They saw a wide field, probably a sweet potato farm. There were other fields too, but it was hard to tell what they were growing. Many fields were empty, perhaps because it was autumn.
The road narrowed further until only one car could barely pass. Unable to hide her anxiety, Dajeong’s face showed it. Kyungjun glanced at her and calmly said,
“600m left. There’s the sea ahead, according to the navigation.”
He had always been a friend who reassured her at crucial moments. Dajeong nodded silently.
500m, 400m, 300m… As the distance decreased, suddenly the view opened up. Impossibly, a vast sea unfolded before their eyes. The tension released, replaced by relief and awe. It was the sea. A quiet, unknown sea.
The waves crashed, greeting them.
“Wow. The view is amazing.”
Even Kyungjun seemed spellbound.
The view was naturally breathtaking. A wide sandy beach stretched out, and to the right, there were rocky shores.
A fishing boat was moored at the end. As the late afternoon approached, the sky began to take on a pink hue, and the sea mirrored it, emitting a mystical color.
“The sea… It’s beautiful.”
“There’s the pension.”
Kyungjun snapped back to reality and checked the location first. Dajeong followed his pointing finger. Two white standalone pensions standing side by side, facing the sea, caught her eye.
They were identical twin buildings. It matched the website’s description of two buildings with the same structure. Dajeong quickly checked the message on her phone and continued,
“Um… I’ve booked Room 102. It seems to be in the second building.”
Kyungjun parked in front of Room 102, got out lightly, and started unloading the luggage. Dajeong followed and called the pension owner.
“Hello. Manager. I’m the one who booked Room 102. Oh. Are you here? Yes. Yes.”
As the call ended, a middle-aged woman carrying cleaning tools emerged from a storage room behind the building. She smiled warmly upon seeing Dajeong. Dajeong greeted her cheerfully.
“Yoon Dajeong? Nice to meet you. It’s your first day, so I thought you might not have anything to eat. My husband brought some stuff. It’s not much, just things like ramen.”
“Thank you.”
“Is that your friend? Staying overnight?”
“No, he’s just dropping off the luggage. Ma’am, by any chance, do buses come here?”
Kyungjun, deciding to leave his car behind, asked a question he was curious about. Considering the narrow road, it seemed impossible, but he wondered if there might be another way. As expected, it would take at least 30 minutes on foot. He hoped this would be an excuse to stay overnight, but the elderly lady quickly offered a solution.
“We can take our car. We’ll pass by there anyway, so I’ll drop you at the terminal.”
“Hey, why leave your car? Take it with you.”
Dajeong tried to dissuade Kyungjun from leaving his car, but to no avail.
“What will you do if something urgent happens in such a remote place, without a car?”
“What kind of urgent thing could happen?”
“Just listen to me.”
Seeing the determination in his eyes, Dajeong finally gave in.
“I should have brought my compact car, Kyungjun.”
“How could we fit all this luggage in a small car?”
Kyungjun lightly teased her as he quickly transferred the luggage. When they went inside to check, everything was clean and neat, as expected of a new pension.
“Pretty nice.”
After a quick tidy-up, they both went outside. The elderly lady, tidying up the yard, turned to Dajeong.
“Is 101 vacant?”
Dajeong, who had glanced over the neighboring building’s terrace and thought she saw a shadow, asked the question. It could have been just a tree shadow, but it was worth knowing just in case.
“Ah.”
The elderly lady turned while arranging her cleaning tools.
“There’s someone staying there, but you won’t cross paths. Well then, we must go now. Young man, follow me.”
The conversation ended somewhat abruptly, but there was no room for questioning. Considering Kyungjun’s departure time, they were already cutting it close. Dajeong bid him farewell, and Kyungjun kept nagging her to be careful until he was out of sight.
“Hey. Don’t just open the door for anyone…”
“Got it, got it! Go!”
“Also, make sure to know where the police station is!”
The sunset ripened red.
The sunset over the West Sea is beautiful, but often obscured by fog. However, Dajeong was lucky to witness an almost perfect red orb on her first day of the trip.
Her heart raced at the beauty of the scenery. Standing quietly in the yard looking at the sea, she couldn’t resist walking towards the beach.
After a few steps, she felt the sand under her feet. Only then did the presence of the sea become real to her. Dajeong stood in the middle of the sandy beach, gazing at the quietly falling sunset.
It was then that she sensed someone’s presence.
A silhouette approached. A tall man with broad shoulders. Dajeong first thought Kyungjun had returned, but on closer inspection, the man was taller. The steps approaching not on the sand but seemingly on Dajeong’s heart were not Kyungjun’s.
Yet, familiar to Dajeong.
Her heart raced. Surely because of the sunset. But then.
The man, who approached with unhesitating strides, stopped five steps in front of Dajeong. Did he know that her heart also stopped when he did?
‘This can’t be real.’
She might have been seeing things.
The man’s indifferent gaze lingered on Dajeong’s eyes for a moment before falling to her feet, landing on slippers bearing the logo ‘Sea Forest’.
“The neighbor from next door.”
Could this be real? It was Lee Jaeho.
Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation
One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.
Intro:
To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.
But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.
It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.
Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.
“Let’s divorce!”
***
Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.
Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?
But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.
Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.
Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.
In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.
Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”
Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.
He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”
***
Yan Jiyue was consumed with jealousy. He spread rumors that Xie Yi had once been branded with the mark of a “harlot” on his chest.
But on the night Xie Yi cut off the flesh bearing that mark, Su Mu suddenly realized something was amiss.
“How did you know the exact moment I was poisoned? And why did you show up a month early?”
Xie Yi remained silent, blood from his wound soaking through his robes. His sapphire eyes brimmed with anguish – or was it just a flawless act?
Between a once-arrogant husband now seeking redemption, and a gentle soul willing to die for her – who truly held the darkest secrets? And could it be that Su Mu and Yan Jiyue weren’t the only ones given a second chance at life…?
[Reading Guide]
1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.
2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.
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