Just comforting words his lonely mother threw out for herself. Neither more nor less. Over time, Taekyung drifted away from his mother’s embrace.
“Aren’t you curious about Dad?”
“No, I’m not.”
“Why not? I’m dying of curiosity.”
“…”
“It’s obvious, isn’t it? The fact that Mom didn’t leave a single photo of him, it’s like a bad drama plot.”
Jaehui always wondered about their father’s existence. Taekyung had long forgotten the traces of his father, who left when he was five.
Their father left them after Jaehui’s third birthday.
Taekyung had no memories of the last time he saw his father.
Only the memory of countless nights, his mother crying all night long, remained.
He never resented or hated him. He was too young, and the time was not enough to feel denial.
However, during his teenage years, when Taekyung found his mother’s well-hidden diary, he couldn’t breathe.
His mother had known all along.
The man who approached her intentionally didn’t aim for love or Cha Yunhwa’s heart, but for the power and wealth that Munsan would bring.
Yet, his mother loved him foolishly.
Unable to push away the man who whispered love like a cunning snake, she gave birth to a son in a small hospital in Gangwon Province.
The man must have been waiting all along. Waiting for the day his wife would spectacularly rise with the last spark of Munsan.
They moved to the United States.
A daughter was born, and even when the child resembled her, Cha Yunhwa never returned to the chaebol family.
The waiting man was furious and eventually returned to Korea alone.
He triumphantly returned with all the corporate secrets of the former chairman that he left with Cha Yunhwa.
The information was sold for a new wife, and wealth was enjoyed.
Although mother wrote in her diary that she had already forgiven him, Tae Kyung knew.
What the man had was like a sweet dream of one night, destined to vanish someday.
The blade extended from his fingertips would target the man’s neck, severing it vainly.
All the power and wealth he so enjoyed were originally not mother’s from the beginning.
Thus, Tae Kyung planned to return them. To his fragile mother, who bloomed like a delicate flower and now awaits only to wither.
…Everything that you possessed.
[Intercom] Anchor Yoon, emergency meeting.“Yes, I’ll be right up.”
After three consecutive days of accident coverage, Yoon Woo Yeon breathed a sigh of relief.
Despite fervent hopes to the contrary, the death toll had reached a final count of fifteen today.
She felt heavy-hearted as she recorded the two-digit number in her daily scrapbook.
“Have a seat, Anchor Yoon.”
Entering the director’s office, she saw key members of the newsroom, including Reporter Yeom, already gathered.
Director Song, with a grave expression, briefly greeted her for her efforts.
“Regarding Jeongeum Construction, let’s remove it from the main news until new updates come in.”
At Director Song’s words, Reporter Yeom angrily threw the documents he had been gathering.
“I knew it would come to this!”
Yoon Woo Yeon collected the scattered papers and asked with a puzzled look.
“What do you mean?”
Ignoring her, Reporter Yeom turned to Director Song with a cold expression.
“Director, we must broadcast this! It’s exactly what we predicted would happen.”
“…”
“Director!”
Yoon Woo Yeon quickly scanned the documents that Reporter Yeom had been researching for months.
The main point was an accusation of collusion between Jeongeum Construction and high-ranking government officials involving bribery.
The problem was the lack of concrete evidence or witnesses to prove their connection, just circumstantial hints.
Reporter Yeom’s efforts were evident. However, the newsroom had ceased support during his investigation.
It appeared that he had been pressured to stop investigating, with the documents abruptly ending.
Observing the uncomfortable Director Song, Yoon Woo Yeon spoke up.
“Was it opposed by the higher-ups?”
Director Song’s silence, merely tapping his pen on the table, was as good as an affirmation.
The directive to start the meeting with removing the related news from the main broadcast implied an intent to downplay the incident.
Yoon Woo Yeon gave a bitter smile.
“Other broadcasters are probably in a similar situation, right?”
They too would have received instructions from above to downplay the news.
If so, their station should be the first to escalate the matter.
The opponents were heavyweight politicians and Jeongeum, one of the largest construction companies. Therefore, this issue needed to be exposed to the world.
If the public becomes aware, neither the prosecution nor the higher-ups could easily suppress it.
That was the power of the press.
“Director. Fifteen people.”
“…”
“Would it only be fifteen? Adding the victims’ families, the number easily exceeds a hundred. When a family member, who was alive and well, suddenly returns as a corpse, that household is devastated, no longer truly living. There’s a nine-year-old child among the victims. Their parents died at the hands of those people too.”
“…”
“Director!”
Yoon Woo Yeon’s voice grew firmer, more powerful than usual.
Everyone awaited Director Song’s decision amidst the tense atmosphere. He pressed his forehead, pondering.
“Yeom Reporter, I’ll support you, so continue investigating more discreetly. Yoon Woo Yeon.”
“Yes, Director.”
“Let’s do well on this too. You can do it, right?”
“Yes, of course.”
Her response was confident, without hesitation.
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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