Hyun Woo pulled Sori close, scrutinizing her face intently.
Was he just pretending to overlook her hangover state this morning?
It seemed better to admit her fault first, to find her way out of the darkness…
“About the sushi you gave me yesterday, I was actually going to eat it all myself.”
“It was my mistake to give sushi to someone who already had plans at a Japanese restaurant.”
“No, it’s not that,” she replied, her lips drying as he frowned.
“And about not getting any sleep because of me last night… I didn’t know that this morning…”
“Thanks to that, I’m dead tired. What are you going to do about it?”
“What can I do?”
She couldn’t replace him in surgeries or outpatient services. Regret washed over Sori, her eyes drooping sadly.
“But do you still not remember anything else?”
“Other things. That is, embarrassingly, I don’t remember anything at all…”
His eyebrows hardened further.
“I’ll try to recall whatever I can.”
“If you can’t remember, there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Surprised by his unexpectedly cool response, Sori awkwardly smiled.
“Did I make a big mistake? Throwing up, crying, or trying to strip?”
In truth, she felt there was more to it, which made her uneasy at home.
“If those are considered mistakes, then they shouldn’t be.”
“What about… that? Can’t you just tell me?”
“Say it myself? I can’t do that.”
Being drunk and forgetting everything might be the biggest punishment.
Sori felt heavy, as if a stone was lodged in her heart.
He turned and stretched out his long arm to pick something up from the desk, then handed it to her. His neat handwriting neatly lined the paper.
“Go to the library, find these, and make copies. They’re only for viewing.”
“Yes.”
“And when I call you, be here in a minute. Got it?”
“Yes.”
“Always bring bottled water when you come.”
“Bottled water?”
“Yes. Water.”
“Right. Water.”
As she parroted back like a parrot, he bit his lower lip and nodded toward the door, holding back a laugh.
“What are you waiting for? Aren’t you going to the library?”
“Yes, I’ll go now.”
His piercing gaze seemed to follow her until she left the office.
Relieved to be free, Sori looked at the list he gave her as she walked down the corridor.
His handwriting, so precisely like Seo Hyun Woo – orderly and intense, even in the letters.
Yet, as she thought about his expression, she felt she should remember, but also that she shouldn’t.
Feeling uneasy, Sori tugged at her hair, resolving to diligently complete her errand.
Arriving at the library, she was thirsty and drank a glass of water from the cooler, still feeling the effects of her hangover.
Suddenly, her own voice echoed in her head.
“Uh-huh. Honey…? Honey[Dash]o.”
But she was sure she had been calling for her mom all night…
“Your mom isn’t here,” he had said.
After hearing his voice.
“So, it wasn’t mom but ‘honey’ I was calling out all night.”
“I must be out of my mind…”
“But what is this other memory, ‘Not that, how about this instead?’ What does it mean?”
With a face like she’d been hit by a hammer, Sori suddenly collapsed onto the floor.
“Ah…”
She tugged at her hair in frustration. “What does ‘Not that, this’ even mean?”
It was clear she had seriously misbehaved.
“I must’ve been under the influence. What do I do?”
She sat down on an empty chair, her face looking like a soul had been drained from it.
The thought of damaging her reputation with just one mistake weighed heavily on her.
“Ridiculous. Really. Ugh.”
Sori usually didn’t drink much. Even at official hospital events, she was careful not to get drunk.
She’d occasionally overindulge when with close friends, but those instances were rare.
She had always thought she didn’t have any drunk habits, and her school and hospital colleagues thought the same.
“It’s ridiculous. How could someone as shy as me do something like that?”
Sori still believed in herself.
But the problem was, ‘Not that, give me this instead’ definitely came from her own mouth.
“Maybe it was ‘Not that water bottle, this cup.’ It couldn’t be what I’m imagining. It’s okay. It’s okay.”
Feeling gloomy, she entered the library to find the materials Hyun Woo had listed.
Hyun Woo’s office.
Carrying a stack of photocopied materials, Sori returned.
She had dawdled unnecessarily and an hour had already passed.
“I thought you had gone somewhere else since you didn’t come back.”
“No, I wasn’t crazy enough to do that.”
“Why are you speaking so formally all of a sudden?”
“I’ve realized I’ve been too casual. I’ll tighten up. I shouldn’t have addressed you so informally, Professor. I’ll get it right.”
But for some reason, her gaze kept drifting to his lips, unusually red and captivating.
“Why am I looking there? It’s not what I think.”
“Since you’re on night duty, sit there and work.”
“Professor, I think I need to go to the department.”
“Then go and come back quickly.”
“Why does he keep insisting I stay here? It’s like sitting on pins and needles.”
“Actually, I have to prepare to receive patients in the ER tonight.”
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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