Jun’s deep brown eyes, which met mine directly, were steady. There was a determined will in his gaze, something difficult to describe, as if it wasn’t a mistake or a joke, just earnestly focusing on me.
I felt trapped by his gaze, missing the timing to look away. But it was also overwhelming to just receive his stare. I was afraid my quickened breathing would be heard.
As I thought to break the silence, moving my lips, a faint smile started to spread on Jun’s face.
“The lipstick’s smudged. That’s better now.”
Jun straightened up, distancing his expression from me. Fixing his gaze straight ahead, he put his laptop in his bag, speaking in a soft voice.
“Mission to make Eharu sleep seems pretty much accomplished. Eharu, time to go home now. As much as you might want to stay with me, I, being quite a renowned movie director, have to work non-stop from now on…”
His voice, though joking, seemed to carry a loneliness rather than humor.
I watched his back for a long time.
During lunch, I sneaked out to a café near the broadcasting station.
Jeongeun shook her head at me. I pretended not to notice, quickly biting into my sandwich.
A whole tomato slipped into my mouth, uncut, round as it was sliced. I was sure I ordered a cheese sandwich, but all I could taste was tomato.
“Eharu, I really don’t get you.”
I had a vague idea of what she might say next. My heart started to flutter in fear. Instead of responding, I bit into the sandwich again, now hollowed out from the missing tomato.
“I really hate meddling in others’ love lives, but…”
I couldn’t figure out why my mouth felt so bitter. The more I chewed, the stronger the bitterness seemed to seep through. Was it just my imagination?
“You may think you’re doing all this for Kim Jun’s sake, but…”
I shouldn’t have been eating this sandwich. It felt like rough grains of sand were swirling around in my mouth, threatening to scrape and peel away everything if swallowed.
“By not telling Kim Jun the reason for your breakup yourself, you’re just prolonging his agony. Not just for the past nine years, but for another 10, 11 years… You’re trapping him in the first love curse. You won’t ever tie up loose ends, Eharu.”
Typical of a broadcasting writer…
Though I pretended to eat, every word Jeongeun spat out from the first to the last was like being typed into my heart.
“…I plan to, just… I can’t find the words yet…”
Each breath, each word made the parts where those letters were embedded throb with pain.
“Besides, he has a girlfriend now, so I don’t really need to say anything…”
“Eharu.”
My shrinking voice was immediately evaporated by Jeongeun calling my name.
“That first love belongs to you and Kim Jun, no one else. If he has a girlfriend, or if he didn’t, such a premise shouldn’t even be necessary. You two started it, so you two should be the ones to tie the knot.”
I swiftly wiped my eyes, damp with moisture. I made a silly excuse about something getting in my eye.
“Yesterday, about Kim Jun…”
Jeongeun trailed off, and I blinked several times, keeping my gaze down, trying to control the moisture building up in my eyes.
“Well, I’m not him, so I can’t be sure what his intentions were. But whether it’s respect for a first love, lingering affection, or whatever it is, it looked genuinely heartfelt from the sidelines.”
“…What did?”
“The way he looks at you.”
“……”
“He was holding your face so carefully with his hands, as if he was about to kiss your forehead any moment.”
I quickly shifted my gaze to Jeongeun, but all I saw was her mischievous expression, as if she found my reaction amusing.
But that didn’t last long. Seriousness crept into her eyes, sweeping away all traces of playfulness.
“Actually, I’ve been thinking a lot about whether to tell you this. I didn’t want to unnecessarily stir things up, especially with your first love project going on. It might just agitate your heart more…”
Jeongeun sighed lightly, her fingers rubbing the handle of her lukewarm mug multiple times, showing hesitation. Watching her fingers, a faint sense of unease started rising in my chest.
“That day, when you first met Kim Jun in Japan. I initially thought for sure he had a girlfriend since he brought you home. But now, I think about it, I never heard it directly from Jun.”
“……”
“And lately, just observing you two, it seems like you both return to your twenties when together. The longing, the affection, or maybe it’s just the regret of a past first love, I don’t know. That’s something only you two can really understand.”
“It’s not exactly like that…”
Struggling for a response, all that came out were insubstantial words. Jeongeun’s brows twitched, seemingly dissatisfied with my reply.
“Eharu, did you finish the screenplay work you said you had to do yesterday?”
“……What?”
Caught off guard by the abrupt question, my eyes wavered. Jeongeun caught my reaction, nodding leisurely as if understanding.
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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