However, as I pulled the chair back, I stopped abruptly. A yellow post-it note, which hadn’t been there until a moment ago, was stuck on my desk monitor.
[Haru. After the morning meeting, let me see you. – Jung Eun]Why did she leave a note saying we should meet after the meeting? I casually passed over the emerging question and casually tore off the paper from the end. However, my surprised mouth immediately widened.
The place where the post-it was attached was exactly where the message window to Jun had been.
[Me too. I miss you. Since earlier.]My mind went blank. The fact that Jung Eun deliberately put the post-it note in that place meant she saw this message. Placing it there, she even considered that someone might pass by and see it, which added another layer of meaning.
It’s only been a day, not even half a day since confirming our feelings with Jun, and I’ve already been caught like this. Sighing, my head drooped weakly. Unlike me, Jun, being a public figure, had to be careful about revealing our relationship.
Sneakily, I turned my head towards where Jung Eun was sitting. Her mouth was upturned more than necessary. Perhaps she had been quietly observing my somewhat tumultuous appearance until just now.
Although there might not be any specific rule, my mouth drooped down as much as Jung Eun’s mouth turned upward. Still, it was fortunate that it was Jung Eun who saw this. After all, she would probably be the first one to know about this news.
Nevertheless, it still bothered me that I hadn’t discussed this with Jun yet.
I quickly opened the messenger. First, I decided it would be better to inform Jun about this situation.
He’s probably sleeping by now. Still, I should briefly explain the situation. I’ll ask for a reply when he wakes up.
At the end of the sentence, [Me too. I miss you. Since earlier.], I placed the cursor, pushed it to the left, and blankly stared at the empty space, feeling heavier than the ocean.
As if a sigh were the Enter key, I let out a deep breath before I could display the message I had just written on the screen. Once again, staring at the monitor, I hesitated on how to say it, lost in thought.
[You said you have something to ask.]Jun’s message followed right below mine.
Oh? Was he still not sleeping, or did I wake him up? The worry of having been the first to reach Jun hit me.
[Haven’t slept yet?] [Yeah. It’s okay. Keep talking.] [Were you sleeping, and did I wake you up?] [No, you didn’t wake me up.]The thought that even if I said I woke him up, he might respond that I didn’t wake him up came a beat late.
[Sorry, what should I do?] [No, you didn’t wake me up. Can’t you speak Korean?]…Kim Jun, this doesn’t sound like something I’d want to hear.
[If you don’t believe me, should I call you?] [I’m working right now.] [Aren’t you not working right now?]Only then did I remember the reason for sending Jun a message at this hour.
[Oh, I’ll be working soon. Something came up.]Each message that had floated up like balloons one by one stopped after Jun’s turn, and it was silent. In the belatedly emerged message, there was already a content indicating that Jun had sensed the situation to some extent.
[So, that work is related to me.] [Oh, yeah. But…] [Anyway, you don’t seem to be planning to work. Let’s talk on the phone. I also want to hear your voice.] [No, I can’t. How can I do that? There are several watchful eyes here.] [Why, you have a rooftop at your broadcasting station, right? It’s well decorated like a garden.]It seemed that PD Kang had given Jun a proper tour of the broadcasting station. I wondered when he had even visited the rooftop.
[But there are always people there.] [We can talk from a distance. The rooftop is quite spacious.] [I realized if I don’t call you, it might end when you finish work.] [You’re trying to say something difficult. Listen to my voice. It’s better.]Jun’s convincing speed was fast, and my acceptance speed of Jun’s words was even faster.
Well, maybe it would be better to talk while listening to his voice. I should ask Jung Eun if I can tell her the truth, or maybe I should ask before going into the meeting…
In the end, I told Jun that I would go to the rooftop to make a call and discreetly left the office after glancing around.
As soon as I opened the rooftop door, I carefully scanned every corner. Fortunately, except for a female employee standing on the far right of the rooftop, surrounded by a deck and a well-decorated garden, there was no one else.
I headed diagonally to the left corner, the opposite direction from her. Perhaps because it was the rooftop, there were no obstacles, and the cold breeze seeped into my short-sleeved shirt.
After a short ringtone, Jun’s voice filled the air.
[Yeah, Haru.]Jun’s voice came through the phone. Then, I quickly recalled Jun’s tender voice that echoed in my ears as he held me in his arms last night.
All the tension and excitement from last night, too.
“Yeah, I’m here.”
[Yeah, it’s nice to hear your voice.]“Me too.”
[Yeah, me too.]“Yeah, me too.”
[…Hey, Haru. What are you doing on the rooftop? Just to hear my voice?]“Well, it’s a multitasking thing.”
“Oh, no. That won’t work. It’s not okay. I have to attend a meeting soon.”
[Yeah. I got it.]Just listening to Jun’s voice made me feel like I had received all the excitement of the day. In the wind, I had completely forgotten why I came up to the rooftop. If you hadn’t told me in time, I might have just laughed and listened to your voice, then went back down.
No, that’s probably what would have happened. Really.
“Jun. Well, you see, between you and me…”
[I like hearing that too. ‘Between you and me.’]Just hearing your voice made my heart, which wanted to announce its presence with excitement, beat louder.
“…Stop saying that.”
[Why? Because it’s true.]“Because it’s true. That’s why. I don’t know what to do when my heart races like this. It feels like my breath is being cut off.”
Jun laughed as if he couldn’t believe it.
[Haru. Why did you endure so far when I liked you so much? If it weren’t for me, you would have gone crazy.]“No, it wasn’t that bad.”
[I like you so much. Even my heart trembles and goes crazy when I see you. But strangely, I can’t say anything in front of you.]It was a tone that seemed to play with human emotions. The problem was that the sentences added to that tone were not wrong at all. Reluctantly acknowledging the ugly feelings that I didn’t want to admit, I pushed out those words.
“I didn’t care. Not at all.”
I said it casually with an indifferent tone as if there had never been such a thing. That was when…
[…Okay. I felt the same way.] “…Huh?” [I did. Whenever I thought of you, whenever I saw you, I was always in that state.]The words I thought were teasing me were actually painful words from Jun, expressing his sincerity that he wanted to lightly dismiss in front of me.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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