In All the Words She Wrote, Takaoka Mayo, 24, is aimless, living with her parents and bouncing between part-time jobs. Her only passion? The Forest of the Elves and the Pressured Princess, a light novel series she obsessively adores, especially its heroine, Princess Luluna.
Her quiet fangirl life takes a wild turn when Sae, a family friend and publisher at Horizon (the company behind Elf Forest), offers Mayo a job as a live-in housekeeper for the series’ reclusive author, Tsuchimi Rui, who’s stuck in a creative slump.
To Mayo’s shock, Rui isn’t a grumpy old man, but Komikado Hijiri, a sharp-tongued young woman just a few years older than Mayo. As they begin living together, tension slowly turns into connection, and Mayo faces a new dilemma: is her heart still devoted to her fictional waifu, or is it swaying toward the prickly genius behind her?