“Ah, that’s a gas station, right, sister? I’d like to stop by there for a moment.”
“Ah… Right. There’s a self-service station. Better to go self-service to avoid meeting people. No one here would understand the explanation anyway.”
His remark about no one understanding here made me suddenly think of Jun.
‘Eharu, scribbling with your hand like that won’t make you learn anything. You have a boyfriend who’s good at Japanese right next to you, and you have plenty of time.’
He was right. I really haven’t improved at all……
That day, Jun seemed displeased with me only studying boringly, frowning heavily. Remembering his expression made the tip of my nose feel cold.
Then, the car slid in front of the gas pump. Looking closer, I saw the gas nozzles were divided into three colors: red, yellow, and green.
“……What’s which?”
Standing in front of the gas pump, unable to touch anything, Hyeonsu hesitated, followed by Jeongeun who came out after him, saying the same thing, “What’s which?” and tilting his head in confusion.
Since it was a small gas station on a secluded mountain road, seldom visited by tourists, the pump did not support English. It seemed the colors differentiated the types of fuel, but besides the word ‘diesel’ written in Chinese characters, I couldn’t read anything else.
After lingering there for a while, Jeongeun finally scolded me.
“Eharu, I get you can’t understand the language, but can’t you even read the characters?”
Adding ‘surely’ in front of the question about not being able to read made me not want to admit it. I aimlessly pressed a few buttons on the monitor a couple of times, then stepped back without any result, only to receive Jeongeun’s sharp rebuke not to press anything without knowing what it was.
Instead of this, Hyeonsu took out his phone to take a picture of the text for a search, and Jeongeun, who was loitering around the car, finally found the fuel cap and flicked it open. But at the same time, I heard Jeongeun’s deep sigh as if he was sinking into the ground.
Without needing to read the letters, there was a red sticker inside the fuel cap. A tiny sticker the size of a fingernail, bearing the same characters as written on the red nozzle.
Jeongeun’s comment about feeling mocked made me laugh softly.
“But it’s a bit unexpected, Haru sister.”
“Why is Haru?”
Suddenly the conversation turned to me, and without anything to grasp onto, I just blinked.
“You know Haru sister’s personality. I mean, staying in a homestay in that house for just a month. She’s twenty, sure. An age quick to fall in love without thinking ahead and back. But even then, it’s not like Haru sister to easily reveal her feelings given her personality.”
“Ah… Now that you mention it, that’s true. Given her character, she wouldn’t be the first to speak up until she’s caught. Love is instinctual, so okay, but even so, a month would have been almost like a stranger to her.”
Jeongeun didn’t end with a question mark, but his gaze seemingly urging me for an answer felt like it was pushing me to respond.
“That’s what I’m saying. It just doesn’t make sense no matter how I think about it. While listening to the conversation earlier, it felt like somewhere in the middle of the story was just floating.”
Hearing this, a memory silently surfaced in my mind.
“……I also wanted to secretly like him on my own. I had no intention of saying it, but I was blatantly caught. No matter what excuse I made, it was so obvious.”
The words Jun, who seemed to remain forever a twenty-year-old protagonist in an old movie known only to me, had said to me. Those words began to emerge clearly in my memory, as vivid as an unblemished oil painting in that scene.
The warm sunshine, fluttering with the breeze, tickled my face as it danced around.
My head felt hazy, intoxicated either by sleep or the sunlight. The languor from the thin blanket draped over me made me reluctant to get up.
I thought I should get up, but while lying there, I must have dozed off again. I jerked awake with a start.
I mustered strength in my eyelids and focused my blurry vision. My bleary eyes began to add vivid colors to a hazy shape. The moment I recognized a distinct form, my eyes opened as wide as they possibly could.
Filling my view was Jun’s face, lying beside me, breathing softly in sleep.
I had never seen Jun’s face this close before. I was worried that even my gaze might wake him, so I reluctantly lowered my eyes.
But then, reassured by the sound of Jun’s steady breathing near my ear, I slowly and cautiously raised my gaze.
Is this scene with you in front of me just a dream? I slowly closed and opened my eyelids. Jun’s face, still there in front of me, seemed to snap at my temples, insisting, ‘This is not a dream.’
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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