I recalled the sight of Jun looking at me. Then came Jun’s narration.
My heart began to race uncontrollably. After calming my slightly accelerated breath, I decided to carefully hand something over to you.
“Yi-Haru.”
“Yeah.”
Words contained within my swelling chest. Words that could no longer be kept inside this chest.
One word that would bring your sincerity to me.
“With whom do you want to have that love?”
With whom do you want to have that love…
It was the question Jun asked me that day. Honestly, I hadn’t thought about it because I was looking back. How Jun threw that question at me, in what state, with what kind of heart.
Until the moment when the day stopped in its tracks and turned its head towards me, that brief moment felt endlessly distant. Ironically, while I was the one who asked you, I became fearful that the answer might be different from what I expected.
But. I vividly remember my answer that day. At that time, I responded with a bright smile that made Jun’s nervousness pale in comparison.
“Kim Jun. With you. I’ll only be with you. Truly, only you in that love.”
As I looked at your smile, like the sunshine of that day, I thought. From now on, I’ll definitely protect that love. No matter what happens, I’ll love only you without wavering. No, perhaps I have no choice but to do so. So, let’s have that love that never cools down. Just you and me.
And Jun, just like that, walked towards me and pulled me into his chest with round, wide-open eyes. Even if I tried to push him away because people passing by were looking, it was futile.
And he whispered to me softly.
“I’ll be with you too. In that love.”
The last sentence on the last page with the orange post-it note ended like this.
As I read the last word, the scenes created by those characters in those days faded faintly. The sound of the clear waves of the present moment began to ring in my ears.
It felt like waking up from a midday daydream.
Minseo, who seemed to hesitate to speak to me around this point with a slightly clearer view, came in.
“Minseo.”
“Oh, it’s the author.”
“Where have you been?”
“…Yes?”
“I asked if you had a good time on your trip down memory lane. I was curious about where you just visited, how the trip was, so I subtly asked. You were so absorbed in reading without lifting your head for a long time.”
“Oh… Right. You must have asked with that meaning.”
Fortunately, it was before she asked the foolish question if I had disappeared for a moment.
“How was it?”
“Oh, the script?”
“Well, more precisely, your impressions of looking into the memories of a twenty-year-old and a day in the life of a twenty-year-old, after nine years.”
“Well, even more precisely, it’s the director’s memories.”
“That’s true.”
Minseo gave a faint smile.
Today, after reading the script, I learned something new.
On that day, Jun told a small lie because he wanted to know my feelings, wanted reassurance. It was a lie that went from the beginning to the end of this hot spring, claiming that you could have an unending love by walking.
Like a small balloon suspended in empty space, a fleeting and empty lie that could sparkle in front of me for a moment and disappear.
However, upon reflection, it wasn’t like that. Perhaps on that day, Jun’s earnest desire contained in that absurd lie began to unfold from that moment.
Even though we were apart for nine years. Even though we couldn’t feel each other’s warmth during that long time. If this love, which I had hoped would cool down, leaving only this painful longing, had lasted until the end, then we managed to protect it.
Because I’m only in love with you.
“Author?”
“…Yes?”
“What should I do? It seems like the author has a lot of lingering emotions.”
“Oh, yes. That’s right. I have a lot. More than I expected.”
I gently stroked the last page of the script lying on my hand. Then, with a relieved expression as if I had just made a small decision, I handed the script to Minseo.
“After reading this script, I had this thought. On that day, nine years ago, it seems there was a fairy living in this hot spring.”
“A fairy?”
“Yes, a fairy that makes sure love never cools down.”
Minseo widened her eyes and burst into a bright smile. While listening to her laughter, I looked at Jun, who was having a conversation with the filming crew in the distance.
Nine years ago, my Jun, who promised to have an unending love in front of the hot spring fairy.
“Noona, Haru Noona.”
This had become quite a habit. Not only expressing love to Jun with my eyes in a picturesque filming location, but now, it had also become a habit to wander through the scenes of that day nine years ago.
So, it wasn’t unreasonable for Hyunsu to stand before me now, wearing an expression as if questioning if I had come on a healing trip alone to the filming location.
“Noona, remove your lips.”
“…What?”
“Quickly, remove your lips from that cup. You’ve already drunk it all, and there’s only ice left. If someone sees, they might think it’s the first time you’ve ever had coffee at a cafe.”
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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