The protagonist is a fiercely driven career woman who is exceptional at her job. However, she is alienated by men for being "too good at working," and mocked by her female colleagues for "not even being able to get a boyfriend." Refusing to let it get her down, she works hard again today.
On payday, she checks her bank account and finds that 100 million yen has been deposited by her company. While she is in shock, a bank employee leads her to a VIP room and serves her tea and cake, begging her to put the money into a fixed-term deposit. It doesn't seem to be a machine error. Could it be a company mistake? If so, she decides to play dumb until they notice.
On her way home from the bank, carrying the cake she was given, a man runs into her and causes her to drop it. The man profusely apologizes and offers to pay her back, but she brushes it off, saying it was just a freebie. However, the man insists, refusing to back down. He turns out to be handsome with a sweet face. This encounter leads to them dating.
The man is handsome, intelligent, and knows how to defer to others—he is the ideal man for her. Initially cynical about men, she falls completely head over heels for him. As they grow closer, she notices that he seems to have something weighing on his mind. When she finally pries it out of him, she learns that his father's business has been struggling lately, and it might go bankrupt if things continue this way.
Thinking that "if it can be solved with money," she cancels her fixed deposit. After splurging a little on herself, she hands over all her remaining savings—tens of millions of yen—to the man.
The moment she does, she can no longer get in touch with him. The man was a con artist. He had actually witnessed her leaving the VIP room at the bank and targeted her.
She is devastated, but since she has a resilient personality, she quickly bounces back and decides to throw herself back into her work. She comforts herself by thinking, "I haven't lost anything. That money wasn't mine to begin with. I always knew men couldn't be trusted, and I can just pretend I embezzled the company's money to get back at them."
Then, at the end of the month on payday, she checks her account—and her salary hasn't been deposited. Thinking it's insulting to forget a deposit, she calls the company, only to be told: "The salary system changed, and your entire lifetime's salary should have been deposited last month, right? It was on your pay slip, too."
Even she is left standing speechlessly dumbfounded inside a phone booth, realizing she may never recover from this shock.
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