“It’s unfair. I didn’t do this. Everything is Minwoo’s doing. I wouldn’t let it go to this extent. Father, you know better than anyone.”
“Tsk, worthless.”
Chairman Kwon clicked his tongue, looking down at Vice President Kwon with disappointed eyes.
“This is your son’s doing. Instead of pretending to embrace, it’s better not to.”
“Father, please.”
“I don’t want to hear it.”
Chairman Kwon abruptly stood up and walked out of the meeting room without looking back.
“Father.”
As Vice President Kwon left without even turning back, he glared at Jeho with a fierce expression.
“You! You’ve been boasting about getting the secret ledger from Manager Yoon, but behind the scenes, you were scheming something else?”
“Don’t get excited, calm down, Little Brother.”
“Hey, this guy. Do I look like I’m not excited right now?”
Whether Vice President Kwon shouted or not, Jeho leaned back in his chair with a relaxed gesture, resting his back against the backrest.
“Think rationally, Little Brother. Would I bring up an incident from ten years ago in an emergency board meeting? The case was already settled and closed with all compensations back then.”
“But why did Manager Yoon have the secret ledger…”
“A secret ledger? If he had ordered it to be burned ten years ago, it wouldn’t exist now, would it?”
“What?”
The expression on Vice President Kwon’s face, which was blank for a moment, gradually distorted.
The ledger he took from Yuli earlier was also fake. The real one had already been burned ten years ago, and the ledger he received from Manager Yoon was also a fake.
“So, until now, you, this guy. Were you plotting with that X and trying to manipulate me?”
“Manipulation? What did I do? How can you say such a thing?”
“You, this guy!”
Vice President Kwon, who had stood up from his seat, strode toward Jeho threateningly. However, he seemed to change his mind, smirking and twisting his lips.
“You played tricks to avoid having the ledger taken away in the end, huh? I knew I should have hit you one more time at the end. Too bad. Judging by the burst lips, I hit you pretty hard. Still, Yuli won’t be able to sue me.”
“What did you just say?”
Up to that moment, Jeho’s expression, which had been calm, shook significantly.
“Who did you hit?”
Jeho’s gaze, directed at Vice President Kwon, flashed sharply, as if ready to cut him in an instant.
Just when it seemed like the locked door would remain closed forever, it opened, and one of the men who had brought Yuli walked in. Bowing politely, he handed Yuli a phone with both hands.
“We received a report that the board meeting has just ended. You can go back now. If our actions were impolite, we sincerely apologize.”
Yuli accepted the phone without a word. She checked if there were any calls or messages from Jeho during that time, but there was nothing.
“How did the board meeting go?”
“Well, we only received a report that it ended; we don’t know anything else.”
“I see.”
Walking out of the dark room, Yuli swayed for a moment, looking at the bright sunlight shining in the corridor. The extreme tension had dissipated in an instant.
What happened?
Yuli cautiously approached the elevator, touching the wall with her hand. Her mind was so complicated that even walking felt exhausting.
What if Jeho is in a difficult situation because of the swapped fake ledger?
Except for Jeho, she was the only one who could open the safe. It was clear whose doing it was.
“Sigh.”
Yuli, who stopped abruptly, leaned her back against the wall and let out a long sigh.
Anyway, it’s exposed. Should she be happy about the success of her revenge?
Should she blame herself for making hasty decisions based on shallow thoughts? Yuli turned her eyes away from her silent phone, which no longer rang. Jeho still hadn’t read her messages.
She thought she would contact him as soon as the board meeting ended…
Why did this happen? Why did it go like that? She thought she would be furious, asking what happened…
Is he feeling disappointed, thinking he ruined everything? Is he resenting me?
Rather than facing an opponent who rushes in with fiery anger, facing someone who consistently remains silent is more unsettling.
If she calls now, will Mr. Jeho answer the phone? Will she be able to hear his voice?
Her heart pounding, hands trembling, Yuli stood in place, unable to take a single step.
“No, is this guy insane?”
As Jeho grabbed him by the collar and lifted him from his seat, Vice President Kwon, his face turning red, shouted loudly.
No matter how angry he was, he dared to grab the collar of his little uncle!
“I won’t let you go! Hey!”
“Say it again. Who did you hit?”
“Yeah, I slapped Cha Yuli, that X. As an adult, I personally… Ah!”
Vice President Kwon, unable to finish his sentence, crashed to the floor. It was because Jeho violently slammed him down after grabbing his collar.
“Oh my.”
Holding his waist, Vice President Kwon glared at his nephew standing in front of him. It hurt so much that he could see stars, and he involuntarily let out a sound like ‘I’m going to die.’
“Such a small uncle. The shock seems to be so great that your legs are losing strength.”
Despite just throwing him to the floor, Jeho smiled gently, wrapped his arms around Vice President Kwon’s shoulders, and lifted him up from the ground. Then, with an affectionate touch, he brushed off the dust on his clothes.
“You, you! This guy!”
“Please ask politely. Don’t involve Yuli in this disgusting fight.”
“What? A disgusting fight?”
In Vice President Kwon’s ears, it sounded like, ‘Little Uncle is a person who makes disgusting fights.’
“Anyway, from a family of adultery or a guy hiding a dirty plot in a shabby neighborhood, they match well. Like a cunning X! My father, before he died, said he would expose the affair with the current wife in the media, saying she had an affair even before my ex-wife died. When he confronted him with the evidence of being a illegitimate child, he turned pale and was visibly confused. Ah, maybe because she’s the daughter of Congressman Chae? A master of acting, indeed.”
Vice President Kwon, who was greatly excited, didn’t notice that Jeho was surprised. He continued to spill out the facts about Congressman Chae and Mrs. Ahn’s affair, thinking Jeho already knew.
“Don’t think I’ll just step aside like this. Do you think the chairman will be on your side? Right now, he’s just pretending to reject me because of the surrounding eyes. Who else will lead KG if it’s not me? Don’t dream that you’ll take over. When your father was kicked out, you were also erased from our Kwon family.”
After finishing his words, Vice President Kwon straightened his disheveled clothes and quickly fled the conference room. Although he shouted confidently on the outside, he was afraid that Jeho might grab him by the collar again.
Left alone in the conference room, Jeho recalled what Hyunkyung had told him before.
―No, it’s not like that. Mr. Jeho, it started shortly after he went to the United States. I don’t know the reason. Since then, Yuli tried to leave the house, and every time she was caught and punished.
So, the reason I couldn’t tell Hyunkyung.
Did the reason she always had a sad face have to do with the fact that her father and stepmother committed adultery, and a half-sibling was born from that?
Yuli…
Jeho pressed his chest firmly with the palm of his hand.
What did I do to you?
The suddenly revealed painful reality weighed heavily on Jeho.
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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