With his growing influence and no apparent reason to offer her this, 윤우연 lowered her voice.
It was cold and despairing.
“No, it’s muddy. It’s filthy here.”
“Good. I prefer it that way.”
“…….”
“From now on, manage me. Let me play in your pond obediently. Since we want different things, let’s try to align them from this moment on.”
“…….”
He gulped down his drink.
“Remember the promise you made to me? The day of the interview, I said I had my conditions.”
“That, but?”
“Keep that promise.”
“Is managing you my condition?”
“No, that’s up to 윤우연 씨. My condition is this.”
“…….”
“No matter what, don’t ever kick me out of that pond first. If it gets boring or tedious, I’ll walk out on my own.”
“…….”
“Ah. To do that, you’ll need to kick out 김 상무 from the pond first.”
She was aware that he referred to 김민준. More surprisingly, 태경 knew about her relationship with him.
How much does he know?
The night of his engagement party, she drank at 서지우’s house and spent the night with 태경.
Could he have misunderstood?
Did he think I cried because I couldn’t forget 김민준? That everything I said in his arms was about that?
Yes, perhaps that’s for the best.
윤우연 fell silent. She wished he didn’t know anything. She hoped 차태경 hadn’t investigated her troubled childhood.
As the night deepened in the spring, the two left the bar side by side.
Despite her insistence on taking a taxi, 태경 managed to get her into his car.
His assistant, 한 실장, courteously opened the door for them.
“Get in.”
Her cheeks flushed, eyes wavering with a moment’s breeze, yet unable to refuse any longer, 윤우연 got into his car.
Staying out on the streets wouldn’t do any good. If they were seen together again, the media might speculate with various conjectures.
Distracted, 윤우연 gazed out the window when 태경 spoke.
“Shall we go to a hotel?”
Catching his words a bit late, she widened her eyes.
“What? No.”
“You don’t want to?”
“Yes.”
“That’s a pity.”
“…….”
“Am I being too straightforward?”
She nodded.
“Good to know.”
“Better than not knowing, right?”
His ludicrous banter drew a laugh from 윤우연.
In that instant, his gaze swept across her forehead, eyes, nose, lips, chin, and down to her smooth, pale neck.
Her heart fluttered.
Her face felt flushed even without any intoxication, and she felt embarrassed by the reflection in his eyes.
She wanted to hide it.
Completely.
“……Stop looking.”
“I’ll try.”
His black sedan stopped in front of her apartment.
Throughout the drive, 태경 didn’t speak to 윤우연 again.
Though he tried not to look at her, it wasn’t something that could be achieved by mere effort.
윤우연 could feel his longing gaze through the shadow reflected in the window.
“Thank you for the ride.”
Despite her polite thanks, he remained silent. As she reached for the door handle to leave, he spoke up.
“윤우연.”
“…….”
“See you again.”
Their eyes met. He smiled warmly and added,
“I’ll contact you. Feel free to reach out first.”
It was over.
His expectation for more, yet unwavering, implied that she should leave now.
Faced with his firm expression, a ridiculous thought crossed her mind.
Biting her lip, 윤우연 stepped out of the car. The wind was cold.
She rubbed her left arm with her right hand to soothe the goosebumps.
차태경’s luxury sedan disappeared from her view without any lingering.
She tugged her ears harshly, annoyed by the rising heat.
Today, 차태경 stirred things up again, and she was swirled around massively.
In the car, even though there was enough space to sit apart, he sat close to her.
Their shoulders touched, their thighs met, and their pinkies brushed occasionally.
Realizing his clear intentions, 윤우연 didn’t resist, not even for a moment.
She could have asked him to move away, to not touch her.
He would have surely tried to comply.
“……I didn’t, did I?”
Closing her eyes tightly, she writhed in shame. She walked home, pushing back her hair, contemplating a sleepless night.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
