Promise Cinderella

Hayame starts working at the inn, but her co-workers are cold towards her. They are jealous, thinking that Hayame may be in the running to be Seigo’s wife. Meanwhile, Issei hears from Yoshitora that Seigo is worried for Hayame, and he is unhappy that the girl he brought may be taken away by his older brother. Hayame is close to quitting her job at the inn, but is not sure why she hates the inn so much. Then, one day, Etsuko asks Issei to take out a hanging scroll from the storage room in the old building, which is supposedly haunted. Issei not only hates the inn, but is also a scaredy-cat. Thus, he comes up with a new game to make Hayame do it: Retrieve the hanging scroll from the haunted storage room. But Hayame, who decides to take part in the game, is met with unexpected misfortune.

Hayame is shaken when she runs into her first love Seigo after ten long years. But the kinder Seigo is to her, the more her co-workers harass her. Meanwhile, Issei hears about this and shows a sense of rivalry towards Seigo. Then, Hayame tells Issei the truth about what happened ten years ago. Meanwhile, the inn receives a party reservation from Reika Saionji, a Super VIP who holds multiple grand parties at the inn every year. The female workers are afraid of this party, which they were prohibited from entering. On the day of the party, Saionji is in a bad mood after learning that Seijo was away. The other male employees tend to her needs instead, but they cannot stand her and flee one after another. Hayame is unable to look on in silence, so she heads in to help.

Hayame gets into a fight with Issei and runs away from home, finding temporary refuge at the inn. But all of a sudden, her ex-husband Masahiro comes to the inn, offers her an apology and suggests they start over again as friends. Hayame is enraged by Masahiro’s selfish actions, and Seigo intervenes to help settle things down. But as Hayame quarrels with Masahiro, she realizes that she regrets running away without having a proper talk with Issei. Meanwhile, Issei has run away from home after quarrelling with his grandmother, Etsuko. He feels helpless upon finding out that his friends until now were only after his money. Issei, with no one to rely on now, realizes that Hayame is an irreplaceable existence to him. And that is when Hayame appears before him.