Impure Wedding Night (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 10
The original reason for coming into Lee Hyun’s office was to set a date for his blind date, yet somehow, she’d ended up here.
“Why that look again?”
“It’s nothing. I’ll just do my best to find that woman.”
Though there was no need to find her at all.
“Then… about the blind date…”
“I don’t intend to go.”
“Madam Cha specifically instructed me to make sure you attend the blind date.”
She stared earnestly at Lee Hyun, hoping he’d understand her predicament.
But Lee Hyun made another out-of-the-blue comment.
“Secretary Han, isn’t it time for dinner yet?”
“Huh? Yes, it is.”
She couldn’t fathom why he suddenly brought up dinner in the middle of their conversation.
Lee Hyun took his suit jacket from the coat rack and strode briskly across the office.
“Managing Director?”
“I’m so hungry I don’t think I can think straight anymore.”
“Shall we finish our discussion after you’ve eaten, then?”
“Let’s talk while eating.”
She couldn’t bring herself to ask if he meant to have dinner with her again today.
After all, Lee Hyun was standing by the door as if it were perfectly natural, waiting for Ye Rin.
Today again, Ye Rin was sitting in the passenger seat next to Lee Hyun as they headed toward a restaurant.
“Managing Director, I’ll drive.”
“No need. What if Secretary Han causes an accident?”
“I’ve never been in an accident before. I even drove for the executives I used to assist.”
“Accidents happen without warning. Today might be your first.”
Ye Rin could only nod in the end.
For a fleeting moment, she wondered if there’d ever come a day when she could win against him with words alone.
After a long drive, Lee Hyun’s car climbed a hill and stopped in front of a solitary Korean restaurant.
Apparently having made a reservation, the staff immediately guided them to a private room upon recognizing Lee Hyun.
“What would you like to eat?”
“I’ll have whatever the Managing Director orders.”
“All right, then.”
Lee Hyun called over a staff member, ordered the full-course meal, and instructed them to serve everything at once.
Soon, an exquisite Korean set meal, releasing an enticing aroma, was placed before them.
“You probably couldn’t eat properly after having lunch with Madam Yoon.”
“Not at all.”
“Eat comfortably.”
“Yes, I hope you enjoy your meal too, Managing Director.”
Though the atmosphere was anything but relaxed, Ye Rin picked up her chopsticks.
She feared he’d ask why she wasn’t eating, whether the food didn’t suit her taste, or even suggest switching restaurants.
As soon as she put a piece of braised short ribs into her mouth, it melted instantly.
It was tastier than she’d expected, and without realizing it, she’d quickly finished an entire bowl of rice.
She’d been hungry, having eaten nothing substantial since last night’s dinner through today’s lunch.
Lee Hyun watched her with evident satisfaction.
“Secretary Han, do you know why I’ve asked you to have dinner with me for two days straight—last night and today?”
“I’m not sure.”
“Every time I go on a blind date, the other person always leaves looking deeply hurt.”
Ye Rin clasped her hands together under the table.
“No matter how I think about it, I can’t see any problem with me.”
Ye Rin simply offered a faint smile.
‘He might not realize it himself.’
Lee Hyun wasn’t doing anything overtly wrong, yet his mere presence radiated overwhelming charisma.
Most likely, that’s why his dates found it hard to approach him easily.
Even if they gathered the courage to ask questions, the conversation inevitably flowed exactly as Lee Hyun wanted.
Especially during meetings, he’d been so icy that she’d wondered if he was truly the same man she’d met that night.
Whenever he spoke, his words—though always correct—came out coldly, leaving his colleagues repeatedly apologizing as if they’d committed a crime.
Without even hearing details, she could imagine exactly how Lee Hyun’s blind dates must have felt.
“What do you think, Secretary Han?”
Ye Rin hesitated.
Should she answer honestly, or just say what sounded polite?
After a brief moment, she made her decision and spoke slowly.
“Managing Director, you probably didn’t mean to, but sometimes your tone can be quite sharp.”
Lee Hyun folded his arms, looking intrigued.
His already chilly eyes seemed ready to freeze her on the spot.
‘Ah… Is it really okay to keep going like this?’
But she didn’t want to lie.
Lee Hyun appeared genuinely serious about understanding his own shortcomings.
“Perhaps that’s why the other woman might have thought you were an extremely cold man.”
Of course, the Lee Hyun she’d seen that night hadn’t been cold at all.
If anything, he’d been hot—intensely so.
He’d even known how to whisper words tender enough to melt her heart.
Just thinking about it made her heart flutter strangely.
She couldn’t help wondering if Lee Hyun might shower such sweet words nonstop upon meeting the woman he truly loved.
‘I’m going crazy. What am I even thinking?’
Ye Rin straightened her back and gave Lee Hyun a gentle smile.
“From what I’ve observed these past few days, Managing Director, you’ve been very considerate and certainly not cold.”
“So it only seems that way.”
“Yes.”
Thankfully, Lee Hyun didn’t seem offended.
“Secretary Han, I’d prefer you not take this the wrong way.”
“Yes, Managing Director.”
“I’ve decided to meet that woman again and actually try dating her properly.”
His expression was utterly serious.
His black eyes, dark as obsidian, stared into Ye Rin’s face for a long time, as if seeing right through her.
“But I’ve never dated anyone before.”
“Huh?”
Ye Rin couldn’t hide her surprise.
Why hadn’t a man so handsome and accomplished ever dated before?
As if reading her thoughts, Lee Hyun quickly added,
“What are you so shocked about? It’s not that I couldn’t—it’s that I didn’t.”
“Oh, right. Of course. That makes sense.”
Exactly. With that face and that resume, it’d be absurd to claim he couldn’t date.
“I’m planning to try it with you, Secretary Han.”
“…Huh?”
Ye Rin responded a beat too late.
“What do you mean… with me?”
“Dating.”
Her lips slowly parted.
Seeing her expression, Lee Hyun let out a small, amused chuckle.
“I don’t mean real dating. I just want to practice with you so I can act naturally when I finally meet the woman I’ve been looking for.”
Even after hearing the full explanation, Ye Rin remained frozen like stone, unable to move.
She had countless questions.
“Why are you making this proposal to me specifically?”
“Because you’re somewhat similar to her.”
“…”
“I don’t know… your aura, your height, your build—they all seem pretty similar.”
Ye Rin swallowed hard.
For no good reason, a chill ran down her spine, as if she were the guilty party caught in the act.
Unlike her, Lee Hyun remained completely composed.
“You know, in experiments, you always use subjects that closely resemble the real thing. It’s just like that.”
“I see.”
Although Ye Rin couldn’t fully understand, she nodded anyway.
“Managing Director, but dating isn’t something you need to practice. When you meet someone you like, it just happens naturally.”
“So you must’ve done it a lot, then.”
Lee Hyun’s gaze grew noticeably colder than before.
She felt as if she were being interrogated for a crime.
Dating as an adult wasn’t a sin, yet for some reason, she felt compelled to deny it.
“No, I haven’t dated much either.”
“Really?”
She might have been imagining it, but the corners of Lee Hyun’s mouth seemed to lift slightly.
“That works out well.”
What exactly worked out?
Ye Rin tensed up, waiting for his next words.
“Secretary Han, why don’t you consider this an opportunity to practice with me too?”
“What kind of practice?”
“If you want to act naturally when you meet the man you’ll truly love someday, it’s best to build up your skills in advance.”
“No, I’m fine.”
Ye Rin flatly refused.
Accepting such an absurd proposal would have been far stranger.
“This proposal is entirely for your benefit, Secretary Han.”
“In what possible way?”
Lee Hyun grinned brightly at her honest question.
“If you become my pretend girlfriend, I’ll quietly agree to attend the blind date.”
“…”
“But if you refuse, I have no intention of ever going to that blind date.”
Sigh.
It felt like she only had one real choice.
“Well?”
She felt as if she were drowning, water rising up to her chin.
When Ye Rin hesitated to reply, Lee Hyun gently raised an eyebrow.
“Oh—do you happen to have a boyfriend, Secretary Han?”
“No, I don’t.”
“Good.”
Everything Lee Hyun said seemed to end with “that’s good.”
While Ye Rin felt things were going anything but well, Lee Hyun looked thoroughly delighted.
For a moment, Ye Rin wondered if her boss had suffered a serious head injury.
Lee Hyun stood up and delivered the final blow.
“Secretary Han, think it over—about our little dating arrangement—and let me know by tomorrow morning.”
Just like that, the decision was already made.
Ye Rin stared blankly at the firmly closed door.
Though it was a private room, it wasn’t soundproof.
She lowered her voice to a whisper.
“Managing Director, someone might overhear you saying things like that and get the wrong idea.”
“Let them.”
“Huh?”
Anxious, Ye Rin spoke a little too quickly.
“Managing Director, this isn’t real dating anyway—it’s fake dating, right?”
“It feels pretty lousy when you keep calling it fake.”
“Well… it’s definitely not real. Actually, I’m not even sure it qualifies as dating. It’s more like… a rehearsal or something.”
Even as she spoke, her expression showed she had no idea what this whole situation was anymore.
Unlike the confused Ye Rin, Lee Hyun appeared completely unwavering.
“If you agree, Secretary Han, I’ll take it seriously.”
“Why…?”
Her eyes trembled slightly.
‘Why insist on taking it so seriously?’
Lee Hyun loomed over her as he stood, his gaze intensely deep.
“Secretary Han, could it be you’re already worried you might get swayed while pretending to date me?”
“No, that’s not what I meant.”
Well, truthfully, that was exactly why she hesitated—precisely the reason he’d pointed out.
That night, she’d been helplessly drawn into Lee Hyun’s charm, and its aftereffects still lingered.
If she grew closer to him and interacted more, her confusion would only deepen.
Lee Hyun continued in a soft, gentle tone.
“Secretary Han, isn’t it a secretary’s duty to help fill the gaps in their boss’s shortcomings?”
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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