“Grandpa’s room has already checked out?”
Mi-joo’s hand holding the phone trembled. Although no voice came out, she gathered her strength and asked again.
Again, the sound of the keyboard briefly echoed through the phone.
Fortunately, it wasn’t an accident, but why was her heart pounding like this? And why did Director Kim leave in such a hurry?
After that, Mi-joo asked a few more questions, but she didn’t get clear answers due to privacy reasons.
Mi-joo put down the phone weakly.
‘Until last night, they welcomed me as their daughter-in-law, but now, they checked out without saying anything.’
She wanted to call Si-yoon to find out what happened, but now that Director Kim left without a word overnight, she didn’t have the courage to call him and ask.
‘Now I’m completely alone. No, I was alone from the beginning.’
Mi-joo’s eyes shook anxiously in all directions. Why did the ominous thought that he wouldn’t come back keep growing? Why was she becoming more convinced of that thought?
Acting like a newlywed couple in front of Director Kim. That was the biggest mission of this contract.
And after completing that mission in a somewhat pleasant atmosphere yesterday, Director Kim showed no suspicion about this marriage.
‘My help is no longer needed, is it?’
Mi-joo laughed at herself.
‘My help, getting paid to do what’s expected.’
While wondering if she judged the situation too hastily, she also hoped that Si-yoon would suddenly open that door and come in with coffee and bagels, like in a drama or novel.
But reality was clear. Director Kim checked out without a word, and Si-yoon disappeared without a trace.
The fear of being left alone was as overwhelming as the misery of having to accept reality.
‘How should I go home? Did I pay for this expensive room? If I quietly go home, will Kim Si-yoon, who handles everything easily, take care of the rest?’
But right now, Mi-joo was worried even about going home.
‘I don’t even know where this place is. Sigh…’
Mi-joo fiddled with the unlit phone, then looked at the hotel phone that didn’t ring.
‘I relied too much on a person named Kim Si-yoon. Like a fool.’
And that thought came back as self-reproach.
‘I met rich young masters and smart students these past few days and felt proud. But people all have their own places, and I exaggerated it too much. Right. I need to go back to where I belong, Choi Mi-joo! Wake up.’
Mi-joo sat there, repeating comfort and self-blame endlessly.
At that moment, the hotel phone rang.
She wondered if it might be Si-yoon, but then again, what if it was a call from the hotel telling her it’s time to check out? Thoughts like these made her heart feel like it was about to explode.
Mi-joo mustered up the courage to answer the phone.
“Hello. Hi, it’s Lawyer Danny Kim.”
A hotel business room in LA.
Director Kim sat in his office, examining the documents Si-yoon had organized.
“This crazy fool!”
Director Kim pushed the angrily viewed documents off his desk.
Si-yoon, sitting across from him, glanced at the scattered papers and started organizing them. Si-yoon also understood his grandfather’s uneasy feelings.
“Yeah, just putting my brother’s work out for this price!”
“When we try to reclaim it, the auction house won’t agree, and participating in the auction means dealing with a price that’s too low. I’m also considering it.”
Si-yoon’s uncle, Byung-jun, put Si-yoon’s late father’s work up for auction at an LA auction house. And it was at a very unfavorable price.
Upon hearing the news, Si-yoon and Director Kim flew here a month ago.
“He did enter the U.S.”
“Yes, he met acquaintances in LA.”
“He’s good at spending money……”
Even in his anger, Director Kim’s tone softened as if he was worried about his youngest son.
But it was Director Kim who created the skill of spending money like that. He opened his wallet because he was worried that his son, who hadn’t settled down, might go somewhere and die.
“He’s the only son left. Why is he ruining himself like this?”
Kim Si-yoon approached as Director Kim, rubbing the back of his head as if he had a headache, sat down.
“Please lie down a bit. It’s not good for your blood pressure if you get too worked up.”
Ignoring Si-yoon’s words, Director Kim gestured for the documents again. But Si-yoon pulled the documents toward himself.
“I will handle it.”
“What can you do?”
“If there’s none, you have to create one.”
“…Fine. If there’s no path, make a path, and if there’s no way, make one.”
Since they couldn’t let his father’s work roll through the auction house at an absurdly low price, Si-yoon was determined to find a way to bring the work back.
“And also, find Byung-jun and bring him in front of me.”
“I’ll try to contact him, but I don’t know if he’ll listen to me.”
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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