Before the break of dawn, a bluish hue filled the bedroom. Kang Woo quietly opened the bedroom door.
He was neatly dressed in a dapper suit, sans a tie, his shirt buttons all done up, his hair impeccably styled. He was clearly ready to head to work.
From a distance, Kang Woo observed Se Ah, asleep in her bed, before he moved. He sat on one side of the bed, holding his breath, looking down at Se Ah’s sleeping face.
It felt like it had been a long time. Seeing her face asleep like this.
When he came home, he would usually shower and fall asleep. When he woke up, he was too busy preparing for work.
Even though it wasn’t necessary, Se Ah always tried her best to wake up at his departure time. When she couldn’t, like today, he would quietly look at her face before leaving.
Looking back, he had fond memories.
He grabbed the edge of the blanket scattered at her tiny feet and covered her up to her neck. In her sleep, Se Ah fluttered her long eyelashes. Her red lips, which had been quietly sealed, slightly opened.
The sensations that had kept him up all night stirred up again.
Last night, he was drawn to Se Ah who wore an ivory cardigan over a black slip. While it was a different atmosphere from usual, for a moment when her gaze softened, it was just like the Se Ah he knew.
The moment when her clear eyes, full of silence, drew him in, heated him up with love and desire.
He was so engrossed in his work that he had no time for anything else. Naturally, he didn’t understand love or relationships, as Se Ah spoke of them. No, it wasn’t clear. There should be some experience to gauge.
One day, Se Ah suddenly invaded his daily life.
Whether by chance or fate, they became a couple, and he had never thought of divorce.
After Se Ah’s sudden divorce notice, he was thrown into confusion. He was currently feeling the emotions rocking him back and forth.
He gently brushed Se Ah’s motionless cheek and got up.
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An hour after Kang Woo left for work, Se Ah woke up.
What time was it?
She quickly tried to get up and then stopped herself, forgetting that she no longer needed to wake up to match Kang Woo’s departure.
For almost a month, he had been sleeping in a separate room and leaving for work. He followed her silent request to use separate bedrooms. Also, unless there was a reason, he did not come into the bedroom.
Whether because he stayed in the bedroom until quite late last night, or because of the chilly wind, waking up alone this morning felt particularly lonely.
Somehow the blanket had been pulled up to her neck. Maybe she had turned the blanket over because she was cold in her sleep.
She pushed the blanket aside and got out of the bed. She went to the dressing room, took off her thin slip, and gathered a towel and clothes to change into.
Unintentionally, her reflection in the long mirror caught her eye. She lowered her head and carefully looked around her belly. There was a faint scar from a laparoscopic appendectomy near her navel.
Three years ago, she had lost consciousness due to acute appendicitis, and when she opened her eyes, she was in a private room at Hanseong University Hospital.
The landlord, who had come to collect the rent, found her collapsed and called an ambulance. On the way to the hospital, she remembered the words of Hyun Sook who said to contact her if anything happened, so the landlord called, and the person who answered the phone was Kang Woo.
According to the landlord’s explanation, Kang Woo sent Secretary Choi to substitute for her hospital admission and surgical consent procedures. He also kindly arranged for a private room, but that was as far as it went.
During the week she was hospitalized, Kang Woo never once visited her room.
At that time, Kang Woo and she were strangers. He was the distant son of her guardian. So she knew full well that feeling upset was out of the question. She didn’t have the right to feel that way.
Still, she waited for a few days, thinking he might come by since he had heard the news. Every time she heard footsteps in the corridor, she perked up her ears.
She had occasionally had meals together at Hyun Sook’s invitation, and he had been her teacher for a while. She even went so far as to ascribe such flimsy meanings.
However, Kang Woo did not come in the end, and on the day of discharge, Secretary Choi came again to help with the paperwork.
Then, she realized painfully. The reality that Kang Woo didn’t see her as a woman, not even the size of a bean.
A few years later, on graduation day when they met again after a year.
“Are you feeling better? You took a leave of absence because you were sick, didn’t you?”
That’s why she had been completely broken by his one remark. She was overjoyed that he remembered and asked about things that must have been trivial to him.
Thinking of her past self, who had been even more naive than now, Se Ah chuckled lightly.
When she touched the place lightly scarred by her hand, it felt like a hot sensation was lingering. Suddenly, Kang Woo’s gaze when they were about to sleep came to mind.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
