Watashi no Takaramono Eps 1+2

Watashi no Takaramono starts with wife played by Matsumoto Wakana busy preparing the apartment for husband played by Tanaka Kei to host his colleagues. She gets the name of one of his colleagues wrong and he takes it out on her afterwards. 

Basically the beginning of the episode is Tanaka Kei being this grumpy husband who treats Matsumoto Wakana very badly while she keeps smiling at him. She talks about making babies after 5 years of marriage and Tanaka Kei brushes her off and says let it happen naturally. What sort of man would refuse to make babies with Matsumoto Wakana? The writing of this story is defying belief and he just continues to abuse her.

At this point I am thinking what is the point of watching all this abuse? Why would the audience want to watch this many scenes about a guy being a dick to his wife. Is this dorama about how they got to this point, maybe Matsumoto Wakana did something wrong in the past?

We get more about Matsumoto Wakana's past, especially this childhood friend who was two years her junior and they often met in the library and because this is jdoramaland, they reunite again at same library. At this point, I am thinking this is married woman has affair story, the staple of jdoramas. Matsumoto Wakana has a shitty husband so audience is rooting for affair but I am still not seeing the hook of the story.

What happens next is that Tanaka Kei forces himself on Matsumoto Wakana. Then she goes off, runs into old friend at the library again and has sex. Friend goes off to Africa to save the kids and gets blown up in a terrorist explosion explosion.

The thing is, Matsumoto Wakana is got pregnant and she gets a DNA test which confirms Tanaka Kei is not the dad. Seeing as real dad is dead we finally get the hook of this jdorama. Wife who gets pregnant by lover plans to swindle rich husband of all his money by claiming that child is his. Tanaka Kei should have realised the first red flag when Matsumoto Wakana says to him that it is his child. I mean what other person's child could it possibly be???

It finally makes sense. All that abuse is to justify the crime of paternity fraud in the eyes of the viewer. In episode 2, we get to see the story from Tanaka Kei's perspective. Basically his workplace is bad and he is taking it out on his wife. I like Kitamura Kazuki as his coffee shop owner/confidante for Tanaka Kei but sad to see him playing supporting roles when he should be headlining jdoramas.

I could not get into Watashi no Takaramono at all as much as I like Matsumoto Wakana. This melodramatic paternity fraud jdorama is too much for me. Definitely not the type of jdorama for me. Meh.