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
昼食13.51
怒鳴る13.71
玄関ホール14.67
泣き崩れる14.64
尊重14.09
ブロンド14.66
二人12.19
出す12.43
コート13.86
合い13.68
怖い12.81
のか11.74
別物14.20
硬い13.44
下りる13.84
ボロボロ13.68
記録13.45
期待12.90
残る12.71
食材13.30
割り切る14.13
捨てる13.06
下がる13.19
巴豆12.47
比べ13.80
飾る13.67
もので12.67
無くてはならない14.57
時に12.57
大違い14.43
起きる12.74
醜い13.92
購入13.40
12.67
虚ろ14.12
石畳13.96
悪びれる14.37
飲む12.84
呟き13.31
特別13.12
係る13.24
正規14.13
捻出14.68
窓辺14.57
来る12.08
閉ざす13.80
無表情13.53
赤い12.81
文字13.20
金がない15.00
雨風14.94
12.85
前に12.25
ですか12.36
足元13.26
人たち13.20
所謂13.49
罵る14.12
12.30
悪い12.37
出し12.32
金勘定15.25
数年後14.58
充実13.94
決して12.91
夕食13.39
取り13.16
のに12.21
成り立つ13.95
膨れ13.99
貯蓄14.69
砂上の楼閣15.60
がし13.14
分かる12.00
押しかけ14.37
無駄13.03
安酒場16.04
市内12.23
解放感15.03
経費14.45
宿る13.56
社交界の花15.91
13.26
これは12.28
遅い13.19
分厚い13.77
そんな11.84
市場13.73
三年13.75
様子12.34
あっさり13.15
明け渡す14.86
覚える13.07
12.67
何よりも13.56
吐き出す13.41
予備費16.07
まとめる13.82
番頭14.75
城壁13.43

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