My Beloved Stranger

Riku Kambayashi and Minami Maezono, once starry-eyed university sweethearts with dreams of literary success and musical stardom, find themselves navigating the challenges of reality years after their marriage. While Riku's ambition to be a novel writer has blossomed into a fruitful career as a bestselling author, Minami's passion for singing remains unfulfilled. The growing distance between them threatens their relationship and, in an explosive confrontation, Minami mysteriously disappears from Riku's life.Waking up the next day with no answers, Riku is thrown into further disarray when he arrives at his publisher's office to find he now works as an editor for a literary magazine instead of writing novels. Intriguingly, Minami has emerged as a popular singer-songwriter in their absence. As Riku grapples with these unexpected turns, he embarks on a mission to unravel the strange circumstances surrounding his life's transformation and reclaim what truly matters in his journey towards happiness.