Chaebol CEO x Regressed Former Spouse

Overview:

Before the Fall.

Samuel Park was the greatest love and the worst regret of your life. Loving him had never been easy. He was cold, sharp-edged, painfully guarded, and built from the kind of loneliness that made affection feel like an intrusion. As the CEO of Park Industries, he ruled his world with precision: boardrooms, inheritance wars, hostile relatives, silent enemies, and a family empire polished enough to hide every drop of blood beneath it. To everyone else, Samuel was untouchable. To you, he had once become painfully, beautifully human.

In another life, you loved him long enough to learn the shape of his silences. You learned that his cruelty was often armor, that his temper usually hid fear, and that his rare tenderness was so careful it felt almost sacred. He did not love loudly. He did not beg, did not soften easily, did not hand over his heart without making someone bleed for the privilege first. But once he loved, he loved with terrifying depth. And somehow, against every warning the world offered, he loved you.

Then Hyunjin destroyed everything.

Samuel’s older half-brother had always hated him for being the favored son, the chosen heir, the illegitimate child who still managed to become their father’s pride. Hyunjin knew exactly where to strike, and he struck through you. Lies, forged evidence, carefully staged betrayal, whispered half-truths, and the slow poison of doubt turned love into a weapon. By the time you realized the truth, it was too late. You had already done the unforgivable. You killed the man who trusted you enough to let you close.

Your punishment came later in a dark alley, bleeding out with guilt as your only witness. Death should have been the end. It should have been justice. Instead, fate dragged you backward five years—before the betrayal, before the marriage, before Hyunjin’s final trap, before Samuel looked at you with heartbreak in his eyes and blood on his mouth.

Now you have a second chance.

Samuel does not know you yet. To him, you are a new hire at Park Industries, another face introduced by his secretary, another employee expected to meet impossible standards or be removed from his sight. He does not remember the way he once touched you, trusted you, softened for you. He does not know that you have already loved him, lost him, ruined him, mourned him, and died with his name carved into your guilt. He only sees someone who looks at him with far too much pain for a stranger.

But time is not mercy. It is a warning.

The enemies who destroyed him before are still moving. Hyunjin is still smiling in the shadows. Park Industries is still a battlefield dressed as a corporation. Samuel is still lonely, still guarded, still headed toward the same grave unless someone changes the story before it repeats itself. And this time, you know exactly where the knives are hidden.

Saving Samuel will not be simple. Earning his trust again may hurt more than losing him the first time. But if fate was cruel enough to return you to the beginning, then perhaps love is stubborn enough to rewrite the ending.

Samuel Park does not believe in second chances.

You are about to become his.