“Ho, honey! You say something quickly! Chae Ha, our Chae Ha….”
Contrary to Heo Young Joo who seemed like the world was collapsing, Chairman Kwon calmly stood up from his seat and asked.
“Have you made up your mind.”
“Yes.”
“Okay. Keep tomorrow evening free.”
“Honey!”
Despite the desperate call, Chairman Kwon, as if he had finished saying everything he needed to say, went into the room.
Even though he was weak in front of Heo Young Joo’s will regarding his son’s marriage issue, he was a man who didn’t force his children to do anything.
Chae Ha also moved towards his room on the 3rd floor.
After all, he wasn’t seeking permission, it was a onesided notification.
But even before the door had closed, Heo YoungJoo barged in, ranting loudly.
“Kwon ChaeHa! Listen to me! I can’t approve this marriage! You’re taking in a girl from nowhere as the daughterinlaw of the Kwon group?”
“You haven’t even met her yet. How would you know if she has a good background or not, mother?”
“Do you need to taste it to know if it’s shit or soybean paste? Listen carefully, ChaeHa! Our daughterinlaw must be Baek SaRa! She’s been courting me for years to marry you!”
“The person who’s getting married isn’t you, mother.”
“No! Not even if I have dirt in my eyes! I’ve arranged for you to set a wedding date with SaRa this year!”
Exhaling deeply, ChaeHa looked at his mother who seemed to be already in a matrimonial relationship.
She was a former leading actress who enjoyed unprecedented popularity in her youth.
Thanks to her dazzling beauty, she had a moment of upward mobility in her father’s eyes, but the sense of inferiority about her original roots never faded throughout her life.
Her overflowing vanity and the poverty of her origin always made her feel less than confident, and it turned into a need she had to fulfil through her children.
Dangerous desire, dangerous greed. In the end, it led to a tragic sacrifice.
“…Even after seeing my brother, you can still say that?”
At ChaeHa’s words, Heo YoungJoo’s body seemed to reel with shock. As if she had heard something she shouldn’t have, rage was clearly visible in her dilated pupils.
“You… you… How can you say such a thing to me, ChaeHa…”
“Please leave. Mother. I’m tired. I’ll proceed with the wedding planning with Director Yoon and Secretary Jung. There’s no need to make it grand since it’s not Baek SaRa.”
“Kwon ChaeHa… You’re really… really going to do this?”
“Yes. I will. Mother. So, please, stop.”
Heo YoungJoo’s chest swelled with indescribable grief and resentment at her son’s reprimand.
Her son, who should be on her side, seemed to be stabbing a dagger into her heart. It infuriated her, again and again.
She could not stand the thought of a daughterinlaw she didn’t even know yet.
“Do as you wish! But you can’t have a wedding! If you want to have a wedding, do it after I’m dead!”
“…Mother.”
“I have no intention of announcing to the world that I have such a shabby daughterinlaw! Kwon ChaeHa, you may be out of your mind right now, but you’ll thank me later. By the time you get a divorce, you’ll be grateful that you didn’t have a wedding so you can part quietly!”
The madness in Heo YoungJoo’s sparkling eyes, how many times must his brother have faced this?
Thinking of his brother TaeHa, he was overwhelmed by fatigue.
So, ChaeHa simply stepped back. After all, it wasn’t that important.
“I understand. But I will register our marriage. That should make Baek SaRa give up. I doubt she would want to marry a man who is legally married.”
“ChaeHa, you really….”
Tears of anger welled up in his mother’s eyes, filled with madness, but he could only concede so far.
From the outset, the purpose of this marriage was clear, and he was determined to accomplish it.
“I’m fine. My mom is too sick for a wedding.”
When Seol Won was told the truth, her reaction wasn’t much different from what Chae Ha had expected.
For the two of them, bound by mutual interests, a wedding ceremony was not of particular importance.
After all, the intention to hold a ceremony was to publicly show that they had overridden the will of his mother and Mrs. Baek.
Kwon Chae Ha of the Chaeun Group did not want marriage with any chaebol, including the Baek Young Group.
Instead of a clumsy consolation, Chae Ha offered Seol Won a gift he had bought as compensation.
When she opened the box tied with a cute ribbon, Seol Won’s eyes shone larger than ever.
She seemed completely taken by surprise.
“No matter if it’s a contract, we should at least have a wedding ring.”
“……Is it okay to give me something this expensive?”
“Think of it as a deposit.”
That was it. A deposit or compensation.
Strictly speaking, her marriage with me was almost like being a ‘bullet shield’ for Seol Won.
“There’s also bad news.”
“What is it?”
Seol Won asked, closing the lid without even trying the ring on.
They weren’t close enough to put it on each other, but somehow her action brought a wave of discomfort.
Moreover, he had stopped using formal language awkwardly, considering that handing over the ring had made them ‘husband and wife’, but she didn’t seem to notice.
Suppressing the useless emotion, Chae Ha continued indifferently.
“We won’t be able to have a separate house. My mother insists that we must live together at home.”
“Aah… that’s fine. It can’t be helped. You chose me because you wanted a woman who could withstand that.”
She was right.
So Chae Ha didn’t add any more excuses or consolations.
If it was her, if it was Min Seol Won with high pride and a strong heart.
She would have been able to serve as a shield from his mother and Mrs. Baek for the next three years.
If they maintained a de facto marriage to that extent, the Baek Young Group, which considered their youngest daughter a forbidden fruit, would no longer consider me as a soninlaw candidate, and his mother would have to give up reluctantly.
He was also ready to support as much as his wife wanted.
There couldn’t have been a more perfect contract for the two of them.
Chae Ha looked at his wife with a slow smile on his lips.
“So, from today, we are husband and wife, Min Seol Won.”
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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