“Why, why again…”
The man stood up, saying he was going to take a shower, and then turned back. Even when he went out to get something to eat, he turned back and rushed in. Every time, Jaein had to postpone showering and eating.
Jaein, who sensed the same gaze as before, instinctively grabbed the sheet. Perhaps feeling sorry for that sight, Taeseo’s expression, as he lowered one eyebrow in a nonchalant way and smiled, looked mocking.
“Water, I need water!”
“Yeah.”
In an instant, she felt her body being lifted with a whisper. He picked up Jaein, who was wrapped in a sheet, and held her lightly in his arms.
“Why did you say you were bringing water…!”
“I didn’t want you to fall.”
“…….”
Stepping heavily, the man who stood in front of the small refrigerator on the first floor set Jaein down near the counter. While opening the refrigerator with one hand, the other hand held hers.
“Drink.”
Seeing the man absurdly open the cap of the bottled water with one hand and offer it, she burst into laughter. With a clinking sound, Taeseo, who poured the cold water and naturally brought the bottle to Jaein, kissed her.
With each sip, her dry throat rapidly moistened. Busy drinking, the water droplets flowing down her lips passed down her body. Without thinking, Jaein followed the water droplet with her gaze but suddenly snapped out of it and turned her head.
The bright dawn light illuminating the living room was getting clearer. It seemed that morning was approaching. Jaein tried hard not to recall the past night, which was entirely red and white.
But Taeseo didn’t seem to have such thoughts. His eyes that engraved the past night as if reflecting seemed to have a mischievous smile.
“You can look more.”
“I won’t look anymore. I know the ending.”
“The ending was the best, right?”
“…….”
“Oh, was it a bit lacking?”
“Now you call that an ending…”
It was not lacking; it overflowed. Even she, who had been trained by daily exercise, seemed to have been beaten all over her body, yet the man who looked refreshing complained it was lacking.
With an amazing expression, Taeseo, holding a bottle in her hand, didn’t take her eyes off Jaein, who wrinkled her brows. Jaein, who looked at him with a frowning expression, raised her eyebrows and laughed.
“Can you be so annoyingly cute sometimes?”
“Me?”
As if in doubt, she nodded at the man who opened his eyes wide to show her.
“I thought Taeseo would be a cool person.”
“No, it’s not like that. I’m a really clingy person.”
A person who had never known what it meant to be clingy was now skillfully weaving lies. However, she didn’t mind those lies. Rather than disliking them, she felt pleased to see that side of him, which was only shown in front of her.
It seemed that she had fallen hard for this man. Jaein was surprised at the depth of her emotions, which she realized changing moment by moment.
“I told you. I don’t let go of what’s in my hands. I said I’d be persistent.”
“…That’s true, but I didn’t know you’d be this sticky.”
“Sticky…?”
“You stick to me persistently.”
“Ah, I see…”
As Jaein chuckled at his shameless reaction, Taeseo hugged her again.
“So, do you dislike it?”
“It’s not that I dislike it, but…”
Until the man who had cheekily reacted put her down on the comfortable chair in the living room on the first floor, Jaein was at ease.
“I need to get used to it quickly.”
But the moment she understood the meaning of the whispered words that followed, the sheet she was holding dropped embarrassingly from her body.
Did the apology from earlier mean this? Did she say it was bearable for no reason? Though Jaein urgently reached out, Taeseo effortlessly took her hand and placed it on his shoulder.
“No, what I meant was…”
“Hush. You need to get used to it.”
With a fresh smile, the man buried his head in the warm nape of Jaein’s neck. Laughter mixed with the tingling sensation spread, and amid the kisses that didn’t miss any spot, Jaein eventually closed her eyes again.
Laughter blended with the spreading ticklishness. Jaein finally raised her white flag due to the man who kissed her lips, tracing the marks I had carved on her from last night.
On a Saturday morning, there was nothing to disturb the lovers deeply immersed in each other.
“Taeseo asked me to talk to you, what does that mean?”
“You met Kang Taeseo?”
“Yeah, I met him. He said we won’t meet often again or something?”
“Didn’t I tell you not to meet for a while!”
“I said I would meet my man. What’s the problem? Why are you doing this?”
Glass, who entered only in the late afternoon after the drink turned into dawn, found Suenghee as soon as she woke up. It was the result of chewing over what Taeseo had said about him being clueless and having a bad head all night.
But Seunghee, who seemed to have something to hide, didn’t answer the question and instead got angry. She wasn’t the usual confident and assertive mom.
“You, go see your uncle for a moment.”
“Why me!”
“I’ll call you when it’s resolved, so know that.”
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.
