Trouble Busters - TV Tropes

• "My wife ignored our daughter and cheated on me but...": Claire was verbally abusive towards her daughter Melanie and neglected her to go on affairs with other guys behind her husband Alan's back. When a fire broke out in her house, she expressed joy at Lily telling her Melanie died, as she could claim the insurance money from her.

• The unnamed nurse combines this trope with a serious case of Mad Love; in order to steal Alan, the hospital's director, from his wife Melanie, she lies to Melanie by claiming that Alan wants to divorce Melanie to be with her, going so far as to create a fake recording, a photoshopped picture, and divorce papers with Alan's forged signature. When she tries force a hospitalized Melanie to sign the divorce papers, Alan stops her. The nurse delusionally believes that Alan is in love with her, claiming that she can "hear his feelings from his heart" and that Alan's soul came to her in a dream and possessed her to force her to sign the divorce papers. Later, it turns out that she wasn't crazy, just an extremely persistent Gold Digger.
• "My fiancé cheated on me with my sister so I taught them both an unforgettable lesson!": On her wedding day, Nancy attempts to seduce Helen's new husband, Lee, after finding out that he is the CEO of a K-pop entertainment company. However, she does this right in front of her groom John, his parents, and the guests. As a result of Nancy's shameless behavior, John proceeds to strangle her in retaliation and only was stopped by his parents. However, she insisted on marrying Lee instead and would return to John if she failed, which got her beaten by John, with her parents refusing to do anything and disowning her.
• "A JERK dumped my friend for her younger sister and said she was ugly...": After finding out her husband, Roger, was an accountant wanted for embezzlement and that Tara's new husband, Alan, had a majority stake on the company Roger worked at, Misty attempts to seduce Alan into lending her money, right in front of Roger. However, Alan has none of Misty's crap and defends Tara while proclaiming the latter as beautiful. Afterward, the newlyweds leave Misty crying in defeat.

• "My ex-wife tried to trick me into paying for a child that wasn't mine but I proved her wrong," after Alan married Helen following his divorce from Sarah, his boss Aaron shows up to demand he pay child support because Sarah allegedly became pregnant with Alan's child after she remarried. Moreover, he whips out a family registry sheet to confirm the rumors, causing his coworkers to turn on him. Eventually, Aaron escalated by threatening to sue Alan if he refused to pay. However, when he and Aaron gathered to settle it, Alan reveals he was rendered permanently infertile from the mumps and testicular inflammation he suffered by the time of the divorce. Moreover, his wife Helen shows up and uses her knowledge as a researcher to prove Alan's innocence.
• "The day of the wedding, my boss got drunk...": Sarah cheats on Alan with his boss, Mr. Sean, after getting the poor sod and his father drunk. Come Alan and Sarah's wedding day, Sean gets drunk and reveals the affair, with the bride herself confirming it and gloating that Alan is going to raise Sean's baby since he's going to inherit the company, which will merge with Sean's. However, Alan's father declares he's not going to associate with Sean's company anymore, which gets the bastard sacked along with Sarah the next day. However, Sarah doesn't show any repentance thinking she could just get another job and another rich man to marry until Alan declares he's going to sue for damages alongside with Sean's wife.
• "The CEO's daughter had an affair...": Megan used her status as the CEO's daughter to cheat on Alan with another man. Furthermore, she revealed her affair to Alan before gloating she's going to have Alan raise it anyway. He tried to report her to her dad, but he dismissed Alan's concerns and threatened to fire him if he didn't apologize to Megan. Eventually, Alan devised a plan to get revenge by throwing a surprise party for her pregnancy before exposing his cheating wife's affair in national TV. As a result, Megan gets disowned and sued for damages alongside her lover.

• "My wife was having an affair with a realtor salesman...": Theo catches his wife, Hillary, doing it with a salesman named Ted in the bedroom. When he reported it to the man's boss, he defended the cheaters only for Theo to call Hillary's father the CEO, who not only apologizes but calls out his cheating daughter and her lover. Moreover, it turns out she also colluded with Ted to make Theo look like an abuser so she could divorce him and remarry her lover.
• "We were hiding to surprise my wife, but she came in with her lover...": Aaron caught his wife Natalia right before she slept with a guy named Roger; she left embarrassed and Roger chased after her, forgetting his bag. When he called Roger's wife to retrieve the bag he left in the bedroom, she revealed he was cheating on her years ago, causing Aaron to wonder if his daughter Jane is really his.
• "Found out that my wife was cheating on me… Then…": Oliver catches his wife Brooke cheating on him via the camera she forgot to turn off during his overseas trip. When he flew back home after his month ended, he rented an apartment for a week and lied to her that he would return one week later, he finally caught the lovebirds red-handed and took photos of the evidence.
• "I walked in my boss sleeping with my wife so I beat them both up. But the truth was...": Alex caught his wife Sharon sleeping with his boss Mr. Harrison when he returned home. The scene pissed him off enough to beat both lovebirds up until Alan stopped him from beating the man even further. However, it was too late as the ensuing commotion caused the neighbors to call the cops on him, sending him to prison. After he has been released and meets Sharon again, Alan reveals it wasn't an affair, Sharon was blackmailed and raped by Mr. Harrison.
• "My wife and her guy friend were making out at our wedding": After Thalia kissed Clifford in front of Alan right on their wedding day, he decides to call Rose and her gang to help him move out before storming into the bedroom to catch the lovers red-handed. Moreover, he also called over both Clifford's wife, who was tough on cheaters, and Mr. Mulligan, a PI he hired earlier on to do a background check on Thalia right after he left the wedding.
• "My wife cheated on me with thirty men but tried to lie her way out of it!": As part of Alan's revenge against Sarah for cheating on him, he and his private detective, Mark, catch her in the bedroom with one of her lovers. Afterward, when Sarah's father comes over to discuss her affairs, Mark presents the evidence of Sarah's serial affair to the man.

• "My fiancé was wasted during our wedding, and told everyone he got my younger sister pregnant": Clark lets one out on his wedding day after his boss and coworkers decide to report him to HR for cheating on Hillary with her sister, Andrea.
• "My girlfriend dumped me because she hated my family's diner, but now I run a 5-star restaurant!": Shane screams this after the judge ordered both him and Layla to pay Alan $600K each in damages for destroying Redman's Diner.

• "I was late to my wedding because I saved a kid from getting run over, which changed everything...": Aaron's girlfriend, Sharon, seemed to be a nice woman. On the day of their wedding, Aaron got into an accident while trying to save a kid and couldn't attend the wedding on time. When he arrived, Sharon showed her true colors and called off the wedding and they broke up.
• "In laws want me to get an abortion, whatever it takes" [sic]: Mrs. Romano seemed to be a nice mother-in-law towards Morgan. But once she married Aidan, she dropped the act and started abusing Morgan along with her eldest son Karter.
• "Someone convinced my daughter I was having an affair, but who...?": The Jones siblings seemed to be fairly normal around Alan at first. However, it's revealed they were conspiring to break up Alan and Jasmine's marriage by making one look like a cheater to the other so that Chelsea and Harry would marry Alan and Jasmine, respectively. Moreover, Chelsea used her position as a teacher to turn the couple's daughter Sally against Alan to facilitate the divorce. However, Sally eventually caught on and gathered them all to expose the siblings.
• "My husband cheated on me with my best friend, but it didn't turn out very well for them": Shawn seemed to be a fairly kind man when he married Hillary, but two years later, he became a power-tripping, narcissistic bastard who constantly chewed her out for not showering him with praises. When Hillary keeps arguing without backing down, he cheats on her with her best friend, Lisa, out of spite, and threatens to divorce her. However, Hillary takes it in stride and divorces him.
• "When I went to meet my boyfriend's parents, they accused me of having had too much plastic surgery…": Adam seemed to be a loving boyfriend towards Hillary, if a bit corny as he laid it on too thick with his compliments about her beauty. However, when he took her to his parents' house, he didn't defend her when the couple took mean-spirited jabs at her looks while accusing her of getting plastic surgery. Moreover, he played such verbal abuse off as hilarious to the point Hillary called her parents and sister over to teach them a lesson.
• "The wedding planner told me that my wife was with another man...": Layla seemed to be a loving, kind girlfriend towards Alan. However, as they go to a wedding service to finally tie the knot, the planner reveals to Alan that his bride went to the venue with another man yesterday. When Alan initially shrugged it off thinking it was someone else, the planner showed him condemning CCTV footage and revealed the lover's name as Max. When Alan confronts her, the cheating woman reveals that she will marry Max instead; it turns out she five-timed to pit them against each other in a "battle royale". Much to Layla's dismay, the wedding planner was hearing behind the doors and both she and Alan exposed her affairs to Max, who gives her a huge dressing-down for her trouble before calling off the wedding.

• Andy's parents try to hide their son's cheating, but claim that even if their son cheated, it would partially be the fault of Helen for not being a good wife.
• Kevin blames his wife Helen for his cheating, claiming that he wouldn't need to cheat if Helen didn't "stress him out" and was the perfect wife. Later, when his parents hear his excuses, they don't buy them and rightfully blame him for his cheating.

• "The CEO of my company was marrying my late wife...": Alan became blue in the face after finding out his late wife Sally was still alive marrying his rich best friend George. George himself even lampshades it by comparing him to ice cream in reference to the blue popsicle he's holding.
• "My childhood friend stole my fiancé from me...": Both Steve and Malena turn blue in their faces on their wedding day (which the latter stole from Helen) after Helen invited the cheaters' coworkers and parents as originally planned instead of their close friends. She even lampshades it while jokingly asking if it's trending.
• "A neighbor that hates me hires a 'lawyer' to get alimony, but turned pale once I introduced myself": The story proper starts with Melanie confronting her neighbor, Ashley Cooper, her face turned blue from fear while apologizing.
• "Selfish friend took my car without permission and crashed, and when I said her husband's paying…": Kathryn turns blue when Helen reveals that the data from her wrecked Tranz' dashcam did include footage before the accident. When her entourage of moms blamed Helen for causing it, she reveals that Kathryn had an affair. That said, the entourage follow suit when Helen addresses them for taking part on Kathryn's fraud before turning on her in a futile attempt to appease Helen.
• "My ex wife married the man she cheated on me with so I told her the truth about him...": Meghan turns blue upon finally realizing Alan investigated her new husband, Trevor, and revealed he was a serial cheater, a gambling addict, and a lazy spendthrift.

original Japanese version

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• "Jealous in-law steals luxury car from my driveway but...": When Karen and Trevor tried to pin the blame on Helen for selling Aiden's car without permission while facing the loan shark himself, Helen quickly disproves them by bringing CCTV footage of their gloating while doing the deed.
• "I resort to a strange solution to the problem of a rival restaurant stealing my stuff to grill…": In a last-ditch effort to ruin Alan's reputation after the latest batch of meatball skewers he stole turned out to have flares in them, Mr. Kingman accuses Alan of deliberately giving him the skewers. Much to his surprise, Alan reveals that he recorded the bastard admitting to steal the meatballs. However, Kingman brought up the faulty security cameras, which seemed to give him the upper hand until Alan not only brought the bastard's partner-in-crime and niece, Susan, but also revealed that Trevor recorded her stealing the skewers for Kingman's restaurant. Much to the bastard's further dismay, Susan herself also brought a recording of her uncle threatening her and her parents if she didn't steal them.

• "My ex wife married the man she cheated on me with so I told her the truth about him...": Alan's wife, Meghan, cheated on him with an alleged elite worker named Trevor Ramirez and remarried the guy after Alan divorced her. Much to her dismay, Alan reveals that not only was her new husband cheating on her with other women, but he was a Lazy Bum who leeched off his mistresses and went off to the casino under the excuse of "working".
• "Wife dumps me after I help her lose a lot of weight, so I help her rebound before dumping her": Riley cheated on Thomas with a guy named Mitch after losing weight. However, she gets dumped after gaining back all the weight and tries to get back with Thomas only for him to reveal that Mitch was never going to marry her; he was already engaged to a CEO's daughter.
• "My daughter showed me my wife's diary. The things she wrote down in her diary were shocking!!": When Adrian and his teenage daughter Hillary both expose Michelle's affair with her boss, Brian, to her own parents, it turns out not only was Brian married, but that he slept with seven other women and impregnated another woman. While Michelle was disowned by her mother after that, Alan and Hillary surprisingly forgave her but sued and exposed Brian to his own wife, who in turn divorces and sues the bastard alongside the other seven mistresses.
• "My husband cheated on me with my best friend so I cut him off completely": Melanie's best friend Lina slept with her husband Alan and plans to divorce her current husband to marry him, under the assumption that Alan is rich. She finds out later that not only is Alan an unemployed bum who sponges off of Melanie, he's also sleeping with thirty other women.
• "My ex-wife tried to trick me into paying for a child that wasn't mine but I proved her wrong": Sarah cheats on Alan with a man and demands divorce from him to remarry her lover. Later on when she and Aaron demanded he pay child support for supposedly knocking her up only for Helen to prove Alan innocent, he asks Sarah about her previous lover. It turns out Sarah's lover dumped her for a younger woman once she announced her pregnancy to him and therefore she and Aaron tried to get Alan's money to pay the child's living expenses.
• "My mom was having an affair and said she was gonna remarry a 29-year-old...": After twenty years of marriage, Karen cheated on George with a much-younger man named Trevor, leaving both him and their twenty-year-old daughter Melanie behind to be with him. However, Karen's life starts going downhill after marrying the flashy guy as he not only was a good-for-nothing gambling addict full of debt, but cheated on her with much younger women. Moreover, the reason Karen tried to get back with George was that Trevor tricked her into signing as a guarantor before leaving her to pay his debts.

• "We were hiding to surprise my wife, but she came in with her lover...": After catching his wife Natalia red-handed and sued her and her lover for damages, he realized a DNA test on his daughter Jane. While Roger's wife told him that Natalia cheated on him for years, he resolved to take care of Jane anyway.
• "Found out that my wife was cheating on me… Then…": When Oliver's in-laws badgered him to take care of his ex-wife Brooke's baby despite evidence that the baby wasn't his, he told them he would do so if the DNA test returned positive results, causing them to back down.
• "My wife, innocent and pure, was about to give birth, when our doctor showed us a shocking truth...": Alan secretly realized a DNA test on his baby son, Charles, after seeing he had blue hair rather than Alan's red. After the doctor who checked on the couple, Dr. Washington, was arrested for forging medical reports and histories, including the previous tests, Melanie and Helen confirmed that Alan wasn't the real father and exposed Lisa's affair with a guy named Mitch. Moreover, Lisa's mother paid Dr. Washington to forge the DNA test results to make sure Alan stayed married to Lisa.

• Hillary suffers several heart conditions and was kicked out by her parents because of it, living a hard life until she met David, who seemed caring but revealed his abusive personality once they married.
• Seth has been ill since childhood and his family especially his brother Alan has to take care of him. However, Seth grew resentful of Alan over the years for being healthy, to the point where he kicked him out of his wedding. However, the guests revealed what Alan has done for Seth, he tried to call Alan back but he refused. The wedding was cancelled and Seth was fired, since Alan was the one who helped him get the job in the first place.

• "There was another woman in my house after I came back from giving birth," Helen came home early after giving birth back in her hometown. Her husband, Steve, tried to cover up his affair with Thea and came up with increasingly convoluted excuses to take her out of the home to buy time for his mistress, but Helen went in anyway and found out.
• "I found my wife cheating and her lover called the cops on me...": Todd calls the cops on Alan and Theo for trying to sue him for his affair with the former's wife Julie. When they side with the duo, he still tried to make himself look like the victim and even contradicted his previous answer. Later on, Todd is reduced to this the moment his strict wife, Hannah, enters the picture and starts questioning him. He tried to cover up his affair by claiming Julie was a customer of his, but Hannah kept pressing for answers until Alan and Theo reveal they recorded the affair.
• "My wife has an affair, and I hilariously exact my revenge by demanding that they buy two houses": Meghan's lover, Trevor, folds into a total wimp when his wife, Hannah, shows up to hold him accountable. The flashy bastard tried to excuse his affair only to back himself into a corner as his answers expose his true colors as she tears apart his excuses.

• "Cheating wife demands that my lawyer stays neutral, so we use that ignorance to our best advantage…": Morrison, Thomas' lawyer, took advantage of Lisa's foolish belief about lawyers being neutral to lead her on with promises of asset division and reduced alimony from Thomas upon divorcing him. When the cheating wife found out too late that she won't get any money, she took a loan to hire herself a lawyer and drag Thomas to court only to lose. As a result, she is forced to work her sorry ass off to pay back her debt to A&A Finances as they were the only ones willing to lend her the lawyer money.
• "When I got home after retiring from my construction job, my wife and daughter were missing...": Alan comes home to an empty house after buying a strawberry shortcake for his wife Maya and calls her. It turns out she and their daughter Emily stole everything thinking they will keep it after divorce. Much to the cheating wife's dismay, when Alan filed for divorce, her lover turns out to be a gambling addict who squandered the money the mother-daughter duo made from selling the furniture and they beg him for money.
• "My cheating wife thought she could sue me for her having an affair...": At some point, Mina brought up shared wealth while confronted by both Alan and her parents about her cheating. Much to her dismay, he reminded her that she would only get $1,000 from their joint account since she squandered the money on her lover. She brings up the house and the car only for Alan to remind her that he lives in an apartment and has no car; even if he agreed to split assets, she still won't have enough to pay the damages.

• "Husband wants a divorce and wants me to get an abortion because I'm a useless girl in a wheelchair": When he quit his teaching job to become a writer, Marlin became abusive towards his wife Mia and forced her to do the chores even when she suffered morning sickness from being pregnant.
• "My husband left a bed ridden wife to go to Hawaii with his mistress...": David abused his sickly wife Hillary, accusing her of faking her heart condition and forcing her to do the chores even when she was incapable of doing strenuous actions because of it, even taking all her money to fund his affair.
• "My sister's husband kicked her in the stomach, and she almost lost her baby because of it": Helen is constantly abused and cheated on by her husband, who is a rich CEO, but she hid it from her brother, Alan, for fear of worrying him as she was pregnant. However, the abuse comes to a head when Alan brought up a news article about the CEO's affair and she tried to hold him accountable, which led to the bastard kicking her in the stomach before going on a cheating trip to Hawaii with his mistress, Julia.

• "My parents favored my sister over me and she turned out to be a devil" proper starts with a childhood scene of Helen being forced by Lina to hand over her favorite doll. As the child Helen kept futilely protesting their mom's orders, it cuts to adult Helen waking up in her bed, revealing it was a dream.
• "My fiancé cheated on me with my sister so I taught them both an unforgettable lesson!" proper starts with Helen dating a random guy, who suddenly breaks up with her because he found someone else. Much to her chagrin, that someone was her older sister Nancy, who gloated about doing the deed before both left Helen crying and begging the man not to leave her until it cuts to her waking up.

• Sharon accused Alan of sexual harassment to her father after he found her passed out on the floor and using an AED on her. As a result, Alan loses his reputation and gets fired from his job. Moreover, the father-daughter duo came over to the house with a lawyer and threatened to have the police involved unless he paid Sharon $100,000 in damages.
• "I bring my wife to her lover's restaurant for a 'fancy dinner' for our anniversary; I expose her…": When Alan and his lawyer hold the former's cheating wife Meghan and her lover, Mr. Burgess, accountable, she accused her lover of threatening her into sex. While she was willing to report it to the police despite the lawyer's warnings, she backpedals when the man reveals she's going to be arrested for perjury.

• "My sister sleeps with my husband, and I file for a divorce, but little did she know that he was a...": Hillary's younger sister, Alice, slept with the former's husband, Kyle, and gloated about becoming pregnant with his child. However, this becomes the cheating sister's undoing as Hillary not only sued her for alimony after cutting ties with her and divorcing Kyle but exposes the affair to her parents, who disown Alice as well. On top of that, Hillary reveals that Kyle has a massive gambling debt.

• "Wife cheated with my boss and got pregnant": Karen and Mr. Uriel beg their respective spouses, Alan and Helen, not to divorce them after the former of the latter two locked them up in the bathroom and exposed them to Helen and everyone at work. However, neither Alan nor Helen budge to their demands and go through with their divorces.
• "My wife cheated on me with thirty men but tried to lie her way out of it!": Sarah cried whenever Alan questioned her convoluted lies to excuse her cheating and sicced her dad on him to cow the poor guy into submission. However, after getting evidence of her affairs with up to thirty men, Alan refuses to fall for her tricks a second time and shows the evidence to her father. Even then, Sarah retaliates by accusing Alan of cheating first and resorts to incredibly baseless claims to justify her actions, causing even her father to fold and apologize to Alan before running away. Afterward, Alan goes through with the divorce and sues her along her 30+ lovers.
• "I bring my wife to her lover's restaurant for a 'fancy dinner' for our anniversary; I expose her…": When the lawyer revealed that Alan had a higher salary than that of her lover William Burgess, Meghan begged Alan not to divorce her and tried to sweet-talk him out of it. However, her father has none of her crap and takes her away before forcing her to Work Off the Debt.
• "My wife and her guy friend were making out at our wedding": When Thalia and Clifford got caught in bed by their respective spouses, Alan and Hannah, Clifford folded because of his wife's no-nonsense attitude towards cheating. Thalia, on the other hand, begged Alan not to divorce her while blathering she's going to be a good wife, with her Inner Monologue outright saying she's doing this so Alan will take the bait. Much to her dismay, Alan sees right through her and proceeds to leave for her parents' house to report the affair.
• "Selfish friend took my car without permission and crashed, and when I said her husband's paying…": When Helen exposes Kathryn's affair to her own entourage of moms and then threatens to expose the four of them to their husbands, they beg Helen not to for fear of a divorce. Helen understandably ignores their pleas and buys info about their scheme from Sharon to expose them even further. Afterward, Kathryn's husband, Harrison, is forced to pay for the wrecked Tranz, but he was so pissed off at his wife's actions that he postponed the divorce until she either finishes or defaults on paying him the $50K, after which he'll kick her out and sue both her and her lover for alimony. As for the three other moms, they fled back to their parents' houses after their husbands divorced them.
• "I found my wife cheating and her lover called the cops on me...": Julie and Todd beg their their respective spouses, Alan and Hannah, not to divorce them after finding out they're going to pay $50,000 each, with Hannah suing Julie for extra $30K in alimony. However the two of them ignore their pleas and go through with the divorce.

• '"Don't gain any weight!" "Get rid of that baby!"→I reported them to the police...': A pregnant Hazel refused to agree to an abortion on both her mother-in-law and husband's request one too many times, so the former of the two hit her in the belly with a baseball bat. Unfortunately, she lost her baby.
• "In laws want me to get an abortion, whatever it takes" [sic]: After a pregnant Morgan refused to have an abortion one too many times, Karter shoved her down the stairs to make her miscarry for becoming pregnant before his own wife Hannah.
• "This guy kicked me while I was pregnant and tried to cover it up": Alex kicked a pregnant Melanie in the stomach for not handing over her seat, causing her water to break. Thankfully, both she and her baby survived but she decided to hold him accountable for his actions.
• "Strange men attacked me when I was pregnant, and the person who hired them was...": A pair of thugs named Tucker and Ken were about to beat Misty up in the park while she was pregnant, but her mother-in-law scared them off. However, she found the pair again while retrieving her MIL's parasol and they succeeded in beating her this time before Alan showed up and called the ambulance. Thankfully, the baby survived but had to be put in the NICU because of the beating. When the MIL came over, she revealed herself as the one who hired Tucker and Ken out of spite towards Misty.

• "My family refused to go with me overseas and abandoned me with nothing, but 10 years later...": Thomas was fat at the start of the story, but after returning from the working trip to France with his business partner and fiancée Lana, he has lost weight.
• "Wife dumps me after I help her lose a lot of weight, so I help her rebound before dumping her": Implied. Thomas narrates that his wife, Riley, was fat ever since the day they met. Much to the poor sod's dismay, she revealed her true colors as a Gold Digger after she lost weight, cheating on him with a wealthy man named Mitch before dumping him. However, Thomas got his revenge by intentionally neglecting her diet and letting her overeat unitl she regained all the weight.
• "My husband and I built a company together but...": Helen was a fat woman, but her husband Ryan left her for another woman. Six months later, when Ryan met her again, she had slimmed down.

• "My sister abused her second daughter so I took her in as my own." [sic]: At the end, after Kiara's friends scare off her abusive biological parents, her mother calls Alan to beg for money. She then reveals that Karen, her favorite daughter, became an emotionally weak quitter who slacked around the house and gained a lot of weight in the process, the latter over which the mother compares her to Kiara when she was young.
• "My girlfriend dumped me because she hated my family's diner, but now I run a 5-star restaurant!": Layla, once a famous model after dumping Alan and destroying his family restaurant, "Redman's Diner", put on a lot of weight after being released from prison following a lawsuit from Alan. Therefore, she not only lost her reputation, but her charm as well, on top of having to pay debt.
• "Wife dumps me after I help her lose a lot of weight, so I help her rebound before dumping her": Riley was fat but thanks to the help of her husband Thomas, she was able to slim down. But after she cheated on him with another man, she gained back all the weight since Thomas was no longer maintaining her diet. Thomas offered to not divorce her^note  if she lost 15kg in a month. Riley however failed the challenge and ended up gaining 7kg so Thomas went ahead with the divorce.

• Akashi's mother was addicted to gambling to the point where she stole his money given by his grandparents and even once abandoning Akashi to go to the pinball machine. She ran off and forced Akashi's father to repay the debt.
• Daiki had been skipping work to go to the pachinko parlors. He had been gambling away the family's funds and is now in debt. When his parents and wife Hikari found out, he was divorced and his parents disowned him.

• In "My wife and daughter hated me but then..." Alan was mistreated by both his wife Karen and his daughter Sadie for being fat and not making enough money as a construction worker. While Karen cut his pay to have more money for make up and Sadie's tuition, he kept working hard until he caught Karen dating a younger man. When Alan confronted her, she not only admitted to cheating, but also admitted to marry men for their money. Moreover, it's revealed that Karen used most of his money to buy designer stuff and this was the real reason of their financial woes. Angered, he divorces Karen and takes all the family's cash cards with him.
• "Father revealed the secrets of our family to my Mom and sister...": 48-year-old Alan was a part-time househusband and verbally abused by both his wife and his younger daughter Hazel. When his kinder, older daughter, Michelle, visits and assists Alan in cooking, he takes it as an opportunity to divorce his wife and take all his stuff. However, the mother-daughter duo change gears when they visit Alan's mansion and try to kick him and Michelle out, but she reveals that the mother not only didn't pay the housing loan but used the loan money for her affairs with male hosts.
• "My wife signed the divorce papers as a joke so I submitted it": Thomas Smith was bossed around by his wife Marina for anything and everything. When he refused to go to her parents' house as usual because the Morrison family verbally abused him, she threatened divorce by leaving papers on the table. When Marina demands via LINE his complete and absolute obedience in exchange for not going through with the divorce, Thomas calls it quits and turns in the papers.
• "My family refused to go with me overseas and abandoned me with nothing, but 10 years later...": Thomas was always abused by both his wife, Abigail, and their daughter, Marion, for being fat, old, and not providing enough money for their liking. Eventually, the mother-daughter duo's abuse escalated when Abigail demanded a divorce right as he announced he was moving overseas to France. After he obliges, he takes an early flight to France and tells his boss, Mr. Hendrix about it before leaving his work to Alan.

• "My wife has an affair, and I hilariously exact my revenge by demanding that they buy two houses": When Alan reveals to Meghan that he contacted her wealthy parents to buy the house for her, the cheating wife thinks she's going to escape punishment. Much to her dismay, Alan chuckles as he reveals that her parents will simply front the money and make her pay the debt to them instead, under constant surveillance.
• "My family refused to go with me overseas and abandoned me with nothing, but 10 years later...": When Abigail and Marion, Thomas' ex-wife and daughter, respectively, try to get back with him at the airport, he sends his new fiancée, Lana, off to greet Mr. Hendrix while he confronts them. He then lays out his lawyer's terms and lets them pay him 50 bucks a month in alimony until he can figure something out. Ten days later when the mother-daughter duo confront him for not paying their debts as they expected, he sics loan sharks from A&A Finance on the duo to squeeze alimony out of them on his behalf. Moreover, it's implied they'll work a nightlife job.
• "My friend illegally parks in my lot for a month, then destroys what she thinks is my car…": Natalie asked Aiden Anderson to let her call her husband so he'll pay the $200K damages to his car for her, by lying it was an accident. When the man comes over, she asks him to pay it for her only for Anderson, Helen, and the other housewives to reveal it was deliberate, he divorces and sues her for alimony, adding other $50K to her debt and leaving Natalie to pay it all by herself, with Aiden's earlier remarks about her looks implying she'll have to work a nightlife job.
• "My family snuck into my place and stole my credit card for a shopping spree abroad, but actually…": Aiden Anderson offered Melanie's former family a loan of $500K in exchange for giving him back the bag with the stolen money as payment. When he sweet-talked them into signing the loan forms, he lent them $450K, as he subtracted the 10% interest rate. When they folded into giving the money back, Aiden lent them $80K instead, summed with the revolving payments owed to Melanie and assigned to him, leaving them with a grand total of $140K in debt to A&A Finance.

"My wife, innocent and pure, was about to give birth, when our doctor showed us a shocking truth..."

Lisa: No, no no!!! Mommy, help me!!!

• Marcia and Helen's mother-in-law try to scam her by claiming that her house violated safety regulations, with Marcia claiming to be a lawyer. Unfortunately for the two con artists, Helen is an actual lawyer who can tell right away that Marcia is a phony because of her inability and refusal to answer basic questions such as her registration number and where she graduated from. Even worse for Marcia, Helen eventually manages to get Marcia admitting she's not a lawyer on tape, which results in Marcia being sent to prison for unauthorized practice of law as well as fraud for tricking Helen's MIL into giving her money under false pretenses.
• "Cheating wife accuses ME of having an affair, and pushes forward photos of HER affair instead": Alan's wife, Thalia, showed up with a lawyer named Riley to accuse the poor guy of having an affair with her friend, Helen. Unfortunately for her, Alan called his lawyer, Mr. Mulligan, who used his experience to catch the fake lawyer off-guard. Eventually, Riley whipped out photos of Thalia's affair in defeat, revealing her "client" sent her photos to show how much she loved her lover, who was Helen's husband. Much to the cheating wife's dismay, Riley also printed out Thalia's chats with Helen's husband before running off.
• Ashley and her lawyer Sanderson tried to sue Melanie for supposedly having an affair with her husband. Unfortunately for them, Melanie was an actual lawyer who managed to deduce that Sanderson is not an actual lawyer, since she had never seen him. The two try to placate Melanie but she sued them anyway and it later turned out that Ashley was the one having an affair. Both of them are forced to compensate Melanie for defamation acts and alimony in the case of Ashley.

• Neal was hoping to get the inheritance from his dying father so he can get rich and spend money on his mistress. Unfortunately for him, his wife and father made it so that Neal inherits debt instead. He tried to take it back, but he had already accepted it.
• Clifford forced his mother Mrs. Thompson to draft him a will where she leaves her inheritance to him. This backfired as Helen explained that the fact he forced her to draft a will in his favor renders it null and void. Mrs. Thompson drafted another will under the watch of a lawyer where she left everything to Helen.
• Shawn divorced his wife Helen after he inherited money from his late parents. However, it later turned out that Shawn had been disinherited by his parents and all the inheritance went to Helen after they found out that he cheated on Helen. Shawn tried to reclaim his inheritance, but he ended up being sued by Helen for the affair.

"My wife and her guy friend were making out at our wedding"

Thalia: Well, now, I guess that's all I gotta say for him to bite the bait—
Alan: Yeah, I think you're only saying all that so that I can bite the bait.

• "The day of the wedding, my boss got drunk...": Alan's boss, Mr. Sean, got drunk at Alan and Sarah's wedding and revealed his affair with the bride. Moreover, Sarah herself confirmed and gloated about how Alan would inherit his father's company and provide for her and Sean's baby in her belly. However, Alan's father declares he won't have any association with Sean's company, over which most of the guests leave the wedding and results in both Sarah and Sean getting sacked the next day.
• "My fiancé was wasted during our wedding, and told everyone he got my younger sister pregnant": Clark gets drunk at his wedding with Hillary and reveals he had an affair with the bride's sister, Andrea, and got her pregnant. Moreover, he gloated that he was going to have his affair even after marrying Hillary. Furthermore, Andrea herself joined in to mock Hillary for being "ugly" before Clark threw wine at her dress.
• "My wife and her guy friend were making out at our wedding": Thalia gets drunk in her wedding day and proceeds to kiss a playboy named Clifford in front of Alan, whom she married earlier. When Alan took her to task, she and the playboy dismisses it as whining while telling Alan he should be grateful for being picked as her husband. This drives Alan to storm out of his own wedding and lamenting not taking heed to Rose's advice on how to pick the right woman. When Thalia kept diminishing her past action the next day, Alan decided to move out and call some people to punish both lovebirds.

• Michelle's mother disowned her for cheating on her husband Adrian.
• "My fiancé cheated on me with my sister so I taught them both an unforgettable lesson!": Nancy's parents disowned her when she tried to flirt with Helen's new boyfriend at her wedding with John (whom she stole from Helen). They refused to help her when she was being beaten up by John.
• "My fiancé's sister came to our wedding in a white dress and...": Mr. Thopson disowned his daughter Thalia, after she and her mother ruined her brother Alan's wedding because they were jealous of his fiancee Helen.
• "My wife and her guy friend were making out at our wedding": The Smith couple disown Thalia for cheating on Alan and kissing another man right in front of him at their wedding day.
• "My husbands mistress was living and hiding in the closet": David's parents disown him for cheating on Melanie with a woman named Rachel and sneaking the latter into the closet so she could mooch off of them.

• "A terrible Mom leaves her baby in the car to go have an affair...": Rose is a neglectful mother who tries to threaten Helen into watching her daughter for her, which Helen refuses every time. In order to try and force Helen to make her watch her daughter while she can goes overseas to have an affair, she lies to her husband, Andrew, that she gave the baby to Helen breaks Helen's car window, tosses the baby inside the car, in the middle of the summer, knowing that if she were overseas, Helen would have no choice but to watch her baby for her. Unfortunately, Helen and her husband Alan are also overseas, meaning that the baby has been trapped in a hot car for five days. When Rose learns this she insists that Helen and Alan go back and rescue the baby so she can enjoy her vacation, and hangs up. Fortunately, Helen calls her mom, who takes the baby to the hospital before any permanent damage happens and Rose is is punished by being locked in a car for an entire month by Andrew.
• "We got a call that a child was dying inside our house, but we don't have any children…": Karen dropped her baby daughter, Teressa, off with Aaron and Mary after her own husband divorced her for cheating on him with a married man. When the couple got fed up with Karen's antics and told her off, she seemingly took it in stride. However, when Aaron and Mary went to a hot spring to enjoy they were free, they received a call from a social worker who reported a dying child in their house and involved the police. It turns out Karen broke into the couple's house to dump Teressa and then stole Aaron's money to go on a cheating trip to the same hot spring Aaron and Mary were in. The couple tracks the neglectful mother down to give her an earful before exposing her to her lover, who promptly dumped her for her trouble. After the couple told the truth to the police, Karen ends up arrested, charged for child abuse, and imprisoned after losing custody of Teressa.

Japanese version

Shion: I am a princess... I am a princess...

• "My husband got paralyzed waist down after accident during an affair": A paraplegic Andy starts whining when his wife Heather presents him with the divorce papers for cheating on her in the woods, and his whining ended up driving Heather's fiancé, their son Kevin, and eventually her away. It doesn't help his case that Andy begs his mom to carry him towards Heather when she leaves him with the divorce papers and even in the epilogue, he still throws tantrums.
• "My childhood friend stole my fiancé from me...": After Malena steals Steve from Helen, she forces the latter to plan the wedding on her terms. When Helen asks her what she wants in their wedding, she replies with "lots of flowers and a big yard, and unicorns, and a colorful cake," to which Helen wonders if Malena has the brain of an elementary school student.

• Some punks attempted to challenge Alan to a beatdown bragging about how they know karate. Unfortunately for them, Alan turned out to have actual karate skills and was able to defeat one of them. The other punk backed down afterwards.
• Alan claimed that he's part of the mafia to get out of paying the cancellation fees at Aaron's restaurant. Unfortunately for Alan, Aaron knows the real mafia, and they forced Alan to pay for the food and the cancellation fee.

• '"Don't gain any weight!" "Get rid of that baby!"→I reported them to the police...': Kevin always takes his mom's side in bullying and abusing his pregnant wife Hazel to the point of abusing her into either miscarrying or agreeing to have an abortion.
• "May mother-in-law threw away my parents' keepsake" [sic]: Helen's husband, Kevin Davis, is revealed to be one when his mother threw away Helen's special pot, which was a keepsake from her late mother.
• "My husband thinks using noodle soup base isn't cooking": Trevor constantly picked on his wife Helen for using noodle soup base in her cooking and compared it to what his mom cooked since the latter cooked with ingredients from scratch. When Helen brings up that his mom is a full-time housewife unlike her, he refuses to acknowledge it. Moreover, he even takes her to eat at his parents' house so he could bring it up and shame her along with them.
• "My husband stole my savings and threatened me with divorce but...": Helen's husband, Mark, was such a huge mama's boy to the point of spending any money she saved on his mom, Mrs. Meghan, who had a toxic attitude. Whenever Helen objected to his spending, he said that his mom matters more than their daughter Sadie, and whipped out divorce papers to cow her into submission. While she tolerated his abuse, the last straw was that he stole $40,000 worth of savings for her daughter, Sadie, and divorced him.

• "Mother-in-law destroys my wheelchair?! How will my husband react…": Hikari's mother-in-law looked down on her for using a wheelchair thinking that she's not a good wife for Akashi. While he and his father defended her, the MIL bought a phone and coerced Hikari into giving her number so she could harass her. Eventually, the MIL's abuse escalated when she moved in to the young couple's house, stole Hikari's wheelchair and broke it.
• "My husband's brother paid for dinner as thanks for letting him stay over, but then his wife told me…": Helen's sister-in-law, Lily, not only married Evan for his money, but when he paid the tab for the four of them at the restaurant, she demanded Helen pay back the money behind his back. Moreover, she even demanded Helen treat her to outings because she was going to receive her in-laws' inheritance. In revenge, Helen took advantage of Lily and Evan's next visit to expose her SIL by doing as she said and bringing up she only gave Helen and Trevor $30 as her wedding gift despite Evan revealing it was $500. To top it off, it's revealed that Lily was a chronic gambler, which was the real reason for her stingy personality, which leads Evan to divorce Lily for her trouble.
• "My sister-in-law was coming home to have her baby so my mother-in-law chased me out of the house": Melanie's mother-in-law treated her like a housemaid and used her bad leg as an excuse. Moreover, the MIL's other daughter, Sasha, announced she's returning to have her baby as she's in her last month of pregnancy. While the abusive old crone plotted to have her do chores, Sasha wanted her gone and thus both the MIL and Ted kicked her out. However, they end up regretting it one month later as the house filled with trash as Melanie was the only one who did the housework.
• "My wife signed the divorce papers as a joke so I submitted it": Not only was Thomas abused by his wife Marina, but her parents also joined in for being "useless" as she forced the poor sod to visit their house.
• "In-laws planned abandon me at home as they go on a trip to Bermuda, but turn deadly pale when…": Helen's mother-in-law insisted that she quit her office job and become a full-time housewife, arguing that "once a wife gets married, she joins [the husband's] family and does the chores". Moreover, it turns out the MIL's son, Maxwell, also was on her side because Helen earned more money than him.
• "In laws want me to get an abortion, whatever it takes": Mrs. Romano starts off as a subversion, being nice to Morgan while she dated the former's son Aidan. However, she starts to abuse Morgan once they married and compared her to her other daughter-in-law Hannah, who is married to Mrs. Romano's eldest son, Karter.
• Sarah bosses her sister-in-law Helen around and steals her stuff whenever she comes with her father, Alan. What's more, her son Sean is just as obnoxious and often bullies Helen's baby daughter Sienna.
• "My husband got paralyzed waist down after accident during an affair": Heather is chastised at the hospital by her in-laws for "not being a good wife" to their son Andy after he became paraplegic from an accident at the mountains where he cheated on her.
• "Father-in-law almost killed my baby": Hikari's father-in-law took her daughter Momo to show her off to his friends at the casino despite the girl's severe asthma. As expected, she had an asthma attack and the staff called an ambulance. When Hikari took her FIL to task, he excused himself with saying childcare was a "woman's job". This drives her mother-in-law to divorce him for his negligence.
• "Someone convinced my daughter I was having an affair, but who...?": Alan's mother-in-law didn't trust him with either his daughter Sally or his wife Jasmine, picking on his appearance every time they meet.
• "My Mother-in-law destroyed my new car the day I got it...": Katherine's mother-in-law bullied her for not graduating high school. Moreover, she pretended to be senile to fool her son Ryan into thinking Katherine was at fault.
• "My son's wife uninvited me to their wedding...": Trevor's fiancée Thalia refused to invite Helen, her future mother-in-law to her wedding and acted very disrespectful to her. When the two went into debt, they were forced to ask Helen for money, but she refused, since the couple had stolen her credit card and instead reported them to the police and cut ties with Trevor.
• "May mother-in-law threw away my parents' keepsake" [sic]: Helen's mother-in-law constantly picked on her for not being a good enough wife for Oliver. Moreover, the abusive hag forced her to eat only her and Oliver's leftovers. Helen stayed in the marriage since she had no parents nor a place to live if she divorced him. However, the MIL went too far by throwing away the salted rice bran pot that Helen got from her late mother, and Oliver sided with his mother on doing so.
• "My sister in law tried to force us into letting her live in our house rent-free": Lisa constantly badgered Melanie, her sister-in-law, into letting her and her husband Carter live at the latter woman's apartment for free and constantly pulled the family, birth order, and money problem cards to do so. However, her plan falls apart when Melanie not only reveals that Lisa owed her $10,000, but that the SIL cheated on Carter with a guy named Dorian. Moreover, it turns out Dorian tricked her into co-signing a $30,000 loan from Tony and ran away. Eventually, Lisa ends up divorced and sued for alimony, thus adding up another $10,000 to her debt and thus she's forced to work for Tony to pay all the debt.
• "When I went back to my husband's house, I was always picked on by his relatives...": Helen's in-laws constantly bully her and treat her like a maid whenever she's visiting because she's married to their eldest son, Alan, but doesn't have kids yet due to fertility problems, and they're obsessed with him having a son. They complain about her cooking, forget that she was tasked with things, constantly nag her, and discuss forcing Alan to marry someone else in front of her, ultimately leading to her destroying their living room in a rage. Alan is so furious when he learns what sent his wife into that state that he ends up cutting ties with his family.

• Matthew is an especially repugnant example of this trope; he physically and verbally abuses his dying, elderly, mother, not even trying to hide the fact that he wants her to die quickly so he can get her inheritance faster. He refuses to put his mother in a nursing home and forces his wife Hilary, who actually cares for Matthew's mom, to watch her because he wants to save as much of his mother's money as possible. Matthew doesn't bother spending time with his mother on her deathbed, instead spending his time in Hawaii with his mistress Sandra. When he hears from Hilary that his mother is dead, he cheers at her death and rushes to the funeral to collect the inheritance. At the funeral, Matthew and Sandra show up and explain that they plan to get married after Matthew divorces Hilary. Hilary agrees to the divorce under the condition that they don't split assets, which Matthew and Sandra are happy to hear until they find out via Video Will that Matthew's mother left Matthew nothing and gave the inheritance to Hilary, and since Matthew agreed to not divide any assets, it means he won't get a cent of his mother's inheritance.
• Miles is the estranged brother of Harrison, who, unlike the latter didn't care about his father. Miles and his wife Raelynn show up to Mile's father's funeral and start making a ruckus, much to the other attendees' disgust. When Harrison tries to get them to leave, Miles agrees only if Harrison agrees to discuss giving up the rights to their dad's estate, which Harrison does. During the funeral, Miles and Raelynn secretly alter the contract to claim that Harrison will automatically give the estate to Miles. Unfortunately for the couple, the estate of Miles's and Harrison's father was cheap and ends up being destroyed by a landslide, causing Miles and Raelynn to go into debt.

• Alan's mother neglected him to go out with her boyfriends, leaving him with little money for food, forcing him to spend little on food to last a month. Fortunately Melanie and her family took him in and gave him a better life.
• Misato left her six-year-old daughter, Hikariko, home alone to go on an affair trip to Disneyland behind Akashi's back. When a cop notifies Akashi after Hikariko calls the police while witnessing a robbery, he finds out about Misato's affair and calls her over to discuss it.

• "My mom was having an affair and said she was gonna remarry a 29-year-old...": Karen divorces George and gives him Melanie's custody to remarry a flashy, younger man named Trevor. Much to her dismay, Trevor not only cheated on her with younger women, but tricked her into signing as a guarantor for his colossal gambling debts before running away. Therefore, she tried to get back with George, especially when Melanie married a successful, hardworking guy named Mark, and have the three of them pay her debts. Unsurprisingly, the three of them refuse and send her away.
• "I got a call from my husband telling me to evacuate immediately!!": Akashi's mother was so addicted to gambling that she not only stole any money his grandparents gave him but left Akashi locked in the car as a baby to hit the pinball until he was taken to the hospital for heatstroke. Moreover, she even ran off to have his father pay her debts.
• "My friend illegally parks in my lot for a month, then destroys what she thinks is my car…": Natalie called her husband over after Aiden Anderson takes her to task for destroying his black car thinking it belonged to Helen. She lied about it being an accident to have him pay the $200,000 debt, but when he found out the truth, he refuses to pay her debt before divorcing and suing her for alimony, adding $50,000 to her debt and leaving Natalie to pay it all by herself.

• "This guy who claims to be the son of a Yakuza hit me with a car while I was pregnant": Ted and his father, Kevin, came over to Melanie's hospital room after the former ran her over. He brought up his father's Mafia connections to keep both her and her husband, Alan, from suing him for damages. When Alan called over his cousin, Aaron, an actual Mafia leader, the alleged gangster paled in fear before being exposed as a fake who stole the organization's pin from a member named Matt. As a result, the mob kills Kevin and grinds him up into compost while Ted is sent off to a wealthy yet sadistic man's house.
• "A rich College student injured a pregnant woman...": After Sean assaulted a pregnant Helen for "betraying the viewers" until her water broke, his lawyer father came over to her hospital room to pay both her and her husband, Alan, a settlement fee in exchange for their silence and constantly lied to keep them from suing Sean into oblivion, but Helen got fed up and revealed she's also a lawyer, causing the bastard to desperately worm his way out of the situation.

• Near the end of "My husband cheated on me with my little sister so I got revenge!" Melanie is revealed to have affairs with married men as the three women Helen summoned to the room they were in were her previous lovers' wives. Unfortunately, Melanie foresaw it and summoned a gangster named Harold to beat Helen up until he was knocked unconscious by Miranda for calling her a cabbage.
• "My wife cheated on me with several men and so I got revenge at a family gathering": After exposing Melanie's cheating on Alan to both her parents and in-laws, Sarah revealed that some of Melanie's lovers were married. Moreover, after Alan sued both Melanie and her lover Ken for damages, she has to pay damages to the wives as well.
• "My parents favored my sister over me and she turned out to be a devil": After Alan and Helen expose Lina's true colors on her wedding day and invited the conning bride's lovers to confront her, her parents find out some of the lovers were married, which didn't help with the money she owed to all of them.
• "Manipulative wife uses the threat of divorce daily, so I heed her words and submit the forms…": After Alan secretly turns in the divorce papers behind Ashley's back, not only is she revealed to have been cheating on Alan with five guys, but it turns out two of them were married. Therefore, she'll have to look forward to being sued not only by Alan, but also from the men's wives.
• "My wife cheated on me with thirty men but tried to lie her way out of it!": Sarah is implied to be this as she had an affair with thirty men and counting since her latest romp was with a man named Kevin, whose wife sent Alan a photo of one of her affairs. Near the end, after Alan divorced and sued her and her lovers, her father chastises her after someone new has sued her.
• "My ex-wife disrespects me as I pick up my niece from kindergarten so...": Laura is implied to be this when Alan mentioned that she had affairs with the husbands of her fellow teachers, Ms. Abigail and Ms. Nora. Laura's reaction by shushing and begging Alan to keep quiet for fear of a scandal says it all.

• Mary cheats on her fiancé Aaron with his workplace manager Kevin in the bathtub. When he caught them in the act of playing "mommy and baby", he barricaded the doors with heavy boxes and called his parents, in-laws, and his boss to come over.
• Megan cheats on her husband Alex with her boss Karl in the shower. However, he chose to let it be while he concocted a plan to catch them red-handed. When Megan couldn't stand the cold and Alex told her he was inviting some friends, she spills the beans and confesses to cheating.
• Karen cheats on her husband Alex in the shower, much to his dismay once he caught them. The next time, he and his boss locked them in the bathroom in retaliation for the rumors started against him because he wasn't happy about his wife being pregnant after he caught them the first time. It turns out her lover was Mr. Uriel, who reprimanded him for his reaction to Karen's pregnancy earlier on.

• In the Japanese version of "My wife and her guy friend were making out at our wedding," Yukina (Thalia) speaks like this when throwing tantrums at being disowned by her parents for cheating on Akashi (Alan) with Keishirou (Clifford).
• In the Japanese version of "My parents favored my sister over me and she turned out to be a devil," the allegedly sickly Rion (Lina) refers to herself in the third person as a kid, adding to her cuteness as she lords her status as the golden child over her older sister Hikari (Helen).
• In the Japanese version of "My younger sister bragged about stealing my husband..." Haruna's (Hailey's) younger sister, Erika, refers to herself in the third person as a child.
• In the Japanese version of "My fiancé's sister came to our wedding in a white dress and..." Akashi's younger sister, Tsugumi (Thalia), refers to herself in this way, which serves as shorthand for her immaturity in trying to crash his wedding with her mother, Makiko (Mary), to scare Hikari away and replace her as the bride.
• In the original Japanese version of "My wife, innocent and pure, was about to give birth, when our doctor showed us a shocking truth...", Arisa (Lisa) referse to herself in third person, showcasing her immaturity as she relied on her mom, a member of the Educational Board, to get her out of trouble, specifically when it comes to having Dr. Kanada (Washington) flub Akashi's DNA test so he won't find out about her affair.

• "My family hated me because I was in a wheelchair": Ever since Alan became paraplegic from being hit by a drunk driver, his wife Rachel became abusive towards him and threatened divorce on the poor sap whenever he protested. When Alan had his wheelchair broken after he signed the divorce papers, he contacted his sister Mary and submitted them while the mother-daughter duo went on a trip.
• "My daughter won first place in an art contest, but…": The reason why Hannah destroyed her friend Millie's drawing is because Hannah's mother, Shiela, threatened to disown her and kick her out of the house if she didn't.
• "My wife would threaten me to get a divorce and would do whatever she wanted": Steve's wife, Maya, signed divorce papers and left them for him to cow him into submission and let her do as she wanted. Much to her dismay, Steve calls it quits and submits the papers.
• "My husband believed that I would be in a world of pain if we got divorced...": Helen's husband, Ark, constantly threatened divorce on her to cow her into submission and keep mooching off of her for money to squander in horse-race bets. However, Helen has had enough and divorced the bastard after encouragement from her friends, Elena and Ian, who warned her that Ark's gambling would lead to him borrowing from loan sharks.

• Melanie from "My wife cheated on me with several men and so I got revenge at a family gathering" looked at her phone for so long that the house became a pigsty whenever her husband, Alan, came home. Moreover, she always tried to shut his complaints down until Alan found out she was cheating on him.
• Mia refused to help her sister Melanie clean even though she was living in her and Mark's house. When Melanie left due to Mark preferring Mia over her, she still didn't clean the house leading to it being dusty.
• "My sister-in-law was coming home to have her baby so my mother-in-law chased me out of the house": One month after Ted and his mother kick his wife Melanie out of the house for his sister Sasha's sake, the house became a pigsty because Melanie was the only one who did the housework. Even after Melanie sued them all for damages and Ted's affair with Cindy, the house is still a pigsty as they're too busy working to pay Melanie the damages to clean it up.

• Aaron's mother shaved the back of his fiancé Helen's hair at their wedding because she didn't like her.
• "My sister-in-law, the hairdresser, ruined my hair on my wedding day and so I got revenge": After Midoriko declined Natsumi's offer to cut her hair, the latter got pissed and chopped the former's hair off on her wedding day. By the time Akashi came to her rescue, it was too late as Natsumi cut off almost all of her hair. However, she decided to take revenge on Natsumi with Akashi's help.

• "I hate my parents for doting on my sister so I ran away from home": Hikari was ignored by her parents in favor of her sister Kazuha during their childhood. Years later, after Kazuya had an accident, they tried to contact Hikari and begged her to take care of them. In the end, both daughters ended up cutting ties with them.
• "My sister cancelled her wedding the night before and no one knew…": Heather was treated strictly by her parents and uncles while her younger sister Remi was treated like a princess. However, when Heather became a successful woman, her parents started to treat her well as Remi was about to marry a company president named Tom. However, come the wedding day she cancels it after finding out Tom decided to start his own company, and even cheated on him. Much to her dismay, Heather exposes her via the wedding speakers, causing Remi to lose her parents' affection for her trouble.
• Lucy was ignored by her mother in favor of her younger sister Sheila, because she was smart and her mother felt that smart children are disrespectful. They even asked Lucy not to bring her construction worker husband to Sheila's wedding on account of his job.
• Melanie's husband and his mother preferred boys to girls and mistreated his daughter Sarah in favor of his son Kevin. When an earthquake hit, the two men refused to save the girls and left them in the rubble. However, Melanie exposed this misdeed, and the three became social pariahs and Melanie divorced her husband.
• Ted was favored more than his brother Alan by their parents due to the latter's intellectual disability. They sold Alan to Helen's family who treated him much better. Alan eventually became successful and owns the schools that he and Ted went to while Ted lounged around the house and was on the brink of expulsion.
• Hailey was neglected and bullied in favor of her younger sister Erika for being an introvert. Moreover, Erika looked cute enough to work as a model practically since birth and therefore, they pretended Hailey didn't exist until she announced her marriage to a CEO. When Erika stole her fiancé and called her to gloat about it, Hailey reveals she was marrying overseas and the man she "stole" was not her fiancé, but her gambling-addicted, lazy stalker.
• Helen was looked down on in favor of her younger brother Mason, because her parents wanted a son so that her father could claim the inheritance from his father. However, Helen became a successful nurse, while Mason didn't get a job and soon disappeared at the end of the story.
• Kiara was looked down on in favor of her sister Karen by their parents, because they think she is ugly. Fortunately Alan and Melanie took Kiara in when her parents kicked her out of the house. Years later, Kiara's parents tried to take her back, but all three refused and Kiara's friends were eventually called to kick them out.
• "My parents favored my sister over me and she turned out to be a devil" Helen was neglected and mistreated in favor of her sickly younger sister, Lina, by their parents. Moreover, the latter took advantage of her sickness to get the former in trouble and steal any boyfriend she might have. When Helen introduced her fiancé, Alan, to their parents, the couple served only Lina's favorite foods and even convinced him to marry her instead of Helen.
• "My twin daughters were split up. The daughter that lived with me turned out to be happy but…": After Mia failed the test while her sister Maya passed it, their mother, Sarah, mistreated the former while doting on the latter. While their father, Alan, disagreed, this escalated into Sarah demanding a divorce and the custody of Maya.
• "My parents treated me like crap…": Katy Berger was put aside in favor of her sister, Janet, since the latter was prettier than her. Moreover, they refused to attend Katy's wedding because of that.
• "My sister married a foreigner, convinced she stole him from me": Abby was spoiled rotten by her parents at the expense of her older sister Helen. This caused the former to steal from the latter, driving her to move out. However, when Abby announced she's getting married, the sister's parents forced Helen to attend simply because she was the older sister, but the bride wanted to rub it in that she stole Helen's alleged fiancé.

• "My mother-in-law tried to harass me, but she got what she deserved in the end": Alan's mother stole Helen's car but she crashed it. When she called Helen, she revealed that the car in fact belonged to Alan's boss.
• "My Mother-in-law destroyed my new car the day I got it...": Katherine's mother-in-law destroyed her car with golf clubs. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a police officer's car. She was arrested by the police officer and charged for the repairs to the car.
• "Jealous in-law steals luxury car from my driveway but...": Karen and Trevor stole Helen's car and sold it to spite her for being richer than her despite being "lazy". However, their stunt falls apart when Helen reveals that not only she doesn't own a car, but it belonged to her boyfriend. While the couple shrugged her off and went to eat at a fancy restaurant, Trevor finds out the car belonged to infamous loan shark Aiden Anderson, whom he borrowed money from earlier on. When they storm back into the dealership to take the car back, it was already sold.
• "My neighbor wrecked this car thinking it was mine but...": Karen wrecked Helen's luxury car out of spite, but the car actually belonged to Helen's father. When Karen came over to visit and rub her glamorous life on Helen's face, they all held her accountable.
• "Wife and her lover slam into my car; cockily offer to pay damages; turn pale when I reveal the price": Marion and her lover, Mark, crash Alan's car while on a joyride to spite him. When Mark offers to pay for damages thinking it was a cheap piece of junk, Alan reveals that it's a popular model worth $200,000. As a result, Alan sued the lovebirds for damages and alimony before divorcing Marion for her cheating.
• "My friend illegally parks in my lot for a month, then destroys what she thinks is my car…": Natalie mistook a black car for Helen's and wrecked it for parking in the spot she used without Helen's permission. Much to her dismay, Helen not only revealed it wasn't her car, but the owner—Aiden Anderson, a crime boss—showed up and demanded she pay compensation. She tried to fight it by calling her husband and lying about it being an accident to have him pay the colossal debt, but when he found out her lie, he divorced her for her trouble and his own safety. Eventually, Natalie is taken away by Aiden and by his earlier remarks on how she'll pay it, it's implied that she'll end up working in the nightlife industry.
• "Ridiculously selfish in-law steals new car thinking it's mine but discovers she's being pursued…": Helen's sister-in-law, Ashley, snuck into her house and stole the black Trabantz car parked in front of the garage to crash it left and right with the intention of making Helen pay for the damages out of spite for the latter's refusal to let het visit and steal stuff anymore. Much to her dismay, Helen not only revealed it wasn't hers, but it belonged to Mr. Blackwell, a scary-looking government security agent. As a result, Ashley ends up registered in a government watchlist, her crime broadcasted on nationwide TV, divorced by her own husband, and sued for a huge amount in damages.
• "Selfish mom friend claims she took my cruiser and sunk it, but...": Abigail stole Melanie's cruiser and sunk it out of spite for the latter's refusal to let her borrow it, then called to have Melanie pay it with insurance. When she went to the beach to check on her cruiser only to find out it was in perfect state, it's revealed that the cruiser Abigail sunk was a gang's cruise ship. Moreover, the leader turns out to be her husband Seth's uncle, Riordan. Eventually, the couple turns to a loan shark named Sharon Sage to pay Uncle Riordan the damages, but end up working for him anyway as they have to repay Sharon for the loan.
• "Selfish friend took my car without permission and crashed, and when I said her husband's paying…": Kathryn stole the keys for Helen's Tranz and crashed it on purpose to have her pay it with insurance out of spite for protesting her thefts. Much to the thief's dismay, Helen revealed that the car wasn't insured and therefore, Kathryn's husband, Harrison, had to pay it out of his salary as Alan bought out his workplace. Even then, Kathryn came over with her entourage of moms to cow Helen into submission, only for her to reveal that not only was Kathryn the culprit, but also had an affair in the Tranz. While her entourage of moms turned on her upon learning the news and tried to appease Helen, she didn't forgive them.

• "My wife, innocent and pure, was about to give birth, when our doctor showed us a shocking truth..." (JP version): Lisa remained cocky despite having her affair exposed to Alan and even used his virginity as a threat when he demanded a divorce. However, she folds into a scared, begging little girl upon learning that her mother, a government employee running the school board, will be sacked and jailed for five years once news of her bribery and collusion with Dr. Washington come to light. When she begs Alan to save her, he refuses and even flat-out states that her "cutesy" tricks won't work on him this time, sending her away crying.
• "My wife cheated on me with thirty men but tried to lie her way out of it!" (JP version): After Alan and Mark corner the former's cheating wife Sarah with evidence by presenting it to her father before going through with the divorce, Sarah slowly loses her sanity as she not only refused to knock off her cheating habit, but ran away while screaming she's not at fault.

  Sarah: How can you blame me? I'm a princess after all.
  Sarah's Father: Are you listening to anything that I'm saying?
  Sarah: I'm supposed to be happy! I deserve happiness! I'm a good person! I'ts not my fault that men choose to have an affair with me! I'm too irresistable! This isn't my fault!

• "Ridiculously selfish in-law steals new car thinking it's mine but discovers she's being pursued…" (JP version): Ashley crashed a black Trabantz thinking it belonged to Helen only to get registered on a government watchlist and about to be arrested because it actually belonged to Mr. Blackwell, a government security agent. However, Ashley tried to blame Helen and threaten her wellbeing only to be confronted by both the agent and her own husband. Even then, she broke into desperate excuses for her crime, begging the three of them to lighten her punishment, and even going into a tangent about how it was all a conspiracy by Helen to make her look bad. Moreover, when the news reporters showed up and took photos of the crime scene, Ashley demanded they stop it and threatened to sue them as well, only for Mr. Blackwell's fellow agents, Whitehorse and Whitewell, to show up and take her away crying.
• "Bride-to-be cancels attendance to my wedding and hers, but I clarify a few things, and chaos ensues…" (JP version): Delia gets royally pissed off upon learning that not only Alan knew about her affair with Trevor, but also called off his engagement to her to marry Laura instead on top of his allegedly-yearly $15K salary being monthly. After her pleading for Alan to marry her is ignored, she breaks into the wedding to slander Laura and get back with Alan only to get scolded by the guests and have her affair and investment debt exposed. Even then, Delia kept at it until she got security guards called on her for threatening the bride's family, ending with the guards taking her away screaming.

  Delia: I will not leave until Alan is mine! Until Alan is mine! Alan! Alan!! (gets dragged away by security)

• "My wife and her guy friend were making out at our wedding" (JP version): Left alone and scolded by his wife Hannah into leaving the house and giving up his passcode for cheating on her with Alan's wife Thalia, Clifford breaks down crying as he realized he's in trouble. Thalia herself also breaks down crying after her parents scold and disown her for her cheating and leave her to pay damages to Alan all by herself before the man leaves her after announcing he's going to cancel his condo and file a restraining order against her.

  Clifford: (crying) Hannah abandoned me..!? How...!? How am I supposed to live after being abandoned like this~~~!?
  [...]
  Thalia: (crying) I just wanted to be happy with your money!

• "A JERK dumped my friend for her younger sister and said she was ugly..." (JP version): Misty breaks down crying after Alan refused to fall for her charms and dump her sister Tara before the newlyweds and their friends leave the premises. Roger himself also breaks down after having to work himself to the bone paying his embezzlement debts.
• "My wife cheated on me with thirty men but tried to lie her way out of it!"(JP version): Even after Alan sues Sarah and all of her 30+ lovers for compensation, she keeps her serial cheating habit. When her father lambasts her upon receiving yet another compensation request, she rambles about being "a princess" and deserving to live happily while refusing to accept the blame. This is more pronounced in the Japanese version, as she blamed the men for being attracted to her and the voice acting makes it sound like she's losing her mind.
• "My wife left me for a company president; she returned on her knees a few years later" (JP version): When Kendall and his mom kick her out for trying to escape after Thomas reported it to them, Kylie refused to leave their doorstep and desperately begged them to let her back in until Mrs. Rusk called the police on her. Kylie called Thomas to chew him out for "snitching" on her, but devolved into trying to get back with him as he chewed her out for her greed until hanging up on her. Eventually, she breaks down crying after Thomas blocked her number as she tried to call him again. Later on, Kendall breaks down crying after his mom kicked him out of the house upon learning Thomas was suing him for alimony.

  Kendall: I shouldn't have laid my hands on a married woman if I knew it would come to this!!!

• "My wife and her lover think I am paying THEM alimony with the divorce, but I RUIN them instead" (JP version): After Alan exposes Mark's true colors to his cheating wife Marion, she begged Alan not to divorce her to avoid paying him alimony and support Mark's store. However, Alan refuses and declares he's going to tell her parents about the affair before leaving and ignoring Marion's breakdown into desperate pleas.
• "My wife divorced me 10 years ago; we happened to meet again, and her behavior made something SNAP" (JP version): Natalie illegally takes over Alan's apartment in Tortuga City to ambush him and force a remarriage. However, Alan retaliates with a demand for $40,000 in alimony and photos of her affair, as well as a confession from her lover. Moreover, she even flips out when Alan revealed he has a girlfriend, chewing him out only for Alan to get back to the issue. When her pleas for remarriage become desperate as Alan declares that he'll communicate through a lawyer and threaten the police. Alan threatens to get the police involved if she kept getting involved with him before hanging up, leaving her to cry and break down into whining before being sued.

  Natalie: (crying) Alan won't show me mercy! He won't forgive me! Why!? Why, why, why, why? Why do I have to go through this!? I just like men who have money!

• "My wife was cheating on me so I called everyone to witness it": Shortly after Mary quit her job to remarry Kevin, the man is revealed to have embezzled money from the company to buy expensive stuff for Mary, and promptly gets arrested for his crime.
• "My husband got one of the mom friends I know pregnant...": Richard has been embezzling money from his company by buying things for his mistress Chloe. His wife Hillary has been investing in the company to cover him but when she found out about the affair, she divorced and exposed him.
• "My boss stole my wife and took my job from me…": Aiden turns out to not only have embezzled the company's funds and framed Adam for it, but upon further investigation, he also forged documents.
• "A JERK dumped my friend for her younger sister and said she was ugly...": When Misty and her husband Roger broke into Alan and Tara's wedding to announce that Roger is the CEO of Trow Bull Construction, Alan reveals that the real CEO was actually his friend Kyle Calverson. It turns out Alan had a majority share in the company and Roger was actually an accountant who was in Kyle's sights for embezzlement.
• "My former fiancee came back to haunt me but my friends came to save the day!": Melanie's new rich fiancé, Mark, turned out to not only have embezzled money from his company but also bullied Miranda into becoming suicidal until she met Alan and exposed Mark's harassment together.
• "My husband cheated on me with my best friend, but it didn't turn out very well for them": Shawn has his assets seized by Alex one month after the latter's team investigated the former's embezzlement and wasteful spending of 12 million dollars despite having a $500,000 income, effectively becoming destitute. As a result, his new wife, Lisa, dumps him, his entire family rejects him, and Hillary blocks him. However, Shawn breaks into a wealthy acquaintance's house to steal money but gets arrested after the neighbors hear his painful screams from getting bit by the guard dog and call the cops on him.
• "My boss stole my wife and my clients, but I was actually investigating him undercover for the CEO": Mr. Kabrofski not only framed Alan for embezzlement but cheated him of every single client he could have. When Alan confronts the bastard over it, the former's wife, Erica, sides with the latter and presents fake evidence so she can divorce Alan and remarry Mr. Kabrofski because of his money and power. However, the duo's scheme is foiled when Alan and Hillary present real evidence to the Disciplinary Review Board. As a result, the lovebirds are sacked, sued, and jailed for their trouble.

• Kiara was picked on by both her sister Karen and their parents for being fat and therefore "ugly," which caused her self-esteem issues.
• "A JERK dumped my friend for her younger sister and said she was ugly...": Misty picked on her twin sister, Tara, for being fat and "ugly," which caused her self-esteem issues, especially when the former steals the latter's boyfriend, Roger.

"My younger sister bragged about stealing my husband..."

original JP version

Erika: How dare you let me steal that kind of man from you? You monster!