A Bad, Bad Act (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 12
Though it was a low, languid voice, it felt more threatening than ever before.
Her shoulders tensed sharply, and goosebumps rose along the back of her neck.
Yet Cha Do Ha, watching her like that, remained perfectly relaxed.
He looked like an experienced leopard contemplating exactly how to devour the prey now in its grasp.
There was no trace of hesitation in those pitch-black eyes.
As if it were all part of a predetermined sequence, he tightly gripped the hair in his hand and pressed his lips deeply against hers.
Along with the sharp scent of whiskey, Cha Do Ha’s own scent rushed hotly into her mouth.
Startled by the sudden kiss, Yeo Eun parted her lips, and Cha Do Ha slipped in smoothly.
Having invaded her with heat, he enveloped her in an instant. His secretive movements, as if tasting her, gently caressing—left her breathless.
She should push him away, but she couldn’t.
Instead, she clutched his collar tightly and accepted him even deeper.
The kiss wasn’t long.
When the brief kiss ended and he pulled back his lips, Yeo Eun remained frozen stiff, still gripping his collar and trembling.
Cha Do Ha’s gaze on her burned hot.
“This is the kind of dating I do. Think you can handle it?”
But even that heat didn’t last long.
Having let go of the passion as easily as the kiss had been short, he spoke with a cool face.
“So stop messing around and get out.”
Yeo Eun was no longer reflected in Cha Do Ha’s eyes.
Having instantly erased the desire that had been swirling deeply, his expression was colder than ever.
As if everything moments ago had been her imagination, even the voice he spoke with was icy.
“Driver, please pull over here for a moment.”
With an expressionless face, he told the substitute driver to stop the car briefly.
The car slowly came to a halt at the side of the road, and Cha Do Ha drew a clear line.
“Let’s make the fourth time in broad daylight.”
Trembling with humiliation, Yeo Eun had no choice but to flee the car, leaving behind Do Ha’s curt farewell.
* * *
The car, having spat out the woman, quietly sped through the night streets.
Do Ha, who had been staring indifferently out the window, clenched his molars.
Even though the woman was gone, his car was still filled with her scent. A fragrance that was somehow floral yet like sweet sugar candy permeated the air.
A wry smile escaped him at the woman who kept leaving her deep traces in this extremely personal space of his, every single time.
And on top of that, what?
Have a drink? With that innocent face?
Do Ha mulled over once more just how ridiculous Seo Yeo Eun was.
She sat there reeking of alcohol yet never let her guard down. That’s why he’d offered to take her home—only for her to immediately suggest coffee.
The reason was hilarious too. She couldn’t miss her third chance.
In the end, even their chance encounter was nothing more than sales pitched out of her desperation; she placed no other meaning on it, and that mildly pissed him off.
Yet to the very woman who seemed to be trying to seduce him by suggesting drinks, he had impulsively ended up kissing her.
“Crazy.”
Do Ha clenched his molars again and balled his fist.
He could still feel a foreign sensation at the fingertips that had stroked her hair.
The same went for the lips that had held her.
It irritated him, as if thorns had lodged there.
“Yeah, that’s what it was—irritating.”
Every time he saw the woman named Seo Yeo Eun, the inexplicable discomfort he felt was simply because she annoyed him terribly.
Then why exactly did Seo Yeo Eun annoy him so much?
Women of that level were a dime a dozen around him.
That kind of face, that kind of figure, that kind of manners, that kind of cheerfulness.
They were common enough to trip over.
Yet for a woman like that, he had doubled the payment, urgently called a driver, and followed Son Gyu Won.
Not satisfied with that, he put Seo Yeo Eun in his car and even cracked unnecessary jokes.
Why her—a woman who wasn’t particularly outstanding, yet acted aloof and bold.
Why he…
Do Ha, thinking of Seo Yeo Eun, clenched his molars again.
An inexplicable heat quietly warmed the lower part of his body.
Even this annoyed him. To the point of madness.
“If it annoys me…”
There was a principle he had upheld until now.
No, it would be more accurate to call it a survival rule.
An iron rule he had kept from the moment he left the protection of Hanju Group until he became who he is today.
If something annoys you, either eliminate it or crush it.
Or make it completely yours.
In Seo Yeo Eun’s case…
“…Which one will it be?”
As if trying to trample the lingering irritation, Do Ha tightly shut his eyes.
* * *
She had no idea how she made it home; she couldn’t remember the process at all. Her heart pounded as if it would burst, and her mind felt hazy.
When she finally came to her senses, she was already in the alley in front of her house.
Yeo Eun, stopped at the end of the alley, pressed the back of her hand to her lips. An odd sensation made goosebumps rise, as if every nerve in her body had gathered there.
The tip of her tongue felt the same.
“I must be crazy.”
Every time she moved her lips, every time she swallowed, she could feel Cha Do Ha.
Sweet like she’d swallowed honey, yet stiff and stinging as if bitten by something.
It even felt like Cha Do Ha’s scent lingered on her lips.
Heat rushed to her ears once more.
Shameful sensations were rising just from a single kiss.
“Just from one kiss…”
Yeo Eun bit her lower lip hard.
Come to think of it, she didn’t understand why.
Why on earth had he kissed her?
Because she suggested drinking and seemed easy?
Or was she really… Cha Do Ha’s type?
Yeo Eun shook her head.
“Type, my foot. After seeing his expression right after the kiss?”
[This is the kind of dating I do. Think you can handle it?] [So stop messing around and get out.]She couldn’t erase the face Cha Do Ha had made when he said those words.
The terrifying gap between feeling like her whole body was burning and her heart freezing solid.
Yet at the same time, a strange thrill of anticipation made her chest flutter.
That was the moment she stepped into the villa complex.
“Hey, Seo Yeo Eun.”
A sleazy voice disturbingly echoed through the darkened villa parking lot.
Pulled back to reality by that ominous voice, Yeo Eun turned to the side.
From deep inside the parking lot, men sloppily dressed in cheap suits were slowly approaching.
Strength entered Yeo Eun’s jaw.
Every one of them was a familiar face. In Tae’s creditors.
More precisely, employees of Sanwoo Capital. Even more precisely, illegal loan sharks.
“Coming home late, huh?”
The man who appeared to be the leader among the three approached with a threatening expression. A man with a long, grotesque scar on his left cheek.
“Still no contact with your brother? He never picks up our calls, you know.”
Yeo Eun flinched and took a step back, shaking her head.
“He doesn’t answer mine either.”
A sleazy grin spread across the man’s face.
“If he’s that impossible to reach, it’s going to be tough for you too, Seo Yeo Eun, right? If your brother ran off with the money, it’s only natural you pay it back. You’re his little sister.”
Right?
When the man sought agreement from his colleagues, the others snickered and nodded with loud remarks.
“See? That’s what they say. In our courteous Republic of Korea, a younger sister should naturally pay her older brother’s debts.”
The man who spoke sarcastically snatched Yeo Eun’s handbag.
“What are you doing?”
Startled, Yeo Eun shouted, but the man raised his index finger to his lips.
“Quiet. You’ll wake all the residents in this cheap villa with terrible soundproofing.”
“Give it back.”
She reached out to retrieve her bag, but it was useless. Another man grabbed her arm. Yet another covered her mouth so she couldn’t scream.
A foul smell came from the dirty palm.
“Does our pretty Seo Yeo Eun usually carry some cash around?”
The man grinning sleazily opened her handbag.
He then took out her wallet and pulled out the bills one by one.
“Wow, just sixty thousand won? I heard you were a capable manager—what’s this?”
It was clearly illegal.
But there are worlds where the law doesn’t apply.
Knowing that all too well, she no longer resisted.
She could only watch with hollow eyes as the man crumpled the cash and stuffed it into his pocket.
Just sixty thousand won. The realization that she couldn’t even protect that small amount of money and was helplessly robbed was her reality.
The heart that had been fluttering because of Cha Do Ha sank in an instant.
“I’ll deduct it from your brother’s interest, so don’t make that face. You’ll get wrinkles on that pretty face.”
A filthy hand lightly tapped under her chin.
“Next time, carry some cash. And if you really have none, figure something else out. I’ll pay you well.”
After scanning her body in detail with a repulsive gaze, the man signaled to his colleagues.
Just as noisily as they had arrived, the men left the villa complex with crude farewells.
Watching the men walk away, Yeo Eun muttered powerlessly.
“This is reality.”
A sewer-like reality.
It felt as if she herself smelled of that sewer.
Once home, Yeo Eun staggered into the bathroom.
It was only September, yet a chill seeped into her very bones.
Filling the tub with hot water, Yeo Eun submerged herself in the steaming bath.
Only after soaking for a long while was she finally able to fall asleep.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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