In response, Yeeun gave a somewhat unexpected answer.
“For my sake… Can’t you do it?”
“For you, Seo Yeeun?”
“Yes.”
He thought she would deliver an elaborate sermon about the group’s future and the benefits he would gain, but her response was genuinely surprising.
“Do you think you can demand that much for yourself?”
Looking at Yeeun’s response, Doha’s lips curled subtly.
“Why? As payment for last night?”
“Yes.”
Answering without hesitation, Yeeun’s unapologetic response finally made Doha burst into laughter.
Who knew there could be such shameless women.
Even from her expression, it seemed as if she had erased last night’s events from her memory, making everything neat.
However, using last night as an excuse, she demanded everything from him.
So, does that mean the night they spent together was just business for her?
Doha, who had completely stopped laughing, nodded his head in agreement.
“Right. The price of the night should be properly paid.”
It wasn’t a bad relationship.
“That’s right, Seo Yeeun.”
As the night was satisfying, there should be a role for Yeeun to stay by his side.
“Do as you’re told.”
At least it meant that it wouldn’t end as a one-time affair.
Doha, who playfully touched the speech Yeeun had prepared, raised his head again and looked at Yeeun.
“Seo Yeeun’s food, drinks, and coffee were all delicious.”
The reddish tint spread slowly under her earlobes in response to his praise.
Doha, unable to take his eyes off how charming it was, reached out and gently grasped Yeeun’s hand.
As she lightly pulled back, Yeeun, who had come along with her, exhaled a soft breath and lightly collided with him.
The sweet scent of her skin once again stimulated his senses.
Leaning against her, Doha, looking down at her, finally uttered the words he truly wanted to say.
“You were delicious too.”
Yeeun, who neither avoided his gaze nor moved away from him, quietly responded.
“So was Chairman-nim.”
The deep brown eyes trembled provocatively.
“It was delicious.”
At his words, Doha’s lips twisted slowly.
It was a satisfying response, enough to make him want to kiss.
But it couldn’t happen.
If he kissed her, it would be in the early morning at the company, and moreover, with employees around. That’s why he held back.
“I’d like to have lunch together, but I have an appointment today.”
Expressing regret, Doha let go of Yeeun while rummaging through his schedule.
“How about dinner?”
As Doha scanned through his daily schedule, his eyebrows subtly twisted.
“Other than that, I’m terribly busy, so I might not be able to practice acting.”
Yeeun quietly nodded at his words.
“Yes. I’ll help you with the practice in the evening.”
“Until then, make sure to memorize the speech.”
“Thank you.”
With a tilted head in greeting, Doha coolly raised one corner of his mouth.
“I’m the one who should thank you.”
What could the invitation for dinner mean?
Seo Yeeun was indeed an easy woman.
So easy that it made her difficult, such a woman.
“Well then, you can leave now.”
At his brief command, Yeeun, who tilted her head once again, silently left his space.
[You were delicious too.]Doha’s voice echoed in her ears.
It was delicious.
When he said those words, how alluring his voice was, it sent shivers down her spine.
She responded in the same texture to not let him know about her bad sense.
Yeeun, biting her lower lip tightly, shook off Doha’s lingering presence and struggled as she stepped on the large stone steps of the grand hanok.
It was around 11 o’clock just now.
She received a message from Director Gong with the address of this place.
It was a luxurious place that couldn’t even enter the parking lot without a reservation.
It seemed Chairman Cha Jisub had rented this entire annex as befitting the leader of Hanju Group.
Surrounded by gracefully curved pine trees, the detached building was tranquil and elegant.
Ascending to the main hall while hearing the sound of wind through the pine trees, a woman, dressed beautifully in a hanbok, silently appeared and guided her.
Following the woman cautiously, Yeeun tried to calm her pounding heart.
Having a private meal with Chairman Cha Jisub—had she not eaten ginseng extract, she might have fainted as soon as she got out of the taxi.
[-Don’t talk to Chief Director Cha Doha. The same goes for Chief Director Cha Hyun. Consider it a secret meeting between Chairman Cha and Manager Seo Yeeun.]These were Director Gong’s words when making an appointment for yesterday’s meal.
Both Cha Doha and Cha Hyun should not know that Yeeun and Chairman Cha Jisub were having a private meeting.
So, when Cha Doha suggested having lunch, she had contemplated what to say.
Fortunately, Cha Doha, who had a prior engagement, left first, allowing her to come here without being noticed.
“Right this way.”
The woman who guided Yeeun pointed to a luxurious room with black wooden lattice windows.
Then the door opened, revealing Chairman Cha Jisub’s face.
Seeing Yeeun after starting the meal, Chairman Cha Jisub grinned.
“Come on in, Team Leader Seo. The old man got hungry, so I started eating first. Please understand.”
“No, it’s not that I’m late…”
“If I waited for Doha to leave, there was no choice. Sit, please.”
Although he smiled warmly, Chairman Cha Jisub’s gaze was sharp.
Observing every breath of Yeeun, a tense atmosphere, as if trying to gauge her feelings, hung over the dining table.
Yeeun calmly dealt with Chairman Cha Jisub, who seemed to be scrutinizing her every move, and quietly continued the meal.
Chairman Cha Jisub, who had called her here secretly, must have had a reason. That’s what she needed to find out.
For quite a while.
While Chairman Cha Jisub, who had been conversing casually with a benevolent face, finally revealed his true intentions.
“Team Leader Seo, my mother’s surgery is likely to be scheduled for mid to late November.”
Yeeun, who was sipping on a dessert wine, widened her eyes.
The surgery she thought would be around the end of the year because they said it was scheduled for late this year.
But mid to late next month.
In shock, Yeeun shook a little and spilled some of the dessert wine.
Watching her coolly, Chairman Cha Jisub grinned and continued.
“Dr. Park, our family doctor, said he has a lot of overseas surgery scheduled in December, so he asked to arrange it a bit earlier.”
For a moment, a chilly premonition settled in her chest.
If Chairman Cha Jisub, who rarely bothered with minor surgeries, was paying attention to this one, there had to be a significant reason.
“Do you know what this means?”
However, she couldn’t have imagined the reason.
“It means Doha’s engagement date is set for around that time.”
My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
*
Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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