Even if You Say, ‘I’ve Finally Realized How Important You Are to Me,’ You and I Are Already Strangers

Tsubaki Ichijou, the daughter of a distinguished family, has long harbored feelings for her bodyguard, Reiji Takano. However, due to their age gap and difference in social standing, she was never able to confess her feelings and ended up entering an arranged marriage with a man chosen by her father. The man, the son of another prestigious family, seemed like a pleasant and good-natured young man, but after the marriage, his attitude drastically changed. He became an emotionally abusive husband who maintained a good facade in public, treating Tsubaki coldly as nothing more than a wife in name only. Three years later, after having an affair, her husband declared she was no longer of use and ...