Eun Soo spoke while touching the edge of the bed sheet.
“I told Auntie that I came separately with Mr. Hyuk Joo because of work.”
“Ah, she did say that.”
Eun Soo, who had arranged the sheets, went into the dressing room.
She had to prepare clothes for Hyuk Joo to wear when he went to work tomorrow.
Considering Hyuk Joo’s taste, who did not like flashy colors, Eun Soo chose a deep navy suit.
Even after setting up a matching tie for the suit, she was still standing blankly in the dressing room.
Just a few days ago, she used to feel excited every time she prepared for Hyuk Joo’s departure.
Unrequited love was so bitterly sweet.
Each time she imagined him wearing the shirt and suit she chose and tying the tie, she found herself smiling at the indescribable thrill.
But now…
Unrequited love, which was unilaterally declared over without even a chance to confess, was thrown about in a wretched state.
Eun Soo clenched her cheeks with her palms.
“What are you doing there?”
At the sound of Hyuk Joo’s voice, Eun Soo pulled her hand away from her cheek.
Her cheeks, wet from the tears, were soggy and stinging.
She finished wiping her wet face with her fingertips.
Without saying anything, Eun Soo brushed past Hyuk Joo, who was standing at the entrance of the dressing room.
“Eun Soo.”
Hyuk Joo grabbed Eun Soo’s arm.
Eun Soo looked up at him. Hyuk Joo was much taller than her. So, whenever Eun Soo looked up at him like this, it felt like looking at the sky.
A distant sky that could never be reached no matter how much she stretched her hand.
“Mr. Hyuk Joo.”
Eun Soo looked at Hyuk Joo with a face pretending to be fine, a face that said she could bear everything.
“If you want to go to her, it’s okay to go anytime.”
“Oh Eun Soo?”
“I know it’s shameless and lacking in selfrespect to bring this up, but I think it’s right to do so anyway.”
She felt the strength in her tightly clenched hand slowly relax.
Eun Soo raised her head and spoke with a bitter smile.
“Just let my mother receive treatment. Then, I won’t care what you do.”
Hyuk Joo’s hand fell abruptly.
“As you know, Mr. Hyuk Joo, the possibility of my mother waking up is almost impossible.”
The first year after her mother collapsed, she lived each day with hope.
That when tonight passed and tomorrow morning came, her mother would get up as if nothing had happened.
She had no doubt that a miracle would come to her who wished so earnestly.
By the time another year passed, she occasionally worried about what to do if her mother suddenly passed away.
Every time the hospital called, she couldn’t answer the phone immediately out of fear.
And another year, another year, and yet another year.
As time passed, Eun Soo became more accustomed to feelings of resignation rather than hope. And she prayed fervently.
Just not to let her mother’s condition worsen.
It wasn’t a prayer for something she hoped would come true.
It was more like a prayer for selfcomfort, desperately wanting to gather the crumbling hope.
“I don’t know how many years it’ll be, perhaps it may even exceed 10 years. Until then, I’ll really work hard as your wife…”
Eun Soo looked at Hyuk Joo, biting her lip slightly.
Staring at his hardened, rigid eyes, Eun Soo said,
“…Please.”
“Will you work hard as my wife?”
The creases in Hyuk Joo’s brow deepened. Eun Soo slowly nodded at his words.
A woman begging her husband, who was openly seeing the woman he loved, not to abandon her, vowing to fulfill her duties as a wife.
Eun Soo was well aware of how pitiful Moon Hyuk Joo regarded her. But even so, Eun Soo wanted to hold onto Hyuk Joo and live like this.
Even if it was an empty shell.
“I should’ve rather told him not to oppose and just meet her. I wonder if Hyuk Joo ended up like this because I vehemently opposed it.”
She recalled the words her aunt had once uttered in front of her with regret.
Her aunt said that the reason for Hyuk Joo’s deep resentment towards her was because of that woman.
If she had not opposed Hyuk Joo and that woman, over time, their intense feelings would have faded, just like any ordinary man and woman.
Eun Soo agreed with her aunt’s words as well.
Love was an emotion that lost its strength over time. So even the solid love between Moon Hyuk Joo and that woman would eventually crack.
All she had to do was endure as Moon Hyuk Joo’s wife until then.
Just until then.
Eun Soo tried to take another step. But before she could lift her foot, Hyuk Joo grabbed her arm.
“Eun Soo.”
“Say it.”
“Every time you come out like this, I feel like I’m going crazy.”
“……”
Eun Soo lifted her head and locked eyes with Hyuk Joo.
His eyes trembled slightly, as if he was holding back anger.
Was he angry because she said she would never leave his side?
That must be it.
But even if Eun Soo knew, she had to pretend not to. She had resolved to live as a woman without a clue.
“I’m not sure if you’re really my wife.”
Hyuk Joo spoke in a voice so low it was scary. Eun Soo couldn’t respond and just swallowed hard.
“It feels strange every time you do this.”
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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