Our Contract to Be Cheerful

<p><strong>Yuuto Tanaka has one rule: never smile.</strong><br>After losing his younger sister he shuts the world out and becomes the boy who refuses to be happy. Cold distant and impossible to approach-Yuuto has no intention of changing.</p><p>Then comes <strong>Saki Mori</strong> the bright stubborn classmate who refuses to leave him alone.</p><p>When their homeroom teacher pairs them for a year-long emotional wellbeing project Saki proposes an outrageous idea:<br><strong>Let's sign a contract. For one year I'll make you smile. In return... you help me learn how to be strong.</strong></p><p>Dragged into Saki's world of rooftop sunsets after-school talks unspoken pain and unexpected warmth Yuuto slowly begins to confront the trauma he has buried for years.<br>But Saki has her own secrets-ones that could break the fragile happiness they are building together.</p><p>As the seasons change their contract becomes something deeper something dangerous... something real.<br>And Yuuto must face a choice he never thought he'd make:<br><strong>protect his heart or open it and risk losing everything again.</strong></p><p>A tender emotional and heart-warming <strong>Young Adult contemporary romance</strong> <em>Our Contract to Be Cheerful</em> explores grief healing friendship and the courage it takes to smile again.</p>