Viral Texts (話題のLINE, Wadai no LINE, "Viral LINEs" in Japanese) is a Web Video series where stories are played out in text conversations.
The videos cover various topics such as marriages and divorce, stalking and so on. The English channel can be found here
. The original Japanese channel can be found here
.
Compare to similar channel Apple Texts.
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Viral Texts contains examples of:
- Abandon the Disabled: Miranda
divorces Derrick and ditches him upon learning the car accident he suffered rendered him paraplegic. Three years later, she becomes engaged to a seemingly-wealthy man named Andrew Sutton and texts Derrick to rub it on his face. Unfortunately for her, Derrick reveals that Sutton was a problematic new hire at his company who dresses in Chinese knockoffs of expensive clothes to trick women. - Academia Elitism:
- Jane
not only bragged about her daughter going to the prestigious A University and having a relationship with college heartthrob Bob, but was condescending towards Helen for letting her own attend a culinary school rather than go to college. However, not only it turns out that Bob wasn't going to said uni because he was helping Helen's daughter move, but Jane screwed up her daughter's opportunities by neglecting to turn in the paperwork to get her accepted in the first place. - Jenny
looks down on Mary not only for being a poor single mother and letting her son, David, take up soccer instead of academic pursuits, unlike her own son, James, who just got admitted at Middleton Academy. However, Mary quickly shuts her up by revealing David was admitted at Sturgis Academy, which was far more prestigious than Middleton, she flipped her lid at Mary for allegedly lying until she revealed she had an older son in Yale as well. - June
not only turned on her husband Aaron for cleaning toilets instead of taking an IT job fitting with his knowledge, but also derided the janitor job as something high-school dropouts do. Later on in the epilogue, Aaron narrates that she got it from her father, and during the time she worked at her father's company, she treated the cleaning staff like crap. - Felicia
looked down on her older sister Iris for dropping out of high school while bragging about her college diploma after getting a job at the company the latter worked at. However, Felicia's college-graduate status was just for show as she not only had no useful skills to provide for the company, but the reason she got the job in the first place was because she slept with the head of HR.
- Jane
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The antagonist will usually beg the protagonist not to leave when they've had enough of their mistreatment.
- Arranged Marriage:
- "My stepmom tried to force me to marry an old guy to bail out my scumbag dad's company"
: Jennifer tried to marry off her stepsister Natalie to try to save her husband's dying business. However what Jennifer didn't know is that Natalie is actually the younger sister and is only 15. Natalie then tried to change it to Christy, Natalie's older sister but she was already married. In the end their father's business failed and Jennifer was forced to pay the groom's parents since she wasn't able to get the bride. - "My sister thought she was stealing my fiance, but she made a critical mistake"
: Rachel finds out her parents tried to marry her off to a man named Hugo while she was engaged to someone else. However, her younger sister Morgan hijacks the marriage thinking he was too good for Rachel by hooking him into an affair, become pregnant with his child, and switching brides behind everyone's back. Predictably, the wedding goes bust as the merging of the companies of both newlyweds' families will never come to fruition because the bride isn't Rachel. To top it off, Morgan ends up suffering a miserable life as the scapegoat of her new husband's family for ruining the deal. - "Just two weeks after leaving me for a man she said she was meant to be with"
: Jodi is married off by her parents to an older man as punishment for breaking up with Liam to stalk Arnold and try to cow him into breaking up with his own girlfriend —and Liam's sister— Emma. - "Still thinking I'm a nobody, an old classmate from high school tells me to stay away"
: Navy is married off to a subordinate of her father's shortly after finding out the ruckus she made over Grace being the model Andrew has married instead of her. Needless to say, the fiancé and his parents were strict traditionalists and thus Navy lived a miserable life of being molded into a "proper" wife in their eyes. - "My fiancée wanted to both sleep with her ex AND get married to me..."
: Nelly is married off to a thrice-divorced man (whose three ex-wives were chased out by his mother) after word of her affair with a married boss reached her parents as he lived close to them. She tried to resist it by trying to get back with Shane, whom she cheated on, but ends up in a worse situation as not only Shane refused to remarry her, but Nelly earned a lawsuit for crashing a stranger's wedding thinking it was Shane's. Eventually, Nelly had to go through with marrying the guy her parents picked out for her and was disowned afterward, condemning herself to a miserable existence as her mother-in-law's newest slave.
- "My stepmom tried to force me to marry an old guy to bail out my scumbag dad's company"
- Attempted Homewrecker:
- Marge
wants her sister Jenny's fiance Gerry, despite having a boyfriend herself, because she thinks she's a better fit due to her superior looks on top of the fact that Gerry is better looking than her own boyfriend. Marge calls Jenny and tells her that Gerry is now her fiance, with her parents even supporting Marge, much to Gerry's horror. After Gerry refuses her advances Marge decides to sneak into Gerry's house in her underwear and hugs him, which causes Gerry run away and call the cops. Marge ends up screwing up her own life for her actions; she gets arrested while in her underwear, finds out from Jenny that Gerry's coworkers, including Marge's boyfriend, saw her trying to seduce Gerry due to him being in an online business meeting, which causes her boyfriend to break up with her, and ends up getting sued for causing Gerry's coworkers emotional distress. - Sally
is revealed, three years after divorcing Dave over a wedding invitation, to have used it as an excuse to elope with another man, but since he took so long in divorcing his own wife, Sally made the harebrained mistake of confronting the wife in order to cow her into a divorce, only to get sued for compensation, which drove the cheating ex to try and get back with Dave. Much to her dismay, Dave remarried a more loyal woman introduced by his aunt. - Vivian
persistently pursued and flirted with Wade, who is married with kids. Understandably, Wade rejects her advances and tries to make her understand it, but she keeps at it even when others try to get her off his back and make it clear for her. Eventually, Vivian's antics escalated into trying to switch rooms with a male employee in the company trip to be close with Wade, eventually leading him to leave early upon finding out she was doing all this to get her fiancé's family off her back as they were strict traditionalists.
- Marge
- The Baby Trap:
- Lucas
accuses Julia of lying about being pregnant just to get back with him despite the fact she really is pregnant and has no feelings for him. Furthermore, Lucas refused to hear her when she disputed his claims and slandered her on his social media to get her hounded by comments that harped on how awful she was for doing so. It turned out he was engaged to a woman named Mia, who was the daughter of a CEO. Moreover, he tried to keep Mia in the dark about his ongoing affair and wanted her to delete the post. - Sara
got pregnant from an affair behind Carl's back. At first, she asked him to sleep together, but her sudden change of attitude tipped him off. When he decided to ignore her during her pregnancy on the advice of his best friend Rob, Sara tried to convince him that the baby was his, but he didn't fall for it. When she finally gave birth, he sued her for compensation as he already knew the baby was her lover's. - Five years after Mirium
ditched Nick to find another, wealthier man after his workplace went bust, she tries to get back with him after he became a CEO. It turns out she got back with Bob, an ex-boyfriend of hers back in high school, and became pregnant. However, he bailed on her upon being notified. When Mirium tries to bring up her pregnancy to guilt-trip Nick into letting her back into his life, he refuses, especially as he was already married. Eventually, Nick reports her affair to her workplace as payback.
- Lucas
- Big Eater: Leanna
eats a lot of food but refuses to pay her part of the bill leaving the other moms to cover the bill. She and her family managed to eat 50 plates of sushi each at a restaurant. - Big Sister Bully:
- Maria
bullied her younger sister, Lily, by stealing her stuff. Moreover, she escalated things by stealing Lily's fiancé, George. While Lily seemed to give up, she exposed Maria's true self to George's parents. - Caroline
always stole things from her younger sister, Susan, since childhood and used her position as the older sister to justify it. Moreover, she gloated about having stolen Susan's fiancé, Andrew, and announced her wedding ceremony one year later to twist the knife even further.
- Maria
- Blackmail: Cheryl
tried to blackmail Kerry because she allegedly had a photo of her cheating on her husband and began extorting her for money for her silence. Cheryl's scheme was eventually found out and she was divorced by her husband. - Blaming the Cuckold:
- Melanie's
sister Brianna stole her boyfriend in college and her husband Troy. Brianna claims that both affairs were Melanie's fault for being boring and busy at work. - Cassidy and Miley's parents
were so doting towards the latter that when she went and stole the former's fiancé, Samuel, they blamed Cassidy for her sister's homewrecking to the point of shoving her down the stairs.
- Melanie's
- Bland-Name Product: The pizza restaurants Papa Ron's and Little Ebenezer's from this episode
are based off of real-life pizza chains Papa John's and Little Caesar's, respectively. - "Blind Idiot" Translation: Some later episodes have grammatical errors and typos and mistranslated dialogue.
- Book Dumb: Aubrey Anderson
is a college student whom Isaac Robbins sought out for running over his wife Matilda, yet she not only is dismissive of his plight, but dismisses his threats of court and criminal charges as "big fancy words" despite the fact she should already know this as a college student. - Bratty Teenage Daughter: Rachael
is a college-aged girl who antagonized her stepmother, Lisa. When her real mother, Renee, returns under the veneer of being a "celebrity," she takes it at face value and decides to live with Renee to spite Lisa for being poor. However, Rachael realizes it was a big mistake as Renee and her husband took all the money from her dad's account and the pretty dresses they bought for her were actually shady-shop uniforms. - The Bully: Liza
bullied Jenny in high school and even when they grew up, she threatened Jenny and even went as far as to steal her husband. When Jenny and her husband divorced, he lost his job and Liza was forced to work three jobs to provide for him. - Business Trip Adultery:
- "My wife was on an affair trip, so I reserved the room next doors to them..."
: Mary lies to her husband, Rob, about being on business trips to steal Rob's money and spend it on a man named Ted behind his back. Eventually, Rob finds out and exposes the affair to Ted's wife, who was the real reason he's wealthy in the first place. - "Knowing that my wife is cheating on me"
: Cortney turns out to have cheated on Billy with his coworker, Max, under the pretense of a "business trip", but the cuckolded husband finds out when Max sends him a photo of the affair with his "younger girlfriend" to rub it in. When Billy tells him the truth, Max is disgusted because he didn't know Cortney was married; she lied to him about being a single college student.
- "My wife was on an affair trip, so I reserved the room next doors to them..."
- Callously Casual Cheating: While some cheaters prefer to be more discreet, others are have no issue with being more open about their cheating for different reasons, such as thinking that their partner is too much of a doormat to retaliate and/or, blaming their lover for being cheated on, or, if their partner decides to sue them, not being worried because the affair partner is rich or seems rich. This attitude will always go out the window once the protagonist decides to retaliate, with the cheater pulling a 180 by doing things insisting that it was only a moment of weakness that won't happen again, begging for mercy and/or forgiveness, or by begging to get back together.
- Cheater Gets Cheated On:
- Naomi's mother
was a Gold Digger who cheated on and divorced her first husband for Randy, wealthy man, after her husband got sick and lost his job. Years later, after Randy loses his money, she decides to cheat on and abandon him for another wealthy man. - Taylor
had an affair with Avril's husband, Dan, thinking he was the CEO of Lubricated Enterprises; she even gloated about becoming pregnant with his child to twist the knife. However, this becomes Taylor's undoing after she learns that Dan is infertile and actually married to Avril's older sister Jess, who is the real CEO. It turns out the distress Dan showed at Taylor's pregnancy announcement clued him on that she had been seeing other guys behind his back. After being sued for compensation, Taylor barged into her lovers' houses in search for the father, but it worsened her debts as she unwittingly exposed them to their wives, who promptly sue her to oblivion. - Margot
seduced Patty's childhood friend, Danny, away from her and becomes his wife in her place. However, it's all for naught when Patty reveals she's getting married to Gary, who is the man she truly was head-over-heels for, with Margot demanding she "give him back" as they were having a wedding in Greece. Much to the homewrecker's further dismay, Patty reveals that Danny was a rampant womanizer and party animal. - Anna
seduced Miranda's husband, Matt, away from her and kicked her out of her own home thinking he owned the apartment and she would marry him. Much to the homewrecker's dismay, not only it turns out the owner wasn't Matt, but his older brother George, who kicked her out, but becomes completely devastated upon learning that Matt ditched her for her older sister Sandra, whom he also had an affair with.
- Naomi's mother
- Cheating with the Milkman: Fed up with Angelica trying to break up his marriage to Bailey, Trent
makes a background check on her and finds out she has been cheating on her second ex-husband with the gardener and the electrician for eight years. - Childhood Friends:
- Tanya
combines this trope with Stalker with a Crush; she was Shane's friend since childhood, but became obsessive and possessive towards him when he married another woman named Zoe, even going as far as booking a flight to Mexico with the intent of hijacking the couple's honeymoon. - Danny
, the guy Margot seduced away from Patty, was the latter's childhood friend, turned ex-boyfriend because of the former. - "She believed that I was gonna marry her"
: Jane was friends with Tod since childhood, but she was a pathological liar who regaled him with tall tales about how she was asked out by several guys to make him jealous. Eventually, when Tod announces he's getting married, Jane thinks it's to her and ropes her parents in, looking forward to the day. However, it turns out Tod was getting married to Jenna, who was bullied by Jane during their time at the cram school.
- Tanya
- Chuunibyou: Aaron
is an otaku who not only addressed Hunter as "Lady Hermione" in reference to a mobile otome game, but talks to her in a flowery speech pattern. Moreover, Hunter herself revealed his Instagram handle was "The Winged Harbinger of Chaos". She even namedrops the trope when calling Aaron out on his BS. - Class Reunion: Julia
tries to get her husband, Nate, to attend the high-school reunion party with her despite having scheduled a dinner with his grandparents the same day as said party. After Nate understandably refuses to attend with her, Julia decides to have an affair with his former classmate, Mark. - Closet Shuffle: Marge
hid in Gerry's closet after sneaking into his house and popped out of there wearing nothing but her bra and underwear to charm him into picking her instead of her older sister Jenny, right after his web conference started. When he locked himself in the bathroom in response, she started to do unmentionable things on camera. Moreover, her own boyfriend was at the conference and dumped her to protect his dignity, on top of the other employees suing her for damages and emotional distress. - Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The protagonist's texts are usually in a blue window while the antagonist and other characters are sent in a white window.
- Company Credit Card Abuse: Amanda from "When my wife takes a weekend trip with one of her friends"
stole the company credit card from her husband Colson to spend on her affair trip with Maden. However, when Colson finds out via his secretary Katty, he deactivates the card. - Compilation Movie: The channel occasionally launches throwback compilations of previous stories and these last around 1 hour.
- Credit Card Plot:
- Jacob
stole Lianna's credit card to spend it on a cheating trip to Hawaii with his mistress, Alyssa, who gloats about the affair and the card every time she can. However, their party stops when Lianna reports the theft and has it deactivated, forcing Jacob to pay with his own credit card and run out of money in no time. - Justice
stole his wife Brie's credit card while she was asleep to spend it on a luxury trip to Hawaii with his mom and gloated about it to her, driving her to freeze the card and call the police on the duo for credit card fraud. - Michele
is revealed to have been stealing Neil's credit card to spend on frivolities and a night club. When Neil finds out, he charges her for the $5,000 she spent under threats of calling the police.
- Jacob
- Crocodile Tears: In the epilogue of "My brother in law reached to tell me that a funeral was starting soon! I had no idea that...."
Charles namedrops the trope after divorcing his wife Dee for cheating on him and causing them to miss her parents' funeral, explaining that his lawyer saw similar cases where the wife has something bad happen to her and "tried to get out [of] punishment using crocodile tears". - Decoy Protagonist: Sally appears to be the protagonist in the first part of this story
, however the real protagonist is actually her ex-husband, Dave. - Defeat Means Menial Labor:
- "Ten years have gone by since my sister ran off with my fiance"
: Cassidy's parents are taken away by Grandpa to work at his quarry for shoving her down the stairs because they refused to punish her younger sister Miley for stealing Cassidy's fiancé, Samuel, and eloping with him. Miley and Samuel follow suit ten years later after Cassidy remarried the current owner of the quarry, who takes the cheating lovebirds away to work at the quarry. - "After I had talked with the man my wife was cheating on me with"
: After Ryan and the wives of Gabby's lovers sue her to oblivion, she is sent away to work at a farm to pay off her debt. However, the homewrecking ex-wife refused to kick the habit and slept with the farm's owner, putting herself in even more trouble after his wife found out.
- "Ten years have gone by since my sister ran off with my fiance"
- Delusions of Beauty: Juliette
always gloated to her estranged older sister Sara about how pretty she is than her, right up to her messaging with the latter's fiancé, Logan, where he reveals she had an oily, acne-ridden face, as well as not having taken showers for a long time. - Didn't Think This Through:
- "My wife's boyfriend banked on my wife getting alimony from me, but she gets NOTHING"
: Riana, having cheated on Michael with Shawn, plotted to divorce him in order to bilk alimony out of him in court. However, the cheating wife didn't account that her boyfriend would barge into Michael's messages and gloat about the affair, nor that she would be the one paying Michael the alimony while Shawn gets sued in the process because of a prenuptial contract she signed earlier on. - "My wife says that she's divorcing me, but she doesn't know I'm her boyfriend's boss"
: Loreta Bellini demanded her husband, Vittorio, divorce her so she could remarry his higher-earning coworker, Benedetto Barone without him finding out his identity. However, no matter how hard she tried to cover it up, Vittorio found out and had Benedetto fired; the former was actually the latter's boss. After finding out the truth, Loreta tries to get back with Vittorio only to be rejected and sued. - "Out of nowhere my fiance tells me that she wants to leave me to go back to her ex, and so..."
: Joy breaks up her Arranged Marriage with Payne to get back with Seth, her ex-boyfriend, while telling the former not to interact with her again. Little did she know that Payne was the one supporting both her family and the company Seth worked at, which resulted in Joy being disowned for torpedoing their main source of income by calling off the marriage. She tries to get back with Payne, but he already knew about her and Seth having affair trips to Dubai with his money. Afterward, Joy's parents' company collapsed and Seth was fired from his job, while Joy herself is reduced to working part-time jobs to support him, only to end up cheated on, robbed out of her money, and eventually ditched by Seth. - "My husband's girlfriend threatened to take my daughter... which was fine by me!"
: Flora slept with Sandy's husband, Harvey, and contacted the woman she cuckolded to demand she divorce him. Much to her surprise, Sandy took it in stride but asked for more time to get everything ready for the divorce procedure. When Flora got impatient and threatened to take custody of their daughter, Sally, Sandy also took it well and let her take the girl before revealing Sally was actually born from an earlier affair Harvey had before meeting Flora. The homewrecker became dismayed at the news as she didn't actually want to take Sally's custody; she was just bluffing to hasten the divorce. Predictably, both lovebirds lost their jobs upon being exposed and Sally became even more hostile towards Flora than she was towards Sandy, driving Harvey to divorce again. - "The day I won the lottery, I found out my fiancee was cheating on me"
: Jennie squanders $16,000 worth of savings behind Cole's back when he announced having won $2 million in the lottery, thinking she could have a luxurious celebrity life with said money. Even without the ensuing taxes and the fact that most of the stuff Jennie planned to buy wouldn't be feasible on that amount, she made the mistake of not only telling Cole about her parents' debts at that point, but also revealing her affairs with four guys while excusing herself that she broke up with them thinking he would forgive her. Predictably, a pissed-off Cole breaks off the engagement and tells Jennie's parents about the affairs, which drove them to pay Cole the $8000 he demanded and force the cheating woman to work off the debt. - "Some crazy bimbo tried to steal my hubby thinking he was a CEO! But the CEO was a woman…"
: Taylor calls Avril to gloat about having stolen her CEO husband, Dan, from her, and becoming pregnant with his child. Little did she know that not only was Dan infertile, but he's actually married to Avril's identical older sister, Jess, who is the actual CEO. Furthermore, the homewrecker made the mistake of announcing her pregnancy to Dan, who panics upon rightly deducing she had affairs with other guys behind his back. After Jess sues the cheating lovebirds for damages, Taylor tops it off by venturing to her other lovers' homes to find her baby's father, accidentally exposing them to their wives and prompting them to sue her to oblivion. - "My fiancee ghosted me on our wedding day, then married my best friend 8 years later"
: Manami ghosted Ethan right on their wedding day to find herself a richer husband and went missing for eight years until she latches onto his best friend, Caleb. However, her plan backfires for many reasons — Caleb invited Ethan to the wedding, which allowed the latter to find out her whereabouts, Manami was legally declared dead because she went missing for more than seven years, and her parents have passed away from the stress, despair, and dishonor her stunt caused them earlier on. While Manami filed the paperwork to reverse her legal death declaration, it was too late as Caleb called off the wedding, and thus she condemned herself to a life of solitude and ostracism. - "Me ex-husband kept insisting on me doing the chores for him"
[sic]: Earlier on, Bryan not only dumped and kicked his wife Carol out of the house to make space for his younger mistress, but also took away her house key and changed the locks of his doors to keep her from entering. However, this backfires big time on Bryan at the start of the story as his mistress dumps him, leading him to demand Carol come back and clean up the pigsty he left in his house — the reason his mistress dumped him in the first place. Even when Carol points it out to him, he loses it and sends divorce papers to threaten her, which also backfires as she was fed up with his crap and decides to sign and turn them in. - "My wife told me she was leaving me for her boyfriend. Guess where her boyfriend works?"
: Nancy ditches Sam for a wealthy college student thinking the former's decision to inherit his grandfather's company would leave him destitute. However, she ends up regretting it in multiple ways — when she brought up the alimony to her boyfriend thinking he'll pay it for her, he chews her out as he doesn't have that kind of money and his job offer was rescinded for badmouthing his interviewer, driving her to break up with him. Later on, she begs Sam to lower the alimony since she didn't account that she'd be the one paying it for cheating. When Nancy finds out the grandfather's company became TV-famous for having patents that happened to be on incredibly high demand, she attempts to get back with Sam, but the cuckolded husband reveals that the job offer was from said company; since he had an affair with the new owner's wife, that means he's banned from the premises. To add insult to injury, Nancy squandered all her money on her boyfriend and her affair got her disowned by her family. Even then, she refused to back down and stalked him for a remarriage, which eventually got her fired. - "My ex-wife tried to sue me for no reason, but then I found out she had cheated on me"
: Three years after Harry divorced her, Sara tried to extort $100,000 out of him under the pretense of a lawsuit citing he was "cheating" on her by remarrying another woman named Juno and therefore she's in her legal right to sue, complete with a 10-page screed filled with justifications for her "lawsuit". However, Sara not only failed to account that Juno had connections to an actual lawyer to check the document, but she didn't bother to proofread it beforehand as it was full of typos and text slang, on top of nonsensical legal theories, complaining, and comparisons to another man, which clued Harry in on that Sara was having an affair. As a result, he not only sues her for damages, but also reveals to Sara that her boyfriend is married, so his wife will sue her as well. - "My brother-in-law's wife made fun of me at their wedding speech because she misunderstood me!"
: At Brenda and Paul's wedding, Becky snatches the microphone and puts the bride on blast for being supposedly unemployed, plain, and a blight on her family, thinking this would lead the groom to call off the wedding. Unsurprisingly, Becky ends up ruining her own reputation as not only was Brenda a famous influencer, but someone recorded the whole thing and posted it on social media, causing her Instagram page to lose followers by the droves and become a pariah. After her own husband divorced her, Becky was forced to work in the countryside. - "When my wife takes a weekend trip with one of her friends"
: Amanda took Colson's company credit card on her affair trip with sales manager Maden thinking anything she bought with it would be registered as company expenses. Apparently, no one told her that there's a difference between company expenses and personal expenses, nor that there's financial staff watching over the purchases done with company money to determine if they're viable, nor that credit cards could be suspended. To add insult to injury, she also used the conference room to have secret affairs with Maden, which got caught in the CCTV footage. - "A woman at the kindergarten stole my husband and now she plans to take my son as well!"
: Maggie not only hooked Sandy's husband, William, up into an affair, but also plotted to take her son, Nathan, to twist the knife even further. Little did the lovebirds know that after picking Nathan up, Sandy would expose her to the whole neighborhood and her own husband, who was on a business trip. Moreover, the homewrecker apparently didn't know that she and William would have to pay compensation even if they somehow managed to keep custody of their respective children. As a result, the cheaters are sued and lose custody for their stunt, doomed to work their sorry asses off to keep up with the payments. - "My friend stole my husband thinking he was rich. She thought wrong. Enjoy poverty!"
: Elly hooked Mandy's husband, Clark, thinking he was rich since he claimed to earn $21K a month and gloated to the cucked wife about it even after she sued them for alimony and child support. Little did Elly know that Clark's $21K salary was yearly; his parents had to spend themselves broke into debt to pay it since he couldn't afford it, and as a result, the homewrecker condemned herself to a miserable life in poverty working herself to the bone to pay her in-laws the money they spent on the compensation. - "My cheating wife's boyfriend thought he could sue me (but I was suing him)"
: Ollie had an affair with Tate's wife, Kimmie, and decided to text the cuckolded husband with demands for divorce without accounting he'd not only kick Kimmie out for her cheating, but also sue both of them. Moreover, it turns out Ollie was engaged; his fiancée also knew about the affair and teamed up with Tate to punish them. Even then, Ollie threatened to sue Tate for $150K only to be shut down as he had no backing. To add insult to injury, it also turns out Ollie was seeing a third woman, who was also married, thus earning himself a lawsuit from Tate, his fiancée, and his other mistress' husband. - "My cheating wife thought I would put up with anything she did... she thought wrong"
: Ruby not only cheated on Norton with a married man in his forties and and became pregnant with his child, but also bragged about the affairs and his spinelessness to everyone she could reach thinking they would side with her and give grief to the poor sod if he divorced her. However, Norton had enough and called over his cheating wife's parents and grandmother, who disowned her for having romps with several guys ten years ago, to take her to task. Moreover, his best friend and the Chairman, Matthew, gathered staff's opinion on the marriage, which was overwhelming approval for Norton to divorce her. As a result, Ruby is divorced and dragged back to her parents' countryside town to work her sorry ass off at a local food processing plant.
- "My wife's boyfriend banked on my wife getting alimony from me, but she gets NOTHING"
- Digging Yourself Deeper: Rachel
cheated on Wyatt with a fellow mom's husband, Paul. When she returned from her cheating trip in Guam, Wyatt showed her evidence of her affair with Paul there as he interrogated her. The cheating wife resorted to tall tales in an attempt to save her sorry hide, each one more absurd than the last as Wyatt showed her evidence that disproved them. Afterward, Wyatt and Paul's wife sue their respective cheating spouses for compensation. - Disowned Parent: Indie
cut all ties with her mother Louise because she resented her poor living conditions growing up. Indie lied to her fiancé and his family about her being an orphan. She regretted it 2 years later and tried to get Louise to meet with her husband's family but she refused and the couple divorced. - Disproportionate Retribution: Liz
divorces Bob for breaking the bracelet she gave him trying to save an old man from falling down the stairs. - Does Not Like Spam: Pia
broke up with her boyfriend Lauro because he cooked her food with vegetables despite the fact that she wants a healthy diet. - Education Mama:
- This video
features an Education Grandma in the form of Clara's mother-in-law, who demands her to spend in Kevin's academic education while only letting Alyssa attend high school because the sexist crone believed women didn't need education and should be housewives. - Jenny
contacted Mary to brag about how the former's son, James, got accepted in Middleton Academy, one of the most prestigious and exclusive schools in the city, then goes on how she had him study for hours with elite educators while threatening to kick him out of the house if he failed, complete with her watching over the poor kid at his study routines. Moreover, she even disparaged Mary for letting her own son, David, stay in the soccer team and not studying as hard as James.
- This video
- Everyone Has Standards:
- "After I had talked with the man my wife was cheating on me with"
: Gabby cheated on Ryan with his coworker Rick by lying to the latter that she was single. When Rick finds out she was married, he drops her like a hot potato and apologizes to Ryan before remarrying another woman to prove he's serious about breaking up with Gabby. - "Knowing that my wife is cheating on me"
: Cortney cheated on Billy with his coworker, Max, by lying about being single during their affair trip. However, Max finds out when trying to brag about his "new girlfriend" to Billy, only for the latter to reveal it. As a result, Max is disgusted by the whole thing and ditches Cortney as a result. - "My cheating wife went on vacation with her boyfriend while her parents were dying"
: Rebecca's boyfriend not only ditches her upon learning she was married by reading the letter Jason sent him, but also sued her for fraud and unjust enrichment as she lied to him about being single.
- "After I had talked with the man my wife was cheating on me with"
- Exact Words: Joe
demanded his ex-fiancée; Stacy to pay $67,000 in compensation for running out of their wedding and threatened to call the police if she doesn't pay him the full amount. She paniced and agreed to pay $4,000 initially and pay him the rest in instalments. He called the cops anyway and they took away Stacy's husband who she ran away with. Stacy yelled at him for betraying her, but Joe points out that he didn't say he wouldn't call the cops just because she paid part of the money. - Failed a Spot Check:
- Riley
was so absorbed into her fantasies of getting back with Ethan (whom she cheated on years ago) that she went to his alleged mansion to meet him without bothering to check the mailbox until he told her so. The mansion turns out to have belonged to Mr. Carver, who not only was friends with Ethan's father, but was the father-in-law of Riley's latest lover. As a result of this and an arrangement Ethan made with Mr. Carver to punish her, Riley is sent to work at a factory. - Carly
not only cheated on Kyle with his boss Daniel and became pregnant, but used the latter's connections to screw up the former's job prospects to facilitate a divorce and bilk child support from the poor sod after the baby was born. However, she ends up blowing their cover by accidentally sending Kyle messages meant for Daniel. After Kyle plays along and learns of the scheme, he promptly exposes the affair to Daniel's wealthy wife, who divorces and leaves him destitute.
- Riley
- Fair-Weather Ex: Stories in which the protagonist is cheated on and/or abandoned will almost always end with the betrayer trying to get back together with the protagonist for selfish reasons.
- If the protagonist starts out poor but becomes a successful businessman, the antagonist will ask to get back together in hopes of getting money, and some have no qualms in busting the protagonist's wedding or disparaging their current partner in order to do so.
- If the antagonist broke up with the protagonist to be with someone "better", they will try to get back with the protagonist the minute their new relationship goes sour, be it from the "better" partner losing their assets/looks, cheating on them, or running off on them and leaving them with the debt, or being sued by the partner's spouse(s).
- If the protagonist was liked by their in-laws, expect the antagonist to want to get back together with them to repair their relationship with their family.
- A Family Affair:
- Elina
cheated on Patrick with his cousin Vince. However, she accidentally exposes her own affair when she sent Patrick messages meant for Vince. Eventually, Patrick used this to his advantage by pretending to be the lover and tracking down her location to punish them. - Kasia
charmed her older sister Indigo's husband, Valentino, into an affair, causing Indigo herself to divorce him upon finding out. To add insult to injury, Kasia invited Indigo to her wedding with Valentino and both tried to strongarm her into attending. Come the day of the wedding, Indigo reveals that she is an adopted child; she was raised with love until Kasia was born and became the favorite. The former disowned her adoptive family after they kicked her out on turning eighteen ten years ago. Eventually, the new couple got divorced a week in after Valentino finds out Kasia didn't inherit money from her parents as he thought. When they tried to beg Indigo for help, it was too late as she settled in Malaysia after marrying a guy and converted to Islam. - Westin
cheated on Gwen with her younger sister, Kiley, and eloped with her five years before the story starts. He even gloats about it while trying to force her to tend to Kiley after she became paraplegic from a car accident.
- Elina
- Foot-Dragging Divorcee:
- "Caught my wife cheating on me, but then…"
: After Ted signs and turns in the divorce papers Anna served him with, she flips her lid at him and begs him not to sue her nor the college student she slept with until she gloated about how said student worked for a big company and could pay it for her. However, her bravado collapses and she starts begging again when Ted reveals he only worked there because his fiancée's family owned the company, with Ted blocking her. - "I was handed divorce papers that were filled out, so I turned them in right away..."
: Lisa loses it when Rob signs and turns in the divorce papers she left signed as a bluff and not only has the gall to claim Rob tricked her and demand he take the papers back, but threatened to forge his signature on marriage papers only for Rob to reveal he warned the courts about it. Eventually, she apologizes and pleads with Rob upon learning he knows about her affair with a guy named Matt. - "A bossy wife threatens divorce as a joke → her timid husband files for one in silence"
: Debby, who played the divorce card to threaten Rick into letting her squander his money, freaks out when Rick signs and hands the divorce papers she left and claims it was a joke while begging not to be divorced. However, she relents and accept the divorce when met with stern refusal... until she learns that Rick knows about her affair with Melissa's husband, which causes her to break down begging and crying again as Melissa is her boss and could fire her; she refused to leave the house until Rick sent her photos of all evidence he had of the affair, causing her to flee in a panic. - "My wife was trying to conceal her affair, but she made one HUGE mistake that ruined her plan"
: Despite initially demanding a divorce from Keith for being a "nepo baby" upon finding out he got rehired into a new job through his friend Eugene (which put an obstacle to her plan to remarry the wealthier Mike), Alyssa breaks down begging not to be divorced when Keith himself reveals he knows about the affair when she served him with divorce papers and mistakenly sent him a marriage certificate she and Mike signed instead.
- "Caught my wife cheating on me, but then…"
- Hikikomori: Several stories have the antagonists become shut-ins after receiving punishment for causing pain to other people.
- Homewrecker Gets Wrecked:
- Taylor
slept with Avril's husband, Dan, thinking he was a wealthy CEO and gloated about becoming pregnant to twist the knife. However, it turns out not only Dan was infertile and Taylor was seeing other guys behind his back, but the man's wife was actually Avril's older sister, Jess, and the real CEO. As a result, Taylor is sued for compensation and ditched by Dan. Afterward, Taylor barged into her other lovers' houses in search for the father, but it worsened her debts as she unwittingly exposed them to their wives, who promptly sue her to oblivion. - Kasia
slept with her older sister Indigo's husband, Valentino, causing the couple to break up and then invites Indigo herself to their wedding just to twist the knife. Much to Kasia's dismay, it turns out Valentino was a broke moocher rather than the Meal Ticket she thought he was, while Valentino himself was disappointed that Kasia didn't have money to pay his debt. Indigo, on the other hand, moved away to Malaysia and converted to Islam after remarrying a local guy.
- Taylor
- Horrible Housing: Most stories end with the antagonists being forced to live in run-down, cramped apartments and working several part-time jobs after losing everything as a result of their misdeeds.
- House Fire: In this episode
, a fire erupts and claims many houses, among them Stan's. When his mother-in-law, Glenda, called him to come over, she revealed that her daughter, Lisa, was nowhere to be found unlike their son Liam, eventually cluing Stan on that Lisa was cheating on him and leaving Liam home alone in the meantime. - Identical Twin Mistake: Ava
baby-traps the wealthy CEO Benny Johnson thinking he was Selena's boyfriend, and called her to gloat about it. Much to her dismay, Benny was actually an unemployed NEET whose twin brother, Jeff, was the CEO. Moreover, Benny himself had the same plans in mind as his family was going through financial trouble and thought Ava was the wealthy one. - Impersonating a Gangster: Agnes
is a self-proclaimed "boss-mom" who bullies people by claiming she's both a member of the Patrelli family and that her husband is an underboss of said family. Unfortunately for Agnes, Melody, one of the people Agnes tried to bully, is the daughter of the Patrelli family's Godfather, which results in the Patrillis getting revenge on Agnes for what she did. - Impersonating a Lawyer:
- Nina
tries to sue Lily for the emotional distress she experienced as a result of Nina suffering the consequences of having an affair with Lily's husband (being dumped by her boyfriend, being sued, and having her parents cut ties with her). Nina hires a fake lawyer threaten Lily by claiming that he will be taken to court unless she pays Nina $30,000, but Lily sees right through the phony's scheme due to being a lawyer herself, and manages to figure out that the "lawyer" she's talking to is a fake due to his inability to answer credentials. Said fake lawyer was Nina's little brother who didn't know that what he was doing was illegal, and the only reason he didn't suffer legal consequences is because Lily let him off with a warning. - Iris
tried to scam her ex-boyfriend, Kent, by posing as a lawyer named Teresa and demanding he pay a million dollars in child support after her "client" got pregnant with his baby. Much to her dismay, Kent didn't fall for it because he turned out to be an actual lawyer and called the cops on her. After she got arrested, Iris was revealed to have been doing this to three of her exes as well, thus earning herself a prison sentence. - Laura Prescott
tried to scam her ex-husband, Harrison Tate, by impersonating a lawyer named "Carrie Mason" and demand "compensation" on behalf of her "client" for remarrying a woman named Marissa. Much to her surprise, however, it turns out not only Marissa was an actual lawyer, but Harrison passed his bar exam and is going to work as a lawyer himself. As a result, Laura and her boyfriend, Derek, end up arrested and in jail for impersonating a lawyer.
- Nina
- Insane Troll Logic: Sarah Garofalo
tries to extort back the €30,000 of alimony she paid her ex-husband, Silvio, upon learning he remarried another woman. Her justification was that he cheated on her by remarrying another woman after he divorced Sarah; she even claims the alimony was a sign he swore eternal love to her. - Internet-Induced Idiocy: My possessive wife cheated on me to make me want her more (it backfired)
: Julia read a social media post about woman whose husband paid more attention to her after she had an affair. Julia, feeling her own husband Nate isn't paying enough attention to her, decides to sleep with another man to make Nate jealous. Instead Nate divorces and sues her for adultery, much to her shock. - In Vino Veritas: In "My fiancee was hung over and ghosted me at our wedding, but there was more to the story"
, a hungover Courtney revealed her affair with Jake and seeing Eric as an ATM after the latter tried to message her over no-showing to their wedding. - Invited as a Joke: Homewreckers and cheaters will often invite the protagonist to their wedding in order to rub their happiness in the protagonist's face and see the protagonist be miserable.
- Irony: Caitlin, the titular SIL from "My sister-in-law lied about me having a criminal record to get me kicked out of the house"
falsely accuses Henrietta of having a criminal record to get her kicked out of the house and divorced from Calvin. However, this ends up awarding Caitlin an actual criminal record as not only her victim files slander charges against her, but it turns out she was having an affair with a married man and stole his wife's stuff out of entitlement, which further worsens her reputation. - Locked Away in a Monastery:
- Sarah Garofalo
is dropped off at a temple at the top of the mountains by her former parents after she added a colossal debt to the one from getting caught sleeping with a married boss by causing a scene at someone else's wedding in a harebrained attempt to extort the €30,000 in alimony she paid her ex-husband Silvio earlier on. Silvio himself even narrates that Sarah will spend the next 20 years of her life there working at the factory at the foot of the mountains and undergoing strict training from the head monk. - Veronica Watson
is hauled away to a monastery by her parents after Brett called the cops on her in response to her stalking and attempts to force herself on him while he was at work, thus she'll have to go through rigorous exercise and fasting routines.
- Sarah Garofalo
- Malicious Slander:
- Mary
is accused by her sister-in-law, Blair, of cheating on Kyle with his brother Ken, and threatens to take her to court over it. Her accusation escalated when Mary became pregnant, as she brought up Kyle's infertility as a sign that the baby was Ken's, but Kyle steps in to not only reveal Mary had been receiving infertility treatment, but that Ken left the house because Blair was the one cheating on him; the reason she accused Mary and Ken in the first place was to turn the courts in her favor at the time of divorce. - Brianna
tries to break up Christina and Jayda's friendship by creating a fake social-media account to post hateful messages and images about the former and her paintings and frame the latter for them. However, Christina starts to question Brianna's accusations as she knew Jayda since childhood and said things that were out of touch with Christina's life. - Caitlin
accuses Henrietta of being a long-time criminal to her family so they'll force Calvin, the former's brother and the latter's husband, to divorce Henrietta and kick her out. While the family falls for it and it seems to work, Henrietta retaliates by filing criminal charges against her for slander on top of those filed by her lover's wife for cheating and theft.
- Mary
- Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Kevin
refused to believe that his wife Riley's child is his, due to his mother convincing him that Riley is cheating on him and mistreated her. Soon after Riley gave birth to a girl, she divorced him because of his abuse and mistrust. - Missing Child: In this episode
, Amy and Mike's elementary-aged daughter, Sara, suddenly goes missing while Irene took care of her, but when Mike tried to tell Amy, she dismissed him under the excuse of low battery. Thankfully Sara is found, but to Mike's surprise, the girl not only revealed that she ran away out of feeling unwanted since her mother dropped her off with Irene whenever he was on a business trip, but that Amy was having an affair with Irene's husband. - Mistaken for Prostitute: Lea
dressed in a tight, outrageously revealing outfit and caked her face in makeup trying to snatch Carly's husband, Callum, at the train station. The disgusted husband commented that "it wouldn't be weird if the police picked her up thinking she's cruising for clients" and later on, a message Carly forwarded to Lea from the latter's husband comments that she was "dressed like a $5 prostitute" while driving past the station. - Mistaken Identity: In "My husband's "ex-wife" claimed she was pregnant with his kid, so I told her a certain truth…"
, the reason why Tilly contacted Kate to demand she divorce her husband, Paul, out of an assumption that he was Ryan, her ex-husband, was because she went through Ryan's contacts while he was at the toilet during their meetup at a bar and got ahold of Kate's phone number, unaware that Ryan's real wife secretly tagged along on his request in case Tilly tried to get back with him. - Mock Millionaire:
- Hillary
boasted about her wealth and status as the daughter of a company president whom the guys pine for. Moreover, she invites both Mia and Elena to serve as her foils, but Elena, who is really a CEO's daughter and helps her father's corporation and seeks to gain work and financial experience, puts Hillary in her place by showcasing the companies her family owns while offering advice on her problems. - Andrew Sutton
, a seemingly-rich man and Miranda's new fiancé, is revealed by her ex-husband Derrick to be a problematic new hire at his company who not only skips off his job to go clubbing, but also dresses in Chinese knockoffs of brand-name clothing to impress women and get them into the sack.
- Hillary
- Momma's Boy:
- Harold
constantly disparaged and compared Joyce's cooking to his mom's. When she talked to his mom, named Ali, the MIL defended Joyce and yelled at him for being an inconsiderate jerk to his wife. - Loreto Mapelli
was so determined to please his mom, Simona, to the point of taking her to his honeymoon with his wife, Linda. Understandably, Linda didn't take kindly to this as she not only was subjected to verbal abuse by Simona, but after marrying she noticed Loreto referred to his mom as "mommy", which creeped her out and gave her motivation to go through with her divorce.
- Harold
- Ms. Red Ink:
- Anya
squandered Bruce's money on luxury-brand stuff despite being told to save up consistently. Eventually, he was fed up and takes advantage of getting fired to lie his way into a divorce. - Katie
, the young woman whom Ian seduced away from Phil, is revealed to have not only been a possessive Control Freak, but also a chronic spendthrift who hid behind an "innocent" act to trick men into dating her.
- Anya
- Mugging the Monster:
- Amy
runs off on her honeymoon with Terry and has an affair with Emma's ex-husband, Brad, and gloats about it thinking she found happiness. Little did Amy know that Brad was already married to Joan Conway, the daughter of feared magnate Richard Conway, who has a hold over almost all businesses in the city; most of Amy's family worked in Conway Manufacturing and therefore they were all fired once her romp became known to the public. - Agnes
not only declared herself the "boss-mom", but claimed to be a member of the Patrelli crime family to get away with petty crap. However, her luck runs out the moment she messes with Melody, who is actually connected with the Patrellis by being the Godfather's daughter. As a result, Melody warns Agnes' husband to divorce her and take all their children while Mr. Patrelli arranged with Agnes' parents to have her work at one of his businesses, which resulted in Agnes being taken away by Patrelli goons.
- Amy
- My Beloved Smother:
- John's mom
insistently tried to hook him up with a woman she picked out for him after he divorced his wife Jenna for not being supposedly fertile. No matter how much he told her to stop, she kept badgering him until he revealed he got back with Jenna after she finally became pregnant; it turned out the stress of putting up with an abusive mother-in-law was the reason for Jenna's inability to conceive. - Dani
refused to let her son Arnie marry Millie since she was raised by a single father and demanded he break up with her two years ago. During those two years of being incommunicado, Dani thought Arnie did as she said and mistakenly thought Millie was stalking him to his wedding, unaware that she was the bride. After dragging the bride by the collar and scolding her, Dani ended up in trouble as not only Dani was barred from attending the wedding, but it turned out Millie was the boss of both Arnie and his father, whose company went bust.
- John's mom
- Never Got to Say Goodbye: A self-inflicted example in "Knowing that my wife is cheating on me"
— Cortney was hellbent on attending her father's funeral despite her mother barring her from doing so because she cheated on Billy, thinking she could explain things and mend ties with them. However, Billy narrates afterward that both Cortney's mother and brother both broke down and proceeded to slap her across the face before kicking her out of the memorial for her trouble. Cortney spent the rest of the memorial on the cold, begging and crying. - Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!:
- Morgan
hijacks Rachel's Arranged Marriage to Hugo by hooking up into an affair and becoming pregnant with his child, unaware that said marriage was to merge their families' companies and save them from bankruptcy. She finds out the hard way come the wedding ceremony; both her and Hugo's parents chew her out for her stunt as the merger required Rachel to be the bride. As a result, Morgan lives a miserable wedded life with Hugo and his mother, who subjected her to constant abuse for ruining the merger. Needless to say, Morgan's homewrecking stunt saved Rachel from a life of misery and allowed her to marry a man she truly loved. - Louise
slept with heartthrob Kelvin thinking he was Vicky's latest boyfriend, unaware he was actually her stalker. When her supposed victim herself tries to warn her, she dismisses it as a jealous tantrum and kept gloating about the deed until she found out too late after dumping him for a wealthier man, which Kelvin didn't take too well as he wrecked her date with said man and stalked her. In other words, Louise's latest homewrecking attempt unwittingly took a weight off Vicky's back.
- Morgan
- Not Actually His Child: Lucy from the episode "I got sick of my wife and daughter treating me like their personal ATM"
is revealed to not be related to her father the OP; it turns out his ex-wife, Rachel, has been cheating on him even before they got married; she tricked the OP into thinking Lucy was his daughter after her boyfriend dumped her. - Not Blood, Not Family: Naomi
, who abandoned her father along with her mother for a rich man after her father became hospitalized, demands that her father should give her and her mother money on the grounds that a father should support his daughter. When she learns that her father is re-married and has a stepdaughter, Wendy, she calls Wendy a "fake made-up daughter" and says that her father should be willing to support his "real" daughter. When Naomi's father decides to disown her, Naomi doubles down on her attitude, calling Wendy a "pseudo-daughter" and demanding her ex-father give her 400,000 dollars. - Obnoxious In-Laws: Some stories involve mothers-in-laws meddling in the lives of their offspring's partner. Examples include:
- Helen
demanded her daughter-in-law Carly to make her a cake for her friends. She even went as a far as to steal the cake made for her grandson Christopher's birthday and threw out all the other food made for the party. - Mia's
mother-in-law Blair demanded that she do chores despite the fact that Mia is working from home. - Sharon
is a lazy housewife who treats her mother-in-law Beth like dirt and wants to kick her out of the house they're living in. - Ali's
sister-in-law, Mary, wanted her out of the house she shared with her and her brother because she thought Ali was a shut-in. However, she has them move out; it turned out it was Ali's house. - Beth
asked Liz to let her move in with her and her husband, claiming she wanted to make it big as a comic artist, which was an excuse she used for 10 years and she didn't improve her art a bit in that time. However, Bob calls her out for being lazy and the couple leaves her to work with her great uncle. - Sally
bullied her sister-in-law, Jenna, because she thought working from home wasn't real work. Moreover, she decided to switch houses with Jenna as a scheme to make her leave the house. However, Sally changes her mind the next day after finding out the house belonged to Jenna's fiancé; the latter's brother and parents chewed her out for trying to steal the house behind their backs. - Lydia
scolded Angela for allegedly forcing Scott to pay $1000 in debt for her. Even when Angela tried to clarify that it was the other way around, Lydia refused to listen and badgered her into divorce.
- Helen
- Obnoxious Entitled Housewife:
- Camilla
constantly badgered fellow mom Claire to let her into the latter's business trip to Canada to leech off of her while getting free stuff. However, on the day of the trip when she and her daughter Lilly followed her to the alleged hotel, it turned out Claire's trip was to a lodge instead, much to her dismay. - "My little sister dumped five rampaging kids on my heavily pregnant wife"
: Michael's sister, Perry, dumped both her and a fellow mom's kids on his house so that his pregnant wife, Fiona, will take care of them despite her condition while the former two go drink. Eventually, this takes a toll on Fiona's health until her water breaks, driving Michael to investigate Perry and find out she was having an affair with his boss, who was reported to the company for truancy in said affair. As for Perry and her friend, they lose custody of their respective sets of kids to their ex-husbands, with Perry being sent away to work at a fish factory to pay compensation. - "She abandoned her son on my doorstep and had an affair while her husband was fighting cancer"
: Pam dropped off her son, Mikey, with Amelia before going off to have an affair in Cancún for two weeks even as her husband, Arthur, slowly died of cancer. Even as Amelia called her out, Pam decided to stay for three more weeks. When Arthur eventually dies of cancer and Amelia notifies Pam about it, she dismisses it and gloats she's going to have his inheritance and life insurance only for Amelia to reveal the deceased not only struck Pam out of his last will, but already knew of her affair. - "A neighbor leaves her son at a pregnant woman's house despite her constant refusal but then!!"
is a Do-Nothing Housewife who played the Struggling Single Mother card to use her fellow-mom friend, Maria, as a free babysitter for her son Owen, despite Maria being pregnant. Eventually, Cora's mooching catches up with her when Owen has enough and calls his dad for Maria's sake, driving Cora's ex-husband to take custody of the boy with her parents' permission while the cheating ex is forced to work her sorry ass off to pay compensation for neglect. - "An acquaintance asked me to give her my car, and I say no"
: Sofia constantly pestered Gilda into helping her as the latter's family had better living conditions than the former's. This worsened when Sofia learned that Gilda allegedly had a luxury car, demanding she let her borrow it. Eventually, it all escalated into Sofia stealing an alleged mobster's black car thinking it was Gilda's, resulting in the former losing everything and being taken away. - 'The "boss mother" broke into my house and hosted a barbeque party with 50 people'
: Pietra Rosati proclaimed herself as the "boss mother" of the neighborhood and couldn't stand the fact that Rita was the only one who would stand up to her and plotted to get back at her by hosting a BBQ at her house while she was away. However, by the time she carried out her plan, Rita already moved away and the house she just broke into now belonged to the son of a prefectural minister, who charged her 40,000 euros for the damages she and her guests have done. To add insult to injury, her father cut ties with her because the whole thing was livestreamed and got divorced by her husband, who took custody of their kids. - "My neighbor's queen bee complex got out of hand, so I put her in her place"
: Sue moved into the 49th floor of the high-rise Kiyana and other moms resided in and used that as an excuse to act bossy towards the other residents. However, her reign of terror comes to an end when Kiyana reveals she and her husband own the high rise and thus they live in the 50th floor; she had to address the other residents' complaints about her behavior. Furthermore, the reason why Sue got to live in the 49th floor in the first place is because her affair partner (whom she moved in with after her husband divorced her and took custody of their child) lived there. After Kiyana notified the partner about it, he broke up with Sue and moved away, leaving her to slave away at a low-paying job.
- Camilla
- Occidental Otaku: Veronica Watson
is a 38-year-old weeb who only gets out to buy manga magazines until her brother married Sonya, whom she sends to buy said magazines against her wishes. Moreover, she's so much of a weeb she tried to seduce Sonya's 23-year-old younger brother, Brett, into a marriage by going to his workplace in cosplay, simply because he looked like her favorite anime character. - Old Maid:
- Sandy
was dumped by her ex-boyfriend, Warren, because she was past the age of 25. When he ends up subjected to the same treatment by his younger girlfriend, Leslie, seven years later, he tried to get back with her only for Sandy to reveal she's married at the age of 33. Moreover, Warren became jobless and homeless after the breakup. - Natalie
was dumped by her fiancé, Joey, for being 27 years old. Instead, he wanted to remarry her 20-year-old younger sister. Understandably, Natalie lambasts him for his cheating and talks it out with the mistress herself since she had a husband of her own. However, it later turns out Annabelle was unaware of it; Joey just stalked her.
- Sandy
- One-Steve Limit: Sally
accuses Dave of cheating on her after finding a wedding invitation on his desk, Dave tries to explain to her that he got it from a friend from high school who had the same exact name as him, but she dismisses him and divorces him. Dave really told the truth and Sally was just using the opportunity to divorce him so she could be together with another man. - Only Cares About Inheritance:
- Christina, the titular ex from "My ex asked me for my father's inheritance money"
badgered John give her and her daughter his share of the inheritance money left by his late father despite being engaged to a man named Rob, but John refused. Later on, it turns out that Christina was in debt because she went on a shopping spree thinking Rob was dying after he got hospitalized, but he recovered and she tried to pay it with the inheritance only for John to reveal it's no longer possible because they're divorced. - "At my dad's funeral, my mom who ran away with her lover appeared"
: Tina, Sean and Annie's gold-digging, cheating mother, plotted with her boyfriend to take over the house the siblings lived in after the father died, and kick the kids out. However, the siblings' grandfather shows up and takes them in before sending guards to keep Tina away from the house until she left on being threatened with the police being called on her.
- Christina, the titular ex from "My ex asked me for my father's inheritance money"
- Operation: Jealousy: In "My gold digger ex tried to make me jealous by dating a coworker (and failed)"
, three years after Tony broke up with Kacey/Lena, she still tried to get back together with him by dating his richer coworker, Hank, hoping he'll get jealous. Much to her dismay, Tony not only takes it in stride and reminds her it was already over long ago, but he's marrying someone else. As a result of her greed, she ends up married to Hank, whom she spent broke in her scheme. - Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: In "The time my sister crashed my co-worker's wedding with a watermelon stuffed under her jumper!"
, the reason why Sharon was so hellbent on crashing Ruth's alleged wedding and get married first was because she saw her with her co-worker, Alex Davis, coming out of S Weddings Community Hall, and eavesdropped in his conversations about the wedding with another coworker, unaware that Alex was actually a manly-looking woman who just happens to be tall and wearing men's clothes and the bride-to-be for the wedding, while that the alleged wedding planning at S was actually a work meeting. By the time Sharon came to crash the wedding, she ends up fleeing upon realizing the bride wasn't Ruth. - The Pig-Pen: Bryan
, who tried to get back with Carol so she would clean up the massive mess he left in the house after kicking her out for his mistress, is scared out of trying to stalk her into remarriage following the divorce settlement. As a result, the cheating ex-husband becomes so despondent he stops taking care of himself altogether, eating a fast-food diet and neglecting to shower from there on. As a result of the ensuing stench, Bryan is at risk of getting kicked out of his home. - Pillow Pregnancy: Sharon
, still hung up on getting married before her older sister Ruth despite the latter clarifying over and over she's not getting married, crashed the alleged wedding with a watermelon stuffed under her jumper and claimed to be pregnant with the groom's child. Predictably, it backfires because not only it turned out the newlyweds were complete strangers, but the watermelon fell off her jumper when the guards tackled her. - Pimping the Offspring: Rachael Witt
ditches her stepmother, Lisa, upon finding out her real mother, Renee, remarried a wealthy guy named Jack and lived like a celebrity. Much to Rachael's dismay, she not only realized the couple stole money from her dad, but also overheard them talking about putting her to work at a hostess bar (with the dialogue implying it's a front for a strip club); and the pretty dress they gave her as a gift was her uniform for the job. While Lisa couldn't help her because she went abroad, she directed Rachael to live with a friend of hers named Judith, whose husband was a lawyer. After making it out safely, the lawyer has Renee and Jack investigated and put behind bars for sexual abuse and other crimes they committed before. - Pizza Boy Special Delivery: Fed up with Angelica trying to break up his marriage to Bailey, Trent
makes a background check on her. He finds out that not only did she became indebted to a male stripper club, but cheated on her second ex-husband with not only the gardener and the electrician, but also cheated with the pizza guy for eight years. - Pop-Up Texting: The texts appear on the screen and then they are "read out" by their senders.
- Prank Gone Too Far: Mark
decided to prank his wife by having his friend Randy kidnap her at their wedding. However Randy threw her and locked her up. As a result, she was traumatized by the event, and she divorced Mark and got him and Randy fired. - Pretty Freeloaders:
- Leanna
always invited herself and her family to any events that Milly organized just to eat free food at her expense. However, she ends up paying it dearly when she goes to eat $6K worth of food at a Kobayashi Sushi in Chicago only for her victim to reveal she and the other moms are in a KS in New York. As a result, Leanna and her husband try to run away only tp get arrested and lose custody of their kids. - Eloise
always pestered Rachel for free food and lately decided to take her son Kaiser/Taylor to a pizza restaurant named Papa Ron's since it was the favorite of both the kid's and Rachel's in-laws, wolfing down the entire menu thinking Rachel would pay it for her. Much to her dismay, the supposed victim told her own mother about the issue and decided to have the memorial banquet at a different restaurant, leaving Eloise to pay the meal by herself. Even then, she didn't learn her lesson and tried to pull the same crap at two restaurants of Little Ebenezer's chain near the church in search of the banquet, but by then the family was at home. As a result of her backfiring mooching attempts, Eloise gets arrested and loses the custody of her son. - Brianna
pestered Sienna to take her along to her trip to her in-laws' house thinking she was rich, even when the latter refused and tried to clarify she's not rich. Eventually, Brianna decided to have a solo luxury trip and have Sienna pay her tab by claiming she's connected to the powerful Hiller family, of whom the latter is a member. However, her luck runs out when she books the YOTUBE hotel only to be turned away; it turns out the manager knows the Hillers personally and warned the other businesses of her impersonation. When Brianna called Sienna over it, the latter not only reveals that her surname is Miller, but that the childhood photo she used as "evidence" of her connection also featured Amanda, who is an actual Hiller. As a result, Brianna is forced to pay all the tabs by herself, on top of compensation to her husband for cheating.
- Leanna
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: Olivia from "My psycho ex pretended to be pregnant to get back together with me"
has been broken up with by Tyler six months ago for being obsessive and possessive towards him. Unwilling to let go of the past, Olivia fakes being pregnant with his child to rope him into getting back together with her. - Pushing the Debt:
- After cheating on Clay and eloping with her lover for ten years, Maria
tries to get back with him and used their daughter Sally to guilt-trip him into remarrying. However, after Sally gave her cheating mom a piece of her mind for abandoning her all these years, Clay reveals he had Maria investigated and found out her lover ran off and left her a huge debt — the reason she tried to get back with Clay in the first place was to pay it. - After divorcing Melvin for having a low salary, Mallory
tries to get back with him three years later after learning he became a successful CEO. To this effect, she took a loan and went on an outrageous shopping spree so he'll pay her resulting debt. However, it backfires when Melvin gives her a blistering rant for her trouble before blocking her number. After having a talk with the gold-digger's mother, she forces Mallory to work at a family restaurant to pay her debt and forces her to sign a pledge not to contact Melvin again. - While texting Billy about their future marriage plans, Katie
suddenly claims to be $40,000 in debt and asks him to pay it for her. When he turns it down, she reveals it was a lie to "test his worth" as a boyfriend and since he "failed" for not being willing to shoulder her debts. However, Katie's lie comes back to bite her when everyone at campus start up rumors about her being $75,000 in gambling and male strip-club debts. - As payback for Layla making her life hell and getting her kicked out of the house, Rachel
concocts a plan with her current husband, Hank, to ruin her life — Hank fakes an affair with Layla to trick her into signing herself into a huge debt under the guise of buying her a house and car for their alleged impending marriage, on top of a global vacation getaway for her and her parents. As a result, Layla ends up condemning herself to a life of grueling part-time jobs to pay off the debt, on top of ruining her own life as the house was a condemned wreck next to a lake of industrial sewage, the car was illegally modded, and the vacation spots Hank booked for her were warzones, quarantined countries, and dictatorships.
- After cheating on Clay and eloping with her lover for ten years, Maria
- Really Gets Around: Dayna
is implied to have been sleeping with so many men that she's nicknamed "the village bike", which Rachel brings up. - Relationship Sabotage:
- Helen
went out of her way to snatch Ali's potential boyfriends to spite her. When she gloated about having stolen Bob from her, Ali let her have him. One year later, Helen blamed her for a video message from all her exes on her wedding day; Ali eventually revealed Bob was actually her stalker and that it was Ken who played the video in revenge for her cheating ways. Moreover, Ken went out of his way to sabotage any potential relationship for Helen out of spite. - Sarah
stole Amy's alleged husband, Ted, and gloats about being pregnant with his child. Later on, she tells Amy to move out of her apartment on the top floor so they can move in since it was in Ted's name, but she tells them to wait for a month. When the month expires, Sarah calls her out because a rich couple beat them to it; Amy reveals the apartment wasn't actually under Ted's name, but her cousin's. Moreover, Ted is actually her younger brother whose sleazebag lifestyle sank him up to his neck in debt; their father cut him off the inheritance as a result. - Violet
schemed to woo Phil away from her older sister Emma out of spite for the latter not only having caused the former's husband to investigate her and find out about her affair with an old classmate, but refusing to get her a man that earns $100K a year to "make it up" to her. Much to Violet's dismay, however, it turns out Phil was already divorced three months ago and lost his job because he had an affair with a contractor employee named Rachel. While the homewrecking little sister got respite in the form of a wealthy man willing to marry her and pay off the alimony she owes to her husband, her hopes of living a celebrity life are dashed when it turns out said heir was a hikikomori who sought a wife to work and take care of him. To top it off, he was a friend of the sisters' father, and therefore Violet is barred from divorcing him under any circumstance. - Judy
schemed to woo Nancy's husband, Brad, away from her, while gloating to her victim about how he doesn't love her anymore. Eventually, this escalates in Judy attempting to break into the hotel Brad stayed in, which drove Nancy to call the homewrecker's husband and relocate her own to another hotel, which ended in Judy losing her marriage and family. While she thought this freed her to seek Brad out, they already moved out by then, leaving the homewrecker collapsed and crying. - Thea
slept with Rebecca's husband, Brad, and took him to a cheating trip to Guam, thinking she won the jackpot since he was the next CEO of his company. However, the lovebirds pay for what they've done once Thea's own husband, Mark, dies — she's cut out of Mark's last will and Brad is passed up for the CEO position in favor of Rebecca. To top it off, Thea is finally hauled away to her grandparents' house to undergo some Training from Hell to have her pay the compensation and shape her up. - Erin
stole Susan's rich boyfriend, Mike, and became pregnant with his child to spite her. However, Susan revealed she was going to dump Mike anyway; he was a cheater and even cheated on his current wife. - Mary
stole Rita's husband, Rob, and became pregnant with his baby because he had a shot at being the next CEO. Much to the homewrecker's dismay, the supposed victim reveals that Rob quit his job because the only reason he was the next CEO was because Rita's dad owns the company the cheating husband worked at. - Katherine
is a delusional woman who attempted to woo Robert into ditching her unattractive older sister, Samantha, and marry her instead. When Robert asks Samantha about it, she reveals this wasn't the first time Katherine did something like this. What's more, she even had five demands for compensation and her latest break-in at their cousin's wedding caused the groom and the bride both to cut ties with the latter's family. Moreover, she got away with it for being the grandmother's favorite. However, the future newlyweds put a sock to her plans by giving Grandma a boyfriend and have them both move away to a retirement home while Katherine is forced to work at a factory. - Luke
stole Frank's first wife back then and got chased out of town as a result. He tries to mess with Frank once again by gloating he got the latter's second wife pregnant. Even when Frank reveals he doesn't have kids, Luke refuses to back down and keeps gloating about the deed for days on end until his victim replies to reveal the wife he stole, Luna, was married to his younger half-brother, Ken, while Frank and his wife were overseas. As a result, Luke ends up disowned by his parents upon being sued by Ken. - Ian
stole Phil's girlfriend from him back in high school. Years later, he comes back and announces he broke up with said girlfriend after getting her pregnant. Moreover, he gloats about having stolen his current girlfriend, Katie, and even got her pregnant. Much to Ian's surprise, however, Phil thanks him for doing so; it turned out Katie was a violently possessive, overspending girl who adopted an "innocent" facade to trick men into dating her. - Kegan
messaged Jared to gloat about having slept with the latter's wife, Holly, to spite him for having a better life than his, on top of accusing him of cheating on her with a tall blonde woman. Much to his dismay, Jared reveals the tall blonde woman is his current wife; he divorced Holly for having cheated on him with another man who just happens to be also named Jared. - Liza
, a bully of Jenna's, stole the latter's fiancé and gloated about sleeping with him even when they were married. However, after Jenna divorced her husband, Liza complained about him moving to her place; it turned out Jenna's house was under her father's name. Moreover, the husband was a cheater who ended up fired after Jenna's father found out he invited a previous mistress over to the house. - Caroline
stole Susan's rich fiancé, Andrew, and announced her wedding ceremony one year later and invited her to twist the knife even further. At their wedding day, Caroline chews Susan out because all their relatives didn't come to the wedding and blamed it on her, but Susan reveals that it was because she was notorious for stealing other girls' boyfriends and while their parents and grandparents did attend, the rest of the relatives didn't want to associate with her for such an act. Moreover, Andy's relatives cut him off for it as well. - Marge
plotted to steal Jenny's fiancé, Gerry Andersonnote to show her up. Moreover, she conspired with her parents to have her take Jenny's place at the motel date. Thankfully, Gerry turned them down and realized how messed up his fiancée's family was and blocked all of her family members at her request. However, Marge refused to back down and snuck into his house, popping out of his closet wearing nothing but panties and a bra in an attempt to charm him to her side. As a result, Gerry calls the cops on her for trespassing. - Carlene Shaw
stole Jessie's husband, Marvin, out of spite since he was going to take over his father's company. Moreover, she even tried to force Jessie to pay $300,000 in "alimony" to twist the knife even further. While Jessie revealed she was the breadwinner while Marvin was unemployed, it didn't deter Carlene from trying to coerce money out of her. However, once she finds out Marvin's sister is going to take over the company instead of him, she loses all bravado and begs Jessie to not charge them alimony. It turns out she squandered all her savings on luxury goods and that's why she slept with Marvin in the first place. - Taylor
messages Avril to announce having stolen her rich CEO husband, Dan, and proceeds to gloat about their affair and taking her place as the CEO's wife, even bragging about becoming pregnant with his child. Much to the homewrecker's dismay, it turns out Dan wasn't married to Avril, but to her older sister Jess, whom she mistook for the former and is the real CEO. Moreover, Taylor and Dan's affair has been ongoing before sending those messages. As a result, Jess divorces her cheating bastard of a husband and sues the lovebirds for damages.
- Helen
- Revenge Romance:
- Alisa
apparently "stole" Kasia's husband Ryan. It turned out Ryan was her ex who kept trying to get her back after they split up. Alisa and her son were then forced to move to Ryan's parents' farm. - Erina
stole Bethan's boyfriend Jeremy at their wedding because he is the son of a CEO. However it turned out that Bethan was marrying Jamie, Jeremy's twin brother. Jeremy was also the black sheep of the family who had been disowned and wasn't going to inheriting the CEO position. As a result, Erina was forced to pay alimony to her ex-husband.
- Alisa
- Runaway Bride: Lily
runs off on her wedding with Travis, the man she cheated on Sam with, upon seeing a man with a jacket similar to the latter's; she mistook him for Sam and hitched a ride in his car to get back with him. However, Lily's romantic-comedy hijinks are rendered moot when Sam not only reveals he's remarried, but he's out of the country. - Sadistic Thief: Quite a number of homewreckers will steal someone's partner not because they want said partner, but because they want to gloat and rub it in the losing partner's face. Some of them will quickly dump their partners after they've had their fun and will often become furious if they end up sleeping with someone who wasn't the protagonist's partner.
- Same Story, Different Names: "My younger sister has always thought herself more pretty than me"
is a word-for-word rehash of "My self-proclaimed gorgeous little sister thinks she has a chance of stealing my fiance"
, only with the antagonist, Juliette, having her name changed to Brandy in the latter story. - Scatterbrained Senior: In "My mom was furious at me for marrying a rich man, so she told me to give him to my sister"
Amanda reveals to Kelly that the reason why their mom knows the latter is marrying a rich lawyer was because their grandma told her; she became stricken with dementia and forgot that she had to keep it a secret. - Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Alyssa
accused her husband, Keith, of being a "nepo baby" upon being told that he got a better job through his best friend, Eugene, despite clarifying he was actually a hard worker and that's why Eugene handpicked him for the job. Eventually, Keith finds out the real reason she came up with such a nonsensical accusation was because she was seeing another guy named Mike, because she mixed up the divorce papers and her marriage certificate. - Second Love:
- "My crazy ex tried to get my wife to divorce me 'cuz she thought I made $750k a year"
: Trent starts the story already remarried to Bailey, who was a bookish goth girl back in high school; his ex-wife Angelica left him for a richer man. However, the gold-digging ex tries to drive Bailey away to get back with Trent after her new husband divorced her for frequenting male-stripper clubs and having affairs with the gardener, the electrician, and the pizza guy for eight years. - "She tried to get back with me after being divorced for 2 years"
: Two years after Liz divorces Bob for breaking the bracelet she gave him trying to save an old man from falling down the stairs, he dates and eventually remarries the old man's daughter, Nancy. - "My wife left me, but then..."
: Three years after Sally divorces her husband Dave over a certain wedding invitation to elope with another man only to screw it up by trying to confront his wife into submission, she tries to get back together with Dave. Much to her dismay, Dave reveals he's already remarried to a woman his aunt introduced.
- "My crazy ex tried to get my wife to divorce me 'cuz she thought I made $750k a year"
- Serial Adulterer:
- "A wife who treats her timid husband like trash, constantly cheating on him and then something"
: Sandy takes advantage of David's meekness to shamelessly cheat on him with up to five guys, threatening him with divorce to keep him from complaining, but he gathers the courage to divorce her after Sue talks to him. - "I found out my wife was secretly running a video site for more 'mature' audiences"
: Jeremy finds out his wife, Becky, not only has been cheating on him with his coworkers, but recorded and uploaded her affairs to make a quick buck out of it by lying about Jeremy having a cuckold fetish. In retaliation, he sues her for defamation and sells the whole sordid affair to the press, thus ruining his cheating wife's life.
- "A wife who treats her timid husband like trash, constantly cheating on him and then something"
- Serial Homewrecker:
- "My mother in law doesn't know that I'm letting her live with my husband and I out of pity...."
: Rachel's new boyfriend, turns out to be a serial cheater and owes a lot of debt from the lawsuits for his affair. Moreover, he planned to mooch off of Sarah and her husband Rex to pay his debts and squandered Olivia's retirement money on a party to celebrate their moving into her house. - "She stole my husband and thought she won, but I got married to her first love!"
: Cindy had a history of stealing other girls' boyfriends since high school, something she topped by stealing Ashley's husband, Brad, thinking she struck it rich as he planned an extravagant, luxurious wedding. Much to her dismay, Ashley remarried another former classmate named Tyson Banks, over whom Cindy obsessed and was willing to divorce Brad for. Eventually, Cindy pays for her homewrecking after Brad secretly had her co-sign his debts and ran away. - "My wife thought she could cheat on me with no consequences (She thought wrong)"
: Later on when the OP divorces Samantha for not only cheating on him with three men named Michael, Daniel, and Sam, but also threatening divorce to cow him into submission, she went to her parents' home only to find the wives of her three boyfriends right beside her parents. Predictably, she gets disowned and sued to oblivion, reduced to working her sorry ass off to pay the lawsuits. - "After I had talked with the man my wife was cheating on me with"
: Ryan's cheating wife, Gabby, is revealed to have been having other two lovers beside Rick, both of whom were married. Moreover, she also had a history of stealing other women's boyfriends; the reason she approached Rick in the first place was because one of her friends had a crush on him. As a result, the cuckolded husband arranged with the wives of Gabby's lovers to sue her to oblivion. Moreover, Gabby even slept with the owner of the farm her parents sent her away to work as punishment, putting herself in even more trouble after his wife caught her. - "Some crazy bimbo tried to steal my hubby thinking he was a CEO! But the CEO was a woman…"
Taylor is revealed as one of these at the end after Jess sues both her and Dan for compensation. Since she was pregnant and Dan was infertile, she rushed into each of her lovers' houses to figure out who's the father of her baby, unwittingly exposing them to their wives. As a result, she accrues an even bigger debt as she works several grueling jobs not only to pay compensation to Jess, but to the ex-wives she victimized. - "A wife who treats her timid husband like trash, constantly cheating on him and then something"
: David divorces and sues his cheating wife Sandy after encouragement from his sister, Sue, and announces the news. While Sandy still was brazen because she could simply get one of her lovers to be her ATM and David couldn't demand much because they were married for six months, he quickly shuts her hopes down by revealing some of her lovers were married and therefore their wives will be the ones who will sue her. - "She stole my boyfriend but I was worried for her"
: Ali stole people's boyfriends if she perceived them as wealthy, dumping them like trash the moment she learns they're not rich. Her latest attempt was on Helen's boyfriend, Ken, as he worked for a big company and Ali even became pregnant with his child to rub it on her face. However, Ali paid a damning price for it — Ken's family moved in and treated her like a slave, with his mother chewing her out for giving birth to a girl and threatening to have her sleep with his fat, slovenly brother if her second child is a girl too. - "My wife didn't think I knew she was cheating on me with five men but..."
: Misty is not only revealed to have cheated on Stewart with five men at once, but that all of her five lovers were married. After he, his daughter Ayana and her boyfriend Tucker set the cheating wife up for exposure and divorce, the lovers' wives all sued her to oblivion. - "My wife left our daughter with a friend from kindergarten without her consent"
: Amy not only has been revealed to have been dropping her daughter Sara off to Irene's house to cheat on Mike with Irene's husband, but the PI's investigations also revealed she also had an extramarital affair with an older guy back when she was in high school. - "Thinking she'd just stolen my husband from me, and old friend of mine has no clue"
: Anna turns out to have a history of stealing people's partners, as revealed in her initial chat with her latest victim, Penny, over having stolen Jack from her.Penny: How many people has it been now Anna?
Anna: How many people has what been?
Penny: I'm talking about how many people's partners have you stolen now. I happen to know around ten people already that you've done that to. How many men are you going to steal from different women before you're done with that crap? - "My evil twin sister was furious when her crush asked me out"
: Lisa's twin sister, Ellie, not only slept around, but it was revealed that she escalated into stealing other girls' boyfriends, with Lisa unwillingly taking the brunt of the consequences because of their identical appearance. - "She dumped me when I was down, then wanted me back once I made something of myself"
: Amber is revealed to have been stealing the fiancés of both Cindy and Hoshina, and even badmouths the latter when Bruno, whom she divorced before the start of the story, called her out on it. - "This high school mean girl slept with my husband because she thought he was rich (he's not)"
: Trina had a history of stealing other girls' boyfriends since high school, and shamelessly bragged about it to Nelly, the main character. Eventually, her luck runs out when she decides to settle down by stealing Nelly's allegedly wealthy husband; it turns out he was an alcoholic lazy slacker who leeched off Nelly's income.
- "My mother in law doesn't know that I'm letting her live with my husband and I out of pity...."
- Serial Spouse: In the episode "My fiancée wanted to both sleep with her ex AND get married to me..."
after word of Nelly cheating on Shane with her married boss reaches her parents, they decide to marry her off to a man who got married and divorced three times because his mother ran all his previous wives out of the house with her abusive treatment. - Sex with the Ex:
- Melissa
cheated on Arthur with his coworker, Brian, who also was her ex-boyfriend. When he caught them doing it in the bathroom, Arthur locked them up and called both her parents and Brian's wife to hold them accountable. - Melina
went on a trip to Alvinton to cheat on her fiancé Tyler with her ex-boyfriend, Jake, the day before her wedding and parked her car on Rebecca's driveway before going. - Rebecca Hughes
has been cheating on her fiancé, Jack, with her ex-boyfriend, Roderick. When her mother, Patricia, reveals the affair at the start of the story, on top of her plan to marry him and go through with the original wedding with Jack so that the Hugheses can have a hardworker to exploit for free and a grandchild to show off, Jack calls it quits, calls off the wedding and sues the whole family for cancellation costs. To add insult to injury, it turns out Roderick was married with a daughter.
- Melissa
- Sex Work Karma: If the antagonist is a gold digger and/or a homewrecker, there's a chance she'll often end up resorting to sex work as part of her punishment after being exposed.
- Implied in "My crazy ex tried to get my wife to divorce me 'cuz she thought I made $750k a year"
: After Angelica gets in trouble for causing a scene trying to search for both of Bailey and Trent's parents following being divorced by her second husband, disowned by parents, and blocked by Trent for cheating and trying to break up Bailey and Trent's marriage afterward, her former parents decided to drop her off to work at an acquaintance's restaurant, which is rumored to be a front for an illegal strip club frequented by gangsters, which reduced her to a shell of her former self. - "A wife who treats her timid husband like trash, constantly cheating on him and then something"
: After David divorces his cheating, gold-digging wife Sandy and leaves her to the mercy of her lovers' wives who sue her for up to $150,000 in damages, the cheating ex-wife ends up working at a club and "selling her good looks" to pay her debt. - "Not long after getting divorced, my ex thinks we can get back together"
: After Keily's scheme to get back together with Steve after divorcing her lover fails as he already got engaged with another woman and moved out of the apartment he used to live in, on top of her whole family abandoning her for having an affair, Steve narrates in the epilogue that a friend claimed to have seen her with a guy at the nightlife district, wearing heavy makeup and flashy clothes, implying she had no other choice but prostitute herself. - "Five years ago my girlfriend left me because I was changing jobs"
: After Stan calls off his wedding with Teagan upon finding the reason she broke up with Eden (and being shown the messages sent to the latter begging to be taken back after finding out he was wealthier than her groom), Eden himself narrates in the epilogue that he saw Teagan going into the love-hotel district holding hands with a different man each time, implying she resorted to sex work after being disowned by her parents and struggling to pay alimony, cancellation, and damages by herself. - 'I bumped into my ex wife 10 years after we got divorced and she insults me for "being poor"'
: After Ivo turns away and block his gold-digging ex-wife, Rocca, for trying to get back with him even though he was married, he narrates in the epilogue that after she was disowned by her parents following her breakup with Luigi, Rocca moved to the capital, but fell prey to men wishing to exploit her and got into debt, thus falling into the dredges of society she despised so much, implying she was forced into sex work. - "My ex wife tried to follow me on my honeymoon with my new wife, but went to the wrong place"
: After Tom teamed up with Rick to hold Maria accountable for running with the latter's money to pay her debt and then try to remarry Tom so he'll repay Rick for her (which was the reason she tried to get back with the former in the first place), he narrates in the epilogue that Maria is working off her debt doing work that "most girls would prefer not to do". - "The miserable fate of the woman who tried to steal my husband at our wedding"
: Bethan narrates in the epilogue that after Erina was divorced by her own husband for cheating on him with Jeremy (whom she thought was Bethan's husband) and kicked out of the moms' group chat for the whole debacle, Erina was last seen going to a seedy run-down motel with a bunch of different guys every night, implying she resorted to sex work in order to pay the compensation. - "My old classmate tried to steal my husband at the class reunion, but made a fatal error..."
: After Jen is disowned by her parents because of her affair with Gina's husband Rufus (whom she thought was Fiona's husband) got both her father and brother fired from the cuckolded woman's company, Fiona narrates that Jen had no choice but to work the night business, commenting that she can be seen hanging out on street corners waiting for creepy old men to pick her up and pay her in exchange for some "favors". - "My mom and sister joined forces to try and steal my husband but crashed the wrong wedding...."
: After Kasia's attempt to break into Heidi and Mike's wedding backfires and results in her and her family getting slapped with a $65,000 lawsuit, her father quits his job and disappears into the night to save face. As a result, Kasia and her mother had no choice but to work their sorry hides off to pay the debt. Since neither of them have held a decent job in any point of their lives, most of the only jobs they could get were at strip clubs. - "My sister-in-law lied about me having a criminal record to get me kicked out of the house"
: After Caitlin is sued for criminal charges after slandering Henrietta, having an affair with a married man, and stealing the wife's stuff, Henrietta narrates that after the slanderous SIL became a pariah and her parents divorced following the DNA test, there were rumors of her working at the nightlife/escort industry to pay off her debt since she was seen going into seedy motels with multiple guys. - "My sister called the day after my dad died demanding our house and all of his money"
: Implied — after realizing she's not going to get her father's inheritance and therefore not be able to pay her outrageous shopping spree with her boyfriend, Kayleigh turned to shady black-market lenders to pay for the stuff she bought. As a result, she is forced to work at a bathhouse to make ends meet. Given the place in question is operated by a mob, it's very likely she'll have to do "favors" to male customers to earn the money.
- Implied in "My crazy ex tried to get my wife to divorce me 'cuz she thought I made $750k a year"
- Show Within a Show: In this episode
, Veronica Watson is obsessed with a manga named Demon Sprayer. - Sleeping Their Way to the Top: Felicia
is revealed to not only have been sleeping with the head of HR to get a job at the company Iris works at, but the reason she stalked Allen to rope him into a relationship was to convince his father, the CEO, to give her a higher salary than that of Iris on account of Felicia being a college graduate until escalating into trying to get her sister fired and take over her salary. However, Allen himself puts a sock to her scheme by exposing her affair to his dad, who shortly demotes the head of HR for misusing his authority. - Sleeping with the Boss:
- Maria
not only is revealed to have lied about stealing William from Alyssa, but the kid she allegedly had with William was actually from his cousin, who was a former boss of hers. Moreover, the man was married at the time and got banned by his whole family because of his affair. - June
is revealed to have slept with her boss in those seven years she dumped Aaron for being a janitor. As a result, the boss' wife sued June for damages and she got fired, which was why she tried to get back with Aaron as he became the successful president of a cleaning company. - "My wife left me for being poor, but three years later, I was a success and she wanted me back"
: Three years after Kallie divorced her husband Avery for not earning enough for her liking, she has an affair with her boss until his wife found out and exposed her to the company. While she didn't suffer any major consequences, she was humiliated to the point of resigning.
- Maria
- The Sociopath: Silvio
not only was cheating on his wife, but he was distinctively uncompassionate about his wife getting into an accident to protect his young niece — who he didn't seem to care much about in the first place — as he maintained that she should show up to his sister's wedding at all costs. Ironically enough, it was the sister herself who defended his wife — and she, along with the rest of their family, ultimately cut ties with Silvio. - Sound-Effect Bleep: A bleeping sound is heard when Joey
shouts "WTF?!" at Natalie's reveal that Annabelle was married. - Spanner in the Works:
- "My wife's boyfriend banked on my wife getting alimony from me, but she gets NOTHING"
: While Riana's plot to divorce her husband, Michael, and bilk alimony out of him to remarry Shawn was already a fruitless effort, it would be less humiliating for her had Shawn not barged into the cuckold's messages to gloat about the affair. - "My sister thought she was stealing my fiance, but she made a critical mistake"
: Unaware that Rachel's Arranged Marriage with Hugo was part of a merger between both families' companies, her younger sister Morgan hooked him up into an affair and took over the wedding after becoming pregnant with his child. Needless to say, her stunt ruined the merger as it required Rachel to be the bride, and after Rachel refused to attend, both companies went bust in no time. Thus Morgan condemned herself to a miserable life as the scapegoat of Hugo and his parents after her own cut ties with her.
- "My wife's boyfriend banked on my wife getting alimony from me, but she gets NOTHING"
- Spoiled Brat:
- "I've have had enough with abuse I had to deal with at home"
: Ali was mean towards her stepmother and constantly threatened to sic her dad on her if she didn't do as she said. However, the stepmother exposed Ali's abusive messages to her father, which on top of the PI's report confirming Ali was conspiring with her cheating mom to leech off of him, caused the man to give up custody to his ex-wife. - "My wife thought that I was a pushover and weakling without realized that I actually make 300k"
: Lois, Brian's wife, is revealed by her mother, Helena, to have been spoiled rotten by her father, which explains her pushy demeanor and divorcing Brian simply for working from home and allegedly earning $30K a year. Brian himself even agrees with Helena for the remark.
- "I've have had enough with abuse I had to deal with at home"
- Stalker with a Crush:
- Mr. Johnson
has a crush on Lisa and he kept harassing her over text and complimenting her every time they talked. He even dumped his fiancée; for her. - Betty Martin
believed that her younger co-worker Karl Butler is in love with her despite him having a fiancé. She divorced her husband Albert Martin to get with him, but Karl rejected her; she was forced to move back to her strict parents' house and Albert went ahead with the divorce. - Jodi
breaks up with Liam to stalk a man named Arnold, whom she claimed was her soulmate and broke up with his own girlfriend. However, her stalking catches up with her as it turns out not only did Arnold not break up with his girlfriend, but the woman in question was Emma, Liam's sister. After the landlord called the cops on Jodi for loitering at Arnold and Emma's doorstep, she tries to get back with Liam, who refuses and instead reports it to her parents, who marry her off to an older man as punishment.
- Mr. Johnson
- Take That!: The episode "I found out my wife was secretly running a video site for more 'mature' audiences"
is a potshot towards OnlyFans and women making content in said page as the main character's wife not only cheated on him but uploaded her affairs to the Internet to make money out of them. - Talk to the Fist: In the epilogue of "This woman stole my husband, thinking he was a rich CEO (but I'm actually the CEO)"
, Annie narrates that her cheating husband desperately rushed back home to apologize for his affair with Janet only to be met with two right hooks from both his father and hers for having the affair. - Threat Backfire:
- Anna
laid out signed divorce papers in response to Ted's constant callouts about her laziness despite being a housewife, hoping to cow him into submission. Much to Anna's dismay, however, he eventually handed them in after finding out her affair with a college student. Furthermore, he then sued her for damages. - Bob
constantly threatened his wife Liz with divorce because she tended to her parents in an emergency. Later on, she takes the papers in their safe box and turns them in. Moreover, Liz also knew about his affairs with three women, who all rejected him after Liz revealed it to them. - Tom
threw Kim's important documents into the trash to forcibly make her quit her job and become a housewife, whipping out divorce papers to cow her into submission. When he came back hoping she try to get back with him, Kim revealed she turned in the papers and now was married to her boss. Moreover, Tom's company was going to be bought by the boss' company and he was about to get fired. - Bryan
constantly hounded Carol to do the household chores despite having kicked her out of the house to make space for his mistress, and changing the locks of his doors earlier on. When she objected too many times, he threatened her with divorce and pulled the papers on her to cow her into submission. Much to his dismay, Carol signed the papers and turned them in one month later. Moreover, his younger girlfriend dumped him because of his refusal to look after the house himself. - Christine
was really obsessed with Henry and often berated his wife Alyssa. She even got a job at a convenience store where Henry worked to get close to him. But it ended up backfiring as it turned out that the couple were the managers of the store and Christine was fired and was additionally forced to pay compensation. - Natasha
tried to cow her own husband into submission by whipping out divorce papers in a fit of anger after her son, Brad, chewed her out for her controlling behavior towards his wife Sierra. Much to her surprise, Natasha's husband signed the divorce papers and turned them in to the city hall, which gave her no choice but to leave the home as they were officially divorced.
- Anna
- Threatening to Cut Ties:
- Lisa
is a lazy "housewife" who forces her husband Rob to handle the housework while she's out spending his money, threatening to divorce him when he complains, even leaving signed divorce papers on the table. Lisa assumes that Rob is too chicken to go through with the divorce, but he decided to hand them, because being being married to her to her was a nightmare. Lisa has the audacity to claim that Rob tricked her and demands that he go out and take the papers back. Lisa is so desperate to not get divorced that she claims that she's willing to get remarried via forging his signature, which doesn't work as Rob knew that she would try that and warned the courts. - Debby
loves to play the divorce card when arguing with her husband Rick, assuming that he's too timid to actually divorce her. When Rick actually does hand in the divorce papers, she freaks out and claims she was just joking and begs him to not get divorced, which he refuses, causing her to accept the divorce...until she learns that Rick knows about her affair with her boss's husband, which makes her want to get divorced even less.
- Lisa
- Trash of the Titans:
- Bryan's
house became filled to the brim with trash and dirty clothes after he threw his wife, Carol, out of the house to live with his lover. However, when she left him, he demanded Carol to come back doing the household chores despite changing the locks of his doors so she won't enter earlier on. - After Lara
kicked May out of their parent's house, the house quickly became a pigsty since May was the one doing the cleaning. Lara begged May to come back, but she was taken away by her boyfriend's parents; she soon found herself back at her parent's dirty house because she cheated on her boyfriend.
- Bryan's
- Turn to Religion: At the end of this episode
, the main character Indigo converts to Islam after remarrying and moving to Malaysia, leaving her cheating ex-husband Valentino and younger sister Kasia to pay the debts they racked up. - The Un-Favourite:
- Shigeto
was mistreated and treated like an idiot by his parents in favor of his sister Miyoko. They even kicked him out of the house and forced him to send them money. Shigeto and Miyoko eventually cut ties with them with Miyoko moving away from them, fooling them into thinking they were moving to a fancier house. - Wynter
was looked down upon and eventually disowned by her mother in favor of her older sister Emily, all because Wynter failed medical school. However, she takes it in stride and goes on to write an autobiographical book based on the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother. Emily, who has been supportive towards Wynter, went on to serve as a doctor overseas to escape her mother as well. - Heidi
was looked down upon by her mother in favor of her sister Kasia. She even went along with Kasia's plan to steal Heidi's fiancee. - David
was unfavorably treated by his mother in favor of his younger sister Karen, who only helps with housework while he was working as a pro gamer. When he moved out one month later, she finally believed he was the one depositing money. Moreover, Karen revealed that David was the one doing housework after her prospective rich husband found out she was incapable of doing it. - Marvin
was unfavorably treated by his mother in favor of his sister Kara, because of the latter's illness. She avoided him and eventually disowned him claiming that Kara wanted to be an only child, but Marvin took Kara away from her. - Ginny
was unfavorably compared to her younger sister Samantha because the former was a working woman and the latter was a housewife, which the mother favored. However, this didn't affect the bond between the sisters, especially as the mother threatened Samantha's marriage for deciding to move in with her in-laws to give birth instead of with her. - Cassidy
was unfavorably treated by her parents in favor of her younger sister Miley, whom they spoiled rotten. Furthermore, the couple were so doting of the latter that when she eloped with the former's fiancé, Samuel, they blamed Cassidy for the affair to the point of throwing her down the stairs. However, her grandfather saw the whole thing and had the parents hauled away to work at his quarry, with Miley and Samuel following suit ten years later.
- Shigeto
- Toxic Lover Influence: Mitchell's
mother didn't approve of his relationship with his wife Laura because she knew that Laura would be a bad influence on Mitchell. His mom is proven right when Mitchell's life takes a turn for the worse due to Mitchell becoming a debt-ridden, gambling-addicted spendthrift who resorted to stealing his deceased father's paintings to cover his and Laura's debts. - Two-Timing with the Bestie: Manami
ghosted Ethan on their wedding day and disappeared, much to both the newlyweds' parents' despair. Eight years later, when his best friend Caleb announces he's getting married and sends him a photo of his fiancée, he learns the woman is Manami, who turned out to have been after his money all along. - Vandalism Backfire:
- Renee
sneaks into office-heartthrob Mark's wedding and ruins the bride's dress to spite Holly out of a mistaken assumption that the latter was going to marry him, despite her trying to clarify the dress belonged to someone else. After doing the deed, Holly reveals that the bride not only was Mark's secretary, but Renee's sister. As a result, Renee is divorced by her own husband for attempting to cheat on him with Mark after the bride reported it to him. - Kayla
set Rachel's wedding dress on fire to keep her from marrying Dustin out of spite for the bride-to-be for allegedly dropping out of high school. Much to the future MIL's dismay, Rachel reveals the dress the old crone just burned was actually for her own daughter, Talia, with Rachel herself recording the conversation to send to Dustin, Talia, and Kayla's ex-husband, which caused her to become a pariah. - Sofia
stole Gilda's luxury car to take it for a drive out of spite for the latter not letting her use it despite being allegedly richer than her. Much to her dismay, when Gilda finds out, she reveals that her car not only was actually a regular four-seater, but the car she just stole actually belonged to Anton, a fearsome man who allegedly had ties to the criminal underworld. As a result of her stunt, Sofia is disowned by her parents, divorced by her husband, and taken away by Anton to pay off the debt.
- Renee
- Vicarious Gold Digger:
- Pam's mom
not only tried to bar her from marrying her boyfriend, but tried to marry her off to a landowner named Denis Manning so she and her favorite son, Brad, can live off the old man's money. - Kelly and Amanda's mom
is revealed to be this as she demanded the former break up with her lawyer fiancé and give him up to the latter under the excuse that she "deserved" to live a life of luxury; in reality, the reason the mother wanted Amanda to be the lawyer's wife was just to live off his money, but Amanda herself didn't want him since she had a boyfriend herself.
- Pam's mom
- Wanted a Son Instead: Hanae
lamented the fact she had three sons with her husband, Takaya, because she wanted a daughter. It went to the point where she cheated on him with a man named Yusuke, who was the father of two girls named Aya and Moe. Moreover, she hoped to win the court battle against Yusuke's wife for the girls' custody in the assumption she was a housewife only to lose. She tried to get back with Takaya on the assumption he adopted a daughter, but he revealed "she" was his cousin's son. - Weasel Co-Worker: Amy
not only had a difficult personality once she got work at the company Mandy worked, but also tried to seduce Manager Dave despite being married herself and even begged Mandy do her presentation for her despite the rules dictating she should do it herself. - Wedding Smashers:
- "My mom and sister joined forces to try and steal my husband but crashed the wrong wedding...."
along with her mother tried to steal Heidi's fiancee, but they ended up going to the wrong chapel and busted the wrong wedding. As a result they were forced to pay for the damages. - "My ex-wife told me to give me back the alimony she paid me"
: Sarah Garofalo tried to bust Silvio's wedding and extort back the €30,000 she paid him in alimony. However, she busts the wrong wedding and ends up accruing an even bigger debt after wrecking a lot of stuff in her attempt to escape. After her relatives blocked her way out so that the ex's former parents could pick her up, they decided to send her away to a mountaintop temple to shape her up. - "Thinking that I was going to be marrying her again after my post on SNS"
: Brenda gatecrashes Tyson's wedding after demanding he give her $50,000 as "proof of her love" despite telling her he was going to remarry someone else. However, she ends up busting the wrong wedding as the hotel Tyson booked his wedding at was another of the same branch in Japan. Moreover, it turns out the reason Brenda wanted the money in the first place was to pay her debt to a host club after her parents disowened her for cheating on Tyson. - "The time my sister crashed my co-worker's wedding with a watermelon stuffed under her jumper!"
: Sharon crashes Ruth and Alex's alleged wedding with a watermelon stuffed under her jumper and claim herself pregnant with Alex's baby. However, it backfires because Alex was actually the bride; she was a tall, manly-looking woman who happened to be wearing masculine-style clothes when she saw her coming out of the wedding hall with Ruth earlier on. As a result, Sharon runs away in embarrassment, her watermelon falls off after the guards apprehended her, and eventually got sued for damages.
- "My mom and sister joined forces to try and steal my husband but crashed the wrong wedding...."
- White-Collar Crime:
- "My parents doted on my genius sister but ignored me → the way it backfired was priceless...!"
: Anna, who gloated to her older sister, Emily, about being being hired into the prestigious T-Bank, got scolded and fired two months in for stealing money from the company's savings. - "My beautiful wife has been cheating on my with my sister's husband"
: Josh, Carly's cheating husband and Maren's boyfriend on the side, was a promising man on his way to become a CEO, but he was actually a womanizer who got fired for embezzling company money to spend on stuff to cheat on Carly with several other women besides Maren. - "My wife told me that she was going to her parents' house, but I was already there..."
: When Bob brings up Mary's boyfriend on the side after he and her parents found out she tricked them to cover up her affair, she defends him by claiming he's jobless, but Bob jokingly asks her if he lost his job for embezzlement. - "My sister stole my husband from me a year ago and makes fun of me for it still"
: Lisa successfully stole Carmen's husband, John, since he was a CEO's son. Much to her dismay, however, she doesn't get to enjoy it for long as he and his father got fired for embezzlement. - "When my wife takes a weekend trip with one of her friends"
: Amanda used the company credit card to spend on her affair trip with Maden behind Colson's back. However, he finds out when his secretary, Katty, notifies him of the spending, which prompts Colson to have the card deactivated. - "After going to Hawaii with his mom and my credit card, I make sure to have it frozen"
: Justice was fired from his job before the start of the story for embezzlement, and hasn't gone on to find another job ever since as his mom told him to "decompress", which he interpreted as mooching off his hardworking wife, Brie. - "A longtime friend of mine went and stole my fiancé years ago"
: Ten years after Bailey stole David from Sam (and gloated about it at the latter's wedding), she gloated about being Happily Married to rub it on Sam's face thinking she was still single. However, the reveal that Sam married a wealthy man caused Bailey to break down and reveal that shortly after she married David, he was fired for embezzlement, causing her to neglect the baby she had with him and eventually lose her custody to his parents. Eventually, when Sam refused to help her, Bailey brought up the embezzlement to blame her for it in response only to be sued.
- "My parents doted on my genius sister but ignored me → the way it backfired was priceless...!"
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Rachel
is dumbfounded when Eloise reveals her son is named "Kaiser", despite the kid himself saying he was named Taylor. - Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Lacey
not only stole Petra's fiancé, Pat, but lied to their parents that he was her fiancé and Petra was the one who tried to steal him. Moreover, Petra herself even recalls an incident in which Lacey threw herself down the stairs and blamed her for it, with their parents falling for it in both instances. - Writers Cannot Do Math: In this story
, Ivo divorced his ex-wife Rocca ten years ago, but when their daughter is brought up, he states she's five years old, despite the fact she's supposed to be born before the divorce.
