Was it not a confinement if she was not even allowed to make a phone call and just wait for a husband who could arrive anytime?
With no choice, Lee Kyung handed her phone to Tae In.
Tae In was able to easily find Nok Hyun’s name in the recent call history.
“I’ll be back soon. Just a minute?”
Tae In slipped into the bedroom to make the call.
Nok Hyun answered quickly.
Why?
His curt voice rang in her ear.
“……It’s me.”
Seo Tae In?
He recognized her immediately.
“When are you coming?”
Did we agree to speak informally?
“You started it, Gang Nok Hyun.”
You’ve decided on the honorifics, too.
A faint sound of laughter came from the other side of the call, making her heart flutter for some reason.
“……Don’t you miss me?”
I miss you.
He responded without hesitation, which seemed suspicious.
Tae In took a shaky breath, exhaled, and opened her mouth again.
“You went on a business trip, you’re not coming back emptyhanded, are you?”
What do you want?
“……Something I like.”
Sure.
What? Does he know what I like better than I do?
Tae In tilted her head. Soon, she heard a knock on the door. It must have been a minute already.
“I’ll steal your phone again later and call you.”
But don’t get caught.
She wanted to hear even his breathing, but with the knock getting more intense, Tae In quickly ended the call and opened the door.
“Ms. Seo Tae In, I get sensitive after work hours.”
“Yes, yes. I’ve used it well.”
Tae In obediently handed the phone back to Lee Kyung and then saw her off.
She waved until Lee Kyung’s car was out of sight and then went back home.
Although she had to be alone in the huge empty house, today it wasn’t scary.
“What does he like? What should I buy, Kang Nok Hyun?”
Truthfully, it didn’t matter what she bought. Tae In just wanted to see Nok Hyun’s face quickly.
Tae In had a dream.
“Mr. Kang Nok Hyun, let’s get a divorce. This is enough.”
It wasn’t certain whether it was a dream or a memory from the past.
But the fact that her chest hurt so much that she couldn’t even breathe was certain.
“Sure.”
And the fact that there were no emotions in Nok Hyun’s voice was certain.
When Tae In fully woke up from her dream and regained her sense of reality, she was certain.
She had dreamed of a memory from the past.
Otherwise, her emotions wouldn’t have been so vivid after waking up.
Tae In pressed down on her suffocating chest with her hand. She had expected it, but her life was certainly not a happy one.
Tae In sorted through the information she had gathered so far in her head.
The Konggaru household, the sisters who coveted her things. The only one on her side in her family was her younger sibling.
In such a situation, Nok Hyun must have been a strong ally for her.
But why did he suddenly suggest divorce?
He must have loved her.
He was someone she couldn’t help but love.
Tae In got up and rushed to the second floor.
Nok Hyun’s bedroom door was open, and the door inside was still closed.
In an era where even the front door had a digital lock, there was no way she would carry a physical key.
Tae In opened all the drawers in the bedroom.
Her heart raced as if she was doing something wrong secretly.
“…Found it.”
Tae In fitted the tiny key into the keyhole.
With a click, the door opened and Tae In held her breath as she pushed the door open.
She turned on the light in the pitchdark storeroom and peered inside.
A woman’s handbag was conspicuously placed in the room that wasn’t even a dressing room.
Tae In reached out with trembling hands and picked up the bag.
The moment she held it, she knew. This was her bag.
There were burn marks here and there. Inside the bag was a small pouch and a crumpled piece of paper.
She unfolded the crumpled paper. It was a divorce paper. Tae In’s part was even filled out.
The scene in the dream was indeed a part of her memory.
She lost all strength and sat down on the floor.
She had an accident while planning for a divorce, lost her memory, and now she was hiding in the vacation home of the husband who wanted to divorce her.
Did she really try to protect him? Or was it….
Tae In clenched the already crumpled divorce papers tightly.
“Before going to your next schedule, it seems you should stop by Miss Choi.”
At Lee Kyung’s words, Nok Hyun furrowed his brow.
Choi Mo Ra, she was Nok Hyun’s mother. Mo Ra believed that she lost her son, Do Hyun, to death because of Yu Ran, the mistress of Do Hyun’s father.
Because Yu Ran’s son, Ji Woon, and Do Hyun were the same age and in every aspect, Do Hyun surpassed Ji Woon, Mo Ra firmly believed that Yu Ran eliminated Do Hyun early on.
Irritation surged within him, seeing his father just yesterday.
“If you don’t stop by today, she will come to the company.”
Seeing Lee Kyung’s troubled face, Nok Hyun seemed to understand how much he had been tormented.
Nok Hyun looked at his wristwatch. It was a little past three in the afternoon.
“I’ll handle today’s schedule. Go to Gapyeong.”
“Yes.”
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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