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Spending all her time working at a part-time job, 16 year old Kyoko holds a huge secret. Passionately believing in her childhood friend, Shotaro, Kyoko devotes her life to him and moves with him to Tokyo so he could become a pop star. But all that comes to an abrupt end when she finds out the awful truth...

After being tricked by Sho, Kyoko decides to seek revenge on him by also entering the entertainment world. Kyoko heads to Sho's rival production company, LME, where she meets Ren Tsuruga. Although her audition did not go as well as she had hoped, Kyoko vowed: "never give up." However, why is Kyoko's new friend, Ren furious at her after she tells him about her plan for revenge?

Kyoko decides to apply for LME's newcomer auditions. The judges and participants are shocked at the announcement of her astonishing secret techniques with a basic kitchen knife, and she passes the first round. During the second round she has to react to a phone call. Yet, she reacts very unexpectedly, prompting her to wonder if this was the right emotion to show.

Kyoko receives a vital piece of advice that the actor's most important tool is to lack fear, as she fails the audition. In need of work, she takes up a part-time job working at a gas station. But just as she starts working there, Sho appears! Fearing the worst, Kyoko hopes he won't notice her...

In order to get back to the original, selfless Kyoko, she must participate in LME's "love me" campaign, whereby she must help others and do good. As this wears her out and starts to bring her down, pop idol Ruriko Matsunai at LME offers her this job: "Protect me from the sun." It seems impossible to Kyoko...will she be able to handle it?

After injuring her foot and having Ren help her, Kyoko incurs the wrath and jealousy of Ruriko. Ruriko becomes determined to break Kyoko and challenges her to act, prompting Kyoko's first break into show business. But with Kyoko's injured foot, will she be able to take advantage of this chance?

Ruriko and Kyoko are fighting for the role, however it's pushing Kyoko's broken ankle to the limit. With Ren and Ruriko watching Kyoko's performance closely, will she pull it off or fall trying…

Kyoko returns back to the LME training facility and is unexpectedly reunited with Kanae Kotonami, to which Kyoko interprets this meeting as fate. Kyoko tries to become friends with her and have her join, when Lory suddenly provides them with a request.

Kyoko accepts an unexpected acting challenge from LME, and having hardly acted before Kyoko seems a bit bewildered. With everyone watching her, Kyoko is finally ready to start the performance, but how will she perform? Kyoko has also attracted the attention of Maria, the granddaughter of the president of LME. But for what reason?

Back at the LME training facility, after finishing up her performance, Kyoko had to endure some teasing from Ren, as if he had known her since they were kids. During this time, Kyoko takes on a job on a talk show. But a blast from her past appears...

Kyoko's next assignment is to be the mascot on a game that just so happens to be featuring Sho! This is Kyoko's chance to humiliate him. However, with every attempt made to humiliate Sho, he comes back to win the audience's love. What will she do now?

Kyoko moves on to her next endeavor and tries out for a soda commercial, but so does Kanae! There, Kyoko meets Kanae's rival, Erika Koenji who relies more on her family's money to win roles, than talent. As Kanae and Kyoko team up, can the LME crew bring Erika down and win over the role?

For the commercial, it will require a pair of girls, so both Kyoko and Kanae have a chance to get a part. Erika, stopping at nothing to win the part (including sabotage) informs the director that they work for the same company and that they should do the whole audition without rehearsal....

Team LME make it past the first round, and it seems like smooth sailing. But Kyoko's idea was stolen for the second round and now she has to come up with something on the spot or their chances for the commercial is lost. Will Moko trust in Kyoko to come up with a new winning idea?

When Ren's manager catches a cold, Kyoko takes over as his manager. Kyoko ends up being busier than expected and winds up making a flurry of mistakes. Yet, during her job as manager, she runs into a group of girls around her age and Ren finally learns the reason why Kyoko didn't continue on with school. Also about her past with Sho...

It seems as if she has put her job aside and taken on the responsibility as Ren's nurse and manager. Again, Ren's image of Kyoko changes as she tries her best to nurse him back to health. Meanwhile, she uses whatever free time she has to study for the school entrance exams again.

As Kyoko's job as manager ends, Ren tries to help her pass her entrance exam as Kyoko has longed to experience the full life of a high school student. As a thanks for her selflessness job while he was sick, Ren gives Kyoko surprising marks in her stamp book. Meanwhile, LME has requested for Kyoko to appear in a promotional music video for, none other than, Sho...

Shou, convinced this girl for the promotional video is Kyoko, is out to find out and reveal her true identity. Sho decides to set up a trap to reveal her identity once and for all. But Kyoko wont go down so easily. Thanks to a deceiving make up job, Sho begins to doubt his previous assumptions...

One scene away from finishing up her appearance for Sho's promotional video, Kyoko is struggling to find the right emotion to show during her scene. But after her conversation with Moko, she figures out what to do. As she enters the studio with anger and frustration on her face, she starts the scene but with unexpected results...

Seeming like Kyoko's hatred towards Sho will affect her performance and hindering her from acting, how can she finish the performance like this? However, after talking it over with Moko, she comes up with a plan; but will this plan of theirs be enough to successfully make Kyoko's performance shine?

Kyoko has expressed interest in taking on a role in the big hit drama remake of "Tsukigomori" called "Dark Moon". Meanwhile, Ren has received opposition towards going for a role in the very same movie from Lori, citing Ren's weak point in his ability to perform. As things progress, Kyoko discovers that remaking this movie to the standards of the first movie, is much more difficult than she...

When asked to explain and carry out the essence of the role, by Hiroko Izuka, Kyoko was left speechless. Although Ren follows Kyoko to put her at ease, Kyoko still wasn't able get a hold of the role. Facing the adversity of getting into character, all of a sudden, she notices what is missing from her performance. Kyoko returns back and carries out an amazing transformation in character.

When we left off, Kyoko accepted the role Mio in the remake movie, "Dark Moon" and despite difficulties in early on, Kyoko has continued on proving that she deserves the role. However, Kyoko's goes missing, and after being warned by the production staff, Ren prepares for the worse. Meanwhile, Sho learns of Kyoko and Ren's scene together...

Unable to get into the character of Katsuki, Ren breaks down. Given time to find his version of Katsuki a worried Kyoko realizes there are ways she can help.