I was afraid that even my mere gaze might wake him, but soon my heart began to calm down. I lay down, bending one arm and resting my cheek against it. Jun seemed to be in a deep sleep, his chest rising and falling rhythmically with his shallow breaths. His eyelids, gently covering his eyes, seemed to be settled in a peaceful sleep.
His hair was still damp at the ends. Maybe he had showered and, as usual, had just roughly towelled his hair a few times before coming out, as his moist hair hung down to his forehead and was tousled about.
Since I have the chance to see your face this close.
I tidied his hair so I could see his face better. It looked a bit funny with the hair artificially stuck behind his ears.
Sleep well, Kim Jun.
By the way, I fixed your hair nicely.
I swallowed a silent chuckle, fearing he might wake up. Usually, if I looked at him a bit longer, he would start staring back at me with a strange look, so I couldn’t do it. That’s why I couldn’t leave this spot where I could see you well.
I cautiously moved my hand towards his face. I traced his thick eyebrows and followed his straight nose.
It was just as I hesitantly placed my hand on his lips.
“You shouldn’t do that.”
Maybe he heard my heart drop with a thud. I froze in place, unable to make a sound, my mouth slightly open.
Jun’s lips, still with his eyes closed, slowly curved upwards. As if he already knew what I had been doing.
Heat spread from the back of my neck to my earlobes. My mouth grew dry with anxiety.
Jun, with his eyes half-open, looked at me. The playfulness in his softly curled lips was apparent.
“Lucky I woke up around this time, or there would have been trouble.”
I hurriedly lowered my gaze, not brave enough to meet Jun’s eyes. I tried to downplay the incident, which could easily be misunderstood, as something trivial.
“……It’s not what you think.”
“What do you think I was just thinking?”
Caught off guard by Jun’s immediate response, I was the one who couldn’t maintain composure. In my panic, I shrugged my shoulders impulsively.
“Whatever it is, it’s not that…”
The sentence I had just blurted out faded away in meaning, contrary to its superficial intent. It was a situation where any observer would see no room for excuses. I couldn’t clearly say what was right and what was wrong. Because what you saw was right. So all I could do was make excuses that it wasn’t that.
In truth, it was an excuse so embarrassing it felt more like a childish tantrum.
But then, I heard Jun’s soft chuckle.
“Right, whatever it is, it seems it wasn’t that.”
Pushing away the heavy air, I slowly raised my head. Jun was already sitting up on the tatami, shaking his tousled hair and smiling gently.
“Enough of that. Ah, I’m hungry. Eharu, shall we go out?”
Jun’s eyes curved into a smile.
It felt like he was patting my back, telling me not to cringe over the incident we just had, that he would keep it a secret.
“Wait, isn’t that a supermarket over there?”
We had been following a straight road from the gas station, which now began to twist and turn.
Just as Jeongeun started complaining with a pale face about how we should turn back now, that it would be better in the long run, his mood brightened suddenly.
Right when tourists like us usually reach our breaking point, a quaint supermarket came into view.
“Wow, a supermarket right at the perfect spot. Yeah, when you see a supermarket like this, you just can’t help but stop.”
Though there was no sign, it seemed like a regular house converted into a store, with an ice cream box placed outside the large gate. The peeling blue roof and the half-crumbling wall gave the impression of an old country house rather than something shoddy.
“Ah? Look at this, Haru. What a surprise.”
Inside the store, near the counter, were a few small boxes of motion sickness pills and a piece of paper written in Japanese, English, Chinese, and Korean saying ‘Motion Sickness Pills.’ The handwriting looked like it was copied directly from an online search result.
Initially laughing at this, Jeongeun soon quietly placed a box of the pills on the counter. Probably the hottest item in this supermarket, unknown to us.
My gaze, naturally shifting from the motion sickness pills, stopped at a glass bottle.
Uniquely, a bottle filled with yuzu syrup and coffee mix sticks were placed side by side. In front of it was a sign with characters I could read despite my limited Japanese.
[100 yen per cup]It was a small shop that could be seen in its entirety with a 180-degree turn of the head. When we stepped out of the store, each of us held a cup of yuzu tea, along with a precious box of motion sickness pills.
A sip of the bright yellow yuzu tea calmed the nausea that had risen to my throat. At that moment, a Japanese sentence I didn’t realize I still remembered slipped out of my mouth.
“It’s too sweet.”
At that instant, Jeongeun and Hyeonsu, looking in the same direction as me, turned their heads towards me in unison.
“Eharu, what did you just say? There shouldn’t be any basic Japanese that I don’t know in your vocabulary.”
But instead of answering, I slightly blushed, remembering the day I learned that phrase.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
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At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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