It's been three years since you severed your red threads of fate and abandoned your soulmates. If you were a bit cleaner on the inside, then you might have felt guilty for the way you left things. But you aren't. All you feel is relief. You try to forget your sordid history, but the past just refuses to stay buried. Hell, it's not even past. The skeletons in your closet are out and walking around. Now you must do your best to shield your new friends from them, for their protection as well as your own.

In a world where over half the population is infected with a disease commonly known as lovesickness, which turns them into yanderes, you seek out protection from the mob. Their services do not come cheap. Luckily, they have a special program for girls like you. You become an e-darling, someone who gets paid to play the part of a pseudo-consensual darling from behind the safety of a computer screen. It's a good gig... Or at least it is until the mobster running the whole operation takes a special interest in you, seeming to forget it's all an act.

You work for one of the biggest, most advanced tech companies of the century, Abstract Solutions. The thing is, though, you're just a standard office worker. When the higher ups pass out a survey asking how the company could motivate them to work harder, your coworkers ask for a raise or a nicer cubicle. You jokingly answer, "A girlfriend," thinking nothing would come of this survey anyway. Weeks later you're called into a meeting with founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of Abstract Solutions, Yulia Caesar. She offers you a special opportunity to test out a prototype partner replacement. Working out a couple bugs couldn't be that hard, could it?

Your friends swear up and down that your new boss' interest in you is not strictly professional, but you dismiss their claims as persistent teasing. Your relationship with Ms Boulanger is strictly platonic. It's not until she sits you down and offers you an allowance in exchange for exclusivity that you realize they were right. But at this point she has a hand in almost every aspect of your life. Really, what choice did you have? Will you ever manage to escape her complicated web of control?