However, that smile brought pain to Yuhyun. Clenching his fist tightly, he silently stared at her face.
‘It’s a lie. Something happened.’
Yuhyun knew Arin better than anyone else. In fact, even Arin herself didn’t think he would believe her lies. She just hoped he would pretend not to know.
“Seriously…”
“Oppa, just pretend not to know. Just…”
“Seriously…”
“Oppa, just pretend not to know. Just…”
Yuhyun swallowed the truth deep into his throat and decided to do as Arin wished.
“Okay.”
Yuhyun felt a dull ache around his neck due to frustration. After hiding his inner thoughts, he gently stroked Arin’s cheek.
‘Alright. If what you want is for me to pretend not to know… I’ll do that.’
As Yuhyun and Arin locked eyes, he produced a smile. Seeing him smile at her made Arin feel guilty.
“Thank you, Oppa.”
Yuhyun forced a smile. Yet, Arin couldn’t give him the answer he wanted.
During the acquisition process of the department store, Jaehyuk found LW Department Store.
The meeting with Haeyeon was scheduled for next Wednesday at 12 p.m., and the location was planned to be at the VAN headquarters, not LW Department Store.
However, yesterday, Haeyeon suddenly demanded a change in the schedule.
He didn’t like changes in the schedule. Unwillingly, he refused. Haeyeon persistently pleaded.
In the end, Jaehyuk accepted her proposal.
According to the plan, he wouldn’t be here at this time. So, there was no plan to meet Arin.
The schedule changed, and he encountered her.
“Sigh.”
Jaehyuk let out a deep sigh.
‘Arin… I guess I wanted to see you.’
It felt like he was led by destiny. Destiny seemed to have brought him in front of Arin.
Jaehyuk staggered.
“Are you okay?”
Instead of answering, Jaehyuk raised his hand to signal that he was okay.
One team leader looked at Jaehyuk with a pitiful gaze. Including him, the secretaries watched the reunion of Jaehyuk and Arin.
In the heavy silence, no one easily opened their mouths. The silence continued as they headed to the 14th-floor office.
Thump, thump. Jaehyuk’s heart was beating rapidly.
‘Arin.’
He painfully realized that his presence would only cause wounds. So, he desperately tried not to appear in front of her.
Fortunately, Arin’s living circle wasn’t wide. Since she lived in Jeju Island, the probability of meeting her was low unless he went to Jeju. So, even when he had business trips to Jeju, he didn’t go.
After hearing the news that Memoria had opened in Yeonnam-dong through a team leader, he didn’t go to Yeonnam-dong, Yeonhui-dong, and even Hongdae in Sinchon, avoiding places where Arin might appear, and cut all the ties connected to her.
Was it because of those efforts?
After the divorce, he never saw Arin even once.
‘The words of people who say you can forget more easily if you don’t see it are blatant lies.’
But the presence of Arin in his heart didn’t blur just because they didn’t meet. No, it became even clearer. The longing for her also grew larger.
The emotions of longing and regret swallowed him, repeating the process of swallowing and spitting out in his heart, leaving numerous scars.
‘Arin.’
Knowing that he had no right to regret, he was still consumed by regret.
I knew I didn’t have the right to utter it out loud. After Arin left, I couldn’t dare to speak her name out loud. Fearing that the longing emotions would be revealed, I always kept her name in my mouth as if suppressing it.
“Even though I know I don’t have the right to miss you, I couldn’t let you go.”
Why did I act like that back then?
Whenever Arin came to mind, I had to endure the overwhelming feelings of regret and guilt.
“I love you, Arin… and I’m sorry.”
The words that she so desperately wanted to hear… the words that he couldn’t say when she wanted to hear them, he had to swallow countless times alone.
Deciding to endure the severe punishment of carrying the weight of remorse and guilt for a lifetime until the light of his life went out.
Even if it was an irrevocable past, even if it was a cowardly self-justification, it was the only atonement for the wounds he caused.
Thinking about that name that overwhelmed him just by thinking about it, he wiped his face roughly.
His heart, meeting its owner, thumped rapidly. So rapidly that it seemed it would burst.
It was much more impressive than he had imagined.
“She’s even more beautiful. Our Arin.”
Jaehyuk believed that letting go of Arin was the best decision he ever made.
“She shone brightly. She seemed alive.”
In his memories, she was like a withered flower waiting for death without vitality. Losing the will to live, it seemed like she wasn’t living to want to live but rather living without dying. Her leaving him was an excellent choice.
Now she was sparkling. As if proving that she could only live by leaving him, she was living impressively.
The pain, like carving out the flesh, surged. His heart convulsed.
In the fragments of a very long memory, when he thought of her burying her face in his chest and crying, his mouth felt bitter.
“Yeah… You can live without me. Continue to smile and live as you do now. I’ll handle the difficult things.”
Although it was a cruel truth, it was the only thing he could do for Arin.
Jaehyuk went up to the top floor of LW Department Store. As he opened the door and entered, Haeyeon, who seemed to be waiting, stood up to greet him.
“You came.”
“I hope you don’t change the schedule like this in the future. Isn’t it like a childish prank? We’re not even close, Minister Min.”
Was it because he had just met Arin? Jaehyuk’s eyes were sharper than ever.
“Let’s cut to the chase and see why you insisted on meeting today.”
Jaehyuk was more serious than usual. Haeyeon found him a bit unusual, revealing emotions more than usual. However, she didn’t have the luxury to think deeply about his condition.
Haeyeon also felt that the situation was not normal.
“I won’t let such things happen in the future. I had no choice but to contact you today because I have something important to tell you.”
“If it’s about business…”
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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