Ignoring her scolding mother, Eun Ha creaked her head around to check her surroundings.
Without a doubt, this was the house where she had lived with her mother 30 years ago.
No matter how much time had passed, she could not forget the scenery of a house where she had lived for over a decade.
Before she was touched by the familiar faces and landscapes that confronted her, Eun Ha felt a question.
‘What on earth?’
She was sure she had been at Busan’s Jagalchi Market. There was trouble with the Immortal guild members, and she remembered jumping into the gate after knocking them out, but…….
“Oh dear. Our daughter is still half asleep. Go wash your face quickly. I’ve prepared the food.”
As Eun Ha stared blankly around, her mother practically shoved her into the bathroom.
Standing alone in the narrow bathroom, Eun Ha slowly scanned the interior.
Two toothbrushes stuck in a cup. A cactus arrangement on the top shelf. Stickers once attached to the bathtub.
Even…….
Even the oldfashioned towel with tacky embroidery her mother had once brought home. Everything was exactly as she remembered.
Fiddling with the towel, Eun Ha suddenly licked her lips.
“Goyang.”
She closed her mouth for a moment, then called out again.
“Goyang, are you there?”
There were no yellow message windows popping up anywhere.
This time, she slowly lifted her palm. Usually, flames would burst out with a pop, but not even a tiny spark ignited.
The moment Eun Ha, looking somewhat stiff, raised her head,
“……What is this?”
Through the bathroom mirror, she locked eyes with a girl who seemed both strange and familiar.
Her reflection in the mirror looked much younger than she did now.
Moreover, her hair that used to cover her waist was now a short bob that barely touched her shoulders.
She had kept a bob until she was 19 because of high school hair regulations…… Wait a minute.
‘Did I go back in time?’
If not…….
‘Is this an Unknown Gate? Is this an illusion?’
That was the most plausible explanation. However, it was too vivid a sight to be inside a gate. Even the cold touch of the bathroom tile against her bare feet felt real.
While she stood still, lost in thought, a knocking sound came from the door.
“Eun Ha, aren’t you done yet? The food is getting cold.”
Prompted by her mother, Eun Ha finally emerged from the bathroom.
Sitting beside the modest dining table, she stared at the breakfast menu with a slightly strange look. White steam was billowing from the earthen pot filled with soybean paste soup.
“The lady downstairs gave us some leftover kimchi from her kimjang. You said you liked her kimchi last time.”
As she busily moved the dishes, her mother chatted away, and Eun Ha simply stared blankly at her.
“If you need it, she said she could share some jeotgal too. My daughter likes pollock roe.”
“……Yes.”
Something hot welled up in her throat.
To be honest, she wasn’t really listening to what her mother was saying right now. She couldn’t hear her.
She just exhaled a quick breath as she watched her mother move about, alive.
She had never even imagined that a day would come when she would see her mother again.
Her mother’s back seemed smaller than Eun Ha remembered. Without realizing it, Eun Ha slowly reached out her hand toward that back.
“Mother.”
Perhaps her daughter’s sudden embrace was strange; her mother’s eyes widened.
Eun Ha tightened her arms around her mother.
‘Just for a little while.’
The fact that the mother in front of her eyes was real or wellmade fake didn’t matter. She simply felt like being like this for a moment.
“Why is she acting like this all of a sudden?”
Although her mother looked a little surprised, she didn’t show any signs of displeasure. Staring at her daughter clinging to her back like a cicada, she claps her hands together.
“Right. Tomorrow is the university acceptance announcement day, isn’t it?”
University acceptance announcement……. At those words, Eun Ha lowered her arms holding her mother and checked the calendar on the wall.
──1997, September.
It wasn’t ‘modern’ after all.
The moment she took in that date, a stupid relief surged from a deep place in her heart. Perhaps she had been secretly hoping for it all along.
That everything was a dream.
That her mother did not die that day.
“You’ve worked hard for a long time, so you will surely pass. Our daughter is good at everything.”
This time, her mother gently hugged Eun Ha. That touch felt real, warm and cozy, so Eun Ha didn’t shake it off but just stayed in her arms.
“You must have found the entrance exam preparations quite hard? Our daughter is acting all spoiled.”
Like a child in her mother’s arms, Eun Ha tightly grabbed her mother’s hem. Then, as if squeezing out, she moistened her lips.
“A little.”
It seemed a little hard.
“You’ve worked hard, my pretty daughter.”
The hand that was gently stroking her head slid down her cheek and tucked her wispy bangs behind her ear.
At that moment, Eun Ha saw it.
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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