You’ll always wear a mask of lies. But I… Drawn to each other like moths to a flame, glitzy Velvet Kiss’s top two hosts Juri and Akatsuki both suffer serious burns when their fierce rivalry turns into a fiery love affair. Frustrated and hurt, Akatsuki lashes out at the poker-faced Juri, known in the club as King Juliet, who stuns the rookie number two by showing true pain and emotion for the very first time before disappearing from sight. Surrounded by nothing but greed and the toxic ties of the Tokyo red light district, can Akatsuki step up to be the prince Juri needs, or will the heavy darkness Juliet carries smother their romance for good?
Love is a brutal battle between vanity and yearning.
Amidst the dark glamor of host club Velvet Kiss, Juri—also called Juliet—commands a vice-like grip on the number one position. Impressed by this poker-faced beauty’s supreme reign, newbie and number-two host Akatsuki decides he must learn Juliet’s secrets—and shoot him down from the top of the pack. But Akatsuki’s first up-close taste of Juliet’s intoxicating charm leaves him craving more than he’d expected. And as he may soon learn, some secrets are better left in their bottles, and the bullet that shoots through one heart might take out more than it bargained for…