“She catches on to what is said quickly due to her intelligence. Her facial expressions are good, and her dance lines are pretty. No need to even mention her figure. It’s rewarding to teach her. She has good flexibility, so just a bit of strength training will do. Thank you for entrusting me with such a gem.”
“……I’m glad.”
Ji Seung Hee’s expression seemed complicated at that time. Even young Jae In couldn’t hide her trembling lips as she said, ‘Take care of her’.
Every time Jae In practiced dancing in the practice room attached to the house, she felt Ji Seung Hee’s gaze. It felt pretty good to be followed by her envious eyes filled with feelings of inferiority.
The only thing she knew about dancing was ballet, which she had learned for a semester at a cultural center when she was very young.
Jae In’s mother often became lost in memory, showing her the pictures and videos taken at that time. Jae In also liked hearing stories from her childhood because she looked so happy.
“I never knew that a pink tutu would suit your chubby, short body so well.”
“I suited it well, even with this belly? It probably just looked that way in mom’s eyes.”
“The way you shook your chubby butt to the music, imitating the teacher’s small steps, you were so pretty. There was no one who kept the beat as well as you did. I thought, ‘Did I give birth to a genius?'”
“Hah, that’s ridiculous.”
“Considering you’re also good at drawing, I wondered whether I should raise you to be a painter or open up the path of dance. But then, looking at you when you’re asleep, you’re so pretty that I didn’t want to expose you to the world. I pondered over this seriously every day.”
“I’m good at drawing? My mom, a true hedgehog mom.”
“Where in the world is there a hedgehog as pretty as this? I am the mother of the beautiful Yoon Jae In.”
Thinking of her mother who smiled with sparkling eyes, Jae In was happy while practicing. She also enjoyed confirming Ji Seung Hee’s distorted face each time she received an award at a competition. So, Jae In became a practice bug.
“One of the professors who judged the competition praised her again. She only needs to imitate roughly, but she’s pushing herself to meet your standards. I really hate that girl.”
“Wasn’t it your unfulfilled dream? You were so impatient to put Yu Ri into ballet, just push that girl.”
“You’re saying that now?”
“Don’t nag at me. You were the one who said not to be surprised when I brought her here. You were the one who said you would teach ballet. I never got involved.”
“At least you should listen to me quietly! Who else will listen to my grumbles if not you! I can’t even gossip about how annoyed I am by the daughter born from another woman!”
There were many days when she fell asleep to the lullaby of the loud arguments between the quarrelling couple. The only reason she could withstand the contempt from Ji Seung Hee and her daughter Jo Yu Ri, as well as the severe loneliness in this unfamiliar place, was for one reason only.
At least her existence was causing disruption in this house.
That was enough. Considering that her mother in America could receive expensive treatments, it was a bearable situation.
However, what was unfair was, Jae In had never tried to catch Jo Dae Hoon’s eye, as Ji Seung Hee suggested. The father, who looked at his daughter as if she were another man’s child, was the same to Jae In.
“The chairman told me to relay this to you.”
“……”
Jo Dae Hoon had been the man who sent a secretary to inform her when her mother had passed away. Jae In tore up the ten million won that the secretary had handed over, feeling it was an insult, right in front of him.
She scoffed at the secretary who, after the funeral, said they should go to Korea together, and that Jo Dae Hoon was considering adopting her. Adopting his own daughter her mother, who lay in the soil of Chicago, would have laughed so hard at that.
…How heartbroken she must have been.
Seeing that the unfeeling man had come this far, he must have been quite in a hurry. But he seemed to want to keep his involvement minimal, and it was amusing that he had even had his secretary drive him without a chauffeur.
“Don’t make a fuss and get in.”
“I have nothing to say.”
Apparently unable to watch any longer, the secretary, who had been standing holding the rear door, helped Jae In into the car.
“Please, get in.”
“……”
“We’re waiting.”
After a moment, feeling as if her breath was blocked, Jae In exhaled deeply and brushed back her hair.
“Shall we see how loud I can really be?”
When Jae In raised her voice and lifted her head, the secretary seemed a bit flustered. However, like a seasoned veteran who had been with Jo Dae Hoon for a long time, he lowered his voice.
“If you continue like this, we will have no choice but to take you by force.”
“Go ahead, try to take me by force. Do you think people will just stand by and watch a young woman being abducted in the middle of Gangnam? Do you want to become an SNS star?”
“Abduction? The Chairman is Jae In’s father……”
“Enough. You may not know this, but I’m an orphan. I’ve never had a father from the start. If dragging me away against my will is not abduction, then what is it?”
“……”
“How about eyewitness accounts of Chairman Hyeon Yang Construction trying to forcibly get a young woman, who’s like his daughter, into a car? That’s just the kind of thing that would get people talking, right?” As the crowd’s gaze slowly focused, the secretary clenched his mouth shut. Jae In’s fists were trembling minutely. She continued to glare into the darkness of the still open back seat.
“If you have something essential to say, tell him to do it over the phone. Judging by how you’ve found out my address, it seems you already know my phone number.” Within the darkness, Jo Dae Hoon’s tightly clenched fist was faintly visible. Seeing this brought a smile to her face.
“I’m not exactly thrilled to see that pitiful face.”
“Secretary Kim.”
At the sound of his name being called, the befuddled secretary immediately bowed towards the open door.
“Yes.”
“Just go.”
“Yes, understood.”
With a thud, the car door closed and Jae In, who had been glaring at the retreating vehicle, finally collapsed onto the street.
For the first time in her life, she had shouted at her biological father. Before feelings of exhilaration or fear could sweep over her, she was consumed by anger. The sorrow that underpinned her anger was ignored, as always.
She didn’t like the fact that she had shown so much emotion to her coldhearted biological father. She had wanted to wait for the right moment and strike at once, but her plan was exposed before it could even properly start.
“Are you alright?”
“……”
Several people approached Jae In. With their help, Jae In, swaying, sat down on a nearby bench.
No matter what, if she was in Jo Dae Hoon’s palm.
After a moment’s thought, Jae In picked up her phone. Only one person came to mind at that moment.
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My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
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Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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