Please Let Me Spoil You

Kazuto Fujio, a children's book editor, has spent years quietly in love with Tsukasa Shiba—a manga artist five years his junior and his cherished childhood friend. So devoted is Kazuto that he has taken up residence right next door, cooking Tsukasa's meals and lending a patient ear whenever the easily smitten young man comes to him in tears over his latest heartbreak. Spoiling Tsukasa has become the very rhythm of Kazuto's everyday life. Tsukasa, for his part, cheerfully declares, "I love you, Kazuto!"—but Kazuto understands all too well that those endearing words carry none of the longing he himself harbors. Content simply to remain at Tsukasa's side, he buries his feelings and treasures their comfortable routine. That fragile peace begins to crumble when Kazuto learns that Tsukasa, whose affections had never amounted to more than passing crushes, once confessed to the manga editor he had fallen for—and was turned down. The failed confession forces Kazuto to face an unbearable truth: one day, someone may truly take Tsukasa away from him. Unable to hold back the emotions he has guarded for so long, Kazuto acts on impulse and steals a kiss... A tender tale of one-sided love between a doting editor and a crybaby manga artist, overflowing with the affection that has quietly deepened between them over the years.