I’m Takayoshi, in my 40s, living with my wife, Mariko (also in her 40s), and our daughter, Sally (in 8th grade). Our parents live relatively close by, but my wife and my mother, Sanae (in her 70s), don’t get along. The truth is, a few months ago, I found out my affair partner, Misato Fukuhara (in her late 30s), is pregnant. Misato is young and cute, and since her parents have passed away, I’m the only one she has to lean on. For her sake, I need to divorce my wife and marry Misato. It would be a huge headache if my wife found out about the affair, so I want to get divorced while keeping it a secret.
I stopped by my parents’ house on my way home from work to tell my mother that I wanted a divorce, and at first, she was completely against it. But the moment she found out my new partner was a wealthy woman who was pregnant with a boy, she was all for it. She started dreaming about us living together and inheriting the family fortune, and she actually advised me to use a dog to chase my wife out of the house. She told me to just make it look like my wife was the one who caused the divorce. Everything went according to plan, and when my wife finally brought up the divorce, I was fist-pumping internally. However, my wife showing up at the parenting class was a complete miscalculation that I never saw coming.