Tae Joon, who had barely calmed his raging body with cold water, put on a robe and headed towards the bed where Seo Rin was.
Her still silhouette in the middle of the extinguished bedroom caught his eye.
What exactly went wrong?
She was sensitive and passionate, now as before. He couldn’t feel any repulsion towards his touch. His emotions overflowed as he looked at her, burning intensely.
So he confessed. That he loved her.
And he expressed his desperation. Begging, please, love me.
But that seemed to be the problem. Because her burning passion cooled down instantly.
Why. Why did it happen?
Was my confession of love, or my plea for love, such a burden to you?
He wondered but didn’t blame her. It was something he was already prepared for and a situation he expected. Yet, it felt as if one side of his heart was hollowed out.
We are just getting married. Marriage, not love.
She was really trying to practice that saying in real life. Yet, the one who jumped into this marriage knowing it all was none other than him. He was the one who wanted to keep her by his side, even if it meant doing so.
Suddenly, she from 8 years ago came to mind. Unlike him, who confessed every day, she never once said she loved him. But he had no doubt that they loved each other more passionately than anyone else.
Yes, what they did was love.
Having done it once, they could do it again.
And this time, it would burn even hotter.
They just needed a little more time.
‘In the end, you will come to love me.’
There was no giving up in Kang Tae Joon’s life.
Feeling the presence behind her, Seo Rin closed her eyes. It seemed like Tae Joon had come out after a shower. But instead of coming into bed, he left a short kiss on her closed eyes and left the bedroom.
He probably intended to sleep in another room. After all, she had shown such a repulsion at the last moment, how would he feel? He wouldn’t want to sleep in the same bed.
She understood. It was all her own doing.
She closed her eyes. To avoid facing the reality she wanted to evade.
Despite her heart not feeling like sleep would come, perhaps due to the emotional exhaustion, she fell asleep quickly.
When she regained consciousness, she was in a dream.
The sky was clear and blue, but the water facing such a sky was ominously dark and gloomy.
And unlike the blooming flowers, the strong scent of death.
The irony that she couldn’t get used to no matter how hard she tried gave her goosebumps.
A familiar figure was seen in the distance. It was Tae Joon. She couldn’t see his face, but his silhouette, different from others, was unmistakably him.
“Tae Joon!”
Instinctively, she chased after Tae Joon’s figure. Even knowing this was exactly what this dreadful dream intended, she couldn’t avoid it.
Tae Joon walked into the dark, gloomy water.
Every time he moved, the rippling water had risen to his waist and was ominously swirling, as if to suck everything in. As Seo Rin followed him into the water, the black water seemed to engulf her.
Her mind was screaming that it was just a dream and to disregard it, but her body always moved of its own accord in her dreams.
This time was no exception.
She clung to him for dear life as he was being sucked into the black water.
“No, Tae Joon! If you go any further, you’ll die!”
She cried out, but it was an echo that did not return.
In the end, Tae Joon shook her off and was sucked into the water. No, it was more accurate to say that the black water opened its massive mouth and swallowed him.
Watching Tae Joon disappear without form, Seo Rin began to cry with her emotions in turmoil. But no matter how hard she cried, the sound of her crying couldn’t be heard. As if it was perfectly muted.
Still, Seo Rin couldn’t stop her tears.
She couldn’t breathe, as if her heart had been ripped in half.
But then, moments later, the rippling black water started to calm down, as if the contaminated water was being purified. And the water, which had become transparent enough to see through, showed her something even more horrifying.
Bodies were scattered everywhere. Dead bodies with their eyes wide open were spread around her under the rippling water.
The unbearable part was that they were all faces she knew.
Following her mother and sister who died in a traffic accident, there was even her nanny who had cared for her with love and dedication.
If it was the dream she had a few months ago, it would have ended right there. But now, even Chairman Baek, who died not long ago, had joined in this swamp of death.
It was the moment when everything she had loved became a nightmare of death and returned.
It was a nightmare she had every time, but it was a dream she could never get used to.
However, among the sunken bodies over there, one figure that had uniquely floated up caught her eye. The moment Seo Rin recognized what it was, she felt the blood in her body turn ice cold.
“No, no… Tae Joon! You’re still alive!”
She fought against the current and clung to Tae Joon. He looked more like a sleeping person than a dead one, but despite her desperate cries, he did not open his eyes.
“Ugh, ugh. Wake up! Wake up! You’re not dead yet. So you shouldn’t be here! Ugh… really… why… why do this to me… ugh.”
Now her crying could be heard.
She wept so much that she could not breathe.
Why on earth is heaven doing this to me?
Why take away the people she loved so casually?
Being left alone was a punishment.
She thought it would end with taking away her father, whom she had kept at a distance. But this nightmare seemed to foretell the next by showing her a living Tae Joon.
She screamed at the dream.
“He’s alive! So he shouldn’t appear in this nightmare! This is cheating!”
Then the dream spoke.
Your mother and sister died because of you.
So don’t love anyone anymore.
You don’t deserve to.
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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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