Boiling Desire (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 23
As soon as Ha Joon and Seo Ah arrived at Jeju Airport, they headed straight to the duty-free shop. Since they’d come partly for their honeymoon, they couldn’t leave empty-handed.
Ha Joon thought it was unnecessary—after all, this wasn’t an official trip, nor even overseas—but he followed Seo Ah without complaint because she wanted to go.
He found his own behavior strange. He’d never once bought a souvenir, not even during overseas business trips, let alone Jeju.
Above all, he absolutely hated shopping. He’d usually just ask Seok Hoon to pick something up. He’d never actually stepped into a duty-free shop himself.
Seok Hoon, watching him, couldn’t hide his astonishment.
Just seeing Ha Joon enter a duty-free shop was shocking enough—but even more surprising was that instead of standing quietly or sitting to wait as expected, Ha Joon was trailing Seo Ah obediently around the store.
Seo Ah carefully selected gifts, thinking about what Min Jung and Tae Hyuk usually carried with them.
“Will both Father and Mother be home today? Since we’re already here, it’d be nice to give these to them right away.”
“Father has a meeting, so he’ll probably be late.”
“Then I’ll at least visit Mother and just call Father to send my regards.”
“Let’s go next week.”
Ha Joon already felt annoyed just thinking about it—if they went, they’d definitely be stuck staying for dinner, sipping tea while waiting for his father.
“How about we go to my place next week instead?”
“We can just visit both next week.”
Seo Ah lowered her gaze from Ha Joon and pouted slightly without realizing it.
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
He is soon cold 🥶 why he can’t just be honest with her