“How does it look?”
“I guess it looked good. Yura looks quite impressive when she’s working. But I’d say there’s no affection involved.”
Lee Hyun found Yoo-gun’s words, confident in his understanding of him, amusing.
His feelings for Jin Yura weren’t something he could easily define.
It wasn’t a decisive emotion like love or fondness. She was initially just a friend’s sister who caught his eye, and he inadvertently learned more about her through the overbearing Yoo-gun. Sure, his interest piqued because they shared similar traits, and he did watch over her with a certain kind of casual favor.
The change in their relationship began when he saw Yura dating a man named Oh Se-jin.
Yoo-gun, intrigued, asked, “But really, what made you decide to marry?”
Lee Hyun’s response to Yoo-gun’s curiosity about the marriage was limited.
He was continually drawn to a different side of Yura than he knew. Though he wasn’t interested in marriage, if he ever had to, Yura wouldn’t be a bad choice as a spouse.
Then, Oh Se-jin’s appearance became a catalyst, and he needed a plausible excuse to continue this not-so-bad relationship, thus opting for a light contract.
While the contract might seem superficial on the surface, even Lee Hyun hadn’t decided how light its end would be, so the answer he could give to Yoo-gun was simple.
“I had to get married at some point.”
“Are you using Yura?”
Lee Hyun almost wanted to applaud Yoo-gun’s progress in awareness. He was so dull regarding his sister’s matters, yet now his intuition had kicked in right.
If it was about using, the one with a clear purpose in this contract was probably Jin Yura.
She needed to detach from Oh Se-jin and escape the marriage pressure from Kang-soo, so she likely proposed this marriage, finding it logical.
“If there’s using to be done, it’s Jin Yura doing it.”
“That’s true.”
Yoo-gun couldn’t fathom Lee Hyun’s motives. He was neither in a hurry to marry nor did he even contemplate it. But there seemed to be a feeling of sacrifice for Yura’s purpose, leaving an unsettling feeling.
Lee Hyun would never sacrifice himself for anyone.
While the reason behind this marriage was clear, not knowing what it was only added to the frustration. Still, if it made Yura happy, Yoo-gun could turn a blind eye, at least to an extent.
And having observed Lee Hyun for a long time, Yoo-gun was confident that Lee Hyun wouldn’t harm others for personal gain, so he resigned to tolerate this unknown motive. However, if it led to Yura’s unhappiness, that would be a different story.
“Lee Hyun.”
“Yeah?”
“I think you’re a decent guy, cold and detached, but humanly decent. Better you than some other guy. But if you ever make Yura cry…”
Yoo-gun couldn’t bear the thought of anyone causing unhappiness to Yura.
Beautiful and intelligent, Yura could have led Jinwha better than him if only she had received proper love and support from their parents. But she was always overshadowed by the parental focus on their son.
In that household, all he could do was stand by her side, protect her, and occasionally shield her from their parents’ criticism. So, in her life outside this home, he wished her nothing but happiness.
“Would I be so careless?”
“It’s not a joke.”
“Who would make Yura cry?”
Yoo-gun found it difficult to respond immediately to Lee Hyun’s remark.
Not crying doesn’t mean one isn’t hurt. The fact that Yura doesn’t show her wounds might mean they’re festering inside. All Yoo-gun believed in was Yura’s strong resilience that wouldn’t easily scar despite any wounds.
“…No.”
Perhaps, at least from others, Yura might not cry.
Busy with work since arriving at the office, Yura’s concentration had been wavering recently. The wedding preparations were all completed swiftly. With the wedding approaching, Yura decided she could no longer delay.
The wedding would be strictly private, and her name or picture wouldn’t appear in any articles, as Lee Hyun had informed her.
Thus, there shouldn’t be any rumors about her at the company for now. Separate from that, she had to go on a honeymoon after the wedding, so she needed to clearly inform her team about her absence.
Her absence for a few days wouldn’t cripple the planning team’s work. Yura had managed all matters in an open style, ensuring that the absence of any one person wouldn’t hinder the workflow.
Everyone could step in to fill a colleague’s absence, although an individual’s workload would inevitably increase.
So, when Yura takes her honeymoon, other employees would have to review and handle more work and stay alert for any emergencies.
With this in mind, Yura decided to officially announce it before it was too late.
As lunchtime approached, Yura stepped out of her office, looked around at her busy colleagues, and cleared her throat. Their attention uniformly turned to her.
“You’re all very busy these days, aren’t you?”
“It’s not our first busy day,” said Manager Jung, smiling at his own obvious remark. Yura took a deep breath and cautiously began.
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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