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After Hee-wook shouted and left the house, Mal-hee’s phone rang.

Considering whether to ignore it or not, Mal-hee glanced at the phone screen with a sidelong glance and hastily pressed the call button upon seeing the name ‘Hyun-ji.’

“Hello! Hyun-ji!”

Upon hearing the voice eagerly calling Hyun-ji’s name, Hee-jin, who was lying in another room, rushed in.

“Choi Hyun-ji? What’s happening? What’s happening?”

While gesturing to Hee-jin not to speak, Hyun-ji’s voice came through.

[Madam.]

The gentle tone with which Hyun-ji used to address her as ‘Madam’ was nowhere to be found. However, it was not the time to criticize such a way of speaking. With tears in her eyes, Mal-hee earnestly asked Hyun-ji.

“Okay, Hyun-ji. I knew you’d call. Are you doing well? Where are you? Hee-wook said something strange; did you two really break up?”

[Yes, we broke up. I called because I forgot something. It turns out I gave you 1 million won?]

However, Hyun-ji’s reaction was unexpectedly cold. Mal-hee’s mouth hung open in surprise at the unexpected topic.

[Now that we’re separated, you should return that. I’ll give you the account number, so please make the deposit.]

“Where’s the money to deposit!”

Overwhelmed, Mal-hee shouted.

“The coins you told me about, you said they would multiply by 8 times in a month, so I bought 1 billion won worth of them, and they evaporated. What should I do about this? Huh?”

“Oh my! Oh my! That’s impossible! Don’t lie.”

So far, Hyun-ji’s voice had been as cold and dry as a winter desert, but suddenly, she began to make a fuss, as if she couldn’t believe it.

“That’s unbelievable! It’s true! Because of that, I had to sell the house. Where are you now?”

“Oh my, this is outrageous! Seriously, it’s funny!”

“……”

“Is there really a fool who sacrificed 1 billion won for such a coin?”

“Well, well……?”

“Oh my! What should we do?”

“You and your dad have to compensate for this! You believed only what you said and burned 1 billion won on the coin!”

Enraged, Mal-hee slapped with force.

Ahahaha! Ahahaha! Suddenly, beyond the receiver, a laughter sounded as if someone was crying. Laughter of a crazy ghost that one might have heard on a special comedy show about ten years ago.

“Hello! You! Hyun-ji!”

In an instant, Hyun-ji, who had stopped laughing, spoke again.

[Why do you believe other people’s words?]

“……”

[How scary the world is. There are trash people who exploit others through marriage and tear apart relationships.]

“What? You! You!”

With teary eyes, Mal-hee trembled.

Feeling that the conversation was not progressing, Hee-jin, unable to stand it, snatched the phone. Anxious, Hee-jin urged Hyun-ji.
“Hyun-ji? It’s me, Hee-wook’s sister. Can we see each other’s faces and talk? How can we fix this? Huh? Right now, Mom and I borrowed 10 billion won each from loan sharks, and if we don’t pay back 11 billion each within a month, it will be chaos. Huh? Hyun-ji, we’re not asking you to take Hee-wook away. But the money issue shouldn’t be like this. If we can just resolve this, it would be fine. We made investments we didn’t need to because of you.”

[Oh my, oh my! Did you get involved too? Ahahaha! Ahahaha!]

Having endured the desperate voice for a while, Hyun-ji burst into laughter again.

[Oh, my stomach hurts! They’re really entertaining family members.]

“What? Hey! What are you talking about!”

[Madam, anyway, I enjoyed the funny story. Since I laughed after a long time, consider it a gift. Well.]

Hee-jin’s mouth hung open, as if an egg could easily fit inside.

“But how can we get 11 billion each? If we sell our houses, it will make 22 billion, right?”

Choi Hyun-ji made the call to make fun of them.

[It will be tough to get 22 billion with nothing left. Well, good luck.]

Having completed her mission, Hyun-ji politely ended the call.

6:00 PM. Incheon International Airport.

After completing the departure procedures, Hyun-ji walked gracefully through the security checkpoint.

The last person she talked to in Korea was Kim Tae-jun.

“Thanks to you, sir, my plan was a success. People with lots of money and good connections are truly the best.”

With Kim Tae-jun’s help, she bought actors to gather in front of Kim Mal-hee’s house and blocked the house’s internet and mobile data communication.

In fact, she created a coin wallet for Kim Mal-hee and memorized the coin wallet password. Although she intended to steal the money, she didn’t go that far and succeeded without doing so.

The information about virtual currency was indeed conveyed by the ‘real’ father who runs a business. KKA368 was a coin that would collapse soon, but until it did, it was expected to rise steadily. With the help of her father, who was involved in related businesses, she pressed a few words to the trading partners of this precarious company, and the company soon raised its hands, unable to survive. Thanks to that, she could time the downturn of the coin market well.

Moreover, Kim Mal-hee even deceived her daughter Yang Hee-jin into putting her hands on the coin. It was an unexpected joy.

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Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.

The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…

Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.

Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.

The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”

When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…

The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced

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