Romance for You - Chapter 2
-I’m about to board the plane. I’ll call you when I arrive.
Ina sent a text message to her father as she walked towards the boarding gate.
Her mother was in London and her father was in Seoul.
The two, who were once married, had long since become strangers, and Ina lived with her father in Seoul, meeting her mother in London every vacation.
As if compensating his hurt daughter, Ina’s father never hesitated to spend money for her sake.
He was the kind of father who willingly bought first-class plane tickets whenever Ina went to London.
-Okay. I’ll be waiting for you at the airport on time. I miss my daughter and can’t wait to see you.
Though it must have been early morning in Seoul, a reply came immediately as if he had been waiting.
Ina smiled faintly at her father’s affectionate message, then choked up again thinking about her mother.
Her resentment and sorrow had already reached their limit, and the tears welling up in her body seemed ready to spill over at the slightest touch.
Before coming to the airport, her mother had carefully broached the subject, saying she had something to tell her.
“Ina. I don’t think I can come live in Seoul.”
“……”
“Um… I met a good person here. And you’re at an age where you don’t really need your mom anymore.”
Though she wasn’t there when Ina needed her.
The words that had risen to Ina’s throat swirled in her mouth before being swallowed back down.
“I’m sorry. You’re an adult now… You understand, right?”
When her parents divorced, and when her father remarried, they just did as they pleased and asked Ina to understand.
It was no different this time.
She had waited with the hope of living with her mother for 5 years.
With just a word of apology, her mother turned that long wait into nothing in an instant.
**
Ina walked towards the arrivals gate, putting strength into her legs.
After crying all night, not only her tears but all the energy in her body seemed to have drained out.
Feeling so dizzy that she staggered and even dropped her bag.
At that time, there was a man who helped pick up her fallen belongings.
“I didn’t even get to say thank you.”
Embarrassed by her swollen eyes, she couldn’t even properly look at his face.
Though his face was blurry, the scent that brushed the tip of her nose when he held out his large hand was unique and impressive enough to awaken her hazy mind.
So much so that she wanted to ask what cologne it was if she met him again.
“Ina, over here!”
Waiting at the arrivals gate, Jung Won Jin ran over to his daughter, who had come after half a month, as if meeting her after several years.
“I told you that you didn’t need to come.”
Ina kept her head bowed, not wanting to show her still swollen face.
Even though she knew it would be found out anyway.
“Ina, your eyes…”
As expected, Jung Won Jin’s face hardened seriously.
Seeing Ina’s red, swollen eyes, his heart sank.
“…Did you cry?”
“Dad, let’s go quickly. I’m so tired.”
Instead of answering, Ina urged her father.
It was also true that she was tired.
“You went all that way to see your mom, why did you cry? Did something happen?”
On the way home in the car, Jung Won Jin asked worriedly.
Knowing he would keep asking until he found out the reason, Ina opened her mouth with a sigh.
“…Mom said she can’t come to Seoul. You remember too, right? Mom promised to come live together in Seoul when I go to university.”
“Ah…”
Jung Won Jin nodded his head silently.
The two had eventually divorced after a long separation.
The discord that began due to personality differences ultimately could not find a point of agreement and drove them apart.
And unable to resist his mother’s nagging that she couldn’t sleep every night worrying about her son, he had rushed into remarriage.
The woman his mother had introduced, saying she was decent.
Though Jung Won Jin rationalized it to himself as an unavoidable choice, he always felt sorry towards Ina.
“She said she’s going to keep staying in London. So…”
Thinking of her mother, the rims of Ina’s eyes grew hot again.
For the first few years after the divorce, Ina had lived with her mother.
As her maternal grandmother’s health worsened in London, her mother went to London, and Ina went to her father’s house after that.
There, not only her father but also her stepmother and the daughter her stepmother brought lived together under the name of family.
Ina squeezed in amongst them.
At least, that’s how it felt to Ina.
**
When they arrived home, her stepmother came out to the entrance to greet them.
In front of Ina’s father, she always treated Ina like an angel.
Saying it was her dream to be a good wife and wise mother, she acted obsequiously towards Ina’s father after meeting him and achieving that dream.
In that sense, she was a good wife to Ina’s father.
“Ina, welcome home. You must be very tired from the trip.”
“Yes.”
“I prepared a lot of delicious things since you were coming. Hurry and wash up, then come eat dinner.”
“Okay.”
Her manner was flawlessly kind with Ina’s father next to her.
Ina answered dryly and went upstairs to the second floor.
“Mom, did Dad go all the way to the airport to pick her up? Even postponing his hospital appointments?”
Yoo Mi entered the kitchen, pouting her lips as if displeased about something.
“What’s the big deal. It’s not like this is anything new. When it comes to Ina, he’d spring up even in his sleep, what do hospital appointments matter.”
“She doesn’t even appreciate Dad.”
Yoo Mi continued grumbling.
“Shh! Are you going to keep calling her ‘that girl’ to Ina? I told you to be careful when Dad’s around! Address her properly as ‘unnie’.”
Choi Soo Min scolded Yoo Mi, scanning outside the kitchen with startled eyes in case her husband had heard.
“We’re only 5 months apart in age, why do I have to call her ‘unnie’? It’s so annoying!”
Yoo Mi complained, wrinkling her face.
“Do you want to say that in front of Dad too? Ina came home after a long time, come out and at least say hello! I told you to be nice to Ina when Dad’s around.”
The first person Yoo Mi called ‘Dad’ in place of the biological father she was told died before she was born, was Jung Won Jin.
Yoo Mi was happy to suddenly have a kind and warm father one day.
The invisible presence of Jung Yi Soo seemed like nothing.
But after Ina came to this house 5 years ago, she realized.
Ina was the only one who could receive Dad’s absolute love without any effort.
“Ah! I don’t care!”
Yoo Mi retorted irritably and stormed out of the kitchen.
Entering her room with a tired air, Ina just wanted to sleep.
Ina put her legs up on the stool and sat deeply back in the single-person sofa.
She tilted her head back and closed her fatigued eyes.
In an instant, her mind grew hazy and she was about to fall asleep.
Bang. Bang.
At two rough knocks, the door flung open and Yoo Mi entered.
Ina narrowed her eyes slightly then closed them again with a frown.
“…I didn’t say to come in.”
“I knocked. Didn’t you hear?”
Yoo Mi spoke curtly without a single word of greeting asking if she had a good trip.
It wasn’t anything new.
Ina’s head throbbed at the thought of having to keep seeing Yoo Mi going forward.
“Let me see your student ID.”
Yoo Mi said, half-sitting on the table.
“Why?”
“I’m going to take my ID photo tomorrow, so let me take a look beforehand.”
This year, Yoo Mi was accepted to the dance department at Korea University.
It was an achievement made possible by Yoo Mi’s strong will to go to Korea University even if it killed her, along with her stepmother’s dedication and her father’s financial power.
Always feeling inferior to Ina who was accepted to the same medical school as her father on the first try, Yoo Mi became very high-spirited after that.
Thinking to send Yoo Mi out quickly, Ina raised her body that felt like a water-soaked cotton ball.
She brought over the bag she had thrown on the floor and stuck her hand deep inside.
Huh? Strange.
She was sure she had put it in the inner pocket of the bag.
But she couldn’t grab anything.
“Where did my student ID go?”
**
After class ended, Ji Ho exited the building.
He wasn’t sure if he had watched a movie or watched Jung Yi Soo.
Certain scenes kept rising in his mind.
The sight of Jung Yi Soo quietly gazing at the screen. The sight of her shedding tears. The sight of her covering her face and trembling shoulders.
If he waited, he would see her again in next week’s class, but.
For some reason, that one week felt too long to Ji Ho.
Diagonally across, the student union building came into view.
Which floor did they say the club room was on?
**
Following the long corridor, a wall with a poster saying [Recruiting New Ski Club Members] appeared.
Next to that, a door was wide open.
Ji Ho stood at the door and took a look around the club room that was narrower than expected.
Jung Yi Soo was not visible among the people clustered together.
Should he wait a bit?
“Oh my! Are you here to join the club?”
While Ji Ho hesitated, a brightly smiling girl approached and asked.
“Sit here.”
As Ji Ho sat in the seat the girl indicated, a membership application was promptly placed in front of him.
Do they do this to everyone who enters this room?
Holding back a laugh that threatened to escape, Ji Ho opened his mouth.
“I’m not here to join. Jung Yi Soo. I came to see her.”
“Ah… Yi Soo…”
The girl’s voice lowered dramatically as she drew out the end of the sentence.
“Yes.”
“Then while you wait for Yi Soo, let me introduce our club a bit. It’ll be boring to just wait. Haha.”
The girl spoke proactively, raising her voice again.
The girl was receiving the silent cheers of the other members watching from the side with her whole body.
Because if rumors just spread that Seo Ji Ho joined, club promotions would be over that very day.
Everyone was observing the two of them.
It was a hard atmosphere to refuse.
“Okay.”
“Our club has a lot of events even in the off-season. In spring, summer, fall we go on MT trips. Every Friday in the club room…”
Ji Ho nodded his head perfunctorily at the girl’s words.
How many minutes had passed?
As he was tapping the ends of his fingers on the membership form, wondering how much longer he would have to wait.
The sound of a conversation mixed with laughter was heard from beyond the open door.
“Yi Soo, you’re not carrying bricks in your bag, are you? Why is it so heavy?”
“Heh heh. I have a lot of books to return today.”
“Then let’s go to the library together too. I’ll carry your bag for you.”
“It’s fine. No need. I’m grateful enough that you carried it this far.”
“I have to go to the library anyway.”
At the conversing voices crossing the threshold, Ji Ho raised his head.
Jung Yi Soo holding coffee in both hands and Kang Dong Woo with bags slung over both shoulders entered side by side.
Though they weren’t close, he recognized his face as they were in the same business administration department.
Dong Woo set down the bags that looked heavy even at a glance and accepted the coffee Yi Soo handed him.
Ji Ho gazed at Yi Soo. His deep eyes turned towards her.
“Yi Soo, he said he came to see you.”
“Huh?”
At the girl’s hint, Yi Soo swiftly turned her head.
Among the familiar faces, she saw the man looking at her.
As their gazes met, Dong Woo wedged in between them.
“Seo Ji Ho, what business do you have with Yi Soo?”
Dong Woo stepped up and asked Ji Ho in Yi Soo’s stead.
His tone was rigid in addition to the firmness in his eyes.
“I must have business since I came, no?”
Ji Ho’s answer came out crookedly at the absurd meddling.
Ji Ho took out his wallet from his pocket.
Now that he had met Jung Yi Soo, he just needed to return her student ID and leave.
That was his original purpose for coming here.
But.
“Don’t tell me you’re trying to join the club?”
Looking at the membership application placed in front of Ji Ho, Dong Woo asked again.
The sentence was in the form of a question, but it didn’t sound like one.
It sounded more like he was saying Ji Ho shouldn’t do that.
Ji Ho lightly furrowed his brow and glanced down at the paper on the table for a moment before smirking.
What was this, really?
“It’s not impossible.”
The large hand that impulsively grabbed a pen unhesitatingly wrote out the letters.
It was an action the usual Ji Ho wouldn’t have taken.
Having filled in all the blanks, Ji Ho rose from his seat and went in front of Yi Soo.
Ji Ho held out the student ID he had taken from his wallet to Yi Soo.
“Oh! How did you…”
Yi Soo’s eyes grew wide as she accepted the student ID in a daze.
“You don’t remember me?”
“…”
Though their eyes had met for a moment, it was an expression of not recognizing Ji Ho at all.
He had been told he was handsome to the point of being sick of hearing it his whole life, was he not looking too good that day?
“See you next time. Make sure to remember me then.”
Smiling brightly at Yi Soo, Ji Ho turned his body.
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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