Even if she ended up losing his interest, she wanted to try being in his arms once.
The man she had loved so much,
She loved him passionately, and she still loved him unwaveringly,
Although she had been denying it,
Actually, she had acknowledged her feelings for him quite a while ago.
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Young Joo wished that Seo Ah had never gotten married in the first place.
Seo Ah initially planned not to, but her resolution did not last long.
Her thoughts changed every day while she was in France. At times, dozens of times a day,
She tried to dislike him, thought she disliked him, and ambitiously planned for a divorce as she entered Korea,
But when she faced him at the age of twentyseven after six years,
You’ve grown a lot, Han Seo Ah.
Then she realized.
Ah. I could never dislike this man, never disliked him even once, and I would like him more in the future.
Who said out of sight, out of mind? She was proving that it was impossible for some people.
Perhaps Seo Ah’s longing to see Ha Joon was even stronger than her longing to see her parents and friends.
She didn’t honestly tell Young Joo her true feelings.
She felt that if she told him that she was getting married with these feelings, he would try to prevent the marriage by spreading Ha Joon’s secret, even if he had to do it alone. No, he would definitely do it.
So, she made a divorce plan she didn’t really intend to. To reassure Young Joo.
She kept it a secret from her parents, too. Because she knew well that they wouldn’t force her to marry if she honestly told them what kind of person Ha Joon was.
They must have been excited about strengthening their relationship with the topranking group through marriage, and she didn’t want to disappoint them.
Even if she got divorced and received a large settlement, her own house would be affected. It would be much more beneficial to maintain the marriage.
Above all, she didn’t want Ha Joon’s image to be damaged.
She didn’t want to see her first and last love being ruined.
She wanted to find out Ha Joon’s true self. She wanted to see it with her own eyes. It’s different if you know and get hit than if you don’t know and get hit.
She would have to pretend to be blind and put on a show, that’s how she could breathe and live,
Once she knew his true self, she might really want to get divorced,
Since he was a man who meticulously managed his image, once they were married, she couldn’t even dream of a divorce, and she wanted to stand by his side even at official events.
It would be harder to see another woman by Ha Joon’s side.
At least, she wanted him to keep her by his side out of necessity. She wanted to become an indispensable, important existence to him.
If he saw her, that would be more than enough, but she didn’t expect that to happen.
Even when he hurried to get married five years earlier, she didn’t have vain hopes.
The disappointment would be big as much as she hoped.
Since he became a department head at a young age, he must have been in a hurry to establish his footing from the beginning. The timing was too perfect to deny it.
She didn’t want Ha Joon to notice her feelings, so she tried to act even colder on purpose. She didn’t want to be mocked for her sincerity. Like when she was seventeen.
Instead of that, try to memorize at least one more English word. It’s embarrassing to greet a wife with an empty head.
However, it wasn’t something that could be achieved by effort.
Even when he approached just a little, she still found it hard to breathe, and when he only brushed against her fingertips, she felt as if all strength was leaving her body.
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Ha Joon, who neatly bandaged it, turned his head to the side under the hot gaze.
Their eyes met, but Seo Ah, lost in thought, did not avoid his gaze.
When Ha Joon saw her, her face red and tears welling up in her eyes, he regretted it.
In trying to disinfect it for her in any way, he found himself in an unexpected position.
He had confined her in his arms many times, but it was the first time he held her like this, body against body. Even when they passionately kissed last night, their bodies hadn’t touched because of their height difference.
Seeing her comfortably fitting into his arms as if it were her original place, his heart started to constrict heavily and his blood flowed faster.
Seo Ah flinched for a moment and tried to get up, but Ha Joon exerted more force on the arm he was holding.
Now that she had come to her senses, Seo Ah couldn’t look directly at him and avoided his gaze. Ha Joon wiped away the tears remaining on her cheeks with his large hand.
“Don’t be nice to me. I might misunderstand.”
Seo Ah flinched at his touch, pleading with her eyes. And then, in an instant, fresh tears rolled down her cheeks.
Not understanding the meaning of the tears, Ha Joon simply thought her injured hand was hurting. He wanted to comfort her in some way, tell her it would soon be okay, that it must have hurt a lot, but his lips wouldn’t move.
He had never comforted or been comforted before.
The best way to forget pain is to focus on something else. It’s something Ha Joon is good at. Even if he gets hurt, if he focuses on something else, he doesn’t even feel the pain as if he never felt it.
At some point in Ha Joon’s life, the pain of the wounds became a luxury. Unnecessary, a waste of time, it was much more beneficial to focus on other things and improve efficiency.
Soon, Ha Joon gently embraced her small, tender lips.
Half of him wanted to kiss her, and the other half wanted to make her forget her pain.
Seo Ah was startled by the sudden situation and flinched.
There were no warnings like yesterday that it would be useless to slap him, and he didn’t push aggressively.
Soon after, he began to tickle her lips, and although she was worried that he might push her away like yesterday when she opened up, she hated the fact that she had no choice but to follow him, but she opened up without any hesitation.
And with the hope that she wouldn’t push him away, she unwittingly grabbed his opened shirt collar.
Soon, unlike yesterday, his gentle breath flowed in.
It was moist and squishy, like a sweet jelly. Every time his breath touched hers, it tingled as if electricity was passing through, like the popping candy they used to sell in front of the school stationery shop when she was a child.
Her body was comfortable, so all her senses were sharp.
His unique fresh scent, his solid yet warm embrace, his sweet breath and the sticky sound of their intertwined breaths, even though her eyes were closed, she felt like she could see his face, which she had looked at closely for the first time a while ago, clearly in front of her eyes.
Right now, Ha Joon found her, who accepted him without hesitation unlike yesterday, very lovable.
She was clinging pitifully to his shirt collar, shaking her small body, and panting irregularly, everything about her.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
