As I looked at his darkening eyes, memories from my past life slowly overlapped.
‘Wait a minute. If my memory serves me right…’
Five years ago, around this time, Ji Han received a phone call and didn’t return until the funeral was over.
When he arrived belatedly, he was still dressed in the suit he had been wearing.
My suspicions gradually became more certain.
“It seems urgent, answer it.”
At my curt remark, countless emotions flickered across Ji Han’s eyes.
Hesitating before his stillringing cell phone, he finally picked up the call just before it was disconnected.
“Hello. Uh. Now? Now is not a good time.”
As he said that, Ji Han glanced at me as if checking my reaction and turned away.
“I said I can’t.”
The lower pitch of his voice sounded unfamiliar.
I vaguely knew who the person on the other end of the line was, someone who could put him in such a difficult situation.
There could be only one person capable of making Ji Han, the worldrenowned, so flustered.
‘Chae Seo Rin.’
For a while, Ji Han’s eyes trembled as he listened to the conversation on the other end of the line.
It was unmistakably clear that she was someone special to him, making even the selfabsorbed Ji Han uncomfortable.
“Ha… Fine. I’ll go now.”
“What’s the call about?”
“It seems like there’s a problem at the company. As you said, I should go and check it out for a while.”
The words ‘It’s not the company. That call was from Chae Seo Rin’ rose to the tip of my tongue.
My mouth went dry with the bitter taste of the facts from my previous life that I hadn’t known, now revealing themselves one by one.
All that came out was a hollow chuckle at the realization that I had fallen for such an obvious lie.
I had believed this lie.
I really thought there was an urgent matter at the company, and I had taken his exaggerated behavior as just worrying about me on the day I was left alone.
‘…I didn’t even know that he was anxious about getting caught cheating.’
With an awkward smile, he tenderly wrapped his arm around my shoulders.
“You don’t need to come back.”
Just stay by Chae Seo Rin’s side for the rest of your life.
Ji Han looked at me, speaking more firmly than before, and then released the hand he had placed on my shoulder.
“I’ll come straight back after finishing the meeting.”
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A hand that had been brushing away the sweatsoaked hair stuck to my forehead dropped into the air.
“Ha.”
Only the sound of heavy water splashing filled the bathroom.
Exhaling a deep breath that flowed down my lips, I propped myself up on the sink with both arms.
His receding figure kept filling my mind.
“Damn it.”
You see as much as you know. After returning to the past, I realized how foolish I had been in my previous life.
It had been a day of exhaustion, guarding the empty funeral hall alone and greeting numerous mourners.
If I sat down leaning against something, I felt like I would fall asleep right away, and my body felt heavy like a watersoaked sponge.
When I returned to the funeral hall, I saw the clock’s hands pointing to one in the morning.
The crowd that had surged in like a tidal wave disappeared in an instant, and a heavy silence settled in the funeral hall.
Sitting alone, I closed my heavy eyelids due to the loneliness seeping into my chest.
I was alone again.
It was hard to bear the fact that I couldn’t save my family even though I had come back like this.
“I’m sorry, Grandfather…”
My shoulders shook until my vision blurred, and then I fell asleep, exhausted.
In my sleep, I felt something softly covering my shoulders.
Then, with the feeling of someone gently shaking my shoulders, I woke up from my sleep.
“Ma’am, if you’re tired, please go and rest.”
The housekeeper who had brought my clothes from home in my stead was an older lady.
As I slowly got up, the suit jacket that had been covering my shoulders slid off.
An unfamiliar, faint citrus scent wafted through the air.
It was a comforting scent, as if I had smelled it before.
“Did you put this jacket on me, ma’am?”
“No, it wasn’t me. It’s a men’s suit jacket. Maybe the CEO covered you with it while I wasn’t looking?”
“It wasn’t him…”
It wasn’t Ji Han. He would return only after the funeral was over.
In my faint memories, it seemed that a similar incident had happened in my past life.
Back then, I couldn’t figure out who the owner of the jacket was either…
I heard a rustling sound.
I pulled something out from the inside pocket of the lifted jacket.
“A passport?”
A passport that I hadn’t seen in my previous life, along with a business card, fell to the floor.
A black sedan stopped in front of the man who had just walked out of the hospital.
The secretary, who had been glancing at Jae Ha sitting in the passenger seat, asked him about his missing jacket.
He had been neatly dressed when he entered the funeral hall.
“CEO, how did you come out without your suit jacket?”
“Somehow.”
Despite the secretary’s question, Jae Ha didn’t continue the conversation beyond “somehow.”
Jae Ha, with his mouth closed, seemed lost in thought as he stared out the window.
“Ah, yes. Let’s get going.”
The car started and began driving along the wideopen road. The early morning city streets on the way to the hotel were unusually quiet.
The secretary glanced at Jae Ha, who was staring out the window, and asked.
“But, CEO, you came without Chairman’s knowledge… Did you really have to attend the funeral?”
“…”
“Isn’t it an uncomfortable relationship?”
An uncomfortable relationship… Jae Ha thought it could be.
She was no longer his fiancée but a woman who would become his halfbrother’s wife.
Jae Ha seemed lost in thought at the secretary’s question, then parted his lips.
“It’s been a long time.”
Jae Ha swallowed the words, ‘I wanted to see her, too.’ It was the first time he saw her since he rejected the marriage.
Jae Ha recalled covering the sleeping woman with his jacket.
It was a terribly impulsive action, unlike him.
‘If it weren’t for that report, I wouldn’t have visited the funeral hall.’
Jae Ha clenched his lips tightly as he recalled the report he received upon arrival in the country.
The secretary, who had been glancing at Jae Ha while facing forward, casually brought up another topic.
“Also, I just heard that President Yoon and his wife are in critical condition.”
“…How much?”
Jae Ha, who had been looking out the window indifferently, finally turned his head.
The secretary continued to speak to Jae Ha, who now seemed to show interest.
“There was a doctor’s opinion that there is no chance of them waking up. Moreover, the movements of the shareholders are unusual. I don’t know what conditions they’ve set, but there’s quite a group wanting to merge the two companies.”
A merger…
As if it wasn’t enough to be an outsider to her husband, she was in a situation where it was difficult to protect even her own share.
It was a tough battle for a twentynineyearold woman who had grown up sheltered and naive.
‘Come to think of it, there was a passport inside the jacket.’
The moment he suddenly remembered the forgotten passport.
With a deep frown, Jae Ha hurriedly reached out to the secretary.
“Secretary Han, wait a moment.”
“Yes…?”
“Stop the car. We need to go back.”
My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
*
Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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