There was nothing to wear for the interview. She looked so outdated that one might wonder how a person could be so unfashionable.
“What’s with this floral blouse? Why is the material of this Tshirt like this?”
For a designer interview, unlike other office jobs, you had to dress up and show off your individuality. This was because they believed their own style was part of their skills.
After rummaging through the wardrobe for a long time, Seo Ha found a set of clothes wrapped in a laundry plastic bag in the farthest corner. That suit, which seemed to be more than a decade old, didn’t even fit her size, as if it belonged to someone else.
However, the fabric was quite highquality. It was truly a stroke of luck.
“Grandma, I’m going to borrow your sewing box.”
There were no sewing machines or mannequins. All she had was a sewing box and a clothes hanger borrowed from her grandmother’s room, which she had opened only once when she came to the attic.
First, she disassembled the entire suit. She drew the pattern on newspaper since there was no pattern paper, and then cut it out with kitchen scissors. She then assembled it stitch by stitch with handsewing.
She took the bestlooking trimmings from other clothes, attached them, and finished with an old iron she also took from her grandmother’s room.
That process took a whole week. If she had proper clothes, or even a secondhand sewing machine, she could have finished it in a day and spent the rest of the time drawing designs.
That was the nature of poverty. Even the 24 hours given to everyone were not entirely given to her.
Seo Ha wore the clothes she barely finished and headed to the interview venue. Among the peacocks dressed up in their own way, Seo Ha, dressed in a suit, looked as pitiful as an ugly duckling.
“Number 32, please come in.”
The eyes of the interviewers gathered all at once. They were all familiar faces to Seo Ha.
Cha Sangmoo was there too. That person didn’t know anything about design. Did Lee Ji Soo come as a team leader? Lee Seung Oh was fine. But why was Ryu Kyung Joon here?
She had never heard of a secretary participating in a designer interview. Moreover, he seemed to recognize Seo Ha, with his eyebrows meeting in the middle.
“Hello. Applicant number 32, Jo Seo Ha.”
Pretending not to know, Seo Ha greeted and took her seat. Lee Ji Soo, sitting at the end, looked extremely displeased, as if a hole would form on her forehead.
“Jo Seo Ha, your resume is quite unique.”
Kyung Joon held up Seo Ha’s resume and spoke dryly.
“Your education is below the standard, and you have no relevant experience. I’m curious how you passed the document screening.”
Ji Soo nodded. She seemed to have a lot to say.
“Maybe they liked my design? What’s important for a designer is not education or experience, but inspiration and talent.”
“Ahahaha!”
Suddenly, a blatant laughter erupted. Ji Soo, the protagonist of the laughter, let out a fake cough, seeming a bit embarrassed as she received the gazes of several people.
“Sorry for laughing. It’s just that the words ‘inspiration and talent’ don’t quite match the clothes Jo Seo Ha is wearing.”
Ji Soo blatantly stared at Seo Ha’s skirt, which looked too long, and the wornout sneakers visible underneath.
“Can I show you?”
At Seo Ha’s counterquestion, Seung Oh showed a curious expression.
“What are you going to show?”
“The clothes I’m wearing.”
Seo Ha stood up from her seat and spun around. The long skirt that reached below her calves had a deep slit at the back, and the bold yet neatcolored jacket had a corset as a focal point.
“I couldn’t go to college because of my financial situation. I didn’t even have clothes to wear for the interview. This is made from my mother’s very old clothes, and I made it myself. I completed an unusual suit with a neat yet bold point.”
Confidence shone from her makeupfree face. Even the wornout sneakers looked like a vintage mixandmatch style.
“Please choose me. You’ll realize that things like education aren’t that important for a designer.”
Upon seeing Jo Seo Ha, Kyung Joon almost dropped his pen. It was quite strange that the odd woman he had been grumbling about in the hospital appeared, asking to be chosen as a designer.
“What on earth is this woman?”
Moreover, it was a resume that CEO Lee Seung Oh himself had instructed to pass. Kyung Joon, who was even more dumbfounded, went to the CEO’s office and confronted Seung Oh.
“I told you not to be swayed by personal emotions last time. So why did you pass this resume? Even with a special instruction!”
“I looked at her skills. You, Secretary Ryu, were also present at the interview, and you should know if you checked her portfolio.”
“…”
Unbelievably, Jo Seo Ha had quite decent skills.
To be more honest, Seo Ha’s design was better than any other design submitted for this job posting.
“Where did you see that skill? You didn’t even look through each resume.”
“Well…”
Hesitating, Seung Oh finally revealed the truth under Kyung Joon’s piercing gaze.
“I happened to run into her near the company. She said she was going to submit her resume, so I got curious and asked her to show it to me, and she did.”
“Hmph.”
She was the woman who had been lingering around CEO Kang even after being warned and chased away multiple times. Kyung Joon could swear that Seung Oh’s encounter with Jo Seo Ha was not a coincidence.
But why? Was it just to get a chance to join Kang Yoon’s company?
“If you don’t like her, I’ll cancel her acceptance. The acceptance notice hasn’t been sent yet.”
Kyung Joon fell into deep thought.
She was a suspicious woman. However, strangely, he could see Yoon Seo Ha in her. That confidence, tone of voice, and even the design.
“…Let her join the company.”
Seung Oh tilted his head in confusion.
“Didn’t you not like her?”
“As you said, her design is fine. Let her join the company, but let’s make her an intern for three months.”
No matter her purpose in approaching them, three months would be enough time to figure her out.
Kyung Joon neatly folded Seo Ha’s resume on the desk and put it in his pocket. He intended to find out more about what kind of woman she was.
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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