Yamagishi Ayumi (Kaho) and Ebihara Katsuo (Takeuchi Ryoma), who have been dating for five years and living together, originally seemed to be stable and happy, but they suddenly broke up when Katsuo proposed.Ayumi is good at cooking, makes selfless sacrifices for her lover, and works hard to build an ideal relationship, but gradually loses herself; Katsuo is confident and perfect, insisting on the natural gender division of labor, but does not realize that their values have long been misaligned.Starting from a conflict about who will cook, the two re-examine themselves and each other, and embark on a journey to find themselves and rebuild their relationship after breaking up. It is a romantic comedy about growth and regeneration.
This drama is adapted from the original manga of the same name by Natsuko Taniguchi.
Katsuo Ebihara (played by Ryoma Takeuchi), a businessman who works in the city center, is a so-called machismo with the outdated values that a woman's happiness is to cook at home and wait for the beloved to come back.
My favorite dish is Chikuzen-dishi cooked by my live-in girlfriend Ayumi Yamagishi (Kaho).However, every day when she eats the food cooked by Nishimura Ayumi, she always expresses her feelings by saying “ insistent words, saying that the food is too brown, and ” suggesting “. On the other hand, Ayumi also accepted Ayumi's suggestion, so the two of them sat around the boring table.
One day, after careful preparation, Katsuo decided to propose the perfect proposal to Ayumi.But Ayumi said ”um, no“, and simply dumped him...
Your job and appearance are perfect, and you have a good relationship with Ayumi. Why was she dumped?Although he was in a depressed mood, Katsuo went to socialize in order to find a new love. The more he talked, the more he felt that the women who had a good impression of him were gradually moving away from him.
” World, has anything changed during my relationship with Ayumi??“
The troubled Katsuo decided to try making Chikuzen-dishi, which Nishimura Ayumi often makes, at the suggestion of a junior in the company.Then, I realized that the ”cooking% I thought I could do was actually a very difficult and time-consuming task...
On the other hand, after breaking up, Ayumi is in a dangerous place with strange friends——.
Ayumi, a woman who lost herself because her lover gave priority to her lover, and the perfect man Sheng Nan who was abandoned by the times.Where will the love story that started from the separation of the two go??
Although they reunited after a long separation, Katsuo (Takeuchi Ryoma) didn't notice Ayumi (Kaho) at all.Ayumi was speechless to Katsuo who just changed his hair color but didn't notice her. At the same time, she recalled the reason why she broke up with Katsuo - every day after meeting Nagisa.
Nagisa, the person in charge of the beauty salon, asked her what she liked.%, Nishimura Ayumi realized that she had always prioritized how to make others like her, rather than what she liked.
In this way, Ayumi broke up with Katsuo and started to live her own life, but one day she was accidentally talked to by the bartender Minato (played by Aoki Yuzu)...
On the other hand, Katsuo lives a miserable life just like Ayumi.The company's junior, Nanchuan (Xinghua), recommended matching software to her, but women like Ayumi did not exist there!Katsuo, who was opposed to Nanchuan due to his different values, took an incident as an opportunity to become interested in matching software...
Katsuo (Takeuchi Ryoma) witnesses Ayumi (Kaho) embracing Minato (Aoki Yuzuki) and is devastated.Under such circumstances, Katsuo, who was forced to log into Ayumi's matching app by Shirosaki (Mizuki Maehara) and others, decided to meet the woman he matched with immediately in order to get rid of Ayumi.
However, Tsubaki (played by Nakajo Ayumi) who appears at the appointed place is contrary to the quiet type portrayed by Katsuo. She is a woman who is very good at guiding men.Katsuo was immediately proposed to have a date at home, so he enthusiastically prepared oden for the two of them to eat together...
On the other hand, Nishimura Ayumi, who cannot understand her ambiguous relationship with Minato, also wants to be confessed to as soon as possible, and she also wants to challenge her date with Minato.Ayumi likes sweets and cute things very much, so she feels a little inconsistent when dating the innocent Minato...
After Ayumi (played by Kaho) told Katsuo that she had a boyfriend she liked very much, Katsuo (played by Takeuchi Ryoma) witnessed Xiaogang (played by Yu Aoki) in the bar of Taiping (played by Rakuki).
Katsuo was very concerned about Taiping and Nagisa saying that Xiaogang was a playboy, so he asked Xiaogang's ex-girlfriends who were present. Xiaogang seemed to have a "mass-consuming love physique" that would immediately date women and break up with them immediately.Katsuo, who was worried about Ayumi and was restless, was stung by Nanchuan (Xinghua)'s words that it had nothing to do with her ex-boyfriend and was unable to take action.
Ayumi was completely unaware of this incident, and her relationship with Manado deepened smoothly.Then we finally started living together.She cooked for Cortana and waited at home, but her sense of disobedience and uneasiness towards Cortana gradually increased, but she witnessed a certain scene of Cortana...
Ayumi (Kaho) witnesses a meeting between Hong Kong (Yu Aoki) and her ex-girlfriend Sekita (Yu Yu), and is shaken by the suspicion that he is having an affair.But Minato, who had no ill intentions at all, proposed to have a drink together after taking Sekita back to his home where Ayumi was waiting.Moreover, while Ayumi was cooking and waiting for her to go home, Xiaogang went to the supermarket to buy groceries and went home without changing her rhythm at all, making Ayumi depressed.
On the other hand, although Katsuo (Takeuchi Ryoma) decided to entrust Ayumi to the port, he still could not give up his nostalgia for her. His brother Takahiro (Takashi Tsukamoto) came to visit Katsuo (Takeuchi Ryoma) from his hometown Oita.There, Katsuo came into contact with a certain worry of Takahiro, who always believed that he was better than him and could solve any problem by himself.Then in order to encourage Yingguang, he thought of something.However, Ayumi was also involved in Katsuo's idea...
Ayumi (Kaho), who suddenly broke up with Minato (played by Yu Aoki) on the grounds that she had no desire to get married, started living alone without telling anyone about it.However, when I noticed it, I cooked a meal for 2 people, etc., and accidentally felt Minato's absence...
On the other hand, Katsuo (played by Ryoma Takeuchi) feels guilty because he failed to tell his father Katsuo (played by Daikichi Sugawara) about his breakup with Ayumi, who planned to bring Ayumi back to get married.
Under such circumstances, Katsuo began to make chicken bone soup by himself, and his cooking skills improved by leaps and bounds.One day, Tsubaki (played by Nakajo Ayumi) invited her to a house party, and she went to the party with Xiaolongbao prepared with great enthusiasm...
At the same time, Ayumi attended a wedding party invited by her colleagues...
Katsuo (Takeuchi Ryoma) and Ayumi (Kaho) have never been able to muster the courage to confess to each other's parents that they have broken up.At the same time, the wedding of a friend back home that they were originally scheduled to attend together is now approaching day by day.
One day, Ayumi accidentally watched a love reality show and was shocked to find that her sister Sayuri (Akiko Kikuchi) appeared on the show.What's even more surprising is that Tsubaki (Ayumi Nakajo), who just broke up with her boyfriend, also participated in the same show, which also shocked Katsuo.
In the end, the two decided to go back to Oita separately to attend the wedding.However, after returning to their respective homes, they found that their parents had secretly arranged a dinner for the two families to meet without knowing anything about it.The fact that they broke up still couldn't be told, so Katsuo and Ayumi had no choice but to attend this "meeting between the two families".
However, during the dinner party, Katsuo saw the true appearance of his family that Ayumi had tried so hard to hide. Under the impulse of emotion, he blurted out a decisive sentence...