Rie quit her job after falling in love with her husband, whom she met at work. One day, she receives an unexpected email from Hirai, who was her boss at the time. It turns out that Hirai had been caught up in financial troubles at the company and had quit. Rie sympathized with her former boss, who had fallen so low that his wife had lost patience with him and he had even swallowed his shame and begged his former subordinates for a loan, so she lent him the money without telling her husband.