Then, all of a sudden, Seol Ji Oh raised his palm. He covered the lower part of Yeo Woon’s face with his hand in the air and looked at her, tilting his head slightly as if estimating something.
Yeo Woon didn’t understand what he was doing, her eyes widened as she looked at Seol Ji Oh.
What is he doing?
Seol Ji Oh spoke after quite a while had passed.
“Let’s do this then.”
His voice was lighter than she had anticipated. Yeo Woon focused all her attention on what words would come out of Seol Ji Oh’s mouth. After all, her entire fate depended on his words.
“The money that Yeo Woon owes me. You’ll repay it with your body.”
“What?!”
Yeo Woon shouted in surprise, and reflexively leaned her body back, covering herself with her arms.
Repay, with her body? What on earth!
Yeo Woon’s mind was filled with horror.
Seeing Yeo Woon’s reaction, Seol Ji Oh chuckled as if there had been a major misunderstanding.
“No, no. Not that kind of thing. Calm down.”
“If it’s not that, then what? What does repay with my body mean…!”
“I mean cooperating with me to recover my memories.”
“Huh?”
“I am trying to recover my memories. It’s a very important matter to me. But you know about my past, and you also owe me a debt, so I’m asking you to repay it by helping me.”
Yeo Woon blinked, looking at Seol Ji Oh without fully understanding.
“If you don’t like it, you can repay it with money.”
“No, no…… just wait a moment!”
Yeo Woon needed to organize her thoughts. The compensation she had to pay was huge, but she would be able to repay it by helping Seol Ji Oh recover his memories?
Really?
From Yeo Woon’s perspective, it was an incredibly good proposition. But she had her doubts.
“But why…?”
“I told you. It’s important to me.”
“Oh……”
He didn’t seem to want to say more. Yeo Woon moistened her lips with her tongue.
Regardless of the reason, Seol Ji Oh needed his memories, and since I can help with that, I should repay the debt that way?
“But if I help, and you can’t recover your memories… then what?”
“Are you afraid I’ll ask for the money back?”
Upon seeing her nod, Seol Ji Oh chuckled.
“Don’t worry about that. Or should we write a contract?”
Feeling that it would be better to be sure, Yeo Woon nodded. Seol Ji Oh raised an eyebrow and answered affirmatively.
Seol Ji Oh glanced at his wrist to check the time and then prepared to stand up.
“Well, let’s do it that way, and I’ll contact you again about the contract. I need to go because of my schedule.”
“Are you leaving?”
“Yes. You can have your meal and go.”
With a promise to take care of the bill, Seol Ji Oh picked up his coat and left the room. Yeo Woon was flustered when Seol Ji Oh left without giving her a chance to say goodbye.
She felt a lack of reality about what had just happened to her.
How every encounter with Seol Ji Oh seemed to strip her of her sense of reality.
As soon as Seol Ji Oh got in the car, Choi Hyun started the engine.
“Can we go straight to the airport?”
“Yes.”
Choi Hyun turned the steering wheel and took a quick look at Seol Ji Oh’s face through the rearview mirror. Seol Ji Oh seemed to be in a pretty good mood.
Having been Seol Ji Oh’s manager for six years now, Choi Hyun could gauge his mood just by looking at his expression.
But today’s event was something Choi Hyun had never experienced before, so he casually asked,
“Did you really come to Korea for just that promise? Who on earth is that woman?”
Seol Ji Oh responded without a word, just a slight curl of his lips, before plugging a wireless earphone into his ear. It meant he wanted silence. Seeing Seol Ji Oh suddenly close his eyes and prepare to sleep, Choi Hyun chuckled in annoyance.
“You always do this to me. People should know you do this too, right?”
It was a rainy evening. Perhaps because of the heavy rain, there were fewer people stopping by the convenience store than usual.
After finishing arranging the items, Yeo Woon straightened her bent back and looked out of the window. She was twisting her sore waist here and there to stretch, right at that moment.
The sound of her phone ringing led Yeo Woon to pull it out of her pocket, where an unknown number was calling. Considering it might be a casting call, she hesitated before deciding to answer.
“Hello.”
[This is Seol Ji Oh.]
Startled by the voice on the other end, Yeo Woon pulled the phone away from her ear.
Did he just say he was Seol Ji Oh?
[Hello?]
“Ah, yes. Hello.”
[Let’s proceed with the contract. Do you have time today?]
“Ah. I finish work at 12. It might be difficult today.”
[Only the morning is possible for me tomorrow. Is the morning okay for you?]
“Yes. That’s fine.”
[Then I’ll see you tomorrow.]
The call ended quickly. Following that, the meeting location came via text. Yeo Woon blankly stared at Seol Ji Oh’s number before saving it in her phone. Looking at the number saved under Seol Ji Oh’s name made her feel strange.
When she was young, she texted and called without any reservations, but those memories felt distant as if from a past life. Although it was the same Seol Ji Oh, he now felt like a completely different person.
His transformed appearance and ambiance, as much as his grown height.
The Seol Ji Oh of her memories, who remained a boy, was no longer there.
Yeo Woon, conscious of her heart pounding for no reason, put her phone back in her pocket. Meeting Seol Ji Oh tomorrow. She had the feeling that she wouldn’t sleep easily tonight.
The next day, standing in front of the agreed meeting place, a large van pulled up in front of Yeo Woon. As Yeo Woon tried to step back to avoid the car, the door of the van suddenly swung open.
“Get in.”
Inside was Seol Ji Oh. As Yeo Woon hesitated in surprise, the honking and clattering of a car behind them hurried Yeo Woon into the van.
Once inside the car, Yeo Woon greeted Seol Ji Oh awkwardly. In response, Seol Ji Oh simply nodded his head.
“There are drinks there. Please have one.”
The manager, who was driving in the front seat, glanced at Yeo Woon and started to speak. The manager looked young, but his glasses lent him a fairly intellectual air.
“Thank you.”
Yeo Woon picked up her iced americano. She didn’t typically drink iced beverages, but she sipped it through the straw, hoping it would alleviate some of the awkwardness.
The car soon came to a stop in a quiet area, and the manager turned off the ignition and exited the car. Suddenly left alone, Yeo Woon looked at Seol Ji Oh with a tense expression.
“Please read this.”
Seol Ji Oh passed a paper envelope to Yeo Woon. She put her drink in the cup holder and opened the envelope. Inside were two copies of the same document.
Yeo Woon slowly read through the contract. When she reached the section outlining the total amount she would have to compensate, she unknowingly gasped and held her breath.
The amount was larger than she expected, causing her hand to slightly tremble. Yeo Woon swallowed her dry saliva and scrutinized the terms one by one.
The main clause stated that the ‘party A’ must diligently assist the ‘party B’ in regaining their memory, with no specific number of times or period mentioned.
And just like what was discussed last time, there was a clause stating that even if Seol Ji Oh did not regain his memory, he could not request the compensation money back from Yeo Woon.
No matter how she looked at it, the contract seemed too favorable to her…
However, the concerning part was that the number of times and the duration were not specified. Yeo Woon, while observing Seol Ji Oh’s reaction, cautiously asked.
“Um… by any chance, is this a lifetime contract?”
Suddenly, a muffled laugh could be heard from beside her. Seol Ji Oh, who had been looking straight ahead the whole time, turned his head to look at Yeo Woon.
Seol Ji Oh was laughing. Of course, it was a smile close to absurdity.
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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