The bright smile looking down at me was beautiful. I also stored such a you in my eyes.
Jun, who had been quietly looking at me on that day, tilted his head back again when he tried to lower it.
“Oh, right. The script. We need to work on the script. That’s why you came here. There’s no time for this.”
The timing was a bit off. As you approached me, I started to pull your hand towards the table as if pushing you aside.
Still, Jun followed my lead as I guided him. A sigh that seemed to be heard passed by my ears for a moment, but he didn’t add any other words.
Taking a seat on the opposite side, Jun folded his long legs.
“Okay, let’s work… why are you using that tone.”
“It’s the tone of someone who doesn’t want to do this because you prevented me from doing more just now.”
“Ha, Director.”
“Only at times like this.”
“Because Kim Jun director is right.”
“Phew, I got it. We’re working right now, so let’s get to it.”
Despite saying that, as soon as Jun turned on the laptop, he started to concentrate fiercely. I glanced at Jun, who had turned on the director mode all at once, feeling somewhat amazed.
Even if it’s not you in the mode of Kim Jun telling me that you like me, I found it so easy to fall for the director’s appearance, captured in a single moment of your shining like a star in the sky.
However, at that moment. A bit earlier, my romantic thoughts faded away, and I just burst into laughter.
“Why?”
Jun, who didn’t know that I had been silently gazing at him, finally responded to me. His thick lips still carried the lingering traces of the intense kiss a moment ago, with lipstick smeared on.
“Why do you keep laughing alone like that?”
Jun, who didn’t know anything, didn’t take his gaze off the monitor as he mumbled.
“Kim Jun.”
“Yeah?”
“You got my lipstick on your lips.”
“Oh…”
Only then did Jun casually wipe his lips with the back of his hand. After a quick swipe of my hand, he looked back at the monitor as if nothing had happened.
“You’re just sitting there like this?”
“It’s not wiped off yet.”
“It’s okay. I’ll do it again later anyway.”
“…Is that what you call saying something?”
Jun chuckled as if to say I was right.
I, too, after being a little playful, turned on the tablet belatedly and glanced ahead. I could still see Jun concentrating with the same momentum on entering the monitor.
Today, whenever I unexpectedly looked at you, our eyes never met. As much as today, placing you in front of me and missing you seemed to be my job, so I forced an unused smile.
Then suddenly, Jun’s appearance seemed a bit different. On closer inspection, his outfit had changed. Instead of the gray suit pants he wore when he came into our house last night, he now had on a charcoal gray suit with a checkered pattern. Did he change into this?
“Jun.”
“Yeah.”
Even so, he readily answered.
“You changed your clothes. Did you stop by the hotel?”
“Oh, yeah.”
After Jun glanced through my clothes, he said, “Someone was nagging me, saying I shouldn’t be so sloppy when I go to the lecture.”
“…Who?”
“Yeah. Secretary Yoon, like a mother. She said I came in the same clothes I wore to handle today’s schedule in Busan. She was pestering me to change.”
Ah, Secretary Yoon… the person Jun’s girlfriend, as misunderstood by Jung Eun and Hyun Soo before.
The emotions that had briefly gathered seemed to be slightly polished.
“If she nags, you still listen well.”
“I listen to you even better.”
“Pft, I didn’t mean it in that way.”
“You have someone next to you like Secretary Yoon. I think I’m a bit picky about nagging.”
“Yeah, that’s true.”
“So it’s different from that.”
“Different?”
“I listen to your words because I want to hear them. I want to do everything you like.”
Kim Jun, you should give a bit of a heads-up before saying such things.
Feeling the vibrations in my chest that had just started intensifying, instead of answering, I quietly nodded my head. His face, satisfied with just one nod, was dyed with a smile.
“So, did you sleep well at our house last night? I kept telling you not to overdo it since I’m tired.”
“…Ah, I forgot.”
Jun pretended to ruffle his hair, glancing at me as if searching for something. The memories of last night were undoubtedly floating above your head.
I hadn’t made any particular expression, but he seemed anxious by himself. Then, all of a sudden, I erased that look, making it obvious.
“You must have had a hard time yesterday.”
“Well, not really. I was thinking about taking off my shirt because you looked uncomfortable, but I didn’t.”
“Just thinking about it?”
“What?”
“You protected me, right?”
I was just momentarily speechless, taken aback by the sudden flow of such unrelated words. Now, seeing that he couldn’t answer, it seemed like he hit the mark and heaved a sigh quite abruptly. Once the blocked words were even more stuck.
“Kim Jun, wipe off the lipstick on your lips and say such things. Your face looks even more disheveled now.”
“Oh, this… It’s true that it’s disheveled, together.”
“…”
“If you’re doing it together, it’s okay to do more.”
His skillful way of redirecting the conversation was somewhat cheeky. It seemed like he knew that he could raise and lower the speed of the vibrations in my chest at will.
“Now, we have work to do.”
“The way you talk is strange. Well, let’s work now, and after work, let’s do it again?”
When I frowned, signaling him to stop, Jun finally burst into a laugh that he had been holding in for quite a while.
“I have to work. Before I get hit by Haru.”
Looking again at your face hidden behind the monitor, I smiled with a satisfied look, then lowered my gaze back to the tablet. Even this moment of comfortably chatting with each other was precious to me.
How much time passed? Jun suddenly called me.
“Oh, Haru.”
“Yeah?”
“There’s something you really need to do.”
Jun turned his notebook towards me and pointed to a certain part with his finger. My gaze followed his finger through the words written on the monitor. The screen was reflecting a dialogue of a god from the scenario I wrote.
On the day we first met in Japan, the day we went out for a late dinner together. Despite the slightly cool weather, Jun was wearing a school uniform with all the buttons done up. I asked him why he was dressed like this and in a school uniform on a day like this.
Jun’s finger was pointing at the short conversation we had that day. I followed the lines of text written on the monitor along with his fingertip.
「Haru: Wasn’t that thing you were wearing earlier a school uniform?
Jun: Yeah, a school uniform.
Haru: Then, earlier…
Jun: Why were you wearing a school uniform earlier?
While Haru hesitated, Jun, understanding the intention, answered.
Jun: I’m filming a movie as a high school student.
Haru: A movie?
Jun: Yeah, so… It’s like a club for students.
Haru: Ah… a club?
Jun: A club?」
I was puzzled. Was there more dialogue or script to add here?
“I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. This is almost the same as the conversation we had that day. Almost identical.”
“Do you really not know?”
“Yeah. I don’t know.”
Jun squinted his eyes slightly, shaking his head left and right.
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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