Can we start as friends?

Sono Tajima, who works for a foreign-owned video streaming company in Tokyo, hears reports of a romance between a member of a popular male idol group and Koharu Shiraishi, a local TV personality from Fukuoka. Koharu was a friend from her student days—someone known for being promiscuous and associated with many negative memories. When Sono returns home, she finds Koharu waiting for her. As she takes in Koharu—who has fled to her for help—a strange, indefinable sense of delight stirs within Sono....

(Source: Shinchosa, translated)