Seventeen-year-old Apiradee Anothai, nicknamed Nang, is send away to Penang, Malaysia, to attend to an all-girls convent boarding school called Victoria. She is to learn about manners and how to be a lady by the nuns. Her father, who is a minister, wanted this for her because news came out on the front page that Nang is fighting over a man. With the news, her father didn’t trust her and sends her off to boarding school.
In Penang, Nang meets the handsome and strict Thai consul Thanathip whose job is to make sure of the well-being of all the Thai students at the school. He does remind Nang to follow the rules of the school, since he's the type of person who likes for the students to be well behaved and follow the rules, but Nang is about to change all that.
Single mother Yi-an raises her fraternal twin daughters, Cassy and Lily, alone. Cassy is sweet and likable, driving Yi-an’s successful influencer career. Lily, with a cleft lip, is shy and often overlooked. As Yi-an’s popularity dwindles, she orchestrates a “Cassy is missing” plot to regain attention, much to Lily’s dismay. The relationship between the mother and daughter faces its greatest challenge yet.
Mr. Anthony is a sympathetic preschool teacher. His students often come to him with their problems, most dealing with difficult emotional issues they are facing and at their age do not quite understand. Mr. Anthony helps them overcome their emotions using his alter-ego, Napkin Man, a cartoon character he draws on a napkin and who comes to life as Mr. Anthony tells how Napkin Man has dealt with the issue before in helping another young person in destress
Laurentius and Holly are on a desperate mission: to snatch the gyro from the clutches of the ruthless Bishop Peder. But they can’t do it alone. They’ll need the help of old allies—a sly thief and the enigmatic Black Rider. Trust won’t come easy, especially for Laurentius, who has left a trail of burned bridges in his wake. Meanwhile, the malevolent Bishop Peder schemes to trap the exiled Prince Drago… but could Laurentius’ mysterious double hold the key?
After Mizusawa Yume's mother becomes ill and passes away, she finds a picture of a man holding a baby in her mother's keepsake box. On the back of the picture it says "Loving Papa and Yume, at Raku no Yu." Yume has never known or even seen a picture of her father, but she believes that this guy must be him. Also in the box there is a lighter with the initials RM.
After she finds that the "Raku no Yu", is a 'sento' (public bath) in Shibuya, Tokyo, she's off to meet her long lost father and to get as much money out of him as possible. The debts her mother left her after her death left nothing for Yume. Yume blames her father for her mother's death because if it wasn't for him she wouldn't have had to work so hard and wouldn't have gotten ill and died young.
Once she arrives in Tokyo and finds 'Raku no Yu' she finds a name plaque with the inscription Mannaka Rokku, so she is sure this is the place.