Perhaps the car’s owner was also staying at this motel. She didn’t want to have an awkward joint checkin with an unfamiliar guest.
Da Jeong quickly climbed the rest of the stairs. She tightly gripped the long handle and pulled forward when suddenly, something swiftly passed by the side of her cheek.
Thud!
What blocked her view was a large hand. Judging by the thick knuckles and the vividly protruding veins, it was obviously a man’s. The large hand that appeared out of nowhere harshly pushed the glass door.
Da Jeong was taken aback and retreated. Then a hefty voice blocked the back as if to stop it, and it fell straight over her head.
“Is this a convenience store?”
“……!”
She felt as if she had been hit with the voice. Da Jeong just stood there, her eyes wide open. She didn’t have to turn her head to know who was standing behind her.
“……”
“I don’t think so.”
When no answer came, the man answered for himself.
Da Jeong slowly turned her body with a puzzled look on her face. Each joint creaked as if she had become a broken balljointed doll.
As soon as she turned her head all the way around, the stiff face of the man caught her eye. Her liver shrunk at his angry look.
“Ex, Executive Director, the thing is…… There are deep reasons here……”
“Is that so.”
Tae Sang cut off his words sharply. In fact, he didn’t care what those deep reasons were.
Anyway, he had no intention of leaving her alone in a place without a single burglar bar.
He added more force to his cool eyes.
“Then let’s hear it on the way.”
“Where to……?”
“Home.”
Tae Sang lifted his hand from the door with a neat move and picked up the trolley that had been sitting next to him. The pretty hefty bag floated easily into the air.
‘Home……?’
She was so shocked by his confident attitude that she was speechless. Only her breath leaked out between her slightly parted lips, and Tae Sang turned without hesitation.
Suddenly, her senses snapped back into place.
“Wa, wait a minute! No, you can’t!”
Da Jeong grabbed Tae Sang’s arm in a hurry. The feeling in her hand was so rocklike that she didn’t dare to pull it, but luckily he stopped in his tracks.
A dark shadow fell ominously over the cool man’s face.
Was he angry because she had lied? Da Jeong’s face stiffened with tension as she looked at Tae Sang.
“I…… can’t go home. I have some problems.”
“It’s the same for a motel. Air Korea crew can only enter and leave commercial facilities within the airport in uniform.”
“……”
How could he memorize such detailed regulations even though he wasn’t working onsite? Da Jeong bowed her head, blaming his innocent diligence.
“I’m…… really sorry, but could you please pretend you didn’t see this once? It doesn’t even show that I’m wearing a uniform anyway……”
Da Jeong muttered, brushing her ivory skirt with her palm.
A skirt without any special pattern or design, a dull beige ribbed cardigan. Other than not having an employee card around her neck, Da Jeong was dressed no different than an office worker from Gangnam Station who came out for lunch.
Tae Sang quietly stared at the tender image of Da Jeong, then slowly opened his mouth.
“So, you let down your hair?”
“Yes……”
Having been wound up all day, there were large waves in her long hair. It looked quite natural in many directions, but it didn’t seem to be much help in the current situation.
Da Jeong ran her hand through her hair and neatly brought it to the front of her shoulders. At that motion, as if reacting, Tae Sang’s eyes smoothly followed her hair.
“You certainly don’t look like someone wearing a uniform.”
“That, right? Then just like this……”
“That won’t do.”
“……But you said I don’t look like I’m in uniform?”
“Even so.”
The man hammered the final nail with a low voice. Hope that had been momentarily harbored crumbled at the sight of his uncompromising attitude. Unable to do anything else, Da Jeong bit her lip.
If he was going to cut her off this sharply, he shouldn’t have given her hope. The man’s voice, slightly changed, trickled into her ear, making her blood boil.
“I can’t leave you alone. At this hour, in this place.”
“……”
Da Jeong, who had thought he was just sticking to his principles, froze as if she had been struck.
“I’ll take you home.”
He deliberately shortened his strides, but there was no sign of her following him from behind. Tae Sang stopped and turned his head.
“What are you doing if you’re not coming?”
“That, that is……”
Although she was standing two steps lower, the man’s eye level was still higher. His gaze, cast downwards, sharply pierced the space above Da Jeong’s face.
“It’s not rush hour, but it will still take a while to get there.”
“It’s going to take a while……?”
His somewhat exaggerated choice of words stuck strangely in her mind. It was a fifteenminute walk, so it should only take five minutes by car.
Da Jeong, tilting her head, replied with a puzzled expression.
“My home is just a short distance from here, isn’t it?”
“My home is not.”
“……!”
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
