Ji An, wearing a red cashmere coat, entered the coffee shop.
The longstretched window under the winter sun, the middleaged man next to the Bengal rubber tree. Her steps quickened at the sight of him.
“Dad.”
The moment she called out to her dad, the pentup longing surged.
Jae Yoon, rising from his chair, patted Ji An’s back, who had abruptly hugged him.
“Were you well?”
“Dad. Dad!”
“My daughter, have you been okay? Have you finished your deadline?”
“Huh? Yeah. I’ve finished the deadline. Oh! So…….”
So dad was just waiting for my call. Ji An felt pathetic for just realizing this.
“Dad, how have you been? You’ve been here for quite a while.”
“There was also a Genesis interview schedule. I had a lot to do since I came here after a few months.”
She didn’t sit across but sat side by side with Jae Yoon.
It was her dad whom she was meeting for the first time in 8 months since he left for the UK for Genesis’s tour last spring.
She had to give up her summer vacation due to translating two novels consecutively.
“Dad, what should we do?”
“We should hold hands and go to nice places. That’s what I want to do, right?”
Jae Yoon gently stroked her head as she giggled.
The year Ji An entered college, he was recommended to retire from the company where he had been working as a researcher. Afterwards, as if in a set sequence, he became Genesis’s road manager.
He was troubled about leaving twentyyearold Ji An alone, but his wife’s insistence was relentless.
“I’ve checked out a lot of good restaurants to go with dad. Only the really delicious ones. Look forward to it!”
Jae Yoon said, pushing a shopping bag on the table towards Ji An.
“But before that, look at this.”
“Dad!”
“There were a lot of performances in Europe this year, so I took great care in choosing.”
Ji An fiddled with the pendant necklace over her turtleneck.
“This too. Dad bought it. It’s nice to receive a gift, but it seems too hard on you. Isn’t it?”
“Just have a look first. My dear daughter.”
“Perfume? Dad, your sense is as usual.”
“Is Ha Joon doing well? The men’s perfume is for Ha Joon, so pass it on properly.”
“Ha Joon is… doing well.”
“Mom seems to be struggling a lot with age. After a few more years of hardship, then the whole family can gather together…….”
Unable to finish his words, Jae Yoon gave a bitter smile.
‘You’ve been with Ji An for 20 years, now be a father by Genesis’s side.’
‘There was no mother by Ji An’s side during that time.’
His wife Eun Ji’s harsh words and the unasked question.
Ji An, left alone in Korea at the age of twenty in spring, was still a painful scar to him.
“But dad, why does your face look like that? Are you ill?”
“There were more Genesis performances than last year, so it was a bit tough. It’ll get better with some rest.”
Ji An asked again, rubbing the pink liquid sprayed from the transparent glass bottle pump onto her wrist.
“Didn’t you miss a health checkup last year? There’s also the management director, so reduce your workload. How is Genesis? Still the same? Graceful and refined.”
“Do you dislike your sister that much because it’s ingrained in you?”
“I don’t know.”
Rrrrr. Rrrrr.
The ringing phone was Jae Yoon’s. He looked alternately at the phone and Ji An, and without a word, he pressed the end call button.
Ji An, who was chewing her lips, asked with a gloomy look.
“Mom?”
“She said she was meeting you. ……Get up. We have a date.”
Ji An made a determined effort to be cheerful, giving a thumbs up.
Instead of asking ‘why didn’t you answer?’ she smiled broadly. She knew that if they parted like this, she would be upset and cry alone.
She wanted to monopolize her father’s love, if only for today. Because a father and daughter could do that.
Jae Yoon turned to Ji An and asked,
“Shall we start with the bookstore?”
“Bookstore?”
“I have to buy the book our daughter published this summer.”
“That’s not my book.”
Pretending to lose the argument, Ji An entered the bookstore and headed towards the genre fiction corner.
Last summer, she had translated [Memories of the White Night].
Jae Yoon brushed the name of Ji An, written under the author’s name, with his fingertips. Seeing his daughter’s name printed on the cover was always aweinspiring.
“Our daughter’s name is really pretty. It’s beautiful. It’s cool.”
Suddenly, a sense of pride passed through his chest, hitting Jae Yoon’s now shallow heart.
To Jae Yoon, Ji An was always a beloved daughter, a poignant existence.
“Did the passages you sent me by email get left out again this time?”
“Is that up to me! Conveying the author’s emotions to the reader is also the attitude of the translator. ……Personal feelings should be excluded as much as possible.”
“But you can at least sign it, right? Because your dad is a fan of the person who translated this writing.”
“Well. That much is, of course, obvious.”
Excluding emotions was a habit ingrained in Ji An.
Returning refusals were always scary, and she knew that the efforts of living as Genesis’s sister were in vain.
Because mom always said, you can’t.
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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