“May I come in?”
Hyojin, whose attention was stolen by the unexpected sight of an exchange, snapped to attention at the voice that flowed through the thick curtain.
“Oh, yes.”
Only then did she realize her absent-minded blockage of the doorway and stepped aside.
“Come in.”
As Hyojin, still staring at the sleek silhouette of the exchange entering with a closed mouth, stepped inside, she felt her heart pound as if it would scream due to nervousness.
He had suggested keeping some distance until her thoughts were sorted out. Had they been sorted out now?
She didn’t even know what conclusion he had reached, but Hyojin couldn’t help but shout as his appearance, seen after a long time, seemed too good to be true.
Exchange’s gaze, turned back to himself, stopped in the space that had unfolded between them.
Flustered, Hyojin blushed, adjusting the gown.
“Oh, I don’t have other clothes to change into.”
Rubbing the stiff neck with her palm, Hyojin felt like her face might melt in his warm gaze that still looked at her.
“I brought clothes for you to change into, so wear this.”
“Oh, thank you.”
Taking the shopping bag lightly, Hyojin changed into the green dress he had bought.
It was shameless to accept the clothes he bought without refusing, but it seemed better than facing him in a gown.
“It fits perfectly. I was worried it might not.”
The deep V-neck, reaching down to the spine, revealed Hyojin’s slender neckline, dazzlingly displaying the necklace engraved with their initials.
“Have a seat.”
As the exchange, sitting on the sofa, looked at the bruises on her knees visible under the skirt, Hyojin stared at him with surprise.
“It’s okay…!”
Forced to sit on the sofa, Hyojin looked at the exchange taking out ointment from her bag with a worried look.
“If it hurts, let me know.”
Feeling a tingling sensation as the cautious touch of the cotton swab spread the ointment, Hyojin had to bite her lips.
“Is there anywhere else that hurts?”
“No.”
“Let me check for a moment.”
The exchange, flipping the hair less dry, looked over her neck, shoulders, back, and elbows with persistent eyes.
Whenever his gaze, like sunlight, touched her, it seemed that heat spread to the surrounding air.
In fact, their affectionate actions had gone beyond this, but either meeting after a long time or just looking into each other’s eyes made her tense to the tip of her toes.
“How have you been during this time?”
Hyojin’s sunny smile filled her quiet eyes like the calm sea.
“You suggested taking time to think. Is everything sorted out now?”
Hyojin moved her lips without stopping to break the awkward atmosphere, hoping to dispel the tension.
Otherwise, she felt like she would suffocate from the tension.
Without even blinking, the exchange, who had been staring at her, lowered his gaze, turned to the fireplace, and changed the subject.
“Would you like to have a drink?”
With moist eyes and dazzling skin soaked with moisture just after taking a shower, he felt a strong desire to cover up all truths and make her his woman.
“Then how about going to a wine bar this time?”
Hyojin, with a bright smile, tentatively suppressed the impulse, testing the exchange standing still.
“I won’t cause trouble by getting drunk like last time.”
“…”
Without any response, as he looked at her, Hyojin felt the tension, as if her throat was drying up, and blinked her long eyelashes.
“Since I came around this area, I remembered the wine your father treated us last time.”
She got drunk on the wine he bought, and he got intoxicated by her scent that night.
“I’ll pay for it today.”
Hyojin, still withholding her answer, smiled at the exchange standing in front of her with deep eyes like an abyss.
She tried to appear calm, but her voice trembled.
“Is that okay?”
A thick voice, as if a sigh, escaped from the exchange’s locked lips, which had been closed for a long time.
“Yes, sure.”
Crazy bastard.
Breaking up was said, but it fell short. Let’s go for a drink.
The exchange thought he was really becoming a fool.
“Come on in.”
The servant in a suit guided the exchange and Hyojin to the window where they had sat before.
“Please give us the same as we had last time.”
“Chateau Margaux?”
The servant, taking Hyojin’s order, asked as if confirming.
“Yes, that.”
Leaning toward the exchange, Hyojin whispered in his ear.
“Dad, is that right?”
With lips rounded and a breath that tickled his ear, the exchange nodded, swallowing the thirst with a nod.
“I’m really sorry earlier. You must have been very angry because of me, right?”
Although she was the one who had suddenly burst into anger, Hyojin apologized first.
Dad! Do you know how long I’ve been waiting? Will he call today? Will he call tomorrow? Even if it’s just a text message, did I not receive it?
I thought I would live clinging only to the phone that doesn’t ring every day.
Was I the only one? You seem fine.
Thinking it was just his imagination, the exchange swallowed a bitter smile with the cold water in his hand.
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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