The mother and daughter were strikingly similar. So it was natural for Daehoon, who hadn’t seen Jaein for a long time, to think of Yoon Sena, who would be about that age.
The woman who rarely smiled. The woman who gave herself to him but never her heart. The woman who, even pregnant with his child, acted as if he had nothing to do with it.
And now, the woman who no longer existed in this world.
The woman who, in the end, was never his.
“Phew…”
Daehoon raised his hand to cover the wrinkles at the corner of his eyes.
“You don’t have to worry about me or the child.”
Before leaving Korea, Yoon Sena had told Daehoon that at their last meeting. However, her words were wrong. Yoon Sena always captivated Daehoon’s attention.
Opposite to her constant wish to be free from Daehoon.
Therefore, he should have never sent Yoon Sena to the United States in the first place. Whether she was pregnant or not, he should have kept her by his side. He should have done so.
Even if she treated him coldly. Even if she looked at him with resentful eyes. He should have made her world revolve only around him, even if it meant clipping her wings and stifling her breath.
Maybe then, before she died, she would have smiled at him at least once. Even if it was a sneer.
Just thinking of Yoon Sena set a fire in his chest. With narrowed eyes and a foolish continuation of regret, Daehoon let out a short laugh.
“How silly.”
Regret, how preposterous. He lowered the hand that had been covering his eyes. When he opened his eyes, his blurry vision sharpened coldly.
The investment he secured from her family on the condition of marrying Seunghee was substantial.
Thus, Daehoon’s decision to not chase after Yoon Sena when she fled from him was right. Even if time could be turned back, he would choose Ji Seunghee, who had empowered him.
“Even more like your mother than eight years ago, aren’t you?”
“Yes, it seems so.”
Though the sentence lacked a subject, Manager Kim, who had long served his boss, understood him perfectly.
“I didn’t expect anything to bother me. Tsk.”
Daehoon was displeased that the always well-behaved child had for the first time not listened to him and stayed in Korea. If he had known this would happen, he should have kept Yoon Jaein by his side and watched her instead of Yoon Sena.
His daughter, who looked just like her mother, could not have inherited the obedience that her mother never showed. The obedience she had shown before was merely because it had been necessary, Daehoon realized belatedly.
“Keep an eye on that child.”
“Yes, President.”
It wasn’t that Yoon Sena didn’t acknowledge Jo Daehoon as her man or the father of her daughter. It was Jo Daehoon who first did not acknowledge Yoon Sena as his woman, nor Yoon Jaein as his daughter.
Therefore, there was absolutely no reason to mourn the woman who died alone in a foreign country raising his child.
For 30 years, he had lived thinking so firmly. Daehoon’s car blended into the cityscape.
“So…”
Tae Seo looked around with a bewildered expression. Jaein nodded with conviction in her eyes.
At four o’clock on a Saturday afternoon, the streets were bustling with people. And right now, in front of the restaurant where Tae Seo and Jaein were in line, it was even more crowded than anywhere else.
Tae Seo checked the sign up ahead again and looked down at Jaein standing beside him.
“Let’s eat tteokbokki.”
“Yes.”
“You want to buy me tteokbokki.”
“Yes. I mean, yesterday I picked out that dress and accessories without even checking the price. It must have been a lot, so it’s Tae Seo’s responsibility. I want to pay for the meal.”
“…If you want to buy food, why not just have a meal?”
“It’s a bit of an awkward time for a meal, isn’t it? Since last time I got to know about the delicious naengmyeon and dumpling place thanks to Tae Seo, today I want to introduce you to a tteokbokki place.”
The place Jaein suggested to meet was at Gangnam Station, exit 11 of line 2. Expecting traffic jams, and the possibility of having a drink if they met, Tae Seo took a taxi instead of driving his car.
Tae Seo wanted to be alone with Jae In. Moreover, he disliked his territory being encroached upon and tried to distinguish between public and private life as much as possible. That’s why he did not call the chauffeur assigned to him by his family home.
Even as he hurried in response to Jae In’s message to meet, he changed his clothes twice.
Having met her only in relatively formal attire, he chose a comfortable-looking turtleneck knit, grey slacks, and a camel-colored coat with a flutter of excitement.
It was their first date. Of course, Jae In hadn’t called it a date, but it was natural for him to think of the usual courses couples took together when she suggested meeting at Gangnam Station.
Thus, in the taxi on the way, he checked out movies that were currently showing, and looked up nearby art galleries and atmospheric cafes.
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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