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Some stories start with Hiroshi being abused and bossed around by the Girl of the Week as if he were her personal servant. Moreover, the women often take advantage of that to cheat on Hiroshi with a richer man behind his back. Therefore, this warrants Refreshing Stories a Henpecked Husband subpage.


  • "Wife cheats but shows no remorse so I sent her to hell": Hiroshi married an aggressive woman named Rio. She bossed him around and even coerced him into sex every night without caring about his lack of stamina.
  • "Caught my wife cheating with my assistant...": Hiroshi's wife Fumina bossed him around and forced him to do the chores. She even saw through his hiring a private investigator, but Hiroshi eventually found out she was cheating when her lover visited his office.
  • "This is how I found out my wife was cheating on me": Goro Kumada seemed to be a cool-looking guy around Yurika, but it turns out to be a facade to cover up that he constantly sucks up to his own wife, Ariko, and gets constantly yelled at by his younger boss. When Kanata Tanaka suggests he steal Hiroshi's blueprints for his self-driving controller, he plots to sell it, quit his job, and divorce Ariko to start over with Yurika.
  • "My mother-in-law kicked me out, so I made my own house underground": Hiroshi's father-in-law was timid and couldn't stop his wife Rakko from mistreating and kicking out Hiroshi.
  • "Wife crashed my car…": Hiroshi was abused by his wife Erika, who took advantage of his tendency to never get angry at anyone. However, his patience runs out when she not only crashes his car on a joyride with her lover but is also doing drugs.
  • "My wife threatened to divorce me every time I complained about something": Chisato neglected housework despite declaring she would become a housewife and went out on trips with her friends. Moreover, she threatened Hiroshi with a divorce whenever he complained about her abuses. When a friend sends Hiroshi a video of Chisato cheating on him, he decides to divorce her.
  • "Getting revenge on my wife after finding out that she was cheating on me in a public restroom": While Hiroshi's marriage with Shoko seemed to be smooth-sailing and she did the housework, it all started to change as she abused Hiroshi, forcing him to do the chores and flipping her lid at the slightest mistake or provocation. Moreover, she always checked on his computer, for which Hiroshi couldn't use his keylogger to track the LINE messages she sent to her lover.
  • "My idiot wife lied about a vacation and was cheating on me…": Kyoko constantly abused Hiroshi for anything and everything, giving him a meager allowance and forcing him to do the chores even when tired while she went out to eat with fellow moms and slacked around. Whenever he objected to her abuse, she used both their daughter and her upcoming baby to cow him into submission. Moreover, it's revealed that she cast Hiroshi as an abuser to her family and they told his mother and the whole neighborhood.
  • "Cheating Wife Treats Husband Like A Slave": Three months after Hiroshi dates Serika, she constantly harassed him at work. Once they married, her Control Freak behavior worsened and treated Hiroshi like a slave, often guilt-tripping him whenever he didn't do as she said. When he suspects she's having an affair with a guy named Tonsuke, Hiroshi monitors the times she contacts him.
  • "My wife dumped me, and 3 months later she wants to get back together...": Hiroshi's wife, Riko, was so selfish she forgot things that inconvenience her, which allowed her to gaslight him into doing what she wants. When she had an affair with a man named Q, she confided it to Bunta to keep it a secret from Hiroshi.
  • "My wife was cheating on me so she got bad karma": Madoka bossed Hiroshi around and acted cold towards him. Moreover, she lied to him about going on a vacation trip to cheat on him with a musclebound, richer man. However, Hiroshi revealed that her new boyfriend was a con artist who specializes in marriage fraud. When the Con Man found out Madoka was married, he ran off on her.
  • "Wife accidentally sent the message she was going to send her lover to me": While she didn't force Hiroshi to do the chores, Nana constantly criticized him whenever he screwed up. Moreover, she tricked Hiroshi into going into a wild-goose chase for an engine sample in Aichi to cover up her affair with a guy named Ryu.
  • "My girlfriend was cheating on my so I cursed her": Aika had Hiroshi do everything for her after they started dating, but he remained in the relationship hoping this time he wouldn't be cheated on. However, his illusions are broken when Aika announces at their dinner that she's marrying her lover. Moreover, it turns out she used Hiroshi as a tool to get herself a richer husband. Heartbroken and pissed off by the affair, he resolves to punish Aika.

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