The lunchbox Professor Choi Tae Hyuk had bought was an eel over rice dish.
It seemed he had deliberately chosen it to energize her, remembering she enjoyed the eel side dish Mrs. Hwang had once packed. In reality, it was him who should have been eating it.
“You should eat too, Professor.”
“I already ate.”
Professor Choi pushed the lunchbox towards her, urging her to eat. So, Na Young began to eat the eel.
He then asked her, “Weren’t you embarrassed when Mrs. Hwang gave you the lunchbox in front of everyone today?”
Na Young felt a lump in her throat and shot him a look.
“Do you see me as a selfish person who only thinks about herself?”
“That’s not what I meant.”
Professor Choi denied with a smile, but Na Young kept reflecting on her past actions. She deeply regretted having scolded him not to disrupt hospital life.
Poking her rice with chopsticks, she asked, “Are you worried about tomorrow’s surgery?”
“You know it’s not a dangerous surgery. There’s no need to worry unnecessarily.”
Still, it would be the first time someone close to him would be on the operating table. Na Young looked up at his side profile. The usually energetic Professor Choi appeared calm, almost like a scholar today.
She couldn’t bring herself to tell him about the arranged meeting her father had set up. With Mrs. Hwang’s surgery already weighing on him, adding another problem seemed unfair.
She decided to wait until Mrs. Hwang was healthily discharged to bring it up. Until then, she thought it best to solve it herself, considering it a way to help Professor Choi.
“You’re staring at me so intently, it’s a bit embarrassing.”
Startled by Professor Choi’s comment, Na Young focused back on her eel rice and started eating diligently. Watching her concentrate on eating, Professor Choi’s lips curled up slightly.
Seeing her gave him a sense of trust. Everything would be alright.
Since Seung Hee was in gastroenterology, Na Young asked her to accompany her to visit Mrs. Hwang’s room.
Before the surgery, Mrs. Hwang was fasting and lying in bed, with Hong Sik standing guard beside her.
“You both came together,” Hong Sik greeted them cheerfully as he stood up.
Na Young approached the bedside and asked Mrs. Hwang, “How’s your condition?”
The surgery was just 3 hours away.
“I feel good.”
Mrs. Hwang had never had major surgery with general anesthesia before, so Na Young reassured her, “Think of it like a sleep endoscopy. When you wake up from anesthesia, the surgery will be over.”
“I’m not worried at all since Tae Hyuk will be in the surgery.”
While talking with Mrs. Hwang, Na Young felt a separate conversation happening behind her and turned around. Hong Sik had moved closer to Seung Hee and was talking to her.
“Let me know if you need anything. I’ll get it for you, whatever it is.”
Anyone would think he was making a sales pitch. Then it struck Na Young that she still didn’t know what exactly Hong Sik did.
“Do you have Cha Hyun’s phone number?”
Seeing Seung Hee ask for Cha Hyun’s phone number, Na Young gave her a look that seemed to question how she should handle this.
Then, for the first time since entering the room, Hong Sik, who had been smiling, suddenly became serious and protested.
“That’s not an object!”
He quickly turned and ran out of the room, leaving Seung Hee and Na Young surprised, looking towards the door.
“Why did he react like that? Did I make a mistake?” Seung Hee asked Na Young.
Na Young, unsure herself, was relieved when Mrs. Hwang explained.
“Hong Sik had his first love taken away by Cha Hyun. It seems that wound is still raw.”
“First love?”
Seung Hee was perplexed, not understanding why a first love story was coming up in this context, while Na Young thought warning Seung Hee about Cha Hyun was perhaps one of the best things she had done recently.
At Han River University Hospital, the upcoming surgery was a common type of cancer operation, but the fact that Yoon Ina and Choi Tae Hyuk were entering the operating room together had drawn immense attention. An hour before the surgery started, the observation room was already full.
“What? It’s already full?”
“The good spots are reserved for professors. We can’t even sit there.”
“Even professors are coming to see this surgery?”
Watching the surgery was as difficult as getting tickets for a famous idol concert. Although the surgery could be viewed on monitors throughout the medical department, witnessing Yoon Ina and Choi Tae Hyuk together was an opportunity only available from the observation room, making the competition fierce.
“It’s unfair for gastroenterology to hog all the seats. Give up a few!”
“This is our professor’s surgery! Of course, we should watch it!”
Amidst the heated atmosphere, residents began arguing, causing a commotion.
Unaware of the chaos in the observation room, Choi Tae Hyuk scrubbed in, trying to calm his mind. Today, in the operating room, it was not his biological mother but Mrs. Hwang who had raised him entering the surgery. That fact alone weighed heavily on his heart.
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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