Yul Li, still standing at the door, looked perplexed, prompting Je Ho to turn and look at her with a questioning expression.
“I’m fine, so you use the bed. Thanks for laying out the bedding for me.”
“No, I’ll sleep here, you go and rest in the bed.”
As she persisted in her refusal, a playful glint appeared in Je Ho’s eyes. He leaned down to meet her eye level.
“Then, shall we sleep together?”
Yul Li’s face flushed red instantly, her eyes wavering uncertainly. Je Ho’s lips stretched into a wide grin, amused by her reaction.
“If that’s not it, then go ahead to the other room.”
Finishing his sentence, Je Ho straightened up and began to unbutton his shirt. However, Yul Li didn’t leave, stubbornly standing in the middle of the room.
“I’m about to take a shower…”
“Please, just go to the other room…”
“Why, do you want to join me?”
Yul Li’s face turned beet red again, yet she remained rooted to the spot. Stubborn one. Je Ho’s eyebrow arched slightly.
“If you keep standing there, I might get the wrong idea…”
As he continued unbuttoning, the open shirt revealed his well-toned muscles.
Despite having seen his chest before, Yul Li couldn’t prevent her heart from racing. Admitting defeat, she decided to retreat.
“Then, I’ll sleep in the bed. Good night.”
Hurriedly finishing her goodbye, Yul Li turned and left the room. Je Ho watched her hurried departure and burst into laughter.
Just hold on a bit longer. If you had stayed, I might have at least held your hand…
Recalling Yul Li’s flustered demeanor, Je Ho finished unbuttoning his shirt. Too bad, the wide-eyed rabbit had already scampered back to her burrow.
―Then, shall we sleep together?
Staring at the dark ceiling, Yul Li pulled the blanket over her face as Je Ho’s words came back to her. Despite the cold shower, her face was still burning.
―Why, do you want to join me?
His voice was smooth, almost coaxing, and his intense gaze felt like it could pull her in completely. It was like being entranced by a fox.
She felt foolish for getting excited over a harmless joke, like a teenage girl. She told herself it was just fatigue, the result of meeting too many strangers throughout the day, but it was no use.
Restless and unable to settle, she didn’t fall asleep until the wee hours of the morning.
How long had it been? A strange noise disturbed her. It was faint but enough to rouse Yul Li, who was lightly asleep.
“……uh……hmm. ……uhh.”
It sounded like low sobs or gasps of pain. Yul Li struggled to open her heavy eyelids. Then suddenly, her eyes snapped open.
Je Ho?
The sound was unmistakably coming from Je Ho. Yul Li quickly got up and headed to the small room. Moonlight streaming through the window cast a pale light on Je Ho’s face. He was lying with his eyes tightly shut, sweating profusely. Fearful, Yul Li didn’t even think to turn on the light and instead knelt beside him.
“Je Ho, what’s wrong?”
Yul Li tapped Je Ho’s cheek with her palm. Could it be his shoulder wound, or perhaps something was wrong with the dinner they had? Various thoughts flooded her mind.
“Please, open your eyes.”
Her voice was trembling softly.
Suddenly, Je Ho’s eyes snapped open. Barely having time to feel relieved, Je Ho stretched out his arm and pulled Yul Li towards him. Before she could utter a sound, Yul Li was drawn into his wide embrace. As they fell, Je Ho rolled over, and Yul Li found herself lying underneath him.
Yul Li was unable to move under his crushing embrace. She struggled to breathe. No matter how much she squirmed, his arms remained tightly locked around her.
“Je Ho, ugh,”
Then, all of a sudden,
“Damn!”
A quiet curse escaped his lips along with heavy breathing. The arms that had been holding her tightly loosened. Yul Li quickly escaped from his embrace and backed away.
“……Crazy.”
Having released her, Je Ho lay back and covered his eyes with his forearm, muttering in a hoarse voice.
“Foolishly barging into a man’s room alone.”
“……I was worried. You were groaning in pain. ……Are you okay? Are you hurt?”
“Huh.”
Instead of answering, he sighed deeply. An awkward silence filled the air, and he murmured softly.
“……Just a nightmare.”
A terribly vivid nightmare. He dreamt of witnessing his father, Vice Chairman Kwon, in a traffic accident, feeling the pain as if it were real. Was it a warning to stay focused and not get distracted?
Upon waking from the nightmare, he found himself embracing Yul Li. Enthralled by her sweet scent, he had been desperate to indulge in it…
A madman.
He smiled bitterly at himself.
But…
Je Ho lowered the arm that had been shielding his eyes and looked up at Yul Li, who was still sitting beside him, her worried eyes not leaving him. Despite his behavior, she wasn’t angry…
Suddenly, a wave of emotion surged within him.
Without a word, he just stared at her until Yul Li shyly turned her head away.
“I should go now.”
As she attempted to stand up,
“Wait.”
Je Ho also stood up, opening his arms to embrace her from behind.
“Just stay like this for a moment.”
His low whisper echoed in Yul Li’s ear.
“……I’m cold this time.”
Now, he couldn’t let her go.
It was already too late for that.
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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