“Do we really have to get married?”
Yul Li doubted her own ears for a moment. The question he posed was extremely personal and private.
“That’s a distasteful question.”
There was no need to hide her displeasure. The fact that he had helped her at the mall was one thing, but his current question was far beyond the bounds of courtesy.
“If you found it unpleasant, I apologize.”
Though his words were an apology, his expression suggested that he found her frank reaction amusing. Je Ho whispered, with his gaze fixated on her.
“We can see each other tomorrow. You know there’s no one but you, right?”
Surprised by the unexpected statement, Yul Li furrowed her brows in confusion.
Was he eavesdropping on my phone call?
His quiet whispering continued.
“……I love you too.”
It was definitely not a confession of love for her. He was simply repeating what he had told Hyun Kyung. But there was a slight difference in the nuance that made her heart flutter. Was the word ‘love’ always this heavy?
As Yul Li took a short breath, a faint smile surfaced on Je Ho’s face. They both tried their best to suppress any change in their expressions, but the subtle tension between them was impossible to hide.
“From the way you’re talking about the event, it couldn’t have been Min Woo on the phone……. Right?”
Je Ho looked at Yul Li as if he expected an explanation.
“So what?”
Instead of explaining, Yul Li retorted coldly. His overstepping attitude annoyed her to the core. Just because she had an awkward meal with Min Woo, she didn’t need to show her thorns to her.
“You seem to have a bad hobby of eavesdropping on others’ calls.”
She could have corrected him that the person she had been talking to was her girlfriend, but she didn’t. She didn’t feel the need to. At Yul Li’s cold response, Je Ho smirked.
“Rather than a bad hobby, I have exceptional hearing……. Anyway, whether you have a lover and marry another man or not, it’s none of my business. You’re not my fiancee anymore.”
She thought he would pretend not to know until the end…….
When he acted like he knew, her mood slightly improved. However, Yul Li kept her icy tone and asked.
“Earlier, you acted like you didn’t know me, now you suddenly do?”
“I apologize for pretending to know late.”
Je Ho lightly nodded with a languid smile on his lips. Whether it was then or now, seeing him smile made her heart flutter.
He was the first man to ever shake her heart, and he was her first love that did not feel like first love. Although it ended without even starting……
At that time, she was attracted to him from the first moment, but now, the fact that he is treating her with respect makes her realize that the distance between them is even greater than before.
“Anyway, thank you for earlier.”
“It’s fine. I didn’t do it to receive your gratitude……. Are you still living in Hannamdong? Since I’m heading that way anyway, I’ll give you a ride.”
Without waiting for an answer, Je Ho started walking towards the parking lot. However, Yul Li did not move. When she didn’t follow him, Je Ho stopped and turned around. When he gave her a puzzled look, Yul Li calmly asked.
“Didn’t you drink alcohol?”
Although it was a question, her tone was filled with certainty. He definitely had a glass of alcohol in his hand, and by the end of the meal, it was almost empty. He wasn’t suggesting driving under the influence, was he?
“Alcohol?”
Je Ho smirked after scrunching up his face for a moment.
“Were you observing while pretending not to?”
“Observing? I was just…….”
“It was nonalcoholic. I wouldn’t be stupid enough to drink alcohol after getting my shoulder stitched up.”
He had stitches on his shoulder?
A white shirt stained red with blood came to mind, and her shoulder twitched as if she had been hurt. As Yul Li stood still, Je Ho approached her with large strides.
“If you don’t trust me, would you like to check?”
Before she could even finish his sentence, he bent his upper body towards her. His face got so close that it seemed like it would touch hers, and a sweet yet cool scent tickled her nostrils.
Taken aback by his sudden move, Yul Li’s eyes widened in surprise. She had felt a similar closeness when they had left the mall almost in an embrace, but this was a completely different feeling. As she realized the faint scent that she hadn’t noticed earlier, her cheeks burned hot.
Why am I acting like a fool?
He had merely leaned his head in to check if he smelled of alcohol. There was no need for an overly sensitive reaction. Was it because she was tired? It couldn’t have been because her partner was ‘Kwon Je Ho’.
“Believe me, it was nonalcoholic.”
Yul Li quickly replied with an expressionless face and a curt voice.
“But I prefer taking a taxi. So, I’ll take my leave now.”
After finishing her words, she turned her back and walked in the opposite direction.
“…Hmm.”
Je Ho, who had been watching Yul Li’s retreating figure, casually tilted his head, his hand in his trouser pocket.
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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