The doctor’s words of no hope stabbed like a dagger.
Every time her mother struggled with her fate due to a traffic accident, La Jin had prepared herself countless times. But why wasn’t her heart prepared yet? With each breath, La Jin’s nose felt stuffy.
“How much… can she endure?”
“I can’t guarantee, but at least a fortnight at best.”
Just prolonging life forcibly, considering her mother’s suffering, letting go could also be a solution. The tremendous decision-making power was placed in front of La Jin.
“I-I’ll consider it.”
Unable to answer like being chased, La Jin stumbled over her words. In that dazed state, she left the examination room. Should she hold onto her mother, who wasn’t really alive, or was it just greed?
With questions swirling in her mind, La Jin headed towards the intensive care unit.
It seemed like her mother had fallen into a deep sleep, lying on the white bed. La Jin pressed her forehead gently against the pale back of her mother’s hand and whispered softly.
“Mom.”
Words like “Are you in a lot of pain?”, “How difficult is it?”, and “What should we do?” didn’t come out of her throat. She simply wiped her mother’s pale face several times, letting the agreed-upon time pass.
On the way out after receiving guidance from the medical staff indicating the end, La Jin felt dizzy, as if her feet were floating.
“Park La Jin.”
In front of the elevator, a face she didn’t want to see was standing.
With a storm raging in La Jin’s mind, blood flowing from her chest, who could she talk to and what could she say? La Jin passed O Jong-hyuk without looking and pressed the elevator button.
“Hey! Doesn’t human speech make sense?”
Her body swayed backward as she was pulled by the strength of the grip.
“Let go. Use good words.”
La Jin’s chilly voice cut through the air.
“What kind of relationship do we have?”
“What?”
Not family, not anything.
It was so laughable and contemptible that he took control of this brash relationship. La Jin had considered following O Jong-hyuk’s instructions in desperate attempts to save her mother. She believed it was a path to protect her mother, who thought of O Jong-hyuk as a stepfather, and a repentance for the stepfather’s death.
But not anymore.
“I’m going to see a lawyer right now. I will go!”
“What?”
“I’ll ask to sever this annoying relationship between Lee Jin-ok and O Jong-hyuk.”
Adding the word ‘directly,’ La Jin’s body trembled. The anger that had been tightly held back burst out with rage.
“Hey. Why are you like this?”
Was he really asking because he didn’t know? Or had he completely forgotten the sins he committed?
In response to La Jin’s unusual reaction, O Jong-hyuk was bewildered. With his pupils shaking, he looked around to see if anyone was listening. Still, La Jin paid no attention. Instead, with a feeling of spitting blood, she raised her voice.
“From now on, after this time, we’re strangers.”
“Why are you complaining without fear.”
“Don’t complain either.”
A scornful laugh escaped.
The title of an entertainment agency representative, an extravagance that didn’t suit the source.
La Jin intended to take away all the privileges O Jong-hyuk had enjoyed so far. To do that, she had to cut off this ridiculous stepfather relationship. All that was left was to return to their respective places as if they were strangers from the beginning.
“After spreading malicious rumors about our mother so much. Does it feel refreshing?”
“Park La Jin!”
“For repaying the price of my stepfather’s life, for tormenting us like that. Does it feel refreshing now?”
She screamed as if she had turned over hot water, and her whole body began to tingle as if burning.
“Get out of Mom’s room right now. I’m going to the billing department to check out of the hospital.”
“La Jin, hey!”
As she delivered the obvious words coldly, the elevator doors opened as if waiting. La Jin, who had been waiting, turned and entered the elevator.
Inside the elevator that stopped on each floor, people’s eyes poured towards the reddened La Jin.
‘Why was it so easy? Why did I endure it for so long?’
A self-blame that felt foolish for spending all that time agonizing over her heart poured out.
As La Jin faced her mother’s imminent death, her world collapsed. However, ironically, she wasn’t afraid of anything.
Ding—.
As soon as the elevator doors opened, La Jin clenched her fists tightly. Without caring about people’s stares or comments, she even picked up a queue ticket from the billing department.
A single room with daily hospitalization costs of tens of thousands of won.
There was no intention to provide meals for O Jong-hyuk, who had mocked her mother’s expensive hospital bills.
La Jin calmly waited for her turn in the waiting area. Then, she settled the hospitalization costs so far and requested the billing department for O Jong-hyuk’s eviction order.
Back when she was sending a strong declaration, the manager hurriedly ran over.
“Actress!”
Amidst Taehyung-sik’s disheveled hair, a bright red wound was vivid. Did he get dragged somewhere and get beaten? Even if that were the case, it was the manager’s own doing.
La Jin slowly folded multiple hospital receipts.
“When did you come?”
Treating Taehyung-sik like a transparent person, he blocked her path.
Suddenly gathering courage, La Jin pushed him with all her might. It was impossible to resist physically, but the manager’s eyes shook wildly as he stumbled back.
“Mr. Taehyung-sik.”
“!”
The startled man with a puzzled expression barely managed to say, “Yes?”
“You came to the hospital room before our mother collapsed. Why did you come, and with Kim Yujun at that?”
“Well, um?”
“You better be prepared. I won’t stay quiet.”
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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