However, the maritime police seemed to already regard her death as a foregone conclusion.
Chae Ha had been staring at Seol Won’s personal items handed over by the police for a long time.
The waterlogged creamcolored cardigan, the modest ecobag, even the hair tie that was always tightly holding up her long hair.
Those ownerless items were lying starkly on the table with her ID, just waiting for him to collect them.
But Chae Ha couldn’t bring himself to even touch them.
Already six hours had passed since the accident.
Soon it would be midnight, and since the maritime search team had just informed him that they could no longer continue their search due to the rough waves, all light had disappeared from Chae Ha’s eyes.
“….Min Seol Won.”
The name that slipped out of his mouth dispersed into the air, sounding terribly empty.
Min Seol Won, his wife who was only twentysix.
Like a cruel joke of fate, she was swallowed by the sea in an unforeseen accident on their third wedding anniversary.
“Sir. You should head home for now. There’s not much you can do here……” Secretary Jung, unable to bear it any longer, tried once again to persuade Chae Ha.
However, the image of Seol Won’s eyes that he last saw this morning was the only thing that kept circling in Chae Ha’s mind.
Today, Seol Won looked as if she had something important to tell him.
What could her slightly shy lips have been trying to convey?
No, whatever it was didn’t matter. Chae Ha should have been the one to speak first.
Not just for a limited time, but to stay with him as his spouse in the future as well.
To stay with him in a genuine relationship, not a contract.
Blaming himself for holding back his words and feelings was already too late.
His unspoken sincerity sank deeply along with Seol Won’s existence.
As he opened the door, a strange air greeted him.
Just yesterday, the space was filled with the mingled scent of two people.
But now, her scent was merely faint.
He fell heavily onto the empty bed, and ran his fingers roughly over his forehead.
The bed that was familiar just yesterday felt oddly awkward today.
Chae Ha carelessly ran his hand over the rumpled blanket.
She was so sensitive to the cold that they were using a thick blanket even in May.
And yet, the owner of this blanket was no longer in this space.
Words of resentment or doubt unintentionally flowed from his lips.
“…You expect me to believe that you’re dead?”
Just yesterday, he had been sleeping on this bed, at a distance where he could feel her breath.
Whenever Seol Won, who always lay down neatly, turned her body towards him, he would stare at her face for a while.
The softly closed red lips, the long hair that flowed behind her white neck, her warm and soft body with an unusually high body temperature.
Even the faint floral scent that came from her when she was next to him…
Everything was so vivid, the existence called Min Seol Won seemed so clear.
Chae Ha took a close look at his hand.
The small hand that used to tightly hold his when he was most distressed was no longer by his side.
“Ha…”
The hand that he was about to drop to the floor covered Chae Ha’s eyes before it could touch the ground.
Was he sad? Whether he didn’t know or not, not a single tear came out.
He just swallowed her name that seemed to pop out of his mouth over and over.
After groaning for a while, he staggered over to the wine rack and pulled out a bottle of the highest proof whiskey.
He hadn’t touched alcohol for a while, but today was his limit.
“Damn it…!”
Finally, Chae Ha threw the bottle of alcohol against the wall.
Damn the alcohol, damn Kwon Chae Ha.
Normally he would have been drunk by now, but the more he drank, the clearer his memory and senses became.
“I’m going mad.”
Kwon Chae Ha rose from his seat, quickly moving towards the drawer Min Seol Won had used.
He slumped into the modest wooden vanity chair, hardly befitting a chaebol’s wife, and harshly swept his face again.
Then, he started to crazily pull open each and every drawer.
He had opened everything from the vanity drawers to the wardrobes, but none of them were half full.
The woman named Min Seol Won had lived in this house for three years, and it seemed she had no greed.
He clearly remembered giving her a card with unlimited credit, telling her to use it as she wished, but there were no decent clothes, bags, or accessories.
Chae Ha chuckled sarcastically and harshly opened the bottom drawer of the wardrobe.
His hand stopped for a moment.
Inside was a faded ribbontied ring box.
He remembered the moment he had dutifully handed it to her from his distant past.
Chae Ha quickly opened the box, believing it would be empty anyway.
From the day she entered this house, being dutiful to her role as a wife, Seol Won had never taken off her wedding ring.
But…
“Why is this here?”
Chae Ha took the ring out of the case with his rough hands.
Between his thumb and index finger, he held the ring and meticulously examined it.
The magnificent diamond and the wedding date, May 24, engraved instead of initials.
There was no doubt that it was the wedding ring he had given her.
His logical thinking was not smooth due to the succession of confusion.
Still, he felt something was off, a feeling pushing into the middle of his chest.
Why, of all days, was she not wearing her ring on the day of the accident?
Then he saw it. Something else had caught Chae Ha’s eye.
If he hadn’t roughly pulled out this ring box, he might not have discovered it.
He could see something like a paper sticking out from the gap beneath the shelf where the box was.
Chae Ha quickly reached out and pulled out the entire cumbersome shelf.
The paper inside revealed its whole form.
Upon seeing it, Chae Ha’s pupils dilated in shock, his eyes flashing red.
“This is…..”
His hand holding it started to tremble crazily, and Chae Ha had to grab his own wrist with his other hand to steady it.
A small pink notebook. The words ‘Mother’s Handbook’ were written on the cover.
Along with the name Min Seol Won.
“Mother’s Handbook….”
Despite having been married for three years, his world had been completely separate from Seol Won’s.
But at this moment, his world crumbled with a bang at the sight of her threelettered name.
When the male lead is punished by carrying the female lead’s child and having periods like a woman
“I’ve given birth to two children for you, yet you still think about him.
Was I nothing but his substitute to you from beginning to end?”
Synopsis:
Meng Huan, a scumbag who has dated countless girlfriends, transmigrates to a female-dominated country.
Day 1: Whether it’s female dominance or not doesn’t matter. The beauties here are passionate and amorous. Isn’t it easier to date them than in modern times?
Day 2: After a night, Meng Huan discovers the differences in the female-dominated world. Men here actually have chastity locks and menstrual cycles. This hinders his ability to perform, damn it!
Day 3: What’s wrong with sleeping around? I don’t want you to marry me. I’m meant to be a playboy. I don’t care about male virtues… What? You want to drown me in a pig cage? Marry, I’ll marry!
Day N: Meng Huan inexplicably vomits and receives the shocking news of his life… He’s pregnant.
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