I’m Shiho, in my 20s. About six months after I started dating Hiroaki (in his 30s), I found out I was pregnant. We got married shortly after, but five days later, I suffered a miscarriage. We tried for another baby afterward, but it just wasn’t happening. Then, at my mother-in-law’s birthday party, she hit me with the most shocking news: “If you had miscarried just five days earlier, my son never would have married you,” and, “I always thought ‘Mitsuki’ was the one who was going to be my daughter-in-law.” Mitsuki…? Who on earth is that? Her words were so filled with malice that I completely froze, unable to even process what she was saying.
After this incident, it’s crystal clear why my in-laws have always despised me. I mean, of course they don’t want to see me around—I’m the stranger who just popped up out of nowhere and ruined the marriage they were hoping for their son. I’m sure they’ve been dying to vent their frustrations at me, one, two, or even four times over. But honestly, all of this is news to me. I’m going to make Hiroaki explain everything to me, starting from the very beginning.