Married First, a Couple (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 10
“You don’t even notice time passing when you’re with me?”
Why on earth was this person suddenly here?
Tae Yeon startled and stepped back.
First things first—she urgently needed to get away from Do Jun.
Thinking this, she retreated backward without even looking—and apparently tripped over something protruding from the floor. She let out a sharp scream and staggered backward.
‘Ha. Of all the things I’ve done… now I’m clumsily falling right in front of Mr. Do Jun.’
Just as she reached out instinctively to brace herself on the floor—
Do Jun firmly grabbed her waist and pulled her toward him.
Thankfully, she didn’t crash down onto the floor—but the real problem started now.
Their gazes locked fiercely midair. Tae Yeon’s pupils trembled slightly.
“Uh…?”
Realizing she’d unknowingly clutched Do Jun’s arm tightly to keep from falling, she abruptly let go.
Because Do Jun had simultaneously pulled her back to prevent her from toppling over, their bodies ended up pressed even more tightly together.
Every point of contact with him felt intensely warm, as if burning.
Do Jun gently steadied her upright. Tae Yeon exhaled sharply, then lowered her head deeply.
“Thank you.”
“Are you all right?”
“Yes, thanks to you catching me.”
Tae Yeon straightened herself and checked her clothes, then reached out to smooth the wrinkles on Do Jun’s suit jacket—the part she’d apparently crumpled tightly moments earlier.
Pat-pat—
She must’ve gripped it hard; the creases refused to flatten easily.
In truth, smoothing the wrinkles may have already ceased to be her priority.
The memory remained vivid—last time, when Do Jun had emerged from the shower wearing only a towel around his waist, she’d caught a fleeting glimpse of his firm, sculpted upper body.
Actually touching his forearm now proved even more surprising than she’d imagined—the solidity beneath his suit was unmistakable. Tae Yeon subtly bit her lower lip.
This man was a weapon through and through—not only did he drop bombshell remarks every time he opened his mouth, but he also possessed an impressive physique.
‘Turns out, it wasn’t just his handsome face worth admiring.’
While she was briefly lost in such thoughts about Do Jun, he softly called her name.
“Ms. Jin Tae Yeon.”
“…Yes?”
Tae Yeon looked up sharply. Do Jun tilted his chin toward his own forearm.
“Oh!”
Apparently, she’d unconsciously been kneading his arm without realizing it.
Startled, Tae Yeon leapt back a step and quickly scrambled for an excuse.
“No, it’s just—I held onto your suit tightly when I nearly fell.”
“So?”
“I was just trying to smooth out the wrinkles I caused.”
Do Jun narrowed his eyes slightly. Had her explanation worked?
But that hope crumbled in an instant—Do Jun crossed his arms and tilted his head slightly.
“Ms. Jin Tae Yeon, I didn’t take you for the type, but it seems you secretly adore everything about me.”
“What?”
Do Jun deliberately traced his own fingers over his nose, cheeks, and lips, then moved down to his forearm—the very spot Tae Yeon’s hand had just occupied.
“From last night until now. Everywhere you’ve touched.”
“…”
Now there was truly no room left for excuses.
‘Why on earth have I been acting like this since yesterday?’
Seeing Tae Yeon merely silently moving her lips, Do Jun asked,
“Are you usually this… tactile? With other men too?”
“No!”
This genuinely felt unfair. Do Jun was, by far, the person she’d spent the most time with in her entire life—and the only person she’d ever touched this frequently.
Watching her bristle, the corners of Do Jun’s mouth twitched.
“How can I believe that?”
“It’s true. I’ve never acted this way with anyone but you.”
“Let’s say I accept that.”
Do Jun stepped closer and asked,
“Then why do you keep touching me like this?”
“…”
“You’ve had me genuinely curious since yesterday.”
Should she apologize? Should she run?
After mentally weighing her options, Tae Yeon opened her mouth—wearing a brazen, shameless expression.
“You’re my husband.”
“…What did you say?”
This time, it was Do Jun who looked flustered. Tae Yeon lifted her chin and looked him straight in the eyes.
“A wife touching her husband—is that really a problem? Didn’t you yourself say yesterday that married couples could even do more than this?”
She wasn’t oblivious to Do Jun’s intention to tease her—so she’d decided to outdo him by going shamelessly bold instead.
But immediately, worry washed over her—had she pushed the absurd excuse a little too far?
‘Why isn’t he saying anything? Did my excuse actually work?’
After a long silence, Do Jun finally smiled faintly.
“Right. Between spouses, this level of touch is nothing.”
Was he really going to let it go without making an issue of it?
Relieved, Tae Yeon awkwardly mirrored his smile.
“Exactly.”
Just as she thought the conversation had nearly ended and prepared to leave—Do Jun’s voice stopped her in her tracks.
“How about we do what we couldn’t finish yesterday—today?”
“What?”
Tae Yeon turned her body fully to face him. Behind Do Jun, the afternoon sky glowed with the deepening hues of sunset.
“I went to shower and work out, only to find you deeply asleep—so I couldn’t touch you. Disturbing a sleeping person somehow felt… criminal.”
“…”
“So let’s proceed today—while you’re wide awake.”
His tone sounded clinical, like someone preparing to initiate a project.
Tae Yeon softly bit her lip again.
“I think I’ll be working overtime today.”
“Perfect. I’ll be doing overtime too.”
Should she just leave work entirely instead?
As if reading her thoughts, Do Jun stepped closer and whispered into her ear,
“If it gets too late… we could always do it here—at the office.”
He arched one eyebrow and smirked playfully.
Tae Yeon could only gape at him, stunned and speechless.
At the office?
As Do Jun began walking away, Tae Yeon hurried forward and grabbed the edge of his suit jacket.
“But we agreed to keep our marriage a secret from the office, remember?”
“We did. But you were the one who broke that first.”
“Me?”
Do Jun mimed stroking his own forearm, teasing her.
“Just now—right here—you did it.”
“Sigh. That was an accident.”
“An accident.”
“So please… for now, could you at least keep it hidden from the others that my husband is you?”
That had been her intention—and Do Jun too had no desire to endure endless, tiresome questions about his marital life.
But why was Tae Yeon so determined to conceal the fact that he was her husband?
A fleeting thought crossed Do Jun’s mind—perhaps the man in the photo he’d received wasn’t the only one.
He asked,
“Do you have another man hidden at the office?”
Tae Yeon looked utterly baffled.
“What do you mean?”
“I’m just curious why you need to hide that I’m your husband.”
“I don’t want to become office gossip.”
She quickly added,
“And as you can see, I’ve always worn my ring—I never hide that I’m married. So please don’t misunderstand and assume I have someone else.”
Do Jun nodded.
“But Mr. Do Jun—you seem to have… lost your ring?”
Tae Yeon glanced subtly at his left hand. There was no ring, nor even a faint tan line suggesting he’d worn one since the wedding.
Disappointment filled her eyes.
This time, Do Jun was the one caught off guard. Without delay, he apologized sincerely.
“I’m sorry. It wasn’t intentional—I didn’t take it off on purpose.”
Tae Yeon looked at him questioningly.
“The day I arrived in the U.S., it was stolen at the airport.”
“Oh…”
“I kept meaning to buy a new one, get one remade—but I was just so overwhelmed, and it slipped my mind.”
Do Jun repeatedly apologized, running his hand over the back of his neck, clearly remorseful.
“Come to think of it, your ring already has quite a few daily wear scratches—how about we get new wedding bands this time?”
“What?”
Tae Yeon looked down at her own ring, then shook her head.
“No, I’m fine with mine. If you really want to replace it, just get one for yourself…”
“How about we go on a date this weekend—buy your birthday present and get new wedding bands together.”
“…”
This Sunday was Tae Yeon’s birthday. The fact that Do Jun even knew that stunned her deeply.
Just as she was about to ask how he’d found out—
His phone rang from inside his suit pocket. Judging by how long he’d been absent, Secretary Choi was likely looking for him.
“Let’s continue this conversation later. Oh—and please don’t even think about running away first.”
After Do Jun left, Tae Yeon kept staring at the rooftop garden door through which he’d disappeared.
Her feelings were strange.
“He knows my birthday…”
Earlier today, when Dong Pil had called, she’d secretly hoped—
Maybe, because her birthday was coming up, he’d invite her over for a meal at home.
But there’d been no mention of it at all.
Dong Pil’s only request was for her to quickly arrange a dinner meeting between Do Jun and himself, hoping to leverage the connection for business beneficial to Cha Shin Yu-up—and he’d viewed Tae Yeon solely as a means to that end.
Tae Yeon shifted her gaze toward the sky, where the sunset deepened by the minute.
Normally, this would have been an especially lonely time.
Tae Jin and Tae Yeon—born just one minute apart on the same day—yet that single minute had created vast disparities between them.
Whenever they both made the same mistake, only Tae Yeon was ever scolded; nice clothes and fine food had always belonged to Tae Jin, even from childhood.
Marriage was no different: though useful for Cha Shin Yu-up, they couldn’t bear to part with their eldest daughter Tae Jin—so instead, they sent Tae Yeon.
Even so, she’d been okay with it. She’d once thought—if she gave her absolute best during the predetermined marriage term, maybe her family would finally appreciate her.
But that hope had proven utterly naive.
“When did things start going wrong?”
She didn’t know. Even if she did, there was nothing she could change.
Six months remained.
Endure beside Do Jun to the best of her ability—then quietly disappear from their lives.
That was the only happiness left within her reach.
[This is the timeline separator]The moment Do Jun entered his office, Secretary Choi swiftly followed him in.
“Director, where did you go just now?”
“I stepped out to the rooftop for some air.”
“Alone?”
He couldn’t admit Tae Yeon had been there. Do Jun quickly changed the subject.
“Yeah. What’s up?”
Secretary Choi double-checked the firmly closed door, then handed Do Jun a document envelope—a familiar one.
“No way.”
“That’s right. That bastard’s started contacting us again.”
Do Jun hurriedly opened the envelope. As expected, a single photograph lay inside.
Tae Yeon, wearing heavy makeup, stood beside a man who confidently displayed his face.
Arm in arm, they strolled down a street. Do Jun’s brow furrowed sharply.
“When was this photo taken?”
“I’m not sure. Just this one photo arrived again—nothing else.”
“What does he even hope to gain?”
Then Do Jun noticed something, his eyes widening. He brought the photo closer, opened a portal site, and began searching.
After a moment, he tilted his head, puzzled by something odd.
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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