“……Brother?”
Jae Oh’s eyes responded to the soft voice, snapping him out of his deep thoughts.
“Huh? Oh. Why?”
“I was thinking of stepping out.”
“Ah, okay. Go ahead.”
Nodding in response, Jae Oh lost himself in thought again.
Noticing Jae Oh’s unusual demeanor, Chae Yoon tilted her head slightly and observed him.
What could he be thinking about to be so distant?
This was a first for her, and while she found it curious and concerning, she decided it best not to pry and quietly left the office.
Jae Oh remained motionless long after Chae Yoon left.
A while later, seeming to have organized his thoughts, Jae Oh’s expression looked much better than when Chae Yoon left.
He sighed deeply and picked up his phone to message Chae Yoon.
“What time is your appointment today?”
The reply came after a considerable pause.
“7:30.”
Chae Yoon’s appointment was with her university friends.
He hadn’t thought about it in the morning, but now, after seeing that senior, Jae Oh became curious about the members of this gathering.
“Are there any men?”
“No, it’s just four of us, all women.”
Only four women…
As Jae Oh mulled over Chae Yoon’s last message, Woo Jong entered with a knock.
Recalling Jae Oh’s request not to be disturbed, Woo Jong approached him, closely observing his state.
“Director, you have a meeting in 10 minutes.”
The implication being he should prepare for it. However, Jae Oh, instead of acknowledging, asked an unrelated question.
“Do women talk about their boyfriends a lot when they gather?”
Woo Jong’s eyes momentarily blanked.
Seeing Woo Jong struggling to respond, Jae Oh sighed.
“Forget it.”
Why was he even asking him?
About to retract his query, an unexpected response caught his ear.
“They can’t not talk about it. My girlfriend mentioned someone getting a certain event or something…”
Jae Oh’s eyes widened.
“What?”
What do you mean?
“They can’t not talk about their boyfriends.”
“You had a girlfriend?”
“Yes.”
Jae Oh’s mouth dropped open in astonishment.
“Why are you reacting like that?”
“How long have you been dating?”
“I met her not long after I started working under you.”
As Jae Oh thought about when Woo Jong started dating his girlfriend, he felt dizzy.
When Woo Jong just began working for him, they were both incredibly busy.
While one was busily dating, another was going through a divorce.
For some strange reason, Jae Oh felt betrayed and his tone became slightly irritated.
“You managed to not fight and maintain a relationship during that busy time.”
“Just took more care during the busy times.”
His expression suggesting it wasn’t that hard.
Seeing Woo Jong’s expression, the edge of Jae Oh’s eyebrows lifted.
“Are you saying this for me to hear?”
“Huh? No? I was just stating a fact.”
Jae Oh, feeling annoyed by Woo Jong’s clearly innocent face, averted his eyes.
‘Well, it’s better to have a partner than not.’
Perhaps it was due to Chae Yoon’s praise, but Jae Oh found himself mildly annoyed by Woo Jong, who seemed attentive to Chae Yoon.
Woo Jong was diligent about his tasks, but something about him irked Jae Oh.
But now that he knew Woo Jong had a girlfriend, that irritation settled a bit.
“Why are you suddenly asking about what women talk about?”
Then, Chae Yoon’s earlier words came to mind.
[But, I only didn’t mention the marriage. I did say I had a boyfriend…]If she said she had a boyfriend, they must have discussed the topic.
And if among her friends there was someone like Woo Jong, who treated his girlfriend well…
‘She must have been envious.’
Jae Oh momentarily imagined what Chae Yoon might have experienced over the past three years.
However, without any information about Chae Yoon’s friends or the conversations couples have, his musings felt vague.
His sharp eyes narrowed in frustration.
Another sigh escaped from his lips, wishing to turn back time once more.
5:20 PM.
Chae Yoon was having Jae Oh review a document she’d compiled from the seminar she attended.
On her first day after the personnel announcement, Jae Oh gave Chae Yoon company financial statements, performance reports, and various news articles about the company’s achievements, and then asked her to write an analysis report.
Chae Yoon pondered on what to emphasize while writing the report, and after seeing Chae Yoon’s finished report, Jae Oh presented her with another report he had written himself.
“Analyze the differences based on this.”
After reading the report Jae Oh prepared, Chae Yoon felt a sudden clarity.
Though she had initially come reluctantly, she now genuinely wanted to learn the work.
With her rising passion for learning, Chae Yoon quickly grasped what Jae Oh intended to teach, even in these early stages.
As Chae Yoon produced impressive results, Jae Oh too found himself intrigued.
With twinkling eyes, he gave Chae Yoon a glance, finishing his review of the documents.
Chae Yoon’s face showed signs of confusion after reviewing the areas Jae Oh pointed out.
Jae Oh quietly observed her mixed expression and then subtly shifted his gaze.
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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