Brother, You're Mistaken (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 6
Since it was a company with over 100 employees, occasional group dinners were usually held modestly within each department.
However, recently Representative Kang Joo Won had broken through a long-stalled contract deal, prompting the business and development teams—who had worked together on the project—to hold a joint dinner.
Oh Hye Ju and Cheon Da Hee from the business team, Seung Won from the development team, and Kang Joo Won himself—the hero of the deal—were all gathered in one place.
“Alright, alright! Since our Representative just joined us and we didn’t even hold a proper welcome party, let’s take this chance to congratulate him. Representative, please sit here!”
Yoo Myeong Hwan from the business team, who felt a special calling to liven up drinking gatherings, stepped up as the emcee. The twenty eager young employees, excited for their first company dinner in a while, had already opened their appetites, and on each table sat a bottle of soju per person right from the start.
Hye Ju arrived almost last at the barbecue restaurant due to work running late. Unfortunately, the only remaining seat was right next to Seung Won.
“You’re here?”
Seung Won whispered softly and placed a cushion for her. Hye Ju gave a small smile to thank him.
“Now that everyone’s here, let’s officially begin! First, meet the new face of DataS Korea! Ever since this person joined us, female employees have reportedly started arriving at work thirty minutes earlier. Everyone, stop sneaking glances from behind your hands—let’s openly admire him together now. Please welcome our very own Representative Kang Joo Won!”
Thunderous applause erupted. Though the sparkling stares should have made anyone flustered, Joo Won stepped forward confidently without hesitation.
“Hello. I’m delighted to share this moment with DataS Korea’s brilliant talents.”
Though he began his toast, Hye Ju didn’t catch a single word. Her entire focus was fixed on Seung Won seated beside her.
“To DataS Korea’s limitless growth!”
“To growth!”
Watching Joo Won confidently deliver his toast, Hye Ju unwrapped a pair of chopsticks and, out of habit, handed them to Seung Won.
“Here.”
For a moment, Seung Won seemed slightly taken aback. On the table lay neatly split wooden chopsticks already prepared.
“Oh, sorry. You’ve already got yours.”
“No, it’s fine. Da Hee just helped me out a moment ago. The first pair I opened broke in half.”
Just as he said, next to the neatly split chopsticks lay a mismatched broken pair. Hye Ju gave an awkward laugh and teased him.
“Good grief, you clumsy oaf. At this rate, you should buy wooden chopsticks just to practice splitting them.”
As everyone clinked glasses following Joo Won’s toast, Hye Ju downed her soju in one gulp and picked up her chopsticks to grab some food. Suddenly, she sensed a sharp gaze.
‘Hm?’
Instinctively glancing back, Hye Ju saw Da Hee staring straight at her. Da Hee quickly looked away upon eye contact, but the brief hostility Hye Ju felt left her deeply unsettled.
‘Why…?’
After the first round, only about ten people remained for the second.
As the drinking session neared its end, Hye Ju stepped out briefly to buy hangover relief drinks.
Past 11 p.m., sparse streetlights dotted the deeply darkened road. It was a quiet alley a short distance from the office building, silent in every direction.
“Whew, we really went all out today.”
Hye Ju pressed her hot cheeks firmly as she drank the hangover remedy. When she returned to the restaurant with enough bottles for those still inside, a familiar face was waiting for her—Da Hee, wearing her jacket draped over her shoulders.
“Jjeon, why are you out here?”
“Jjeon” was Hye Ju’s usual nickname for Da Hee. Da Hee’s nose tip was red from waiting outside so long.
“I waited because I have something to ask you, Hye Ju.”
“Me?”
“Yeah.”
Unlike her usual self, who’d instantly smile upon eye contact, Da Hee’s expression was rigid.
‘So that look I felt earlier wasn’t my imagination.’
Hye Ju was quick on the uptake. She guessed it was probably because she’d handed Seung Won the chopsticks during dinner.
After all, Da Hee was Seung Won’s girlfriend now.
Though it might seem trivial, from a girlfriend’s perspective, seeing someone else care for her boyfriend could certainly feel uncomfortable.
“About earlier—”
Hye Ju, having gathered her thoughts, opened her mouth first. But Da Hee cut her off abruptly with a question that caught her completely off guard.
“What was that thing Seung Won took from your place that day?”
Stunned by the accusatory tone, Hye Ju froze for a moment.
“It was just a small personal item. I don’t even remember what exactly it was.”
“Do you really think I don’t know you?”
“…What do you mean?”
“You always kept your stuff with you because you hated seeing your things rolling around in that pigsty. While I left my gym clothes and everything else at our hangout spot, you always stored yours in the community club locker. Even that makeup of yours at the hangout—I borrowed it once and accidentally left it behind!”
Da Hee’s voice grew increasingly agitated.
Something was seriously wrong.
Da Hee’s trembling gaze and sharp, demanding tone set off alarm bells in Hye Ju’s mind.
“Both Seung Won and I know it wasn’t makeup in your pocket that day. So just tell me the truth.”
“What? Jjeon, are you seriously worried I stole something from Kang Seung Won’s officetel?”
“I’d prefer it if that’s all it was!”
Da Hee suddenly shouted.
“That song that rang from your pocket exactly at midnight—I was the one who taught it to you!”
“Da Hee…”
“You said you liked someone! That you were going to confess soon! That was the confession song I gave you for that exact moment!”
Da Hee glared at Hye Ju with glistening eyes.
“The person you like… could it possibly be Seung Won?”
Thump, thump.
Her heart pounded wildly. It was a feeling she never wanted exposed.
She feared looking pathetic, feared making them feel guilty, feared ultimately losing both of them—which was why she’d hidden her true feelings to the very end.
“What nonsense are you talking about? Seung Won and I have been friends for years.”
She tried to explain, but her words fell flat.
“If we’re talking about friendship, I was Seung Won’s friend too. That makes it entirely possible, don’t you think?”
Tears welled up in Da Hee’s eyes as she rejected Hye Ju’s excuse.
“Now that I think about it, it’s strange. Ever since you found out Seung Won and I started dating, you barely replied to my messages and kept dodging plans.”
“Hey, it’s just awkward! Do you want me stuck between you two like a third wheel? Will you take responsibility for that?”
“We’ve never shown affection right in front of you. Aren’t you overreacting? You’re my only friend…”
Her sobs grew heavier.
“Because of you, I keep feeling like I’ve done something wrong—as if I stole your man!”
Flustered, Hye Ju gently patted Da Hee’s trembling shoulder.
“It’s not like that. Seriously, it was just awkward. I won’t do it anymore.”
“Then prove it.”
“Prove what?”
“Who that confession song was really for. Seung Won said it definitely wasn’t him. And I don’t believe for a second you like Representative Kang Joo Won. That wouldn’t make any sense—you can’t just fall for someone who’s been in the U.S. for years!”
“…”
“So just tell me honestly. Who do you like, Hye Ju?”
It was a dead end.
She had only two choices: tell the truth or make something up.
‘Should I just confess?’
But honesty would gain her nothing. Their already awkward friendship would worsen, and office life would become hell.
And, crucially… it was mortifying. To realize she’d been cluelessly pining while her two closest friends grew closer.
‘I’d better just make something up.’
Da Hee was stubbornly persistent. If Hye Ju named someone specific, Da Hee would surely demand to know where they’d met, ask for photos, and hound her endlessly. So Hye Ju had to choose her lie very carefully.
‘Who should I say it was?’
As she frantically scrolled through every man she could recall in her mind—
“Hey there, stalker.”
Joo Won appeared from the basement stairs. Despite all the drinking, his skin remained flawlessly smooth and pale like marble.
With each slow step he took, more of him emerged from the shadows below—his face, chest, waist, calves—until, with his final step, his full height was revealed, turning even this dim alley into a runway.
“Where’d you disappear to mid-drink? You’re failing Stalker 101.”
Joo Won walked over with heavy footsteps and pulled a lighter from his pocket.
Hye Ju gaped in disbelief.
‘Didn’t I already make it clear last time? Why’s he acting like this again?’
Everyone else might be in the dark, but he knew. He knew she liked Seung Won.
So why was he spouting such nonsense again?
Just as she was about to snap back—“Why am I your stalker?”—a sudden idea flashed through her mind.
‘What if I just say it’s Kang Joo Won?’
Only four people had heard that confession song that day.
Of them, only Joo Won had heard her true feelings. Yet judging by his tone, he still seemed convinced she liked him. It was utterly ridiculous—but at this exact moment, his delusion was a gift.
‘This is my chance, Oh Hye Ju.’
A way to end this without hurting anyone lay right before her. No need to take the long way around.
Steel resolved, Hye Ju turned to face Joo Won.
“Why do you keep calling me a stalker? Does liking someone who isn’t interested automatically make you a stalker?”
Joo Won paused mid-motion as he was about to light his cigarette. Even someone as dense as him seemed flustered—after all, she’d dodged the topic until now and suddenly charged straight in.
This was oddly tense.
“Hic!”
Da Hee, equally startled, began hiccupping uncontrollably. Hye Ju could practically feel Da Hee’s gaze shaking like an earthquake.
Hye Ju placed a hand firmly on her waist and looked up at Joo Won.
“I’ll speak plainly since we’re off the record, Oppa.”
O-ppa…?
The unfamiliar address made Joo Won’s lips part in surprise.
“Does it feel good to toy with someone’s feelings like that?”
“…Who’s toying?”
“It’s annoying when you keep calling me a stalker!”
Joo Won’s eyes darted left and right. He clearly hadn’t expected the girl who’d kept him guessing to suddenly lay it all out like this.
‘Good. We’re almost there.’
Seeing both of them fully convinced, Hye Ju breathed a sigh of relief. It was painful enough to have her unrequited love exposed—having to hide it on top of that was a little heartbreaking, but…
‘If sacrificing these now-useless feelings can save my friendship, it’s a bargain. Isn’t it?’
Taking a deep breath, Hye Ju steeled herself. It was time to drive the final nail.
I can do this. I can do this.
After silently repeating it to herself ten times, she squeezed her eyes shut and blurted out—
“Yes, I did like you, Oppa! But I’ve moved on now—completely, perfectly moved on!”
“Oh… really?”
“You were the one who heard my confession that day!”
“?”
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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