“This shouldn’t be. Yeoreum.”
It was truly an inexplicable voice. Could sadness and joy coexist? Both despair and delight were felt in his voice.
“If you confuse me like this…”
“…!”
“Don’t show me a way if you want to push me away. This, this feeling…”
Tae-seok laughed self-deprecatingly and slightly tilted his head back. At the same time, the sky brightened.
Roar! Crash!
Thunder struck. It seemed that rain was finally going to fall.
When Yeoreum flinched reflexively at the thunder, Tae-seok, who had been looking down, quickly raised his head. It was a gaze that still remembered how scared she was of this kind of noise.
Clasping their hands tightly, Tae-seok stood up abruptly and came close. Without hesitation, he pulled Yeoreum’s shoulder with one arm and embraced her.
“It’s okay.”
A low and firm voice echoed near the ears, creating a breathtaking proximity where breaths could be felt as they were. The voice pierced through Yeoreum’s throat, reaching her brain and ultimately paralyzing all normal functions.
Creak, creak. The malfunctioning Yeoreum swallowed her breath. It felt like Tae-seok’s touch was seeping into every corner of her body.
‘Crazy.’
She should resist, but her mind wasn’t operating in that direction at all. Even though she could push him away enough, she couldn’t lift a single hand.
Unexplained tears rolled down her cheeks. Having received an apology for the difficult times, she couldn’t understand why there was still a stone in her heart more than any other day.
Once again, lightning flashed across the sky. Tae-seok hugged Yeoreum even tighter.
“It’s okay, Yeoreum. Don’t be scared.”
Melting. Like ice cream.
Suddenly, she thought that way, and thunder roared again. Instead of pushing him away, Yeoreum, as if possessed, embraced him, plunging into his arms.
Unexpectedly, Tae-seok stiffened at this reaction. But it was only for a moment. Seizing the opportunity, Tae-seok hugged Yeoreum even tighter.
At such a close distance that every contour of their touching bodies could be felt, they shared each other’s warmth mixed in with their breaths.
With a soaked voice, Tae-seok said, “We’re hugging now. Do as you please. If you want to say it’s a mistake, let’s do that.”
He slightly loosened his upper body, met eyes with Yeoreum, and gently held her chin with his lips.
“My apology is confusing, and in the midst of it, thunder is scary again.”
“…….”
“Let’s just consider one mistake as a mistake.”
Lowering his face straight down, he said, “Close your eyes.”
“……!”
“I’ll pretend to make a crazy mistake too.”
Their lips touched that way. Tae-seok deeply kissed Yeoreum without leaving any room.
Tears hanging on the corners of Yeoreum’s eyes fell down like long traces. His firm fingers stroked her cheek, wiping away the tear marks.
Then, with a gentle curve of his lips, he began to explore even deeper. As the sweet and intense fragrance surged, she couldn’t breathe.
“Uh……”
The depths of her mouth were filled up one by one. Overwhelmed by the incoming heat, Yeoreum, who didn’t know what to do, finally reached out and placed her arms around his neck.
Tae-seok mumbled something softly, then came even deeper to the point where it couldn’t be helped. Another lightning flashed, but a more intense light lingered between the two.
Long and warm breaths, along with indescribable emotions, crossed each other in a chaotic manner.
Stopping by the library to borrow a book, Yeoreum visited her favorite café and ordered coffee. Crisp autumn leaves were scattered here and there. The sunlight was warm, but the wind was chilling. It was a typical autumn day with a significant temperature difference.
Gazing down the lonely yet vibrant autumn street, Yeoreum let out a long sigh.
Whether it was an excuse or an explanation, she had done what was necessary, but ironically, she had nothing to say. When she thought of that day when everything was entangled, her heart raced again.
Since that day, Taeseok and Yeoreum hadn’t contacted each other. However, she could tell. Just as she thought of him, he would be thinking of himself. He would be contemplating the unresolved emotions and the omitted words every day.
Although she tried to speak as arrogantly as possible, saying, “Let’s consider it a mistake,” she already knew it wasn’t a mistake for either of them. So, Yeoreum couldn’t step back.
At the end of a long breath, she undoubtedly grabbed his lapel again. While doing so, she silently confessed her love to him several times.
Inevitably, it seemed like all her emotions had been exposed.
At that moment, Jihyun Jung’s face came to mind. The expression and tone warning that if Yeoreum met Taeseok again, she would ruin him, the insidious threats.
“I’d rather you threaten me and let him go.”
She knew how significant the tax evasion suspicions against Seo Taeseok were. It was only a suspicion of tax evasion, but if Jihyun Jung’s crimes were revealed…
Seo Taeseok would have to leave the entertainment industry forever. It was not a hypothesis but close to a fact. Thinking about the threats, Yeoreum buried her face in her hands.
No matter how she thought about it, she couldn’t ruin his life. Moreover, considering that she was the informant for the tax evasion report, it was too audacious to decide to start anew after committing such an act.
Her heart, cracked like dry leaves, burned pitch black.
At the end of a long sigh, Yeoreum put down the coffee and packed the borrowed books into her bag. In the end, she couldn’t reach a conclusion today either. As she stood up from her seat, her phone rang.
Checking the caller ID, she froze for a moment.
It was Jihyun Jung.
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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