Large waves splashed outside the pool, and Jae Ha emerged from the water.
The water, which had soaked his jet-black hair, flowed down his chin.
‘Why did he suddenly come out…?’
What he hadn’t noticed when he was submerged beneath the surface was now vividly revealed: his muscular torso.
It had always been hidden beneath his shirts, and Yeo Jin had never really noticed it. Starting from his broad shoulders, well-defined muscles led the eye downward until she was taken aback.
A soft voice reached her ears.
“Are you really not coming in?”
Jae Ha, with half-closed eyes, shook his wet hair and asked me.
When his partly closed dark eyes met mine, I snapped back to reality.
I hurriedly lowered my head.
Unconsciously, I found myself staring, and I swallowed hard.
‘I must be going crazy.’
Gradually, he approached the spot where I was sitting.
With each of Jae Ha’s movements, the water that had trickled down his skin left long traces on the pool tiles.
‘Why is he coming this way?’
Lost on where to direct my gaze, I hesitated and then settled deeply into the sunbed.
That moment, as I couldn’t close my eyes and could only gaze at the parasol shading us from the hot sun, Jae Ha approached, folding the parasol that had been casting its shade over me.
As the shade disappeared, intense sunlight poured down, making me squint involuntarily.
“I want to go in together. I feel lonely in that big pool all by myself.”
He looked dazzling, reflecting in the sunlight as he gazed at me with his eyes half-shut.
I still didn’t know where to direct my gaze, and I couldn’t bring myself to meet his eyes.
Even in this state outside, how could I possibly play in the water with him?
My heart pounded as if it might burst at any moment.
“Do you dislike it?”
When I didn’t respond, the voice rang in my ears once again.
“I don’t have any plans for water games. And, Mr. Jae Ha, you’re blinding me.”
He paid no heed to my comment about the bright sunlight.
But then, due to the intense sunlight that couldn’t be endured any longer, he raised his hands to create shade.
Finally, I could properly look at Jae Ha, who had been looking down at me.
“Oh… I should’ve just not looked.”
I would regret this so soon.
His eyes, filled with mischief, were fixed on me.
As our gazes met, his lips curved upward as if he had thought of something intriguing. It was a smile that shone brighter than the sunlight pouring down on his back.
However, that smile, more beautiful than anything in the world, made my heart beat with unease.
“It’s the kind of smile that comes out when fooling around, isn’t it? That one.”
“Why are you smiling?”
“Yeah, why am I…?”
He trailed off mysteriously as he got closer and closer to the sunbed where I was sitting.
My unease began to grow, slowly but steadily.
“…No way, right? What I’m thinking…”
“I don’t want this. Stop it! Ah!”
It happened in an instant.
I was lifted into the air by Jae Ha, who had come terrifyingly close, despite my attempt to refuse.
Shocked beyond belief, Jae Ha was calmly smiling as I struggled in mid-air.
Feeling like I was about to lose my balance and fall, I wrapped my arms around his neck.
“Mr. Jae Ha! Please put me down!”
“I’ll put you down.”
“Really?”
I looked at him with skepticism.
As he continued to say he would put me down, Jae Ha carried me all the way to the edge of the pool.
“He said he would put me down…!”
Before I knew it, I realized that there was a pool right nearby, and my arms around his neck tightened.
A gentle breeze blew, causing ripples on the water’s surface.
How breathtakingly beautiful this scene could be.
Even when Jae Ha was in the water, he was submerged up to his shoulders.
“It seems pretty deep. Why is the pool at this vacation home so large?”
I turned my gaze from the pool to face Jae Ha.
“Really, you’ll put me down, right?”
“Yeah, I’ll really put you down. I’m not sure where that will be, though.”
Contrary to the sweet voice that echoed in my ears, Jae Ha said teasingly.
I felt like I might end up falling into the pool if I stayed like this, so I tried to break free from his embrace.
“Don’t play around. Huh? Ah!”
“Alright, I’ll put you down, so don’t move.”
I had struggled to break free from Jae Ha, but he stumbled.
“Eek.”
“Wait! Don’t move…!”
I belatedly sensed that something was wrong and struggled, but it was too late.
Losing balance, my body seemed to sway in mid-air before falling into the swimming pool.
With a splash and the sound of water, I was pulled deep into the pool.
“I’m not good at swimming.”
I had only played in shallow waters when I found a swimming pool.
Perhaps due to my panic, my mind went blank.
I needed to get back to the surface, but it seemed to be getting further and further away from me.
In that way, as I endlessly sank towards the bottom of the pool, Jae Ha pulled me up.
He firmly wrapped his arms around my waist and swiftly emerged to the surface.
As I felt the familiar air, I exhaled the pent-up breath.
“Puhaha. Cough.”
“Haah. I told you not to move. Are you okay?”
“Haak. You’re so mean!”
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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