“Actually, even before attending the dinner, Director Han Cha Woong had earnestly requested.
“President, as today is the last day, it would be great if you could converse and have a pleasant atmosphere while dining.”
“A pleasant atmosphere?”
“The employees are too nervous to eat properly, and those who managed to eat ended up throwing up. We can’t have such stories this time. You should start the conversation.”
“When I start talking, they turn pale.”
“What did you say?”
“I asked Chief Kim about the 38 percent decrease in his team’s performance compared to the previous year, and to Manager Yoon about the packaging of the new product launched last quarter….”
“Oh, brother, please….”
Han Cha Woong made a disgusted face and said if he was going to do it like that, he better not speak at all. He also asked to please end it quietly as he would not suggest such ideas in the future.
Respecting Director Han’s opinion, Min Hyuk maintained a calm demeanor during the last meal.
He was confident that he wouldn’t even glance at Eun Seo Woo doing a fire show nervously across the table. But why did his gaze keep straying?
‘Didn’t she say she likes me?’
Eun Seo Woo had definitely said so at the lounge. She said she liked the president.
The president was him. So Eun Seo Woo was sitting right in front of the person she was in unrequited love with.
‘But why does she look like that?’
She looked no different from the three employees who had previously attended the dinner.
A face that wished this event would end quickly so she could go home, hug her rice container, add sesame oil and chili paste, and eat away.
A face that looked like she could even do somersaults all the way home if she could just get out of here.
A face that looked like it would be better to bungee jump ten times rather than sit here.
It was simply a face that found this oneonone situation with the president unbearably uncomfortable.
But wasn’t she different? She was definitely the person who confessed her love for me.
Min Hyuk had known since he saw her at the lounge. The woman curled up on the floor was an employee attending the dinner.
He had heard her colleague clearly calling, “Seo Woo, Eun Seo Woo!”
“For your information, Ms. Eun Seo Woo is a thirdyear employee working at the firstfloor desk. She joined the company in the first year of regular employment of the reception team, and her attendance is sincere….”
“Do I need to know all that?”
He swiftly cut off the information about the employee that Director Han Cha Woong had given beforehand.
Tae Min Hyuk had no tolerance for wastage of time or emotions. He preferred to decisively cut away any distractions on his path to his goal. By his standards, he had no interest in expending energy on what he considered ‘pointless tasks’.
However, he had heard the name that Director Han had mentioned, and he recognized the face that he saw every day.
“Hello.”
A staff member who, always in the same spot, in the same attire, greeted him with a consistent smile.
It was as if she was a painting hung in one spot. Just as there’s no need to greet a painting you see every day, she had been a presence that he had merely passed by without much thought.
Therefore, the first time he fully took notice of Eun Seo Woo, the reception desk employee on the first floor, was when she had sprawled in an absurd manner at the lounge.
A beautifully drawn painting had been messed up and laid bare, revealing a powerful presence.
During subsequent media interviews, while handling the remaining tasks, and even while heading to the hotel restaurant, he occasionally found himself recalling Eun Seo Woo’s bewildered expression.
“I like our boss.”
“Huh.”
“I like him because he’s rotten.”
Rotten. And she liked him because of that?
The causal relationship was strange to begin with.
Usually, there are special reasons or attractive qualities that lead to someone liking another person. Tae Min Hyuk had ‘learned’ that such emotional flow was normal.
However, Eun Seo Woo confessed her feelings for him, citing a reason that would make others shake their heads.
She rejected her colleagues’ advice that bad boys are dangerous and said she had no plans to confess.
“I am Eun Seo Woo from the reception team.”
The moment she stepped into the private dining room of the restaurant, Tae Min Hyuk felt a slight tingling at the tips of his fingers. Before he could discern what this sensation meant, he found his breath slightly constricted.
He thought it must be because he was about to receive an important report.
Wasn’t it the day he was supposed to receive information about ‘Kim Min Joo’, the person he was secretly searching for?
A major event that could change Tae Min Hyuk’s life was at hand, and his future steps were to be determined based on this.
That’s when his cellphone buzzed. A notification for a secure, titleless email popped up. Tae Min Hyuk, who had been anxiously waiting for the contact, immediately stood up.
It was just when the dessert was being served.
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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