Sihun was flustered, even as he insisted he was fine.
Dahyun had wanted to ask Sihun. It seemed like she could ask easily since it was already a thing of the past.
She was curious. How did it end so badly with him two years ago, that Suchul said those words?
If she had encountered Sihun like this before marrying Minhyuk, she wouldn’t have been able to ask. But now, she felt she could ask without hesitation.
She thought it would feel familiar since they had met two years ago. Seeing as she was not at all uncomfortable being alone with him, it didn’t seem like it was a bad connection. But why did it end badly?
Ding
The elevator had stopped in the basement without her noticing. But Sihun didn’t get off in the basement; he pressed the button for the 36th floor.
The elevator opened, closed, and rose again.
The 36th floor was right below the CEO’s office.
“Ah, this place is good for conversation. It’s a place I often use when talking with Minhyuk. The 36th floor is a place where employees can’t come and go as they please.”
“Yes, I see.”
She thought something would come to mind when she was alone with Sihun, but nothing did.
“That’s about what happened with us two years ago…”
“Excuse me? Ah… Two years ago?”
Sihun, who hadn’t thought Dahyun would bring up the matter of two years ago, realized the mistake he’d just made.
Under no circumstances should he have mentioned the event from two years ago to Dahyun first. He couldn’t break a promise he had made with Minhyuk. If he did, he could clearly see Minhyuk’s wrath.
Sihun awkwardly smiled and brushed the back of his neck with his hand.
He should have said he didn’t have time.
He didn’t expect her to ask after two years had passed.
Sihun’s relaxed demeanor from a while ago disappeared, and he looked flustered.
Dahyun wondered if she had acted too hastily and made things difficult for Sihun.
She didn’t want to recall the past. There were no issues in her daily life, after all.
Would anything change if she asked Sihun?
“……I was wondering what would have happened if I had met Mr. Minhyuk first two years ago.”
Dahyun did not want to probe the troubled Sihun further.
Before they knew it, the elevator had reached the 36th floor.
She felt sorry for holding Sihun back from going home after work.
“Ah, yes, yes! I should have met Minhyuk two years ago, I’m sorry.”
“Oh, no, there’s no need for you to apologize, sir. It’s not like we had a match because we wanted it.”
Dahyun, flustered by Sihun’s apologetic attitude, hurriedly waved her hand.
Sihun looked like Minhyuk, yet he didn’t.
Seeing Sihun in his neatly dressed gray suit, she didn’t feel a flutter of excitement at all. Not even 1mm worth.
“That’s right. At that time, I also met my current wife, and in many ways, I feel sorry for you, Jesu.”
“No, it’s not. It’s all in the past anyway.”
What use would it be to dig up the past again? I regretted asking.
Ding
In the meantime, the elevator door opened. Da Hyun felt uncomfortable being with Si Hoon and didn’t want to ride the elevator with him anymore.
Da Hyun slightly bent her waist in courtesy towards Si Hoon, then passed him and got off at the 36th floor.
She waited a little for Si Hoon to go, then decided whether to return to the chairman’s office or go to the lobby when the elevator came up again.
“I think I’ve taken a lot of your time, sir, as you’re busy. Please go in, sir. Next time, I’ll see you with Min Hyuk.”
“Yes, Jesu, take care on your way back.”
Da Hyun looked carelessly at the wristwatch Si Hoon was wearing on his wrist, then turned her body.
At that moment, as Da Hyun turned her back, a flash passed quickly and her face paled.
Her cell phone rang, but she couldn’t answer it.
Da Hyun turned her body around, and as the elevator door that Si Hoon was in was about to close, she reached out her hand.
“Wait a moment!”
As Si Hoon was closing the elevator door, he was startled when she suddenly ran up and pressed the open button.
As the closing elevator door opened, Da Hyun’s gaze fixed on the wristwatch Si Hoon was wearing on his left hand.
Da Hyun’s eyes were sharply embedded in the wristwatch Si Hoon was wearing.
“Do you have something else to say, Jesu?”
“…This is the first time.”
“Excuse me…?”
Her memories from 2 years ago came to her in fragments for the first time.
But it was a word that would easily cause misunderstandings if heard. Si Hoon stared at Da Hyun with a blank face and slightly opened mouth.
If Min Hyuk had heard it, he would have glared at her as if to kill her.
But Da Hyun, unknowingly, seized Si Hoon’s wrist, swept away by the fleeting image in her mind.
Si Hoon, with his wrist seized, was flustered and couldn’t pull it out.
“Jesu? If Min Hyuk saw me like this, I could lose my wrist. Hahaha.”
Si Hoon was at a loss for words at Da Hyun’s strange behavior of suddenly seizing his wrist.
In the meantime, the elevator door closed. The executiveonly elevator did not move and stood still as the floor was not pressed.
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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