After My Girlfriend Betrayed Me, I Was Picked Up by My Rich Childhood Friend

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Haruki Shuu was the boyfriend she exploited daily.

One day, he saw her holding hands with another man as he left his part-time job. Upon questioning her, she treated him as a stalker and hugged that other dude.

Hurt, he goes to school the next day only to find that, apparently, he was the cheater and that he’s always been a horrible guy. He’s then isolated from the rest of the school.

Drowning in despair, he tries to jump off a bridge, hoping to disappear from this world…

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After my girlfriend betrayed me, I was picked up by my rich childhood friend.
彼女に裏切られて自暴自棄になってたら、超絶美少女でお嬢様なむかしの幼馴染に拾われた
彼女に裏切られて自暴自棄になってたら、超絶美少女でお嬢様なむかしの幼馴染に拾われた〜復縁してくれ?今の環境が最高なのでお断りします〜
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Latest Release

Date Group Release
05/25/22 Soafp v2c1
05/25/22 Soafp v1 epilogue
05/22/22 Soafp v1c16 part4
05/19/22 Soafp v1c15 part3
05/16/22 Soafp v1c14 part2
05/13/22 Soafp v1c13 part1
05/12/22 Soafp v1c12
05/10/22 Soafp v1c11
05/09/22 Soafp v1c10
05/07/22 Soafp v1c9
05/03/22 Soafp v1c8
05/02/22 Soafp v1c7
04/29/22 Soafp v1c6
04/27/22 Soafp v1c5
04/25/22 Soafp v1c4
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Review
4 Reviews


Esorb
Esorb
May 03, 2022
Status: v3c1
To preface, I've read ahead in the raws somewhat.

This story came about when an author read Hayate the Combat Butler and wanted to write something similar. He wrote down a general outline for his story, before deciding not to use it and threw it out. Then, his younger brother who'd never written anything in his life found the crumpled up piece of paper in the tr*sh and decided to use it to write his own story, thinking that if he combined it with the inexplicably popular "dude gets wronged by... more>> a girl, his school, his family, the old lady down the street, a random dog, etc. Before getting a better life eventually through a relationship with a different and much kinder girl" genre, it would end up being good. He was wrong.

Hey, pro tip for any aspiring authors here,

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If you're going to have your protagonists literally s*x traffic a minor and have it be seen as a good thing, put a little more effort into making it feel justified. There are a lot of ways to get revenge that don't involve mimicking minor villains in tr*shy isekai's, so if you are going to use s*x s*avery as the method of revenge, you gotta earn that as an author, otherwise it comes off way different than I think is intended. If the main characters are morally gray already, then it could work. If the characters are supposed to come off as upright members of society, maybe don't have them do something that should horrify any decent person? Just a thought.

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The author here sprints through the standard plot beats you would expect, executing none of them well and developing no real attachment to the characters or the story. The relationship between the ML and FL isn't really developed, there's no reason for her to be so in love with the ML she hasn't seen for years except that she just is, and there's a general air of detachment from reality that makes nothing feel like it matters. The way the FL being super rich is implemented in the story takes away basically any and all grounding that would make you care about what happens. A super rich character that is able to do basically anything using wealth, ordering around armies of servants for trivial things like making sure dates go well, building a castle in a month, etc. Is all stuff that works in comedy, but it does not work in what should be a character driven romantic drama.

That's why I made the comparison to Hayate earlier, because both include elements of the concept of the super rich doing outlandish things, but it works in Hayate because Hayate is funny and is supposed to be funny. This is presented as a character drama, so using those absurd elements just takes away from what should be, you know, dramatic. And don't tell me that this story having both the comedy and drama tags invalidates my point. There are different types of comedy, and absurdist humor does not work well with drama.

2 stars instead of 1 because I did have a good 30 minutes of reading it and laughing at how terrible it is. That's a point in its favor I guess. It's so bad that it's, hmm, not good but at least enjoyable to laugh at. <<less
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Aozorah
Aozorah
May 26, 2022
Status: v1 epilogue
Started off good, but author couldn’t provide any decent justification as to why this and that happened. Super rich FMC loves MC for shallow reasons. MC becomes FMC’s butler for no good reason.

As for the revenge, if you’re a normal decent human being, this will surely leave a bad taste in your mouth. Heck, even a degenerate like myself felt so bad with how the revenge was executed.

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Ex girlfriend’s whole family destroyed, was chased by Yakuza for more than 20 days and ultimately forced to prostitution after being caught by them. All of that’s indirectly caused by FMC

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The nail in the coffin for me is how apathetic the MC is. He literally saw his ex in tattered clothes, looking like a beggar, and all he did shout at her to leave him alone then walked away. Zero humanity right there, ladies and gentlemen. <<less
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Wallass
Wallass
May 01, 2022
Status: v1c6
This novel us well translated, and that's a huge plus for me. As for the novel itself? Only 6 chapters have been translated so far, and it is just as the description says, MC ... more>>
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discovers his gf going into a motel with an old guy and the next day she tells everyone that he was the one cheating, no one believes him, not even his mother, and he was going to kill himself, yet just as he's about to jump from a highway, his childhood friend that he hasn't seen in years finds him, and, surprise surprise, she's rich. This all happened in the prologue, so it's not like it's a big spoiler or anything.

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This is quite quick paced for my taste. Things move really fast, but it's not bad. It isn't good either, but dice it is a short read, it's okay. I would give it 3 stars at the moment, since nothing much has happened yet. The MC is not interesting, but he's okay, I guess, is like he doesn't actually have a personality, but he's developing one, the Childhood friend is okay too, but it's not like you will love her right out of the bad, it's not clear if she's spoiled, smart, or manipulative, or selfish, or caring, or anything. We have not spent enough time with her to know yet.

Be warned, there are some really short chapters and there are some with descent length. <<less
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lettersandmoreletters
lettersandmo
Jul 16, 2022
Status: c2.1
I liked it, it wasn't a masterpiece that would shame Hollywood if made into a movie or anything like that but so far it's a somewhat cozy and funny romance story. I think the other reviewers were being a touch harsh on it.

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Being rich makes it hard to make true friends, so many people would want to use them like an ATM, a popularity booster or at least an emergency liferaft for hardship. They'd almost certainly attach great importance to people they see as true friends that aren't after those things- and romance coming from it isn't a surprise even if the memories are small things to us they aren't necessarily small for others.

MC became a butler because he wanted a part time job instead of taking advantage of his friend; not everyone's comfortable being a 'neet' or a 'salted fish'- and better yet for the FL she just happens to be allowed to take one escort with her to school and as someone that clearly wants him around of course she'd offer it to him and he'd accept. I don't see anything all that wrong with it.

As to the revenge being too harsh... Yeah that's true, she's crazy; even before the revenge bit she has her staff knock out a guy and drag him some random place just so he's not an eyesore on their picnic in a park, but it's an endearing insanity.

It's not the most unique, I agree with that too but there are almost always a few knock offs of any decent lightnovel and some of them are good like this one.

As to the MC liking the FL too quickly.. She was his childhood friend and when everything went wrong in his life- his girlfriend cheating and lying about him being the one that cheated turning everyone including his own Mom against him and is about to jump to his doom she saves him, takes him home and gives him a job, friendship, comfort and hope- there are worse reasons for love honestly!

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