… Because she loves the current Yoon Woo-yeon so much.
Woo-yeon turned back and lightly ran as far as the distance from Eun-joo, who was getting farther away.
“Eun-joo!”
She turned around with a lonely expression, and when she saw Woo-yeon returning, she widened her eyes.
“Huh?”
“Your phone.”
“Oh, right.”
Woo-yeon handed her phone to Eun-joo and pressed her own familiar contact. After confirming the entered number, Eun-joo pressed the call and end buttons in order.
“My number. I just received your number.”
“Oh, yeah.”
A pleasant excitement crossed Eun-joo’s face, who seemed bewildered. Woo-yeon returned the phone.
“If your husband doesn’t believe again, call me.”
“Really?”
“Yeah.”
“Can I really do that?”
“Yeah.”
“Will you invite me when you get married?”
“Sure.”
“Yay!”
With a warm heart, Eun-joo laughed happily. Woo-yeon now turned around with a light heart.
Luxury building in New York.
Below, champagne was popping, and upstairs, a party for the upper class was beginning, accompanied by classical melodies.
Woo-yeon stood looking at the beautiful evening sky with clouds in the distance.
The building introduced as the place with the best view in New York, has been the first place where Woo-yeon met Tae-kyung a long time ago.
Finalizing the schedule, Woo-yeon learned for the first time that this was where he had reserved for his last stay on this business trip.
It was 5 minutes past 6, and the time for Tae-kyung to reveal himself was approaching. Her heart was already pounding.
Woo-yeon played with the ring on her fourth finger with her other hand.
Would he recognize it at once? He had a good eye for things, so maybe.
When Woo-yeon shivered a bit in the cold wind, he, who had come across the outdoor table where she was, took off his jacket and warmly covered her back.
Surprised, Woo-yeon turned half her head, locking eyes with him.
“When did you arrive?”
“Just now.”
“You said you’d be a little late.”
“I was in a hurry.”
It sounded like she rushed here without walking. It seemed likely since Tae-kyung took a deep breath like never before.
Even if he had sorted out his breath in the elevator, seeing how strong his breathing was now, he must have run somewhere.
Woo-yeon laughed heartily.
“Do I look that good to you?”
“Yeah.”
It was a joke thrown lightly, but the answer that came back so honestly made Woo-yeon’s cheeks blush.
She had often looked at herself in such a piercing way, and it wasn’t any different now.
Sitting close to her, he stared at her as if trying to confirm if there was anything on her face.
Woo-yeon’s black hair fluttered in the wind. Tae-kyung caught it with his fingertips and played with it, making a teasing gesture.
“You arrived in New York at four. What did you do?”
Tae-kyung asked, and Woo-yeon turned her eyes away, convinced that he hadn’t seen the ring yet.
“I went shopping.”
As Woo-yeon answered, a staff member appeared, bringing water to the empty table.
Tae-kyung picked up the glass and drank it while gesturing.
“Yoon Woo-yeon doesn’t like shopping. She only works hard when I choose for her.”
“…….”
“Am I wrong?”
With that gentle smile, which seemed to make her fall for it, Woo-yeon turned her gaze away for a moment. Suppressing her laughter inside, she also took the glass and drank a little.
“I bought baby clothes. I intended to buy only two, but I chose too many beautiful ones, so I ended up buying more than five.”
“A baby?”
“Yeah. My friend is having twins.”
“Yoon Woo-yeon doesn’t have friends, does she?”
This person. Woo-yeon gave him a bewildered look.
“I have friends!”
“Who’s your friend?”
“Jung Eun-joo!”
In her joyful talk, which she hadn’t done in a long time, Tae-kyung, captivated by her loveliness, stared at her blankly and burst into laughter.
“Did you make it on the way here? To show it off to me?”
“No, it’s not that. We were friends in high school. We didn’t make it on the way here; we just happened to meet again.”
“Really. Should I invite her to our wedding?”
“…….”
“There’s a friend to invite to the wedding, and the ring is ready too.”
“…….”
“Shall I just propose now?”
He wiped his hands on a napkin. He gestured to the employee standing at the entrance, tapping his lips on the walkie-talkie with a black suit.
Tae-kyung whispered to Woo-yeon, bowing his waist toward her.
“I’ll go get my jacket in just 5 minutes.”
Perplexed, Woo-yeon handed him the jacket. Shortly after, a staff member brought a warm blanket instead of the jacket.
Tae-kyung took it and wrapped it around Woo-yeon, instructing her not to turn around for just 5 minutes and to keep looking forward.
Woo-yeon nodded, and she heard Tae-kyung’s footsteps behind her, bustling around to get the jacket.
It seemed like a coordinated movement of several people. Knowing that Tae-kyung would be behind them no matter what they did made her fearless.
Before she knew it, the sun had set, and the sky was painted with a red sunset, as beautiful and dazzling as a heavenly scene.
Enchanted by the beauty, Woo-yeon felt like embracing the world as it is. At that moment, Tae-kyung called Woo-yeon quietly.
“Ms. Yoon Woo-yeon, you can turn around now.”
Woo-yeon turned slowly.
The fragrance of flowers vibrated in the outdoor terrace space where only the two were present.
In the background filled with various colors, reminiscent of her favorite white flowers and the light of the sunset, he was kneeling.
Woo-yeon’s eyes also turned red. Without getting up, Tae-kyung spoke to Woo-yeon in that position.
“Yoon Woo-yeon.”
“……. ”
“Marry me.”
It was Tae-kyung’s unique way of speaking that didn’t need any ordinary or exaggerated words.
With the sunset on her back, she asked him.
“Before that, I want something.”
“Anything.”
“The painting in your office, I want it.”
Tae-kyung nodded. Woo-yeon, too, nodded in agreement, then looked down at the ring in her hand.
Sparkling. Then, she met eyes with Tae-kyung again.
The warm colors of the sunset reflected in his eyes. It was so beautiful that tears seemed to overflow at any moment, but Woo-yeon bit her lip.
“I’ll marry you. And I promise.”
“……. ”
“Until the day my life ends, I’ll be by your side.”
Woo-yeon walked into the sunset.
Melt through the night, melt the frozen heart in midwinter, and flow together with Tae-kyung’s arms like lifelong blue seawater.
In his eyes, now reflecting the sunset, she finally found tranquility.
No longer lonely.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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