Seol Jio felt as if his mind had gone blank in an instant.
When was this picture taken?
No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t recall ever holding hands or kissing outside.
At that moment, through the handset, Ju Seokyeong’s low voice came.
[Were you and Yeowoon close like that?]Seol Jio ran his hand through his hair and stood up from his seat.
Since the pictures were already out, hiding it from Ju Seokyeong was meaningless. It was more urgent to open up everything and find a solution.
“I liked Yeowoon first. I even confessed.”
[Since when?]“Not too long ago. It was after we started shooting the movie.”
[Ha… Of course, now that you’re of age, you can have a relationship. But it’s a bit awkward between you and Yeowoon.]“Why?”
Ju Seokyeong spoke as if it were obvious.
“……”
Ju Seokyeong’s words made sense. The first broadcast that introduced Yeowoon to the public was on the camping variety show that he had participated in.
Perhaps, rather than the name Yeowoon, she was first introduced to the public as ‘Seol Jio’s friend.’
[Moreover, Yeowoon is just rising to fame now. If this scandal breaks out, all people will hear about is that Seol Jio has a girlfriend. You know that, right?]“True…”
It was frustrating. He had been holding back the desire to reveal his feelings to avoid Yeowoon being simply labeled as ‘Seol Jio’s girlfriend’… Was there no way to prevent the scandal?
Seol Jio asked Ju Seokyeong, “Was the photo taken by paparazzi or a newspaper?”
[Seems like paparazzi. I’ll send you the picture for now.]After a while, the photo was sent to his phone. He put the call on speaker and checked the picture.
Soon, Seol Jio’s lips parted.
The first photo was taken recently at the movie premiere venue where he and Yeowoon had attended. It showed him and Yeowoon looking straight ahead as if watching a movie, but their hands overlapped on the armrest.
It fell short of the appearance of lovers, but it was an ambiguous situation that was hard to claim as a mistake.
“Ah…”
Moreover, the picture, which should have been dark since it was taken in a movie theater, was overly bright. It seemed like they separately adjusted the dark photo taken in the theater to make the shapes identifiable.
Seol Jio felt awkward.
Whenever Yeowoon was around, he occasionally lost self-control, and on that day, the desire to touch Yeowoon led him to act rashly, ultimately causing trouble.
Feeling sorry for Yeowoon, he sighed deeply.
The next photo was taken in front of Yeowoon’s house. Where and how it was taken, he couldn’t tell, but through the slightly open car door, their figures were visible.
The two heads were very close.
A memory flashed through his mind.
One night when he didn’t want to let Yeowoon go, he confessed his love as she was about to get out of the car. Instead of getting out, Yeowoon surprised him by planting a sudden kiss on his cheek.
‘It seems like that day…’
Dajidan was so intoxicated by emotions that he didn’t even realize the picture was being taken. Seol Jio looked at the photo again, filled with regret.
At least this one seemed to have a somewhat reasonable excuse.
“We’re not kissing.”
[True. But maybe in a second?]He raised his hand to rub the back of his neck.
How on earth had someone managed to invade his privacy to capture such a fleeting moment?
Annoyed and eerie at the same time, Seol Jio asked, “What do you want? If you sent it not directly to the press but to the company, there must be some demands.”
“Well…”
Ju Seokyeong rummaged for a moment before abruptly calling out a string of numbers. An 11-digit number starting with 010.
“Why are you giving me a number all of a sudden?”
[I wrote to contact. I need to know the situation before making a call, so I called you first.]Seol Jio wondered if it was a number of a journalist he knew, so he searched the number on his phone. Soon, he discovered something and narrowed his eyes.
“What’s this?”
[What, do you know the number?]An expletive involuntarily escaped his lips.
“This crazy stalker is real!”
[What?]The text messages that arrived every morning were from the same infuriating number.
‘What are you going to do?’
Seol Jio was furious. Not only had the stalker been bothering him every morning since moving into the same building, but now they were secretly taking pictures and sending them?
[What do you mean by a stalker?]Ju Seokyeong asked, surprised.
Suppressing the urge to call that number right away and vent, Seol Jio tried to regain his composure.
“Ha…”
[Take it easy, Jio. I did hear vaguely about a stalker from Director Choi Hyeon, but is the stalker the same person who sent this?]“…Seems like it. The numbers are the same.”
[Hmm. If it’s not a paparazzi but a stalker, the situation changes a bit. Money wouldn’t be the motive.]
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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