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A to F (Alpha Bitch, Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, Didn't Think This Through) | G to L (Gold Digger, Humiliation Conga) | M to R (Obnoxious In-Laws, Relationship Sabotage) | S to Z (Spoiled Brat, The Unfavorite, White-Collar Crime)

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  • Scarpia Ultimatum: The Professor's boss knows she's hiding legendary robot creator Mr. Atsu from law enforcement because he was falsely accused to prevent his robots from exposing the government's corruption and threatens to expose the poor man if she doesn't sleep with him.
  • School Swimsuit: Masashi had his lover Satomi put on one of these for a roleplay in the shower. When Charako returned after her daughters notified her of his affair and got a glimpse of it, she called him out for it and the girls were disgusted that the swimsuit might be from their school.
  • Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up:
    • Kakeru, the new employee at the company Naoya worked at, was the captain of the soccer team and Naoya's bully since high school. When they meet again, Kakeru was still an egotistical, big-headed jerk and used his work status to boss Naoya and everyone else around, on top of being a womanizer.
    • Makoto was a bully to Ataru and his friends in high school. At the high school reunion he still acted that way, professing himself to be an elite. After one of the guys discovered that he worked at a company that he rants against, his haughty personality was broken, and he was forced to live back with his parents.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!:
    • "Spoiled son ran over me with his car and tried to pretend it never happened": Eri filed a lawsuit against Eiji for trying to run her over in response to her breakup request. However, it didn't stick as his dad was a landowner/legislator with connections to powerful people and covered up his son's crime. However, the bastard's reign of terror ends when both Eri and Naoko enlist the help of his journalist older sister, Shizuka, to expose the father's corruption, resulting in his arrest.
    • "A spoiled brat beat me and my friend up and tried to use money to hide it...": Takakuni always thinks he could use his father's money and power to get out of trouble and force Mari to date him, but his luck runs out when his father's company turns out to be a client to her brother Masaki's company.
    • "The new recruit is using her family's powers to threaten me!": Ikari was a lousy worker who was only accepted into the office because she was a Yakuza's daughter. Whenever Atsumu tried to take her to task, she always brings it up to silence him into submission by threatening his loved ones.
    • "My sister's being bullied at school, but the principal wants to cover it up": Ai's bullying of Sayuu was never dealt with properly despite the latter's sister Miyuu presenting evidence her dad was friends with the principal and had him cover up said bullying.
    • "Bully pushes a girl on wheelchair into the pool": After Akane shoved Kei and Kyoko Miyanohara's daughter Mai into a pool for being disabled, the couple found out she is from a rich family that had connections to celebrities and various government officials. When they held her accountable, she brought up her connections and threatened Kei with having him fired if they insisted.
    • "The CEO's son started working with us…": The titular Ioh Darashina was a sleazy delinquent who got a job at his father's company and used his newfound status to boss Nano around. However, his reign of terror falls apart when his dad gets fired by the board members after Masayoshi calls the man out and then resigns.
    • "Caught my wife and boss having an affair in the shower": Terasawa had close friendships with the entire HR department, which made him untouchable as it was impossible to file a complaint against him, even when he abused his power to harass his employees. However, Shigeru reported him to the parent company's CEO himself, who was the former's father. As a result, the CEO has the entire HR department investigated and fired for their abuse of power.
    • "My little sister ruined the contracts I had with a client...": Miyuki flaunts her father's status as the head of Moni Moni Construction and his connections to the CEO of Robo Robo Tradings to silence her stepsister Mizuna when the latter called her out for causing the aforementioned company to cut off MoniRobo Trading Company because she attempted to rape its manager Riku into choosing her over Mizuna. However, these become moot when Mizuna announces to her that her daddy was fired from both companies. This causes Miyuki to lose her bravado and beg Mizuna for forgiveness.
    • "Section chief looks down on contract employees": When Lisa asked Miyoko how come her perverted boss Akinaga wasn't reported or arrested, Miyoko speculates the reason why he hasn't been fired or arrested was because he was friends with the head of HR.
    • "This girl only got the job thanks to her uncle, and just lazes around": Kasumi is a troublemaking new hire who got her job because she was the CEO's niece, as Nano's subordinate. Moreover, Kasumi used this connection to have Nano fired when the latter tried to hold her accountable for her poor work ethic.

  • Screw the Rules, I Have Money!:
    • When Miyuki calls the biker who ran over her fiancé Takuro when he pushed a kid out of the way, he brags about his family being wealthy enough to sweep it under the rug before speeding away.
    • "We went to a luxurious hotel for our wedding anniversary but..." features a deconstruction of this trope in the form of spoiled rich kid Atsushi Tanaka, as he messed around and got into trouble that had the police involved, causing his father to lose lots of money trying to cover such scandals up for him and eventually go to prison. While his grandfather took him in hoping he could redeem him, Atsushi proved to be as stuck-up as his father was, eventually ending in his firing and disownment by his mother.
    • "She thinks she stole my fiancé but the person she slept with was...": Yuto Jinguji's cousin, Masato Jinguji, was stripped of any claim to become the next CEO for his incompetence. However, he used his wealth to keep things under control in any relationship he had because he's implied to be an abusive prick. However, Masato's luck runs out when he sleeps with Moemi while trying to steal Yuto's wife, Kanako, as Moemi sends her a photo of her affair which is used as evidence against the bastard.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
    • In this story, Mika's boyfriend ran away the moment he saw the massive tab they had to pay after kicking her sister Fumika out of her own apartment and the latter transferred the lease to her.
    • "My daughters spy on my husband and expose his affair!": Charako pulls a variant of this with her daughters after listening to Masashi’s pathetic excuses at justifying his affair and learning how obsessed Satomi is with him, deciding to just let her have him and move away, despite his pleas. In the end Masashi ends up having to pull this himself later on in order to get away from Satomi, leaving him homeless on the street.
    • "A girl I hated in school invited me to her wedding and asked me to give a speech": Charako exposed Akemi's true colors to the latter's fiancé, Junya Takagi, resulting in him calling off the wedding. Later on, Akemi's parents drove away from their home to get out of paying the debts she took while booking her wedding with Junya.
  • The Scrooge: Itetsu hates wasting money and puts half of his paycheck into savings. He took it too far when his wife Hanayo got pregnant and cut her food expenses from 30,000 yen even after the baby is born. His mother forced him to live on 10,000 yen but he struggled to live with the amount of money and quit. He apologized to his wife and increased the budget to 70,000 yen.
  • Secretly Wealthy: Matsuko kept making fun of Junko for looking poor. She even smashed the fountain pen that Junko made for fellow mom friend Misaki. When Matsuko invited Misaki and Junko to her house, Junko showed up in a limo and wore beautiful clothes. It's eventually revealed that Junko is the daughter of the CEO of MoniRobo, a large company that supports Matsuko's husband's company. The fountain pen was revealed to be worth a lot of money. Matsuko got into an argument with her husband about the pen and the couple seems to be on the verge of divorce.
  • Secret Sex Worker: Manami's mother from "My mom had an affair while I was in hospital…" is revealed to be a sex worker when she called the girl after the latter got another donor from her sister Megumi instead.
  • Serial Homewrecker: Rena Yakamashi has a chance to be revealed as this whenever she's the main antagonist.
    • "My older sister stole all of my boyfriends…": After numerous failed attempts to steal Hanayo's current boyfriend and now-husband Rio, on top of escaping her angry ex-boyfriends and their demands for compensation, Reina decided to hook up with married men. Given her usual routine with guys, it didn't take much for their wives to sue her for alimony, and even her doting parents kicked her out of the house. She is reduced to desperate part-time jobs to pay the huge debts she racked up.
    • "My childhood friend stole my fiancé, but little did she know…." [sic]: Right when Rena was about to leave the sharehouse in disillusion after finding out Masayoshi had debt, three women showed up and reveal themselves as the wives of Rena's past lovers. Turns out she didn't care if the man she prowled after was married as long as he was rich.
    • "My Boyfriend dumped me for my sister…": Sorao called his ex-fiancee Nano to demand money from her to pay Rena for all the wrongs the former "did" to the latter. However, Nano swiftly exposes Rena's true colors and even reveals the latter doesn't have any female friends because she stole their boyfriends, with one ex-friend even throwing fireworks at her house window to get back at her.
    • "My sister slept with someone's husband and almost got murdered": When the story switches to Minami's POV, she reveals that her parents favored Honami over her and she slept with married men so she could feel a smidgen of the love her parents denied to her. However, Minami's cheating comes back to bite her when her latest conquest's wife comes to the hotel where they were going to celebrate her birthday to murder her.
    • "A girl I hated in school invited me to her wedding and asked me to give a speech": Akemi had a reputation for stealing other girls' boyfriends and lying to make herself look good back in high school. Moreover, she's implied to have kept this habit well into adulthood as she cheated on her own fiancé, Junya Takagi, with other men before their wedding.
    • "My step-sister tried to steal my husband…": Ever since high school, Chizuru not only went out of her way to steal any potential boyfriend from Misuzu, but stole other girls' boyfriends. Even into adulthood, she seduced Misuzu's husband, Naoya, because he was a CEO's son.
    • "My sister always steals my boyfriends…": Ako always stole any potential boyfriend from her nerdy younger sister, Rico, to flex how pretty she was. As a result, Rico swore off relationships to avoid being hurt and focused more on anime and manga until she met Shou Nishikata, who was just as much of an anime fan as her.
    • "My husband was cheating on me, so with my IQ of 200 I got my revenge…": Yuki's cheating husband, Manabu, is revealed to be not only a shameless cheater but both of his lovers, Rumiko and Hana, were married and therefore he'll have to look forward to lawsuits from their husbands even if Yuki didn't demand alimony.
  • Sexless Marriage: Yuko wasn't in the mood since she married Tamanosuke and always brought up her period as an excuse to not do it. However, when Tamanosuke decided to check out the love hotel he and Yuko frequented in their college days, he found her leaving the hotel with another man.
  • Shotgun Wedding: Nao reveals to Ayu on the phone her marriage to Yota was a shotgun wedding after revealing she was the main breadwinner of the family.
  • Shout-Out:
  • Show Some Leg: After getting caught having an affair during an online meeting and Masayoshi declared he will report her to the employees, Yahata tried to seduce him into retracting. However, he isn't having any of it and goes through with his report, causing her to be fired.
  • Shower of Love: Masashi cheated on his wife Charako with her high school friend Satomi in the shower and even had her put on a school swimsuit to roleplay until his daughters Mika and Moka caught him, snapped photos of the affair and locked the lovebirds in there.
  • Sinister Surveillance: Takeru bugged the entire house, set up cameras everywhere, and wiretapped his wife Sae's calls to monitor her every action and make sure she does as she's told.
  • Sleeping with the Boss:
    • "My toxic sister tried to ruin my wedding…": At Miyu's wedding day, the groom reveals that her seemingly successful and dignified older sister had an affair with her boss, on top of sleeping with other guys and even asking the groom out before he met Miyu. Since she tried to ruin Miyu's wedding and snatch her husband, he decided to tell everyone about her secret, effectively making the older sister a pariah.
    • "My family made fun of my disability, until I became a CEO…" [sic]: Sakiho had an affair with her boss and his wife's PI caught her red-handed and threatened to sue her. Therefore, she and her mom went to her grandparents' house to ask her now-CEO sister Misaki for money. However, she refused to give them money for all the abuse they put her through, with her grandparents backing her up. In retaliation, Sakiho set out to ruin Misaki's company with hateful and slanderous messages.
    • "Exposing a slacking worker during lockdown. What the camera showed was shocking!": Yahata turned out to have slept with one of the company's higher-ups, which was the reason Masayoshi's aunt sent him to take care of her in the first place. When he finally exposed her affair in an online meeting, they reported her to another superior, which resulted in the lovebirds getting fired on top of the former superior's wife suing Yahata for alimony.
    • "I got in a terrible car accident on my way home from work and…": Ayumi turns out to have an affair with her boss, Seiya, behind Hiroki's back. Moreover, she even wished for Hiroki's death so she could get his life insurance money and remarry Seiya to spend the money on him after he divorced his own wife.
    • "The one piece of information that changed all the wrong doings in my workplace…" [sic]: After Naoto Ubu took Ms. Yabami to task with the Head Office's higher-ups, it's revealed she slept with Executive Yakamashi after getting him hammered and then taking photos of the affair to use as blackmail if he didn't promote her and her posse. As a result of this discovery, the reorganization board fired Mr. Yakamashi for account diversion and demoted the Branch Manager for enabling her. As a result, Yabami and her staff had to resign for embezzling company money and harassing Ms. Tanaka even after taking a leave.
  • Slipping a Mickey: "My boyfriend got my subordinate pregnant..." - Manami is revealed to have drugged both Satsuki's and Takuya's beers at the office's drinking party in order to snatch the latter and sleep with him and cover her affair with a male host.
  • Sore Loser:
    • "On the day of an important presentation, she tries to bring me down": Ayane loses the presentation contest to Nano and threw tantrums about it and accused Nano of cheating. She even hired a delinquent to steal Nano's purse storing her presentation data so she can win.
    • "Bully from high school becomes my coworker": Kakeru went ballistic on Naoya after having lost the presentation contest to him, despite having plagiarized Naoya's incomplete essay earlier on. Moreover, the approval form he allegedly got from the executives was actually forged, and Kakeru got fired for it.
  • Staircase Tumble:
  • Stalker with a Crush:
    • After her husband died, Remi fell in love with Kenta and obsessed over him to the point of getting arrested for it.
    • Mayumi slandered Charako to break up her marriage with Hiroshi and marry him herself. However, when her lies were exposed, she resorted to stalking Hiroshi.
    • Jozen stalked Asumi and urged her to divorce her husband Seichi, bringing up her son Kota and being pregnant with his child with the intention to make Seichi marry her instead.
    • "My friend started stalking my other friend…": Asuka had a crush on Taya ever since high school and went out of her way to stalk him and endlessly brag to Chiharu about her (nonexistent) relationship with him.
    • "I saved my sadistic boss, also my secret crush, from being assaulted, and then…": Shun Mizobe went out of his way to stalk Reika on the belief she belongs to him. To this effect, he sent her messages from an unknown number, going through her garbage, and trying to keep her away from Hotaru. Eventually, Mizobe's stalking behavior escalates when he lured her into an alleyway to rape her, but Hotaru went on the nick of time to stop him.
    • "She thinks she stole my fiancé but the person she slept with was...": Masato Jinguji was jealous of his cousin Yuto's accomplishments, which drove the former to stalk Kanako for being the latter's wife out of spite. However, Masato changes plans upon meeting her "best friend," Moemi, and sleeps with her instead by claiming he's Kanako's fiancé. Eventually, Masato gets arrested and is revealed to have stalked and beaten several other women before, which gets him disowned by his family and put behind bars.
  • Stay in the Kitchen:
  • Stock Shoujo Bullying Tactics:
    • "My sister's being bullied at school, but the principal wants to cover it up": Ai and her posse bullied Sayuu by hiding her belongings and saying horrible things to her. The zenith of her bullying was when Ai locked Sayuu in the emergency food storage closet for the entire tournament day and had the coach replaced with her dad. The day after, they poured dirty water over her and forced her to clean it up.
    • "The popular girl bullied me for being poor. But this good looking boy saved me": Rena bullied Sakura upon finding out she was from a struggling family and ratted her out to everyone at school. Thus she became the target of bullying as her desk was scrawled with insults, bullied anyone who stood up for Sakura into submission and escalated into physical violence. When Rena found Sakura talking with popular boy Koki while forced to make the school poster, she ruined it and blamed Sakura for it. She nearly succeeded until Koki showed up and exposed Rena's lies to the classroom.
  • Straight Gay: Emi Okuno is secretly a lesbian and doesn't see the need to broadcast her sexual orientation.
  • Strange-Syntax Speaker: In this story, the old man speaks with a Object-Subject-Verb word order.
  • Straw Feminist: Ms. Yabami and her group use feminism as an excuse to slack off while leeching off of the work they forced on their male colleagues. She even scolds male employees into submission and/or reports them to the branch manager to have them demoted for "harassment" if they dared to call her out. Furthermore, she bullies any female employee who dares to work hard, like Ms. Tanaka. However, it's revealed Yabami and her posse got where they are because she slept with Executive Yakamashi after getting him drunk and took photos of the affair to use as blackmail.
  • Straw Misogynist: Mr. Aizawa is a misogynistic asshole in charge of the company Ayaka and her friend Mina applied to, chewing female candidates out for anything they said and mocking them until they cried. However, he acts the opposite around male candidates.
  • Struggling Single Mother: Masumi Hoshisawa struggled to raise her only son Tomoya after her husband Mitsuya cheated on her with next-door neighbor Keiko Asumi and eventually divorced her.
  • Surprisingly Creepy Moment: At the end of "My girlfriend cheated on me so I took the best revenge possible at our wedding…" when Kakeru returns to the lab after exposing Aika's affair with Hiroshi, he asks about the guy since Mr. Macchio took him away. However, the Professor's assistant, Psycho, suddenly complained about the meat she was eating because she dissected it wrong. Kakeru's reaction and the team giving the audience a final greeting soon after imply she killed Hiroshi and cut him up into food.
  • Switching P.O.V.: Some stories are told from one person's POV and then switch the perspective to another person who is involved in the same story.

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  • Tampering with Food and Drink: Hanayo's dad punished her and her mother by mixing things into their food for trying to defy him while raising Hajime.
  • Teacher/Parent Romance: "I was thrown out of the second floor window by the bullies and..." [sic] - Rena's mother Iyo had an affair with her school's PE teacher Mr. Tekito and manipulated him into protecting Rena from any kind of accountability. However, when Sakura told her parents the truth after Rena's latest antics got her hospitalized, they decided to investigate and got the teacher fired.
  • Teacher/Student Romance: Charako had a relationship with her teacher Mr. Akiyama. It is later revealed that he was cheating on Ms. Yuka with Charako. They both got revenge on him by revealing his actions to a magazine leading to his arrest and losing his job.
  • Teens Are Monsters: Usually, school bullies would qualify, but, in this story, Akane Saito takes the cake. When she first transferred to her new school, the first thing she does is bully Mai Miyanohara, who has artificial legs and wheelchair-bound. She took her bullying too far by pushing her to a swimming pool and nearly drowning, which caused both her parents, Kyoko and Kei, to confront her about it. Through research, the two found out that Saito transferred because she got her previous school's student body to bully a half-American girl, until her family sued them. Even after being transferred and being confronted by Mai's parents in a meeting, Saito is completely unremorseful and both is convinced that her rich family will bribe them and threatens to disband their daughter's wheelchair basketball team. Even they are astonished that she's around the same age as Mai.
    Kyoko: "Youngest psychopath in history confirmed."
  • Tempting Fate: After all her children disown her, the MIL is left claiming that she will have a refreshing life without them and she is going to not leave them any inheritance. Right after she says that, she collapses and is found dead in her home three days later, with her children splitting the money as she had written no will.
  • Threw My Bike on the Roof: Matsuko and her entourage of moms got ahold of Misako's fountain pen (a birthday present from Junko), eventually ending with Matsuko stomping on the pen in front of Misako and Junko.
  • Throw 'Em to the Wolves: When Hajime and his uncle found out that Hajime's twin sister, Yui, was lured to their mother's funeral by a gang of loan sharks, they decided to inspect the legitimacy of the contract, as they are both lawyers, and contemplate Yui's fate as she recently came to her mother's funeral to desecrate her casket and use her son to steal the donation money. The uncle agrees to hand Yui over to the loan sharks out of anger for Yui disrespecting her deceased mother and using her own son to commit a crime.
  • Title Drop: The name MoniRobo will be occasionally mentioned as a company or a brand.
  • Took the Wife's Name: Mami's husband Ren changed his surname from Honjo to his wife's surname, Okabe, because his father misdiagnosed her father's pancreatic cancer and he died because of it. Ren cuts off all ties with his now controversial family and takes in his wife's surname to further disconnect from his family and their hospital.
  • Trash of the Titans:
    • "My wife got a job, but then…": Kumiko began to neglect taking care of her and Keita's house since she got a job claiming she is busy. The house gradually became a mess.
    • "My dad trapped me in the house for a year": Minori's dad neglected taking care of the house after Minori left with her uncle and as a result, it's all filled to the brim with trash.
    • "Mean mother-in-law gets what she deserves…": Hanayo's mother-in-law stopped taking care of the house since her husband died and she was attached to some of the items in the house. When Hanayo and her husband arrived, the house was in complete squalor also filled with bugs, prompting them to call pest control and cleaning services.
    • "I was caring for my sister-in-law while my husband was cheating on me...": Nanae returned to her husband's house to get some changes of clothes while tending to her sister-in-law Ayami, only to find out it was filled to the brim with not only trash, but also women's underwear, used condoms, and crumpled tissues, which clued her in on that he was having an affair.
    • "A mom friend stole my husband and disappeared.. 2 years after the divorce...": When the police raid Mitsuya and his lover Keiko's house to arrest them for parental neglect after his ex-wife Masumi reported an abandoned baby at her doorstep, the house was an unhygienic pigsty filled to the brim with trash bags, which was a dangerous environment for a newborn.
  • Trauma Button:
    • At the epilogue of "My wife had an affair for five years…" when Manabu and Ms. Shiratori eat out together after suing their respective spouses, Megumi and Koushi, for compensation, Shiratori (née Hiiragi) reveals that Koushi was not only disowned by his father for cheating on his wife but was forced to work to the bone at MoniRobo Tradings' complaints department until he paid off all the debt. As a result of the constant dressing-downs he suffered there, he developed a fear of phones.
    • At the end of "Someone kept stealing my ice cream so I replaced it with dry ice and..." Ataru and Charako find a pale, worn-out Yasuko working at the supermarket where they bought ramen-flavored ice cream in bulk. She tried to accost the couple as they left, but she ran off in fear after they said "snack" and "ice cream."
    Yasuko: No, don't say that word in front of me! I still get nightmares from it! Ahhhh! (runs away)
  • Traumatic Haircut:
  • Twin Switch: Honoka impersonated her twin sister Tomoka to steal her husband after failing to get herself a rich husband at the latter's wedding, only for the man to reject her.

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  • Wanted a Son Instead: "A pregnant lady breaks her wrist after the neighbor's child punches her, but..." - Mrs. Chienji justified her son Ryuji punching Yuka in her pregnant belly because she resented the latter for having a daughter while the former went through three pregnancies trying for a girl and failing. Moreover, when Yuka went for a check-up and the doctor announced it was a girl, Mrs. Chienji found out and demanded to switch babies once they were born, shoving Yuka for refusing one too many times and got her wrist sprained.
  • Wasted Beauty:
    • "My step-sister tried to steal my husband…": Chizuru is a pretty young woman who used her looks to steal boyfriends from Misuzu and other girls back in high school. Moreover, it's all she has since the boyfriends she stole dumped her mere days after dating.
    • "On the day of an important presentation, she tries to bring me down" Ayane Azato is an attractive Office Lady who uses her looks and a cutesy act to manipulate her bosses and male coworkers to appear as a model employee. When the men aren't around, she reveals her true colors as an aggressive bully willing to crush anyone who gets in her way, going as far as forcing her workload on employees she doesn't like so they'll quit, or even send a delinquent after Nano to hijack her presentation and be the center of attention.
  • Weasel Co-Worker:
    • "I was happy at my temp job until I met her, the worst coworker ever": Mari Yoshida bullies temp workers while bragging about herself being a regular employee and forces them to do her work. She especially has it out for Charako since the latter was close to Mr. Tanaka.
    • "On the day of an important presentation, she tries to bring me down": Ayane Azato forced Nano to do her work for her and manipulated her male coworkers with her cutesy act. Masayoshi also reveals that Ayane also forced her workloads on junior coworkers apart from Nano to stress them and even blackmailed them to keep them silent.
    • "My classmate was bragging that she stole my husband…": Wakana Aoyanagi tried to become this when she got a job at the company Yumiko worked for. When they found out the former tried to steal the latter's fiancé, they all gave her the cold shoulder, driving her to quit her job and swear revenge.
    • "My coworker made false rumors about me and ruined my date": Shiranui was a lazy employee who forced all her workload on Atsumu, even forcing him to cancel his meeting with Momiji for that. Fed up with her laziness, he completed her documents and then sent them with a screenshot of his latest conversation with her attached to the email, causing the boss to chew her out the next day.
    • "Exposing a slacking worker during lockdown. What the camera showed was shocking!": Yahata started out as a chipper, hardworking employee which got her praised in the office. However, she started to force her workload on other employees and used all sorts of excuses to slack off. When Masayoshi was sent to fix her trouble, she tried to fawn over him into a date only to be rejected. When the company switched to online work due to the virus, she still slacked off and resorted to excuses when made aware her camera is off.
    • "This girl only got the job thanks to her uncle, and just lazes around": Kasumi, the new employee under Nano's wing, was a chronic slacker who brought up she's the CEO's niece as an excuse. Moreover, when Kasumi stormed off early and feigned sickness the next day only for Nano to rightly deduct she got hungover, she slandered her to her uncle. Even when the CEO had her transferred to another department at Naoki Seigi's request, it became moot as no department wanted her because of her horrid attitude, and eventually fell back into Nano's tutelage. However, Nano let her do what she wanted this time before forcing her to work on a project for the company.
  • Wedding Smashers:
    • "My sister-in-law stole my wedding!!!": Tristan and a team of police officers crash into Annabel's wedding to arrest her for stealing her sister-in-law Yelena's dress. When the groom found out, he refuses to marry her and canceled the engagement.
    • "My mother worked desperately in a nightclub to raise me and my sister but...": The Professor snuck her mother into her sister Rika's wedding in retaliation for her ungrateful behavior. When everyone finds out her mother works at a club, her groom left her, and Rika became unable to find herself a rich husband.
    • "My boyfriend's family hates me": Rena broke into Hanayo's wedding in street brawler garb and a baseball bat in hand to beat her up for "stealing" her brother Rio from her. However, Rena's mother stops her from trying and chews her out along with her father and Rio himself as they had enough of her lies. Furthermore, the wedding staff took Rena away to charge her for the wedding dress she ruined earlier on.
    • "My toxic sister tried to ruin my wedding…": Miyu's older sister breaks into her wedding to bring up Miyu's infertility to break the couple apart and have the groom all to herself. However, her plan completely falls apart when Miyu reveals she's pregnant and the groom tells the sister he will marry Miyu anyway before revealing the sister's affairs.
    • "20 years ago, her parents disappeared and I raised my granddaughter…": Kurumi's parents show up with their goons on her wedding day to congratulate her. However, they change gears after meeting the groom, Akira, and Kurumi's mother tells her to marry another guy instead. Her father, the Niyama gang leader even picks on Akira for being scared of his men and coming from a host club that didn't bring them money. Akira's ensuing verbal retaliation gets him beaten by the leader and his goons before taking Kurumi away and forcing her to join the gang.
    • "My daughter wouldn't invite me to her wedding…": Akemi and Charako enter Miyako's wedding despite the bride's intentions to bar the latter from attending. When she raked Charako over the coals for being a "disgusting bar waitress", her groom's mother, Taeko, revealed she was also a bar waitress and an employee of Akemi's. As a result, both Taeko and Akemi decide to have Miyako work as a waitress at the Tomoshibi bar to teach her a lesson.
  • White Flag: Midori's husband waves one after she shuts him down when he tried to tell Midori to let her daughter Nano make her own decisions.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Tatsuki is afraid of bugs and has to rely on his wife Mikoto to swat them away from his sight. He even comments that his family was afraid of bugs as well.
  • Wise Beyond Their Years: Mana and Kengo's three elementary-aged daughters, Reina, Nami, and Misaki from "My wife cheated on me with her doctor…" are smart and know topics they shouldn't know at a tender age.
  • Would Harm a Senior: Ryuji assaulted Mr. Takafumi when the latter, Yuki, and the gang farm workers called him out for stomping on their produce. Thankfully, Mr. Takafumi gets better after Yuki and the farm workers use an AED to save his life.
  • Would Hurt a Child: After Risa left the house, her older sister Miyu was chased out of there for hitting her little brother Kazuya. She justified herself that he was bossy and treated her like a maid, only for Risa to remind her that it was how she acted towards her.

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  • Yandere:
    • In this story, Aya Jozen asked Seichi out after he dumped his ex-girfriend Megumi, only to be rejected. While he had good intentions to explain why he didn't want to pick her, she became increasingly possessive of him until he blocked her. When he moved out in the hopes she would give up, Aya instead went insane, marrying and having a child with someone who looked like him until he divorced her for calling him by Seichi's name. Furthermore, Aya was the one harassing Asumi into divorcing her.
    • "My friend started stalking my other friend…": Asuka had a crush on Taya ever since high school, but since he had a crush on Chiharu, she bullied the latter to have Taya all to herself. Years later at the school reunion party, she lost her sanity and deluded herself that Taya was her boyfriend. When she found out about his date with Chiharu, Asuka went ballistic and harassed her. Thankfully, the couple notified Asuka's parents about it, resulting in Asuka getting sent to a mental institution.
    • Satomi has loved Masashi ever since she saw him at his and Charako’s wedding 15 years ago, so when he approaches her for an affair, she more then happily agrees. When Charako and his daughters expose them, she reveals her insane love for him during their explanation, happily revealing how long she had loved him and how she had been allowing him to act out on his fantasies (such as the role playing that Charako refused to do with him) to keep him with her. At that, Charako and her daughters decide to let Satomi have Masashi despite his protests, and after multiple threats of murder-suicide if he didn’t marry her, he ends up running away and becoming a homeless person just to get away from her.

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