“It’s not bad to keep my cousins in check with a hotel like Flora. It’s a company that’s more recognized abroad, so synergy with dutyfree business would also be good. Father will also not pay attention to you, so it’s necessary.”
“I didn’t mean that……”
“And when you go out, you should contact me first. It’s difficult if it’s like this, Yoon Ah. You also hate people sticking to you.”
His voice was soft, but it was a warning that choked off her breath.
At the same time, his thick fingers kept tucking her flowing hair behind her ears.
Anyway, she didn’t expect it to end at once.
Leaning on Kang Hyun’s shoulder, Seo Yoon, who suppressed her rising tears, thought of a completely different question.
“Is it still the same?”
“What is.”
“My twin. It’s been over 3 years since I’ve heard the rumors.”
“I’m looking for them.”
“……It’s not that you’re hiding them on purpose after finding them?”
Kang Hyun, who had dried up without notice, quietly stared at Seo Yoon who was casting a doubtful gaze.
“There was no other meaning. It’s just that Oppa… can’t stand someone being beside me, so you’re asking just in case.”
Despite not being a man who would be hurt by mere words, the fragile Seo Yoon was the first to justify herself.
“What’s the point of hiding on purpose?”
“Oppa.”
“It’s right not to show someone who can harm you. We’ll talk after finding it.”
“I understand.”
Seo Yoon ended the conversation with a faint response.
Seo Yoon’s bedroom contained nothing more than a double kingsized bed and a long leather stool.
In the morning, when she opened her eyes under the heavy blackout curtains, the spacious room felt a bit desolate.
Turning off the loudly ringing alarm and opening her eyes, Seo Yoon picked up the robe she had left on the stool and left the bedroom.
“It’s cold.”
On a morning when the system adjusting optimal temperature and humidity should have created a pleasant environment as usual, her body felt chilly at the touch of the cold air, as if she was about to catch a cold.
Tick, tick. The sound of the second hand of the clock broke the long silence and burrowed into her ears.
Was it spring two years ago? It was a clock she had found at a souvenir shop she accidentally visited while traveling in Jeju Island with Kang Hyun.
The design was very beautiful, capturing the emerald sea as if waves were breaking.
But now it felt like a useless knickknack that amplified her loneliness.
Although she thought the sound of the needle passing by should get louder as days went by, she couldn’t bear to remove it.
It’s not easy to get rid of anything that Kang Hyun’s hand had touched.
She filled a transparent glass with milk and sat on the sofa with a tablet in her hand.
On the video sharing site she habitually visited, the realtime ranking was dominated by a face she had seen at the engagement ceremony a few days ago.
Staring at the screen with the four words ‘imminent marriage’, Seo Yoon bit her lips with white teeth.
Ignore it, please don’t look.
But her head and fingers chose different paths.
“The times are changing rapidly, but there are still things that are unbroken, right? It’s the marriage of the chaebol families. Recently, the news of the marriage between the second daughter of Kim Seok Hyun, the representative of Flora Hotel, and Tae Kang Hyun, the vice president of Seo Won Construction, was delivered. It was said that a grand engagement ceremony was held three days ago, right?”
“Yes, that’s correct. The second daughter of Kim Seok Hyun, the representative of Flora Hotel, was revealed to be Kim So Ye, who was the main announcer of TBC, which is causing even more buzz.”
“I heard she suddenly retired, so it was for the marriage. Anyway, they’re definitely a wellmatched pair. Even the rising and falling actors can’t match Vice President Tae Kang Hyun, his looks are too good to be stuck at a desk.”
“Photos of them attending official events together have been released as soon as the engagement ceremony ended. They look like a couple at first glance, don’t they?”
“Ah, a lover! You spoke well. Nobody! Really, nobody has ever seen it, but there’s always the same rumor attached to Executive Director Taekang Hyun. That is, he has a hidden lover.”
As the silhouette like a shadow rose next to Taekang Hyun and his fiancée, who were holding hands, Seo Yoon immediately covered the tablet.
A shadowy silhouette of a sullen woman and a question mark. She thought her reflection in the mirror might look like that.
“She’s not even a lover.”
She didn’t feel angry or tearful, as it was bound to happen someday, but it was still miserable to realize that she didn’t exist in his world.
The time to leave him was once again rapidly approaching.
“Yoona.”
“……When did you arrive?”
Her surprised shoulders twitched.
“At dawn.”
Kang Hyun, who came out casually wearing a bathrobe of the same design as hers, took the milk from Seo Yoon’s hand.
“Drink your tea while it’s warm.”
“Are you crazy? The press has been all over you.”
Seo Yoon’s eyebrows narrowed. She was shocked that he would think of coming here after attracting attention with his engagement.
Despite his superior intellect, she couldn’t understand him when his thinking occasionally reversed.
“I’m tired.”
“Executive Director Taekang Hyun.”
“I get tired of hearing that title, but why does it sound fresh when you say it.”
Kang Hyun, who had put the glass cup in the microwave and returned, leaned against the island counter and spread his arms.
Seo Yoon looked down, but of course, Kang Hyun did not move.
A slight irritation was evident in the hand brushing through her hair.
“Han Seo Yoon.”
The deep, submerged tone combined with the cold three hundred gaze was excessively domineering.
Now she should distance herself from him.
Her feet, moving freely to be embraced in his spacious chest, rolled as if a magnet wanting the opposite pole was attached.
“I saw the marriage article.”
“Don’t worry about it as it’s a formality. It’ll quiet down with time.”
Seo Yoon buried her head without a reply.
Kang Hyun, who described his marriage with another woman as a formality, was monotonous and calm.
His interest, which a person with basic moral values couldn’t laugh or cry at, was solely in stroking the convex back of her head.
In the past, there were guardians and wards.
And now, something hidden of a third generation conglomerate.
Maybe an emotional box of some sort.
Han Seo Yoon without Taekang Hyun, and Han Seo Yoon with Taekang Hyun were pitiful existences.
She lived a prosperous life in the eyes of Chairman Taeseokjung, even though she was an orphan, but in the end, she had nothing.
She graduated from a nonenviable school but could not build a deep relationship with anyone because Kang Hyun did not want it. The only friend she barely had was also an acquaintance of Kang Hyun.
“Should I smile?”
“Yes.”
Seo Yoon, who escaped from his spacious embrace, smiled broadly.
Kang Hyun, who had been intently looking at such Seo Yoon, lifted the corner of his mouth very slightly.
Kang Hyun, who practiced a smile that would be hard to notice if it were not for Seo Yoon, quickly returned to his original boredom.
“What you need is…”
“……is for you not to get married.”
“I told you getting married is beneficial in many ways. Anything else.”
“Nothing.”
“Alright, let’s go to Jeju Island or something when things settle down.”
A relationship that was not normal in the slightest was as natural to Kang Hyun as his conscious mind.
When he finished taking a shower in the bathroom attached to the bedroom, his traces had disappeared.
A person who would come without any notice of arrival, and leave without any notice of departure.
The winter when white snow piles up softly.
She loved him, who resembled that season, who resembled the dry fallen leaves made by that season.
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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