“I guess I’m not the type men like. Given that I’ve been dumped twice already.”
Being the first one to dump her, Do Han felt a pang in his heart.
Every time he saw Sa Rang, he already felt guilty. Adding Jaeseong’s case to that made him feel as if he’d committed a grave sin.
“Han Jaeseong has strange tastes.”
“He was fine before.”
“He was fine in his first year, but he became strange once he became a sophomore.”
Sa Rang looked at him sadly as he made this inappropriate remark.
Feeling uncomfortable under her gaze, Do Han focused on his coffee, sipping it.
“You’re not compatible with him either.”
He struggled to say this, meeting Sa Rang’s eyes.
“You’re too good for him.”
Do Han didn’t know what words of comfort he should offer.
Seeing Sa Rang so dejected because she had been dumped by a guy twice was unbearable.
He wanted to tell her that it wasn’t her fault, but the men’s problem.
You are pretty just the way you are, kind, clear, and pure Sa Rang.
But once he’d said it, he regretted it.
He worried that even those words might hurt her.
Do Han shifted his gaze back to the front and kept drinking his coffee for no reason.
“If you feel sorry for me, then you should be the one to have me.”
At her murmur, he spit out the coffee from his mouth.
Without a thought about what to do with the coffee he’d spilled everywhere, Do Han continued to cough painfully.
Sa Rang left him be, got up, and threw the empty can into the trash can.
He looked up at her with a dumbfounded expression.
“It was just a mumble. Pretend you didn’t hear it. I’ll leave first.”
Do Han watched Sa Rang walk away without hesitation, lost for words.
He was still coughing.
“What’s so bearlike about her.”
He couldn’t agree with Jaeseong’s remark that Sa Rang was unattractive because she was like a bear.
What bear is that bold.
There’s no fox like that either.
Do Han, who was completely smitten with Sa Rang, couldn’t come to his senses for a while in that spot.
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Do Han and Tae Hoon finished their exam and left the lecture room.
“Sigh. Even though we studied until late in the library yesterday.”
Tae Hoon seemed to regret that it was the last exam.
Even though they had just finished the midterm exam, it felt like they already had to prepare for the final exam.
“You were not studying, but dating.”
Tae Hoon, who felt like he didn’t get a good grade, grimaced at Do Han’s teasing.
“You horrible guy.”
“Why are you cursing at someone who’s doing nothing?”
“Are you even human?”
“What?”
Do Han furrowed his brows in confusion as to why the sparks of failing the exam were flying at him.
“How could you, who has been dating incessantly, have better grades than me? Are you even human?”
“Blaming your girlfriend for failing your exam is just an excuse.”
“Any human would naturally do that, you terrible guy.”
“What’s natural about that?”
Do Han felt just as frustrated.
Even if he was at the library with his girlfriend, he was looking at the books. Why wouldn’t he be able to study?
Whether someone was there or not, it did not affect his focus. Do Han couldn’t understand Tae Hoon’s words.
Tae Hoon decided to explain slowly to him.
“Your girlfriend is next to you.”
“So what.”
“The person you like is right next to you.”
“So what does that mean.”
Tae Hoon raised his voice, thinking it would be better to talk to a wall.
“Of course, you want to touch her!”
He just managed to swallow the harsh curse that was about to come out.
He was so frustrated, wondering if this was really a man.
“Don’t you want to hold hands? Don’t you want to take her to a place where there’s no one else? How can the letters enter your eyes when your girlfriend is all over your mind.”
Tae Hoon, who hadn’t been dating Jiwoo for long, was especially tormented.
He wanted to forget about exams and everything and take her somewhere where they could be alone.
Wasn’t that normal?
“Am I the strange one?
Am I the only pervert here?
Tae Hoon was so unjustly accused that he felt like he could go insane.
“You’re not a high school student. You can’t study because you want to hold your girlfriend’s hand.”
“What?”
“Kim Tae Hoon, you’re naive.”
Do Han made a surprised expression at the pureness of his friend, which he hadn’t noticed until now.
That made Tae Hoon even more annoyed.
“Ha. What am I going to talk about with you.”
It was useless to hold Do Han, who had never been sincere to his girlfriend, and keep talking.
To like someone, to break up with that someone and be sad.
Whether he even understands such human emotions.
Do Han never seemed happy when he was in a relationship, nor did he ever seem distressed after a breakup.
He had never seen him particularly happy or sad.
He was so dried up that one could believe it if told he was not human.
Tae Hoon always felt pity for Do Han as a friend.
Sometimes he seemed to have a lot of affection, but then he’d cool down the moment he felt that, so he could never quite understand him.
“Let it be. The exams are over, let’s go play billiards.”
Saying what more can he say, Tae Hoon checked the time.
It seemed perfect to go to the billiard room, get rid of stress and have dinner.
“Earlier, you were acting like you were going to run to your girlfriend, what’s this about?”
A moment ago, he was passionately talking about the correlation between dating and studying, and now suddenly billiards.
Do Han let out a sigh of disbelief.
“Ji Woo said she was going home after the test. She said she stayed up all night and won’t eat dinner, she’s going to sleep.”
“Do you seem regretful?”
“Yes. People feel regretful at times like this.”
Now Do Han outright refused to treat him like a human and narrowed his eyebrows.
“So are you going or not?”
“Go.”
Do Han answered without hesitation.
If he had said he wasn’t going here, he felt like he would start a lecture on ‘You call yourself a friend?’.
Thanks to that, Tae Hoon, whose mood had lightened a bit, left the school gate deep in thought.
“But speaking of Sa Rang.”
Hearing her name, Do Han’s heart reacted strangely.
He felt guilty like a sinner, then his heart started to beat fast.
“Should I set you up on a blind date again?”
“I didn’t ask for it, what?”
“Don’t you have any good people around you?”
“No.”
Without even thinking, Tae Hoon frowned at the immediate response.
“Why does Jae Sung have to like a foxlike girl? I thought they would look good together.”
“They don’t match.”
“What? You said they did before.”
“I don’t think so when I look at it again.”
“What kind of guy do you think would suit Sa Rang?”
Tae Hoon grumbled, asking why he was fickle again.
While waiting for his answer, they opened the door to the billiard room and saw Sa Rang at the pool table inside.
“Huh? There’s Sa Rang.”
Unexpectedly seeing her there, Tae Hoon was curious who Sa Rang had come with.
As he moved his gaze to the side, a man with a good physique came into view.
It seemed to be a friend from the physical education department that he heard from Ji Woo.
The two of them looked happy together.
“I guess I don’t have to set up a blind date.”
Because they were freshmen, both of them looked fresh and nice.
While Tae Hoon looked on with a satisfied smile, Do Han’s face hardened.
From the moment he saw Sa Rang with Yoon Jae, it was like that.
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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