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私は一途な「サブヒーロー」を五年間攻略してきた。 彼と共に困難を乗り越え、ついに彼はテクノロジー企業の新鋭へと這い上がった。 
 進捗バーが100％に達したその時――ヒロインが突然帰国した。 鈍感な夫は花束を手に、正装でヒロインを出迎える。 
 「俺の家は、いつでも君を歓迎するよ」 可愛がってきた息子もヒロインの手を握り、嫌悪の表情で私を見つめる。 
 「ママなんか、寧々（ねね）お姉ちゃんの足元にも及ばないよ」 エプロンを着け、フライ返しを手にしている私は、ふと全てが虚しくなった。 
 システムの警告を無視し、離婚届をぽんと置き、家を去った。 その後、夫と息子は揃って跪き、涙を流しながら私の帰りを乞うのだった――

婚約者の藤原蓮（ふじわら れん）には、18年間も大切にしている女の子・藤原光希（ふじわら みつき）がいた。 私たちの婚約を知った途端、光希は私にちょっかいを出すようになった。 彼女は庭のバラを引っこ抜いて菜の花に植え替えたり、新居のオートロックの暗証番号を勝手に自分の誕生日に変えたりした。 でも、私はいつも笑って許してあげていた。 だって、蓮がいつもこう言っていたから。 「光希はまだ若い。君に俺の愛情を全部取られちゃうんじゃないかって、不安なだけなんだよ」 そして、月日は流れて、光希は大人になった。 彼女のせいで、蓮は私たちの結婚式を100回もドタキャンした。しかも、その理由はいつも信じられないようなものばかりだった。 1回目は、光希とディズニーランドの花火を見に行かなくちゃいけないって。 33回目は、光希とS国へ海を見に行く約束をしたからって。 そして99回目。バージンロードを歩き始めたまさにその時、病院から電話がかかってきた。光希が急性盲腸炎で倒れた、と。 …… ついに、100回目。光希がポップアップストアに行きたいと言い出して結婚式をすっぽかしたせいで、蓮はまたしても式を延期した。 彼は去る際に、本当に申し訳なさそうな顔でこう言った。 「次は、次は絶対に光希に時間通りに来るように言い聞かせるから。だから、怒らないでくれ」 私は静かに微笑むだけで、何も答えなかった。 もう次はない。100回目の結婚式は、これでおしまい。 蓮との関係も、もうこれ以上続ける意味なんてない。

My mom was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Her life is smooth-sailing most of the time. The only mistake she's ever made is falling for my dad. That's why she insists on finding me a husband who's the complete opposite of my dad. My dad is tall and intimidating-looking, so Mom wants someone who's short and perverted-looking. My dad is a knowledgeable and well-read man, so Mom wants a guy who has only graduated from elementary school. My dad prioritizes his moral integrity more than anything else, so Mom prefers a guy who drinks, gambles, and sleeps around. She tells me, "This type of man is easy to manipulate, unlike your father, who just divorced me out of nowhere!" It's true that the man Mom has chosen for me won't divorce me. After all, he leeches from me on top of beating me up. It's not enough to leech my money from me, it seems—he just has to take everything from me. My mom says in a righteous tone, "This is the only way that proves you're valuable to him. He won't divorce you at all." I've fought back and escaped from my husband many times. Every time I do, my mom will trick me into returning to him by hurting herself. As always, I'm greeted with another round of beating whenever I do return to him. Mom will take me to the hospital to get my injuries treated. Then, she'll say, "Hurry up and give birth to a son for him. Once you have a son, you'll be extremely valuable to your husband. He won't beat you up anymore." Today is supposed to be the day Mom takes me to the hospital to check my ovulation timing. She spends a long time calling me on the phone, yet I never pick up. After that, she sends me a few audio messages that last for 60 seconds each just to lecture me. "Beatrice Anderson, what makes you think you can just ignore my calls? The hospital check-up is for your own good! As long as you can get pregnant with a son, your husband will be wrapped around your finger! He won't divorce you after this! Why can't you understand how much I care for you?" I seriously can't understand at all. After all, I've gotten beaten to death yesterday. My corpse is cut into 28 chunks, and they are being frozen in the fridge as I speak.

【おめでとうございます。攻略対象との結婚の倦怠期を、完璧に乗り越えました】 【今回の報酬は、『タイムリープ』です】 【プレイヤーさんおよび攻略対象は、記憶を保持したまま過去に戻り、再び恋をやり直すことができます】 陽気なシステム音声が流れる中――律の心は、少しも晴れなかった。 彼女は呆然と、誠司の頭上に浮かぶ「好感度ゲージ」を見つめていた。 そこには、変わらず「100％」の数字が表示されていた。 ――この人の愛は、偽物じゃない。 でも、どうしても理解できなかった。 こんなに彼女を愛しているはずの人が、どうして彼女に隠れて、他の女との間に子どもを作ったのか。 しかも――もう四歳だ。 四年間、ずっと黙っていた。 しかもその男の子は、彼女のことを「おばちゃん」って呼んでいたのに。

남자친구 라파엘에게 잔혹하게 버림받은 리라는 상심을 잊기 위해 고급 바를 찾는다. 그녀가 모르는 사실은, 자신의 친언니 카산드르가 어두운 의도를 품고 그곳으로 그녀를 유인했다는 것이다. 바로 리라의 취약한 상태를 이용해 최음제를 탠 술을 먹이고 변태에게 팔아넘기려는 계획이었다. 약물의 효과로 리라는 완전히 통제력을 잃고 한 낯선 남자와 격렬한 밤을 보낸다. 이른 아침, 그녀는 100유로짜리 지폐와 함께 도발적인 쪽지를 남기고 떠난다: "너는 이보다 더 가치 있지 않아." 하지만 거대 기업의 CEO인 알렉상드르에게 이 밤은 전환점이 된다. 그는 불꽃 같은 눈빛의 그 젊은 여성을 반드시 찾기로 결심한다. 교통사고로 그는 기억을 잃고 만다. 간신히 회복한 그는 수사를 재개한다.

From my earliest memories, my entire family is cold and distant toward me. When my parents look at my younger sister, Claire Lloyd, their eyes fill with warmth and joy. Yet, when they turn to me, only disgust remains. Claire's life is filled with applause and excessive love, while mine is filled with disdain and suffering. When the explosion erupts at the street corner, I save the stranger beside me. Later, I learn he is Byron Whitmore, a mafia family's Don. He begins pursuing me after I rescue him. Later, I quit my job and move to a new place, but he finds me and proposes in 100 different ways. "Why me?" I ask countless times. "Because it's you," he always answers. The wedding causes a sensation throughout the city. I truly seem to have transformed from an ugly duckling into a swan. That is, until I'm five months pregnant, when Claire needs a transfusion of rare Rh-negative blood after a car accident. The blood bank has a shortage. Because of that, my parents knock me unconscious and send me to the hospital. In my daze, the blood extraction machine hums continuously. As two thousand milliliters of blood leave my body, I see Byron. Tears well up in my eyes. I begin thinking he's here to save me. Instead, I hear him say, "We can't take any more. Sharon and the baby will die." "But Claire has lost too much blood. She'll die, too..." My mother pleads. "No one wants Claire safe more than I do." Byron's voice is thick with pain. "She's my first love. I've never forgotten her. I only married Sharon because her face looks so much like Claire's. "But I can't trade her life for Claire's. Trust me—I'll find another way." So, that's his reason for marrying me. The blood extraction machine continues running, but my heart has already stopped beating. The affection I see in his eyes has never been for me. He's always looking through me at someone else. Everyone in the world loves Claire, and Byron is not the exception that I foolishly believe him to be. That grand wedding is nothing but an ugly duckling's self-deceiving fantasy.

On the day I'm set to go into labor, I plead to my husband, Timothy Langford, to take me to the hospital when I'm two centimeters dilated. However, a pissed-looking Timothy orders his men to lock me up in a sauna room that's heated to 356 degrees Fahrenheit. This is all because my estimated labor date is one day earlier than my widowed sister-in-law, Natalie Thornton. Since Timothy is bent on making Natalie's baby the oldest grandson of the Langford family, he instructs his men to inject me with 100 labor-suppressant injections. No matter how much I beg Timothy to spare our baby, he remains unmoved. Having received 99 injections, I feel a world of pain crashing down on me, seeing as I'm already suffering from contractions to begin with. But Timothy is the one who injects the final labor-suppressant injection into my huge pregnancy bump. As he gazes at my agonized and writhing form, he says coldly, "It's already difficult for Natalie to survive in this world after losing my older brother. As her brother-in-law, I'm merely fulfilling her wish to become a mother. "Still, you refuse to spare her. It's not enough for you to force her to survive overseas on her own; you even plan on receiving labor-induction injections just to give birth to your baby on an earlier date! "It seems that I've spoiled you far too much for you to have the guts to pull this stunt off! The doctor already told me that once I've given you the labor-suppressant injections and leave you somewhere extremely hot, it can stop you from giving birth. You're only allowed to give birth once Natalie is out of labor." At that moment, I've completely given up on life. The moment Timothy witnesses Natalie's baby being born, his eyes are filled with tears of happiness. He sets off firework after firework to celebrate the grand birth. Later on, as Timothy gazes at Natalie's newborn, he finally remembers me and our unborn baby. When he's about to order his men to take me to the hospital, he receives a phone call from his assistant. "The hospital has called to inform you to take Mrs. Langford's body away."

I'm Alpha Bruce Smith's most docile and understanding daughter. In fact, I'm the type who obeys literally anyone's orders. When my parents pick me up at the Rogues' den and take me back to the pack, my adopted younger sister, Andrea Smith, begins making fun of me. "I thought the Rogues killed you for sure! I never thought you'd be able to return to the pack, safe and sound! You really are lucky! Why can't you just die already?" With hollow eyes, I just nod quietly. Then, I extend a claw and move to stab myself in the neck without hesitation. My parents are terrified out of their wits. They quickly stop me from hurting myself. But my older brother, Tobias Smith, remains impassive about my condition. "You really love attention that much, huh? What makes you think you can still remain my sister, anyway? You might as well drink some wolfsbane and die!" That night, I grab a bottle of poison and down it immediately. Tobias discovers me afterward. He whisks me to the hospital anxiously. When the doctor tells him that I'd die if he were two minutes later in discovering me, Tobias' complexion turns pale. Some time after that, when Andrea snatches my necklace from me, she loses her balance and falls down the stairs. Her fiance points at me while exclaiming, "It's just a necklace! If anything were to happen to Andrea, you'd better pay the price with your life!" Pay the price with my life, huh? I don't hesitate to draw the silver sword out of its hilt on the wall. Then, I slash my throat with it. My parents happen to witness it. Shell-shocked, they scream at the top of their lungs. "Call an ambulance! Hurry!" Tobias tries to stem the blood flow with trembling hands. He's completely stunned by the ordeal. What everyone doesn't know is that they've been calling me a lowlife during my five-year stay in the Rogues' den. Even if I could live 100 times over, those lives are nothing compared to Andrea. Even if I gave my life, it would never be enough—because to them, my life was never worth anything in the first place.

夫と一緒に山登りに出かけた時、私が摘んだ野生の果実を食べた夫が中毒で亡くなった。 家に戻ると、一組の母子が訪ねてきた。夫が彼女たちに家と車を渡しただけでなく、多額の借金までしていることを教えてくれた。 そして、私は自分の貯金も含め、全てを彼女たちに渡した。 さらに、病気の義母を介護するため、毎日早朝から深夜まで三つのバイトを掛け持ちし、食事もご飯一杯だけで済ませる日々が続いた。 長年の過労で私は病で倒れたが、義母は医師に治療をやめるよう告げた。 死の淵にいる私の前に、夫とあの母子は現れ、100円貨を投げてきながら言った。 「母さんの世話を長い間ありがとう」 その瞬間、夫が死んだのは全て嘘で、初恋の相手と私生児と過ごすための策略だったことを知った。 幸運なことに、私は生まれ変わり、夫と一緒に山登りに行ったあの日に戻っていた。

彼氏・武川裕輝（たけかわ ひろき）が99回目に私の薬指に指輪をはめたその瞬間、彼の義妹・生原蓉子（いくはら ようこ）から電話がかかってきた。 そして彼は、抑うつ症状を起こした蓉子を慰めるため、99回目となる結婚式の最中に私を置き去りにした。 私はもう耐えきれず、その背中に向かって叫んだ。 「もしあなたがどうしても行くというのなら、私は別の人と結婚するわ！」 だが彼は取り合わず、私を責め立てた。 「お前はどうしてそんなにわがままなんだ？結婚なんていつでもできる。でも蓉子は俺にとって唯一の妹なんだ」 そう言い残し、振り返りもせず去っていった。 私はただ、道化のようにその場に立ち尽くすことしかできなかった。 彼は知らない。今回の私は、本気だったのだ。 そして後日―― 100回目のプロポーズをして膝をついた裕輝の前で、彼の兄・武川一輝（たけかわ かずき）が片腕で私の腰を抱き寄せ、低い声で告げた。 「悪いな、弟よ。これからは彼女のことを『お義姉さん』と呼ぶんだな」