Jun’s gaze gently slid up and down on the tablet, repeatedly scanning the screenplay. Throughout his review, he occasionally touched his lips with his index finger, a small habit when he concentrated on something. Jun started to slowly read through the screenplay I had written.
Knowing it was my screenplay, I could guess where he might be in the script just by watching his fingers tapping the screen.
This made me even more anxious. In my mind, I began to float around the shy memories I had written on the pages he was reading.
But Jun truly was a professional.
Though he occasionally smiled or slightly furrowed his brows, he never spoke to me while reading. He seemed completely immersed in the story of the screenplay, the story of our past that had passed but not quite passed.
It was only a half-told story from my perspective.
Jun kept silently flipping through the tablet without saying a word or even glancing my way.
I didn’t feel slighted, though. Instead, I found some strange relief in the fact that I could watch him without being scolded for how long I kept looking.
I folded my arms on the table and rested my head on them, lying down at an angle. This way, I could see your face much better. I felt a strange sense of relief in this one-sided observation where I watched you, but you didn’t watch me.
Kim Jun, you look good even from below. You were cool nine years ago and still are after nine years.
Was it that look across the tablet that finally made Jun casually throw his gaze at me? His eyes slightly widened, then he started to move his lips silently.
“Uh?”
I squinted, unable to understand, and tilted my head. Jun’s lips stretched into a pleasant smile, and he mouthed the words again.
I followed his lips silently, trying to read them.
Sleepy… aren’t… you?
I laughed again. Still resting my face on my neatly folded arms, I smiled at Jun and said, “I just got sleepy.”
“It means you were sleepy,” he retorted.
“Well, you were only reading the screenplay.”
“I often feel these days that you forget I’m a director.”
I raised my eyebrows as if asking, “What do you mean?”
“You thought about what I might say after reading your screenplay?”
“Um… I hadn’t thought about that.”
“Don’t think about it, just…”
Jun turned his gaze back to the tablet, his words seemingly carefree, as if it didn’t matter whether they reached me or not. Suddenly, I felt a lump in my throat at the thought of him wanting to be with me as Kim Jun, not as a director.
Jun, who had been scanning the screenplay, bit his lower lip slightly. Just when I felt a bit tense, he chuckled and said, “Not that I didn’t expect it.”
“Why’s that?”
“I think I had asked for it. To focus more on the narration than on the dialogue or stage directions.”
“Yes, I remember you asking.”
Instead of making excuses, I calmly acknowledged it, which seemed to tickle Jun a bit. He laughed softly. Or perhaps it seemed very shameless.
“Wow, but look at this description. Even an archaeologist wouldn’t record as meticulously as you. It’s vivid enough to envision.”
“Yeah, I remembered it well.”
“Just the scenes?”
“Uh?”
“You remembered the scenes, but not the emotions, right?”
Jun deliberately avoided looking at me as he spoke, as if even he was uncomfortable with what he was saying.
“Ah….”
“I wanted to know that.”
“Uh….”
All I could muster was a non-committal “Uh,” knowing very well that the screenplay barely contained the content Jun was eager to know. Unable to deny or offer any excuses, the only response I could give was that feeble affirmation.
Despite the situation being ripe for further questioning, Jun let it go. He didn’t press any further, even though I had intentionally ignored the sole reason for our screenplay collaboration. Perhaps it was the patience that only someone who had waited blindly for a long time could have, as if saying there’s no harm in waiting a bit more until I chose to reveal my true feelings.
Jun calmly continued reading the remaining manuscript. Suddenly, he commented upon discovering the only narration I had written.
“There was one, after all.”
At that moment, Jun lightly placed the tablet on the table and moved his face close to mine, which had just sat up straight.
The distance was so close that his breath sounded like whispers. My vision was filled entirely with Jun’s face, and my eyes widened in surprise.
“Naughty intentions weren’t there, huh? That day, you suddenly came up to me and kissed me.”
Jun watched me, my expression frozen in shock and my lower lip trembling. He curled the corners of his mouth into a light smile, playfully poking my cheek with his finger.
“Lying starts from here, right?”
Nonchalantly, Jun backed away from me and picked up the tablet again. But I couldn’t do the same; my heart was still reeling from the light tap on my cheek.
“What, what are you doing, you?”
“….Uh?”
“Suddenly getting so close….”
I should have stopped speaking sooner. My eyes, unable to raise to Jun’s face, flitted around nervously. It was obvious to anyone that I was extremely unsettled.
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
