Betrayed by the person I believed to be my beloved childhood sweetheart and the one I thought was my irreplaceable best friend, I fled the city where they both lived.

After moving to a new city, things got a little better thanks to two kind upperclassmen, but my heart remained unhealed.

One day, as I welcomed my second winter in this city, a suspicious person appeared at my apartment building.

It seemed to be targeting the woman who had recently moved into the neighboring apartment.

After driving the intruder away, the woman from the next apartment, trembling with fear, begged me to stay with her for the night... but I didn't want to be with a woman, so I abandoned her.

However, I couldn't get the image of her eyes, filled with the same despair and sadness as mine, out of my head...

And so... our strange cohabitation began.

This is a story about an ordinary male university student who, broken and having fled after being betrayed by his ex-childhood sweetheart and ex-best friend, and a girl who continues to run, enduring slander and abuse from society demanding atonement for her family's crimes, as they find true happiness.

※ This is the serialized version of a story that continues the short story, "Betrayed by My Childhood Sweetheart and Best Friend, I Fled This City Where You Are."

※ While we aim to keep it around novella length, we apologize if it ends up being longer.

※ The comeuppance for the childhood friend and ex-best friend will happen after the protagonist and heroine find happiness.