Book#295, International Collection, Themes:Parental Sacrifice / The Evil Boss / Found Family, Keywords:Single Parent, Custody Battle, Corporate Coercion, Feminization, Sacrifice, Found Family, Uncle to Mother, Workplace Abuse, Legal Thriller, Maternal Love.
He gave up his name. He gave up his body. He would not give up his child. When his sister dies, Aoi Fukamori inherits two things: a crushing grief, and her four-year-old daughter, Hana. Desperate to provide for her, Aoi falls into a trap set by his manipulative boss, Sasaki. The offer is simple: Aoi can keep his job and a roof over Hana’s head, but only if he transfers to a subsidiary where he must live and work as a woman. What starts as a uniform policy spirals into a nightmare of coerced hormone therapy, voice training, and finally, a surgical trip to Bangkok. Aoi endures the erasure of his male identity for one reason: Sasaki promised that once the transition was complete, they would marry and legally adopt Hana.But when Aoi returns from Thailand, he finds the locks changed. Sasaki has married a pregnant woman, adopted Hana himself, and demoted Aoi to the role of a live-in maid. Stripped of his rights and trapped in a storage room, Aoi watches a stranger raise the daughter he sacrificed everything to protect.Broken but not beaten, Aoi teams up with an unlikely ally from his sister’s past to wage a legal war against the man who stole his life. They have no money and no power—only a secret letter, a biological claim, and the testimony of a child who knows exactly who her real mother is. A heartbreaking and triumphant novel about the lengths we go to for the children we love.
Content Warning: Contains themes of severe corporate/financial coercion, non-consensual medical transition (hormones/surgery under duress), gaslighting, and emotional abuse.
Heat Level (1-5) 3 (Emotional / Coercive) There are scenes of intimacy with Sasaki, but they are framed as dubious-consent/manipulation. The later relationship with Kenji is wholesome and healing. The focus is on the emotional weight of the body’s change, not erotica.