A static silence of loss for one manager and Manager Lee, wondering if they could be as cool if they said such things.
And in the awkwardness among the four, Ina, whose face was flushed with embarrassment, quickly picked up her handbag.
“Uh, um… We’ll be leaving now.”
“Oh, you’re leaving?”
Senna, who hadn’t finished appreciating the sculpture, asked with a face full of regret.
“Yeah. We drank a lot and we’re tired…”
Ina, with an awkward smile, reached for the bill, but Joo-won picked it up first.
“Huh?”
Surprised, Ina looked at Joo-won’s hand, and the eyes of the four people turned towards Joo-won’s hand.
“I’ll pay. It’s on me, darling.”
Joo-won said with a gentle smile.
“…”
Ina’s eyes widened like a full moon.
D-D-Darling… Did he just call me darling?
When Joo-won called Ina “darling,” Ina looked at Joo-won with surprised eyes, and the four people were equally astonished.
To say “darling” with such a handsome face and a sweet smile, is it possible or not?
Although Ina’s dizzying heartbeats momentarily disoriented her, she soon regained her composure and spoke to Joo-won.
“Huh? No, darling, you haven’t even had a drink. Come here. I’ll treat you. I’ll pay.”
“Since they’re your colleagues, of course, I should treat them.”
Senna and Eunjeong, at Joo-won’s sweet voice like whipped cream, held their chests as if shot and suffered.
Ugh! Manager Seo! I’m really going crazy with envy!
“Then we’ll go first. We’ll see you again when we get the chance.”
When Joo-won politely greeted them, the four people hastily stood up and said goodbye.
“Yes. Take care. Manager Seo, you drank well.”
As one manager greeted on behalf of everyone, Joo-won smiled and held Ina’s hand.
The two women looked at Joo-won’s large and steady hand holding Ina’s hand with envious eyes.
Joo-won greeted the four people once again and, holding Ina’s hand, headed towards the counter.
After settling the bill, Joo-won opened the door of the store while still holding Ina’s hand.
As soon as the door opened, the cold night air rushed in.
After letting go of Ina’s hand, Joo-won gently wrapped his arm around Ina’s shoulder.
Then, he pulled her towards him, hugged her warmly, and headed for the parking lot.
While walking to the car, Ina’s heart pounded rapidly in sync with the rhythm of the steps.
Whether Joo-won knew about Ina’s noisy heart or not, he smiled leisurely, opened the passenger seat door,
and turned around to sit in the driver’s seat.
“Are you okay?”
Joo-won, who got in the car, asked, making Ina startled, then quickly answered.
“Huh? Oh. I’m okay.”
“You’re saying it’s not your face?”
Joo-won, tapping Ina’s reddened cheek with his finger, said.
Embarrassed, Ina quickly covered her cheek, and Joo-won, staring intently at Ina, asked.
“How much did our Seo Ina drink, really?”
“Well… We played games while drinking, and because I kept losing, I drank a bit more.”
Even without looking, somehow Ina felt that playing drinking games might not be her thing.
As the image of Ina being awkward in front of the game came to her mind, Joo-won, who smiled subtly, burst into laughter.
“Let’s not play games like that next time. Okay?”
“Yeah.”
Joo-won smiled and, holding Ina’s hand, gently started the car.
While driving to Ina’s house, the inside of the car was filled with the voice of the radio host and the sweet songs flowing in between.
Sweet songs and Joo-won’s warm touch holding her hand.
Looking at that hand, Ina felt so happy in this moment that her cheeks blushed with satisfaction.
After a while, Joo-won’s car arrived in front of Ina’s villa.
After parking the car, Joo-won turned off the radio and unbuckled his seatbelt.
After unfastening Ina’s belt, Joo-won gazed silently into Ina’s eyes.
When Ina nervously met Joo-won’s gaze, he calmly pulled her close and embraced her.
In Joo-won’s broad embrace, Ina closed her eyes tightly, feeling the excitement of her own heartbeat.
“I missed you so much, even though it was just a day since I last saw you.”
In response to Joo-won’s candy-like words pouring into her ear, Ina replied in a whisper.
“I missed you too.”
Upon hearing this, Joo-won slowly released Ina from his embrace and looked down at her.
Ina’s pupils, looking up at him as if shy, seemed so lovely.
Joo-won, gazing at Ina with affectionate eyes, gently caressed her cheek.
Then, slowly, he approached Ina.
Joo-won’s soft lips touched Ina’s lips lightly and then parted.
Startled by the sudden kiss, Ina’s eyes widened.
Are we kissing now?
As Ina questioned with her eyes, Joo-won gave a faint smile and lightly traced Ina’s lips with his fingers.
Soon, the smile on Joo-won’s face faded, and his gaze became intense.
As his intense gaze approached again, Ina trembled, closing her eyes as her eyelids fluttered.
Joo-won gently enveloped the back of Ina’s head, pulling her close, and covered her moist lips.
When Joo-won lightly nibbled on Ina’s upper lip, feeling her trembling, Ina let out a short breath, slightly parting her lips.
As if waiting for this moment, Joo-won’s warm breath penetrated into Ina’s delicate mouth.
Feeling Joo-won’s breath gently floating in her mouth, Ina felt as if her consciousness was fading away.
With the continuous, seemingly endless breath, Ina, who was out of breath, lifted her hand to grasp Joo-won’s arm.
Joo-won, looking down at Ina, whose eyes were filled with a dreamy gaze, whispered as he observed her with melting eyes.
“The taste of a shandy is good.”
At his words, Ina, surprised, covered her mouth.
“S-Sorry. I had a bit of a shandy earlier…”
Upon hearing this, Joo-won lifted the corners of his mouth, gently removing Ina’s hand covering her mouth.
“I like it too. Shandy.”
Whispering into Ina’s ear, Joo-won wrapped his arm around her cheek and approached her again.
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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