My Arranged Marriage Partner's Proposal Was Somehow a Project Proposal: Volume One: The Shared Life Begins

Shizuku Mizuhara is twenty-seven, a freelance illustrator who values quiet days and the freedom to draw the old houses she loves. Marriage was never part of her plan. Then her parents arrange a meeting. Takaharu Kurokawa is thirty-one, an architecture researcher who approaches everything with logic, precision, and carefully prepared documents. When he arrives at their arranged meeting, he does not bring flowers or sweet words. He brings a project proposal. Complete with charts, schedules, household guidelines, and a section dedicated to protecting her career. It is the strangest marriage proposal Shizuku has ever received. Yet beneath the graphs and formal language is something unexpected: sincerity. Takaharu has spent hours thinking about how two people with different lives might build a home without either of them disappearing. What begins as a carefully structured arrangement slowly turns into something neither of them planned-shared mornings, quiet understanding, and the first tentative steps toward a life together. A gentle, heartfelt story about respect, awkward honesty, and the kind of love that grows from the smallest everyday moments. Volume One of four.