With a few words exchanged in a courteous manner, the meal ended in an awkward atmosphere. Kang Hyun, who sat on the edge of the bed, waiting for Ji An after conversing with her parents, looked around Ji An’s room with a slightly discontented expression.
Since Ji An hoped to use the main bedroom with an attached dressing room, Kang Hyun didn’t find the room appealing, feeling cramped in his eyes.
“So, you’re dating our Ji An….”
Ji An’s father, with a face like someone struck by lightning in a clear sky, intermittently emptied a shot glass with a vacant expression.
The father’s expression wasn’t pleasant when he realized that his daughter, rather than climbing the corporate ladder, had taken care of a lover.
“Director!”
Kang Hyun closed the door and pulled Ji An towards him as she approached. He lifted her onto his thigh.
“Sorry, I was consoling Dad with Mom.”
“We were supposed to watch a movie at home.”
“Yes, let’s do that!”
While Kang Hyun was quietly staring at Ji An, he buried his face in her round shoulders.
As Seokwon had said, the three family members were harmonious and filled with warmth.
Our daughter, our daughter.
Throughout the meal, Ji An was in their eyes.
Ji An’s mother, in front of her daughter’s unconditional love, was so preoccupied with serving her favorite side dishes that she could hardly hold a spoon.
In front of Kang Hyun, who couldn’t taste the food even if he wanted to, due to the unrequited love of Seoyoon’s parents, the tasteless food was reluctantly chewed and swallowed.
“I want to go home.”
Kang Hyun’s low voice trembled faintly.
To Kang Hyun, Seo Ji An’s parents were strangers with no meaning.
Fifteen years of the time spent with Seoyoon, compared to a mere four years, and not even Seoyoon’s real parents, these people seemed like they would forever take her away.
“Mom bought a lot of fruit. Just eat that and go.”
“I’ll go with you.”
“I’ll go with you.”
Hugging Ji An, Kang Hyun closed his eyes, receiving a gentle touch on his back.
He thought this happiness would last forever in the time spent alone together in the empty house.
However, as they stepped outside the house, cracks in that dreamlike illusion appeared, and fear crept in.
“Is it very uncomfortable? If I knew, I would have postponed the promise a little longer.”
Ji An tapped Kang Hyun’s back, whose complexion was not good. Kang Hyun’s reasonable suspicion wasn’t aimed at many unfamiliar faces but at everyone around him.
Was it the shock of losing a loved one that pushed him to the edge of the cliff?
Ji An, promising to take care of a sensitive hedgehog, pressed her lips against his wrinkled forehead.
“I’m enduring, why.”
“What?”
“Why are you kissing.”
“It’s not exactly a kiss… just a light peck.”
Not on the cheek, not on the lips, and not even on the forehead.
Ji An, unable to understand Kang Hyun’s pleading look, chuckled and shook her head.
“So, a light peck is fine, even here.”
Reliable acting as a trustworthy boyfriend, Kang Hyun, who had endured the desire to stick close due to playing the part, circled Ji An with a mischievous expression, embracing her tightly with both arms.
“Just once because I did it once, Director, just once.”
Trapped firmly in Kang Hyun’s arms to the point where her arms were pressed against her sides, Ji An sensed the danger first, turned her head, and offered her cheek for a peck.
As Kang Hyun’s lips obediently met the ripe cheek, he quickly withdrew and exerted force on Ji An’s bound arm, twisting his body.
“Mom brought fruits…”
“You must be knocking.”
Having circled half a circle with Kang Hyun, Ji An, who had fallen onto the mattress, received a series of kisses all over her face. She wrinkled her nose at the ticklish sensation.
Seemingly not satisfied with the lively chirping of birds, Kang Hyun’s hand gripped Ji An’s slender jaw.
“I guess we’ve been too close for too long.”
Oh no, mumbled Ji An in a small voice, then freely draped her released arms around Kang Hyun’s neck.
Thinking he should push her away before Mom came in, Kang Hyun’s diligent lips, which had been dry for days, wanted to touch hers.
“Three minutes, no, just one minute.”
“Okay.”
Under the agreement, similar-temperature breaths poured out from entwined lips.
The skin that had once touched did not seem to separate, and soon, even the closely adhered lower abdomen started to throb.
One minute disappeared in an instant.
Kang Hyun pressed Ji An’s reddened cheek with his fingers, opened Ji An’s lips wider, and ventured deeper.
Meanwhile, Ji An, who wanted to touch the inside of Kang Hyun’s tight shirt, forcibly pushed her hand in, and suddenly, one button burst off lifelessly and flew somewhere.
Tap-tap—.
Only after hearing the knocking sound did Ji An, who had been preoccupied with conquering that opening, regain her composure.
“Goodness.”
Ji An was surprised and blushed at the disheveled appearance of Kang Hyun.
The tie that had slipped over his shoulder was on the cute side.
“I thought you were going to tear the shirt apart.”
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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