Director Park Sahim, who was the head of the hospital operated by Kangsun Foundation, was a renowned expert in infertility treatment as an obstetrics specialist, with the highest authority in the country.
He had a long-standing relationship with Director Lim Hongjin, who had problems with her uterus even before giving birth to Kang Shinjae.
Dr. Park Sahim was the one who delivered not only Kang Shinjae but also Kang Taeseo when he was born.
He was also the one who Kang Shinjae introduced to Seo Yeonhee when she pleaded to him to help her get treatment, saying she wanted to have a child. Thus, Director Park Sahim was the only person who knew all the things that Director Lim Hongjin had hidden for a lifetime.
“I think it’s time for me to take a break too.”
“Even if you take a break, don’t touch my son.”
“I don’t know. Whether keeping that secret was the right thing or not.”
“…Even if I have to bear the punishment, it’s something I have to face.”
Director Lim Hongjin, alone, didn’t know when she entered the detached house.
Kang Shinjae, whose spirits were dulled by alcohol, closely followed me with the intention of asking for water. And then, having heard a suspicious conversation, I called Director Park Sahim to the study.
It wasn’t until the next late morning that the death of Chairman Kang Shinjae was announced. The secretary, who thought he was asleep and went in to wake him up, was shocked to find the cold body of Chairman Kang Shinjae on the bed and rushed out in contemplation.
“What’s, what’s happening! Chairman Kang! Shinjae, Shinjae!”
“I… I have told everything. About 30 years ago, when Seo Yeonhee came to find me, and what I said to Director-nim.”
“Director Park, you… you!”
Even Director Lim Hongjin, who had heard that much, also collapsed.
Whimpering, Director Lim Hongjin, being taken to the hospital, finally called out the name of her son who had abandoned the world. There would be no lingering regrets in this world, so she hoped for her mother’s heart to find peace without wandering.
And when Taeseo, who heard of Chairman Kang Shinjae’s death at the airport, came to the hospital in one step, he held Taeseo’s hand and laboriously brought up old stories.
“Taeseo. You and your father suffered a lot.”
“…”
“Don’t ask for understanding. Just… don’t keep your father’s disgrace in your heart, Taeseo. You’re not at fault.”
The story revealed by his grandmother was astonishing. The love that Chairman Kang Shinjae considered to be the only one in his lifetime was a lie, a not-so-amusing comedy.
Seo Yeonhee loved Kang Shinjae. He was a man she had never experienced before, with handsome looks and manners that impressed her.
But more than all those things, Seo Yeonhee loved Kang Shinjae’s wealth and background. She wanted to become the hostess of Kangsun Group, shining confidently by his side, not staying as Kang Shinjae’s woman.
“I will leave Mr. Shinjae. I just hope you can help me so that I can hide comfortably.”
When she couldn’t agree to Seo Yeonhee’s demand for a large sum of money, she bit her lip with a bewildered expression. Then, she disappeared and reappeared just before her son became a corpse, shaking him and revealing the old story.
“Yeonhee. I don’t understand. I have told you everything. About 30 years ago, when Seo Yeonhee came to find me, and what I said to Director-nim.”
“…Director Park, you…”
“Did you see that? Mr. Shinjae somehow found me, right? That’s why.”
“…Ms. Seo Yeonhee.”
“Promise me double compared to last time. Then, I won’t come back from overseas.”
Lim Hongjin, who couldn’t believe the woman negotiating with her son’s innocence, rejected that proposal too. Then, Seo Yeonhee, leaving Kang Shinjae by her side, continued to behave recklessly day by day.
“…Is that person really the child’s father?”
“What is that supposed to mean…”
“No, there’s no law saying only I’m infertile. Mr. Shinjae might be infertile too.”
“Look at this, Ms. Seo Yeonhee!”
“It would be good for Director-nim to confirm the paternity. There’s no way Mr. Shinjae hugged another woman a few times when I wasn’t around. It seems like a mistake when I wasn’t there, but it’s okay. If that person knows that I know this fact, he might feel even more sorry for me. It’s nothing bad.”
“…Ms. Seo Yeonhee. Please choose your words carefully.”
“Even if I have a child, do you think Kang Shinjae will look at you? There’s no one for him but me! He’s a person who would pretend to be dead if I told him to die! Just give birth to that child. Director, do you want to see your son die?”
Seo Yeonhee was obsessed with the child. She wanted to strengthen her position by giving birth to Kang Shinjae’s child.
When Seo Yeonhee, who came to the hospital with Kang Shinjae to pressure him into infertility treatment, found Yoo Jungha and Director Lim Hongjin, she spread malicious gossip and even threatened them.
She was not the weak and kind woman that Kang Shinjae knew. A woman who coveted wealth and power by using him even went to a fortune teller.
She offered a considerable amount of money, asking to run over Yoo Jungha with a car, insisting that the child in her womb must die, and the mother could die with her. Director Lim Hongjin found out about this situation not long after and, after settling things, cautiously advised his son, who was on a business trip, to keep his distance from Seo Yeonhee.
However, when he returned, he faced nothing but reproach from his son who, due to the excuse of a poor mother, could not accept the woman he cherished.
A few days later, on the day Taeseo was born, consumed by jealousy, Seo Yeonhee was hit by a car and died. Thus, Seo Yeonhee remained a pitiable person in Kang Shinjae’s memory, whom he could never forget throughout his life.
That woman you love is using you. The woman you highly regard is actually enjoying your pain.
Lim Hongjin realized late why he couldn’t say these words to Kang Shinjae, who had lost love, crawled on the ground, and writhed in pain – because it would be like stabbing a dagger into his son, who had lost love.
Having hidden and concealed it for so long, he belatedly discovered that the warm days of my life, the happy memories, were all false.
Faced with the truth that had been hidden for a long time, Kang Shinjae’s choice was to let go of everything. Whether he thought about Taeseo before he died, whether he felt even a little sorry, was something unknown.
Taeseo didn’t wonder. As Kang Shinjae’s son, fulfilling his duties as the successor was all he could do now.
He appeared indifferent, but it would be a lie if it wasn’t at all sad. It wasn’t the sadness of a severed close relationship, as there had never been an accumulated affection.
Bitter yet sorrowful, painful yet awkward. Taeseo silently observed this indescribable emotion.
He didn’t hastily make judgments, nor did he delve deep into the depth. Taeseo was simply accepting the current situation.
With his large hands overlapping the hands that held his funeral sash, he nodded slightly in response to Jaein’s gesture.
“I’m okay.”
“…”
“I just have a favor to ask.”
“What is it?”
“Please listen carefully.”
The only thing reflected in the eyes moistened with sadness was Yoon Jaein, nothing else.
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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