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
芳醇14.81
ピンク13.89
すると12.35
列挙15.12
安酒場16.04
尊重14.09
予算オーバー15.82
お越しになる15.82
在庫管理15.70
季節13.72
冷ややか14.08
彩り14.63
13.21
染め13.64
成り立つ13.95
一方13.21
金勘定15.25
敏腕15.27
利益13.54
金がない15.00
それに12.23
ことから13.46
提示13.79
数年後14.58
んじゃ12.56
12.98
振り返る12.95
12.70
呼ぶ12.52
店先14.67
呟き13.31
押しかけ14.37
雨風14.94
時に12.57
時には13.07
照らす13.40
爵位13.71
なるほど12.67
分かる12.00
雇う13.53
二人12.19
砂上の楼閣15.60
甘い言葉14.87
染み14.05
後ろ12.63
領地13.13
初めて12.64
別物14.20
取り13.16
尽くす13.43
捻出14.68
弟子12.49
画僧12.89
囁き14.04
役に立つ13.45
仕入れ14.04
駄目12.86
下りる13.84
来る12.08
快適14.05
一本13.25
異変13.77
農地13.24
寝具14.36
経営者14.62
確認12.44
相場14.08
のか11.74
崩れ落ちる13.64
雨漏り15.39
銀色13.70
理路整然15.15
社交界14.02
じゃ無いか12.84
強請る14.47
12.89
済み13.55
為に12.22
何の12.78
最高級14.42
囁く13.56
ふう13.64
築く13.67
譲り受ける14.81
時間の無駄14.51
毎朝14.38
12.96
生きていく13.95
適正14.21
13.07
12.31
膨れ13.99
自分のために14.53
城壁13.43
流れる13.28
新しい12.99
三年13.75
人々12.97
12.93
人生13.17

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