The provided Korean text has 18 lines. Here is the English translation, maintaining the exact same number of lines as the original:
“Whose child is this?”
Seo Jun’s cold gaze while asking this sent chills down the spine.
As So Yeon reached out her hand towards the phone, Seo Jun suddenly pulled her into his arms. It was the first time he had been this forceful. Seo Jun gripped her slender wrist so tightly that So Yeon let out a pained moan, her face twisted in agony.
“Ah…”
“Why is showing me a picture of your precious son such a panic-inducing affair?”
“Did you find out?”
The panic and frantic reaction in So Yeon’s eyes confirmed Seo Jun’s suspicions.
The often sensitive and sometimes secretive So Yeon. The suspicions Seo Jun couldn’t shake off due to her calm yet unsettling demeanor. The root of it all lay in the child in the photo.
“Why didn’t I realize sooner that the child resembles me?”
He already knew.
“Tell me. Or say it’s not true.”
Seo Jun’s eyes were tinged with red as he pressed for an answer.
So Yeon knew too.
A dangerous charade. Pretending to her family that the living father of her child was dead, and to the world, avoiding any mention of him, as if he didn’t exist.
How preposterous and cruel her actions were, how her deceit had brought significant disappointment and shock to Seo Jun.
An excruciating silence.
Years of enduring.
From the pregnancy to the birth, and now the child growing into a clever little talker. It wasn’t easy for So Yeon to voice the secret she’d kept for years.
That’s why she had delayed, just a little longer.
By then, Seo Jun, who had discovered everything, was already speaking the truth of the secret.
“……”
With tear-filled eyes, So Yeon stared fiercely at Seo Jun.
It was cruel.
Heartless.
Robbing her of the chance to reveal the truth herself in this fleeting moment.
Bong Siljang hurriedly entered the spacious hall of the bar, quickly spotting Do Soon and Gu Won Hu at a secluded table, sipping their drinks. He approached them briskly.
“Where is Director Tae?”
“What’s going on today? Something happened?”
“Uh?”
As Do Soon asked back, so did Bong Siljang.
“Well, it’s just that… Director Tae and So Yeon are in a seriously intense mood in the room, and you came rushing in as if about to prevent some imminent disaster. What’s up?”
“Ah, that’s… Just a moment…”
Bong Siljang’s first priority was to check on Seo Jun’s location, so he hurried towards the corridor where the private rooms were.
Having abruptly ended the call earlier, Bong Siljang tried calling again a short while later. It was just as Seo Jun was entering the elevator at the hotel.
Although the call didn’t last long, he managed to learn that Seo Jun had come to meet So Yeon at the hotel bar and was told not to interrupt them.
His firm tone, heavy with restrained emotion, was markedly different from usual, and from that conversation and Seo Jun’s earlier inquiry about the child’s birth date, Bong Siljang was convinced that Seo Jun had finally pieced together the truth.
Immediately, Bong Siljang contacted Park Sung Ho to wait in front of the hotel and rushed here himself.
The provided Korean text has 15 lines. Here is the English translation, maintaining the exact same number of lines as the original:
It was about five minutes later.
From outside the room, it was evident that the conversation inside revolved around a child. Bong Siljang, who had been quietly listening at the door, returned to Won Hu and Do Soon, apologizing as he joined them at the table.
“Whew… some water…”
As soon as he sat, Bong Siljang gulped down the water on the table. Won Hu, watching him, remarked,
“That’s alcohol.”
“Oops…!”
No wonder it tasted so sharp. Having already started, Bong Siljang finished off the drink and put down the empty glass.
“Director, it seems you know what’s going on with those two. Can you enlighten us?”
Won Hu asked seriously, and Bong Siljang, glancing at Do Soon, gave a wry smile.
“Now that a storm is brewing, you two should be prepared. So Yeon’s son is Tae’s.”
“!”
“!”
At Bong Siljang’s revelation, Won Hu and Do Soon were frozen in shock.
Do Soon, who never imagined connecting Tae Seo Jun and Hyun Woo beyond resemblance, was utterly dumbfounded.
Won Hu, with his hopes dashed, leaned back in his chair, letting out hollow chuckles. He couldn’t pursue his unrequited love for So Yeon anymore.
Tae Seo Jun stared at So Yeon’s pale face with red-rimmed eyes.
He wished she would just lash out; the resentment and anger in his gaze overwhelmed So Yeon. She knew any truth spoken now would seem like a feeble excuse.
She shouldn’t have left his house in a hurry.
She should have confessed everything in front of Tae Seo Jun then and there.
If only she had…
If only…
Regret tore her apart, feeling as if her heart was splitting in two. All So Yeon could do to endure the sharp pain was to bite her lip until it bled.
Her guilt for deceiving everyone left her speechless.
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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