Happy life in memory
For Candle June, her married life with Ryoko Hirosue was the happiest time of his life. In those dull days day after day, Ryoko Hirosue always tried her best to play the role of a wife and a mother.
Every weekend, she would hum a song while busy at home, preparing a hearty dinner. At the dinner table, the three children talked and laughed, and the husband and wife poured out each other's life stories.
If the children have a school activity, Ryoko Hirosue will never be absent. Candle JUNE still remembers one time, when her youngest son performed an archery performance at a sports festival, Ryoko Hirosue was so excited that she burst into tears, and she was sincerely pleased with her child's every progress.
Later, Takahiro Okazawa, who was seriously ill, would also take the time to show up and watch the children's growth side by side with Candle June. What a happy family time, now it has become a never-fading image in Candle JUE's mind.
If you could turn back the clock, Candle JUNE would definitely find a way to cherish it. However, everything that actually happened was going in an unpredictable direction, and Candle JUNE was no longer able to stop it.
Seeds of suspicion
If the initial suspicion was just a tiny seed, it soon drew nourishment from Candle June's heart and grew wildly into an intertwined tumor.
On a rainy night in March this year, Ryoko Hirosue hurriedly went out in a beautiful dress, but Candle JUNE was suspicious but didn't ask. It wasn't until a few hours later that the slightly embarrassed makeup on her face and the muddy stains on the corners of her clothes first aroused her husband's alarm.
A few days later, a strange call rang in the wee hours of the morning, and Candle JUNE picked up the phone, and there was silence on the other end. This scene began to be staged frequently, and Ryoko Hirosue often lost contact for a long time without reason.
Candle JUNE didn't want to ruin the relationship because of her own heart, until an eyewitness took a photo of Ryoko Hirosue and Shusaku Toba entering the hotel.
All doubts were thrillingly confirmed at the moment when the photos were exposed.
Failure and self-blame in aftermath
As soon as the photos were exposed, it was an indisputable fact that an uproar was coming. Candle JUNE regretted why he didn't stop this cheating farce early in the first place.
Perhaps, things are not too much to turn out of control. If he rushed to the scene in person as soon as possible, questioned Toba Shusaku in person, and explained to the media that this was just his wife's impulse, as long as the family was united, he could still tide over the difficulties.
Or perhaps, he can choose to tolerate his wife's mistakes, believing that she will realize his misdeeds and return to the right path. But in the end, Candle JUNE did nothing, allowing the time bomb to continue to spread and escalate among families and media.
Seeing the whirlwind of public opinion blowing down this once happy family, Candle JUNE kept asking herself in her dreams in the middle of the night, what she did wrong.
Was it because he was too busy with work and neglected to care about his wife's heart? Or did he ignore or selectively turn a blind eye to the warning signs? He had to admit that he had completely failed to take on the responsibilities of his husband and father in this family crisis, and could only watch everything fall apart.
Remorse and self-reproach for this will be an indelible shadow for the rest of his life.
In the face of intimidation and threats
After the incident was exposed, Candle JUNE and Ryoko Hirosue's family immediately took on the notoriety of being "morally corrupt". Countless netizens held high the banner of so-called "public order and good customs" and besieged them violently online.
What started as a scolding message quickly escalated into a threatening letter sent home. The anonymous and maliciously delivered envelopes were filled with nasty words and cruel curses threatening to shoot Candle JUE's entire family, and the words were full of twisted anger.
Some of the letters even revealed the time and place of the children's school, which forced Candle JUNE to hire additional bodyguards to take the children to and from school every day.
In the face of the frenzied rendering of online public opinion and the increasing number of offline threatening letters, Candle JUNE said that if all this really hurts his family, he will not hesitate to end his life.
Because the cause of this incident is himself, he has a responsibility to prevent the incident from getting worse.
Remorse and pleas for forgiveness at the apology meeting
At the press conference, Candle JUNE stood alone in a small and poorly furnished building, facing the cameras and microphones on the first floor, and the reporters in the gallery area upstairs.
He wept silently, choked up about the cause and consequences of all this, and begged for forgiveness from his wife, children, and all the victims.
"I don't dare to face the innocent and confused eyes of the children, I owe them a stable and peaceful environment to grow up in. Candle June's tears flowed uncontrollably, knowing that the trauma caused by the accident to both families would last for a long time.
He also repeatedly emphasized that Ryoko Hirosue was not wrong in itself, it was just the result of impulse. "I didn't do my duty to take care of my wife's heart, I didn't stop this mistake in the first place, and I am more responsible for it than anyone else.
He blamed himself with tears on his face.
When asked if he wanted to divorce Ryoko Hirosue, Candle JUNE replied without hesitation that he would always be by his wife's side as long as she still needed him.
No matter how many ups and downs there are in his life, he will unswervingly protect this once happy home.