There were no other customers in the small café. Ji Seo Joon ordered two warm teas without asking for my opinion, told me to sit for a while, and then left the café.
“Where is he going…”
I watched the door Ji Seo Joon went through, and took off my high heels, tightly squeezing my feet.
“Ah. It hurts a lot.”
Fortunately, there were no blisters, but my toes were all turned red.

Wondering if massaging them would alleviate the pain, I resisted the urge to disturb others and simply repeated flexing and relaxing my toes.
“It seems like your feet hurt a lot.”
The café owner noticed my situation and brought me a drink.
“I overdid it a bit. Haha.”
Watching the owner return to the counter with a pitying look at my words, I saw Ji Seo Joon enter the café through the door.
“I could only find these. Put these on.”
A pair of threestriped slippers was placed in front of me, as if he had somehow procured them.
“Yes. Thanks.”

Ji Seo Joon finally sat down once I slipped my feet into the slippers.
“You.”
The first words Ji Seo Joon uttered after staring at me for a while. Without realizing, I swallowed hard.
“What on earth were you thinking…”
Every word spat out by Ji Seo Joon was mixed with various emotions.
“I’m really okay, I’m not affected at all.”
“Didn’t you hear what the police said earlier? It’s common sense, too. What were you thinking going to find the stalker by yourself? Huh?”
“I…”
“You were threatening a woman who wouldn’t leave you alone. To such a woman…”
Ji Seo Joon exhaled deeply and wiped his face.
“I’m sorry. I was thoughtless.”
“…”
“I didn’t tell you because I knew you were like this. Understand?”
“…I understand.”

There was no time to think about the consequences. All I could think about was the anxious face of Ji Seo Joon. I couldn’t think about anything else other than confronting the malicious stalker who was tormenting Ji Seo Joon immediately.
“I’m sorry. I really didn’t think it through and just went after her. But, I didn’t seem to be losing, did I? I know violence is bad, but I’m not the type to go around and get beaten…”

The words of apology caused Ji Seo Joon to soften his gaze, only to harden it again. In the face of his gaze that seemed like it could shoot lasers, I quickly lowered my posture.
“No, no. I was wrong. There won’t be any such incidents again. I promise.”
I started begging, reverting back to the guilty mode.
“I swear. Huh? If I do that again, I’m not Moon Da Yul, I’m Dog Da Yul. Woof woof.”
I mimicked a puppy, lightly clenching my fist and bringing it close to my chin. Still, Ji Seo Joon didn’t even glance in my direction.
“Hey. Can you hear me? Right?”
I lifted my hand and waved it frantically in front of Ji Seo Joon’s eyes.
“What’s this, why is your hand swollen?”
“Huh? Oh, this? I hit that woman’s cheek earlier…”
The cheek of the woman I had slapped had swollen red and was starting to bruise. It seemed he hadn’t noticed that even though he had glared at her so much at the police station.
“How did you hit her cheek that your hand is so swollen?”
Ji Seo Joon said, gently touching my hand.
“Didn’t you see that woman’s cheek earlier? It’s bruised, and yet my hand is perfectly fine.”
“Why did you slap her cheek? It’s just a waste of your hand.”
Despite the scolding, his voice was filled with worry.
“Just wait a moment.”
Ji Seo Joon got up from his seat and went to the counter to place an order.
“Are you ordering something else to drink?”
“No, I ordered a cold drink. Your hand is hot.”

As the cold drink arrived, he handed the cup to me. I was so shocked to find out that the woman was a habitual offender at the police station, and I was so busy being mindful of Ji Seo Joon’s presence that I didn’t even realize my hand was hurting.
“It feels much better when it’s cold.”
“……”
Ji Seo Joon, who had been staring intently at my hand, spoke.
“Don’t think about protecting me from now on. I’m not the Ji Seo Joon from middle school who was always being pushed around in the playground.”
I held Ji Seo Joon’s hand with my hand that wasn’t holding the cup.
“Where can you find such a big middle school student?”
Pulling his gaze from my worried hand, he looked at me.
“What would you have done if it was you in that situation?”
Ji Seo Joon’s hand stiffened in my grasp.
“I suppose you would have done more, not less, right?”
The hand holding the cup with the cold drink was so cold that I had to momentarily let go. Seeing the warmth returning quickly, I realized my hand might bruise by tomorrow.
“I’m going to protect you. Of course, I’ll try to refrain from protecting you in such a brutish way. But I can’t promise not to protect you.”
I gripped Ji Seo Joon’s hand tighter.
“You are too kind……”
At my final words, Ji Seo Joon chuckled.
“When they hear that, everyone around me will laugh, right?”
“That’s because they don’t know you, they don’t know how kind you are. Well, it’s not their fault either. They need to be knocked into sense.”
I took a big sip of the cooled down tea with my swollen hand.
“Do you think I’ll still be able to eat after drinking all of this?”
Upon hearing my words, Ji Seo Joon took the warm drink I was sipping and downed it all, then went to the counter with the cold drink and got it refilled in a takeout cup.
“Let’s go eat. You’ve worked so hard, you deserve to be replenished.”

And so, we left the cafe. My high heels dangled from Ji Seo Joon’s hand.
“I said I’ll carry them.”
“It’s okay. You just focus on holding that cold drink.”
“I have another hand, you know.”
“That hand should be holding mine.”
I grinned at Ji Seo Joon’s words and tightly held his hand.
“It feels like autumn is already here.”
“Uh huh.”
“Before we know it, leaves will fall and winter will come, right?”
“I suppose so?”
“And our twenties will be over.”
“……”
“How were your twenties, Ji Seo Joon? You had a relationship with Olive You, it must have been nice, right?”
At my words, Ji Seo Joon shook his head vehemently, sighing deeply as if to say this is why one hides their past. Seeing him like that made me laugh hard, and Ji Seo Joon grinned sheepishly at my reaction.
“My twenties……”
Ji Seo Joon glanced at me and then continued speaking.
“It’s good that you’re the end of my twenties.”
Ji Seo Joon’s words fluttered in the night breeze at the end of summer. That wind approached me, tickling my bangs, causing my heart to flutter before it disappeared.

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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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