Distracted by his morning conversation with Chae-Yoon, Jae-O couldn’t concentrate on his work and left the office as soon as he finished urgent matters. Although it was past eight, which was early for him, he hurried home, expecting Chae-Yoon to be there.
As his house neared, his deep eyes filled with impatience. Eager to understand what had happened to Chae-Yoon in the past few days, he pressed the accelerator harder.
The speed of the car increased.
Finally, his car entered the alley leading to his house.
As he neared, his eyes, filled with impatience, began to find peace.
Then, a peculiar scene caught his attention.
‘Song Chae-Yoon?’
His foot eased off the accelerator. Stopping the car, he gazed at Chae-Yoon standing in front of the gate.
Chae-Yoon was waving at the car in front of her, smiling brightly as if in a good mood.
His gaze sharpened at the sight.
‘Is she drunk?’
The sight of her seemingly intoxicated stirred a coldness in his deep eyes.
Then, the car in front of Chae-Yoon moved.
Jae-O’s eyes shifted to the unfamiliar car’s license plate. After scanning the number, he pressed the accelerator again.
Meanwhile, Chae-Yoon, blinded by the bright headlights, stopped her steps.
“Ah, what the…”
Already dizzy from drinking, the sudden brightness in her eyes made Chae-Yoon’s full lips utter a voice tinged with annoyance.
Momentarily irked, Chae-Yoon didn’t move, wanting to see who the car owner was. When she realized it was Jae-O, her eyes widened in surprise.
“Oh? It’s Jae-O oppa.”
Recognizing that the person who had annoyed her was Jae-O, Chae-Yoon seemed to forget her irritation, smiling broadly and repeating his name.
“Jae-O oppa.”
It was a smile Jae-O hadn’t seen before, but he easily discerned it was due to her being drunk.
“How much have you drunk?”
Chae-Yoon merely continued to smile broadly, showing no other reaction.
It confirmed Jae-O’s suspicion that Chae-Yoon was not in her right mind.
He glanced briefly at the spot where the unfamiliar car had disappeared and asked,
“How did you get here?”
An apparently pointless question, yet the answer came surprisingly easily.
“Deputy Lim dropped me off.”
Her pronunciation was perfectly clear, almost sober.
But Jae-O was too caught up wondering whether Deputy Lim was a man or a woman to notice Chae-Yoon’s condition, and in the meantime, she started moving.
Her slender legs, heading towards the gate, wobbled after a few steps.
“Uh?”
Seeing Chae-Yoon stagger, Jae-O quickly moved to her side.
Thud.
His strong arms caught her as she nearly fell.
The force of the catch brought Chae-Yoon closer to him, and Jae-O, still holding her up, looked down at her petite face, now clearly visible.
It was the first time he’d seen her face since that day, or maybe it was different because he’d never seen her drunk before. Jae-O couldn’t take his eyes off her slightly drooping eyes.
Feeling uncomfortable under his gaze, Chae-Yoon was the first to avert her eyes.
Raising her hand, she gently pushed against his chest, not his arm, and said,
“I can walk on my own…”
Believing her words and letting go would likely result in her hitting the ground. How could she judge the situation properly in her current state?
Annoyed that she was this drunk, Jae-O clicked his tongue and replied,
“You can hardly walk without falling over.”
Attempting to stabilize her, Chae-Yoon suddenly remarked,
“Oh? This is the tie pin I gave you.”
Jae-O’s gaze lowered to the tie pin he was wearing, a gift from Chae-Yoon.
[Oppa, this is a gift for you.] [What’s this?] [A tie pin. I thought of you and bought it. Even if you don’t like it, please don’t throw it away. Wear it often.]He had received it before they were married, and its design was decent enough that he had worn it frequently, though Chae-Yoon had never acknowledged it until today.
Curious about her sudden interest, Jae-O watched her as she asked,
“Why do you wear this?”
“Should I throw it away?”
It wasn’t particularly funny, but a bright smile spread across Chae-Yoon’s lips.
Her smile was so radiant that, even in the dim light of the street lamps, it left a vivid impression.
As Jae-O looked at her, his heart fluttered for reasons he couldn’t understand. Why was his heart reacting this way to a mere sight?
Caught in his thoughts, Chae-Yoon’s soft voice brought him back.
“Oppa.”
Her voice seemed to snap him out of a trance.
With a dazed head, Jae-O slightly turned his head and responded,
“Why.”
“Jae-O oppa.”
Despite his response, Chae-Yoon continued to call him repeatedly, making Jae-O wonder if this was a kind of drunken behavior. He chose not to respond to her second call, but somehow, this made Chae-Yoon burst into laughter.
His puzzled gaze turned towards Chae-Yoon.
“Why are you laughing?”
“Because you don’t answer when called twice, it’s funny.”
He thought, all that laughter for just this?
“There’s a lot to laugh about.”
Finding her reason unconvincing, Jae-O casually replied and helped Chae-Yoon to stand properly. Finally managing to stand on her own two feet, she didn’t sway this time.
“Now, you said you could walk by yourself, so go ahead and walk.”
Jae-O expected her to confidently start walking, but Chae-Yoon’s feet remained still.
“What are you doing?”
Confronted with his expectant gaze, Chae-Yoon moved not her feet, but her lips.
“Oppa.”
“Stop calling and just try walking.”
Thinking it was her drunken habit, Jae-O answered indifferently, eyes fixed on her feet.
Then, he heard something unexpected.
“Shall we get a divorce?”
It was a thought Jae-O had never considered before.
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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