The lit hallway was solely on the 4th floor.
8 years prior, it had undergone partial renovation due to a fire. But given the age of the orphanage building, traces of time were evident everywhere.
A scene contrasting starkly with the sunny garden during the day.
And at its end was Director Gam’s room.
“……Ugh.”
Young Hee, who had been tossing and turning in bed, groaned as she attempted to rise.
Sook Hee, who had been tending to her, momentarily drifted into sleep but soon woke up and studied Young Hee’s face.
“Director, are you alright?”
“Oh my. It feels as if it might rain. Today, it’s particularly aching.”
Sook Hee, approaching quietly, took a wet cloth and wiped Director Gam’s forehead.
“Your complexion doesn’t look good.”
“……”
“Did you have a bad dream?”
Young Hee dismissed the question with a wave of her hand.
“What dream? The pain keeps me from sleeping.”
“Let me massage you a bit then.”
“Don’t touch!”
She shouted suddenly. Anyone would be startled, but Sook Hee merely stared at the Director, her expression unchanging.
Ironically, the one flustered was Director Gam who had yelled.
“……I apologize.”
She quickly made amends, explaining that even a slight touch pained her, asking Sook Hee not to even touch her arm or shoulder.
“Shall I apply a patch for you then?”
“It’s not necessary.”
Sook Hee sighed, observing Young Hee’s refusal.
“I’m fine. You should go and not lose sleep on my account.”
“With you in this state, Director, how can I leave?”
“If you stay and watch, what will it change? Will you take on the pain for me?”
Sook Hee, who had been sweating slightly, laughed, the wrinkles around her eyes deepening.
She then reached for the bag of medicine next to her.
“Let me get that for you. Don’t move.”
Sook Hee hurriedly pulled out a dose from the bag and handed it to Young Hee with water.
After swallowing, Young Hee parted her dry lips.
“Now that I’ve taken the medicine, I should feel better soon.”
“……”
“So, don’t fuss over an old woman. Go and take care of the children. If I truly need you, I’ll call.”
There was no reason for Sook Hee to remain.
With a sorrowful look, she reluctantly stood up.
“If you feel any discomfort, please call me right away.”
“I will.”
Lying down, Young Hee turned to face the wall.
Click.
Sook Hee turned off the light as she left, and the room was soon engulfed in darkness.
“Ugh……”
In pain, Young Hee moaned, clutching her shoulder.
“Oh dear, this is agony……”
It felt as if she had someone else’s arm attached to her.
No matter how she positioned herself, there was no comfort.
Although she had taken painkillers due to Sook Hee’s insistence, it barely helped.
She merely showed the routine – going to the hospital, receiving treatment, and taking medicine.
Just as she was sighing deeply, a voice pierced the darkness.
“Given your slow recovery, it must’ve been a fatal wound.”
A voice spoke from the shadows.
Startled, Young Hee, forgetting her pain, sat bolt upright.
“Who, who’s there?”
She hadn’t sensed anyone’s presence.
A man, leaning against the dark wall, moved into the moonlight, revealing part of his figure.
“It’s been a while, hasn’t it?”
Emerging completely from the shadows, he smiled faintly.
It was San.
Shocked, Young Hee screamed as if she had seen a ghost.
“……What are you doing? How did you get in here?”
But before she could say more, her words were cut off.
San, now close, twisted Young Hee’s face with a fierce grip.
“Why are we doing this? Making things hard for each other.”
“Ugh!”
“Isn’t a missing shoulder enough for you?”
Seeing his no longer amused face, fear crept into her eyes.
This deep-rooted fear took over her body instantly.
“Let, let go……!”
Panicking, Young Hee reached for the phone, but couldn’t touch it due to San’s tight grip on her shoulder.
San intensified the pressure on her shoulder, twisting it.
“Ahh!”
Her face contorted with pain.
Blue flames illuminated the covered area translucently, revealing a burnt silhouette of the obscured shoulder and arm.
On Director Gam’s shoulder, the red number 485 was inscribed.
“It’s not Gam Young Hee.”
“……”
“It’s number 485.”
Monsters, marked with numbers based on their birth order, were named after the pronunciation of those numbers.
Thus, the real name of Gam Young Hee was Saparo (485).
Suddenly, an explosive sound erupted between them.
Bang!
San, who had distanced himself, covered his nose and mouth with his sleeve, staring straight ahead.
Where the smoke cleared, a black monster, having lost its human shape, stood glaring at him.
When San had encountered Director Gam at the orphanage, he had immediately sensed that she was the monster from Kang’s dream.
Although she had tried to hide it, the extensive damage she’d sustained was too evident.
And his suspicion was spot-on.
“You’re the one, aren’t you? The one who engraved the dream door on Seo Kang.”
「So, what do you want with me!」
“What else?”
He revealed his previously concealed face and took a step forward.
“It’s a battle for prey.”
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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