I had never once thought that love, which was everything to me, could be a curse for someone else.
It was a shock.
The grip of Tae Joon, who had been holding her, slowly lost its strength.
Seo Rin, who could now slip away from him, turned around without hesitation.
That’s not to say she regretted the time she had spent with him. The fact that Kang Tae Joon was a good man was unchanging.
Maybe she could have… loved him.
No, she did love him.
She just didn’t go allin on that love, as he had done for her.
She was always ready to run away. To be able to turn away without any lingering feelings at any moment, Seo Rin was always a step away from him. She didn’t want to become a slave to the shadow called love and create another nightmare.
The things she loved… all died.
Her mother, her older sister, the nanny she was attached to, and even her first puppy that followed her well.
And the things that left like that came back as nightmares. Since then, she had been living with her emotions locked away to prevent creating another nightmare. She had realized too early the truth that if she didn’t give her heart, she wouldn’t get hurt anymore.
So it was easy to detach herself.
She had never given him her whole heart even once.
And so, she let him go.
As if she would never look back, utterly cold.
8 years later.
The cloudy weather made the atmosphere of the funeral home even more depressing, and then it began to rain. And then, suddenly, a scream was heard from the distance.
“Oh my, Mrs. Park!”
In the end, Mrs. Park collapsed. Perhaps it was an inevitable outcome. She had been squeezing out all the water in her body with tears without drinking a single sip of water for three days, so she could only be exhausted.
Seo Rin’s gaze returned to the chaotic scene.
However, she didn’t rush to her stepmother to support her or to join in the lamentation. Instead, she spoke in a calm voice to Director Park standing behind her.
“Director Park.”
“Yes.”
“Please contact Dr. Lee and ask him to make a house call.”
“Yes, understood.”
At her appearance, which looked cool rather than calm, people began to roll their eyes.
“Amazing, really amazing! How can she not shed a single tear when her father has died?”
“That’s what I’m saying. I haven’t seen her crying during the mourning period. It’s tough, really tough. This is the first time I’ve seen someone so tough, really.”
Amid the murmurs of people, Director Park, who had finished his call, whispered quietly to her from behind.
“Don’t listen. It’s nonsense spouted by people who don’t know anything.”
To this, Seo Rin licked her red lips and replied.
“I know. I can’t hear it.”
It was a lie.
The murmurs were too clearly audible, the voices were piercing into her ears. She just pretended to be calm, pretending she hadn’t heard anything.
The protagonist of today’s funeral was her father, Chairman Baek Hyung Ki.
Chairman Baek was an impeccable businessman, but as a father, he was profoundly lacking.
She lost her sister and mother in a traffic accident when she was five years old. The only one who survived that accident was her, just her. But Chairman Baek, her father, was the man who went to work at the company a week after the funeral, leaving the young girl behind.
That’s how Seo Rin grew up.
It was no exaggeration to say that she had grown up alone, from the hands of a nanny to the hands of her stepmother, Mrs. Park, and then maturing early.
Her father was present, but she had never felt his presence.
Chairman Baek, who had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer last winter, eventually lost to the disease and left the world.
“Are you okay?”
Director Park asked from behind.
“What?”
“You loved the Chairman… a lot, didn’t you?”
At those words, Seo Rin turned her gaze slightly and looked at Director Park, as if questioning what he meant.
She didn’t even have the common memories of being with her father.
Yet, she, who only had indifference left for her unfamiliar father, loved him?
It was an impossible theory.
“Yes, you loved him. Very much.”
However, Director Park firmly repeated his words again, as if he had no intention of correcting what he said.
Only then did a storm of sorrow hit Seo Rin.
It seemed… that she had loved her unaffectionate father a lot, without her knowing.
In the end, the nightmarish formula that everything she loved dies was once again perfectly fulfilled without fail.
It was a snare of malice. No matter how hard she struggled, she couldn’t escape.
Regardless of the reason, she still couldn’t cry.
Seo Rin’s black eyes were directed towards someone who was blocking her tears. And at the end of her gaze was a man who looked too much like her departed father.
Her little father, Chairman Baek Hyung Joon.
He, who had repeatedly clashed with Chairman Baek over different management philosophies during his lifetime, had now become the real power of Sungwon Group. However, he would not be satisfied with that and would try to remove her to completely grasp all management rights.
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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