All Too Well

Three years into the marriage Han Ji-eun still wanted Choi Jun-hyuk to love her. She looked after him, put up with the place his first love Kang Su-ah held in his life, and kept expecting it to change. The day a doctor told her she had liver cancer, she walked in on her husband's ninety-ninth affair. She asked for a divorce and attached conditions: five things she wanted done with her before she signed. A ride on the carousel, a lunch he cooked himself, a trip to Jeju, ordinary things she had never gotten out of him. Choi Jun-hyuk took the deal because ending the marriage was what Kang Su-ah wanted. He humiliated her instead of doing any of the five, and Kang Su-ah arranged for the medicine keeping Ji-eun alive to be cut off. Ji-eun had another name that nobody had connected to her. Lia, a painter with an international reputation and no public face. She used it to go after both of them, opened up what had really happened in the car crash that cost Choi Jun-hyuk his sight, and made it plain whose hands had nursed him through the months he could not see. He had been thanking Kang Su-ah for that the whole time.