She was not a light leaf, tossed here and there when the wind blew. She couldn’t afford to be swayed here.
Strangely, she even felt swayed by this.
“Or should I buy another bed?”
“I won’t go into the room.”
“Right. Then should I move the room entirely?”
“Sigh, Mr. Min Hyuk.”
“Yes.”
“……Just use what we have. It’s not even used, it’s new. How can we throw it away?”
“Okay, got it. I’ll do as you say since you said so.”
At his relieved smile as if he had solved a problem, Da Hyun lost her words again.
He was humming, seemingly happy about something.
Da Hyun took a slow breath, trying to calm her quickened breathing.
She needed to remain calm.
As she repeated her inhale and exhale, calming her excitement, Da Hyun opened her mouth to add more words. But she was stopped by Min Hyuk, who spoke first.
“Although our marriage was for benefit, I like you. Honestly, I don’t want a divorce. I think we’re good as we are.”
Maybe this man was born with a talent for making the other person speechless. It was somewhat enviable to see him smoothly saying embarrassing words.
He was the complete opposite of me, who couldn’t properly convey my opinion to my family.
“I don’t think like that.”
Da Hyun moistened her dry lips.
He was her husband, but in the end, he was just another person.
“In fact, I wish we didn’t have to spend time together and just live doing our own things.”
Da Hyun opened her mouth calmly, without raising her voice.
“What?”
Min Hyuk’s relaxed face hardened.
“Although we’re officially a couple, it’s just a play, isn’t it? And thanks to Ji Yeon who’s been talking around, it’s known to people that I stole my sister’s match and got married. Those who know, know it’s a strategic marriage.”
“…….”
“Why do you try to act like a real couple even at home, not just outside? If it’s really because of the housekeeper, you can just fire them. I’ll do the housework. Then there won’t be a problem even if we sleep separately.”
His hardened face changed to a troubled expression. He must not have thought about firing the housekeeper.
“Isn’t it?”
It was something she could think of easily. She wondered if she really needed a housekeeper.
“That is……”
“Does it have a certain impact on you pulling down Mr. Kang Si Hoon?”
It was pure curiosity without any malice. Da Hyun didn’t understand at all. It wasn’t difficult to play the role of a window couple, but how could it have any effect?
Min Hyuk frowned involuntarily at the name Si Hoon from her mouth. He didn’t like it.
Ordinarily, she didn’t want to hear the existence of Kang Si Hoon from her mouth.
Min Hyuk’s expression was telling her that Kang Si Hoon had never even had a meal with her alone.
He wanted to tell her immediately that he, not Si Hoon, was the figure she remembered from the past.
She had cultivated patience for two years, but it was almost broken in vain in an instant.
“Wouldn’t it be better for people to see the image of a happy family businessman?” Min Hyuk unclenched his clenched hand and got up.
At that moment, Da Hyun unknowingly took a step back.
Min Hyuk did not miss her defensive behavior.
He did not want her to remember the past. He did not want her to. He wished for a way to start anew without being cut off.
“But Da Hyun, do you know?”
“What, what?”
Min Hyuk, who had risen, moved his steps towards where Da Hyun was standing.
“Have you not heard the story that I was so attracted to you that I asked you to marry me on the spot, and you had to marry me?”
“What?”
“Have you not heard the story that because of that rumor, I couldn’t go out with eight arms, and thanks to that, I was very happy because the illegitimate child of the HG Group was not chaotic but pure.”
“What, what? No, what nonsensical rumor….”
Da Hyun was speechless at the unheard sound.
The closer Min Hyuk came, the more Da Hyun kept backpedaling to keep the distance.
When he approached, she stepped back, and when he approached, she stepped back again.
But the moment the cold wall touched her back, her escape was over.
It was too late to get out of the study. He had already stretched out his arm and propped against the wall to prevent her from escaping.
Da Hyun raised her head. Min Hyuk’s lips, blocking her escape route, were stiff in a straight line.
“I want to make it truth, not a rumor.”
Da Hyun’s head was spinning as if someone had hit her in the back of the head at the earnest gaze.
Why is he looking at me so desperately?
What she wanted was only one thing. Freedom. She wanted to live the life of Han Da Hyun, a human being, not the eldest daughter of the Yu Song Group or someone’s puppet.
To live that life, she had to escape from Su Cheol’s eyes. For that, she accepted the devil’s whisper in the arranged spot instead of her younger sister.
But she knew that if she held the devil’s hand, she had to pay a fair price. She thought the price was to stain her clean family register with black ink.
She never thought he would trap her.
“Wouldn’t your thoughts change as we live together? Like me.”
The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)
Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.
The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”
Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!
Warnings:
- Male pregnancy.
- Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
- Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.
