Shaved the Beard Then Picked Up a High School Girl'), is a Japanese romantic comedy light novel series written by Shimesaba and illustrated by booota.

Young handsome salaryman Yoshida had finally gathered up the courage to confess his feelings for his employer and longtime crush Airi Gotou.

While heading back home in a drunken state, he meets Sayu Ogiwara, a teenage high school girl who asks to spend the night with him.

The next day now sobered up, Yoshida asks Sayu how she ended up at his apartment: she reveals that she had run away from her family and home in Hokkaido and has been prostituting herself to random men in exchange for a place to stay.

Now knowing her backstory, Yoshida feeling bad for her finds himself unable to kick her out of his house and their time of living together begins.

The series was written by Shimesaba and illustrated by booota and was serialized online between March 2017 and August 2018 on Kadokawa's user-generated novel publishing website Kakuyomu.

[57] The English dub, starring Alex Hom and Jill Harris and directed by Jonathan Rigg, debuted on Crunchyroll on July 30, 2022.