“I’d rather you went to the publicity office. They would have done whatever it took to block the article. Then you would have pushed even harder to publish it. In the desperate publicity office, they might have done things that shouldn’t be done to you.”
Siyoon’s gaze became sharp.
“Things that shouldn’t be done?”
Surprised, Reporter Yu widened his eyes.
“Why are you surprised? Things that shouldn’t be done. Chasing after you with an envelope of money to block the article.”
“Ha!”
The suppressed sigh burst out of Reporter Yu’s mouth for a moment. His pride was hurt. Despite pretending to be calm and sitting, he exposed signs of tension.
“What were you thinking that you’re so tense?”
Siyoon’s gaze became ominously sharp.
“What you messy things imagine in your heads, judging my life based on those standards, it’s very unpleasant. If you intentionally came to evoke these awkward emotions in me, then you’ve succeeded. I feel really disgusted.”
Siyoon stood up from the sofa and walked to the desk in his study.
“There’s nothing for you to gain from me today. And it will continue to be the same in the future.”
“What about the article?”
“I’m not even the desk for Reporter Yu Siyeon. Do I have to decide whether to publish the article or not?”
He didn’t expect to use a money envelope to persuade him to block the article. At least, he thought he could ask to postpone the embargo on the article for a few days until the facts were clarified.
However, Reporter Yu’s reaction was completely unexpected, and he couldn’t decide how to handle it.
“Reporter Yu Siyeon, do as you please.”
Siyoon pressed the intercom.
“A visitor is here.”
Siyoon looked at the monitor with an expression indicating that his business was done.
‘Not a journalist, not a guest, but a visitor! Upsetting my mood with such trivial matters!’
Reporter Yu bit his lip, stood up with his bag, and turned back. Siyoon called him.
“Wait a moment.”
‘Well, that’s right. Despite all the pretense of being relaxed, he must be burning inside, facing a flipped situation just before the wedding.’
Reporter Yu finally took the bait. Feeling delighted, Siyoon turned around with wide-open nostrils. However, Siyoon, with a cold expression, still didn’t take his eyes off the monitor.
“Before you publish the article, get legal advice. If there’s a problem after the article is out, the company will blame Reporter Yu Siyeon for everything.”
The sound of footsteps as if vigorously stirring a cauldron seemed to come from Reporter Yu’s nose. And with his final words, Siyoon blamed him.
“Take the trash with you.”
“Trash?”
Siyoon looked down at the photo and the article on the sofa table. They seemed insignificant, but who knew what kind of bombshell they could turn into if they stayed in the same space? Looking puzzled, Reporter Yu left Siyoon’s study.
After Reporter Yu left,
Siyoon stared at the photo on the coffee table from his desk. It looked clear even from a distance. A picture of Mi-Joo sitting in an open-air cafe. On the opposite side of Mi-Joo, as Reporter Yu described, there was a man.
Siyoon couldn’t suppress the boiling jealousy and suddenly stood up. With that momentum, the chair made a dull sound as it pushed backward.
Thud.
Siyoon went to Chairman Kim’s house at the time Chairman Kim was leaving work. He had deliberately waited to meet him at home.
Chairman Kim scolded him, asking why he came alone without Mi-Joo. However, he quickly realized that Siyoon had come for work and hurriedly arranged for dinner after learning the reason.
“What’s the matter that you’re acting like this?”
Without turning around, Siyoon started talking straight to the point.
“Grandfather, tomorrow, I might face a noisy rumor.”
A rumor, not an interview, not an article, but a rumor. Chairman Kim sensed that it was something unpleasant.
“Is it related to Taehan? Or is it related to Byungjun?”
“I’m sorry. It’s about Ms. Mi-Joo.”
Chairman Kim looked surprised at the sudden apology.
“What happened that I don’t know about?”
“Nothing. It’s just a rumor for defamation…”
“Then why worry and come at this hour to surprise people.”
Although he wanted to pass it off as nothing significant, Chairman Kim felt increasingly concerned when he saw Siyoon’s expression.
“Tell me the details.”
“It’s about a writer that Mi-Joo knew and interacted with in the United States. They took a picture together, and it describes their relationship as inappropriate.”
“An inappropriate relationship? Do you know the circumstances before and after?”
“You don’t need to worry. I also know the writer well.”
It was said to reassure Chairman Kim, but it was a message that Siyoon didn’t like.
When he first heard the contents of the article from Reporter Yu, the suspicion and jealousy towards the two were very small. However, now, over time, a strange distrust and jealousy were boiling inside him.
But in front of Chairman Kim, he pretended nothing was wrong, trying to endure it.
“The article will come out tomorrow. I’m telling you beforehand because gossip-hungry internet and media outlets will make a lot of noise for a while, regardless of the truth.”
“Which media?”
“The reporter from the place that published the previous article about Mi-Joo.”
“That should be stoppable.”
“Even if we clean up, they will come up with another defamatory report.”
“That’s true, but…”
“If we stop such articles, people will think there’s something real and that’s why we can’t publish the articles.”
He said this, but Siyoon’s mind was still uneasy.
“Well, handle it yourself.”
How late was late? Mi-Joo, who had never received such a unilateral message from Siyoon, was quite bewildered.
She wanted to call and ask, but could she make a call in the face of such a one-sided message? She felt even more worried and decided to quietly wait for Siyoon.
Mi-Joo watched the clock and her silent phone during the evening. After having a late dinner alone and taking a shower…
“Should I watch TV? Or should I do some internet browsing?”
As she contemplated, Mi-Joo sat on the sofa and started reading a book. However, she had spent her energy preparing for the wedding during the day and was in a weary state, so she fell asleep before flipping through a few pages.
At some point, she heard the sound of footsteps, and she felt the warm touch of someone lifting her.
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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