The smoke was so thick that Da Hyun could hardly see in front of her. With furrowed brows, she pushed through the dense fog.
Instinctively, she realized this was a dream.
Have I ever been aware of dreaming before?
Da Hyun, who had never been conscious of dreaming before, felt bewildered.
She felt a sense of tension in her body, as if entering a secret forest.
There was no pain, no pricking sensation, no heart-wrenching agony in this space.
Da Hyun walked along an invisible path, surveying her surroundings.
As expected.
Nothing was visible.
Suddenly, the fog transformed into a massive screen.
“Why is Kang Min Hyuk here?”
“Just thought it would be fun. It’s not every day you get to do something like this. I came gladly, thinking it might be amusing.”
“What, what is this?”
Da Hyun found her image on the screen unfamiliar.
“What is this situation?”
Even though she knew it was a dream, Da Hyun felt the scene she was witnessing wasn’t false.
It felt vivid, as if she had experienced it before.
“This is just a dream, a dream.”
Shaking her head, Da Hyun pinched her thigh hard.
There was no pain.
She pinched her cheek and slapped her forehead, trying to wake from the dream.
But it was futile.
Her mind was awake, but her body was deep in slumber.
“Kang Min Hyuk is quite a strange person.”
“So it seems. But from my point of view, you don’t look too simple either.”
“What?”
“Nowadays, an arranged marriage seems quite outdated and laughable, doesn’t it?”
“Are you trying to belittle me indirectly?”
“Not at all. I’m being quite direct. It’s pathetic that you couldn’t reject such an absurd proposal.”
“I don’t want to hear that from someone who came in place of Kang Si Hoon at his request. Isn’t it the same thing?”
Da Hyun watched the screen, transfixed, unable to look away.
Her shorter hair and younger-looking face indicated it was a scene from the past.
Min Hyuk also appeared younger but maintained his composed and neat demeanor.
An arranged meeting in place of Kang Si Hoon?
“What is this…”
The scene froze with Min Hyuk and her facing each other.
Suddenly, her legs stopped moving.
Her entire body felt numb, as if paralyzed.
The screen then dissolved back into dense fog.
Da Hyun desperately wanted to see more, but it was no longer permitted.
“Just wait, show me more! How can you disappear after making me so curious?”
Da Hyun raised her voice, eager to see the next scene.
She couldn’t tell if it was real or not.
Could it be a fragment of the memory she lost in the accident?
“So, Min Hyuk and I knew each other?”
She had just resolved not to doubt him, and not even a day had passed.
“It’s just an illusion.”
Da Hyun knew it was all in her imagination, yet it strangely felt familiar.
What’s happening here?
Why have I been frequently recalling images of Min Hyuk and me from the past?
In her confusion, Da Hyun noticed the marble floor beneath her starting to crack.
The fissure quickly spread towards where she stood.
She wanted to run, but her body had turned as rigid as a rock, making escape impossible.
Da Hyun could only watch as the ground beneath her feet split open. She wanted to move away, but her feet felt as if they were glued to the spot.
The marble floor began to crack, and soon the ground split open with a loud crack.
She lost all sensation in her feet. Though she couldn’t see with her eyes closed, she knew she was plummeting into darkness.
Falling.
Even in a dream, it was terrifying.
She didn’t want to fall.
Why must I have such bizarre dreams when I can’t have pleasant ones?
Da Hyun desperately wanted to wake from the dream.
Wake up.
Wake up.
Please, wake up from the dream.
“Ah!”
Da Hyun, lying in bed, suddenly opened her eyes wide and sat up reflexively.
She gasped for breath and quickly looked around, instinctively wrapping her arms around her stomach.
Cold sweat ran down from her temples to her jawline.
Da Hyun casually wiped the sweat away with the back of her hand.
“Ugh!”
Feeling nauseous, Da Hyun clamped her mouth shut and hurried to the bathroom.
The terrible dream seemed to have upset her already uneasy stomach.
After vomiting, Da Hyun realized Min Hyuk was not beside her.
He was there before she fell asleep.
“Where did he go?”
Lately, he seemed increasingly busy. Usually, he didn’t work at home, but he had been spending more time in the study.
“He must be really busy with work.”
Da Hyun felt sorry for not being able to help Min Hyuk.
Not wanting to disturb him, she decided not to leave the room and instead lay back down on the bed.
Unable to fall back asleep immediately due to the dream, she felt surprisingly alert despite her usual fatigue since learning of her pregnancy.
Still, she tried to sleep by closing her eyes.
The scenes from her dream came to mind.
What could it mean?
Was it a mere figment of her imagination, or had it actually happened?
If it were true, Min Hyuk’s words about them being strangers would be a lie.
What if he had deceived her?
Even the thought of it made Da Hyun feel betrayed.
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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