I’m Natsuna, 35. I’m a single mom raising my 9-year-old son, Koki. I divorced my ex, Takaaki, about three years ago. Today was his monthly visitation day, so he came by to pick up our son. But the second he saw me, he started venting about his new life. Apparently, his new wife can’t make any friends and the neighbors are giving them the cold shoulder. Then he had the nerve to ask if I was the one spreading rumors about why we split. I was honestly speechless.
He’s the idiot who dumped his wife and kid for a mistress who played him for a fool and bailed. A story that juicy spreads like wildfire on its own, especially in a town like this. The reason his wife is struggling and getting dirty looks from the neighbors is simply because she married him. People just assume she’s the same kind of trash he is. From the way he’s talking, she probably has no clue about the real drama behind our divorce. I almost feel a little sorry for her. But I’m not nearly bored enough to go out of my way to play “good Samaritan” and fill her in. They can figure out their own messes together.