“Sit down. It’s just us two, so relax. The kid and the wife went to the motherinlaw’s house and will be back in two days.”
Si Hoon greeted Min Hyuk and took out a bottle of wine from the wine cellar and placed it on the dining table.
“Are you crazy?”
Someone keeps calling.
Facing Si Hoon, who was irritating just to look at, Min Hyuk raised an eyebrow.
“I told you not to pretend to be friendly.”
At the cold tone, Si Hoon’s body jerked back a bit before his lips twitched.
“Are you kidding me? I’ve been playing the villain for someone else. Do you think it’s disappointing when you say that? Every time I make eye contact with Je Su, as per your wishes, I remember the mushroom I despise so much, and it shows. What does that make me?”
Si Hoon sulked, his lips downturned. Min Hyuk sighed and pulled up a dining chair to sit down.
“What’s the point of giving a pitiful impression to a woman I’ve faced before? Want me to make her heart flutter?”
In contrast to the wily Si Hoon, Min Hyuk responded coldly. Si Hoon, who had been bringing a wine glass, flared up at the mention of the word ‘flutter’.
“Hey! What are you talking about? Knowing how much I love my wife! To make her heart flutter. Don’t even utter such a dirty word.”
At the same time, he carefully placed the glass on the table, taking care not to break it.
Whether it was prepared in advance or not, a blue and broad plate containing camembert cheese and fruit cheese was set up immediately after the wine glass.
Si Hoon clapped his hands and sat across from Min Hyuk, where he had been sitting.
He skillfully uncorked the wine with an opener and poured it into the glass in front of Min Hyuk. Min Hyuk watched Si Hoon’s actions without a word.
Si Hoon filled his own glass with wine and subtly glanced at Min Hyuk.
“But does Je Su still not remember you?”
The only person who would invite a newlywed who had only been married for two days to his home would be Kang Si Hoon.
“I called you persistently because there’s something I want to say.”
Min Hyuk could have ignored Si Hoon’s call, but he didn’t. It was a repayment for Kang Si Hoon, who had been working hard since before to ensure that his existence was not known to the outside world.
Min Hyuk had told Da Hyun that he was not on good terms with Kang Si Hoon, but that was not the case. They were not harmoniously good, but neither were they snarling at each other at polar extremes.
Si Hoon was halfblood, but he treated Min Hyuk like a younger brother. He was the person who looked at Min Hyuk, regardless of what Min Hyuk’s mother did.
“Just be honest. You’re legally a couple. You wouldn’t dare run away, would you?”
Si Hoon lifted his wine glass and got straight to the point without a lengthy explanation.
Min Hyuk understood what the word ‘honest’ that Si Hoon was saying meant.
Min Hyuk didn’t drink the wine but stroked the base of the wine glass with his index finger, chuckling.
“You don’t know Da Hyun’s personality. It’s not running away, she might declare she never wants to see me again and coldly turn her back.”
Even so, he would use any means and methods to make her look back.
Si Hoon emptied the wine in his glass in one go and shook his head disapprovingly.
“Anyway, it’s also my responsibility so I’m helping you, but if Mikyeong finds out, she’ll kill me.”
“I wish you’d remember how Mikyeong, whom you love so much, could have been your wife.”
“I know, I know! I know! So I’m not asking anything and doing as you say!”
Si Hoon choked up, recalling the past from 2 years ago. He had started a family, but it saddened him that someone else had lost something because of his choice.
“Then continue to do as I say. Don’t give off any strange vibes when you meet Da Hyun.”
Min Hyuk remembered her, who kept staring at Si Hoon on the day of the meeting.
He was so enraged that his insides flipped over and his head throbbed. But he suppressed it. Because he had to.
“Strange vibes, you say. Why do you speak so weirdly. I won’t. And you’re not the one to let me meet Je Su alone.”
“You seem to know well.”
His lips curled up loosely. Si Hoon inhaled deeply and slowly exhaled.
“Min Hyuk, speaking from experience, it’s better to tell your secrets sooner. You’ll regret it later.”
“I didn’t regret it then, I don’t regret it now.”
“You’re not in your right mind. It’s because you haven’t really been through it.”
Si Hoon was worried about Min Hyuk’s choice. But he himself was already a cooffender, so he couldn’t scold or say anything to him.
“But is it love? Well, it’s love so you haven’t let go of Je Su for two years and in the end, you kept her like this.”
“Yeah, it’s love. And it’s a very fervent love.”
Thinking of Da Hyun, Min Hyuk smiled happily. Si Hoon didn’t ask anymore and forked a cheese with a rich flavor into his mouth.
Min Hyuk didn’t even bring the wine to his mouth, so Si Hoon started to drink alone as if he was used to it.
5 hours later
“Min Hyuk, even if our mothers are different, I like you a lot. Sniffle.”
“You’re disgustingly drunk.”
Min Hyuk clicked his tongue as if he knew Si Hoon would get drunk. He looked at the three bottles of wine lying around Si Hoon and looked at Si Hoon, who was being drunk, in disdain.
“Really, I was able to marry Mikyeong all thanks to you. Sniffle.”
“Yeah, remember that every moment.”
“But, you met Je Su because of me. Sniffle.”
“I liked that you don’t slur your words even when you’re drunk, but now I don’t like it at all.”
Si Hoon’s wife was born in a common family unlike them. When they said they would get married, Chairman Kang’s opposition was intense. But after twists and turns, the two became a couple and became parents of a child.
Now Kang Si Hoon was in the position of HG Group’s chairman instead of Chairman Kang, but Si Hoon felt burdened. He wanted to pass the position to Min Hyuk.
However, Min Hyuk declined, and Si Hoon had no choice but to sit in for Chairman Kang in his absence.
Chairman Kang did not know such details. The conversation was ended between just Si Hoon and Min Hyuk.
Min Hyuk started to feel annoyed by the drunken Si Hoon and prepared to go home. He didn’t think that she would be waiting for him, but he was satisfied just knowing that Han Da Hyun was at the house he was returning to.
With his eyes fully opened, Si Hoon watched Min Hyuk preparing to leave, holding his chin with his hand.
“Two years ago, when you happened to come to Korea! If I hadn’t begged you to do me a favor by standing in for me and prevent my situation from reaching Chairman Kang’s ears, you wouldn’t have met Je Su. Kkueug.”
“Ha, should I take a photo of this disgrace and send it to my sisterinlaw?”
He picked up his mobile phone thinking he should take a photo and send it to Mi Kyung who didn’t like Si Hoon drinking to the point of getting drunk. He put the phone down. It was too bothersome to take a picture.
Min Hyuk’s words didn’t register in the ears of the heavily drunk Si Hoon.
Calling him a man of dual personality, Si Hoon continued.
“I was surprised that you kept seeing Je Su without telling me after that, but the more surprising thing was Je Su, who had a traffic accident. Kkueug.”
“….”
“Doesn’t she remember all the moments she had with you?”
Si Hoon lamented that it was such a sad thing. Min Hyuk clenched his fist, closed his eyes and lifted his eyelids.
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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