On his way home after work, in the back seat of the car, Ha Joon closed his eyes and was lost in thought.
He felt like he had become a really bad person the night before. Wasn’t it natural to spend their first night together since they were married?
He had tried to continue the relationship, ignoring her trembling violently. He was not doing anything wrong. She must be scared because it was her first time. She would get used to it in time.
However, he was absolutely unable to move forward.
Her reaction was bewildering but also adorable.
“It’s been a long time, Ha Joon. Don’t tell me you don’t recognize me. It’s me, Seo Ah. Han Seo Ah.”
He remembered when, before marriage, the seventeenyearold who couldn’t even properly meet his eyes and held her breath when he approached, reappeared as a fullfledged adult after six years.
Her baby fat had disappeared, her facial features had become more distinct, her skin was as clear and transparent as when she was a child, and her figure, unique since childhood, was fully accentuated.
Above all, he liked the look in her eyes. The kind that seemed ready to consume him.
It must have been the same look he gave her six years ago.
Ha Joon was the heir to the country’s top business group since birth.
Because of this, he had no time to pay attention to girls while juggling his studies and business lessons from a young age, and after hearing from his father about his strategic marriage partner, he only looked at Seo Ah.
Although it was according to his father’s will, her casual and bright appearance, unlike his typical chaebol friends who flaunted their chaebol birth, was fascinating.
However, he didn’t show it. He was clumsy and blunt in expressing it because he had never received or given love to anyone.
He had never received love even from his parents.
To Ha Joon, love was a luxury. A waste of unnecessary time. He had lived receiving teachings that it was natural to become the owner of a group.
Marriage was nothing more than a business.
However, when the fact of the strategic marriage became known, his friends picked fights.
“Hey, you’re marrying Han Seo Ah of Yu Yeong? She always plays at the back because she can’t study, and she can’t even enter our school because it lowers the level?”
“Hey, so that’s Kang Ha Joon’s level. He’s getting married because they match in level. Hahaha.”
He didn’t retort. If he sided with them, he would be at the same level.
He could endure being insulted. His selfesteem was high, so he knew exactly what his level was. But it bothered him when they insulted Seo Ah.
The school Ha Joon attended was a place where only the offspring of the political and business circles could attend, and among them, only those with exceptional skills could enter.
He knew. That Seo Ah didn’t have the ability to enter the school he attended.
Although there were many students who entered with the backdoor if they wanted to, even without the ability, due to their parents’ greed,
But in a yard where fair friends were competing with each other to the point of receiving psychiatric treatment, those who weren’t able had eventually made wrong choices.
Could she endure entering this world as his wife? How long could the delicate and innocent her survive in the world of the chaebol, where only the strong survive? He worried more about her making a wrong choice.
Moreover, he had seen his solid father waver for the first time at his mother’s words.
“Do we have to make this marriage happen? Why should we become inlaws with Yu Yeong because we lack something? Even the child is like that, Jee Young from Hyo Seong, although her rank is a bit lower, is much better. She’s good at studying, smart, and so pretty.”
“I didn’t know she’d have no interest in her studies to that extent, but let’s watch a bit more since they’re sending her to study abroad in France soon.”
His father, who until recently had said that he wanted to help Yu Yeong because he was able to reach the top of the business circle thanks to Seo Ah’s father, was now saying,
“There’s also the third one, Seo Yoon. The age difference with Ha Joon is a bit big, but our Min Joon is also okay.”
“Hmm…….”
Ha Joon became anxious at his father’s nonrejection and contemplation. He felt like he wouldn’t be able to get married if things went on like this.
So he deliberately treated her more coldly. He wanted her to be stronger if she was going to stand by his side.
Because of that, she probably held a lot against him.
He treated her well in front of others, but when they were alone, he became a completely different person, looking down on her.
It wasn’t really his intention,
But whenever he approached her, she still held her breath and shuddered at his slightest touch. Her efforts to not get caught were noticeable.
Her exterior had become cold and haughty, but seeing her unchanged presence made his heart and something below it feel a bit sore.
He felt the same even now as he thought this.
Was he planning to not do it until their child graduated from college?
“Sigh……”
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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