Do Ha was staring intently at Hyun Seo, who was sitting across from him, without even touching the tea in front of him.
Although there was a tea table in the couple’s room, it seemed that they rarely sat across from each other like this.
Hyun Seo was quietly sipping his tea. He was choosing his words, as if he were about to deliver a final verdict.
No, he might have been hesitating.
Once he said it, he knew he wouldn’t be able to take it back.
“I want… a divorce.”
However, there were no other words to choose. He didn’t want to beat around the bush.
“What?”
Do Ha, who had been listening quietly, raised his eyebrows at once.
For a moment, it felt like his vision was blurring, as if he had been hit by something. He didn’t understand his wife’s words.
Was there another meaning to the word “divorce” that I knew?
It was a strange word that he never thought he would hear from his current wife.
“What did you just say?”
“Didn’t you hear me? I said let’s get a divorce.”
Despite the shock, his wife was unfazed.
What on earth was happening right now? This Hyun Seo who is casually mentioning divorce.
“What on earth are you talking about? Divorce?”
“Yes. Let’s break up now.”
“Wait a minute……”
Do Ha muttered, like someone who couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
There was no way his wife would bring up such a conversation without a reason. There must have been some special event.
Do Ha tried to speculate. What could be the reason for a woman, who had been enduring life in a suffocating chaebol family, to say this?
Divorce.
“What happened today?”
“What happened? Honestly, it’s more strange if nothing happened in this house.”
At those words, Do Ha was at a loss for words.
His wife always spoke as if she was leading a troublefree everyday life.
But that wasn’t the case.
Although Hyun Seo had not been giving him detailed accounts of the household affairs, whenever he did talk, he tended to mention only the good parts.
Always with a bright face, Hyun Seo reassured him with words like: motherinlaw is nice, I’m getting along well, even if she isn’t kind to her son, she talks a lot with me, the daughterinlaw. Therefore, he was reassured.
Despite being her son, whether it was because he was of the chairman’s bloodline or for some other reason, his mother had always found it difficult to deal with her eldest son from a young age. As a result, naturally, she couldn’t act carelessly towards his wife in front of him.
But was that not the whole picture?
Suddenly, he vividly recalled the sharp image of his mother that he had seen not too long ago.
What if that wasn’t a temporary conflict, but a daily occurrence?
For a moment, his mind went blank.
He had indeed felt strange when he returned from an overseas branch and found that the atmosphere in the house was somehow off.
Could they have had a conflict that was too deep to mend with his mother?
Thinking about it, even if that was true, she was such a deep woman that she would never have exposed her motherinlaw’s flaws in front of her husband.
If so, he had been utterly clueless all this while.
“My question is……”
Had he been too complacent all this while?
Because Hyun Seo married into his household, because Hyun Seo was a woman without a single wrinkle, just like her biological mother, had he been too at ease?
“What I mean is, did something happen today that made you so troubled to bring up the word ‘divorce’?”
“Honestly, it’s not just a matter of a day or two.”
“I understand I haven’t been attentive enough. I too wasn’t able to take good care of you because I was shocked at losing Seo Ha.”
Life as a couple had naturally become exhausted after they lost Seo Ha.
Even a woman as strong on the inside as she was on the outside would find it unbearable to live an ordinary life once she became a mother who lost her child.
If she had also made life difficult for her inlaws, those would have been nightmarish days.
Why hadn’t he even imagined that he would one day hear such words from his wife?
“Was the matter of Seo Ha the only problem? You were always like this. Have you ever shown interest in me from the beginning?”
His wife’s voice was somewhat agitated.
“Now, I want to get your attention too. So, I plan to quit being your wife.”
Do Ha, who had been sitting blankly, was looking at Hyun Seo’s face like a man who had lost his senses.
“After all, you don’t need me. You have a lot, and you are an amazing person, so there will be a line of women ready to play the role of your wife.”
“Hyun Seo!”
This was the first time Do Ha had seen Hyun Seo so defiant, and he didn’t know what to do.
He had believed that they had led a peaceful married life for several years. His wife had always been gentle and kind to everyone in the family.
Such a conversation. He couldn’t believe it.
“Maybe there are many women who secretly hope that I will leave your side.”
“You and I, we have a child together. We’re not in a position to have such a light conversation.”
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
