Seo Yeon felt empty thinking how important Kwon Yool was in her life.
In a quiet Japanese restaurant’s private room, Seo Yeon, who had arrived first, was lost in deep silence.
Soon, the urgent sound of footsteps echoed, and Hyun Woo appeared.
“Director Han, you’re here early?”
He glanced at his wristwatch.
“I just got here too.”
Seo Yeon watched Hyun Woo take off his jacket and neatly hang it up.
‘Let’s try to find out as naturally as possible.’
She made small talk, so Hyun Woo wouldn’t find her behavior odd.
They ordered and she attentively listened to Hyun Woo talk about his company and upcoming projects.
“Director Han, any particular issues at your company recently?”
Seizing the chance as Hyun Woo asked about her, she thought she should use the question.
“We’ve hired new interns. We needed some youthful energy. But…”
Seo Yeon paused to collect her thoughts.
Taking a sip of warm green tea, she continued speaking.
“Something interesting happened.”
“Interesting? What?”
Hyun Woo asked, showing interest.
“One of our new interns is a student from Korea University and is friends with Kwon Yool.”
Upon hearing the name ‘Kwon Yool’, Hyun Woo put down the sushi he was holding.
“Oh… really?”
Quick to catch on, Hyun Woo examined Seo Yeon’s expression, and she acted cool.
“He says that Kwon Yool scored perfect in his college entrance exams? He said he’s an entirely different being compared to himself.”
She forced herself to eat the sushi she didn’t really want to and laughed.
Like someone who had stumbled upon something really interesting.
“Small world.”
“I don’t know him well, having met him only twice, but is it true he scored perfect?”
Asking lightly, Hyun Woo awkwardly smiled and replied.
“Yes. He’s really that smart.”
Seo Yeon felt something hot rise in her throat and quickly gulped down some water.
“The age gap is quite significant. It’s an unusual combination.”
Casually mentioning their previous hotel encounter, Hyun Woo nodded and opened up.
‘It was a get-together to celebrate his discharge from the military. And I just happened to be there…’
Whether he knew they were dating or not, Hyun Woo was completely honest.
Then all the puzzles about Kwon Yool clicked into place.
Seo Yeon focused on one thought as she synthesized both stories.
Whether she would continue to meet him or not.
She glanced at Hyun Woo’s empty plate and decided it was time to wrap things up.
“It’s a shame to just have lunch.”
“Exactly. Next time, there should be drinks.”
“How about a private dinner, just the two of us, behind Director Choi’s back during our next meeting?”
At Seo Yeon’s words, Hyun Woo quickly agreed.
The two parted ways in a friendly atmosphere.
In the afternoon as lunchtime was ending.
Seo Yeon was in a car that hadn’t even been started.
She watched office workers who had finished their meals walking by in small groups across the outdoor parking lot, and suddenly found herself lost in old thoughts.
The time when her life had been filled with painting.
During that period when painting was everything, she suddenly lost confidence and wandered for a while.
At that time, Seo Yeon made the excuse of being sick at school and impulsively walked the streets.
2 p.m. The time that was neither early nor late felt incredibly strange.
She couldn’t stand it anymore and got on a random bus.
Sitting in the empty bus and blankly staring out the window, the sunlight pouring onto her face felt awkward, and she closed her eyes tightly.
‘Then or now.’
She’s old enough now, yet she still made an excuse about being sick and ran off.
Seo Yeon found it ridiculous and arbitrarily started the car.
She followed the signals, stopped, and then started again, roaming like a person who had lost their destination.
Then she slowly organized her thoughts.
‘Is it because Kwon Yool is young that I don’t like him, or is it because he deceived me?’
If she had to choose one, being deceived was more likely.
However, Seo Yeon couldn’t decide what to do about Kwon Yool until it started to get dark around her.
‘Could we have kept seeing each other if he had been honest from the start?’ she asked herself.
The answer that came back was a resounding no.
Still, if he spilled everything honestly, she wondered if they could continue to see each other.
At that point, her age, close to thirty, became a factor.
Seo Yeon was worried about her future, just sharing sweet love with him.
Suddenly, her eyes grew hot.
‘What the hell is gained by deceiving me…’
‘If everything he said and did was a lie,’ she thought, and Seo Yeon was enveloped by an emotion she couldn’t define.
“We aren’t even really dating…”
Just then, Kwon Yool’s number appeared on the car screen connected via Bluetooth.
Seo Yeon hesitated for a moment.
Then, she wanted to hear his honest words.
“Hello.”
[Seo Yeon, have you had dinner?]Seo Yeon gripped the steering wheel tightly at the sound of his affectionate voice.
“Not yet.”
Her voice was dismal.
[Are you sick?]“I’m not feeling well, I’m on my way home.”
[Shouldn’t have called. Is it really bad?]He inquired thoroughly as if he were her personal physician.
“Could you come to my house if you don’t mind?”
[Of course. I’ll be right there.]He appeared in less than an hour.
He came bearing numerous shopping bags and medication.
“Don’t you need to go to the hospital? You don’t look good.”
Seo Yeon couldn’t meet his gaze and looked away.
“I’m fine.”
Kwon Yool placed the items he brought on the table and touched her forehead with the back of his hand.
“Your forehead is warm.”
Seo Yeon, with an inscrutable expression, dodged his hand and headed for the sofa.
Kwon Yool also sat beside her.
Seo Yeon stared into the void with a bitter look in her eyes before calling his name.
“……Kwon Yool.”
And yet hesitated for a long time.
“Seo Yeon, are you really struggling?”
Seo Yeon, who had turned her head, looked directly at Kwon Yool.
And asked what she was most curious about.
“Kwon Yool. How old are you?”
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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