“What happened to Kang Seung Won?”
Although there had been occasions when hunger struck and she unexpectedly visited him nearby, given the situation, she couldn’t exactly welcome him warmly.
Hye Ju opened the door and greeted him with an awkward expression.
“What’s going on so late at night?”
“Let’s have some pork feet.”
Seung Won smiled and shook what he had in his hand.
“Why pork feet at night?”
“Do you eat pork feet during the day?”
While Hye Ju hesitated for a moment, Seung Won pushed the door open and entered. He set up the side dishes without hesitation, as if taking out a first aid kit, and naturally took out a bottle of soju from the veranda.
“Take a seat comfortably.”
Is this your home?
Hye Ju was speechless and stood still for a moment, then finally smiled and said,
“Is it Bossam pork feet?”
“It’s obvious, why do you ask? Just open the chopsticks for me.”
Seung Won was a talented individual who graduated from a prestigious computer engineering department at a top university in Korea. Since childhood, he had shown exceptional aptitude for mathematics and physics, often being called a genius. The problem was that his brain power excelled only in those areas.
“How old are you that you can’t even open chopsticks yet? I can’t be the one opening them for you forever, so now you have to practice too.”
For the sake of him, who would always end up with mismatched chopsticks if they were broken, it had been over four years since Seung Won’s chopsticks were broken in half in his place. Seung Won stared intently at Hye Ju as she accepted the neatly broken wooden chopsticks.
“First… I’m sorry.”
Usually, she didn’t know how to respond to his empty words, but now that he was showing seriousness, she didn’t know what to say. Seung Won spoke earnestly to Hye Ju, who was silently chewing her meat.
“There’s a reason why I act that way. I had a severe stalking experience before.”
Nod, nod.
“Although it’s hard to talk about it in detail, because of that trauma, I’m extremely sensitive to stalking. Oh, of course, I’m not saying that you’re a stalker or anything.”
Hye Ju had nothing to say, so she silently chewed on the pork feet.
“Anyway, I’m sorry. I apologize on behalf of my brother.”
Hye Ju mechanically mumbled as she poured herself a glass of soju, and finally managed to retort.
“Why are you apologizing? It’s fine. I made mistakes too.”
“Oh, and I forgot to bring this.”
Seung Won took something out of his pocket. It was a packet and a lip balm that had been in his jacket.
“Oh, thank you.”
Hye Ju’s face turned red. It meant that Seung Won knew that what had been in her pocket on the night she encountered Kang Ju Won wasn’t cosmetics.
However, thoughtfully, Seung Won didn’t ask her specifically about what was in her pocket that day. Nor did he reveal the true nature of the blatant love confession song.
“He’s always been like that.”
Thoughtless yet considerate, sloppy yet serious. He seemed to be lost in games every day, but he was also a thoughtful person with a lot on his mind.
“He knows that I don’t want to talk about the things I took from the studio that day.”
His consideration was appreciated.
“You came all the way here just to say that? Going to the police station is nothing. I’m fine.”
“Well, I’m glad.”
However, after a brief silence, Hye Ju felt her heart skip a beat at his words.
“I have something else to say, Hye Ju.”
Seung Won, who was usually calm in every situation, occasionally wore a serious expression. Hye Ju thought that something important was about to come.
“Don’t create an uncomfortable atmosphere. I’m doing it to give you goosebumps.”
I tried to dispel the awkward atmosphere, but my heart tightened.
I didn’t want to hear it. But…
“You know, don’t you?”
His question to Hye Ju.
“…Yeah, I know.”
She had no choice but to answer that way. Seung Won gave a dry smile.
“I could sense that something was different.”
“How was it different?”
“It felt like the great Oh Hye ju was reading my mind. We hardly ever talk or text in our group chat.”
I don’t understand why those words, “we,” feel so bitter.
“We were originally a group of three.”
Now, in a relationship where three became two, Hye Ju was completely alienated.
“No congratulations?”
“Hey, why would I congratulate you! I’ve lost a drinking buddy!”
“That’s a bit disappointing. Just because Da Hee and I are dating doesn’t mean we’re not friends.”
“We won’t be able to spend Christmas together this year.”
“What’s the big deal about Christmas? We can spend it together, just the same.”
“You’re such an insensitive person. Ugh, it’s the couple’s hell and the solo paradise!”
With words like “You’ll get a boyfriend soon” and “Our friendship won’t change,” Seung Won tried his best to comfort Hye Ju with nonexistent eloquence.
Every time he poured alcohol into her soju glass, sadness welled up inside Hye Ju, but she desperately held it back.
“I… should congratulate you. I can do it. I have to.”
She couldn’t just sit there mourning the fact that her two most beloved friends cherished each other.
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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