The CEO's Ex-Partner

Five years ago, Ruru gave everything he owned so Ludia could find her voice. He worked double shifts on the frozen docks, took the grueling night hours in subterranean boiler rooms, and sold his father's silver pocket watch just to pay for her vocal lessons and medicine. But when fame finally arrived, Ludia listened to the whispering promises of the spotlight and her ambitious manager, Hunia. Terrified that her humble origins would ruin her ascent, she left an envelope of severance money on a chipped kitchen table and walked away into a glittering career, leaving the man who loved her unconditionally behind in the mud.

Five years later, Ludia is an acclaimed musical celebrity, yet the soul behind her songs has gone completely cold. When her agency secures a massive eight-million-dollar endorsement campaign with the city's most powerful maritime conglomerate, she arrives at the gleaming glass tower expecting a routine corporate deal.

She has no idea that Arthur Vane—the rich, reclusive tycoon who silently acquired her recording catalog and holds her entire future in his hands—is Ruru.

Now standing face-to-face across an executive desk, their reunion becomes a trial of endurance and raw truth. Surrounded by the sharp ears of eccentric maestro Betoven, the calculating schemes of rival syndicates, and the loyal watch of Ruru's chief of staff, Roger, Ludia finds herself unable to sing the emotional masterpiece demanded of her. Stripped of studio tricks, she finally confronts the devastating truth: the ache in her celebrated voice was never her own effort—it was his sacrifice, carried inside her all along.

The CEO's Ex-Partner is a gripping, emotional story of sacrifice, corporate power, and the enduring resilience of unconditional devotion. When the applause dies and the contracts are torn away, will two scarred hearts find the courage to forgive, or will the silence of the past claim them forever?