A smile finally appeared on Tae-seo’s face as he gazed silently at Jae-in.
He buried his face in Jae-in’s neck without hesitation. The stress accumulated from being surrounded by Jae-in’s scent eased away with a deep breath.
He was afraid. Afraid that if he carried out his work in his own way, Jae-in would be disappointed in him. Afraid that he wouldn’t hate his twisted personality, full of love and not resentment.
So, he had been suppressing his temper, seeking Jae-in’s permission, but it was becoming increasingly challenging to endure the trash-like individuals.
“Jae-in.”
“Yes.”
“I… those people…”
Just as Tae-seo did before meeting Jae-in, he wanted to sweep away all the irritating things without any consideration.
He had lived his whole life seeking approval from someone—his biological mother, his biological father, and even his stepmother, striving to carve his existence. In the process, he lived without knowing various emotions one should understand as a human. He trusted money more than people.
How long should he hide the kind but not entirely affectionate side of him? Would Jae-in still stay by his side after seeing the true face he had lived blindly? It was a time when Tae-seo’s hesitant words wouldn’t easily come out.
“You can do as you please.”
“…….”
“As you wish, Tae-seo. Don’t mind me.”
It was Jae-in who extended her hand first, calming his anger caused by Seung-hee while quietly smelling her fragrance. Tae-seo eventually cautiously revealed his hidden self on her delicate skin.
“Even if I act like a bad guy…?”
Silently, the small hand that was holding Tae-seo’s clothes slowly moved. In response to Jae-in’s gesture, trying to push away his hand from his chest, Tae-seo’s heart seemed to drop to his stomach.
“Hup…!”
Tae-seo hugged Jae-in tightly enough for her to feel breathless. His determined gesture carried the will not to be abandoned by her alone.
“Don’t do that. I won’t do that.”
“No, no. Tae-seo, I mean…”
“Don’t push me away.”
Holding onto Jae-in with all his strength, Tae-seo closed his eyes for a long time. Suddenly, he felt a gentle touch on his shoulders. The hand that embraced his shoulders and swept down was tender and kind.
His stiffened shoulders and back relaxed, and as his fearful and rapidly beating heart gradually found its rhythm, the small hand that moved to his broad back began to gently stroke it, as if tapping along with his heartbeats.
“I didn’t try to push you away. I just wanted to see your face, Tae-seo.”
“…….”
“Feel free to do what you really want. Don’t endure it because of me. You don’t have to ask for my permission each time. If you’re a bad guy, so what.”
As Jae-in whispered softly, Tae-seo’s arms gradually lost strength. After a while, when he looked at Jae-in again, she was looking up at him with a smile.
“Ah…”
In her black pupils, Tae-seo discovered his endlessly foolish self. It was the appearance of his young self, who used to bring home awards to receive a nod from his parents, nervously watching them for approval.
And Jae-in was looking at him with the affectionate gaze he had longed for. From beneath, the ecstatic and overwhelming breathlessness slowly enveloped Tae-seo. It was more blissful and suffocating than ever.
“There’s a more attractive man than a gentle one.”
“…Who is that man?”
Ready to offer whatever he had to the woman who embraced him, even having forsaken his parents, Tae-seo eagerly awaited the words that would follow.
“A bad man who’s only gentle to me.”
“You don’t need to be affectionate even to bad people; just wield your temper as you please,” Jae-in sided with him. In front of the permission to freely dance with a sword, Tae-seo’s eyes gently narrowed.
“In fact, if it’s Tae-seo, ah…!”
Greedily, a smile appeared on Jae-in’s lips as if he had just drawn a picture there. It was a more substantial smile than ever.
Gwang-soon had her head wrapped and lay moaning. Just a few days ago, she had risen after being bedridden due to her son losing 1.5 billion won, but now he had messed up again.
“Kkuuung…….”
How could he sell the building’s second floor under his mother’s nose? After that, he became the youngest branch manager, enjoying a salary at the dental clinic his senior set up where Gwang-soon’s dental clinic used to be.
“Worthless bastard……. Acts like he has no balls.”
Seok-dong, who was once our director, had somehow become just a son, and now he became a son of a son. And that wasn’t enough; he became a worthless guy with no balls.
The guy with no balls, today as well, bowed and apologized to the lying Gwang-soon behind him and went to work. Although it seemed like a day off, his rushing out early in the morning looked somewhat excited.
Staring at the mirror for a long time, humming a tune, and gently stroking his hair, the image of his son who had left suddenly crossed Gwang-soon’s mind. Without asking where he was going, suddenly, anxiety overwhelmed her.
“Wait, are you going somewhere to do something strange again?”
Gwang-soon’s suspicions, twice in a row by her son, were reasonable.
The day she found out that he had sold the building’s second floor, she should have pulled out all of his hair. He would shield his hair even when he got beaten on the back and shoulders. He was so precious about his hair that he wouldn’t let anyone touch it, even after getting hit everywhere else.
She couldn’t calm down. In times like this, she should catch her daughter-in-law, but she didn’t have one. Frustrated, Gwang-soon threw off her loosened hairband and shot a glance at Seok-dong’s room beyond the door.
Was it the right time now? No, it wasn’t. Seok-dong had used the money he got from selling the entire second floor to pay off all the loan principal and interest. The problem now was that he had no money left in his hands.
“Hmm…….”
A sigh escaped involuntarily. When entering the apartment reconstruction, compensation money would be given, but with that money, he couldn’t buy a house like the one in Gangnam. He wanted to live in an apartment built after reconstruction, but with the money he had now, it was impossible.
Meanwhile, the construction company selected as the apartment reconstruction contractor was being featured in the news every day.
Will I get proper compensation like this? The Gangseong union members were staging a sit-in in front of the prosecutor’s office and the construction company president’s house.
“Wait, this wasn’t supposed to happen like this…….”
Gwang-soon, who found something to do, had her gaze caught by the torn eyes of Seok-dong.
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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