013

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Ayuko Hatta

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Also known as 八田 鮎子

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506 reviews79 followers
December 30, 2014
LOVE THIS VOLUME SO MUCH!! ♥

Rena-chan finally gave up on Kyouya because Kyouya said it clearly that he doesn't want to leave Erika! \(//∇//)\


In the other chapter, still in this volume though, Kyouya doesn't feel good. His eyes kinda have a problem, so he wears glasses instead of contact lens like he usually does. You have to know that HE LOOKS SO FUCKING GOOD IN GLASSES!!! らぶ1
But then at school there's this incident where his glasses is broke. Well, it's because of Erika and Kamiya actually. LOL

And because Kyouya feels so irritate - he couldn't see well, so he decides to go home early.
Erika worries about him so she goes home with him too.
Erika really takes care of him well.
Kyouya feels touched, and he reward her with a sudden kiss!! きらきら
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OMG MY HEART CAN'T HANDLE IT!! ラブ
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And then it's Christmas season again.
It's Kyouya and Erika 2nd Christmas together. But this time they won't celebrate it just the two of them but also with everyone else: San-chan, Kamiya-kun, and Takeru-kun.

Erika knows that Kyouya maybe doesn't want to celebrate it just the two of them, because she knows he doesn't like that kind of thing. So she doesn't push him and instead she pretends that it will be okay even if they will celebrate it with everyone.

But deep inside actually Kyouya knows that there's a disappointment in Erika's eyes because she can't celebrate it only with Kyouya.
And Kyouya surprisingly asks it straightly to Erika about it.
And the both end up having a small celebration together, only Kyouya and Erika ぽぇ~♪

I can't wait to see this volume on anime!!
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365 reviews16 followers
November 4, 2020
My first 5 star rating from this series!

This volume definitely made up from last volume's really..... bad arc. As I've said before I really found the introduction of Rena totally unnecessary and the arc with her is really.... quite atrocious. However, in this volume I am glad to see her finally understand the relationship between Kyouya and Erika and I'm really happy that she "gave up".

For the reasons why I liked this volume, if I was to describe it in one word, it would be "Wholesome". This entire volume was really wholesome especially with the glasses story and the 2nd Christmas story. But more importantly, I'm really happy to see Kyouya really show how much he loves and cares for Erika. Indeed, this is some great character development from him. I could only hope the following volumes would follow suit.
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1,463 reviews152 followers
July 11, 2024
I love this series it's quickly growing on me as the relationship between Erika and Sata grows. They still have a ton of issues but they are figuring it out slowly. I love that the relationship is growing and we are seeing more from Sata to make Erika happy. This is a sweet romance and I'm enjoying every moment of it. I can't wait for the next one to arrive.
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98 reviews1 follower
May 28, 2024
Ce tome m’a énormément touché 🤧
Je suis retrouvée dans Sata lorsque autrice fait référence a sa myopie.
Erika est toujours aussi adorable 🥰
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397 reviews468 followers
December 23, 2025
the best friends are constantly on "how do we get these two idiots to communicate and have time together" mode and I love them for their service
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144 reviews22 followers
November 27, 2021
This volume made me very uncomfortable with its focus on weight. Our lead gains 5 kg from the holidays and everyone keeps commenting she’s out on weight to where she feels bad about herself and starts a really crap diet to fix it. She then says if she loses the weight she wants him to tell her he loves her. He made it clear he didn’t care about her weight but also wasn’t kind about it either. Overall I did not care for this volume for its weight shaming and hoping we can move from here.
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1,241 reviews13 followers
January 23, 2025
No. Just no. Self care would be DNFing this series but my completionist brain won't let me.

Can't believe this is the same author as Ima koi
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331 reviews14 followers
February 27, 2023
aun no me decido en que calificación ponerle pero me gusto mucho este volumen! ver las interacciones entre los mejores amigos de erika y kyoya fue bastante cool, en especial porque me da ganas de shipearlos (es qué hay que admitirlo, tienen mejor química que los protagonistas y eso que casi ni se han hablado)


por otro lado, algo que me disgustó bastante y que me hizo dudar al momento de calificar el volumen es este capítulo sobre cómo erika tiene que bajar de peso ??? (aunque no estoy muy segura si eso va en este volumen o en el que sigue, siempre termino confundiéndome al momento de escribir mis reseñas)
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2,090 reviews
January 19, 2024
Rena gives up, which is a nice change of pace and surprisingly Kyouya goes along with Christmas celebrations. Oddly, he seems somewhat annoyed that Erika is okay with the group and not them doing something as a couple originally. As usual, he's rather standoffish and mean about it while picking odd moments to show his more sentimental and sweet side. The emotions after he got his spare pare of glasses where cute, but also confusing. Just going to bed? And Erika just leaves? After being so determined to take care of him and protect him? Granted he had his glasses then, but still living alone and just caught in a rain storm, so it felt jarring.
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2,970 reviews15 followers
July 10, 2024
Kyoya handled the Lena situation well, I’m my opinion. I like when a guy isn’t swayed by easy sex. That really showed Lena’s age right there. She still has a lot to learn.

My fav chapter had to be when Kyoya’s glasses broke and he was blind as heck lol. Erika was so sweet. Everyone hates on her but Kyoya is the one who doesn’t deserve her. She’s so patient with him. Her reward is coming… Our boy is slowly changing!!! Lol
Profile Image for Katie.
627 reviews7 followers
July 11, 2024
I love that the relationship is growing, and we get to see more from Sata to make erika happy. They still have a ton of issues, but they are figuring it out slowly, so that was nicento see.

I cart wait for next volume to arrive.
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147 reviews48 followers
June 13, 2019
En serio que Kyoya puede ser un estúpido muchas veces pero luego hace algo que te dan ganas de abrazarlo <3
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128 reviews7 followers
May 26, 2020
Okay, I can understand why he doesn't show up his feelings, but here he was totally mean. I was so upset reading how he called her fat.
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1,555 reviews22 followers
August 14, 2024
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS! I was waiting for him to finally see how she's hiding the things she wants to make him happy and he missed them. This vol. just made me feel good.
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2,525 reviews21 followers
December 16, 2024
3.5. I thought the Christmas party was cute. I love his childhood friend and her bestie. But I just didn’t care for the cousin rival sub plot.
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549 reviews
November 10, 2025
Es passiert einiges.. und doch auch nicht so viel neues irgendwie 🤔 aber unsere beiden Protas kommen sich langsam immer näher und Kyoya wird auch etwas zahmer.. 😌
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291 reviews15 followers
April 21, 2015
Ahahaha.. that Waah! That woman is Kyouya's sister? :O hmmm.. how interesting! And his mom. Woaah! She almost lost the necklace! But good thing she found it when Kamiya told and was convincing Kyouya-kun that Erika was cheating on him. XD He didnt go to school. Since he thought that Erika was really cheating and thought she was lying about Jun-kun. Hahaha so interesting!
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Author 1 book48 followers
June 20, 2016
SO much cuteness. Kyoya is so asdfghjkl on this chapters.
My heart is full of cute and fluffy feelings. I don't even know how to express anything in words. Just imagine me making different incoherent sounds and that's me talking about this series.
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