“Do you know what November 28th is? It’s the 6th anniversary of Dohyun and me. So don’t even think about saying it’s all in my head.”
Gyeryu spoke as if she saw right through me. Her claim that they had been together for six years left me frozen in place.
They hadn’t just clicked a few months ago, they’d been together for six years.
I was swept over by a wave of devastation. The pain of my heart being torn to shreds, the suffocating torment.
All of it was eating away at me.
“Even while I was studying abroad in America, he came to visit me regularly. Dohyun is quite affectionate, in bed and otherwise.”
Gyeryu swiped her lower lip provocatively and smirked knowingly. She must have found it amusing that I was living a blissful married life, unaware of anything. She probably had been itching to tell me.
Your husband loves me.
Gyeryu looked at the crumbling me with her eyes filled with ecstasy. Then, she mercilessly tore at my heart.
“Dohyun and I, we were together even the night before your wedding. We spent the night at a hotel, then went to the ceremony.”
Transparent tears filled my eyes. I couldn’t say anything, I could only shed tears.
“Your husband never loved you from the start. He always said he loved me, not you. So don’t be too sad. There will be another man who will love you somewhere.”
I finally dropped my head. I couldn’t listen to Gyeryu’s words anymore.
Transparent tears soaked my knees as I sobbed and shuddered.
“You will congratulate our marriage, won’t you?”
Gyeryu’s devilish voice penetrated my ears. Her voice echoed relentlessly. It whispered, relentlessly assaulting my psyche.
Congratulate her on marrying my husband?
It was more than absurd. It was unfair.
I wanted to grab her by the hair and demand what she was doing, but strangely, my body wouldn’t move.
The shock had drained all the strength from my body.
“Do you think… I will divorce?”
Without even looking at Gyeryu, I asked with a trembling voice. It was my last act of defiance.
Even though I was trembling, Gyeryu laughed at my resolution not to step back.
“Hey, are you threatening me?”
Gyeryu burst into laughter at my words, totally unfazed. She even ridiculed my mention of divorce.
“You didn’t even register your marriage with Dohyun.”
“……!”
“So what are you talking about divorce for?”
My body flinched. Gyeryu hit a nerve.
I hadn’t registered my marriage with Lee Dohyun. I had respected his wish to register our marriage after we had a child.
Gyeryu rummaged in her bag one more time and threw a piece of paper on the table as if to show off.
“Dohyun and I, legally, we’re already married.”
Having bowed my head all the while, I finally lifted it at Gyeryu’s words. I saw the folded paper in my blurred vision.
Bang!
“……Lies!”
I pounded the table with both hands and screamed. Then, I stared at the paper on the table with unfocused eyes.
“You’ll know if it’s a lie or not when you see it with your own eyes.”
Margaret clenched the paper in her hand, her laughter bitter. Seeing what she was holding, Margaret could not say a word.
Because everything Duke Pieren said was correct…
Her family relationship certificate showed that Yidohyeon was registered as her spouse.
“……Ha.”
“So could you stop saying Yidohyeon is your husband? He’s not your husband, he’s my husband.”
With her arms crossed, she looked down at Margaret arrogantly, intoxicated with the sense of victory.
Margaret could not but let go of the hope she had held onto until the last. It was a moment when all of her six years of dating and marriage was denied.
A miserable reality constricted her whole body. Margaret stumbled out of the cafe without even taking her bag.
As soon as Margaret stepped onto the street, she couldn’t walk a few steps and collapsed on the ground. Among the people laughing and chatting under the cool autumn sun, she sobbed silently, her shoulders shaking desperately.
At the age of twentysix, that fall was brutally miserable. Like fallen leaves crushed under the knees, Margaret’s heart was shattered.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]‘I’m hungry…’
In a oneroom apartment about 5 pyeong, she was sprawling in the middle of a room without a bed and opened her eyes due to hunger.
As soon as she got up, she groped around on the floor and picked up her smartphone. Then she logged into Byulgram out of habit.
0 followers, 0 following.
That was her account. She adeptly searched for IDs and spied on her friends and family’s daily lives.
With a mixture of bitterness and apology in her eyes, she stared at her phone for a long time.
After the divorce, Margaret had been living a reclusive life for over 3 years. She could have relied on her friends and family, but she always thought of Yidohyeon when she was with them.
So she ran away. To a place with no one, a place without any connections that would remind her of him. She quit her job too. Because she couldn’t bear it at the same workplace as Yidohyeon.
Margaret changed her phone number and even her name to forget about the existence of Yidohyeon and Duke Pieren.
Who said humans are creatures of forgetfulness? Memories like nightmares that come to mind as soon as you forget made Margaret’s life miserable.
Margaret put down her phone and slowly got up from her seat. Hobbling, she put water on the gas flame to fend off hunger.
It’s been about three years living in this one room because the apartment sale was delayed and property division was late.
Margaret took out one of the books left by the previous tenant and spread it out on the floor. Then she put the pot on top of it.
She was eating ramen when the title of the book came into her view.
The Trapped Countess
It was a novel she happened to read after moving into this house. She flipped through the pages out of curiosity, but couldn’t read till the end.
The novel is a sordid story of a count who constantly causes women problems and a countess who suffers because of him.
Margaret empathized with the feelings of the female protagonist and couldn’t finish reading the novel.
“I need to throw this away.”
Even just seeing the book title makes her feel so bad. Margaret, who had been glaring at the novel, muttered to herself.
She picked up the book with her thumb and forefinger and threw it in the trash.
Thump!
It wasn’t the noise that comes from just throwing a book. Margaret frowned at the unfamiliar sound and listened carefully.
Crash!
It was then. The ground started shaking with a loud noise.
“Uhuhuh!”
As if there was an earthquake, the ground started to sink with a great movement. Margaret was crushed by the collapsing building without a chance to escape.
Margaret, who died alone in a place with no connections, brought her first life to a miserable end.
She probably didn’t know. That her brilliant second life inside the book she threw away was waiting for her.
Margaret, who had lost consciousness, felt someone calling her desperately.
“…… Are you okay!”
She reluctantly opened her eyelids by the faintly heard voice. As soon as she opened her eyes, what she saw was an incredibly gorgeous chandelier.
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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