“I’m begging you like this. The baby to be born soon needs a dad.”
When Director Im met Yoo Jung-ha at the hospital, he recognized her and pleaded for help so that his son could return home. At that moment, Yeon-hee, who couldn’t give any answer, had her gaze fixed on Yoo Jung-ha, sitting across from her.
They said the due date had passed. The woman with a delicate image didn’t proudly show her swollen belly. Rather than boasting, she covered her belly with a shawl, as if embarrassed or sorry, and lowered her gaze.
Knowing that it wouldn’t be hidden, Yeon-hee asked with rolled lips. And she cried, returning home and collapsing. She hated the man who lied to her and saw a child from another woman, and she felt sorry for the woman who was beautiful and kind.
And a few days later, when Shin-jae returned from a business trip and found Yeon-hee, who had become emaciated from enduring hours of pain, she had already packed her bags.
“Yeon-hee!”
“Let go! How could you, how could you do this? Saying there’s no one but me! Saying you don’t need a child!”
“What’s going on? Let’s not do this and go inside…”
“I would have been better off if that woman had grabbed me by the hair. I wouldn’t have become such a joke.”
Shin-jae, who didn’t understand English, grabbed Yeon-hee, who was trying to escape from him as if possessed by a devil. However, Yeon-hee forcefully shook off Shin-jae’s hand.
“You’re pretending not to know until the end. If you were going to be like this, you shouldn’t have said there wouldn’t be another woman for you except me. How long are you going to deceive yourself? How much more do you expect me to endure? Until the child grows up? Until you get tired of me?”
“What…?”
“She’s about to give birth. Maybe she already did. Don’t tell me you didn’t know?”
“What is this…?”
“You, making me so miserable like this, I hate you so much. Don’t say you love me! Don’t even say that you don’t want a child!”
“A child…?”
“Yes! Your child! I can’t give birth to it, your child! The child that woman gave birth to!”
“Yeon-hee!”
Shaking off Kang Shin-jae, Seo Yeon-hee turned and ran. Because she suddenly jumped onto the road due to her awareness of Shin-jae, who was chasing her from behind and trying to catch her, the car that couldn’t stop in time covered her.
It was an instant death without exchanging a glance with Kang Shin-jae who followed her.
Kang Shin-jae, who hugged the bleeding Yeon-hee and moved to the hospital with paramedics, stood helplessly at Yeon-hee’s empty funeral a few hours later and checked the remaining voice message on his phone.
―Shin-jae, the baby is born. A son who looks just like you. Come back home now.
Ironically, Manager Im called him while he was in the ambulance.
Shin-jae did not answer the call when paramedics were performing CPR on Yeon-hee. He checked the voice message that was left behind belatedly.
“Ugh… Hu, huh, ugh… Ugh, Yeon-hee, Yeon-hee…”
The man who collapsed, wailing, in the empty funeral couldn’t stand up for a long time. At first, he couldn’t believe Yeon-hee’s death, and after accepting the death of the woman he loved, he pondered over each and every reason that led to her death.
Even if it was just for one night, even if it was a mistake, the sorrow of the young Shin-jae, who lost his beloved in front of his eyes and blamed himself for committing an irreversible act, was too overwhelming.
Thinking that living alone in harsh pain was the punishment he received, he survived and redirected the arrows of blame to someone other than himself, in order to receive that punishment.
And a few days later, Yu Jeong-ha, who secretly became pregnant and hid the child, endured until childbirth. Her parents, who had decided to let her leave the son with Seo Yeon-hee, and finally, the child who became evidence of my wrongdoing. Among them,
“Mr. Shin-jae, I… I…”
“Jeong-ha, the promise was different. We agreed to maintain our marriage for only three years. You agreed that we would live like others, get divorced, and go our separate ways. Have you forgotten?”
“…That was then. But…”
Jeong-ha, who did not keep the promise, was the first. Instead of keeping the promise, she confessed that she had loved him from before. So, she resisted divorcing, saying she couldn’t do it. As Shin-jae, who had another woman he loved, it was mind-boggling.
After spending a night without memory, the never-before-met Jeong-ha, who had not met him, appeared before him holding a baby on the day he passed the 49th day since the birth of Kang Tae-seo, born on the day Seo Yeon-hee died. In other words, it was also the 49th day since the birth of Kang Tae-seo, born on the day Seo Yeon-hee died.
“I’ll do well. So, Mr. Shin-jae, even if you just look at our baby…”
“There shouldn’t be anything noticeable to my eyes.”
“…”
“You too. And your child.”
It was disgusting that the woman who had secretly become pregnant and avoided the eyes in her hometown appeared holding a baby. Shin-jae turned away from the woman who sought her husband’s affection while holding an unwanted child. The child, who unmistakably resembled him at a glance, was the result of a one-night mistake.
If he could turn back time, he wouldn’t have hugged Jeong-ha that night.
No, before that, he wouldn’t have drunk the alcohol that made him mistakenly think Jeong-ha was Seo Yeon-hee. No, before that, he would have persuaded her not to run away and hide from him.
He stood up at the 49th day of Seo Yeon-hee’s death, who had only held a picture of a dead person like a corpse.
After his father passed away, Shin-jae, who naturally became the head of Kangseon Group, brought down his wife’s family and weakened the influence of Manager Im within the group. He thoroughly isolated Jeong-ha and vented his anger.
The woman who once envied Seo Yeon-hee died not long after, and his mother aged. In the end, all the arrows were directed at the young Tae-seo.
However, no matter how it was, what crime had the child committed? Manager Im, digging into distant memories, wiped away tears that formed in the wrinkled corners of his eyes.
Becoming a harsh father was pitiful but fitting. However, as much as he couldn’t share his heart, he had to protect Tae-seo.
As she engraved in her heart that breaking this dreadful shackle was her final mission, she met her son’s eyes.
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
