Reborn to Leave the Heir

Seo Ha-eun wakes on the day of her fiance's birthday and knows, with a cold clarity, exactly how her first life ended: waiting outside a locked door until she collapsed, then years of cruelty from Kang Do-jin, the chaebol heir she was bound to by a childhood joke, and finally her own death in the sea — while the rival who "died" for love, Yoon Ka-rin, came back rich and adored. This time, Ha-eun does not wait. She turns from the door, packs her things, and refuses to die for anyone. When Ka-rin stages a fall down the stairs and screams miscarriage to frame her, Ha-eun walks out and is rescued by a masked stranger who turns out to be Baek Tae-oh, a gentle, shy K-pop idol. She annuls the engagement, exposes Ka-rin's fake pregnancy through Do-jin's own surveillance footage, and starts a new life in Busan. Months later the truth lands: Ka-rin's baby was never Do-jin's, she had cheated with five of his friends, and both her name and the Kang family collapse under the scandal. Ha-eun, now engaged to Tae-oh, finally has the quiet happiness she was denied. In the last pages, Do-jin — reborn too late, his family fallen — finds her holding another man's hand, and understands there was never a way back.

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  • Author: last_page_crier
  • Chapters: 9
  • Status: Ongoing

Seo Ha-eun wakes on the day of her fiance's birthday and knows, with a cold clarity, exactly how her first life ended: waiting outside a locked door until she collapsed, then years of cruelty from Kang Do-jin, the chaebol heir she was bound to by a childhood joke, and finally her own death in the sea — while the rival who "died" for love, Yoon Ka-rin, came back rich and adored. This time, Ha-eun does not wait. She turns from the door, packs her things, and refuses to die for anyone. When Ka-rin stages a fall down the stairs and screams miscarriage to frame her, Ha-eun walks out and is rescued by a masked stranger who turns out to be Baek Tae-oh, a gentle, shy K-pop idol. She annuls the engagement, exposes Ka-rin's fake pregnancy through Do-jin's own surveillance footage, and starts a new life in Busan. Months later the truth lands: Ka-rin's baby was never Do-jin's, she had cheated with five of his friends, and both her name and the Kang family collapse under the scandal. Ha-eun, now engaged to Tae-oh, finally has the quiet happiness she was denied. In the last pages, Do-jin — reborn too late, his family fallen — finds her holding another man's hand, and understands there was never a way back.