Matsuo Ryo is a landscape garden designer who quite openly says that females are trouble and is cool to romance. Satokawa Akane is a company president’s secretary who keeps having relationships with useless men and is at the point of giving up on love. Shirosaki Haruhi is a new employee at Akane’s company who has another side in complete contrast to his friendly character. Tanno Kaoru works at a factory in the day and a girls bar at night while troubled by her sexual identity. These four do not have it easy in love. Furthermore, Akane’s younger sister Kuroda Azusa who stole her boyfriend Kuroda Tomohiro and went on to marry him, gets involved in their romances. One day, Ryo goes to a client’s office building to deliver a rental tree. While carrying in the tree, he inadvertently sees Akane’s skirt lifted up by a sudden gust of wind. But his conditioned response is indifference to women even if the beautiful and intelligent Akane is regarded as a “lofty dream” by male colleagues. A new employee Shirosaki Haruhi suddenly calls out to her in a friendly voice to go for tea together. Akane is momentarily taken aback by Haruhi who is more than 10 years her junior. She does not respond but a smile escapes at his carefree manner. However, the moment Akane turns her back and walks out, the look of innocence in Haruhi’s eyes vanishes. One night, Ryo’s company president Tanno Fumihiko broaches the topic of him getting married to his daughter Kaoru and taking over the family business. Tanno is like a father to Ryo who has been a live-in employee ever since he left home and came to Tokyo after graduating from junior high school. And Kaoru is like a younger sister whom he grew up with. This sudden conversation makes Ryo uncomfortable. At this moment, Kaoru is dressed beautifully in feminine clothing at the girls bar where she works. A new customer Azusa comes to the bar. It is rare to have female customers and Azusa is initially nervous. But as Kaoru listens to her complain about her husband, she begins to open her heart to her. |