No, Thank You to Your Doting Love

Twenty-one-year-old Riko works at a construction company and has never experienced romance, though she deeply longs to fall in love. Her boss, Kotetsu, is a handsome and composed man eight years her senior who also happens to be her childhood friend. Because they have always shared a comfortable, sibling-like dynamic, Riko firmly believes any romantic development between them is completely out of the question. However, everything shifts one evening when Riko returns home from a matchmaking party. Without warning, Kotetsu declares that he intends to claim all of her firsts and abruptly steals her first kiss. From that moment on, he begins cornering her with unexpected advances whenever they are alone in the office, leaving Riko entirely overwhelmed by his sudden change in behavior. Caught off guard by her boss’s relentless attention, Riko struggles to understand his true intentions. She quietly fears that she might simply be the target of a cruel joke, yet despite her doubts, her heart races every time he draws near. As professional boundaries blur and her feelings grow increasingly difficult to ignore, Riko finds herself trapped between suspicion and an undeniable attraction she never saw coming.