“…Could you stop staring at me? It’s incredibly embarrassing even without you looking like that.”
Ji Ho’s low laughter mixed well with the music flowing inside the house. The white Tshirt similar to the one she was wearing made his clean skin stand out even more.
Underneath his crossed arms, his solid chest muscles drew a thick curve through the thin Tshirt.
“But do you believe all that?”
“What?”
“What I just said. That I undressed you because of the injury, and I didn’t do anything else.”
He leaned back on his chair and spoke nonchalantly.
“You’re not that kind of person, Ji Ho sir.”
“That kind of person? Which kind?”
Hye Yoon couldn’t understand it even when she thought about it herself. Even though his tone was full of jokes and his intent to tease was evident, she couldn’t ignore it strangely. She had felt that since yesterday. His words had that kind of power.
Especially when those long eyelashes were added, she felt like her mouth was automatically opening. As if being sucked into his dark pupils.
“You know what I mean…”
She could have spoken more directly, but if she did, her face might have turned red, so she answered indirectly.
“Author, don’t trust people so easily. I think this will happen elsewhere too, so a bit…”
“……”
In the few seconds when he was preparing to answer slowly, the temperature she felt from his expression changed dramatically. To the point where he felt like a completely different person.
“I’m a little angry.”
Like an actor who performs with confidence in his imagination, Ji Ho’s gaze turned cold momentarily. His words were just a bit, but his gaze and expression made her think of hell.
“Um, Ji Ho sir.”
And understanding the intent of his words, Hye Yoon gave a slight smile. The meaning of the gaze that seemed to be coldly blowing was clearly conveyed. ‘I’m worried you might get hurt.’
Of course, the other party was a few steps ahead. He cleverly hid the fact that ‘so stay by my side.’
“I don’t trust people that easily. I trust my senses. I feel that you, Ji Ho sir, are definitely a good person.”
“Don’t trust that sense too much in the future. I’m not that good a person.”
“Ah…”
Despite his gentle expression and tone, he was not a good person. At his chin gesture pointing at the food in front of her, Hye Yoon quietly picked at her food. And with her back turned, Ji Ho walked towards the water purifier.
The finger that was about to press the hot water button while holding the cup hesitated in midair for a moment.
“I feel that you, Ji Ho sir, are definitely a good person.”
A little earlier, at Hye Yoon’s words, a selfdeprecating laugh escaped him as he remembered his behavior from last night. The kind of good guy who worries about bringing a drunk friend home.
“Were you very drunk? It’s hard for me to go now, what to do…”
“I will let him sleep at my place tonight.”
“What?!”
He remembered the ringing voice over the phone. The questioning tone was full of absurdity, but he understood it perfectly.
Because it was strange and absurd to himself as well. In the anxiety that if the call was prolonged, Hye Yoon might be taken away, he quickly hung up. Saying that he would tell her when she woke up.
Well, what should he tell her? The fact that her sleeping face was so pretty that he endured and patted her head a couple of times? That he almost turned out to be worse than the guy she thought he was?
Everything he could tell her was totally unrelated to Hye Yoon’s senses. Ji Ho lowered his head.
“By any chance…”
Although the awkward feeling was harbored on this side, ironically the subtlety was being noticed on the other side. As Ji Ho handed Hye Yoon the warm water, he waited for the next words to follow.
“Did I… make any more mistakes?”
“…No. You didn’t.”
Even though he answered fairly bluntly, she wore an expression of utter bewilderment.
“There is… there is a mistake.”
“Huh?”
“That look in your eyes now. It’s a look trying to hide something.”
“Ah, your sense is really good at times like this.”
“Ha…”
“Chuckling. I was joking. The real thing is that we just had a little more conversation.”
Looking at the expression of the downcast puppy, Ji Ho couldn’t help but chuckle. This woman who had known me for just one day, didn’t give me a chance to hate myself.
“There’s nothing much. Originally, I told you I was a fairy tale author.”
“What?!”
“And a little about the new book.”
“No, no way. Right now, I think you’re confusing me with someone else.”
“I think you said will be published next month…”
Her face was thoroughly examined by deep, immeasurable dark eyes. It was an expression of a soul escaping, like a person stepping on a mine.
Indeed, emotions were vividly reflected in each and every expression, and that was so much to my liking. It led me to add words that didn’t necessarily need to be added.
“Because only a few people know this, it’s a secret. Well, that’s all.”
That was everything to Hye Yoon. The entirety she never wanted to reveal in her lifetime.
Ji Ho wanted to tease her a bit more but decided to stop here. Her voice that was trembling as if she was singing also stopped abruptly, and it seemed like the life was fading from her brown eyes.
Because it seemed like she was imagining the destruction of her universe with that small head.
“There’s not much I can do.”
“…Huh?”
“Keeping a secret and letting you know that the author was really happy when saying those words. Well, that’s all for me too.”
Ji Ho met Hye Yoon’s gaze. And for the woman who claimed to read minds, he briefly let down his thick barrier. He knew just as well how to prevent his thoughts from being read as how to read them. In fact, it was the first time for Ji Ho to show his heart as it is, without a speck of dust.
Hye Yoon too, did not avoid his gaze and looked at him as if pressing down hard.
Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Clank
Then, the sound of the front door opening rang out. The urgency was felt from the sound of the numbers being pressed.
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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