‘Why was she so friendly with me? It’s true that we briefly met at the hospital, but would she greet me first? And even come into the cafe to do so?’
Tae Seo’s hand, which had been meaninglessly drawing circles, began to draw countless question marks.
‘Being so accustomed to being aloof. She said men were terrible, so why did she approach me first? With what intention?’
Now Tae Seo was drawing circles over the question marks, biting his lip.
‘Perhaps she fell for me. Well, I am not one to fall… No, I’m the only one who heard the bells. She didn’t look at me the entire time we were eating cold noodles. That means I’m less than cold noodles.’
Tae Seo’s thick eyebrows twitched a little. Yet, he was still an excessively handsome face.
‘Damn. I’ve never seen a woman slurp noodles so well in front of me. But why does even that look so pretty?’
With those thoughts, Tae Seo’s hand stopped. He stared at the question marks with a frozen expression for a moment, then soon a smile escaped his lips as if he was at a loss. His expression was filled with helplessness and incredulity.
“Ha, I can’t keep my head straight.”
The words slipped out without his realizing at the end of his trailing thoughts. The meeting room fell silent for a moment. Chief Hwang and Chief Kim, who had been arguing loudly and had momentarily forgotten about Tae Seo, closed their mouths, glancing around.
“…Director.”
The assistant manager, who had been standing next to him, stepped a little closer to Tae Seo and called him. Only then did Tae Seo realize that he was in the middle of a meeting that was just a waste of time without any productive results.
“Let’s conclude today’s meeting here. Everything that was discussed today, I have already read through the reports you’ve submitted. If this is how it’s going to be, why waste time in meetings. There will be no meetings related to Hwami Apartment until further notice. Any additional matters, I will only receive through reports.”
Tae Seo stood up abruptly and opened the conference room door. Even without the Hwami Apartment issue, there was a mountain of work to do. He couldn’t afford to be idle.
“Ah.”
Tae Seo, striding through the hallway with long steps, stopped. He suddenly checked the missed calls on his personal phone from his pocket and frowned.
“I need another personal phone. Manager Jang, please keep this one. If a call comes, answer vaguely and only report matters that I absolutely need to check.”
His words meant that he wouldn’t use the phone anymore. It also meant that he was delegating the matters that came through that phone to Manager Jang.
“Is there a problem?”
“I keep getting annoying calls.”
Tae Seo pointed to the phone that started ringing again with a gesture.
The one who had been bothering him since yesterday was Jo Yu Ri. It was annoying that she kept persistently calling him without break, despite him ignoring her because there was nothing particularly to talk about.
“So, regarding the Chairman of Yeonryudong…”
“No, it’s literally my personal phone. I hope that number doesn’t get passed to Yeonryudong. Otherwise, useless calls like these will come again.”
Through his main house in Yeonryudong, Yu Ri could possibly find out his phone number. It was a very plausible story for Jo Yu Ri, who was shameless without even knowing the context.
“Yes, understood. I will prepare it right away.”
“I hope that Manager Jang is the only one in Kangsun who knows that number. If there’s someone who needs to know that number, I will tell them myself.”
“Yes.”
Manager Jang nodded his head, deciphering Tae Seo’s intention from his stern command.
“And, about Hyunyang Construction, ah……”
As he stood in front of the elevator to return to his office, Tae Seo paused upon encountering the cityscape flying with flurries through the floortoceiling window.
And he couldn’t continue his sentence with his mouth slightly agape. Once again, his memory had dragged him back to the night of Christmas Eve, two days ago.
Yoon Jae In, looking at him through the falling snowflakes, Yoon Jae In, looking up at the sky, and Yoon Jae In, bowing her head down low to contain her laughter.
“Director……?”
Tae Seo couldn’t give any response to Manager Jang calling him and clenched his eyes shut.
It was serious at this point. Starting from the Christmas Eve when they had dinner together at the cafe, Yoon Jae In had occupied Tae Seo’s mind.
That day, Tae Seo couldn’t pull his hand out of his pocket. It was to suppress the impulse to touch her tempting cheek, or grab her arm and pull her into his embrace.
No, actually he was curious about those lips of hers. He felt heat just thinking about her lips. He was curious about the feel and temperature of Yoon Jae In’s lips.
What it would feel like if he bit it gently, how her breath fresh from her lips would be, and how she would react if he extended his tongue to lick her lips.
Tae Seo wanted to slip inside those lips. He wanted to taste every bit inside and claim it as his own. And he dreamt of actually acting on it every day.
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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