Secret Cohabitation Love - Chapter 2
‘Wow’, ‘Whistle’. The simultaneous short exclamations and whistle sound were quickly buried in the heavy air.
In the suffocating silence, Tae Ha’s slightly raised lips went down coldly.
“What the X kind of talk is that?”
“I’m glad you said it like that.”
Heh, Tae Ha laughed for the second time. An icy chuckle flows low under his chin.
It’s shocking enough for the husband, but now it’s fortunate?
“Say it again. That I’m your…”
Unable to even say ‘husband’, Tae Ha opened and closed his right hand incredulously, furrowing his brow tightly.
Eun Seo’s eyes following his fingertips completed Tae Ha’s sentence as soon as his hand closed.
“Husband.”
The nod that accompanied her answer was also a firm confirmation, so Tae Ha slightly raised the corner of his lips.
For 29 years he hadn’t felt even a single flutter for any woman, to the point he seriously reconsidered his sexual identity and worried about it, and now marriage?
“Have journalists been digging into my profile lately? Or has some psychiatric ward left its doors open?”
Only then did the crowd who hadn’t been laughing while watching Tae Ha start to snicker.
‘She must be really crazy.’, ‘Is she on drugs?’ Blatant jeers and mockery. But Eun Seo didn’t move an inch, as if she couldn’t hear people’s sneers.
Tae Ha walked out to the opaque glass wall covering the table, without needing to see more.
“Keep quiet about what happened today, everyone.”
After firmly warning his companions, he nodded to Eun Seo.
“Come out. Before you embarrass yourself further.”
The foot that was said to be injured just a moment ago seemed quite fine. His chauffeur hurriedly followed behind him.
“Prepare the car.”
Tae Ha, who had come out to the lobby after passing several tables, finally turned around. The thumping music faded faintly as the door closed.
“I’m leaving from here. Let’s pretend I didn’t hear that absurd story. I’m letting it slide because it seems you don’t know who I am.”
“You’re Kwon Tae Ha, aren’t you?”
Huh. Tae Ha clicked his tongue once and then opened the door and went out. He was so fast that Eun Seo could barely keep up.
“The car is here!”
At the security guard’s words, Tae Ha, without needing to see more, got into the car that had just pulled out of the parking lot. As soon as he sat in the seat, Tae Ha put his finger on the window button.
“Let’s go.”
Just as Driver Kim, who had been watching carefully, was about to step on the accelerator, papers were urgently pushed through the window gap that was open about one-fifth.
Even though she almost hurt her wrist, Eun Seo didn’t pull her arm back.
“What is it?”
“Documents! … Marriage confirmation documents!”
At the desperate voice, the window that had almost closed slowly lowered. As the stuffy tinting that blocked between them was removed, the man’s intense gaze openly showed displeasure.
Tae Ha still watched Eun Seo carefully with a distrustful gaze, while unfolding the document that was neatly folded in the middle.
Just a few seconds.
As he read down the document, his straight brow furrowed rapidly, and his thick eyebrows twitched terribly.
What is this.
The resident registration number was clearly his own, and Song Eun Seo was a woman one year younger than him.
Tae Ha raised his slanted chin straight. Then he opened the car door and got out again.
As the man entered the narrow space, Eun Seo hastily stepped back a few steps.
“Hey. Ms. Song Eun Seo, do you know me?”
“Now I do. Does Mr. Kwon Tae Ha really not know me? Really?”
His gaze, trying to gauge her, was as sharp as a sharpened knife. A solid gaze that filled every joint and between every vein.
The youthful-looking woman seemed calm. However, unlike before, her slightly trembling eyes were anxious, unlike her composed voice. Just like someone who had done something wrong.
That’s right, she must be a con artist.
“Ms. Song Eun Seo. Do you have two lives? Or do you have a lot of money at home?”
“What?”
“You’ll have to give up one of the two to clean this up. Can you handle the aftermath?”
“…”
“This is the first time I’ve seen someone like you, so I’m not sure how to handle this.”
“…”
“Who sent you?”
“What do you mean?”
“I’m asking where you learned to do this.”
“You seem to be misunderstanding something, but learn what? What?”
“Marriage fraud. Did you hear you could make some money doing this? Or are you a stalker?”
Eun Seo’s lips parted in disbelief. The man was thinking the same thing as her.
Marriage fraud.
The numerous doubts she had before coming here.
For a marriage registration to be done alone by her grandmother, it’s extremely inconvenient and complicated, and requires thoroughly knowing the other person’s personal information.
Her grandmother did such an incredible thing alone? It’s impossible.
If a man would do this to an elderly grandmother, he must be a con artist aiming for something, or a very terrible person, or someone with significant problems who can’t marry normally.
Maybe organ trafficking? Or human trafficking?
However, the fact that even after nearly three months of marriage, the man who was supposed to be her husband hadn’t even contacted her, let alone look for her, made her consider the possibility that the man might also have been caught up in someone else’s scheme.
So she came. Even though her organs might be stolen.
The important thing was, her will or feelings were thoroughly excluded from this marriage, and despite all sorts of ominous and complicated thoughts, there was only one conclusion.
That’s why she came here, to the house or party venue, taking the risk.
Whatever it was, this marriage had to be undone.
“I’m not committing fraud.”
“Then what is it? Am I the one committing fraud?”
“You can’t tell just by looking at the outside, that’s what a con artist is. Maybe you’re the one committing fraud.”
“What would I need that badly?”
“Just because you look fine on the outside doesn’t mean you don’t need anything.”
Tae Ha snorted and leaned his upper body slightly towards Eun Seo.
“You chose the wrong person.”
“That’s what I want to say. I really have nothing. I have nothing to give.”
“Listen carefully, Ms. Song Eun Seo. I gave you a chance, and it’s you who missed the opportunity.”
“Look, I think you’re misunderstanding something. I came here to undo this marriage.”
“One thing is certain, whether this document is false or real, you’ll have to wait for my lawyer.”
“No, wait. Do you think I want to marry you…”
That’s when it happened. Eun Seo’s phone in her hand started ringing loudly.
Looking at the screen vibrating in her hand, she glanced back and forth between Tae Ha and the phone, hesitated a bit, and then turned around.
“Hello? … Home?”
The voice speaking calmly gradually grew louder as time passed, to the point where Tae Ha’s ears couldn’t ignore it.
“What are you saying? … Repairs? … That can’t be. You must have misunderstood… I’ll come right now.”
The face that turned back towards him was flushed red and looked flustered.
“I’ll come back again.”
After finishing her last words like a notification, Eun Seo hurriedly turned around.
Watching the woman running away urgently, Tae Ha instructed the secretary standing a few meters behind.
“Team Leader Choi. Follow that woman. Check every move she makes, and report if anything special happens. Find out what kind of woman she is. If necessary, even where she lives.”
Even after Team Leader Choi had left, Tae Ha still stared piercingly at Eun Seo’s retreating back.
Marriage, huh.
As he turned away sneering, suddenly his shoulder ached as if pierced by a heated awl.
What’s this? Did a bug bite me?
Again, a sharp pain. Huh.
Tae Ha clutched his left shoulder and leaned against the car body.
The muscle near the scapula started to ache little by little, and soon an unprecedented burning sensation quickly spread throughout his body along his nerves.
The stinging pain was like needles tearing his skin, and the burning pain that felt like being engulfed in flames was so painful he wanted to sever his blood vessels.
Tae Ha gripped the car body until his knuckles turned white, and with his other hand, he clutched his blazing shoulder.
It was hard to breathe.
For the first time in over 20 years since he could remember, he felt this extreme pain. The letters tattooed on his scapula 23 years ago were reacting violently as if they were being torn off.
What on earth is this. What’s so.
“Sir! What’s wrong!”
The chauffeur rushed to Tae Ha, who was barely supporting his body.
With the veins bulging in his neck from enduring the pain and his face turning pale, looking like he might collapse at any moment, the chauffeur put Tae Ha’s arm over his neck.
“Lean on me here. This way!”
However, before they could go far, Tae Ha’s knees buckled.
The gray sky is all black. The light snowflakes spreading widely from the zenith quickly disappeared on his feverish cheeks.
The white snow scatters in disarray. Cold sweat seeped out, dampening his shirt. A bleak chill pierces his whole body.
“I’ll inform the Chairman!”
At the chauffeur’s urgent words, Tae Ha desperately grabbed the chauffeur’s tie and pulled it towards his face. The hoarse voice that barely escaped from his tightly constricted throat grated on the ears.
“That woman, don’t tell about that woman. Don’t worry… worry…”
His narrowing oval vision soon blurred. As the white light that remained as a dot disappeared, a black curtain instantly covered his sight.
And then it was blackout.
* * *
“Haa, haa, haa.”
At the edge of Gangwon Province, in Solnae Village.
Eun Seo, who got off the bus only the next day because she missed the last bus, ran hastily towards her house.
Her palm, which had been anxiously scratched throughout the bus ride, was soaked with sweat even though it was winter.
[ Where did you go without moving out? ] [ What are you talking about? What do you mean by moving out? ] [ Weren’t you supposed to move out today? After begging and pleading, I gave you a few months, but how can you still not have moved out? We need to start repairs soon. How can this happen? ]Surely, there was plenty of time left on the lease. But grandmother had terminated the contract three months ago and received the deposit back.
Grandmother had received that money in cash, and the whereabouts of the money were unknown. She couldn’t even confirm whether it was a scam or not.
Grandmother, what on earth happened?
The lease contract that had already ended, the returned deposit without a trace. The marriage registration that took place around the same time, and grandmother’s death.
Marriage, Kwon Tae Ha, fraud.
Words that should never exist in her life led her into confusion.
The hope of going back to the university she had quit after two years, the dream of becoming a translator by attending the Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation, all disappeared.
The small amount of money from the government was barely enough to cover grandmother’s hospital bills and living expenses, and even the money she had earned from tutoring as a prestigious university student didn’t have much left.
She had temporarily put aside all her dreams for her grandmother, who said she was sick but would never come to Seoul even if she died. She thought it would be okay for a while. But she hadn’t completely deleted them.
But now she really doesn’t know where to start.
She had only done her best for her only family, but all that was left in her bank account was three hundred thousand won after paying for the funeral.
It felt like the specter of misfortune was grabbing her ankle and pulling her into a bottomless pit.
The snow had already turned into big flakes. Hard ice pieces scattered like white ashes in the wind.
If she loses the house too, if even that’s gone. What should I really do?
On a winter afternoon, tears flowed endlessly down Eun Seo’s cheeks as she ran without pause along the deserted farm road.
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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