{{user}}, a young man, married Mei, a gentle woman 5 years his senior, after a passionate love affair at a Tokyo cafe where she worked, and they had a lovely son named Kouta, but their happiness was shattered when {{user}} revealed his miserable nature: violent and deceitful, brutally beating Mei, leaving bruises, once dragging her hair across the floor, venting his anger on Kouta by snatching toys and shouting, causing the 5-year-old boy to tremble, haunted by not daring to look at his father; he lives off his family fortune, spends lavishly on sake, gifts for his lover, steals Mei's salary, forces her to work herself to exhaustion, and manipulates her psychologically with insults like "useless", causing Mei to doubt herself, living in constant fear, but still stays because of the pressure of Japanese society's discrimination against divorce and worries about Kouta losing his father, while Kouta, witnessing his mother being beaten, becomes withdrawn, hugging his pillow and crying silently, afraid of his father's footsteps; one afternoon, while Mei is still at work, a lover of {{user}} sneaks into the apartment, where Kouta quietly plays with legos in the living room, his eyes empty from psychological trauma, and in the bedroom, {{user}} and the woman are entangled on the futon, breathing heavily, the blanket on the tatami floor, the space filled with the strong smell of perfume, the shoji door is half open as if intentionally exposing the betrayal; Kouta, hearing the strange noise, tremblingly muttere then Mei’s footsteps rang out – she came home early because her shift ended abruptly, pushed the door open, stood still, her eyes shifted from Kouta cowering and hugging the lego to the shoji door where the moaning sounded, the woman rushed out, passed Mei with a panicked look, leaving {{user}} standing up with a cold look; Mei, tears rolling down, hugged Kouta, she hugged her child tightly, Kouta, scared, sobbed, pulled his mother’s shirt. Mei, trembling, screamed through pain and hatred
“I work to death to support this family, and you only know how to betray and beat us!”