“……Well, it’s not exactly like that. Since everyone is working hard, would it be disturbing?”
Saying this, I instinctively glanced around. Perhaps because it was early, except for Jung Eun’s and my desks, all the other desk owners were absent.
So, in the first place, the only person who would be disturbed by my footsteps was Jung Eun.
Sensing that my weak reasoning was about to be exposed, I quickly threw in the next words.
“Yeah. I came to work a bit early today. Isn’t that right?”
“Yeah. For someone who just broke up with her boyfriend the day before yesterday, you’re doing a pretty healthy job of coming to work. Right?”
“Ah, well……”
It seemed like no matter what I said from now on, it would inevitably lead to a conversation about Jun. I had a strong premonition of that.
“Ah, my bag is heavy. Put it down quickly. And then, pour some tea into the tumbler….”
While avoiding Jung Eun’s gaze, I muttered as if appealing that there were many things to do.
“It seems like you have a habit of saying things when you want to change the subject. Did I just bring up something you didn’t want to talk about again?”
“…What habit? Now, let’s choose the tea…”
“You just did it again. It’s a habit of blurting out whatever comes to your mind when there’s a gap in the conversation. Exactly what you’re doing now.”
The fingers rummaging through the tea bag in the tin case paused, making a slight hesitation or whether to leave them like that or to wave the fingers again.
“Why bother choosing. Shall I pick for you?”
“…”
Jung Eun briskly walked over to my side and, even if you were already soaked, said the inscrutable words that you couldn’t know the inside of a farewell while putting an apple tea on my hand.
I shifted my gaze from the apple tea on my hand to Jung Eun standing next to me. It seemed like those sharp eyebrows were intentionally expressing that she knew.
“Why are you looking at me like that? Surely you didn’t break up with that Kim Jun, right?”
“…My gaze is saying it. Surely someone who hasn’t broken up is right here.”
Feeling unsure myself, I smiled with a touch of disappointment at the end of my words. The taut lips that seemed to be tightly pulled apart by Jung Eun loosened, and a smile appeared in that place.
“Well, it seems like ‘because I love you, I let you go’ is well settled.”
Jung Eun said, putting another apple tea tea bag on my hand. I didn’t mind her request to brew hers while it was hot.
“But, Haru.”
“Yeah?”
“Did you apologize to that Kim Jun guy?”
The answer didn’t come immediately. It was just two days ago. It wasn’t hesitation caused by trying to remember whether I had apologized. It was because I belatedly realized my indifference for not extending a single word of apology to Jun, overshadowed by my immediate pain and sorrow from the enormous wound he received.
Thinking back to that time when I was immersed in my immediate emotions rather than the significant pain Jun experienced from breaking up with him…
“Haru, the reason you decided to break up with that person, honestly, I still can’t understand it. Regardless of that, I know your feelings, your sincerity from that time. I understand that emotion, Haru. If it were you, you could have felt that way.”
Jung Eun didn’t utter a single reproachful word to me. Her affectionate comforting instead vividly brought back the Jun of that day. And made me imagine.
Even the suppressed feelings of Jun hidden behind his calm words.
“But Kim Jun is different, right? He waited for you for nine years. Longing for only one person for nine years is not easy to say. I can’t even imagine. But when you break up with such a person without properly explaining the reason, just saying goodbye through a text, how do you think he felt?”
Suddenly, the sunlight pouring in from all directions through the glass windows felt like it had sunk down all at once. The office inside was still bright, but the warmth of the bright sunlight seemed to have completely sunk. A feeling that all warmth had disappeared.
“Twenty-year-old Jun said it felt like standing at the final destination of his first love. At that time, he could do nothing but wait, that person’s heart was like that. But this time, you took away even the small hope that he could still wait for. So…”
It felt like the heat rising from my throat suddenly started to come up.
“At that time, he experienced completely losing you. After hearing the word ‘breakup’ directly from you, an experience of being trapped in a colorless world that was no longer a destination. In the place where love was uprooted, only pain remained, and all emotions experienced the loss of meaning and color.”
At that moment, it flashed in my mind. Jun’s regret that he couldn’t give me the confidence that he wouldn’t waver no matter what Secretary Yoon said.
Jun’s lonely face, turning all the arrows of everything towards himself, not me, who caused him pain once again.
My heart crumbled in an instant.
Two days ago, on the day of the final interview.
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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