A Marriage So Lethal (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 4
I almost crashed straight into Kang Woo’s solid chest.
Except when we slept together, I had never touched bodies with him. At least we always faced each other from one step away.
“How about we talk about what you said last night?”
Kang Woo pulled Se Ah’s shoulders even closer. Se Ah turned her gaze away from his straightforward, intertwining eyes.
He must not know the dishonest pounding of my heart after I said we should separate last night. With a cold face, I pushed his back away.
“Let me go.”
“I’m afraid you’ll run away, like last night.”
His calm but heavy voice stabbed at my chest.
“I won’t, so let go.”
“Why are you being so harsh? At least give me a chance to explain.”
Only then did Kang Woo loosen the strength in his arms. At the same time, his slightly sharp tone softened.
“I’ll be late for work.”
“I already told Secretary Choi.”
Se Ah was dumbfounded that he had delayed going to work just to talk to her.
“Go sit on the sofa.”
His persistent gaze followed until Se Ah took a step. With no choice, she went and sat on the sofa.
“What do you want to say?”
There was no answer for a long while, so she looked at him. His eyes, which had been fixed on her for who knows how long, were locked on her.
“Tell me the conditions you want. I’ll meet them as much as I can.”
Se Ah gave a cynical smile at his cold tone, as if negotiating a merger.
“That’s exactly why you’re doing this.”
“Then why are you doing this?”
Se Ah let out the sigh that had welled up in her chest.
“Why are you the one holding onto me, Kang Woo-ssi?”
“Well…”
Kang Woo opened his lips, then closed them.
“It’s probably because of responsibility. We’re married, after all.”
“Is there anything more important than that?”
The situation was too urgent to trust him when he was trying to take responsibility out of vague feelings.
Nam Tae might already have surveillance on her or Kang Woo. It was only natural he would quickly notice Kang Woo’s subtly changed attitude and put pressure.
“Forgetting to register the marriage was my mistake, I admit it. But…”
“…”
“Just because we didn’t do that doesn’t mean we’re not husband and wife. So stop acting one-sided.”
“I really don’t understand why you’re doing this, Kang Woo-ssi. Honestly, I’m shocked. I thought you’d accept it easily.”
“I don’t understand what on earth you want from me.”
As if losing patience, Kang Woo loosened his tie knot. Se Ah stared straight at him while he did so.
“What I’ve wanted from you all this time was affection. Love that makes me believe you’ll always be on my side.”
“What?”
Kang Woo’s pitch-black eyes wavered. Seeing his crumbling expression felt strange.
Se Ah’s moist eyes gently brushed from the tip of Kang Woo’s straight nose to his eyes.
Looking at the flustered Kang Woo, Se Ah smiled faintly.
“But I got tired of waiting, so I’m going to stop loving you too. This is enough.”
“You really drive people crazy.”
Se Ah stood up first, leaving him weakly twisting his lips.
“So please let me go. This is my last request.”
The CI Soft headquarters building in the very center of Gangnam’s golden district.
This high-rise had been completed this year after a year-long remodel. Modeled after a certain American IT company, the lobby contained a café, bakery, fitness club, bookstore, and even a small gallery.
Kang Woo, who had graduated from a prestigious university with a computer engineering degree, started making profits at age 21 by selling well-made apps to conglomerates. From age 25 when he seriously started running a business, he grew bigger and bigger, eventually dominating the mobile game industry.
To get there, he had put everything else aside and lived only for work. He was obsessed with work from morning till night, so he had no energy left for personal matters. It was the same even after marriage.
Kang Woo passed the lobby information desk, took the private elevator, and went up to the top floor. Secretary Choi, who had been with him since the founding of CI Soft, stood and bowed.
“Any messages?”
“We received a call from the secretary of Managing Director Lee Min Young of G-Coms. She proposed a dinner meeting in the next few days.”
“Okay.”
Entering his office, Kang Woo put his briefcase and jacket into the cabinet.
He sat down and picked up the documents to sign, but a sigh escaped. His head used to be stuffed full with nothing but business, without a single gap for stray thoughts.
But lately, whenever there was a spare moment, he found himself thinking about Se Ah.
It had already been ten days since they started this not-quite-cold-war cold war with Se Ah. It had been just as long since they started sleeping in separate bedrooms.
Worried that Se Ah might run away while he was gone, he naturally started coming home earlier. He also scheduled outside meetings for lunch or early afternoon whenever possible.
There was a reason he was so anxious about her disappearing. Because when they accidentally spent one night together before marriage and he woke up, Se Ah had already done exactly that.
He had called her dozens of times trying to talk about that night, but she never picked up even once. Back then, his nerves were so frayed that he couldn’t concentrate on work at all.
Then, a week later,
Se Ah finally answered. They set a time and met at a café.
Once he saw her as a woman, his feelings toward her became new. An inexplicable mix of pity and strange emotions.
‘Why didn’t you answer my calls?’
‘Just because. Why did you want to meet?’
Her clear eyes cautiously looked up at him. In that short time, Se Ah’s face looked even paler.
‘What should I do for you? Is there anything you want from me?’
‘I’m not doing this because I want something from you, Kang Woo-ssi.’
‘I’ll take responsibility. In whatever way.’
Her lonely smile without making a sound somehow made his heart ache. Since things turned out this way, he thought getting married would solve it. He never thought about marriage normally, but Se Ah seemed fine.
A few days later he proposed, and surprisingly Se Ah accepted without even asking why. Even his family, where he expected difficulties, gave permission easily. Everything went suspiciously smoothly.
Afraid she might feel anxious if he dragged it out, he pushed everything forward quickly.
But unfortunately it overlapped with the company relocation period, so he was busier than ever with work.
‘It’s because of the business, nothing we can do. I’m fine.’
From wedding preparations until recently, Se Ah had always said that with a faint smile.
But suddenly she says she had loved him one-sidedly for a long time and wanted affection. He had thought she would be satisfied just living comfortably without hardship.
He was so shocked he couldn’t continue speaking.
She had confessed only once, on “that night,” but he had dismissed it as drunken words.
Before and after that, she never showed any signs.
She never sent messages first unless there was business, never touched him. She just quietly and silently understood his busy situation.
Yet now,
‘It’s too hard living with a man who doesn’t love me. So please let’s separate.’
‘I thought affection would grow once we got married and lived together.’
While recalling the memories, Kang Woo slightly frowned.
Just what is this “love” that Ji Se Ah is talking about?
He was satisfied with their married life. He was grateful for Se Ah’s understanding, and he felt comfortable with her.
Sometimes when he saw her sleeping face, intense desire flared up, but he swallowed it down. He was afraid she would think he came home in the middle of the night and only wanted her body without sincerity.
“Ha.”
Kang Woo sighed and left a message for Se Ah.
She still hadn’t even read the “Are you up?” he sent this morning.
[Just reply already.]He left one more clingy message he would never normally send.
He absolutely should have registered the marriage. Not nailing it down with paperwork became the root of the problem.
Se Ah went to the multi-unit villa she had an appointment with the realtor to see.
The realtor waiting in the shared parking lot widened his eyes at Se Ah’s luxury sedan and outfit.
But he quickly erased the professional surprise.
“Hello?”
“Oh my! You’re even prettier than your voice.”
At the polite compliment, Se Ah gave a faint smile.
“But you’re really here to see this place, right?”
The realtor tilted his head and pointed at the old villa.
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Shall we go in then?”
Se Ah carefully examined every corner of the house.
“It’s a really good place for the monthly rent. The living room and kitchen are open, so it doesn’t feel cramped at all.”
“Yes, it seems so.”
It couldn’t even compare to their newlywed home, but it looked much better than the place she lived before marriage.
Back then she only had a gas stove and a mini fridge, so it was hard to cook anything. This was already excellent.
There was one room, but it was fairly spacious. There was a sliding wardrobe and even a bed.
“We completely repapered recently, so it’s clean. Sunlight comes in well too.”
“It’s nice.”
“Then, shall we go with this one? Since you’re here, let’s do a preliminary contract.”
The realtor pushed, but Se Ah only responded with a smile.
Overall it was fine, but monthly rent was a bit burdensome. The only money she had was what she saved from tutoring and contest prizes before marriage.
Not just rent—she would have to buy household items from scratch too…
“I’ll look at a few more places and decide.”
“Alright then. Please contact me.”
Se Ah took the business card the realtor offered and put it in her handbag.
Kang Woo came home from work. Standing at the entrance, the house was pitch dark without a single light.
“Ji Se Ah.”
He changed into slippers and went inside; the automatic sensor lights snapped on.
‘Is she already asleep?’
Ji Se Ah. He called her name quietly a few more times, but there was no answer.
He knocked briefly on the bedroom door and opened it. The light was off, and the room felt empty, as if it had been unoccupied for a long time.
In that moment, his heart sank.
He went to the dressing room and opened the dress cabinets that took up one whole side. Thankfully her things were still there.
“Phew.”
He let out a hollow breath and quickly calmed his racing emotions.
It didn’t seem like she had left the house yet, but where on earth did she go?
He came out to the living room, sat on the sofa, and waited. Even his old habit of showering immediately upon coming home was forgotten in her sudden absence. He waited stiffly in the clothes he wore, not even feeling uncomfortable.
Eventually he called Se Ah.
The mechanical voice saying it would go to voicemail repeated endlessly.
Can a gentle person become this ruthless once they make up their mind? For the past ten days he came home early trying somehow to talk, but she gave him no opening. With each passing day she grew colder, as if preparing to leave him overnight.
Finally the anxiety he had been suppressing with reason exploded.
Was she really going to leave without even a final goodbye? After saying she had loved him so dearly, if she just disappeared—what was he supposed to do? He felt abandoned by her without even a chance to regret.
He grabbed his car keys and phone and stood up. At that exact moment—click. The front door lock turned.
Kang Woo strode across the wide living room and stood at the entrance.
“Ah!”
Even her little startled cry when she saw him suddenly appear was small and cute, just like her.
“Where have you been?”
“Just…”
As she mumbled and changed into slippers, he pulled her into his arms.
He tightened his hold so she wouldn’t escape while she struggled in surprise inside his embrace. Right now the wildly beating heart was probably his own.
“I thought you had left.”
When the male lead is punished by carrying the female lead’s child and having periods like a woman
“I’ve given birth to two children for you, yet you still think about him.
Was I nothing but his substitute to you from beginning to end?”
Synopsis:
Meng Huan, a scumbag who has dated countless girlfriends, transmigrates to a female-dominated country.
Day 1: Whether it’s female dominance or not doesn’t matter. The beauties here are passionate and amorous. Isn’t it easier to date them than in modern times?
Day 2: After a night, Meng Huan discovers the differences in the female-dominated world. Men here actually have chastity locks and menstrual cycles. This hinders his ability to perform, damn it!
Day 3: What’s wrong with sleeping around? I don’t want you to marry me. I’m meant to be a playboy. I don’t care about male virtues… What? You want to drown me in a pig cage? Marry, I’ll marry!
Day N: Meng Huan inexplicably vomits and receives the shocking news of his life… He’s pregnant.
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