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
返済14.46
なので12.48
悲しみ13.79
突きつける13.74
いいえ13.41
開け13.07
ビクリと14.51
せい12.98
最高級14.42
13.26
薄い13.15
気づき13.96
成り立つ13.95
風呂13.43
不思議12.81
頼む12.70
続ける12.56
見える12.26
契約13.12
コツコツ14.46
申し訳ございません13.87
でもない12.85
雇う13.53
感謝12.96
利益13.54
数日13.33
巻く13.53
その頃13.75
おはよう13.57
もん12.71
息が詰まる14.89
穏やか13.23
12.31
愛くるしい14.65
ルート13.51
11.95
囁く13.56
持ち込む13.57
別物14.20
吐き出す13.41
12.98
一人一人14.21
声をかける13.47
取り13.16
当時13.28
そんな11.84
酸っぱい14.40
快適14.05
ありがとう12.86
役に立つ13.45
無駄13.03
香辛料14.12
味わう13.58
上がる12.69
受け取る13.03
誰か12.71
前に12.25
ことから13.46
託す13.81
香り13.32
雅語14.02
貯める14.08
お越しになる15.82
12.67
相場14.08
分かる12.00
ようだ12.24
湯水のように15.35
割り切る14.13
呟き13.31
付け12.69
閉ざす13.80
じゃ無いか12.84
資金難15.80
頼もしい13.76
金勘定15.25
罵る14.12
喜ぶ13.26
画僧12.89
12.74
市場13.73
削る13.52
書き込む14.05
修復13.54
酷い13.02
変更13.44
数年後14.58
宝石13.36
かも知れない12.21
目覚める13.66
お蔭で13.05
消化14.12
革表紙15.98
12.97
笑う12.45
尊重14.09
12.15
んじゃ12.56
彼ら12.47
助言13.85

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