Sweeping away the dry lips with her thumb, Kiyeon, who had been persistently gazing, lightly kissed her lips.
“Water? Or juice?”
Offering alternatives to the hesitant lips, Kiyeon, who smiled as if expecting it, gently brushed her nose and got up from her seat.
Yu In quietly endured the urge to grab the retreating large back.
It wasn’t an immature and petty jealousy, something that could be expressed that way. Rather, it was deeper, more uneasy, and fragile. Therefore, cracks appeared in the fragile glass-like heart that was more prone to breaking.
“Don’t drink too much coffee usually. It’ll keep you awake at night.”
From the black mug that Kiyeon brought, the chilled jasmine tea emitted a bitter fragrance.
“I sleep well even so.”
“Don’t be so sure. Does your body not know it’s yours now?”
With a subtle smile in response to the playful joke, Yu In chuckled silently. To avoid revealing the emotions he couldn’t hide, he quickly covered his face with the mug.
Kiyeon, whether sensing something or not, stared coolly at Yu In. Only after receiving praise for cooking well did Kiyeon smile brightly.
After watching two movies, Yu In, who had dozed off briefly, blinked her eyes when she woke up and found herself lying in the bedroom she had peeked into.
Due to the blackout curtains meticulously covering to prevent a single ray of sunlight, the room was exceptionally dark.
Wiping her stiff eyes and swinging her legs down from the bed, Yu In, naturally, like a baby bird seeking its mother, found her way to Kiyeon and went outside.
Then, his low voice, sinking lower than his silhouette, reached her ears first.
“…Yes?”
In front of the balcony glass, bathed in the warm glow spreading across the light purple sky, the man with one hand in his casual pocket was in the middle of a phone call.
“…We have to. Just in case something comes up.”
Along with the unusual atmosphere, Yu In, standing barefoot on the cold marble, felt like she was in the middle of winter.
“Sigh… No. I think I should go check.”
Letting out a heavy sigh, Kiyeon shook her head, spewing a few incomprehensible words quickly.
After a while, when the call ended, the man who turned back suddenly noticed the silently standing Yu In. The subtle color that had disappeared from his troubled face subtly shook.
“Did you wake up?”
Even in the well-made, always-presented smooth smile, there was no warmth.
Strange hues, impossible to define in a single word, poured into Yu In’s mind.
Only the lips acting independently of the brain moved.
“Yes. I don’t remember when… I fell asleep.”
Even pronouncing such a short sentence with a rigid tongue required effort. Her chest tightened, and breathing became difficult.
Kiyeon, who was supposed to hug her, making her chest sore as always, stood like a mannequin, minimizing her movements.
“Yu In-ah, I think I need to go out for a moment.”
“Where to?”
“Something came up.”
“What about me?”
The thin voice that followed right away sounded unusually hurried.
Kiyeon, standing tall with the radiant sunset on her back and shoulders, lifted her upper lip.
“Stay here if you want. Or should I take you home?”
“…….?”
“No. Wait here. It won’t take long.”
“Will you come soon? How long should I wait?”
Today, the questions seemed longer. The slightly tense eyes revealed traces of concern.
Yu In found it hard to determine whether what he was gauging was time or something else unknown to her.
“Come here.”
Her body, slowly stepping forward, leaped into the man’s arms without hesitation.
Embracing Yu In fully, Kiyeon, with a pure forehead, wiped her cheek and chuckled softly.
“Why do you look like you’re about to cry? I’ll be back soon. If you act like that, it seems like you’re going far away.”
“……”
“Even if you miss me, don’t cry and wait a little longer.”
Releasing her from the embrace, the fingers playfully tickling the area near her cheek seemed like an effort to comfort Yu In.
Upon Kiyeon’s sudden request to see the clothes she was wearing, Yu In chose a balanced knit for her well-proportioned upper body and slacks for her long legs.
Seeing Kiyeon off without any suspicion, Yu In, who returned alone to the living room, stared blankly at the sofa where the two had been sitting for a while.
“……. ”
Even if she had said not to go, a lonely soliloquy escaped her.
Kiyeon, who promised to come back soon, didn’t show any news as Yu In watched the clock on the cold sofa, counted the number of streetlights turning on one by one, and eventually gave up waiting and left Kiyeon’s house.
That’s how she welcomed the morning without sleep and with a sigh.
Yu In finally learned why he hadn’t returned all night.
She saw familiar names on the large scandal chart that surged through the entire internet search engine.
The protagonists explicitly mentioned in the scandal were none other than Seon Young and Kiyeon.
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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