“Am I a joke to you?”
It was short, but the words carried a heavy weight like a stone.
“Or is my movie a joke to you?”
Everyone kept quiet and lowered their heads. The atmosphere froze.
“You all came under me to learn about movies, knowing full well how I make movies! How could you act like this!”
Byun Ju Ho stopped speaking. After a hollow laugh, he let out a deep sigh.
“This isn’t about disrespecting Yeo Woon, but me. I cannot let this situation slide. Lee Jin Cheol, step forward.”
Lee Jin Cheol, who was among the people, was taken aback and lifted his head. He was the starting point and the main culprit of all the rumors that had started today.
Lee Jin Cheol seemed to be noticeably flustered, as if he hadn’t expected Byun Ju Ho to call him. Director Byun, looking at Lee Jin Cheol who hesitated before stepping forward, opened his mouth.
“You came under me because you wanted to be a director, right?”
“…Yes.”
“A director is someone who embraces and carries everything. In that sense, your behavior is really disappointing. I cannot keep you on my site. Pack your things.”
“Di, Director?!”
Startled, Lee Jin Cheol grabbed Byun Ju Ho. But Byun Ju Ho, taking his eyes off Lee Jin Cheol, spoke to the staff.
“….Let’s start shooting.”
“Director! Please look at me just once! I must have been crazy! Just once, please…!!”
Lee Jin Cheol clung to Byun Ju Ho, begging for forgiveness in a loud voice. But Byun Ju Ho coldly shook him off and sat in his chair.
Byun Ju Ho was a man of his word. Knowing this, the assistant director and other staff members soothed Lee Jin Cheol, who was causing a scene with crying and begging, and dragged him away from Director Byun.
“Everyone, back to your positions.”
Upon Director Byun’s command, the staff members moved to their positions with heavy expressions.
The price they paid for their gaiety that day was greater than expected. The image of Lee Jin Cheol being led away was vividly imprinted in everyone’s mind.
Perhaps because of that, no one spoke until the end of the shoot.
The next day, when Seol Ji Oh arrived on set, he was hearing about what had happened the day before from Kim Ji Chan, the youngest member of the filming team.
Kim Ji Chan, experiencing such an event for the first time, seemed to have a lot to say and spilled the words out like a waterfall.
“So yesterday, I really wanted to run away. I was raked over the coals by the cinematographer, and then again by Director Byun. Wow. It was the first time I realized how scary Director Byun is!”
Listening in silence, Seol Ji Oh let out a faint laugh at Kim Ji Chan’s overthetop tone.
A lot had happened while he was away for an advertisement shoot yesterday. From the sound of it, it seemed like Yeo Woon must have had a really hard time.
Seol Ji Oh recalled Yeo Woon’s voice on the phone yesterday, seemingly unfazed.
It would be natural to show it if she was having a hard time and even to lean on him. He wondered why she always pretended to be fine.
As soon as the shooting for this scene was over, he decided to visit Yeo Woon and nodded vaguely to Kim Ji Chan’s words.
However, at one point, Seol Ji Oh started to have doubts.
Why would Lee Jin Cheol target Yeo Woon…?
There must be a motive for someone to harass another. But as far as he knew, Lee Jin Cheol and Yeo Woon had no connection at all.
And Yeo Woon was not the type to offend anyone.
Seol Ji Oh asked Kim Ji Chan.
“What kind of person is Lee Jin Cheol? Is he usually fond of gossiping about others?”
“No, not at all! He’s such a nice guy… And he’s handsome, good at his job, and takes care of people. He’s flawless.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes! I still can’t believe how it happened. Honestly, I wouldn’t have believed it if someone else had spread the rumors about Actress Yeo Woon. But because Lee Jin Cheol did, everyone believed it…”
Seol Ji Oh raised his eyebrows.
So, such a trustworthy and nice person was spreading ill words about Yeo Woon, whom he hardly knew well?
Something was odd. Had something happened that he was unaware of?
Seol Ji Oh decided that he needed to talk to Lee Jin Cheol and asked Kim Ji Chan.
“Do you happen to have Lee Jin Cheol’s phone number?”
During the filming break, Seol Ji Oh went to Yeo Woon’s van.
“Woonah.”
As he opened the car door, Yeo Woon, whom he was seeing after two days, smiled brightly at him.
“Ji Oh!”
Seol Ji Oh, who had climbed into the car, sat facing Yeo Woon.
“Have you been alone?”
“Yeah, everyone went to eat.”
“Why aren’t you eating?”
“I plan to eat later. I need to prepare for the next scene right now.”
Seol Ji Oh reached out and gently stroked Yeo Woon’s cheek, which seemed a bit pale.
The fact that Yeo Woon, who always used to wait in a corner of the set while reading the script, was now waiting in the car, did that mean she was still uncomfortable meeting the staff?
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Tell you what?”
“There was a big ruckus on the set yesterday. I didn’t know a thing. Are you planning on having such an incompetent boyfriend?”
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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