Jaein, who was contemplating the lingering effect of Taeseo’s firm words, suddenly shifted her gaze to the unfamiliar feeling in her hand. Belatedly, her eyes widened as she discovered the ring on the fourth finger of her left hand. When thick lips parted silently in amazement, Taeseo, as if unable to endure any longer, pressed his lips to hers.
“Wait, wait. Taeseo, this, right now…”
“Yeah.”
“…Now that I see it, Taeseo, you’re wearing a ring too?”
“Yeah.”
“Then, this time it’s really a proposal…”
“Sorry for proposing without flowers or being cool. But, after seeing you trying to protect me at the Yeonryudong earlier, I couldn’t delay it any longer. Originally, the plan wasn’t like this…”
If Jaein agreed to go to Chicago together, Taeseo planned to visit Cancun, a resort in Mexico, before returning to Chicago. His plan was to propose on the dazzlingly beautiful private beach in Cancun. However, his lips were sealed by Jaein’s lips, as if she couldn’t stand it any longer, when he was about to confess his plan while looking at her with surprise.
Taeseo’s question that he couldn’t bring himself to ask, “Will you marry me?” was softly whispered by Jaein’s lips on Taeseo’s lips. The tears that had been held back crawled down her cheeks, but instead of wiping away the tears, Jaein clasped Taeseo with all her might.
“Yes, yes, yes.”
“Ha…”
Jaein realized that she wasn’t pondering whether to get married. There was no room for such contemplation. After expressing the desire for us to be together, the first thing she had to do was embrace the man trembling with anticipation and anxiety.
While exchanging a deep kiss with him, my lips moved on their own. I had to convey my feelings to him several times. Otherwise, my overwhelmed heart felt like it would burst.
“Yeah. I will. I’ll marry you, Taeseo…”
“Yoon Jaein.”
“Yes, yes.”
“I love you.”
“…”
Jaein whispered love to her lips and looked at the man who gazed at her for a moment. He, too, seemed surprised by the words I uttered.
“Ah…”
“Me too.”
“…”
“Me too.”
Knowing the painful memories Taeseo had, Jaein, who loved him, could understand what kind of feelings he had when he said he loved. So, without urging him to love, she waited.
In fact, even without saying it, she knew the depth of his feelings. So, she wasn’t anxious. She just thought that she should say more often that she loves him, hoping that he wouldn’t suffer from painful memories.
But seeing him say that he loves her first, tears kept coming. Jaein, with all her strength, gripped Taeseo’s clothing. Her nose, cheeks, and lips, trying to endure the impending cry, sobbed. Despite this odd appearance, Jaein felt that she had something to say to Taeseo.
“I also…”
“Love you.”
The first time she said she loved him, Taeseo, who was momentarily bewildered, tilted his head again after Jaein spoke first. As if to engrave the lines of her smooth forehead, the beautiful bridge of her nose, the flushed cheek, the moist eyes, and the plump lips, he finally released his lips.
“I love you. Yoon Jaein, I love you.”
Now, like a child learning to speak for the first time, he repeated many times that he loves her. Smiling at his repetitive figure, Jaein, with both arms full, embraced him, letting out tears.
It was a strange feeling to cry and laugh at the same time. At the same time, she felt that the hunger that could never be filled with anything in her life was now completely satisfied.
Jaein pulled his clothes. Holding his soft hair and responding fervently to his kisses, she eventually lifted him up and lay him on the bed.
“Ha… Don’t go to the hospital?”
The neatly dressed man was now quite disheveled. Jaein looked down at the crumpled shirt with satisfaction and threw away the T-shirt she was wearing. Although his eyes might be swollen, she decided not to care about such things.
“Yeah, don’t go.”
“…”
Jaein, sitting firmly on top of me, looked up at Taeseo, whose gaze gradually moved downward. Jaein boldly took his hand and placed it on my waist.
As his large hand warmly embraced my waist and pulled me closer, a moan escaped involuntarily, but I barely endured it and even untied the rubber band that was holding my hair.
“Why propose and then try to go somewhere? Today, I won’t yield Kang Taeseo to anyone. I’ll be greedy.”
“It must be just past twelve now?”
“Yeah. So, Taeseo, you can’t go anywhere for at least the next 24 hours.”
“Ah… Whenever Yoon Jaein gets greedy like this…”
“Yeah?”
“I’d go crazy. Happily.”
With a giggle at the sound, the night of the two people who had forgotten about tears deepened.
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
