Director Kim wrapped up the shoot in a buoyant mood. Over a decade in the industry, and judging by today’s shooting angles, the ratings seemed promising.
Initially, he had been uncertain about casting Yeo Woon, but Seol Ji Oh? That had been an unexpected twist.
Both the writers and the junior director were visibly pleased.
“If every day at work was like today, I’d have no other wish. My eyes were pleased.”
“I agree. How can such people exist in this world? I just couldn’t take my eyes off them!”
The writers chattered among themselves, their voices full of excitement.
Indeed, even to his own eyes, Seol Ji Oh was otherworldly handsome. Yeo Woon was also unexpectedly stunning in person.
Actors really are different.
Then, a writer quietly asked,
“Didn’t the atmosphere between them seem… unusual?”
“The atmosphere?”
“Yes. Too close for just friends…”
“Close? They’ve been friends since childhood.”
“True, they seemed close, but something in their eyes was… different.”
At the writer’s words, Director Kim also recalled the two.
Sitting across from each other at dinner, they looked familiar and comfortable. But was there some romantic tension between them?
“Ah…”
Recalling how Seol Ji Oh had naturally rested his hand on Yeo Woon’s head, and how they’d smiled at each other, gave him an idea.
Could this turn into a storyline?
Director Kim’s mind quickly sketched out editing concepts.
A relationship teetering between friendship and romance, teasing yet caring.
It felt like an interesting picture was about to unfold. His eyes twinkled with anticipation.
After the shoot ended and everyone left, Yeo Woon collapsed onto the floor.
The tension from shooting since morning suddenly dissipated, making her feel sluggish.
“Ugh, I’m tired.”
Some time had passed.
As Yeo Woon was dozing off, the front door opened with a noise.
Entering the house by keying in the passcode was Seol Ji Oh.
“You’re really knocked out.”
Noticing Yeo Woon sprawled out, he chuckled and approached her. He then lifted her up with both arms and laid her on the bed.
Feeling the soft pillow under her head, Yeo Woon partially opened her eyes.
“Uh… Ji Oh?”
“Yeah, it’s me.”
“Why did you come back…?”
A smile touched Seol Ji Oh’s lips at the sound of Yeo Woon’s drowsy voice, stretched out in her sleepy state.
He sat on the edge of Yeo Woon’s bed and leaned down, kissing her lips as if pecking like a bird.
Yeo Woon squinted her eyes the moment their lips met.
Her heart was divided; she was falling asleep, yet she wanted to see Seol Ji Oh who was disturbing her lips.
With his finger, Seol Ji Oh smoothed out the furrow on Yeo Woon’s brow and spoke.
“I came because I was worried.”
“…About what?”
“I wanted to check if I had properly removed all the cameras.”
You came back for that?
They are all broadcasting station assets anyway, could he possibly have forgotten to remove them?
Yeo Woon struggled to open her heavy eyelids and looked at Seol Ji Oh.
She blinked.
Before her eyes was the man looking down at her. A smile seeped through Yeo Woon’s lips.
Seeing Seol Ji Oh again, she felt better for whatever reason.
“I’ll go check for a bit.”
Seol Ji Oh left the room and didn’t return for quite some time. Meanwhile, Yeo Woon woke up entirely and sat leaning against the bed’s headboard.
A moment later, when he returned to the room, Yeo Woon asked,
“Nothing?”
“No, nothing.”
Seol Ji Oh sat next to Yeo Woon and then pinched her soft cheek, speaking in a teasing tone.
“You fed me all those tonics.”
“Huh?”
Confused by his unexpected words, the corners of Seol Ji Oh’s lips curved upwards.
“How do you expect me to be after eating all those invigorating things at this time of night?”
Invigorating things?
Ah, that chicken soup?
Embarrassed, Yeo Woon looked at Seol Ji Oh and hastily said,
“That was just to give you strength! It’s not that kind of strength!”
“What kind of strength is it then?”
Seol Ji Oh’s eyes were sly; he knew the answer but asked anyway. Annoyed, Yeo Woon smacked his arm.
“Don’t tease me.”
“I’m not teasing.”
Leaning subtly toward her, he spoke,
“I’m telling you to take responsibility since you’ve made me so full of energy. Fairly.”
“Responsibility?! How do you expect me to take responsi–”
Yeo Woon couldn’t finish her sentence because Seol Ji Oh suddenly lifted her up in his arms.
Her eyes widened. Floating in mid-air, she was startled.
“Ji, Ji Oh?!”
“I’m going to kidnap you a bit. I have a place to go.”
“Hey! Put me down!”
“You want to wake up the entire neighborhood?”
At Seol Ji Oh’s words, Yeo Woon closed her mouth. However, her eyes were still filled with bewilderment.
Where on earth is he taking me at this time? And what’s this about kidnapping?
Seol Ji Oh seemed to have no intention of revealing anything.
“…Where on earth is this?”
Yeo Woon opened her mouth in astonishment.
During the hour-long drive and even while passing through the high walls that could reach up to the sky, Seol Ji Oh had said nothing.
Entering a place behind those walls that she had thought was none of her business was shocking enough. But the scenery that awaited them inside was even more astonishing.
A massive, beautiful structure under the dim light of the bluish moon.
Seol Ji Oh explained concisely.
“It’s our villa.”
What? A villa?
When Yeo Woon looked at him in surprise, he looked back at her and spoke.
“I bought it recently. I wanted a comfortable place not far from Seoul where you and I could relax.”
“You bought it to spend time with me?”
“Yes. Like I said, it’s ‘our’ villa.”
Smiling, Seol Ji Oh lightly tapped Yeo Woon’s still-dazed cheek and got out of the car.
Following him out, the villa’s appearance became even clearer.
“Wow.”
It was evidently a luxurious residence.
The building had two floors, its structure artistic and the arrangement of its windows unique, almost as if it were a piece of art.
Additionally, there was a spacious, well-landscaped garden inside the wall.
Seol Ji Oh approached Yeo Woon and spoke.
“It was a bit hard to choose. There weren’t many houses that met my criteria.”
At those words, Yeo Woon nodded in agreement.
“True, it must’ve been difficult to find such a beautiful house.”
“No. Aesthetics were secondary.”
“Really? Then what was the priority?”
Seol Ji Oh looked at Yeo Woon and grinned, a smile whose meaning was unclear.
“Great scenery, sparse human presence in the vicinity. And… a high wall.”
A wall?
Yeo Woon turned her head and looked at the villa’s wall, several times the height of a person.
Ah… probably because we’re celebrities?
Then, Seol Ji Oh leaned in and whispered softly into Yeo Woon’s ear.
“So that no one would know what we’re doing here.”
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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