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Synopsis

To pursue her dreams, Sakurai Kazumi (Wakui Emi) quits her job and goes to New York to study jewelry design, against the objections of her naggy and stubborn but well-meaning father (Takeda Tetsuya). As part of remaking herself, she changes from spectacles to contact lenses, even though she has problems adapting to them. When she accidentally drops her contact lenses, a mysterious man helps prevent them from being stepped on, but he walks away before she can talk to him. Some years pass, and Kazumi is on a plane home after receiving a letter from her brother Taku saying their father is critically ill. She has morning sickness and has some run-ins on the plane with a sloppily-dressed man, and it is only when she drops her contacts and the man helps her in a similar way that she recognises him (Sorimachi Takashi). She chases after him and asks, "would you like to do some work (arubaito)?" It turns out that Kazumi in her last letter from New York had written that she was in a relationship with someone and that they might soon marry, but since then she has broken up with him, and she didn't want to make her father upset by coming home alone. The man, a freelance journalist named Yoshimi Kaoru, agrees to pretend to be her fiancé.

First Air Date: 1997-01-06

Last Air Date: 1997-03-17

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 11

Networks: Fuji TV

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Top Cast

Emi Wakui as Sakurai Kazumi
Yasufumi Terawaki as Arikawa Jun
Kimiko Yo as Michi
Masaki Kitahara as Sakurai Taku
Tetsuya Takeda as Sakurai Hikari
Takashi Sorimachi as Yoshimi Kaoru
Masato Furuoya as the bar owner
Mai Hosho as Onda Kiri
Masanori Sera as N/A

Seasons

Season 1 (1997)

Fiancé for only one night... Lost love, father's critical illness, then pregnancy

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Fiancé for only one night... Lost love, father's critical illness, then pregnancy (1997-01-06)

The fiancé's secret; it was supposed to be a fake relationship
Ep. 2: The fiancé's secret; it was supposed to be a fake relationship (1997-01-13)

Fiancé for only one night... Lost love, father's critical illness, then pregnancy
Ep. 3: He's actually the one... A heart that wavers between seriousness and lies (1997-01-20)

He's actually the one... A heart that wavers between seriousness and lies
Ep. 4: The baby's life at stake! The father suddenly appears (1997-01-27)

The baby's life at stake! The father suddenly appears
Ep. 5: Reunion, a shocking proposal (1997-02-03)

Reunion, a shocking proposal
Ep. 6: The lie is discovered! The time of decision for love (1997-02-10)

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Ep. 7: New love, jealousy, betrayal (1997-02-17)

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Ep. 8: The sad breakup at that fated place... The concealed secret of Kazumi's birth (1997-02-24)

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Ep. 9: A shocking confession of love on a lonely and hurtful night (1997-03-03)

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Ep. 10: The last promise... A couple's tearful determination and vows (1997-03-10)

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Ep. 11: The bride of dreams, thinking only of him... Opening fate's door with a bit of sadness in one's steps (1997-03-17)

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