“What? What did you say you have?”
“Ah……”
While flustered Ji Na hurriedly tried to explain, Ji Hye was quicker.
“Who’s your boyfriend! Is he from the company? Do I know him? Tell me quickly. When did you start dating?”
With such an intense questioning that was like a carpet bombing, Ji Na’s mind became dazed. Ji Hye’s breath seemed visible to her eyes.
“I’ll tell you later. Right now, it’s a bit……”
“Could it be that your boyfriend is the successor to the president? Is the reason for working late nights as if it’s your meal due to your boyfriend……”
As Ji Hye mimicked the voice of a TV show host and widened her eyes, Ji Na burst into laughter and waved her hand.
“Ji Hye, you’ve been watching too many dramas.”
“That’s right. These days, the only romance I have is with dramas. Isn’t it pitiful? So I thought that the godly masterpiece younger brother you knew was a real celebrity. I thought he came to our company for shooting.”
Ji Hye sighed deeply as if the earth would cave in.
“If you were that curious, you could have gone for a meal with us.”
At Ji Na’s words, Ji Hye covered her cheeks as if she was embarrassed and said,
“Oh my! I’m shy. Girlfriend.”
“Oh my. I didn’t know that until now.”
Ji Na and Ji Hye burst into laughter looking at each other.
“Did you have your coffee?”
In response to Ji Hye’s question, Ji Na was the first to take out a paper cup.
“No.”
As the coffee was set aside for her clothes.
“Oh my, isn’t it basic to have a meal and coffee with a handsome known younger brother?”
“Haha.”
At Ji Hye’s teasing, Ji Na smiled faintly and pressed the coffee machine.
“It must’ve been because I wasn’t there. Can’t be helped. I’ll definitely go with you next time.”
Ji Hye shook her head vehemently with a voice full of mischief.
“Sure.”
Would there be a next time? She wouldn’t have any reason to meet Seo Jin Woo anymore.
Ji Na lifted the paper cup to her mouth. The coffee swirling in her mouth felt unusually bitter.
As afternoon arrived, the slanting sunlight poured into the office. The sound of typing on the keyboard in the office, which felt lazier than the morning, had significantly slowed as if the energy had drained.
Ji Na, who had been wrapping up her report for a while, was no exception.
Do Jin hadn’t returned to his seat yet, as his business trip seemed to have been extended. Ji Na rubbed her tensed shoulders and glanced at his empty seat before shifting her gaze back to the monitor.
“This should be enough……”
Her shoulders and arms were stiff from concentrating. Ji Na stretched her arms high up. She felt like going hiking this weekend after a long time. Hiking was also a hobby she had developed because of Do Jin.
She suddenly remembered how Do Jin, in his early days at the company, used to diligently go to the mountains every weekend to impress his boss. Following Do Jin haphazardly, she had now become adept enough to go on her own.
It seemed like it had been quite a while since she had gone to the mountains with Do Jin.
[Do Jin, if you’re free this weekend, do you want to go hiking?]
Ji Na sent a message to Do Jin on a whim. Before he became a manager, there were many things to worry about, and they hadn’t been able to have a proper date. She didn’t even refuse to work overnight to help his promotion.
While waiting for Do Jin’s text, she hurriedly organized the report she had written. In addition to the work he had asked for, she had quite a few tasks of her own. She wouldn’t be able to leave work on time today, either.
Ji Na got up from her seat and headed towards the pantry. When she pressed hard on the coffee machine, a clattering noise sounded, followed by a loud sound.
“Huh? Why is it doing this?”
Ji Na, who knew nothing about machines, looked around the coffee machine with a bewildered face.
Seeing that it was making a louder noise than usual, it seemed like the coffee machine was broken. Come to think of it, Ji Hye had mentioned something was off with the coffee machine a few days ago.
‘Just my luck…’
She tinkered with the coffee machine before leaving the pantry. As she headed back to her desk, intending to contact the administration team, Chief Jung unexpectedly emerged from his office with a hurried pace.
“Oh, Ms. Ji Na.”
Upon seeing her, the Chief seemed relieved and gestured towards her.
“The interns are starting tomorrow, could you prepare a list for task handovers?”
At the mention of interns, Ji Na’s eyes widened in surprise.
“Interns?”
She recalled that they were usually hired in the first half of the year…Reading the confusion on Ji Na’s face, the Chief dismissed it with a wave of his hand.
“From this year, we’re hiring irregularly as needed. We requested additional personnel for our department due to a new project, and fortunately, they sent some.”
“Alright, understood.”
For now, Ji Na responded politely. Even without the interns, she had a pile of work to do.
The squareshaped office seemed to occupy the entirety of the building’s highest floor. One wall, made entirely of glass, offered an unobstructed view of the city bathed in the sunset.
Seo Il Jun, the chairman of Seo Group, sat on a leather sofa, looking at the man seated across him with sharp eyes.
“You said you’d be here earlier, why did you just show up now?”
“I apologize.”
Jin Woo slightly bowed his head. He didn’t see the need to explain that he had been late because he went to get a change of clothes. Seo Il Jun, who was looking at Jin Woo with a displeased gaze, clicked his tongue.
“An intern in the Future Strategy Department…?”
“I happened to see the intern recruitment notice.”
“Is this the first thing you’re saying after finishing your study abroad and coming back…internship?”
“It’s only for a while.”
Jin Woo looked straight at his father, Seo Il Jun.
“I thought I should learn from the bottom. You know there are a lot of rumors about parachuting these days.”
“You sure learned how to butter people up while studying abroad.”
Although Il Jun was not pleased, he had already instructed as Jin Woo had suggested.
“You are the eldest son of the Seo family. Regardless of your halfsiblings, no matter what anyone says, you are the eldest son and the successor of this company.”
“…Yes.”
There was weight in Il Jun’s words as he flashed a glance at Jin Woo. Jin Woo could only quietly bear the sense of weight that was becoming increasingly apparent.
“It’s two months. I can’t spare more than that. After that, I’ll bring you straight up to the Strategy Department. You should know that.”
A harsh, scraping sound resonated. Aside from his piercing gaze, Il Jun’s face proved his deteriorating health.
The reason he had urgently called Jin Woo, who was studying abroad, back to Korea was because of his health. Il Jun was dying.
He needed a reliable successor to take his place. As soon as he finished his sentence, Il Jun coughed harshly and struggled to breathe.
Jin Woo examined the complexion of his father with worried eyes. However, that was all he could do. He could say nothing to his father who had cast out his mother and established a new family with another woman. He simply clenched his fist.
“What kind of look is that?”
Il Jun, noticing Jin Woo’s short sleeves, chastised him with a displeased face. His clothes, which clearly looked borrowed to anyone, led Il Jun to further admonish him.
“Do you lack living expenses?”
“No.”
Jin Woo, who was faintly smiling at his own sleeve, shook his head.
“Leave now.”
Even a simple conversation was strenuous for Il Jun. The steam from the tea placed on the table had not yet cooled. Jin Woo made a respectful farewell and left the chairman’s office.
The secretaries waiting outside the chairman’s office politely greeted Jin Woo as he emerged. Jin Woo also bowed his head in response before moving on.
Jin Woo got on the elevator with a complicated look in his eyes.
Ding The door opened midway, and someone got on the elevator.
“Huh?”
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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