Not for the First Time (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 2
Young In’s pupils trembled violently from the unexpected encounter.
Unlike her frozen body, her heart began pounding like crazy.
To think she’d run into Cha Sung Hyuk here of all places.
The man she faced again after three years was still breathtakingly handsome and elegant. His pitch-black hair and pitch-black eyes contrasted with his fair skin, making him look almost mysterious.
She wanted to avoid that intense gaze, yet something invisible seemed to bind her entire body, leaving her unable to move an inch.
No sound reached her ears, and nothing else entered her vision. It felt as though everything except him had blacked out.
Young In stood there blankly, unable to take a single step, until the sound of someone calling her name snapped her back to reality.
“Young In-ah.”
A voice mixed with a metallic rasp dug into her ears, and then Sung Hyuk’s figure vanished from her sight.
Young In raised her head and looked up at the person standing in front of her. A pair of unusually small, snake-like pupils were smiling down at her.
It was her brother’s friend, Oh Chang Geun.
“You came to pick up Beom Joon?”
Only after running into someone she never expected to see and someone she didn’t want to see at all did she finally remember why she had come here.
“…Ah, yes. What about you, oppa?”
For the first time today, she felt grateful to him. If it hadn’t been for him, who knows how much longer she would have shown her shaken state to Sung Hyuk.
“I went to the bathroom.”
Young In slightly furrowed her brow.
“Oppa told me to come pick him up, but he wasn’t answering his phone, so I came up.”
“I told him to call you. Because I missed you.”
“……”
The crease between Young In’s brows deepened further.
The gratitude she had felt was already gone without a trace. The thought that she wouldn’t have run into Sung Hyuk if it weren’t for him made irritation surge within her.
“I’ll be waiting in the car, so please tell oppa to come down quickly when he returns.”
Chang Geun suddenly grabbed the wrist of Young In as she coldly turned away.
“Beom Joon will be here any minute. Wait with me and have a drink.”
“I drove here.”
“Ah, right.”
When Young In twisted her captured wrist free with a straight face, Chang Geun forced an awkward smile and rolled his drunken, glossy eyes around.
“Can’t you just call a designated driver?”
“……”
Young In decided he wasn’t worth responding to and simply shut her mouth.
“Then let’s have a drink sometime, just the two of us.”
“I’m busy.”
What she really wanted to say was “No thanks.” She wanted to shoot straight and tell him to stop being so clingy.
The only reason she didn’t was because he was her brother’s friend. More precisely, she was tired of getting scolded by her brother over it.
Even with this level of cold shoulder, he should finally get the hint by now.
Before Chang Geun could say anything else, Young In turned around, left the room, took a deep breath, and leaned her back against the wall. As the tension released, all strength drained from her body.
Belatedly, she realized that unusually, there hadn’t been a single woman in the room.
It wasn’t hard to guess why.
Even Chae Beom Jun, who despised drinking sessions without women, must have had no choice because Cha Sung Hyuk was attending.
Everyone around them knew that Chae Beom Jun was Cha Sung Hyuk’s voluntary lackey.
“Ha…”
Young In took a deep breath, straightened her posture, and had just taken one step when a resonant voice wrapped around her ears.
“Long time no see.”
She froze for a moment, then bit her inner lip hard before turning around.
“Long time no see, sunbae.”
Was it because she thought she would never have to call him that again?
The word “sunbae” coming from her own mouth made the pit of her stomach ache. She even said things she didn’t need to, just in case he noticed.
“Are you back for good?”
“Do you know where I’ve been?”
“I heard from oppa.”
“Ah, you would have found out whether you wanted to or not.”
Young In lowered her eyelids to avoid his sarcastically smirking gaze.
“I’ll head down now.”
“Wait.”
Sung Hyuk stopped her in an emotionless tone and gestured to a staff member visible over her shoulder.
“Is there anything you need, sir?”
The man who hurried over and bowed deeply was the same guard who had spoken casually to Young In earlier and gotten shut down. He was so polite now that Young In almost thought it was a different person.
“Escort her to her car.”
“Yes, sir.”
To him, Chae Beom Jun was somewhat approachable, but Cha Sung Hyuk was untouchable.
That was because he had just heard about Sung Hyuk’s family background from the general manager.
SL Group had firmly held the top spot in the business world for over 70 years. There was even a saying that governments may change, but SL was eternal.
“Clean up those horny bastards.”
Sung Hyuk pointed with his chin at the man and woman still kissing. His twitching eyebrows were full of displeasure.
“We’ll take care of it right away.”
Sung Hyuk withdrew his disgusted gaze and entered the room without looking back at Young In.
The man quickly brought the microphone to his mouth.
“Someone come up to the third floor. Hurry.”
After relaying Sung Hyuk’s instructions to another staff member, the man bowed to Young In.
“Shall we go down?”
Young In merely nodded lightly and silently followed behind him.
The man blocked anyone who even tried to approach Young In as if he had been given a sacred mission, startling the drunkards away. Thanks to him, Young In received an almost royally strict escort out of the club and into her car.
A few minutes after she leaned her head against the headrest and closed her eyes, the back door opened with a grumbling voice following right after.
“Damn it, I wanted to play a bit more.”
Young In opened her eyes and looked back to see a man with short pomade hair being helped into the car by what looked like a guard.
“Sung Hyuk was getting so pissed asking why I wasn’t leaving yet…”
“Belt.”
Young In cut off Beom Joon’s words.
He had told her to come pick him up, and now he was complaining about wanting to stay longer—what kind of nonsense was that?
“Have a safe trip.”
Once the guard closed the back door and stepped away, Young In immediately started the car. Beom Joon, who had been muttering incomprehensible words, soon fell asleep.
The disgusting smell of alcohol gave her a splitting headache, but she decided to take comfort in the fact that it had at least become quiet.
Rain suddenly began pattering down onto the car running along the empty road shrouded in pitch-black darkness.
An unforecasted, sudden rain.
Young In gripped the steering wheel tightly, thinking it felt just like her situation today.
[This is the timeline separator]The place where Young In’s car stopped was in front of a two-story detached house.
After barely waking Beom Joon and sending him inside first, Young In parked in the garage and followed.
A Rim, who had been glaring irritably down at Beom Joon sprawled on the living room sofa, whipped her head around at the sound of footsteps.
“You brought him?”
Her voice was sharp, and her face was full of annoyance.
“Oppa told me to come pick him up.”
Young In answered calmly and headed toward the second floor where her room was.
From behind, the sharp exchange between her sister and brother could be heard.
“How do you not have a single day where you come home sober? Drink in moderation.”
“It was Sung Hyuk’s welcome party.”
“What? Sung Hyuk oppa is back? Why are you only telling me this now!”
“Why would I need to tell you?”
“You’re seriously asking that? Ugh, forget it! Whatever!”
“Hey, Chae A Rim. Sung Hyuk has no interest in you. Know your place.”
“Hey, Chae Beom Jun. Shut up.”
“How dare you talk to your oppa like that!”
“What do you even know! Three years is enough time for Sung Hyuk oppa’s type to change!”
“Even if his type changed, it definitely wouldn’t be you.”
“Aaaargh!”
Young In tightly bit her lip while listening to the screaming and the furious stomping of feet.
Suddenly, she wondered what kind of faces her brother and sister would make if they found out she had dated Sung Hyuk.
They would probably react somewhere along the lines of “Someone like you dared to—”, and that was putting it mildly. If they ever learned that she was the one who dumped him, it definitely wouldn’t end there.
A bitter smile spread across Young In’s face as she climbed the stairs.
[This is the timeline separator]Three days later.
When Young In returned home from work, she received a bolt-from-the-blue order from her mother, Madam Kwak.
“A blind date?”
In this house, blind dates had only ever applied to her older brother and sister. At least until now.
“Madam Jin called a little while ago and specifically pointed you out.”
Madam Jin was the so-called “madam matchmaker.”
People gave her luxury bags or slipped her hundreds of thousands just to stay on her good side and get introduced to good marriage prospects.
Young In was aware that her mother was putting in a lot of effort with Madam Jin.
“Why me? With whom?”
The answer came from A Rim.
“Oh Chang Geun.”
When Young In narrowed her brows, A Rim let out an incredulous laugh.
“Why that face? Someone like Chang Geun oppa is way too good for you. Don’t you know Seongmyeong Construction ranks in the top 20 construction companies?”
Beom Joon chimed in as well.
“You kept dodging and refusing to meet him even once, so of course he resorted to this. Just accept it.”
The final word came from Madam Kwak.
“Day after tomorrow, 6 p.m. at H Hotel cafe. If you refuse, it’ll put me in a really difficult position, so please don’t be late.”
Madam Kwak had received so many cosmetic procedures that she could barely move her mouth, yet she forced the corners up into a benevolent smile.
Young In was nothing more than a sacrificial offering for her older siblings. Sacrificial offerings, of course, had no right to choose.
[This is the timeline separator]Five minutes before the appointed time.
Young In arrived at the H Hotel cafe, the location of the blind date. Her partner had not arrived yet.
She was preparing the warning words that she would never do this pointless thing again when she sensed someone in front of her.
When she looked up, once again—just like a few days ago—an utterly unexpected person was sitting across from her.
“Sunbae, why are you here…”
Young In stared at the silent Sung Hyuk in bewilderment, then clenched her fists tightly to collect herself.
“Someone is supposed to come.”
“He’s not coming.”
“What is that supposed to mean?”
“It means I came instead of Oh Chang Geun.”
“……”
Young In had vaguely assumed he was at the hotel for business and happened to see her by chance, but her mind was only growing more chaotic.
“I told them to hand today’s blind date over to me.”
Sung Hyuk leaned back in his chair and gave a slight smile.
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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he can not get over his ex so started this drama instead of telling her he missed her
he still hang up with his ex,i smell trouble for them