This time, the person he called responded immediately without waiting.
[Yes, sir. What’s going on?]He had been someone Jinwook had consulted for personal matters for a long time. With excellent information-gathering skills, he handled tasks quickly and accurately, maintaining perfect security. It was a trusted relationship.
Jinwook spoke to him.
“I need to find someone urgently.”
[Yes, please tell me.]“Her name is Kang Yeonju, and she’s twenty-four years old.”
A clear voice followed.
“She’s going to be my wife.”
When Jinwook returned home again, it was already deep into the dawn.
He had searched all the places Yeonju might go, questioned around, but had found nothing.
Now, all he could do was hope that they would find Yeonju as soon as possible at the place he had commissioned.
Drip.
As Jinwook opened the front door and entered, his hair was damp. Since the early morning rain, his hair and the hem of his clothes were slightly wet.
Upon entering through the front door, a deep silence welcomed him. The faint scent of Yeonju that lingered before was no longer detectable.
“Have you come?”
The familiar sight of Yeonju he always saw had disappeared.
In truth, he still couldn’t believe that Yeonju had left. Even now, it seemed like she might appear somewhere and speak.
Jinwook walked into the living room with sluggish steps. With each step, the quiet scenery inside the house came into view.
The living room and dining room were exactly the same as before. The arrangement of furniture and items was unchanged, and even small decorations were in their places. The dressing room, the bathroom, the rooms on the second floor—everything was the same.
Everything was as it used to be.
Except for one thing, everything remained unchanged.
However, it felt as silent and gloomy as if everything had disappeared.
As if only one thing had disappeared…
His heart felt empty, as if losing the world.
The silence was terrifying to the point that he couldn’t imagine how he had lived before without Yeonju.
Jinwook, who was taking off his coat in the dressing room, put his hand in the pocket of the coat. He felt something substantial.
What he pulled out from the pocket was a carefully wrapped rectangular box. It was the necklace he had bought to give to Yeonju during his business trip.
Jinwook’s eyes sank as he looked at the box.
“…”
He thought it would suit her well. He expected that she would like it.
‘Thank you.’
He thought of kissing her smiling face.
However, Yeonju had disappeared. The gift without an owner felt unsightly. No matter how valuable and beautiful it was, it was unnecessary without Yeonju… What use was there for beautiful things when she wasn’t there?
Jinwook let out a disappointed breath and casually placed the gift box anywhere.
He left the dressing room and went upstairs to the second floor. Just in case, he looked around the bedroom and the room Yeonju used. However, there was nothing that could indicate Yeonju’s whereabouts.
Wandering through the house, he entered the study. His lifeless gaze fell on a pile of scattered documents on the floor.
[Consensual Divorce Declaration]The characters written on a single sheet of paper stabbed into his chest. Jinwook bowed his head, picking it up.
The space that the husband was supposed to fill in was empty, and every space that the wife was supposed to fill was already written. If he just filled in his part, it would become a complete declaration.
How did Yeonju feel as she wrote these characters one by one?
Did Yeonju really… mean to end things with him?
Jinwook’s eyes twisted.
He didn’t know where things went wrong.
‘You chose this marriage, and it’s the path you chose.’
Did things go wrong from that moment?
‘If you don’t want to ruin this path, endure even if it’s difficult.’
Or did things go wrong from that time?
‘Now, as my wife, that’s your duty.’
Was it because he pressured her too much?
‘What’s so difficult about it?’
Or was it from that time?
“All I wanted from you was to quietly play the role of a wife by my side.”
“Is that so hard?”
Should he have delved more into her pain?
‘My marriage condition for Ms. Kang Yeonju is only one.’
Or was it wrong from the beginning?
‘You must plan to get pregnant at the same time as marriage and have a child.’
Should he not have chosen her?
Or…
As he pondered where things went wrong, his memories went back to the moment he first met Yeonju.
At that time, Yeonju had a desolate and fragile look in her eyes.
‘Thank you.’
That meeting was an unforgettable one.
Even then, it was raining, perhaps even heavier than it is now.
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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