In the past, her body’s response was similar, but Cha Min Woo was someone who didn’t care about that, never giving her time to realize it.
Ignorant of all this, Ji Yeon could only be thankful for Kang Hyun’s understanding in this moment.
After catching her breath, Kang Hyun made a pillow with his arm behind her neck.
“Let’s stay like this, us.”
As Kang Hyun made a pillow with his arm and pulled Ji Yeon close, she nestled into his broad chest.
“There’s something I want to talk about.”
Ji Yeon had agonized for days over whether to bring this up, and if so, when. It wasn’t a pleasant topic, no matter how she spun it.
Filled with worry, it took her a long time to decide to speak up.
She couldn’t pretend not to know and remain silent forever.
“Yes, tell me.”
And with that, he gently kissed her lips.
“I’ve told you about my divorce…”
“Yes, I’m well aware of it.”
“The person I was married to is someone you know.”
“…?”
“Cha… Min Woo, the executive. He was my ex-husband.”
Eun Ji Yeon said and lifted her head to look at him.
As Lee Kang Hyun looked down at her with his eyelids slightly lowered, there was no discernible change in emotion in his gaze.
“Kang Hyun, did you just hear… what I said? My story?”
“Yes, I heard it. Cha Min Woo.”
“…….”
“Who your ex-husband is doesn’t matter to me at all. What’s important is whether you still have feelings for him.”
Kang Hyun brushed back the hair that had fallen onto Ji Yeon’s forehead and then cupped her face with his large hands.
“Of course not, no feelings. Well, except disgust… I can’t stand even the sight of him.”
“Thank you for telling me. That’s all that matters. You don’t have to force yourself to tell me everything.”
“Thank you for saying that, Kang Hyun. But, I’d like you to listen, if you’re okay with it, to my story.”
“If that’s what you want, anything.”
Kang Hyun said and lightly kissed her forehead.
Slowly, Ji Yeon began to tell her story, starting with how she first met him.
“Where is this…?”
Kang Hyun opened his eyes, confused for a few seconds before he collected himself.
He had fallen asleep at Ji Yeon’s house the previous night after talking with her.
He could still seem to smell her sweet scent on him.
Ji Yeon was nowhere to be seen, so he got up, went to the table, and poured himself a glass of water.
His right arm felt a bit sore from holding her all night, but it was a pleasant pain.
Then, suddenly, he caught a whiff of his body wash and turned around.
“Aah!”
Ji Yeon had just finished showering and was stepping out of the shower room wrapped in a large towel.
“When did you wake up?!”
Surprised, Ji Yeon froze in place as if she had turned to ice.
She looked like a startled rabbit, and a quiet laugh escaped from Kang Hyun’s lips.
He strode over to her and enveloped her in his embrace.
“I was holding back so much I might have turned to stone, that’s too much. Our Ji Yeon.”
He said, kissing her forehead.
The feel of her soft skin made him want to keep caressing her.
“I thought you were asleep…”
Her face turned as red as a ripe apple.
“The scent of my body wash on my girl is driving me crazy.”
At his words ‘my girl,’ Ji Yeon’s face reddened even more, and she couldn’t raise her head.
He inhaled deeply at her nape, then let her go, whispering in her ear.
“Now run away fast, Ms. Silver Rabbit. If you don’t, the tiger might gulp you down in one bite.”
A few minutes later, after Ji Yeon had gotten dressed, Kang Hyun was in the kitchen making something.
“I hope you don’t mind I used it without asking. There were so many ingredients in the house, I borrowed some.”
“I’m grateful, really. It’s me who should be cooking.”
“Cooking at your girlfriend’s place can be nice, right?”
Eun Ji Yeon brewed some coffee and looked at him with a cup in hand.
To think such a handsome, picture-perfect man was making breakfast for her.
And it tasted delicious too.
Wasn’t this every woman’s dream?
Not to mention, this was Lee Kang Hyun who had listened to her long, perhaps overly tedious story all night.
Suddenly finding him incredibly endearing, Ji Yeon set her cup aside and moved closer to him.
“Kang Hyun.”
She wrapped her arms around his waist from behind, hugged him, and rubbed her face against his back with her eyes closed.
“Thank you for listening to my story all night.”
“Thank you for sharing so much with me. They must’ve been hard stories to share.”
His tender voice melted into Ji Yeon’s heart.
‘This man is genuine, Eun Ji Yeon. Not a fake like Cha Min Woo.’
“Let’s go on a picnic to the park today. I’ll make some delicious kimbap.”
“Sounds good. We’ll lay on the picnic mat and enjoy some leisure time. And maybe take a book to read.”
They smiled at each other warmly, their faces full of happiness.
Cha Min Woo flung his phone onto the desk in irritation after reading a message.
[Min Woo, when are you coming home? We need to talk.]
He had sent only these messages without further explanation and hadn’t returned home for days.
To an outsider, it might seem like a trivial matter, but the thought of her deceiving him made him increasingly angry.
Perhaps he left on a pretext, not wanting to face her.
Initially, he went to his mother, Juran’s home, but unable to stand her constant complaints and grumbling, he didn’t last a day before moving to a hotel near his office.
He despised everything: how Se Ah was becoming more twisted, how Eun Ji Yeon looked at him as if he were a bug, and how Lee Kang Hyun humiliated him in front of the team.
The happiness of being with Se Ah, feeling like he owned the world, where had it gone?
Nowadays, he just felt annoyed or worried when he saw her.
‘What’s made you like this?’
‘How much have I given up for you, Se Ah, only to be disappointed like this?’
‘Do you even know what I’ve given up for you?’
Such thoughts filled his mind.
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
