She accepted his escort without a fuss, got into the car, and crossed the garden of the house together. The security team had gathered in the garden for a shift change.
Ki Joo, who had escorted her to the front door, bowed. Eun Chae didn’t go in, she looked down at him from the top of the stairs.
“Team Leader Kwon.”
He looked up and met her gaze. She felt the attention of the security team also focusing on her, but Eun Chae didn’t care and opened her mouth.
“Come to my room.”
She turned around after leaving a message that completely excluded any additional explanation. Ki Joo, who received a command that wasn’t a command, watched her small figure disappear into the foyer, then grabbed his neck and scratched lightly. He seemed not to hear the slight disturbance of the security team gathered behind him.
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“Some are allowed to go in and out of the house, some are left waiting outside like dogs guarding the house.”
Someone said as the security team, dressed in a featureless black suit, came into the accommodation in droves.
That remark, not shown outwardly, had ignited the sparks in the hearts of others who had already harbored discontent. A scene of eyes being exchanged without a first among the security team ensued. Soon, someone scoffed openly.
“The manager couldn’t even manage to charm Song Eun Chae. Has he been inside for thirty minutes?”
At that remark, someone checked their wristwatch and retorted dramatically.
“Do you think it’s exceeded?”
“Is this what they call the value of a person?”
“Exactly, the atmosphere was tense between the two even when the team leader returned.”
There had been a lot of talk when Kwon Ki Joo, who was neither promoted from within nor suddenly arrived as team leader. At least those who had been working from 2 years ago confirmed his exceptional ability. Otherwise, there could have been internal strife.
For the security team, Song Eun Chae’s attitude was somewhat refreshing.
From the beginning, she was cold enough to be chilly compared to Chairman Song Myung Hwan, who was very friendly and even sticking to Ki Joo. She was more guarded than ever. She was originally a woman who was uncooperative and standoffish to the security team, but she was particularly chilly towards Ki Joo.
It felt so recent, like the day before yesterday, the security team even felt betrayed by Song Eun Chae.
“Hey, Choi Hee Cheol. You worked with Team Leader Kwon two years ago. Don’t you know anything?”
Everyone’s attention focused on Hee Cheol. The actual party removed his glasses with an annoyed face and frowned.
“What do you want to know?”
“About the two, how were they before? Were they like this?”
Hee Cheol looked pitifully at the guy laughing and asking questions with a lewd expression. It was not worth dealing with, and it was not good for Kwon Ki Joo or Song Eun Chae to have such dirty rumors attached. It would only cause confusion. Hee Cheol opened his mouth with a reluctant face.
“Song Eun Chae has a lot of complaints about the security team.”
“Really? And with Team Leader Kwon?”
Hee Cheol wiped his glasses with a glasses cleaner and replied.
“I guess Song Eun Chae was probably the worst among the guys who took care of her security, including Team Leader Kwon.”
“What? But now she even calls him to her room?”
“Will you listen to the end?”
When Hee Cheol raised his eyebrows annoyingly, the audience quickly became docile.
“Ah, yes, yes. I’ll listen, so please speak quickly.”
“Team Leader Kwon is Song Eun Chae’s lifesaver.”
“What?!”
“In the Philippines, when Song Eun Chae was attacked, Team Leader Kwon saved her by risking his body. You should consider one of the scars on his body left by Song Eun Chae.”
“Wow, it’s like a movie. A movie!”
“After that, we got along pretty well, I think.”
“But why were you so impatient to get back? Shouldn’t you have been happy about it?”
At this, Heecheol fell silent. Kwon Ki Joo had suddenly resigned. Without any specific reason, he just said it was personal. He didn’t even give time to arrange a handover or find a successor.
How was Song Eun Chae then?
At first, she showed her bewilderment, but she soon regained her composure. Or at least, that’s what it seemed. She treated people with an even drier look than before.
“It must have been awkward seeing each other after such a long time! Don’t you think their relationship seems fine now?”
Someone who was deeply engrossed in their story burst into laughter.
“That’s right! We may forget the one who hit us, but we can’t forget the one who saved us!”
There was no more apt analogy for the security team. Everyone agreed with shining eyes.
“But you don’t think there are any personal feelings involved, do you?”
When the first one to voice dissatisfaction raised another suspicion, the dormitory was engulfed in silence. While their story seemed more cinematic than a movie, that didn’t mean it was impossible to suspect such a thing.
From the very beginning, there were worries about how Chairman Song Myung Hwan would react if something like that happened. It could have been damaging to their close relationship to stir up unnecessary troubles.
Someone waved their hands as if it was their own business.
“Oh, come on. They even moved up their wedding. Let’s stop this before any weird rumors start!”
“Yes, yes. Let’s not make a big deal out of this.”
It seemed the matter was being settled. There were footsteps heard from the room they thought was empty, and just before the creaking door opened.
“It’s good that you’ve reached a conclusion.”
The one who appeared from the open door was none other than Gwang Il. He must have been resting in the dorm on his rare day off, looking rather disheveled. His halfnaked upper body moved threateningly.
The discovery of the sudden appearance of Gwang Il turned the faces of the people present into deep thought in an instant.
Slowly, step by step.
Gwang Il crossed the threshold into the living room.
“Don’t talk thoughtlessly here.”
Gwang Il, who already had a deep voice, sounded eerily low. The security team, who were startled out of their wits, hastily jumped up from their seats.
“It, it was a mistake!”
Gwang Il grabbed his own neck with one hand and twisted his head to the other side. The sound of his bones cracking echoed throughout the room.
“Refrain from pointless chatter from now on.”
“Yes, understood!”
Leaving the security team, who were on high alert, Gwang Il turned around. He had managed to keep his cool, but he was still flustered inside the room. No matter how much he tried to calm himself, it was impossible.
Those fools were letting their imaginations run wild. Thankfully, they had dropped their suspicions among themselves, but if they behaved recklessly from now on, rumors could spread and reach Chairman Song Myung Hwan’s ears.
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The knock came just as Eun Chae was buttoning up her cardigan. Eun Chae, who had been staring at the giftwrapped square box on her desk, turned her eyes toward the door.
She had ordered him to come to her room out of the blue, but she didn’t expect him to arrive so quickly. Her heart pounded like never before, as if she was about to commit a bad deed for the first time. It was the same kind of thrill as the day she bought her first forbidden junk food in her house.
Eun Chae swallowed her dry saliva and approached the door. She composed herself, trying to look calm, and opened the door.
Alright. Up to that point, it was good.
It was good, but…
“Why did you take off your clothes?”
Kwon Ki Joo, for some reason, had come without his coat and jacket, only wearing his shirt. His tie was loosened and some of the shirt buttons were undone.
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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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