Why was Chanjeong here?
Seolhee was startled upon seeing her boyfriend with an unexpected person.
Could it be someone else? Why is Chanjeong here with this team leader?
Familiar faces were creating a strange scene, causing Seolhee to question her own eyes.
Perhaps, is it a company dinner? Maybe the other employees had come along too.
Holding onto a slim hope, she turned her head to look for the presence of other employees, but there were only the two of them.
Is that it?
“Sister.”
Sister? Were those two close enough to call each other siblings? However, the shocking words did not end there.
“Can you stay late today?”
Chanjeong whispering sweetly into Doyoung’s ear. His voice made Doyoung shiver and blush.
One of Chanjeong’s hands was wrapped around Doyoung’s waist. The distance between the two was zero centimeters.
It was hard to view this as a simple situation of a team leader and employee having dinner together.
Seolhee, who was about to quickly leave the alleyway, froze. Eunwoo gently grabbed her arm.
“Ms. Yu Seolhee.”
“Yes.”
“Are you okay?”
I’m okay. She wanted to say that, but…
The two were behaving as if they were a couple, preventing her from speaking.
Her lips twitched, and Doyoung, who was heading towards the restaurant with Chanjeong, suddenly stopped. Doyoung was looking at Seolhee, brushing her hair back and laughing.
“Oh my.”
Doyoung’s smooth and cunning voice.
“Who’s this, isn’t it Ms. Seolhee?”
She raised her eyebrows and greeted her.
“It’s nice to see you here.”
The draggedout voice was irritating.
Nice to see me? Nice?
At the company, Doyoung treated Seolhee as an eyesore, even just for breathing.
When Seolhee quit, even when she was packing her belongings to leave.
“Thank you for everything so far.”
“I wouldn’t usually say this to someone who’s leaving, but it feels like a rotten tooth has been pulled. Be careful on your way.”
Doyoung responded coldly to her formal goodbye.
They were on terrible terms, and now she’s saying it’s nice to see her?
Unlike Doyoung, who was blushing upon seeing Seolhee, the face of Chanjeong, who was standing next to her, had hardened.
“Seol, Seolhee? How are you here?”
“……”
“What suddenly happened?”
“I should be the one asking what happened.”
A twisted voice flowed from Seolhee’s throat.
The message Seolhee had habitually sent this morning saying [Good Morning] still hadn’t been read.
He must be busy with work, she thought. They had been in a long relationship since college. It wasn’t a hot, burning love, but there was trust in her relationship with Chanjeong.
Or at least, she thought there was. But then…
Seolhee’s eyes landed on Chanjeong’s hand wrapped around the team leader’s waist. Then he gave an awkward smile and pulled his hand away.
“I didn’t know you would be here.”
“I wouldn’t have known either. If you had just answered your phone, you would have known I was here.”
“That’s, I…….”
“I only thought you were busy with work.”
Seolhee’s voice had a cold undertone.
“I didn’t know you were busy with other things.”
I thought such a thing could happen, she had thought.
Chanjeong and Seolhee were, well, more like friends than lovers. They had been together from college to the company, and there was no reason to break up, and no burning passion to keep them together.
So, when Seolhee quit the company, she had prepared herself for the possibility that their hearts could drift apart along with their physical distance.
But she never expected that person would be the team leader.
Chanjeong, who saw everything when Seolhee was being harassed by Doyoung, was the same.
“Why is the team leader treating me like this?”
“How would I know, that nasty woman.”
Whenever Seolhee complained about the team leader, Chanjeong responded by mixing in curses. Because of that, she was able to endure her difficult office life.
And Chanjeong, who had seen all of that, was now calling the team leader sister, asking to stay late together, and even had his hand wrapped around her waist.
She couldn’t think of anything else but betrayal.
“It’s not like that, Seolhee. Just, the team leader and I……. we’re close.”
Doyoung stepped in between the two.
“Ms. Seolhee, it seems there has been a misunderstanding.”
Doyoung was also aware of Seolhee and Chanjeong’s relationship, as they were a wellknown couple even within the company.
She grinned and continued speaking.
“We’re not like that. Just a friendly brother and sister relationship, I guess?”
Even as he said this, Do Young leaned into Chan Jeong, who was trying to distance himself.
As if showcasing their relationship.
“Huh.”
It was utterly absurd. Unable to find words for a while, Seol Hee finally moved her feet.
“Okay. We’ll talk later.”
Her mind couldn’t work out what to ask. Chan Jeong was troubled by Seol Hee’s unusually cold tone.
“Seol Hee, it’s not like that.”
But he had no more to say.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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