On the way home, Tae Joon was overwhelmed with mixed feelings.
He thought he was ready to accept all truths. Yet, despite hearing the stark truth, his mind was still foggy and hazy.
The conclusion was that his mother’s death was indeed a suicide.
Heo Kyung Joon answered his questions fluently, without any hesitation. It was as if he remembered the incident clearer than anyone else.
And there seemed to be no room for doubt in his answers. However, his unclear mind was still full of question marks.
Why, exactly…
“Sir, we’ve arrived.”
At the words of the designated driver, he snapped out of his thoughts, paid the fare, and got out of the car. Despite having had quite a bit to drink, his consciousness was clearer than ever.
Even as he rode the elevator up, he was mulling over the events that had just happened.
If he was going to speak so fluently, why did he initially stiffen his expression and try to leave the seat?
Heo Kyung Joon’s actions were more suspicious than his words.
In the end, the meeting created to get clear answers only raised more questions.
When Tae Joon entered his home, he instinctively looked for Seo Rin. From the lights turned on here and there in the house, he could tell that she had already come home.
However, he couldn’t find any trace of her on the first floor.
A momentary sense of anxiety crept over him.
“Where could she be?”
He directed his steps towards the second floor. The second floor, which he used as his office, was a place Seo Rin rarely visited, but he checked just in case.
As he climbed the stairs to the second floor, he could see a faint light leaking out from the study.
Only then, with a sense of relief at finding Seo Rin, did Tae Joon loosen his tensed chest and move towards her.
The door was slightly ajar, so there was no need to knock.
As he gently pushed the door, he saw Seo Rin. However, seeing her leaning on the desk lamp light, holding something, Tae Joon felt his barely steadied heart drop.
He couldn’t shake off the feeling that something was wrong the moment he saw her.
“Seo Rin?”
She turned her head as if responding to her name, and Tae Joon once again felt his uneasy feeling was undeniably on target.
She was crying.
And in her turned hand was a familiar photo along with a small card.
Only now did he realize what was wrong.
“So that’s why… why you didn’t feel strange…”
That she had discovered the painful truth she shouldn’t have known.
“You… found out.”
That it was time to tell her the truth.
Two cups of warm tea were on the table. It was chamomile tea, known to be good for calming the mind and body.
Looking at the yellowish tea, Seo Rin soothed her momentarily choked up heart. And when her heart calmed down, she quietly opened her mouth.
“When did… you know?”
At first, she didn’t think that he knew all the facts.
But when he saw her in the study and said, “You found out,” she thought that perhaps he had known all the truth a very long time ago.
And her thought was precisely correct.
“From the beginning.”
“From the beginning? From when at the beginning?”
“Just from the beginning. From the moment I first met… you.”
Her barely calmed lips started to tremble again. To stop the quivering, she bit her lips and took a sip of the chamomile tea, known to be soothing.
“So, you’ve known since we first met 10 years ago?”
“I’m sorry, for not telling you earlier.”
“But how?”
Seo Rin couldn’t understand. The relationship between Tae Joon’s mother and Seo Rin was not something anyone could know unless they were close.
Moreover, since Seo Rin was the first witness to that death, everyone stopped asking her about Tae Joon’s mother.
But how did Tae Joon, even if he was the son of a nanny, recognize her, whom he had never met before?
Also, why didn’t he talk about this tremendous truth the moment he first met her?
Too many questions tore through her mind.
Surprisingly, the answer was simple yet disappointing.
“The Chairman asked me. He wished you wouldn’t know that I was his son.”
“Ah, my father?”
It was an answer she hadn’t expected at all.
“How do you know my father……”
“The Chairman was my guardian. It was because of him that I was able to study in America, and that I could grow as much as I have. It’s all thanks to the Chairman……so, thanks to your father, Seo Rin.”
At the shocking fact, Seo Rin was bewildered. The shock was even more significant because she had never once imagined that Tae Joon and Chairman Baek knew each other.
She didn’t know how to take this situation.
“My father was a person with a history of alcohol addiction and violence. He would lash out and hit my mother every time he drank. We tried to run away several times, but we were always caught and brought back by my father.”
“……”
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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