Despite knowing that blatant disregard was contained in every word her motherinlaw directed towards her, Su Yeon endured in silence.
She didn’t understand why being an adoptee was such a disgrace, but she refrained from showing her emotions.
She still had far more memories of her coldhearted motherinlaw being warm and kind.
She thought that if she tried and tried again, then someday she would once again be looked upon with warm eyes.
She naively thought so.
That’s why she couldn’t tell In Ho that she was being called to the inlaw’s house every day, where she was met with icy treatment she couldn’t even put into words.
Of course, even if that wasn’t the case, she wouldn’t have confided in In Ho.
Their relationship had, at some point, become purely formal.
“Is the question of where you’ve been so troubling that it requires this much thought?”
A low voice suddenly interjected amidst her deep thoughts.
Only then did Su Yeon regain her senses and look at In Ho once more.
“I… went home for a while. Su Jin contacted me.”
It was a hastily thought up excuse.
However, In Ho appeared not to believe the excuse she’d painfully come up with after much thought.
“Home, huh… Even if you went home, it’s not like I’m going to say anything. But your response sure took a while.”
“…”
“You seem to have deliberated quite a bit over a plausible excuse.”
Disappointment filled In Ho’s eyes.
His jaw clenched for a moment.
“Your fatherinlaw called. He asked if you were with me because he couldn’t reach you.”
Su Yeon was so shocked that she held her breath, having overlooked this fact.
Come to think of it, there was only one missed call left, and she had not come across Chairman Choi’s guards, who should have been looking for her.
Normally, they would have called until her phone’s battery was drained, and she should have been apprehended by guards as loyal as limbs to Chairman Choi before she could even entertain other thoughts.
But the fact that he called In Ho instead of her…
She couldn’t understand why Chairman Choi had done so.
But what she had to worry about right now was not that issue.
“I covered for you, saying you left some props needed for shooting at home and urgently requested me to get them. You must’ve been so flustered that you couldn’t even answer your phone.”
In Ho’s voice was calm, but Su Yeon’s eyes couldn’t stop trembling as she looked at him.
She felt like she had to say something, but no words of explanation came to mind.
Where should she say she’d been?
All she’d done today was visit her inlaw’s house and attempt to take her life.
But she couldn’t possibly confess that truth.
Su Yeon swallowed the sigh that had risen to her throat, trying hard to reactivate her frozen thought processes.
“Go in and rest. I need to leave at dawn tomorrow for filming, so it seems like it would be better if I sleep in the guest room again tonight.”
But before she could come up with an excuse, she saw In Ho’s broad back filling her vision.
Su Yeon vacantly stared at In Ho’s retreating figure, as if it were a familiar sight.
How did it come to this with In Ho?
Although their relationship was founded on a strategic marriage, it hadn’t been like this from the beginning.
He was much warmer than she’d imagined, and he treated and respected her as his wife.
She was so grateful and happy that, before she knew it, her feelings towards him had started to grow.
But before she could even express her feelings once, their relationship fell apart.
It was probably after she found out she was adopted.
Su Yeon let out a deep sigh.
Then, she slowly turned around.
The place she walked to slowly was initially a couple’s bedroom, but now it had become a room for her alone.
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After showering, Su Yeon sat on the bed, leaning against the headboard.
There was a candle she had received from the elderly lady on the nightstand beside her.
Su Yeon stared at the candle from a distance.
As she did, the voice of the elderly woman who had been seated on her legs vividly came to mind.
“Take this candle.”
“Why would I need this…”
“There are many things that must be fundamentally satisfied for people to live, even if it’s just surviving the day by merely breathing. And one of the things is to have a good sleep for the day to be peaceful.”
“…”
“On a day when it’s too hard to fall asleep, try lighting a candle. You will experience magic of falling asleep in the blink of an eye.”
The magic of falling asleep in the blink of an eye.
That phrase alone made her forget about her desperate resolve.
She still couldn’t figure out why she was so curious about it.
What’s so big about sleep.
She could have it forever once she was dead.
Perhaps it was the phrase that came after the promise of falling asleep in the blink of an eye that changed her mind.
“After all, if you’ve decided to die, what harm is a few more days of living? Consider it being fooled and listen to my words.”
Did she wish someone would stop her?
“How foolish…”
It couldn’t have been anything but a foolish act.
Thinking that every day was hell but wanting to see more of it.
Regret started to creep in, wondering if she should have ended it all earlier.
“Sigh.”
But it was no use regretting it.
She had chosen to cling to life and had come back home.
Tomorrow, she had to head to her inlaws’ house early in the morning.
Having come this far, she hoped she could truly experience a magical deep sleep, like the old lady had said.
Hoping she could sleep soundly without a thought, at least during the night.
Su Yeon lit the candle with that thought.
The flame flickered on the wick, sparking before it started to shine brightly.
Su Yeon stared at the flame on the candle for a while with a blank gaze.
Soon, a fragrant smell began to seep into her nose.
It was closer to a sweet scent that reminded her of a dessert rather than a floral fragrance.
Almost instinctively, Su Yeon took a deep breath.
And surprisingly, her body began to feel incredibly heavy.
What on earth was happening.
She had never fallen asleep this quickly without the nerve calming medicine she had prescribed due to headaches.
A deep sense of wonder arose, but she had no time to ponder it.
Soon enough, Su Yeon fell into a deep sleep with her eyes tightly closed.
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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