The morning sunlight came through the window bars in the living room.
Enwoo and Geon, intoxicated by the warmth, embraced each other tightly.
Due to Geon’s sleepless night, Enwoo’s body was more sore than when they had trained.
Although the body was exhausted and weary, the face was flushed with color.
Just knowing they were embracing like this made Enwoo feel invigorated.
As Geon swept her hair away with his large hand, Enwoo asked, “Nari, I have something I’m curious about.”
Geon, with a gentle smile as if inviting any question, kissed Enwoo’s forehead.
“What is it?”
“When did you realize that I am a woman?”
Enwoo blinked her large eyes as she asked.
There were moments when it almost happened, but Geon was curious about when he actually found out that Enwoo was a woman.
Geon paused for a moment, lost in thought, before parting his lips.
“Before you got caught up in the challenge, do you remember the day you came in drunk?”
“…Yes. I remember.”
In embarrassment, Enwoo clutched her hands together at the memory.
It was the day she had gone to the tavern on a dare from Daebok, who promised to buy her a drink.
If Enwoo’s memory served her right, she might have teased Geon before going to bed.
But even though she remembered drinking, she had no memory of revealing her true identity.
Could there be something she couldn’t remember?
“I don’t remember revealing my identity… How did you know?”
“I found out when I took off your clothes.”
“What? You undressed me?”
Enwoo reacted with surprise.
She hadn’t known that she wasn’t wearing her inner garment when Geon helped her undress.
Geon casually explained without realizing the gravity of the situation.
“Yeah. When I took off your clothes, I saw the bandages wrapped around your chest.”
“I-I apologize. Nari! I never thought you were that kind of person.”
“That kind of person?”
Enwoo, sitting up abruptly, covered her body with the blanket.
It might be too late to cover up now, but at that time, things were different.
Geon had a puzzled expression, not understanding what was so upsetting.
What could be so infuriating?
“I never knew Nari was a wicked person who undresses others!”
“What? Wicked… what?”
Geon made a bewildered expression, realizing he had omitted the crucial explanation.
Inadvertently becoming a villain, Geon broke into a cold sweat trying to explain.
“Wait, I left out an important part of the explanation…”
“Be honest! How much did you see?!”
“It’s a misunderstanding! This is unfair!”
Geon sweated profusely trying to calm down the agitated Enwoo.
Only after explaining the situation to Enwoo could Geon shed the stigma of being called wicked.
Embarrassed and feeling awkward, Enwoo, who had been misunderstood, opened her mouth.
“Why didn’t you tell me sooner? If you suddenly say you undressed me, anyone would misunderstand.”
“…The person who makes me break into a cold sweat, you’re probably the only one.”
Amidst the commotion that unfolded, Geon sighed, wiping away cold sweat.
“Is there anything else you’re curious about?”
“Hmm…”
In response to Geon’s question, Enwoo, lost in thought for a moment, swallowed her saliva and cautiously spoke.
“Can you tell me about Nari’s wounds?”
“Wounds?”
“Yes, wounds.”
Enwoo’s gaze landed on Geon’s body, covered in scars.
“I want to know when the wounds appeared, how they happened, and what the situation was when they occurred.”
Geon’s statement about wanting to know everything about Nari wasn’t just a casual remark.
Enwoo wanted to know about Geon’s past, about every detail of his life that she wasn’t aware of.
She wanted to know him more, to get closer, and to understand him better.
“I want to know everything about Nari.”
“…”
Enwoo believed that knowing the scars on his body was the best way to understand his life.
But asking could be delicate as the wounds might be something Geon found difficult to bring up.
“Can you tell me?”
After a moment of silence in response to Enwoo’s words, Geon took Enwoo’s hand.
Then, he placed her hand on the scars on his chest.
“Do you remember that these scars were from when you were 11 years old?”
“Yes, I remember.”
Enwoo nodded with a solemn expression.
Geon slowly began to recall memories from when he was 11 years old.
“I heard a rumor that the Grand Queen was calling for me at midnight. She had never called me separately before, so I found it strange.”
Despite the calm tone, Enwoo could feel Geon’s heart beating rapidly beneath her hand.
“In a hurry, I headed to the main palace, where the Grand Queen resided.”
Geon’s birth mother and concubine, Jeongbin, lived separately in a palace designated for her.
“But when I arrived, the Grand Queen, who usually greeted me with a smiling face, was nowhere to be seen. I only saw the Grand Queen collapsed on the floor.”
“…!”
At an age when maternal affection was crucial, what the young Geon faced was the lifeless body of his already cold mother.
The image of Jeongbin, sprawled on the floor, was still vivid in Geon’s memory.
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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