夫が「生活費は完全折半、自分の分は自分で払え」と命令。私は即答で「わかった」と私物を全て売却――翌日、空っぽの家と山積み請求書を見た夫の顔から血の気が引いた

For seven years of marriage, Mayu had single-handedly shouldered all the household chores, childcare, and even the smallest payments for living expenses for her husband, Shota. Breakfast, laundry, cleaning, ironing, childcare, dealing with relatives— Her husband never helped with a single thing, and she took it for granted. Then one night, Shota coldly declared: "From now on, we'll split the living expenses completely. You pay for your own share." Mayu didn't cry, nor did she get angry; she simply replied quietly: "I understand." The next day, she sold all the furniture, brand-name goods, appliances, and houseplants in her name that were in their home. She stopped making breakfast. She stopped doing laundry. She stopped paying household expenses. She began to perfectly implement the "complete 50/50 split" her husband wanted. Meanwhile, her husband's life quickly fell apart. An empty living room, piles of bills, flickering utilities, a messy room, wrinkled shirts. The husband finally realizes that his comfortable life up until then had been entirely due to his wife's devotion. Around that time, Mayu had made a huge success opening a book cafe with her best friend, and was reclaiming her life. Then, when their son was hospitalized with a high fever, a single word from her husband completely extinguished her last vestiges of affection. "Let's split the hospital bills later." As a mother, as a woman, Mayu decided she would never go back. And a few months later, her husband, having lost everything, reappears before her, utterly changed. "Please, come back. I was wrong." But it's too late. What was the final answer the wife gave to her husband, who wanted a "complete 50/50 split"? This is a thrilling reversal story of a wife, treated like a free housekeeper, who turns her husband's selfish rules against him and reclaims her and her child's future.