While waiting for the food after ordering, they looked out the window.
The muddy-colored Thames River flowed gracefully below.
“How is it? Do you like it?”
“Yeah. It’s your birthday today, so it has to suit your taste. It feels like my birthday when you ask me such things.”
“I should like it since you like it.”
Isu laughed at Jiho’s words.
‘Where did he separately learn to say such beautiful things every time?’
Even though she heard it every time, it still tickled her heart.
“It’s so refreshing here; I don’t want to leave.”
It was high noon, with the midsummer sun dazzlingly shining.
Although it was scorching hot outside like a steamer, the cool air in the restaurant quickly dried the sweat they had shed while walking in the park.
Jiho smiled meaningfully and nodded his head.
At that time, a staff member brought bread and butter before the meal.
Isu thought she should eat lunch as long as possible in a cool place and picked up the bread.
After that, beautiful dishes, like in a painting, continued to be served in course.
Jiho, paying attention to whether Isu was eating well, moved the dishes of the food Isu enjoyed eating closer to her, encouraging her to eat more.
As the meal was coming to an end, Isu took a small shopping bag from her bag and handed it to Jiho.
“This is a birthday present.”
“Wow.”
Seeing the shyly extended gift, Jiho chuckled with a short exclamation.
“Open it.”
“Not now, in a little while.”
“Huh? When?”
Jiho looked down at the box in the shopping bag and then looked up.
“We’re done eating, so let’s go now.”
In a hurry, Jiho took Isu’s hand and stood up from the table.
With the thought of going out into the steamer, Isu followed Jiho with a regretful expression.
**
Just as they were about to go outside, Jiho took Isu’s hand and went back into the building.
Entering through a different entrance than before, they took the elevator again.
“Where are we going?”
“To unwrap the birthday present.”
While Isu was bewildered, the elevator arrived.
The marble floor was surrounded by glass walls on all sides.
Held by Jiho’s hand, Isu moved inward.
“Just wait here for a moment.”
Jiho pointed to a comfortable sofa in the spacious area.
Isu let go of the hand she was holding and nodded her head.
Looking around the space, Isu realized that this place was the hotel lobby.
Jiho, standing in front of Isu with a surprised expression, said he had checked in.
“Let’s go up.”
“We’ve come to the hotel. Right?”
“You didn’t want to go outside.”
Smiling sweetly, Jiho took Isu’s hand again and walked towards the elevator.
“Did we come here because of what I said?”
“You don’t like the heat, right?”
Just as they entered the elevator, they joined a couple who looked like a newlywed Korean couple.
Standing next to the sweet couple, Isu stood with an awkward face, keeping her mouth shut.
Jiho led the way as Isu followed, thinking that this was what they were supposed to do as a couple.
In front of the room, Jiho touched the key to the sensor.
Click. With a sound, he forcefully pulled the handle, and the door opened.
Isu took a step in first through the wide-open door.
Beyond the glass window that extended from the floor to the ceiling, the same London cityscape they had just seen spread out.
The only difference was that it looked even more profound with the increased height.
“I wanted to come here with you too.”
Jiho looked around the room with a satisfied expression.
Although they had been visiting each other’s homes, it felt strange for Isu to be in a hotel.
“Did you decide to come here on your own without telling me?”
Isu asked a question that had been on her mind since earlier.
“We can stay here until late and then go home. It’s hotter outside.”
“I couldn’t have imagined coming to a hotel today.”
Isu, still unable to relax her expression, said.
Even though they hadn’t come on a trip, the situation of being in a hotel room with her boyfriend felt awkward.
“Did you come without saying anything and get mad? I just wanted to be alone with you today.”
Jiho, with an uncomfortable expression, hugged Isu from behind and buried his face in her neck.
Unable to move, he held her tightly, and suddenly Isu’s body seemed to float in the air.
With a scream, Isu clung to Jiho’s neck to prevent herself from falling.
Holding Isu like a baby, Jiho, who had embraced Isu, said, lowering his gaze.
“If you promise not to get mad, I’ll let you down.”
With a serious expression, Jiho’s face approached Isu’s face, which was nestled in his arms.
“I’m not mad; I just feel weird. It’s my first time coming to a hotel with a guy.”
“It’s my first time too. I like that it’s the first time with you.”
Holding Isu in his arms, Jiho walked to the sofa and sat down.
Isu, sitting on Jiho’s thigh, was at the same eye level as Jiho.
“Now I can kiss you.”
“Huh?”
Jiho’s large hand wrapped around Isu’s cheek, and their lips met immediately.
Jiho’s hot breath rushed in as he pulled Isu’s waist closer.
The deep and intense kiss continued for a long time.
After slowly parting their lips, Isu, who had been exhaling trembling breaths, smiled.
“I got lipstick on you.”
“Your lips are tinted too.”
Laughing while facing each other, they wiped the smeared lipstick from each other’s lips with their fingers.
“Jiho, now open the gift.”
“Yeah.”
Thinking about what to buy for Jiho, who seemed to have everything he needed, she had pondered for a long time.
Eventually, she chose a gift she could always carry.
As Jiho opened the small box, he grinned.
Inside the box was a bracelet.
“It’s a set with your necklace.”
“I didn’t know what you wanted, so I bought it according to my taste.”
Inside the bracelet, the engraved letters IS&JH were visible.
“You even had letters engraved. Did you buy this in Seoul in advance?”
“Yeah. I had it engraved.”
“Wow, it’s touching.”
“Give me your hand. I’ll put it on for you.”
Smiling, Jiho extended his wrist to Isu.
While Isu filled the bracelet, Jiho tilted his head and playfully kissed Isu’s neck and cheek.
With a tingling sensation, Isu, who had barely filled the bracelet, looked up with a pleased expression.
“Thanks for the gift. But, there’s something I really want.”
“Oh, you had something you wanted. You should have asked earlier. What is it?”
With a regretful expression, Isu asked, “Will you give it if I tell you?”
“Yeah. If it’s something I can give.”
Isu looked at Jiho with a truly curious expression.
“Isu. You.”
Jiho said with a bright smile.
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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