“These shares must never be transferred. I, blinded by the company, have ruined everything, even your life. I’m sorry. But you must… you must protect it. This company is more precious to me than my own life.”
These were the words Kim Kwon Jung had said only to Kim Ji Won.
Without context, his words were cryptic.
However, Kim Ji Won understood.
There must have been some incident between Cha Seung Jo and her father.
After her father passed away, Kim Ji Won gradually learned the truth.
Cha Seung Jo’s complicated relationships with other women, and his dealings with Gang Ju Ran and Cha Min Woo.
Subsequently, Cha Seung Jo tried various methods to seize the shares Kim Ji Won held, but she never relinquished them.
She consistently participated in subsidiary management, except for a brief hiatus due to illness.
Kim Ji Won always felt it.
If she let go of her shares or the management, Cha Seung Jo, like a dark serpent, would swallow everything at once.
And she couldn’t be sure if she would survive.
All three of her children were executives at C&C, but the discussion about the successor was uncertain.
Several of Cha Seung Jo’s relatives already held key positions in the company.
Moreover, Cha Min Woo, born out of wedlock and not sharing a drop of blood with Kim Kwon Jung or Kim Ji Won, was firmly established in the company.
Cha Seung Jo manipulated and rapidly groomed Cha Min Woo, even arranging his unwanted marriage to Eun Ji Yeon.
If nothing changed, everything would be consumed.
She had to find a way.
“Since you’ve already found out, I won’t lie. Yes, I am accumulating shares of C&C.”
“Thank you for being honest. You must have some plan.”
“I’m not sure how much influence my shares, including those I’m accumulating, will have on Cha Min Woo. I haven’t detailed my plan yet.”
“There’s less than two months left until the C&C Global shareholders’ meeting.”
“The shareholders’ meeting…”
Ji Yeon hadn’t considered it in her plans.
“If you join hands with me, I’d like to stir things up.”
“What exactly?”
“I want to turn the tables on this C&C game that’s reverting back to Cha Seung Jo.”
Eun Ji Yeon couldn’t get her conversation with Kim Ji Won out of her mind.
“You don’t have to answer right away, considering you have a lot to think about. But it would be good if you could decide within two weeks. Think about it and let me know.”
Even when she lived with Cha Min Woo, she had always wondered.
Why was Lady Kim Ji Won living with Chairman Cha Seung Jo?
The same man who blatantly brought other women to the house they shared.
And shamelessly brought his child over, casually moving between Ju Ran and the main house without any guilt…
It must have eaten her up inside.
But there must have been a reason she couldn’t easily give up her position.
The C&C Global shares she started to accumulate to put a brake on the rising future of Cha Min Woo.
But upon reflection, it was hard to influence Min Woo as long as Cha Seung Jo remained untouched.
Hearing Kim Ji Won’s words wasn’t enough to make a snap decision, and Ji Yeon’s head began to throb with the weight of her dilemma.
“Director Cha Min Woo, there’s something I really need to ask you.”
Meeting again in a private bar, Cha Min Woo faced Kang Ji Hyun.
Today, she needed to ask.
What was their relationship? A regular meeting… or was she just a casual fling to him?
Min Woo, seemingly amused by her question, laughed briefly and downed his glass in one go.
“Kang Ji Hyun, since when did our relationship require defining?”
‘I can’t believe this, Kang Ji Hyun. You act as if you’re something special to me. My head’s already aching.’
A few days after meeting the youngest daughter of PP Confectionery, Min Woo had made up his mind.
Right. Love, after all the experience, turned out to be trivial.
Things that seemed pretty and lovely with rose-colored glasses turned out to be mundane in reality, and rather, it was a time when we only learned about each other’s ugliness.
Eun Ji Yeon?
She was convenient because of her good background and willingness to do anything for him.
Looking back, the world was full of such people.
His father was a conglomerate chairman, and he was a director in that conglomerate.
It was time for him to decide his own path.
“What do you want to talk about? Whether I’m your boyfriend? Or are you thinking of marriage?”
Facing a trembling Ji Hyun, Min Woo spoke with a voice dripping with coldness.
“Don’t you see the situation now? Have I ever once said I liked you, or asked you to be mine?”
Min Woo’s stinging words tore at Ji Hyun’s heart.
Ji Hyun’s face grew increasingly pale, and her eyes filled with pain.
“I thought you were smart, but you’re just pretending to be. Our secretary. Wasn’t it enough to have some pleasant moments together from time to time? What more did you expect? Money?”
Cha Min Woo’s insinuations, painting her as if she approached him for money, left Kang Ji Hyun in utter dismay.
‘Right… He never spoke of feelings or a future with me. He only called me when he needed me, in places hidden from everyone else.’
And it was she who had happily and willingly gone to him.
“Let me know if you need it, money. I don’t know how much you want, but I can take care of it. You know, right? That I have a lot of money?”
Saying so, Min Woo took out his wallet and slid it across the table towards her.
He then nonchalantly refilled his empty glass and brought it to his lips.
“So, are you going to leave like this today, Secretary Kang Ji Hyun?”
Min Woo stretched out his arm and lazily brushed her arm.
Ji Hyun was at a loss for words, barely able to speak.
“You’ve taken human emotions too lightly. And if I was mistaken, then I will let go of these feelings.”
Her voice, trembling through her quivering lips, seemed almost not her own.
She bowed her head in a silent nod and turned to leave.
“Will you be able to work well with such feelings, Secretary Kang Ji Hyun? Think about it.”
Min Woo’s mocking words followed her out.
Ji Hyun’s tears, long held back, streamed down her cheeks.
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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