I Cut off the Exes That Ridiculed Me, Deciding To Live as I Please, but It Seems They All Liked Me for Some Reason

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“You’re just like a s*ave, Yuta-kun!”

Those abusive words made me rethink myself in a new light. My model ex-girlfriend, my junior, and the best maid of the café all constantly abused me.

I don’t need these kinds of people in my life, nor do I need to force myself to be nice to everyone. From now on, I’ll be honest about what I think and do only what I want to.

With this decision, my previously dull life was filled with color.

—However, apparently, there’s a reason for their behavior?

This is a story that starts with forgiveness.

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Itsumo Baka ni Shite Kuru Bishoujo-tachi to Zetsuen Shitara, Jitsu wa Ore no Koto ga Daisuki Datta You da. (LN)
Itsumo Baka ni Shite Kuru Model no Motokano mo Kouhai mo Oshi no Maid mo Zenbu Zetsuenshite Sukihoudai Ikiru Kotonishitara, Nazeka Minna Ore no Koto ga Suki Datta You da. (WN)
いつも馬鹿にしてくるモデルの元カノも後輩も推しのメイドも全部絶縁して好き放題生きる事にしたら、何故かみんな俺のことが好きだったようだ。(WN)
いつも馬鹿にしてくる美少女たちと絶縁したら、実は俺のことが大好きだったようだ。(LN)
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wickedswami
wickedswami rated it
December 15, 2022
Status: v1c22 part2
TL;DR: Main character isn't as much of an idiot for feeling betrayed and berated as some sources would lead you to believe.

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I wasn't going to write a review for this because I don't have strong feeling for it either way so far, but one of the other reviews incorrectly points out some of the events as negatives towards the main character. He isn't perfect by any stretch but putting the blame mostly on him for these situations just doesn't make sense.

While this is a pretty cookie cutter "betrayal" and they regret it story, the main character isn't really without his own reasoning to take each of these "betrayals" seriously instead of something light-hearted. The girls in the story even see how they mess up and it is laid out for readers to see the issues from both characters sides. So to say the story is just "poor MC is the victim and the girls are all wrong" just feels extremely disingenuous if the story was actually read since he literally takes the blame where it makes sense for each situation.

The Maid:

No, he was not paying someone to be mean to him then got mad at them for doing their job.

Spoiler

Yes, he was at a maid cafe and she was playing a character, but it is explicitly stated in chapter 12 that he has no idea she's playing a character. He was her regular before she played a mean character. One day she got a request from another customer to be mean to them and after that customer likes it, other people come in from his recommendation asking for it.

She gets popular from being mean to customers and incorrectly assumes all men like girls being mean to them. She then starts being mean to the main character to try and appeal to him and cheer him up since she thinks all men like it. When he uncomfortably smiles with her because of his low self esteem (from his girlfriend cheating on him, tr*sh talking him, then dumping him) she takes it as him liking it. She never once tells the main character it's an act and as the days go by she starts acting meaner and meaner because she thinks he'll like it better and that's when he blows up.

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The Girlfriend:

I don't know how you could see this as anything other than her fault. She is actually brain dead for even thinking any of what she did made sense.

Spoiler

She wants the main character to show his emotions instead of bottling them up. She decides to tell the main character that they should break up because she's gonna date at model at her job who she actually enjoys talking to and she is comfortable with compared to him. Then when the main character gets sad and walks away, she is actually happy. She didn't say she was kidding right after like the other review would lead you to believe.

After she breaks up with him, she doesn't talk to him for a whole week to build up his emotions, making him think she's with the model then just shows up and says "I broke up with my boyfriend, so you don't have to keep a distance from me anymore." She never said it wasn't real. Then she wants him to explode with emotions so she never tells him she still likes him and even tr*sh talks him constantly for at least a year up to when the story starts.

After the main character changes himself because he's fed up with everything, she pats herself on the back that she helped him express himself and is finally gonna tell him that she never dated the model guy or meant any of the mean stuff she said. Before she even tries to give him any sort of explanation, she says that it's funny he changed his looks because it "doesn't mean anything".

Getting mad at the main character for not listening to her at that point is s*upid.

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The Junior:

We haven't really seen what exactly she was saying to the main character but her and the main characters both make it seem like it wasn't obvious teasing like what is shown just before the main character cuts her off, she was just making fun of what happened to him. Which is explained in story by:

Spoiler

She could tell he wasn't ready for someone to confess to him and didn't want to ruin their friendship so she was taking jabs at his past to try and lighten the mood about it and to cover up how she felt, she was a little harsher than she meant to be, but took it too far for too long. She even admits she was doing it for too long for it to be something to easily move on from without a proper talk.

The reason her teasing is lighter when we see it is because she saw he changed himself and might have moved on from his painful past. This makes her think it's okay to make her feelings more known in her teasing which is seen when main character cuts her off from his life.

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Luxraypro100
Luxraypro100 rated it
January 30, 2023
Status: v2c12
Response to DMR at the top of the reviews.

Were you just skimming through the series or something?

Yuta was not paying her to hurl abuse at him. That is to say he wasn't even paying her to begin with, he was paying the café and she went out of her way to be the one to service him. This girl literally read some shitty dating advice media, took it to heart, and started abusing the sh*t out of him to mimic a classic sh*tty Tsundere. She treated him like sh*t on... more>> her own volition to get him to like her and it blew up in her face.

Yuta maybe victimizing himself, but rightfully so. These girls are absolute scum, it doesn't matter if they were just cracking jokes or not. Their type of behavior is absolutely appalling, frankly in any other school they'd be expelled for what they've been doing. These things they've been doing to him aren't simple to defend against nor are they easy to forgive. This isn't something that can be solved with a simple 'clear things up'. That is like the most cliché excuse these types of people come up with. "I was just a joke! Please listen to me! Don't be mad at me!" Horse shit, now you're sorry? No, those are empty words. They're just trying to avoid the trouble they're rightfully in. If he immediately just listened to them, there was a good chance it'd just revert to how it was with them spouting insults, abuse and other tr*sh talk. If they really want his forgiveness, they need to show it with their actions and not just their words. <<less
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DMR
DMR rated it
October 5, 2022
Status: c12
So the MC is someone tired of the abuse.... so how does this story start??? He yells at the girl hurling abuse at him.

Seems like a good move, right??? Wrong... she's actually a maid at a maid cafe... and he was PAYING her to hurl abuse at him...

And then he gets mad at her....

... more>> You don't pay someone for doing exactly what you paid them to do...

And it seems that from the girlfriend who "cheated" on him, she was just joking and tried to clear things up; but the MC is so insecure that he wouldn't listen. (That said, she shouldn't have made such a joke).

And the final girl, the Jr was only teasing him in an obvious manner and he was laughing along with her....

Rather than people hating him, it seems that he's just victimizing himself with his own insecurities...

And that isn't the main issue.

The real issue is that it doesn't seem to be addressing that... like, there might be some levels of insensitivity, but the author also needs to focus on the fact that his low self-esteem is also clouding his view... but no... it's "poor MC is the victim and the girls are all wrong"

And it just feels forced... <<less
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RyukoX
RyukoX rated it
August 18, 2022
Status: v1c20 part1
This is my second comment on NU. So please correct me if I'm wrong.

This novel is similar to your typical "Betrayed, then become OP or Handsome" troupe.

Although I like how the MC of these similar novels, behaved to their betrayer, this novel is kinda different.

... more>> The author give the MC a powerful determination to change after getting abused and betrayed, he cut off all connections from these girls. All the girls later on realised they're wrong, therefore asking for forgiveness from the MC.

Other novel author usually make their MC to avoid or ignore these heroine, then giving these heroine an act to redeem themselves.

Meanwhile this novel MC is just "Okay, you know what wrong with your behaviours, so let's hang out like there is no fight/misunderstanding between us".

This stuffs make me feel short about this novel. <<less
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ihy
ihy rated it
May 4, 2023
Status: v2c12 part4
This has a good premise of a young guy finding his backbone to stick up for himself after years of pain but quickly after the enlightenment MC goes back to his classic JP romcom protag nice guy persona. Catharsis of exes realizing how they f*cked up lasts only 1-2 chapters. Then goes back being buddy buddy with them albeit he's a bit more reserved this time around. So it has a lovely start but really bad development. Read it if you don't mind forgiving characters.
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GreenRiver
GreenRiver rated it
November 28, 2022
Status: v1c22
Ok, decided to post since one of the other reviews seemed a bit off to me. I'll say this first, the MC does have low self-confidence, mostly because of how people treat him (including the three "exes that ridiculed me").

The three people who ridiculed him were:

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Spoiler

Maid Cafe Waitress: She becomes friends with the MC → takes on a "b*tchy girl" character → starts to be mean to the MC too. She doesn't understand why, but "guys like it when I treat them like this", so the MC will like it too, right?

It's just a character, it's a shame she never told the MC that :-/
All he knows is the waitress he was friendly with started treating him like garbage.

"Cheating" Girlfriend: She was insecure about their relationship and dumped the MC because she wanted him to get angry and fight for her. Plus, she wanted him to get angry and stand up for himself. With the emotional state he was in, it's like kicking out a guy's crutches because you want him to walk on his own two feet.

Junior (Kouhai) : Just a Tsundere. This is the only one that didn't do something truly terrible. With that said, she consistently beats him down. She knows he's emotionally wounded but does it anyway without considering what it would do to him.

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Abhin
Abhin
January 26, 2024
Status: --
1... The ex

So in short his ex being dumb declared break up after she said she had someone else she liked, some may say he should have listened to her side of the story while she said it as a joke, the first initial her way of speaking was only like a joke, later on she pin's him down seriously, which makes him completely vulnerable to any simple mental damage, as she was the one who proposed to him and feels like he was not active enough, the reason he... more>> always acted a little out of reach was because he didn't wanted news to make a scandal out of her carrier, bit*h never cared for that and went along with her words without considering his feelings.

  1. While we amy thing he is just down evaluating himself, she should have been more careful afterall he was very kind, that's entire reason he felt like shit. Since he always went along with her actions, she thought this time also he will just beg her to stay with him or say something like I love you please don't break up with me, it's entirely her fault for thinking he was pushover all the time.
2) bro also has fault here, that is he is too kind back then which made him forgive the girls whenever they looked down on him.

2..... Then the cafe girl

She was his favorite since he always was an otaku and all, and was a big fan of fan service, yet by each time he went there she would get more and more agressive to the point that her tone of speech and way or expressing would become disgusting and feel real, though she wanted to do her best for him, but calls him s*ave while she calls others pig the reason was he was still a pushover who never reacted whever he was down called by her each time , like an ego her mind was filled with ways to make him get aggresive and reactive, while she did it just to please her self and to show her interest, she did it at the wrong time, just after he broke which made him feel like sh*t and probably all the adreline pinned in his heart for being a average and hated made him insecure about everything.

Some may say she did her job only, but if you read carefully here the author is showing how he is treated much meaner than others, and while it would have been easily forgotten if it was only by the cafe maid girl, you can't blame him entirely afterall he had a girlfirend before and only like the kohai and cafe girl as good friends, thier sudden change in agression and way of speaking , like if I talk the same thing, you are like a friend, but if I did it with the tone, " you are just a friend !", both meaning you are friend but each is precieved differently.

So maid pushed her luck by being more agreesive while he was at his lowest, which made him feel like, she also looks down on him that why he ran away, if she was a bit honest and considerate with her words while maybe talking the same way of language while she talked to the other guests things would have been surely in her favour.

Also she would critisize that his way of taking to someone without looking at their eyes, is like rude and say remarks like did your parents not reach you anything.

I mean who pays to hear someone bring parent to their character. While his entire siftey and kind pushover behaviour is because him mom and dad told him to be kind to everyone ofcourse anyone would lash out at that time.

I mean his parents died bit*h be considerate, how many times did he visit you, you could easily have been close to him by taking normally or by calling out. Her not knowing is not an excuse, you should never bring someone's parents into your insults those thing hurt much more and for most men it never fades away.

So anyone who supports her actions, please thing how would you react if you parents where called out during insults and you didn't feel like lashing out.

3......... the tsundare junior.

I would have not need to explain this girl, yet I will do it. She is the typical annoying kohai who lashed out at her senpai, but loves him, her action are not justifiable eighter. She always mean from as far as she met him and know he was kind and a pushover she would critisise him.

Like saying things like he is lame, the reason he doesn't get friends is because he is precieved as tr*sh and gloomy, while he is glommy for sure he isn't hate sby anyone as he later on become's Greta friends with everyone.

Though at first if someone close to you did things like this would be not precieved much by anyone, but it's kind of annoying she does this while he was dating and she knew it, that anger that he has someone else othe Ethan her, where indicated in her manner of speech.

And there are so much to say about this bit*h but I am tired, to write anymore.

So this all about these three characters anyways, the only person who should have a chance is the maid girl as she did try to do her best for him. But comeon bit*h be much more open and don't bring someone parents into your little talk and compare them or fault them with someone else's behaviour it's disgusting, always know when to stop nagging and be aware of other's.

And the main charcter has a lot of flaws like being too kind, which is a big no no, thats the single reason those girls lashed out at him, so get angry when needed and don't take eveything too lighlty and have self confidence <<less
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rae2feaz
rae2feaz rated it
April 23, 2023
Status: v2c12 part4
it's the usual one guy get chased by multiple girls scenario. in a typical japanese youth stories.

MC not dense. he realize the girls are on him. but he doesn't try to pick one over anyone either, he try to treat everyone equally. maintaining a status quo.

the girls... they are all caring with their own way. after they got the reset button of forgiveness; his ex-gf turn more honest, junior stop hurling negative comments at him, the maid giving him more special services.

the friends... MC get some friends with similar hobby's.... more>> also got acquainted to other after he try to be more proactively approach the other in his class. they are all nice.

..... seishun at their making. <<less
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