The Wife Without Color

The Wife Without Color

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"Living with you suffocates me. It's like dwelling with a gray wall." Alan, the head of an impoverished noble family, uttered these words to Elena, the daughter of a merchant house whom he had taken as a political marriage, before divorcing her. Elena was plain, taciturn, and spent her days facing nothing but account books—a "boring woman." Unaware that this very "mundane daily life" was a happiness more precious than anything else, Alan dreamed of marrying his brilliant and lovely mistress, Lilia. Elena nodded quietly and left the mansion. All she left behind was a single thick household account book. From the day after Elena's departure, Alan's life began to crumble. The warm meals that had appeared without thought, the tidy bedding, the seasonal flowers—when he realized that these were not "magic" but rather maintained through Elena's meticulous calculations and labor, Alan had already lost everything.

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Reading Time
44 min
Words 1,875
Sentences 205
Characters 3,483
Unique Words 757
1-Occurrence Words
541
Unique Kanji 540
1-Occurrence Kanji
273
Avg Word Difficulty 2.13
Avg Sentence Length 9.1

Word List (757 words)

WordFrequencyDifficulty
さ21.59
計画23.25
上げる22.58
ああ22.23
ため22.26
おい22.87
ドレス23.23
さようなら24.34
紅茶23.50
逃げ出す23.33
借金23.86
ばかり22.53
せず23.08
吐く22.90
持つ22.02
小さな22.71
目立つ13.21
理路整然15.15
指示を出す13.96
合わせて13.08
誰12.78
万年筆15.04
決して12.91
愛くるしい14.65
詩14.19
疲れ13.16
玄関ホール14.67
数12.61
無理はない14.01
役に立つ13.45
ですか12.36
社交界の花15.91
引く手あまた15.36
泣き崩れる14.64
安らぐ14.64
砂上の楼閣15.60
飲む12.84
予備費16.07
でしょうか12.77
扱う13.21
肉12.78
まとめる13.82
あちこち13.50
硬い13.44
利益13.54
泥障15.11
のに12.21
歩み寄り14.39
始め13.31
番頭14.75
体調13.59
呟き13.31
食卓14.11
照らす13.40
選ぶ12.84
所が13.12
分厚い13.77
味13.06
数年後14.58
宝石13.36
毎日13.21
予算配分15.84
興味12.96
香辛料14.12
満月14.30
目覚める13.66
巴豆12.47
目撃13.81
互いに13.41
向かう12.31
何の12.78
貯蓄14.69
喜び13.37
始まる12.93
土台14.28
立て直す14.11
巻く13.53
係る13.24
築く13.67
がし13.14
後に12.87
野バラ14.97
完済15.37
お蔭で13.05
刻12.65
捻出14.68
予算オーバー15.82
平坦14.32
ようだ12.24
取扱説明書15.84
多く12.66
青ざめる13.86
見える12.26
少ない12.78
お湯13.74
経営13.82
不思議12.81
立つ12.58
震わせる13.45
適正14.21

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