Moreover, since Hyunsoo was the person who worked most closely with Hyukjoo.
“Saebyul.”
“Because of me, Mr. Hyunsoo might get into trouble.”
“Trouble?”
“…Mr. Moon Hyukjoo is Mr. Hyunsoo’s superior.”
“Is that why you’re worried?”
Hyunsoo covered his forehead with his hand and let out a disappointed laugh.
A few days ago, in order to create an excuse to meet Saebyul, he had mentioned that Hyukjoo seemed uncomfortable with the meeting. At that time, he thought Hyukjoo would act a bit upset. However, he didn’t know that Saebyul was seriously concerned about it.
Seeing Saebyul hesitate, who usually was lively and cheerful, Hyunsoo realized that he had made a serious mistake.
Hyunsoo’s face twisted with remorse.
“Saebyul, honestly, about that matter…”
In Hyunsoo’s heavy voice, Saebyul tilted her head slightly.
“I should apologize to you because of me.”
In response to Hyunsoo’s heavy voice, Saebyul slightly tilted her head.
“I’ll apologize to you first.”
When Hyunsoo suddenly uttered those words of apology, Saebyul opened her eyes wide and blinked continuously. What could Hyunsoo have done wrong to apologize to her?
Feeling like an out-of-place situation, she wrapped her neck with her hand.
“The vice president doesn’t hold onto that matter.”
“Huh?”
“I asked him to deliberately act angry in front of you.”
“What did you say?”
Saebyul’s forehead wrinkled considerably.
“It seemed like the vice president was upset because of my ambition to meet you somehow… I lied.”
“Mr. Hyunsoo?”
“I’m really sorry.”
This time, Hyunsoo dropped his head.
Saebyul had to suppress the laughter that wanted to burst out at his confession. Even though it was a lie, the intention to meet her more was so cute.
Saebyul clenched her fist against her chest as if she were a person extremely angry.
“Mr. Hyunsoo is really a bad person.”
“…Sorry. I was short-sighted.”
“That’s why you did that to trick me.”
“Trick… Right. I got too carried away with the desire to do well.”
“I’ve made mistakes, and Mr. Hyunsoo has made mistakes, so let’s just forget about it.”
Saebyul tightly held Hyunsoo’s hand.
At her lenient attitude, Hyunsoo relaxed his tense face and whispered like a murmur.
“I’m really grateful for your understanding.”
“Phew, I’m really relieved. I thought I was caught properly by Mr. Moon Hyukjoo.”
“What’s there to be afraid of?”
“Mr. Moon Hyukjoo built the company library for me. If he tells me not to come in the future, I even lost sleep worrying about it.”
“Go Saebyul, you’re really something.”
Hyunsoo laughed at Saebyul’s appearance, who was trembling with fear about Moon Hyukjoo. With a firmer grip on her hand, he whispered to her ear like a secret.
“You’re so cute.”
At Hyunsoo’s gentle words, Saebyul’s face blushed prettily.
Above the heads of the two people walking hand in hand, countless stars twinkled.
The employees of Myungjin Gallery exchanged uneasy glances like walking on thin ice.
Just this morning, the atmosphere wasn’t bad. However, around lunchtime, the gallery froze abruptly due to the mail that came to Yeongran.
Upon receiving Yeongran’s call, Manager Jung rushed over. Before entering the director’s office, he subtly asked the employees.
“Where’s the director?”
Instead of an answer, the employee slowly turned his head sideways. It was a signal that Yeongran’s mood was uncomfortable.
Sighing softly, Kiseop walked into the director’s office.
Yeongran, with her forehead deeply wrinkled, was holding both sides of her waist with her hands.
“Director.”
At Manager Jung’s voice, she looked up.
“They’re asking me to come for a testimonial investigation?”
“…It’s just a formality.”
“Formality?”
Yeongran narrowed her eyebrows and shot Kiseop a sharp look. Cold sweat ran down his back under her piercing gaze.
It was reported that a summons had arrived related to the embezzlement and bribery case of CEO Oh Juhwan. Although it was labeled as a witness investigation, it could easily turn into an interrogation as a suspect at any time.
In his role, handling tasks mostly not to be exposed externally, which Yeongran ordered, Kiseop felt a scent that the prosecutor had already decided.
Unlike Prosecutor Yoon Taejin, who originally handled CEO Oh Juhwan’s case, the newly assigned Prosecutor Jo Sunghan was not cooperative.
It was heard that he even outright rejected Yeongran’s proposal to give him a painting as a gift. So, yesterday, Kiseop discreetly contacted Prosecutor Jo Sunghan.
He told Prosecutor Jo Sunghan to investigate CEO Oh Juhwan’s case only from CEO Oh Juhwan’s side. Despite mentioning senior colleagues and influential figures, Kiseop’s attempts to persuade him were in vain.
Instead, Prosecutor Jo Sunghan seized on his weakness.
“You said it’s Manager Jung Kiseop, right? What should I do about this? I always carry a recorder with me. Can I play this in front of those people you just mentioned?”
Jo Sunghan showed the recorder. While doing so, he teased that he would send the recorded files to those he mentioned. So, Kiseop couldn’t say anything and left.
He hadn’t reported yesterday’s events to Yeongran properly yet.
However, since a summons demanding a witness investigation had suddenly arrived, Yeongran might think that she was involved because of what Kiseop did to Prosecutor Jo Sunghan.
Kiseop felt dizzy at the thought that he might be hit by unnecessary blame arrows.
“What did you say when you met yesterday?”
“I asked him to organize the matter related to CEO Oh Juhwan only from that side.”
“And?”
“…I mentioned some people’s names.”
“So you took it as a threat.”
Yeongran chuckled and threw the summons she had placed on the desk at Kiseop.
She had never been seen near the prosecutor’s office until now.
Through her in-laws, who were from a prestigious political family, she learned that to secure her future, she had to form connections everywhere without taking sides.
So, Yeongran had been managing lists of not only prosecutors but also police officers and politicians for a considerable period.
She thought it would be okay to commit any wrongdoing. However, suddenly, a piranha appeared out of nowhere, jumping around and attacking her.
The problem was that the piranha didn’t listen.
Even her immediate superior had no idea how to handle it, shaking his head as if he had no choice.
Yeongran’s blood boiled. More than the fact that she had to undergo a witness investigation, she was angrier about the growing anxiety that her previously unshaken character was cracking.
The reason Yeongran, who never easily wavered in any situation, was excessively furious was precisely because of that.
Yeongran trembled her tightly clenched fist violently.
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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