Certainly, just a moment ago, the husband’s face, which had been sincerely listening to her story, turned cold.

“Uh….”

Without grasping the situation, Seo-yeon blinked her large eyes and said.

“Mr. Seong-jun?”

As if asking when the favorable look from before disappeared, Seong-jun’s pupils coldly flickered.

Facing the sharp gaze of her husband, Seo-yeon involuntarily took a step back, shivering as if her whole body was contracting.

At that moment, Seong-jun’s lips relaxed.

“Did you ask me to come early just to say such ridiculous things?”

It seemed as if he was mocking Seo-yeon’s actions as pathetic. Seong-jun stared at Seo-yeon’s eyes and spoke with a rhythmic pronunciation.

“Thanks to you, I wasted my time.”

Afterward, without giving Seo-yeon another glance, Seong-jun left the place.

Left alone, Seo-yeon mumbled with a bewildered expression.

“Is this something to get so angry about?”

From the beginning, Seo-yeon was well aware that her proposal would be shocking to Seong-jun.

She was already prepared for the fact that today’s conversation might not persuade him at all.

If he hadn’t listened to her story seriously, or if he had shown a less positive reaction than she expected, it wouldn’t have been so bewildering.

“Should I have not mentioned the contract?”

It was around the time when her brother openly attacked Hanguk Group, and Seo-yeon found herself in a difficult situation. She received a mysterious message.

[Miss Han Seo-yeon. How much do you trust your husband? Your husband was my lover before you got married. He was the only man I truly loved. You are a ruthless person who stole someone else’s man! If you have a conscience, break up with him right now!]

It was truly absurd. To claim directly that she was the wife of her husband. The content was serious, and it wasn’t easy for Seo-yeon to question her husband directly whether he truly had a former lover.

Seo-yeon’s grandfather, the chairman of Hanguk Group, used to say as a habit.

“A person who can’t earn their keep isn’t my child.”

Seong-jun, her husband, was almost the only one who proudly responded to such expectations from her grandfather.

However, when her brother, a prosecutor, publicly attacked Hanguk Group, causing the entire group to fall into crisis, Seong-jun ended up taking all the responsibilities, and as a result, the group’s reputation plummeted to its worst.

To make amends, Seong-jun increased his workload several times over, working overtime as if it were nothing more than eating a meal.

Having witnessed this process up close, Seo-yeon couldn’t bring herself to face her husband’s gaze. In an attempt to stop her brother’s rampage, she visited him almost every day. However, her requests for a meeting were repeatedly rejected.

When she went to her parents for help, they only told Seo-yeon to endure it.

Knowing that it was something she couldn’t resolve on her own, if she didn’t do even that, she felt like she would truly go insane.
So at that time, Seo-yeon wasn’t in a position to verify whether the message claiming that her husband was having an affair was true or not. She didn’t even have the mental capacity for such a thing.

All she could do in response to such unilateral messages was to completely ignore them and continue with her life. However, not long after, she received another message from the woman claiming to be her husband’s lover.

[Let’s meet and talk.]

She thought there was no reason to refuse.

[Sure. Let’s meet.]

A strikingly beautiful and brightly smiling woman approached Seo-yeon.

Where have I seen that face before?

The moment Seo-yeon saw her husband’s alleged lover for the first time, a thought crossed her mind.

Soon, she realized that the woman was a rising actress introduced through various media as a rookie starring in recent commercials. Her name was Choi Ye-rin, or something like that.

Seo-yeon’s gaze shifted to the man accompanying the woman.

He was one of the people assisting with Hanguk Group’s work.

Her husband indeed had a woman.

Moreover, it seemed that even her husband’s family was aware of it.

It was shocking to see the actual face of the woman, especially since it wasn’t a love marriage but seeing the face of the woman she hadn’t been able to meet for the first time was particularly shocking.

“Miss Han Seo-yeon?”

The woman, sitting down, confirmed Seo-yeon’s face and gulped down the water in front of her as if it were fresh.

“You’re really shameless.”

Then, without any hesitation, she glared at Seo-yeon and began to express her anger.

“Why aren’t you stepping back?”

Seo-yeon asked, seeming to not understand the absurd claim of the strange woman.

“Do I have to step back?”

In response to Seo-yeon’s words, the woman’s eyes flickered with anger.

“Of course! Since I met Oppa first, and we are in love! Miss Han Seo-yeon, if only you would step back, it would be a perfect happy ending for me, Oppa, and everyone else. Do you understand?”

“So, does Ye-rin claim that she met Seong-jun even before marriage? And now, she wants me to divorce my husband?”