“We’re on our way after the trial, right? Let’s talk. Is the timing okay?”
Hajun vaguely guessed what she wanted to talk about as he looked at Eugene. It must be about Jian.
“I’ll be back to work from the day after tomorrow.”
He thought about Jian’s words and planned to stop by the play round before returning to the law firm.
“What’s going on? If it’s not urgent, let’s talk next time.”
“It’s about Jian. It’s urgent.”
Later, Eugene and Hajun moved to a cafe and sat facing each other.
Yesterday afternoon, she received a call from an unfamiliar number. The caller was Udandu, the representative of the Play Round. He asked if Jian was with her since Jian’s phone was off. He requested her to call if Jian reached a place with contact.
When Hajun, with tightly closed lips, looked at her with indifferent eyes, Eugene spoke first.
“Did you happen to talk to Jian?”
“…No.”
“You didn’t talk to Jian once in two days?”
Eugene’s face was surprised at Hajun’s immediate response. She had expected Hajun to be taking care of Jian naturally.
Contrary to her expectations, Hajun seemed completely unaware of Jian’s absence.
“Did you not know that Jian’s phone was off?”
Instead of answering, Hajun’s eyebrows twitched and rose.
“Yesterday, I attended a special training at the Bar Association. It led to a drinking session. Besides, as you can see, today is a court day.”
Hajun’s response ultimately meant that he hadn’t called Jian.
‘Did Yoon Hajun not call me? If something like that happened to you, Jian would have stuck to you like glue.’
With a look that said, ‘What’s really going on?’ Eugene swallowed her inner words and calmly spoke.
“I didn’t know anything because you didn’t tell me. I received a call from Representative Udandu. I found out about the phone being off after his call. It wasn’t off when I called. So, I sent a text and waited, thinking Jian might call after calming down. …Do you know anything?”
“Didn’t Representative Udandu say anything else?”
Hajun asked with a significant meaning.
“In fact, I happened to see Representative Udandu at a bookstore. I know about the dual contract, and… Yesterday, I asked him while on the phone if there was anything going on between you and Jian. He said he likes Jian a lot.”
“That’s all I know.”
Hajun touched the surface of the teacup with his fingertips and looked out the window.
‘Did Kim Jian not answer the phone?’
Hajun was unaware of the fact that Jian’s phone was off. Although he hesitated a few times with the phone in his hand, he didn’t press the call button.
As always, after calming his mind, Jian would be the one to call him first.
Seeing Hajun, who had become silent, Eugene asked seriously.
“Udandu likes her! Don’t you have any thoughts about that?”
“What?”
“Is Jian really just a friend to you? In that case, let’s just consider what I did without any sense.”
When Hajun was about to bring up the topic that Jian also likes Representative Woo, Eugene’s words continued.
“Jian wasn’t at home. I went to check myself. So, I thought about it.”
“She said she was going to see her father this weekend. If that came to her mind, she wouldn’t have hesitated and taken a taxi straight away. Now, she must be at her grandmother’s house.”
Hajun vividly described Jian’s appearance without looking. It was accurate speculation that the phone battery must have run out.
In addition to the keen deductive skills of a lawyer, Eugene, as a long-time friend, knew Jian too well, making it possible.
Even though Eugene knew, she urged Hajun, not understanding the reason for being here.
“Are you going to go?”
“If I go, what can I do?”
“If not you, who will stay with Jian? Do you hope Representative Woo goes?”
Hajun silently endured Eugene’s one-sided words, unaware of Jian’s feelings.
The person who should be by Kim Jian’s side, Yoon Hajun.
Yes. It was the words anyone would want to hear. Perhaps today was an opportunity to restore or deepen the relationship between Jian and me.
Representative Woo is currently in Jeju, and I could go to Jian right away. Moreover, I was the one who knew her feelings better than anyone else.
He remembered Jian’s words while receiving the porridge boiled by Yeonu in front of the Lake Tower.
‘Why not? Take it. It was given by my mom. Don’t draw a line so clearly.’
I had 27 years of time spent with Jian, and her beloved mother was also here. That alone would be enough to comfort Jian’s heart.
The commitment to remain as friends originated from arrogance, thinking that Jian would surely come back to me.
But the moment he admitted that it was arrogance, Hajun became impatient. If this was his last chance, he wanted to seize it.
Hajun lifted his sleeve, checked the time, then looked up at Eugene. Without revealing the truth, he asked Eugene.
“Do you think Jian will wait for me?”
“Isn’t that obvious? It has always been like that.”
Hajun pushed the chair back, stood up, and picked up his briefcase.
Jian, who had just finished cleaning, stood at the end of the living room and looked around the house.
Although she hurriedly came down, her grandmother’s house was comfortable to stay in. It was filled with everything that could make it livable even if Jeyoon came in and lived right away.
The entrance with a bookshelf was my room, and the end room with a violin stand looked like Genis’s room.
When Jian opened the drawer in the entrance room and saw the new clothes that Jaeyoon had put there, she cried again.
Having cleaned the house three times since morning, Jian took the mop, sat by the yard’s water tap, and turned it on. When she turned the faucet, cold water touched her back of the hand.
She swept away the fallen hair with her shoulder, wrung out the mop with her hands after washing it, and swept her wet hands over her face.
“Jian, the weather has passed quite a bit. It’s time to go to Seoul. If you can’t handle Father’s belongings alone, bring Mother and come with your sister. We can discuss what to do with this house.”
Jian sighed as she pondered over Jonggu’s words when he visited the house in the morning, carrying a pot of soup. She vaguely knew that she had to return to Seoul, but her feet wouldn’t move.
Walking on the gravel in the yard, Jian, with a face that seemed to have no hope in the world, sat at the end of the living room and stared blankly at a distant mountain.
As the wind from the fields wrapped around the yard several times, a sedan stopped in front of the house.
When the unlocked front door opened, Jian turned her head with a vacant gaze.
“Jian.”
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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