“I don’t know what I might do.”
Despite Do Jun’s soft warning, there was no reply from Tae Yeon. Only the sound of steady breathing, as if deeply asleep, filled the spacious living room.
Her soft brown waved hair obscured her face. Unconsciously, Do Jun sat beside her and reached out to her hair. And slowly swept it behind her head.
Only then did her pale face reveal itself.
“Anyone would think you were a completely different person.”
The woman in the picture Do Jun had received from America was heavily made up.
So she looked fierce, whereas the Tae Yeon sitting in front of him now was pure and innocent.
“Why do you live with two faces?”
Knowing that there was no chance the sleeping Tae Yeon would answer, Do Jun lingered beside her for a while.
He thought he was gazing at his wife, whom he was seeing for the first time in a year and a half since their wedding.
Tae Yeon furrowed her brows, as if it was uncomfortable huddled on the sofa.
Seeing this, Do Jun stood from the sofa and opened his arms wide to pick her up.
Careful with his steps, worried that Tae Yeon might wake up. It would be easy to misunderstand the situation if she saw it with her eyes open.
He gently placed Tae Yeon on the wide bed, where they could comfortably lie down, and straightened his back.
Normally, he would have had to lie down beside her and sleep, but strangely, he couldn’t. The warmth from holding her from the living room to the bedroom still lingered in his hands.
And when he laid her on the bed, Tae Yeon’s silk pajamas had ridden up a little. Seeing her belly fully exposed, Do Jun quickly covered her face with the blanket.
He had insisted on sharing a bedroom, but he was also nervous.
Could he sleep next to a woman as awkward as the time they spent apart?
After a while of standing stiffly in the middle of the bedroom, Do Jun eventually closed the door and left. And he moved to the guest room on the second floor, which Tae Yeon had mentioned.
When he opened the door, a neatly organized room was revealed. The same scent that Tae Yeon had was in this room. Thinking it was better than sleeping next to her, Do Jun closed his eyes.
The first day of what was to be a tough and challenging journey was passing by.
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As usual, Tae Yeon slowly opened her eyes to the sound of the alarm.
The ceiling and the blanket were familiar, but she was startled and quickly sat up. She looked at the spot next to her, but thankfully it was empty.
When she reached out to touch where Do Jun would have lain, she still felt warmth. It meant he was lying next to her just a moment ago.
At the moment she sighed in relief, the bathroom door opened, and Do Jun, his hair wet, revealed himself.
“Ah……”
She turned her head away upon encountering him.
‘Why is he coming out in such a state.’
Do Jun, with only a towel around his lower body, was walking towards Tae Yeon. She closed her eyes tight and clasped her hands under the blanket.
Do Jun’s footsteps stopped, and his soft voice poured over Tae Yeon’s head.
“Did you sleep well?”
“……Yes.”
And after hesitating for a moment, Tae Yeon, still keeping her head down, asked.
“Was there anything uncomfortable?”
“If there was discomfort… will you resolve it?”
Upon hearing that there was discomfort, Tae Yeon quickly looked up at Do Jun. It was hard to know what to do with the sight of his apricotcolored feast still undressed, but it was more important that he had said this house was uncomfortable.
“What was uncomfortable?”
“Just… the discomfort of unfamiliarity.”
She couldn’t understand what he was saying, so she had no choice but to widen her eyes.
“I’m talking about sharing the same bed with my wife. It’ll get better once I get used to it.”
“Ah……”
I see, she understood. Tae Yeon nodded in agreement.
Do Jun sat on the bed, stretched his neck, and looked at Tae Yeon.
“You seem to sleep very well even when I’m next to you.”
“……”
“Seems like you’ve gotten comfortable with me in one day.”
“No!”
Tae Yeon vehemently denied it, and Do Jun chuckled at her reaction.
“So, I’m also uncomfortable for you.”
“It’s natural since it’s been a long time since we’ve seen each other.”
Feeling wronged, Tae Yeon spoke while looking at Do Jun’s face.
“It’s been a year and a half since we last saw each other at the wedding. Isn’t it awkward to see a close friend after such a long time without contact?”
“I wouldn’t know. I don’t have any close friends.”
Do Jun paused for a moment, then made a suggestion.
“Let’s try to make it less awkward.”
“Pardon?”
“We’re going to see each other at work, at home. We’re practically going to be together 24/7.”
Her reality sank in at those words. It was suffocating to realize that no matter where she went, at work or home, he was there.
“What about spending an hour together every day?”
“Pardon?”
“I need to get used to you. To do that, it might be best if we spent time together, even if it’s forced, like doing homework.”
Was this how she was supposed to pay for her freedom that she had enjoyed alone all this time?
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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