“Don’t make people more miserable.”
At first, I couldn’t close my eyes without Jae-hyuk coming to mind.
I wanted to see him, but I didn’t. I resented him, but pleasant memories of the past would come back, torturing me.
“Seeing you like this, Jae-hyuk, is too hard for me. But you’re not, right? If you came here out of curiosity, please go back.”
It was agonizingly hard.
Several times a day, countless conflicting emotions whirled inside me. A sense of guilt pressed down on me for a situation that could no longer be reversed.
“[Jae-hyuk isn’t going to look for you because of his lingering feelings. I told you. If I hadn’t been deceived by that fortune-teller’s words back then. Anyway… You wouldn’t fail to understand the situation to such an extent, would you?]”
I clenched my teeth, recalling Madam Jung’s words.
“I won’t ask why you came. Just submit the papers.”
Two years after Director Han’s visit, he came.
And with him, the mother-in-law I never wanted to see again, and the woman Jae-hyuk loved.
Jae-hyuk was silent, just staring at me with hollow eyes.
“Ahrin.”
“…”
His moist voice lingered in my ears.
I felt an anger rising from deep within.
“Are you playing with people?”
It was truly terrible! I thought I had managed to be okay after those hard three years, thinking I could ignore him if I ever saw him again.
I thought I had sorted everything out, but seeing him, all my resolutions from the past three years crumbled.
I clenched my fists on my knees and bit my lower lip hard, blood welling up.
“Didn’t you hear from Director Han? I want a divorce. If you have anything to say, say it through the lawyer.”
“Right. That’s what you said.”
Jae-hyuk’s head drooped. I felt a stir in my heart again but didn’t want to show any wavering.
“Congratulations on your engagement.”
So, let it be.
“Please divorce me.”
Don’t make it more miserable.
“…The engagement.”
“I don’t want to hear it. Whatever you do with Jae-hyuk, it’s none of my business now.”
I poured out all my words and stared at Jae-hyuk. He clenched his mouth. After a brief silence, he spoke.
“I hesitated about what to say first.”
“Don’t talk nonsense.”
Despite my sharp words, Jae-hyuk didn’t stop talking.
“Would it be good to start with an apology? No, can all my actions be forgiven with an apology?”
“…”
“Where should I begin to ask for your forgiveness? I thought about it, and there was too much.”
I didn’t want to waver.
I just didn’t want to be entangled with him anymore.
“It doesn’t matter now.”
“Right. It wouldn’t.”
Jae-hyuk let out a defeated smile.
“Let’s… get a divorce.”
He uttered the word ‘divorce’ as if to engrave it.
“Yes. That’s what I want most right now. Frankly, I don’t understand why we’re having this conversation even after three years.”
Jae-hyuk bowed his head deeply. A trembling voice escaped his lips.
“I know you don’t want to talk to me.”
“If you knew, you shouldn’t have come.”
“I know you want a divorce. I know I’m not qualified. But still, I…”
Jae-hyuk gently clenched his fist on his knee.
“I’m sorry.”
“…”
“What exactly are you sorry for? There’s too much to answer right now…”
Jae-hyuk raised his head and met my eyes directly.
“If you’ll listen, I’ll tell you everything. What I did wrong to you…”
Jae-hyuk, biting his lower lip, continued speaking.
“Of course, I may not know everything, so I might need to hear from you too. It might take a lifetime…”
Jae-hyuk didn’t avoid Ahrin’s gaze. She found the emotions flickering in his eyes utterly foreign.
She had never seen Jae-hyuk in such a vulnerable state before.
‘The Jae-hyuk I knew was always confident, assertive. He was like a mountain, the only hope I could rely on. Why is he showing this different side now, almost like a different person?’
Yet, she had no intention of being swayed by him.
“I used to think the saying ‘you only realize once it’s gone’ was the most foolish, but that was me.”
That was her plan.
“Just thinking I couldn’t see your face drove me crazy.”
Until Jae-hyuk came to see her today.
She was sure she wouldn’t be shaken by him.
“I missed you a lot.”
“……”
“Actually, as much as I wanted to apologize, I wanted to say I missed you.”
“Really selfish, aren’t you?”
Ahrin was confused.
Your mother said something! Why are you saying something different in front of me?
“So what? What do you want from me?”
She had no intention of meeting him again, so she had to dismiss him firmly.
It couldn’t be a misunderstanding, but even if it was, she didn’t want to meet him again.
“It doesn’t matter. Don’t shake me up now. Whatever your intention for coming to me, nothing changes.”
Ahrin felt a surge of emotion.
“You’re the one who ruined this relationship! You say you missed me? How dare you say that now?”
After losing everything?
After letting go of the most precious thing with her own hands…
“How brazen. As you see, I’ve just barely started living like a human being again.”
She was angry. When she begged him to pay attention, he didn’t, but why show up now?
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
