Ex Husband's Obsession(21+) [Kth ff]

CHAPTER ~ 53

Yn couldn’t quite tell if it was the fact that the wedding date had been set unusually early, or if time itself was simply slipping through her fingers — but lately, everything felt like it was moving too fast, blurring by in a haze of rituals, pressure, and unsaid words.

The days felt longer, but the calendar kept racing ahead, each tick of the clock dragging her toward an event she couldn’t stop. It made her feel that a lot of time had already gone by.

The wedding was getting ever so closer. It was no longer a vague possibility looming on the horizon. It was approaching — rapidly, relentlessly — and with each passing day, it became more real, more suffocating.

Warren Kim, the family patriarch, had never hidden his reservations about her in role of his grand daughter-in-law. In his eyes, she was not the kind of woman who belonged in the Kim family — not in blood, not in spirit, not in ambition. He had once made his stance on marriage very clear: that it should serve legacy, not love; that loyalty to the Kim name mattered more than any fleeting emotion.

But that was before.

Before his cherished grandson, Taehyung, had stunned the entire household by publicly announcing the wedding date without consulting anyone — especially not Warren. That bold move had stripped the old man of his usual leverage. He had been left with no room to object, at least not openly.

So, Warren had played the part of the reluctant elder with forced grace, nodding along in front of others, offering faint smiles and thinly veiled approval. But Yn knew better.

She saw it in his eyes — the simmering contempt behind that weathered gaze, the way his lips tightened ever so slightly when her name was mentioned as Kim Yn.

Warren Kim hadn’t accepted her or their marriage. He had simply been cornered. But that didn’t mean the old fox wouldn’t pull some strings behind the curtain. A man like him — cunning, prideful, and steeped in power — didn’t forget such humiliation.

Yn had spent enough time navigating powerful men to recognize the storm when it was still hiding behind still winds. This silence — this strange, eerie calm that had settled over the mansion and everyone in it — it wasn’t peace. It was the quiet before something ugly broke loose.

She could sense it in the way Warren sat too still at dinner, in the way he pretended to be cordial with her and played the role of supporting grandpa in front of Taehyung. She was certain that the old fox was planning something — not before the wedding, perhaps not even in the days leading up to it.

But on the wedding day itself?

That would be the perfect moment to strike. To replace her. To throw Taehyung off balance. To regain control.

And maybe, just maybe… she was counting on it.

Because in the deepest part of her heart — the part she kept buried beneath layers of survival and silence — Yn didn’t want to be married into the Kim family.