In response to my question about the reason for revenge, Jaeha’s sweet voice echoed in my ears.
“Yes. I’ve been curious for a while.”
“Even when asking about my secrets, you’re incredibly honest.”
Jaeha, in response to my straightforward answer, chuckled softly.
As if reading my thoughts of impatience, Jaeha’s gaze intensified.
“It’s a very long story. Where should I start?”
As if recalling the past days, Jaeha’s eyes calmly settled.
My heart began to pound as I heard Jaeha’s unheard-of past story.
“To talk about Hojin, I should first talk about my late mother.”
“…”
“My mother originally had a congenital illness. However, as her condition worsened, she spent most of her time in the hospital since I entered elementary school.”
Thinking of his late mother, shadows crossed Jaeha’s face.
“That day was like any other day. My father didn’t like that I tried to visit the hospital every day. He thought the heir couldn’t escape from my mother’s apron strings. But I kept feeling uneasy seeing my mother alone in the hospital room. So, I went there recklessly.”
“Jaeha, weren’t you just an elementary school student a moment ago?”
I asked, surprised, looking at him.
He nodded as if my reaction was easily understood.
“That’s right. I was 13, and I took a difficult bus ride to find the hospital. Oh, and that day, I got a perfect score on my test. I thought my mother would be happy if I showed her. But since she was hospitalized, my mother hadn’t smiled much.”
Even though memories of thirteen might be vague for others…
Jaeha seemed to vividly remember, like a nightmare dreamt the night before.
The thought of how unforgettable these memories were made my heart ache.
“But when I was about to enter the hospital room, I saw Lady Oh coming out of it.”
“Why would Lady Oh be in your mother’s room?”
“That’s strange, right? But at the time, I didn’t know. I didn’t know Lady Oh was my father’s mistress, and she occasionally visited our house and chatted with my mother.”
Thinking back to that time, Jaeha’s face twisted with pain.
His mother had a relationship through a strategic marriage with Seo Minguk, the vice chairman, and their marriage wasn’t good.
Seo Minguk had a longstanding relationship with Lady Oh even before the marriage.
But the fact that he allowed Lady Oh to interact with Jaeha was unbelievable.
“How could such a…”
“The same happened in front of the hospital room. Just as I was about to follow the welcoming lady, medical staff rushed into the room. They brought defibrillators and various medical equipment.”
“Could it be… she passed away that day?”
Oh my God.
My heart pounded fiercely while waiting for his lips to open.
Facing Jaeha’s delicately hardened face, anxiety surged in my throat.
As I listened to Jaeha’s story, the tension increased, and cold sweat trickled down.
“That’s right. My mother passed away suddenly after Lady Oh visited. And on that day, coincidentally, there was a problem with the hospital’s CCTV. It was a story from more than 20 years ago, so security wasn’t as solid as it is these days.”
Afraid that a scream might escape through my lips, I covered my gaping mouth with both hands.
“At first, I couldn’t believe it. And later, Lady Oh, who found out that I had come to the hospital, came looking for me even at school.”
It seemed painful for him to recall that day as he clenched his fist.
“My father asked her to come and forcibly pushed me into the car. I wanted to run away, but I couldn’t. When I looked at her creepy eyes, the face I saw in the hospital room that day came to my mind.”
“…”
“That’s how she wanted to confirm if I was a witness or not. Whether I saw her that day.”
“Ha.”
“I was convinced by that question. This woman killed my mother. The kind appearance I had known all along disappeared, and Lady Oh, speeding like crazy, became terrifying for the first time. It felt like a kind of threat.”
As Jaeha continued speaking, my heart tightened.
It felt as if the fear Jaeha experienced as a child was now being vividly transmitted to me.
“I even thought I might die like this.”
The hands covering my mouth trembled uncontrollably.
I never dreamed that Jaeha had such a secret.
All the hostile actions Jaeha showed towards Lady Oh flashed through my mind like a nightmare.
His urgent warnings when I went to Lady Oh’s penthouse alone and his caution about Lady Oh at the villa—all of it. I never knew it was for this reason.
“I didn’t know… that she was such a horrible person.”
“That’s right. It’s my secret. And since that day, I haven’t been able to get into a car driven by anyone else. The memory from that day remains like a trauma.”
Jaeha wiped his face as if trying to sweep away the agony.
How difficult it must have been.
Even for me listening, it was so challenging, and for a young Jaeha, it must have been an unbearable burden.
“After that, Lady Oh became part of Hojin’s life, and even now, she’s watching over me. I’m also preparing to lead Lady Oh to ruin.”
“…”
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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