Jaein was startled beyond belief and exclaimed, “Ah, no! I didn’t hear anything.”
“Ugh, my eardrums are going to burst. Why did you suddenly scream like that? Was it a noise from upstairs?”
“W-Well, it seems so. Mom, please go in and sleep. Otherwise, we’ll be up all night.”
Jaein, who felt every second ticking away, urgently nudged her mom forward.
“Got it. I’m really going. Make sure to change the pillow cover for Cha Seobang!”
“Yes! Don’t worry about it.”
“Treat Cha Seobang well. He’s such a great person; I should brag about him in the neighborhood.”
It wasn’t her mom if she didn’t mention it.
Ugh, whatever.
“Yes, feel free to do so.”
Jaein confirmed her mom had entered the room, then finally entered herself.
Click.
When she turned on the light, Dohyuk, who had been standing against the wall the whole time, was visible.
“Team Leader, what if you laugh there! I thought we were caught.”
“Sorry, it just came up suddenly. Did my comment about the pollack soup bother you?”
Hehe.
Dohyuk’s face as he laughed had ‘so cute I could die’ written all over it.
“Of course. Although I should correct it now, I didn’t make it salty. You seem to prefer it bland.”
“Actually, at that time, I didn’t make pollack soup at all.”
“What? Why did you say you did?”
“To keep an eye on Director Han. He’s quick-witted, and he figured it out right away.”
“What?”
Jaein recalled that moment.
The day after the company dinner, during a meeting.
When Jaein mentioned she ate pollack soup for a hangover, Kyumin said he wanted to eat the pollack soup Jaein made.
Jaein jokingly replied that she would buy instant pollack soup, and Dohyuk, drinking a water bottle, hinted that the pollack soup he had in the morning was salty.
He said, “I don’t like instant because it doesn’t suit my taste.”
Oh, was that it?
The jealousy god’s name is Cha Dohyuk.
“Ugh, what’s childish about that!”
“Right. I didn’t know I could become so childish. Since you made me this way, take responsibility, Seo Jaein.”
“Blaming others. It’s probably an instinct that suddenly opened its eyes late.”
For a moment, Dohyuk’s eyes sparkled.
“Seo Jaein, while we’re at it, should I also take responsibility for other instincts?”
“Other instincts?”
Jaein looked at Dohyuk in surprise.
Dohyuk’s eyes were burning with desire.
It was a sign very familiar to Jaein.
The bedding they were entangled in was now scattered on the floor.
Dohyuk, who had momentarily cooled down, was now showing a passionate side again.
Unfortunately, as soon as the lights came on, Jaein had already regained her senses.
“Team Leader, wait a moment!”
“Why?”
“It can’t happen anymore!”
“Why?”
“That… it feels like we’re doing something really wrong.”
It was Jaein’s honest feelings at the moment.
Maybe because it was her parents’ house.
“What are you talking about?”
You know, there’s something like that. You know that feeling when you sneak out during class, pretending to go to the bathroom and end up doing something bad, and then you feel like you’ve been caught by the homeroom teacher? Ah, I didn’t really run away during class, though.
Ha. Dohyuk laughed disappointedly.
“So? You grab my shoulder when you want to, and you just tell me to go when you want?”
“Our mom is sensitive, so even a small sound can wake her up.”
“Really?”
An earthquake occurred in Dohyuk’s eyes.
Actually, Mom won’t wake up until morning as long as you just touch her head.
Jaein pretended to shiver while wrapping her arms.
“It’s true. She’s worried sick. Now, please go. Make sure to change the pillow cover.”
Jaein handed the pillow cover tightly to Dohyuk and pushed him out.
With a sulky expression, Dohyuk left the room and mumbled.
“Well, we have plenty of time in the future…”
…!
Jaein’s face turned bright red in an instant.
Dohyuk’s words felt like a declaration of an unexpected attack.
On that night, Nahee got off the last train that had just arrived at Seoul Station.
Nahee, who didn’t want to spend any more time with the thoroughly drunk Woojin, used the excuse of a household matter to avoid going up.
She forcefully detached herself from Woojin, who was clinging to her stubbornly, saying she had to go.
Her body was exhausted, but she couldn’t sleep a wink on the train.
The humiliating moments from the eightieth birthday celebration kept replaying in her mind.
Cha Dohyuk, whom she desperately wanted to have, and the thorny Seo Jaein were laughing heartily in front of her.
‘It’s absurd! How could I lose to someone like Seo Jaein!’
Moreover, her partner Woojin’s clueless and ridiculous behavior.
The more she thought about it, the more bitter and embarrassed she felt.
When she put the faces of Dohyuk and Woojin, whom she had only imagined overlapping, side by side, the difference was like that between a god and a creature.
When Nahee continued to refuse, Woojin, with a determined face, said he would stay in a suite room by himself and left.
‘Ugh, so annoying! I’ll bluff my way through tomorrow morning!’
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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