When Hyeju approached and lifted her chin, Juwon felt like his heart stopped. As he was defenseless, her soft arm wrapped around his exposed side.
“The person I like now is Kang Juwon, not Kang Seungwon.”
Resting her cheek on his chest, Hyeju locked eyes with him, her eyes like those of a rabbit. In that loveliness, Juwon’s season changed once again.
“If this is the game, I’ll play it a hundred times over.”
Thirsty and parched, Juwon immediately lowered his head to capture Hyeju’s lips. However, Hyeju withdrew a step ahead, and his heated lips brushed through the empty air.
“Just a moment. I have a present.”
Hyeju rummaged through her pocket. Juwon satisfied himself with a feeling of regret.
I don’t need a present right now. Even if a fistsized diamond were to pop out of that pocket, it wouldn’t be as enticing as Oh Hyeju’s lips.
“Here it is.”
Hyeju extended her clenched fist. As she opened her fingers one by one, a single coin appeared on her palm. It was the 100won coin that she had put in the shopping cart earlier.
“From now on, consider this as me.”
If she gives me something that doesn’t resemble her at all and tells me to think of it as her, how should I react?
Juwon desperately tried to find similarities between Oh Hyeju and the coin.
“Yeah, you resemble it. All round and cute.”
“Pfft!”
A bright smile appeared on Hyeju’s lips.
“It’s not like that.”
Hyeju flipped the coin back and forth to show Juwon.
“Oh Hyeju is like a coin. Clearly defined, with a front and a back. If I say it’s the front, it’s the front. There’s no middle.”
A small touch stirred in his chest like a morsel of food. It was maddening how pretty things sounded so pretty.
“…Can I cry?”
“If you cry, I’ll leave.”
Hyeju, who had put a coin in Juwon’s pants pocket, turned around as if embarrassed.
“Anyway, whenever you feel anxious in the future, look at this.”
A smile spread across Juwon’s lips as he watched her retreating figure.
He had acquired something to cherish for a lifetime. It was a small item with a heavy significance, a 100won coin that was unique in its commonness.
Juwon, who touched the coin once in his pocket, soon grabbed a bottle of soju and started running.
“Come with me!”
Love calls forth gentle seasons, and seasons illuminate the dark with light.
Once again, spring arrives like this.
Juwon returned to his room and sat on the edge of the bed, pressing his lips together, still warm.
The smooth texture that lightly touched his lips. The kiss that made his heart flutter even with the thought of it.
Her warmth was more reassuring than any words.
“Ah… I miss her.”
Juwon muttered as he lay down on the bed.
They had just parted, but he already longed for her. In his heart, he wanted to grab Hyeju’s hand and bring her to this room, but there were too many eyes watching, so he couldn’t. How many times did they exchange kisses in her hand that led to Room 721, saying that he had to deliver the soju?
“Why is this room so unnecessarily spacious?”
Unlike the employees who shared the same room, executives were assigned individual rooms. It was not so much a service for the executives as it was consideration for the employees. Choosing separate rooms was deliberately done to take into account the discomfort and struggles of the employees who would feel uneasy if they shared a room with a superior.
The silence in the empty room intensified Juwon’s longing.
“Is there no way to bring Oh Hyeju here?”
Knock, knock. Someone knocked on the door.
Juwon glanced at his wristwatch and stood up.
“Who could it be at this hour?”
He thought it might be Seungwon. Not many people would knock on the CEO’s hotel room door in the late hours nearing midnight.
However, the face he saw through the slightly open door was not Seungwon.
“Oh Hyeju?”
Seeing the face that he had been imagining in his mind all along, it felt like a character popping out of a comic book, lacking a sense of reality.
Juwon grabbed Hyeju’s wrist as if someone might see and pulled her inside, and the door closed smoothly.
“How did you come?”
“When I went, everyone was quite drunk. I brought some soju, sat for a while, and left when I noticed.”
Hyeju added with a smile.
“I wanted to see you.”
“Welcome.”
Juwon continued to hold Hyeju’s wrist.
A familiar scent wafted from her body as he embraced her. It was warm, soft, and gentle. Embracing her made all the weariness of the day vanish instantly.
“Let’s go in.”
Juwon swiftly lifted Hyeju’s thigh. As Hyeju let out a small shriek and wrapped her arms around his neck, her light body settled against Juwon’s waist. Juwon walked into the room, carrying her like that.
Soft.
Juwon carefully placed Hyeju on the bed, treating her as something precious. His throat had been parched since earlier due to the scent that filled the room. Juwon brushed aside Hyeju’s loose hair with one hand and grasped the bed with the other.
“I’ve been going crazy wanting to do this all day.”
As he approached, Hyeju leaned back. His hand, brushing her hair aside, supported her back. Slowly, their lips drew closer, and their breaths intertwined.
Just as their lips were about to touch, Hyeju pressed Juwon’s lips firmly with her index finger.
“Just a moment. I have something to do.”
“What is it?”
“It’ll only take a moment.”
No, is there really something more important than this right now?
Without knowing the burning speed of a man, she’s trying to kill him. Juwon sighed deeply and bit his lip slightly.
Now he noticed that Hyeju had a large notebook tucked into her side. It was a large A4sized notebook that she always carried around during meetings.
“Could it be that she came to talk about work at this hour? Or is it that sketchbook proposal I’ve only heard about?”
As he recalled the purpose of the sketchbook, a shiver ran down his spine.
Hyeju, not that… don’t do that kind of thing.
Juwon, who couldn’t stand the cringe, silently prayed. However, Hyeju, driven by his desperate wish, unfolded the notebook without hesitation.
“Tada!”
Unexpectedly, the notebook was blank.
“What’s this?”
With a mischievous smile, Hyeju confidently pulled out a pen from her pocket. Then she drew a long vertical line in the middle of the page.
“Earlier, what you said kept bothering me. That I’m worried because of the time we spent together with Seungwon.”
“……But?”
“But that doesn’t mean we can’t see each other while working together. So, I want to establish some rules between us.”
“Rules?”
“Otherwise known as the OX List! We’ll predetermine ‘what we can and cannot do’ and stick to it. It’s for the sake of our mental wellbeing!”
Ah, adorable Oh Hyeju. You really…
“First of all, I’ll start with my thoughts. Personally, dating is a nogo. However, if there are unavoidable circumstances due to work, I’ll let you know in advance. And as for company dinners, it seems inevitable. But sitting right next to each other is a nogo.”
Juwon stared intently at Hyeju as she wrote down the rules. Her selfsatisfied, beaming smile was beautiful. He appreciated her efforts, as she had used the notebook throughout the constant bickering over trivial matters.
Her lips that pouted, her fingers that fidgeted, her fallen bangs, and her sparkling nose. Everything about her seemed to fill his heart to the point of bursting.
“And what about you, Oppa?”
Hyeju looked at Juwon and asked, as she continued writing for a while.
Juwon gazed at Hyeju with a burning gaze. He couldn’t suppress the overflowing emotions any longer.
“I’ll make sure to let you know clearly, so learn it well.”
Click.
His hand gripped the edge of the bed.
“From now on, everything I do is offlimits.”
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My Ex-Girlfriend Is The Regent In The Female-dominant World (Male lead transmigrates to the matriarchal world)
Two years ago, Gu Sui picked up a homeless woman in ancient costume from the street.
Apart from occasionally claiming to be a princess from a female-dominant country due to illness, her figure, appearance, intelligence, and martial arts skills were impeccable.
Naturally evolving from roommates to girlfriends, as time went on, Gu Sui found it increasingly difficult to tolerate her queen syndrome.
“Mu Jiulu, can you stop controlling me inside and out? Let’s break up.”
Gu Sui made a breakup call, and since then, he couldn’t find any trace of her.
A year later, Gu Sui, who was planning to move, woke up the next day and found himself in a different place.
“Young Master, today is the day you choose your Wife-master through martial arts competition at Jade Dew Pavilion. Please get up quickly.”
Gu Sui: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
As the only son of a general’s mansion in a female-dominant dynasty, the young empress personally issued a decree allowing Gu Sui to select his Wife-master through martial arts competition. Whoever could defeat him could marry him.
Gu Sui: “……”
He didn’t inherit the original owner’s martial prowess, so anyone could defeat him! And what the hell is a Wife-master?
Forced to come to Jade Dew Pavilion, the densely packed women below made Gu Sui’s agoraphobia act up, and his face was full of resistance.
Until he saw the Regent sitting on the second floor, with a smile on the corner of her lips, her eyes wicked and nonchalant.
Hmm… she looked a little familiar.
It turned out that the Regent also found him a little familiar.
Mu Jiulu fiddled with her bone clasp, her deep gaze locked on the man who was out of place in this world.
“Finally, I found you.”
Male transmigrates into female-dominant world
One-sentence summary: What goes around comes around, taking turns in the crematorium
