A Love I Shouldn't Feel

Haruki's marriage to his high school sweetheart Satomi promised happiness, but their stable life came at a cost. As Satomi became consumed by work, their relationship grew cold and distant. Intimacy vanished, leaving Haruki isolated even when she lay beside him. Everything shifts when he's invited to stay at Satomi's family estate. There, he encounters Kyouko—his mother-in-law. Strikingly beautiful, elegant, and appearing younger than her own daughter, Kyouko awakens something in Haruki that has been dormant for years. Something he knows is forbidden. Living together under one roof, two neglected souls find themselves drawn to each other. As Haruki battles with feelings he shouldn't have, he faces an impossible dilemma: the person who truly sees him, who understands his loneliness, is the very one he must resist. Some desires are meant to remain unspoken. Some connections should never be explored.