Juran decided to go home, thinking that loitering around like this would only make her seem more suspicious to the keen-eyed Cha Seung-jo.
Heading to the hospital room to retrieve the forgotten bag, she saw Cha Seung-jo lying in bed, accompanied by someone whose back was facing her.
As Juran entered the room, both of them looked at her simultaneously.
The person standing next to Cha Seung-jo was the lawyer, Kim Dae-beom.
With an elusive expression that was hard to decipher, he stared at Juran.
“Oh… It’s been a while, Lawyer. When did you arrive?”
Juran, with a visibly bewildered expression, stuttered as she spoke, but there was no response.
“Have you been receiving good treatment? It’s fortunate that your health is improving. I’ve been so worried that I couldn’t sleep at night, these days.”
With unnecessary rambling, Juran spoke, but Cha Seung-jo remained silent, gazing at her intently.
The way he looked at her seemed as if, like a snake about to swallow its prey, he was about to devour her. A chill ran down her spine.
“Kim Byeong, you should know what you have. Investigate that person properly.”
When listened carefully, Cha Seung-jo spoke with quite precise pronunciation.
‘What is he asking me to read? I have to know? What is it? What?’
In a tone that suggested Juran should know the important information only the two of them shared, Cha Seung-jo unintentionally swallowed dry saliva.
“What are you talking about? What do I need to know? What’s so important?”
Acting nonchalant, Juran, who had been pretending to force a smile towards Cha Seung-jo, turned her head towards Lawyer Kim.
“Oh my, look at me. A guest came, and I didn’t even offer anything. This is how I am these days. With this person collapsing like this, I’m losing my mind. Mr. Lawyer Kim, please sit for a moment. I’ll go outside and quickly buy some drinks.”
Her intuition was now telling her that she had to avoid this moment.
‘Don’t listen to those words. If you hear them, something will go wrong. You have to leave quickly.’
“There, just stay!”
Hastily picking up her bag to leave, Juran heard Cha Seung-jo shout at her with clear pronunciation.
“Stay.”
Just a few steps away from moving towards the door, but upon hearing Cha Seung-jo’s yell, Juran couldn’t move at all.
It felt like sinking deeper into a dreadful swamp the more she tried to move.
Breathing roughly, as if struggling to speak, she reluctantly said a few words. But now, Cha Seung-jo spoke clearly enough for the other party to understand.
Turning his head to look at Lawyer Kim, Kim Dae-beom nodded and took out a paper from the file he had placed beside him, unfazed by the situation.
“Well, then, Ms. Kang Juran, please listen as well.”
Even in this situation, Kim Dae-beom’s expression remained unchanged, and he looked at Juran with a composed expression before diverting his gaze to the documents.
And then, he slowly began to read the contents of the document.
“The Truejin Medical Foundation, emotional information paternity test. Subject 1, Cha Seung-jo. Subject 2, Cha Min-woo. In human DNA, there are certain gene sequences called STR that repeat, and…”
‘What is that person reading now? What is that, and why is he reading it as if I should hear it? Paternity test? Who? Our Min-woo?’
With a ringing sound in her ears, Juran felt her heartbeat, as Kim Dae-beom’s voice, reading the document, gradually faded away.
Various strange thoughts and numerous languages intertwined and filled Juran’s mind, and in that state, she could only stare blankly at Kim Dae-beom.
“To confirm the biological father-child relationship between subjects Cha Seung-jo and Cha Min-woo, genetic loci were analyzed. The analysis of the STR gene organization, excluding sex chromosomes, resulted in a biological mismatch, indicating the absence of a father-child relationship.”
After Kim Dae-beom finished reading all the documents, he slowly lifted his head to look at Juran.
“What? What are you talking about now! What kind of nonsense are you spouting!”
Juran, vehemently shaking her head, rushed towards Lawyer Kim, attempting to snatch the documents he had been reading.
“This is ridiculous! You brought some manipulated thing from somewhere to frame me and Min-woo! Give it to me; I’ll burn it up! Give it to me!”
“Enough, now.”
A faint voice of Cha Seung-jo reached Juran’s ears as she aggressively struggled to grab the documents.
In the midst of trying to snatch the papers, Juran abruptly stopped.
“Even if you spit and fuss, the outcome won’t change.”
“Hey, what’s that supposed to mean! Your son Min-woo. Your proud son, Cha Min-woo! Are you crazy? Or did you lose your mind after collapsing? Huh?”
Juran, who had rushed towards Cha Seung-jo, half-lying on the bed, grabbed his collar and shook him vigorously while shouting.
Whether he was a patient or not, it didn’t matter to her.
Right now, there was nothing visible in Juran’s eyes.
Watching this scene, Lawyer Kim spoke.
“This data is one of the results from the genetic tests conducted three times, all delivering the same outcome. I also have the test results for you, Ms. Kang Juran, and for Mr. Choi Dogaeng along with Mr. Cha Min-woo.”
While Juran was screaming and clinging to Cha Seung-jo, she fell silent upon hearing Dogaeng’s name being mentioned along with Dokang’s.
Even in this chaotic situation, she looked at Lawyer Kim, who continued to speak as if nothing had happened.
“Yesterday, we sent samples from Chairman Cha Seung-jo and Min-woo to a different testing facility for one final examination. Based on these results, we plan to update the contents of Chairman Cha Seung-jo’s will and conduct notarization with the participation of the individual and experts within a few days. Additionally, we will review the filing of the ‘Claim for Recognition of the Birth Father’s Rights’ and the ‘Unjust Enrichment Lawsuit’ based on the results.”
“That… What is that? What? The birth father’s… something? What is all that?”
Mumbling as if out of her mind, Juran collapsed to the floor.
Claim for Recognition of the Birth Father’s Rights.
It was a phrase commonly referred to as “erasing from the family register” in legal terms.
“All these details will be conveyed to Mr. Cha Min-woo as soon as they are organized.”
After leaving these words, Lawyer Kim greeted Cha Seung-jo and left the hospital room.
A cold silence filled the room after he left.
At that moment, after meeting with Choi Dogaeng and coming out of the hotel, Kim Ji-won was sitting in the back seat of the car, looking at her phone.
What she was looking at was a photo she took of the DNA test results document for the paternity confirmation of Cha Seung-jo and Cha Min-woo that Lawyer Kim Dae-beom had read in front of Cha Seung-jo and Kang Ju-ran.
“I don’t know if you received the gift that will beautifully decorate the end of our marriage. I hope you like it.”
The sedan, filled with Ji-won’s laughter, smoothly slipped out of the hotel.
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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