Tein, sensing danger, slowly turned his body towards Sharti.
Then he quickly ran to Sharti and hid behind her.
“…?”
Sharti looked at Tein with a puzzled face.
Tein, who was tightly grasping her robe, looked like a kitten raising its fur.
It was a look of alertness, not fear.
‘How cute.’
Sharti stroked Tein’s head with a pleased expression.
Ren, who was being excluded from the atmosphere he couldn’t interfere with, cleared his throat.
He had to hurry and get Tein’s support.
“Well, someone has come to make a decision.”
Sharti and Tein looked at each other, tilting their heads.
“When opinions don’t narrow, it’s good to hear from a third party.”
Ren is weak to Sharti, but Sharti is weak to Tein.
And Tein was weak to the title of doctor.
Ren looked at Tein, hiding his satisfied inner thoughts.
“Then I’ll talk to my doctor first.”
As if it was ever like a kitten tensing its eyes, Tein looked up at Ren with round eyes.
Sharti, watching the exchange of glances between the two, felt a strange sense of alienation.
Sharti suddenly realized that Tein’s sparkling gaze and Ren’s trusting gaze were not limited to her.
And soon Sharti realizes one more thing.
“Doctor! We must take Ren!”
Tein was not on her side.
[This is the timeline separator]It was simple and easy for Ren to gain Tein’s support.
[What is an epidemic?] [An epidemic is a scary disease. Many people can get sick, and even die.]Tein explained with a serious expression, reciting epidemic events he had read about in books.
The child’s face darkened with fear beyond the printed words.
Ren gently stroked Tein’s head with his large hand.
[It seems Sha will go on a treatment trip.] [The doctor goes on many treatment trips in winter. There are many isolated patients in winter. The doctor is needed.] [Yes. That’s why Sha wants to go to a village suspected of having an epidemic.] […!]Tein covered his mouth with both hands in surprise. Reflexively about to blurt out that it was dangerous and not allowed, Tein swallowed hard.
Doctors must treat people and help the sick.
And Sharti was an excellent doctor.
She was the teacher Tein admired and was proud of.
[I’m worried. I’m worried she’ll catch the epidemic, and I’m worried about her going alone to an unfamiliar village.]At Ren’s honest feelings, Tein slowly lowered his hands.
Ren hid a smile at the child’s upright and moved gaze.
[I want to follow Sha. I want to go with Sha and help her.]He informed Tein as gently as possible that ‘But your cold-hearted teacher is against it.’
Tein didn’t nod that Sharti’s decision was right.
But he didn’t look like he was particularly supporting Ren’s will either.
With a face deep in thought, Tein wrinkled his nose.
[Ren is a good person.]After a long time, Tein opened his mouth and said, looking up at Ren with clear eyes.
[So the doctor said she doesn’t want to be a burden to Ren.] […What?]Tein looked at Ren solemnly, as if he had made some decision.
[Ren will leave when he finds his memories. So the doctor doesn’t waver for Ren.]Ren swallowed an incredulous sigh as he listened to Tein’s disjointed words.
He was reminded of Sharti, who had suddenly brought up the relationship between men and women.
Thanks to Tein, he could guess the reason, and for a moment he felt stuffy and couldn’t manage his expression.
[…Then, do you think I shouldn’t follow?]Ren asked Tein. Tein shook his head left and right.
What Tein had overheard was an adult conversation between Sharti and Birena, and relationships were still difficult for a young child to understand.
But he understood one thing.
“The doctor needs Ren!”
Tein strongly asserted his opinion towards Sharti.
Sharti hurriedly wrote a note with a flustered gesture.
“The doctor is also in danger.”
At Tein’s firm attitude, Sharti glared at Ren, rolling only her eyes.
Ren, who had stepped far back from Tein, was wearing an indifferent expression as if he had nothing to do with it.
His attitude of tattling everything to Tein and then slipping away was extremely annoying.
Even when she explained as if soothing him, Tein stubbornly shook his head.
“Ren can also prepare sufficiently. Ren listens well to the doctor. He promised.”
“…”
Sharti looked at Ren again with clouded eyes.
Why did he make a promise with Tein?
Sharti crouched down to meet Tein’s eye level.
“I trust the doctor. But I worry.”
Tein fidgeted with his fingers, glancing at Sharti.
“Ren also trusts the doctor. And he worries. So Ren promised.”
Tein held out his pinky finger to Sharti.
His round eyes were sparkling with pure expectation.
“He promised to protect the doctor preciously, not to leave the doctor’s side, and to keep the doctor from getting sick.”
“…”
“So…”
Tein leaned towards Sharti and whispered softly in her ear, making a hand barrier.
“The doctor can be greedy.”
“…!”
Tein grinned at the startled Sharti.
Then his small body hugged Sharti’s neck with all his might.
“Like grandmother, like big sister, I will also protect the doctor.”
It was a bright aspiration.
Sharti’s nose tingled and her eyes turned red.
When Sharti hugged Tein back, the child’s laughter tickled her ear.
And Ren, who had been watching the scene with his arms folded, loosened his posture and put one hand on his waist.
Including Tein, the Bireta family were beings who instantly broke down Sharti’s iron wall.
‘No. It seems Sharti herself tears down the wall only for that family.’
It was an area absolutely not permitted to the current Ren.
Ren recalled the content Tein had told him.
‘As long as I leave room for the possibility that I’ll leave, the distance with Sha won’t change.’
Although he didn’t show it in front of Tein, he was actually quite shocked.
‘A burden, huh.’
He had never once thought of Sharti’s kindness in such a way – saving his life, taking him in, feeding him, and even taking care of him.
Ren seriously reflected.
‘I must have acted in a way that made her feel that way.’
And he became even more determined to follow Sharti.
He had to help Sharti focus on treatment in an unfamiliar place with all his might, and protect her.
‘From what I hear, the village atmosphere doesn’t seem favorable to Sha either. I must prevent them from speaking carelessly to Sha.’
Above all, Ren didn’t like the skinny, faded pink-haired young man with glasses.
To be precise, he was uncomfortable with the memories that only Sharti and Ashu shared.
He also didn’t like the expression and gaze that changed every time he looked at Sharti.
‘I have a bad feeling.’
He had instinctively felt a bad premonition from the moment Ashu appeared.
It felt like he would regret it for a long time if he let Sharti go alone.
“…”
Ren shook off his thoughts for now as he watched Sharti approaching.
Sharti stood in front of him and held out a note.
“I will absolutely never trouble you by not being able to take care of myself. Sha, I promise.”
“…”
Sharti, who had been glaring at him, finally nodded with a small sigh.
Just as Ren’s expression was about to soften at the finally granted permission, he felt her glaring gaze for a moment and nodded as indifferently as possible.
Sharti rolled her eyes at his extremely annoying appearance.
Tein, watching the two, smiled with satisfaction.
“Ren is trying. He will be loved.”
And Tein also made a resolution.
“I must tell grandmother.”
An epidemic was never a problem that an individual could handle alone.
For Sharti to not be in danger, she needed help.
That evening, Tein immediately informed Bireta of Sharti’s treatment trip.
[This is the timeline separator]The day of departure for the treatment trip was two days later.
During that time, Sharti made medicine for emergencies and collected information on cases suspected to be the disease spreading in Ashu’s village.
She received help from Tein for the former and from Bireta for the latter.
Finally, on the morning of departure, unlike Sharti who only carried a travel bag, Ren left the log cabin with bundles of luggage hanging on his back.
“Be careful on your trip.”
“You know your body is the most important, right Sha? Don’t overdo it.”
“You must make Ren do the hard work!”
Carrying an armful of worries from the Bireta family, Sharti set off on the trip with Ren.
‘I wonder how long it will take. When I went alone, it took about a week.’
The winter mountains inevitably slowed down the pace as the ground often froze and was covered in snow, and especially Sharti couldn’t go fast as her legs would stiffen and limp if she walked for too long.
Fortunately, at this time of year it was still less cold and there was no news of snow, but the problem was the fog currently spread out before their eyes.
‘Assuming we don’t lose our way, maybe we’ll arrive within five days.’
Although it was worrying to have to leave on such a foggy day, it was perfect for crossing the mountains while avoiding people’s eyes.
Thanks to the increasingly thick fog, Ren had also taken off his stuffy bandages.
‘We need to go as fast as possible. We shouldn’t delay too much.’
As it was later than expected, Sharti was in a state of thorough preparation in her own way.
Even while studying about epidemics, Sharti went down to the village from time to time to look after the injured patients. And finally, the injured patients whose condition had improved enough to descend decided to leave the village as soon as the fog lifted.
In addition, she was able to find clues about the disease spreading in Ashu’s village while making various hypotheses with the Bireta family.
Sharti fiddled with a palm-sized raw stone in her bag.
“Sha-.”
“…!”
When Sharti turned her head, Ren, who had approached suddenly, picked her up just like that.
Startled, Sharti reflexively put her arms around his neck.
“You said we should hurry, so it would be better to go like this.”
“…?”
Before Sharti could say anything, Ren increased his speed.
Despite being fully loaded with luggage, Sharti’s weight didn’t seem to be felt at all as Ren ran without even a change in his breathing.
“Re, Ren! Put me down! If we fall because the fog is thick…”
“That’s why hold on tight so we don’t fall.”
Ren ran quickly through the fog as if swimming.
“This makes it difficult to guide the way!”
“I looked at the map too. I’ve already memorized it, and if the fog makes the path confusing, I’ll ask then.”
Sharti, who had run out of excuses, clenched her fists tightly in tension. If she struggled even a little, it felt like Ren might drop her or they might roll together.
As her body kept tensing up, Sharti finally hugged Ren’s neck.
Swallowing a satisfied groan, Ren’s Adam’s apple bobbed greatly.
“We should rest here for today.”
When Ren put Sharti down, it was already after the day had set.
Although she had only been held by Ren, Sharti’s arms and legs were trembling.
‘I, I survived!’
Sharti, receiving support, barely sat down on the blanket Ren had spread out and caught her breath.
Perhaps because she was frightened by a speed she had never experienced before, her whole body was tired.
“Sha, drink water first.”
Ren, who had put down potatoes wrapped in cloth, handed her a water bottle.
Sharti received it with both hands and quickly drank the water.
‘I’ll live…’
She also took a big bite of the potato that Ren had peeled and split in half.
While watching Sharti, who was focusing on eating without saying anything, Ren also took out a blanket and covered her shoulders.
“Ren eat too.”
Sharti, with her mouth full of potato, chewed and held out the remaining half of the potato to Ren.
“…I thought you’d be angry.”
When Ren confessed his guilt on his own, Sharti smiled awkwardly.
“I was surprised, but it’s true that we need to arrive at the village quickly. And…”
“And?”
“It’s too much to be angry when only Ren overexerted himself, and I just, just was held by Ren.”
Sharti, avoiding Ren’s gaze, wrinkled her nose in embarrassment.
Ren let out a small silent laugh.
Sharti glared at Ren, who looked fine.
“But tell me in advance next time. I was really surprised.”
“I will.”
It was an unspoken permission that he could pick her up again.
Whether it was fortunate or not that she didn’t see him as a man was uncertain, but anyway, Ren, having obtained what he wanted, swallowed both a satisfied smile and the potato.
“Then Sha, from tomorrow I’ll run a little faster, so it would be better to hug, no, cling tighter than today.”
“What?”
When Ren declared with an indifferent face that he would run faster than today, Sharti gripped the water bottle tightly.
She couldn’t gauge how much scarier it would be if the speed was faster than today.
But Sharti steeled herself by moistening her throat once more.
‘At Ren’s speed, we’ll arrive at the village quickly.’
Sharti nodded.
“In exchange, I’ll stand watch alone at night.”
Even if Ren was physically superior, there was a big risk that his immunity would drop if his physical strength decreased due to the arduous mountain journey.
Rather, taking responsibility for Ren’s sleep was a much more reasonable proposal than offering to carry the luggage instead of Ren.
Ren, who seemed to be contemplating for a moment, nodded.
“But there’s a condition.”
__________
Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation (Female-dominant)
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.
Synopsis:
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.
He even had his eyes on another woman.
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.
Su Mu expressed her disdain.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
She also wanted to embrace Xie Yi, who had silently stayed by her side in her previous life and committed suicide by taking poison after her death.
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.”
[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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