Refreshing Stories / Tropes G to L

Refreshing Stories tropes index
A to F (All Girls Want Bad Boys) | G to L (Gold Digger, Henpecked Husband, Humiliation Conga) | M to R | S to Z

G

• The Gambling Addict: In "This woman sent the wrong message to the PTA chat and exposed her own affair," Rin's former husband, Shuhei, is revealed to be one despite being rumored to be the owner of a casino; it turns out he lied about that to seem attractive to ladies.
• Gamer Chick: Manami is gamer usually playing RPGs with her husband Hiroshi. She cheated on Hiroshi with another player named Mikael.
• Gaslighting: Hiori's husband, Toru, from "I was hired to investigate an affair and found out that my wife was the other woman!" was such a dangerous man he'd not only strike at the least expected moment, but would also mess with his victims' minds and get a laugh out of them as they mentally deteriorated.
• Gender-Blender Name: In "I set up a baby cam to check up on my new born baby, but the camera showed me something unbelievable" [sic], Son's original name from the Japanese version is Mikoto, which is traditionally a girl's name.
• The Girl Who Fits This Slipper: In some stories where Hiroshi's wife/fiancée/girlfriend cheats on him and tries to cover it up whenever he returns home, her lover will end up leaving an article of clothing behind in his rush. However, Hiroshi keeps said article to identify the lover and punish both him and the cheating woman.
  • "I found a sock in my bed. The next day, my boss was wearing the same one but missing a sock...": When Chisa and her lover Kazuma hear her phone's alert of Hiroshi nearing the house, the latter runs off with no time to find one of his purple socks, which was missing. However, Hiroshi finds the missing sock and turns it over to the police. When he finds out Kazuma wore the other purple sock, he rakes the bastard over the coals and sues him.
  • "My wife was sleeping with my student so I arranged a family party while she was at it!": After Hiroshi enters his and Yui's bedroom, he finds on the floor a pair of red briefs with the kanji for victory (勝) printed on them. While Yui tried to argue that those were his and he wore the suspicious briefs, Hiroshi eventually found out these belonged to a student of his named Saburo Suzuki by peeking at the name tag.
• The Glasses Gotta Go: In "Boss pretends to care for his family while secretly attending matchmaking parties" after Hiroshi secretly arranged a matchmaking party for the two-faced, cheating, womanizing Section Chief, he finds that Mai, one of the women called over by Arisa, underwent a makeover and wore contacts to the party.
• Gonk: The antagonists are always depicted as extremely ugly in the thumbnails.
• Goo Goo Getup: Son tried to prank his lover Mao by dressing up as a baby and laying in Chiko's crib. However, both were not aware that Hiroshi put up a baby monitor to reveal Chiko to his parents and in-laws.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel: When Hiroshi took Aika to a hotel, his shoulder devil appears and tells him to "be a man" and force her. However, his shoulder angel tells him not to and to think about it. Hiroshi himself tells them not to start an argument inside his head.
• Goofy Buckteeth: While most of the time the antagonists are depicted with sharp teeth to showcase their untrustworthy, forward nature, other, sillier antagonists are depicted with buckteeth.
• Goofy Suit: In "I encountered my wife having an affair while I was on my business trip," Hiroshi is sent to Mitubatei Hotel to be the opponent on a table tennis match they hosted... as the parent company's mascot, Skassi. The suit causes Hiroshi to sweat and hampers his tennis ability. However, when his cheating wife Uwami attended the match with her lover Charahiro, their flirting pissed him off enough to reveal himself. Eventually, they had someone else wear the costume while Hiroshi finally showed off his skills for once. When Uwami came back to borrow money only to be repeatedly beaten by Hiroshi at table tennis and sued for damages, reducing her to wear the costume to pay them.
• The Grovel: The Girl of the Week may beg Hiroshi for forgiveness whenever he catches her cheating, even tearing up to this effect. However, Hiroshi won't have any of her hogwash and punish her nonetheless.
• Gyaru Girl:
  • "She dumped me back in high school, but now she was trying to get back with me": Motoko and her friends dressed like kogals back in high school, complete with ganguro tan. Years later when she returned to get back with Hiroshi now he's a doctor, she dropped the style completely.
  • "My wife went on a trip with her boyfriend, so I surprised her by replicating the entire trip": The karaoke store worker whom Hiroshi calls about his wife Mana's behavior has a ganguro tan, lighter lipstick, and dirty blond hair. In the Japanese version, she even speaks like one.

H

• Harmful to Minors: Miya calls her father Hiroshi to tell him she took her mother Ririka's phone and showed a picture of the woman sleeping with another man to her friends.
• #HashtagForLaughs: At the end of "I thought my wife was addicted to social media, but she was sending secret messages to her lover," Ami quit her job and tweeted it to her followers. However, they would have none of it and punished Ami by tweeting sightings of her under the hashtag "#FindAmi."
• Helicopter Parents: Reika's parents heavily involve themselves in their daughter's life even after she married Hiroshi. Hiroshi and Reika took them to Iceland for their honeymoon. The penguins there disturbed the couple, causing them to vow to never interfere with their daughter's life again.
• High-School Sweethearts: In "I was trying to prank my wife to make her laugh but..." Hiroshi and his wife Tsukika were dating since high school, but their married life became uneventful and she didn't laugh at his jokes anymore. Moreover, Tsukika is revealed to have cheated on Hiroshi with a guy named Maakun when he taped himself to their bedroom ceiling to prank her.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • "My wife was cheating on me with my boss so I got him demoted": After Hiroshi finds out his wife Rikako cheated on him with Mr. Shimamura and eventually remarried him, he retaliates by using the bastard's current reputation as "the Ace of Sales Department" against him. To this effect, he convinces the CEO to send Mr. Shimamura to a countryside town named Yamanashi, hoping his "skills" will bring huge profits. Needless to say, the plan worked; Shimamura is left destitute, his new wife leaves him, and everyone in Yamanashi sees him as dead weight.
  • "My colleague kept on stealing my product ideas so...": Fed up with having his proposals stolen by Kaminari, Hiroshi gets back at him by submitting a fake proposal at the last minute. Predictably, he takes the bait and steals it without reading it through since he was pressed for time. When Ms. Yanagi reads it aloud, it's revealed to be an embarrassing recount of the CEO's private life. As a result, the CEO has Kaminari taken away upon finding out the truth.

• Hopeless with Tech: Michiko buys the latest iPhone to download a secret messaging app and keep in contact with her affair partner, Danmoto. However, she doesn't know how to set it up and leaves it to her husband, Hiroshi. This becomes hers and Danmoto's undoing as Hiroshi sets up the phone's built-in emergency dialing feature, which activates while Michiko and Danmoto have their affair and leads Hiroshi to walk in on the lovers by accident.
• House Fire: In the "A fire occurred at my wife's family house and..." an emergency newsflash announces that the Matsudaira mansion goes up in flames. Hiroshi, whom Sayaka lied to about looking after her father to cover up her affair with Kenji, finds out the truth when he keeps watching the TV and sees Mr. Matsudaira in perfect health and living alone at that time. When Sayaka finds out, she panics, not because her dad is in danger, but because of the inheritance in there.
• Hypocritical Humor: In "After one year of working away, my wife asked for divorce and demanded for compensation" [sic], Karion hangs up on Hanako and blocks her number after learning Hiroshi knows about their affair. He then assures himself that there are other girls and he doesn't like Hanako that much. However, he proceeds to sing Hanako's name over and over on the street, which helps the cheating woman identify him to Hiroshi before he applies the corresponding punishment.

I

• Identical Stranger:
  • Fusei cheated on his exams by having his look-a-like Kawari take his exams in his place while he stayed at home. However, when Kawari passed out during the university entrance exam due to asthma, Hiroshi decided to expose Fusei's scheme. As a result, he wasn't able to enter the universities that he applied to.
  • "My mother was always complaining about my wife, saying she always leaves our child with her, but...": After Hiroshi and Mary had their baby daughter, Noah, his mom mistook another woman and her baby for Mary and Noah. When the couple finds out, the woman, named Sophia, confesses that she also came from the Bruzoi kingdom like Mary, and took advantage of it because her own husband, Atsushi, neglected both her and her daughter, Eve.
• Idol Singer:
  • Tsumugi is a pop idol, who is mistreated by her producer who wants to be in a relationship with her. He banned Hiroshi from meeting Tsumugi when he noticed she wasn't looking well. Tsumugi reached out to him via an anonymous phone number and told him about her troubles. Hiroshi investigated the producer and brought the evidence to the president. The producer was fired and Hiroshi was put in his place.
  • Hiroshi's sister Momoka is an idol whose boyfriend, Kenichi, works in the industry as her manager. However, her career is threatened when Kenichi proposes to start a rumor about her getting plastic surgery to make her famous.
• I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: Touya hated the lunch he brought Hiroshi from the latter's mom's request and even threw it in the trash to spite them both. However, once he tastes it, Touya finds out it is delicious to the point he throws his own lunchbox in the trash.
• I Have No Son!:
  • "The guy who stole my previous girlfriend got my current girlfriend pregnant": Takeshi's mom disowns him after Hiroshi exposed his infidelity to the wedding guests.
  • "My wife was cheating on my while secretly lying about being on maternity leave" [sic]: Yumi's dad disowns and fires her after news of her forgeries has been exposed by her lover Manato and the ensuing complaints from all of it.
  • "After one year of working away, my wife asked for divorce and demanded for compensation": After Hiroshi summoned his cheating wife Hanako, her lover Karion and his mother into a gathering with his lawyer to discuss the lawsuits, Karion's mother disowns him and reveals his name was Taro.
  • "My wife used her father as an excuse to get away and cheat on me": Hisame is disowned by her father via video call after he, Hiroshi, and Mr. Kamitska find out about her affair with Mr. Amakasu at the latter's second home in the Maldives.
  • "Caught my wife and pizza guy making out in the bathroom when I arrived home from a business trip": After Hiroshi reported Miho's affair with a pizza guy to her father, he had enough of Miho's delinquent antics and cuts ties with her before letting Detective Matomo take her away to prison for her crimes.
  • "My wife cheated on me, then somehow expected to be paid in damages after our divorce…": After Hiroshi summoned Kayoko, her lover Massy, and their respective parents into a meeting with his lawyer to discuss the lawsuits, Massy's mom disowns him for his trouble.
  • "My wife tried to hide the affair but...": After his affair with Akemi was exposed coupled with being sued for damages, Tomohiro's parents kicked him out of their house.
  • "Cheating wife doesn't do any housework so I moved out and got rid of EVERYTHING": When Kotaro's mother learns about his affair with Yomi, Hiroshi's wife, she gives him a huge dressing-down before disowning him for his trouble and kicking him out of the house.
  • "When I came home early from my business trip, I found my wife cheating on me in the back yard shed": Minako was disowned by her parents after Hiroshi exposed her cheating on him with his rival Asatani.
  • "I went to my coworker's wedding to find that he was getting married to my wife…!": After Hiroshi exposed Ami's affair and illegal marriage with Kazuyuki to her parents, Hiroshi expected they would keep her under house arrest forever. Much to his surprise, the couple disowned and kicked her out of the house.
• Impact Silhouette: Hiroshi breaks through the door where Natsu had an affair with Koki and leaves a hole in the shape of a running man.
• Implacable Man: Hiroshi's devil becomes one in "Came home to my cheating wife after a business trip…" as he not only caught Mariko's lover in the closet where Hiroshi and his angel imprisoned him earlier on but kept haunting the lover everywhere he went until he relented and paid compensation to Hiroshi.
• I Never Said It Was Poison:
  • "Caught my wife cheating with my assistant...": Hiroshi told his assistant he was worried about his wife Fumina cheating on him and his private investigator's failure. When the man expressed amazement at the PI getting caught by Fumina, this is when Hiroshi discovered the affair as he never mentioned the PI getting caught. What's more, the man turned out to be a PI himself, sent by Fumina to spy on Hiroshi. Therefore, Hiroshi sent another PI after the assistant.
  • "After I came home from work, I found that our place had been ransacked…": When Hiroshi confronts Runo for cheating on him after the police showed him footage of her lover running out of the house, she denies having met a guy with a high-pitched voice, which ends up telling on her as Hiroshi didn't mention how did the guy sound.
  • "My wife went on holiday with her lover, so I decided to follow them": After Jinan called the cops on Kazuma before he could tailgate Hiroshi, the former begged that he'd be fined if arrested for dangerous driving. When the police take it as a sign he had something he didn't want them to see, Hiroshi's cheating wife, Ichika, complained it would be an invasion of their privacy if they looked at their phones. However, this ends up worsening things for the lovebirds as the cops didn't mention looking at their phones. As a result, they found nude photos of Ichika while searching Kazuma's phone, giving Hiroshi the necessary evidence to sue both cheaters.
• Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!: In "Head of nurse was super rude to the patients, but she got what she deserves," when Matron Terada stormed out of Mr. Yamamoto's room after chewing him out for not recovering fast enough and firing Rin for defending the poor sod and talking back to her, she returns pale from fear after seeing a crowd of people outside the hospital calling her a cheater. It turns out Mr. Yamamoto was a YouTuber who had a mini-camera on his helmet to live-stream his tours and forgot to turn it off, thereby exposing Matron Terada's abusive demeanor and affair with the Director. As a result, the Chairman fires both lovebirds and the Director's wife sues Terada for compensation.
• Insurance Fraud:
  • "Married my boss's beautiful daughter… and found something shocking in the secret basement": Toshio Hiyama made himself rich by killing people for insurance after his wife died in a flood in Thailand and got her insurance money. His daughter, Chinatsu, is also in on it, as she killed her previous husband to collect his insurance and then plans to do the same to Hiroshi after marrying him.
  • "After our parents died, my brother and I were living in a park…": After Hiroshi's and Satoru's parents died in a car accident and had to live with his lazy uncle, it turns out the bastard only took them so he could steal the insurance money the couple left for the brothers. Moreover, he even caused the car accident that killed the couple by talking to his brother while he was driving for "advice." Upon discovering his fraud from Mr. Satake, an acquaintance of his dad's, he resolves to make his uncle pay.
• Ironic Echo: In this story, Fumina tells her husband Hiroshi, "You ended up here because of yourself" when he complained about her abuse. Later on, when Hiroshi catches her cheating with his assistant and threatens divorce, he retorts the same phrase back to her.
• Is This Thing Still On?:
  • "My wife recorded herself cheating by mistake because she didn't leave the online meeting…": Nao forgot to leave the online meeting she had and accidentally recorded herself having an affair with business partner, Mr. Nakagawa.
  • "My boss forgot to turn off the camera after the Zoom meeting and...": Mr. Hozuki plays sick at the company's online meeting and forgets to turn off the camera before having his affair with Hiroshi's wife, Chako, right in Hiroshi's house, effectively exposing his affair to the entire personnel.
• It's All About Me: Riko from "My wife dumped me, and 3 months later she wants to get back together..." is said by Hiroshi to be extremely selfish, often forgetting things that weren't convenient for her so she could control him.
• I Want My Mommy!:
  • "I set up a baby cam to check up on my new born baby, but the camera showed me something unbelievable": Son cries out for his mommy after his boss, who is Kanata Tanaka as a restaurant owner, fires him for his incompetence at work.
  • "My wife said she was going on a business trip, but was instead having an affair…": Shiori's lover, Santa, cries out for his mommy after ending up as a worker at a terrible toxic waste company headed by Kanata Tanaka.
  • "My wife cheated on me, then somehow expected to be paid in damages after our divorce…": After his mother disowns him for his affair with Kayoko and proclaims she shouldn't have given birth to him should she know he'd turn out like this (a cheater), he lets out "mommy" cries only for the poor woman to reject him.
  • "Manager thought I stole the company's money but...": Bonkura calls for his mommy after his salary decreased by $3000 following his demotion into a regular employee working at a faraway subsidiary branch under a younger manager.

J

• Jabba Table Manners: Hiroshi's coworker Yada doesn't only let his work desk accumulate trash from the food he eats but he wolfs it all down without any care in the world.
• Japanese Delinquents:
  • Rin is frequently a member of a motorcycle gang usually called the Sukatto Union.
  • In this story, Hiroshi was a high school dropout and member of a biker gang in his teenage years as he was born to a single mother.
  • Mika was a high school delinquent who led a Gang of Bullies that messed with the weak, especially Hiroshi. However, she came back and begged Hiroshi to tutor her for study at KO University after her previous boyfriend Ryuto dumped her for being a delinquent.
  • Miho is revealed to have been a delinquent in her youth. Her parents, the Kimijima family, attempted to rehabilitate her to avoid tarnishing her family's name.

K

• Karma Houdini: In "Wife accidentally sent the message she was going to send her lover to me," after Hiroshi caught Nana hiding her secret lover Ryu hanging in the balcony by the fingers, he decided to sue only Ryu while sparing her of such a fate despite the fact that Nana chose to have the affair.
• Kawaiiko: Hitomi pulls a burikko act on Hiroshi to make him give her money.
• King Incognito:
  • In "Head of nurse was super rude to the patients, but she got what she deserves," the Hospital Director's father, the Head Chairman, worked there as a janitor. When Rin threatens to report Matron Terada's abuse to the Chairman, she reveals her plan to have the old man fired from his position.
  • In "This boy got into a prestigious university, but...", Hiroshi is the president of Gaseda University, but he also disguises himself as a janitor and cleans the campus. When Tagaru and his mother came for the tour, Tagaru kept throwing garbage. Hiroshi kept telling him to stop but to no avail. When the two kept making fun of him after he had been admitted into the university, Hiroshi revealed himself as the president. When he found out that the vice president had pulled some strings to get Tagaru into the university so that he would become a board member of Tagaru's father's company, he fired him and rescinded Tagaru's admission.
• The Klutz: Kayoko is a young woman whose clumsiness makes her a hindrance in doing the house chores, so Hiroshi has to provide for her.

L

• Laser-Guided Karma: The antagonist is bound to receive punishment by the end of the story.
• Lampshade Hanging: Hiroshi will often comment on the many times he's been cheated on by the Girl of the Week or his general bad luck with women.
• Lethal Chef:
  • Akina turned out to be bad at cooking when Hiroshi took her back.
  • Saiko's cooking was so bad that Hiroshi thought it would be for aliens.
• Lipstick Mark: Rin discovers her fiancé Cocoro cheated on her when she saw a lipstick stain on his shirt; much to her dismay, she found out it was with the wedding planner.
• Localized Name in a Non-Localized Setting: Some English dub videos change character names to English (except for Hiroshi) but leave the setting in Japan.
• Locked in a Room:
  • "My wife was having an affair with my boss, so I called his father to the scene to get revenge!": Hiroshi finds out his wife Alice is cheating on him with Mr. Nagai and locks both lovers in the bedroom before calling the CEO on them in retaliation. As a result, the CEO fired Mr. Nagai and sent Alice away to be taught proper table manners as punishment.
  • "Wife was having an affair with my boss I caught them banging in the meeting room so...": After finding out Kako cheated on him with Mr. Futamata and saw them doing it in the meeting room, Hiroshi proceeded to take their clothes away and locking them in until morning. Much to the lovebirds' further dismay, the meeting room's windows were clear enough for everyone to see them. The next day, they plead with Hiroshi to let them out, which he finally obliges... because it was the time they scheduled a meeting with the CEO. Unsurprisingly, the man fires both lovebirds for their indecent behavior.
  • "When I came home early from my business trip, I found my wife cheating on me in the back yard shed": After Hiroshi secretly caught and recorded Minako doing it with Asatani in the storage unit, he quietly closed the door and locked it with a pole before wrapping it in extra-strong duct tape for good measure. Then he called a delivery company to send the unit to Minako's family home and expose her affair to her parents, who fire the lovebirds on the spot and disown Minako for her affair.
• Lover's Ledge: In "Wife accidentally sent the message she was going to send her lover to me," Nana has her lover Ryu hanging by the hands from the edge of the window when Hiroshi came back. While Hiroshi fell for her tears and she almost got away scot-free, Ryu's cries for help ended up blowing her cover.
• Lured into a Trap: In "My idiot wife got hooked on a dating app so..." Hiroshi signs up to the dating app his cheating wife, Akemi, used under a fake persona to set up a date with her at a high-end French restaurant. The day before, he uses Akemi's phone to invite all of Akemi's lovers into the same spot to expose her affairs and then punish them all.