For a brief moment, Yeong-in’s eyes widened in astonishment.
“What do you want?”
Seong-hyeok stepped forward with a nonchalant expression.
“Why are you so surprised? I came in because you told me to.”
“I didn’t know it was you, senior.”
“If you knew it was me, would you have not let me in?”
His brow furrowed slightly.
“Why do you discriminate against people?”
Yeong-in was speechless at his audacious remark.
Is this really discrimination?
Even if it is, discriminating against a long-separated ex-boyfriend isn’t such a grave sin, is it?
“Arim went to the kitchen because mom called, and Beom-jun is on a call. No one knows I came up here, so you don’t have to worry.”
“That’s not the point.”
“Should I have just announced my visit then? Saying, ‘I’m going to Yeong-in’s room’?”
Yeong-in just twitched her lips a few times but couldn’t respond. Absurdly, she felt grateful that he had come up without anyone knowing.
As Yeong-in remained silent, Seong-hyeok’s lips curved into a gentle smile. He looked around the room with a nostalgic expression.
“It’s been over 10 years since we first met, and only today I enter your room.”
His first visit to this house was when he became classmates with Beom-jun in their first year of high school. He rarely visited, and especially avoided coming during the half-year he dated Yeong-in.
It was Yeong-in who wanted it that way.
She was the one who suggested a secret relationship and asked him not to come to her house.
Despite appearing capricious, he followed all her wishes, even if he didn’t feel like it.
Including the break-up.
“No mistaking this is Yeong-in’s room.”
The room’s cleanliness and organization reflected the owner’s personality. Pristine and cool, much like Yeong-in herself, with a white-toned interior.
The only decorations were a small green plant on the nightstand and a single picture frame on the dresser.
Before Yeong-in could stop him, Seong-hyeok strode over to the dresser, bent down, and looked at the photo.
It was of a girl around five or six years old.
“She was cute when she was little.”
Her plaited hair, crescent moon eyes, and chubby cheeks naturally brought a smile to his face.
“I know. I’m not cute anymore.”
Seong-hyeok looked up from the photo to glance at Yeong-in.
“Now, you’re beautiful.”
Flustered by his serious response to her flippant comment, Yeong-in quickly changed the subject.
“If you came to see my brother, go see him. Why come all the way here?”
“I never said I came to see Beom-jun. I came to see you.”
Her eyes flickered with confusion. She had been trying to convince herself that he hadn’t come to see her, but it was all for naught.
“I did come because Beom-jun invited me, but I also wondered if I could see you. If you weren’t living here, I wouldn’t have come.”
Yeong-in, standing relaxed in front of Seong-hyeok, wanted to ask him why he was doing this and what he wanted. But fearing someone might come up, she couldn’t bring herself to have that conversation and instead said something meaningless.
“Hurry up and go down.”
Seong-hyeok just nodded without moving, indicating he still had something to say.
“From now on, check who it is before letting them in. Don’t just let anyone into your room.”
Yeong-in laughed dryly.
“This is our house.”
“Strangers could still come in.”
“You don’t consider yourself a stranger?”
“Of course, I’m not.”
“…….”
For a moment, Yeong-in was speechless, her eyes widening in disbelief.
“Do you really think you’re not just anyone?”
“Of course, I’m not.”
“…….”
Yeong-in was dumbfounded, struggling to find words. The statement, coming from the person who best fit the description of an ‘outsider’ and ‘just anyone,’ was bewilderingly ironic.
And there was more.
“Did you take any medicine?”
Confused by his question, Yeong-in narrowed her eyes.
“What medicine?”
“Medicine for a headache. You have one right now.”
“…….”
Yeong-in tried to recall telling him about her headache, but of course, she couldn’t. She had never mentioned it.
“You scrunch your nose when you have a headache.”
“Me?”
As her eyes widened in surprise, a playful smile spread across Seong-hyeok’s face.
“Yes, you.”
“…….”
Yeong-in silently looked up at him, astonished that he knew a habit she wasn’t aware of.
“Don’t endure it. Take some medicine.”
Leaving those words behind, Seong-hyeok turned and left the room. Yeong-in sat heavily on the bed and gazed at the closed door, whispering softly.
“It’s all because of you, senior…….”
The cause of her headache, the reason she hadn’t taken the medicine in her bag, it was all due to one person.
The one who complicated her thoughts and prevented her from going downstairs for water was Cha Seong-hyeok.
She decided to blame everything on him.
It made her feel less pathetic for being so easily swayed by him.
After some time passed, a loud noise of the door opening snapped her out of her thoughts, followed by an irritated voice.
“Hey, come eat!”
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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