“Anyway, let’s think about the trip slowly. It’s okay to go in spring or summer. Anywhere.”
With Jiho’s hand closing the book, Hye-yoon also nodded her head slightly.
The path leading to the checkout counter. The bestseller in the children’s section, , was still in the top five. ‘Wow.’ When Jiho expressed his silent admiration, Hye-yoon also puffed up her chest and shrugged her shoulders in pride.
For Hye-yoon, it was a book boast that she had never done to anyone before. She had received congratulations from her family, Min-joo, and Woo-jun, and that was all.
When the hand they held together tightened, the moment when her strength was conveyed to him, the moment she looked proud and bragged, and the moment she cheerfully shrugged her shoulders. Hye-yoon felt like she would never forget this moment in her life.
The fact that her long-held secret was exposed to none other than Jiho made her feel incredibly grateful and happy.
The books that had been calculated were naturally lifted by Jiho. As they walked to the parking lot, Hyeyoon attempted to put on her ring inside her palm, so Jiho spread his fingers to help her. On the way to the parking lot, Jiho suddenly raised his palm.
“I always feel like my hands are really small.”
Hyeyoon’s small hand rested on his palm, extended up to his chest. Jiho looked at her hand for a moment. Because her fingers were small, even her nails seemed unbelievably small.
“Do all women have hands like this? On average?”
“I’m a bit smaller. I have a small frame, so I’m short, and my feet are small too. Um… That’s why I envy tall women so much.”
“I see…”
Looking at her slender fingers again, he clipped the ring once more. Unable to see her eyes, he felt Hyeyoon’s fingers with the hand he was holding.
“Oh, Minwoo senior said he’s canceling this week.”
“Yes. Everyone is going to the awards ceremony on the 31st. I’m thinking of going too.”
“Oh! Is Jiho nominated for an award too?”
Surprised, Hyeyoon tightly held his hand. Jiho gently stroked the back of her hand.
“No. This time, I’m attending as a presenter. I didn’t shoot a drama this year, and last year they gave me too big of an award.”
“If it’s a big award… Did you get the Grand Prize, by any chance?”
“Yes.”
A halt, a few steps away from the car. Like Jiho, who was looking at the bestseller rankings, Hyeyoon also expressed her silent admiration with a soft ‘Wow.’
‘Really, you don’t watch dramas? It did quite well.’ He tried to stop her admiration with the same words, but her round mouth remained the same.
Whether it was moved or disappointed, Jiho knew too well how to bring her back from the lake of emotions to reality.
“It’s the drama we shot together last year. If you go tomorrow, you’ll probably see Jina too.”
Click! Her mouth that had opened at once shut. Admiration turned into jealousy, and her eyes, which had been languid, now sparkled with resentment. Jiho smiled and lowered his gaze to her face. Although she envied tall women, it seemed she might be one of them.
The aura of jealousy gradually intensified. Ah, what did the other person do when I felt this way? Jiho quickly reviewed every scene of Hyeyoon in such a state. Then, a smirk.
‘It was like this, probably?’
He poked out his gathered lips. Going over to aegyo was Hyeyoon’s recent hobby, so it was no surprise. How would she react? Still, if she wasn’t an easy woman, maybe she would resist a bit.
But no. Not at all. Once her offered lips were seen, she immediately wrapped her two cheeks. Then, she quickly stood on her tiptoes.
[SFX]And while looking at him with widened eyes due to her agility, she glanced once more.
“Hehe. Oops, I pressed too hard.”
The mischievous child who had returned to her original height giggled. She pressed her lips against Jiho’s with her tender fingertips.
“This won’t work. Let’s get in the car quickly.”
“Huh?”
“I have to go home.”
Jiho affectionately captured Hyeyoon’s laughter as it rang charmingly. He was well aware that their short date had come to an end because of Hyeyoon’s upcoming schedule. Despite telling her not to come to the bookstore, Hyeyoon had come just with the thought of wanting to see him for a brief moment.
They rode in the car together and left the parking lot. Hyeyoon’s next appointment turned out to be much closer than he had thought. On a weekday afternoon in Seoul, even the roads weren’t congested.
“You can drop me off here. Thank you for giving me a ride.”
“Too bad…”
The car stopped, but Jiho didn’t easily let go of her hand. His affectionate gaze, slightly tilted, gently touched Hyeyoon’s face. It was a gaze that rarely showed any visible petulance. Because of that, Hyeyoon also cherished that affection.
“What are you doing on the 31st? Oh, you mentioned the awards ceremony.”
“Yeah. Instead, let’s spend January 1st together. Do you have any plans?”
Her soft face swayed from side to side. The joy of spending the first day of the new year together was fleeting, and Hyeyoon quickly moved her phone. Perhaps she was going to meet someone when she got out of the car.
“I’ll really go. See you on January 1st. Drive safely.”
When he finally released his tightly held hand, Hyeyoon gently withdrew her hand.
[SFX]Even after getting off, a fresh hand waved outside the window. The body, which had been walking briskly, disappeared perfectly into a building.
Jiho engraved that lingering image in his eyes and lowered his hand again. The warmth that still remained in his hand. If he squeezed his fist, he could enjoy that warmth a little more, but he didn’t. Instead, he tried to draw Hyeyoon’s fingers on his open palm as closely as possible.
After a while, he dialed the stylist’s phone number. Due to the company dinner that continued until dawn, they practically saw each other’s faces until this morning. So, after exchanging brief greetings, they quickly moved on to the main topic.
“Nuna, what brands do women like…?”
It seemed the woman on the other end of the phone had returned the question. Jiho nodded with a wry smile in response.
“Yeah. Hyeyoon likes them, and the ring too.”
His eyes were still fixed on his palm. There was nothing there anymore, but he was trying to draw the small fingers that he could perfectly recreate.
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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