“I didn’t want to show you this side of me.”
“…What?”
Sa Rang, pouring out her jumbled feelings of sadness, anger, and injustice, paused at his voice.
“You always look so guilty and lost when you see me.”
Do Han’s cheek had thankfully returned to its normal color, but his split lip was still visible.
He tried to avoid her gaze, not wanting her to see his injuries and feel like a criminal.
“It is my fault. If I had handled things properly back then, you wouldn’t have gotten hurt.”
“I got hit because I called that guy a jerk, not because of you. You don’t need to feel sorry or be nice to me. You probably don’t even want to talk to me.”
“You think I don’t want to talk to you? Why?”
Sa Rang let out a sigh of frustration.
She had been eager to share a meal and spend time with him, and now he was saying this.
“I am a terrible, despicable person.”
Sa Rang instantly understood the horror he referred to.
Why he was distancing himself.
That’s why she bravely broached the subject.
“When you did that, you were only thirteen.”
“You find it scary that a sixth-grader could plan to abandon his sister.”
“That’s because… I didn’t know the full story back then.”
She didn’t know why he had to do that, how much of a hell it was for him.
Sa Rang argued as if wronged.
“Come to think of it, I can barely remember what mistakes I made at thirteen. We were so young. Of course, it doesn’t justify what you did. To her, you are a criminal.”
Sa Rang thought if she were Hye Ri, she wouldn’t be able to forgive him easily.
The memory of that day would never fade.
But she wasn’t Hye Ri.
“But to me, you’re not a criminal. So, to me, you’re not horrible. Not for that reason, at least.”
Suddenly, something fluttered in Do Han’s heart.
It was as if a fearsome entity deep within had vanished.
He felt a twinge of pain, then a sensation like new flesh growing.
“Instead, I feel pity for that thirteen-year-old boy, wondering how lonely he must have been. He couldn’t have grown up tough as if nothing had happened. The Do Han I know isn’t that kind of person…”
Even if someone has committed a sin, there’s probably one person in the world who can understand them.
Sa Rang wanted to be that one person.
For the man who occupied her entire heart.
Hearing her heartfelt words, Do Han felt a warmth in his eyes.
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Grateful that she didn’t see him as a despicable person, and comforted by her words, Do Han felt overwhelmed.
So much that his mind went blank, unsure of what to say.
As Do Han’s silence prolonged, Sa Rang changed the heavy atmosphere.
“Open the door. Let’s have dinner together.”
She walked around to the passenger side of the car.
It seemed best to leave this place now.
But instead of opening the door, Do Han made an unexpected excuse.
“…I have plans.”
Really, this man.
What did he think she was talking about?
Sa Rang narrowed her eyes, signaling him not to lie. Do Han, faced with her stern gaze, closed his mouth and pressed the smart key in his hand to unlock the car door.
He sighed softly as she got into the passenger seat.
He was worried that seeing him eat with his injured lip would only make her feel more sorry.
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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