Just as she was about to sit down at the outdoor table, placing the bag on it, Sajun intervened.
“Min Taehee, sit here.”
Suddenly getting up, Sajun pushed his chair towards her. Wondering why, she looked at him, and he nonchalantly remarked.
“There’s something on that chair.”
Indeed, there was something white, like dust, on the chair. But it was the kind of thing that Sajun, with his obsession for cleanliness, would worry about, not Taehee.
As she was about to say it was fine, Sajun had already taken the chair she intended to sit on.
Reluctantly, Taehee took the chair Sajun offered and began to unpack the alcohol and snacks. Sajun abruptly asked.
“Are we drinking here now?”
“It’s so convenient here. Close to home, easy to dispose of trash, great value for money, just going home light.”
As her explanation grew more detailed, Sajun’s frown deepened.
A distinguished young master like him would obviously be displeased.
Drinking from disposable cups at a convenience store table, using snacks as side dishes – how uncomfortable, dirty, and awkward it must seem to him.
“Do you think everyone drinks elegantly in a room with fine liquor like you? And I actually prefer soju to whiskey when I’m not with you. Soju has so much charm… Kang Sajun, have you ever tried soju?”
“No.”
He hadn’t tasted the nation’s alcohol.
“Then try it today.”
She was worried since it would be his first time, but thought it would be okay since soju had a lower alcohol content than whiskey.
“I’m good, drink by yourself.”
But Sajun flatly refused.
“If we’re dating, it’s always soju. And you have to join me, what fun is it to drink alone?”
Sajun looked incredulously at Taehee.
“Min Taehee, you’ve been doing fine drinking alone until now, haven’t you?”
“When have I ever…….”
As Taehee started to object, she trailed off.
She remembered Sajun at the suite, barely sipping beer, and at Zio, not even touching the liquor.
He hadn’t always refrained from drinking, but it seemed like he had been doing so for some time now.
“Really, you’re right. But why don’t you drink with me?”
“One of us needs to stay sober.”
“Why do you need to be the sober one?”
Instead of answering, Sajun just stared at Taehee.
His eyes seemed to ask if she really didn’t know.
When Taehee didn’t look away, Sajun finally spoke.
“What if we cross a line? Can you handle it?”
Taehee burst into laughter.
Even if they drank until their senses dulled, nothing would happen between them. If Sajun had even a hint of personal interest in her, they would have easily crossed that line long ago.
Ultimately, the reason for their 13-year friendship was not some unspoken rule, but because Sajun didn’t see her as a woman. Why worry about something so unnecessary?
Taehee’s pride hurt at the thought of pointing it out. So she just extended a cup of soju to Sajun.
“Stop with the nonsense and take the cup.”
Still, Sajun didn’t take the cup, so Taehee asked with an annoyingly cheerful expression.
“Surrendering?”
Sajun reluctantly accepted the cup.
“I’m a bit scared. It’s my first time drinking soju.”
Usually, she would have backed off, but unfortunately, today was different. The mission given to her today was to push Sajun more towards things he disliked.
“I’ll watch over you, so drink without worry.”
“Then make me one promise.”
Sajun was unusually talkative.
“What?”
“Even if I lose my mind or do something reckless, you won’t abandon me.”
“Why would I abandon you? Even as friends, I wouldn’t, and even less so as lovers.”
Still not convinced, Sajun narrowed his eyes – always so suspicious.
“You don’t trust me?”
Finally, Sajun clinked his almost silent cup against hers held in Taehee’s hand and downed it in one shot, as if to say he trusted her.
The giant figure of Sajun crashed onto the plush bed.
“Thank you, thank you so much.”
Taehee handed a fifty-thousand-won bill to the hotel employee who had helped Sajun to his room.
After the employee left, Taehee, sitting at the bedside, wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand.
She wanted to slap herself for offering soju and promising to watch over and not abandon him.
“How can one bottle of soju knock him out?”
He could drink whiskey without getting drunk.
He took the soju without showing any signs of being drunk, so she thought it suited his taste.
As they drank two bottles of soju, taking turns, Sajun suddenly banged his head on the table. If Taehee hadn’t caught him, he might have smashed his noble face on the floor.
Watching Sajun sprawled on the bed asleep, Taehee muttered.
“Should I sleep on the sofa in the living room?”
Her concern was purely financial.
With the expenses of the day, taxi fares, tips, and the thought of taking another taxi made her pocketbook feel light.
To go home, she needed to change buses twice, but after handling Sajun, she was drained… Oh my.
Taehee pressed her hand against her startled heart.
Sajun had suddenly sat up in bed like a zombie.
He unsteadily raised his arms and flung off his t-shirt in an instant.
More absurd was Taehee herself, who caught the t-shirt without thinking.
Looking bewildered at the t-shirt in her hand, she then looked at Sajun, who was now reaching for his pants’ buckle.
“What are you doing, Kang Sajun?”
“Going to shower.”
As he finished speaking, his long fingers began to move as if unfastening the buckle.
“Don’t take them off! Just try it!”
Rushing towards Sajun, Taehee grabbed his waistband along with him.
“If you go down now, you’ll just have to come back up.”
“Just sleep without showering tonight. You can shower after you wake up.”
“I don’t want to.”
“Then I’ll leave the room and you can undress and go in.”
“No, I want to undress while you’re here.”
Such a contrary attitude was unprecedented.
Sajun leaned on Taehee’s shoulder while calculating whether he could undress faster than she could run to the door and leave. He then rested his forehead on her shoulder.
“Min Taehee, I really worked hard on my fitness.”
Sajun’s murmur, like a sigh, tickled the hollow of her collarbone.
Ignoring the tickle, Taehee replied curtly.
“So what about it?”
“……I want you to look at me.”
Caught off guard by such an odd reply, Taehee lost her words for a moment, and then Sajun’s staggering body collapsed.
She tried to hold him up, but his massive body and weight were too much for her.
In a flash, Taehee was pinned under Sajun’s body. The expensive mattress absorbed the impact, but the sensation of his hot, solid body pressing down on her was vividly intense.
It might have been an illusion, but their hearts, pressed against each other, seemed to be pounding explosively.
As Taehee gasped for air, her mind went blank, and Sajun murmured like a sigh in her ear.
“Min Taehee, I’ll give you my liver, gallbladder, heart, everything.”
“…….”
“So, let’s be in a relationship.”
Was it the alcohol talking, or was he lost in sleep? Was it a drunken truth or a drunken scheme?
It was a dangerously serious confession, yet foolishly heart-fluttering.
It chilled her heart, throbbing like the first snow.
“Let’s get married too.”
Sajun’s whisper, like a long sigh, continued, seemingly insincere.
“……Stay by my side forever.”
Even though she knew it wasn’t real, Taehee found herself wanting to be by his side forever.
She felt an endless desire to give in and lose to him, because that’s what love meant to her.
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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