After five years of marriage, my husband, who runs a company, is a head-of-household man with old-fashioned ideas. He thinks making money is the most important thing, but the lack of love from him made me feel a suffocating sense of stagnation in my life. Amid such days, only when I talked with Hosoda-kun, the second-generation owner of a long-time used private store, did I feel like I was freed from the cage. His simple and kind demeanor shook my heart, and I ended up having an affair for the first time in my life.
