The original title of the novel is 방백.

(lit translation : Aside)

It’s a theatrical term: when a character speaks to themselves or directly to the audience so that other characters on stage are not supposed to hear.

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All her life, Eun-jae had been loved by everyone—
everyone but one man.

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The man she once believed was her one and only love.
Her husband, Cha Do-hoon.

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Despite her devotion,

what Eun-jae received in return

was nothing but ruthless deception.

 

“If I’m not enough for you, then go

 sleep with another man. I don't care”

“No. Don't say that.

There’s no such thing as another man for me.”

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Do-hoon, who never gave even a fragment of his heart to her desperate pleas,

eventually stripped her of everything she had.

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Unable to endure any longer, Eun-jae fled from him.
But after losing yet another precious part of her life, she encountered him again—at a funeral.

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“Since when it took someone dying for us to meet?”
“Bastard. Why did it have to be you I…”
“I love you.”

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The man who had turned away when she begged for his love now spoke the word shamelessly.

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“We can go back. Everything can be as it was…
if only you’ll come back to me.”

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In the hands that had once shattered her world,
a faded wedding ring still clung stubbornly—
a relic of vows long broken,
yet impossible to forget.

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