1 volumes in print / Volume 1 to the latest
Official synopsis
「俺が欲しいって正直に言えよ」 親のいない杏樹は、そんな自分を長い間援助してくれていた会長の頼みにより、末息子の安藤玲司と、世間体のために契約結婚することになった。形だけの夫婦関係、そこに愛はないーーそのはずなのに、杏樹は毎晩のように玲司に抱かれる夢を見てしまう。 しかし実際の玲司は、結婚後もお構いなしに女性を自宅に招き入れる最低な男だった。そんな彼を突き放そうとする杏樹だったが、ある日玲司にされるがまま寝室へと連れ込まれてしまいーー? 【※この作品は話売り「契約夫婦の夜」の電子単行本版です】■【収録内容】「契約夫婦の夜」1巻〜4巻
「契約夫婦の夜【電子単行本版】」sets up a familiar but sturdy premise: a marriage arranged for appearances, not affection. Anju, left without parents, has long depended on the support of a company chairman, and when he asks her to marry his youngest son Reiji as a matter of family image, she agrees. It's meant to be a hollow arrangement, a paper contract with no real feeling behind it — except her nights keep filling with dreams of being held by the very man she's supposed to keep at arm's length.
The trouble is that Reiji, in daylight hours, gives her every reason to keep her distance. He brings other women home without a hint of shame even after the wedding, behaving like exactly the kind of husband no one should have to tolerate. Anju tries to push him away, to treat the marriage as the empty formality it was designed to be, but the story keeps drawing the two of them back into the same room, culminating in a moment where resistance gives way to something neither of them can quite explain.
This edition gathers what were originally four serialized installments into a single digital volume, which means readers get a complete arc of tension in one sitting rather than a single chapter's worth of setup. That structure suits the material: the appeal here is less about plot twists than about watching a cold, transactional arrangement slowly lose its footing, scene by scene, until the line between duty and desire stops holding. Readers who enjoy stories built around reluctant intimacy, prickly power dynamics, and a heroine who keeps insisting she wants nothing from a man who clearly wants everything from her will find plenty to sink into.
There's a deliberate discomfort built into Reiji's character, and the story doesn't rush to redeem him — his carelessness with other women is presented plainly, without excuses, so that Anju's confusion feels earned rather than convenient. The chairman's request, the social pressure behind the marriage, and Anju's own history of dependency give the arrangement real stakes beyond simple romantic tension. It reads as a slow unraveling of composure on both sides, told with enough volume to let that unraveling actually breathe.