Jaein looked at Jaehoon, who couldn’t respond, with eyes that lost focus and shook. She tried hard to stay calm in front of the disgusting human, who seemed unbearable, and endured her anger throughout the time Taeseo was comforting her.
She didn’t want to make him feel good by saying it was hard because of trash like him, that countless nights were like hell. Jaein knew. The twisted human called Jaehoon would be delighted to know that he had consumed her time.
So she tried to show as composed a appearance as possible. In doing so, she sat down next to Taeseo, who had patted her clenched fist, and covered his large hand with her cold fingertips.
She pressed on the cooling fingertips firmly. Every time she faced the eyes with a hint of madness, the fear from eight years ago revived, but thanks to Taeseo, Jaein could muster the courage.
“What happened eight years ago… Sorry. How’s your leg?”
“What happened eight years ago?”
Jaein was dumbfounded by Jaehoon’s words as he finally opened his mouth.
“It’s not that an accident happened; you caused an accident. Even though you kidnapped and threatened me, it didn’t go your way.”
“…Together, let’s die.”
Jaein lifted her composed gaze to look at Jaehoon. It was absurd that the admiration in his eyes for her was still evident. She had to detach herself from that sticky, lingering gaze.
“I gave you the last chance to apologize. But you’ve just blown that chance.”
“….”
“I’ll tell you because it seems like you don’t know. Listen carefully.”
She didn’t want to give any leverage to that wretched human. Feeling the warmth of Taeseo’s strong grip on her hand, Jaein took a deep breath and spoke.
“I find you repulsive.”
She didn’t want to give any leverage. Realizing Jaehoon’s gaze had reached Taeseo’s hand holding hers, Jaein stared straight at him, ignoring the chills running down her arms.
“The day I hold your hand, the day you hold mine will never come.”
“….”
“So choose. Whether you’ll live as someone irrelevant to me, continuing your business, or whether you’ll appear in the news with long-standing sins, receiving people’s accusations. I can at least break one of you.”
Taeseo, sitting between Jaehoon and her, nodded his head in agreement with my words. As if it could happen naturally. As if it was okay.
“If I ever see you again, it will be in court. If you don’t want to pay for your sins, don’t wander around me.”
The reason she tried to receive any kind of apology was for her, not him. Even so, Jaein gave up on a humane resolution while looking at Jaehoon, who didn’t repent and didn’t even know what he did wrong. She had to bring despair to him, who kept having baseless hopes.
“Jaein, listen to me.”
“If you have anything else to say besides an apology, send it in writing. The address is…”
“Deliver it to Kang Taeseo, Head of Kangsun Construction.”
Taeseo, who had been waiting, intervened at that moment. As he stood up with Jaein, he glared at Jaehoon. The sharp, blade-like gaze made him shiver.
“However, be prepared for anything when you send it.”
She remembered his arm crossing her back and shoulder as they left Jaehoon’s office. Lost in thought about Taeseo, who stood silently, Jaein finished bathing. Her gaze with damp hair turned to the stairs.
Amid the chaos, she skipped lunch and dinner. Taeseo had suggested having lunch together at the yoga studio, so he might not have eaten either. Jaein headed to the pet door installed between the 2nd and 1st floors.
She thought of having a meal together. Actually, the meal was just an excuse. She wanted to thank him for staying by her side today.
No, that’s an excuse too. Yoon Jaein wanted to see Kang Taeseo.
Jaein, cautiously descending to the 1st floor, regretted her hasty actions.
“I should have sent a message in advance.”
She stood in front of the tightly closed bedroom door and swallowed dry saliva. Thinking of the quiet space being disturbed by the echoing knock, she couldn’t easily bring herself to knock on the door. After a few attempts to raise her fist to knock on the door and then stepping back, Jaein lowered her hand.
Considering sending a message to ask if he had eaten, or if he hadn’t, suggesting having dinner together, she was planning to head back upstairs. Just as Jaein was about to turn her body to grab her phone.
“Jaein, is it…?”
Clack—. Behind the open door, there was Taeseo, looking surprised. He was wearing only gray sweatpants.
“Oh.”
Whether he just showered or not, the scent of his soap mixed with his scent was dizzying. His upper body, not yet fully dried, was smoothly illuminated by well-defined muscles. Water droplets hanging from Taeseo’s wet hair dripped quietly beneath his firm collarbones.
“That’s…”
Unconsciously taking a step back, Jaein couldn’t tear her eyes away from the water droplets flowing along the contours of his solidly built body.
The water droplets left traces on the wide chest, slipping through the well-defined abs, slowly down, down. Following the water droplets flowing through his body, Jaein’s gaze descended.
“So…”
A droplet that skillfully bypassed the navel flowed smoothly down the lower belly, leaving a trail as it reached the band of the pants precariously hanging on his protruding hipbone. As soon as it touched the gray fabric, it left a vivid stain that spread in an instant.
Jaein lifted her head in surprise. Then, slowly ascending and descending, Taeseo’s Adam’s apple became visible. His leisurely descending gaze seemed to ask if she enjoyed the view.
Jaein’s face blushed in an instant. Unintentionally, she openly scrutinized a man’s body. Starting from the collarbone, following the water droplets down. Then, as she recalled the last thing she saw, she tightly closed her eyes.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
