“Pretend to be Yuta’s girlfriend? Sure—it sounds like something out of a movie.” Was my mistake not stopping them as they got excited? My best friend Yuta needed my wife to pose as his girlfriend so his visiting mother would abandon her plans to arrange a marriage for him. After his mother took a liking to her, my wife repeatedly went out with Yuta. I trusted my best friend never to betray me, but after their third date my wife suddenly became distant...