When it came to kissing, she passionately demanded everything as if she would give up anything, but if she let go a little, she always returned as a woman with dry eyes.
He, like usual, found such Woo-yeon interesting.
“Why are you angry?”
“Who said I’m angry.”
“You are telling me off right now.”
“…….”
“I will spend at least two more hours here and then leave. If I’m uncomfortable, Ms. Yoon Woo-yeon can leave.”
He walked past Woo-yeon without stopping.
Splash. The water storm erupted again.
Meanwhile, the rain continued to pour mercilessly. Woo-yeon did not leave the swimming pool.
It wasn’t just because of the annoying remark that if it’s uncomfortable, she should leave.
While he enjoyed swimming, Woo-yeon also swam.
Holding her breath, sinking to the bottom, and when she surfaced, the scenery outside the window inevitably appeared.
The rain kept falling endlessly.
One cold winter when Woo-yeon returned to Korea, she was met with the pitiful sight of her father, whose bones were barely left, dying miserably.
Gasping for breath with every shallow breath, his face, with life gradually fading away, was the pain of Woo-yeon that she would never forget in her lifetime.
Once, when she went out to find her mother, Woo-yeon encountered Chairman Jo.
Seeing him, she froze in fear as if the world had come to a standstill.
What was so frightening about him? She trembled so much that even without knowing his presence, the moment Woo-yeon met Chairman Jo’s sharp eyes, it felt like her breath was stopping.
“So, you’re that Woo-yeon. I see. Have you met your mom well?”
“…….”
Chairman Jo, who stared piercingly into Woo-yeon’s eyes without saying a word for a long time, grinned and asked.
“Do you want to come in and live here too?”
“…….”
“I’m giving you a chance now. There won’t be a second time. So, you should think carefully and answer.”
“…….”
“Don’t like it?”
Despite her fear, Woo-yeon nodded her head quietly.
Yes. I don’t want to.
Chairman Jo, who had been laughing heartily, grabbed Woo-yeon’s chin stubbornly with lips pressed and muttered.
You’ll probably regret this moment for a long time.
Because there is nothing as weak and fragile as the human heart, you will regret this moment every time you become unhappy in the distant future.
“Your next choice will be your true instinct. So, never pride yourself on making the right choice now. Tsk tsk. You have to live wanting and desiring more.”
Ironically, it was Chairman Jo who created the current situation for Woo-yeon.
That day, the words he uttered haunted her for a lifetime.
In the end, Woo-yeon abandoned her father just like they did.
After the two of them left, her father struggled with debt, and she was left alone, making everything in life feel like a cliff.
The unhappiness of that day, struggling with loan sharks who visited every two days and hiding in the blanket while running the dryer all night because she couldn’t turn on the boiler in the dead of winter.
… Still, she shouldn’t have given up.
Even when she went to college and, by sheer luck, was selected for the exchange student program.
She knew well that if she left for a foreign country, she would never know what would happen to her father.
In the end, her father struggled through life with alcohol addiction and liver cancer.
That was why Woo-yeon still couldn’t greet her father on his memorial day. Even when she returned to Korea and saw the pitiful state of her father, she did not regret the choice she made at that time.
“…Because it’s me.”
Yoon Woo-yeon’s true face and lowly reality.
Turning over the mask of the ethical and neat anchor Yoon Woo-yeon, below. Further below.
Woo-yeon hit rock bottom again this time.
The air she had collected, unable to breathe, collapsed the old memories with a whoosh.
… It hurts too much.
Woo-yeon muttered, gasping for breath. Just for a moment, she gradually rose to the surface, hitting the bottom again.
Splash. Splash. Splash.
Breaking through the water storm spreading like snowflakes, she surfaced, showing her face above the water.
“Ha, ugh. Ha… ugh.”
Perhaps because she was holding her breath more than usual, her breathing was much more irregular.
She thought she would face the landscape beyond the window where it was raining this time too, but what entered Woo-yeon’s eyes was that man.
A clear-eyed man.
A man with looks so captivating that it could be fatal.
Spring and summer.
Cha Tae-kyung, who sweeps away people’s hearts more than the rain within the boundary of the seasons.
He was looking at Woo-yeon.
It seemed so close that their rough breathing might mix soon. Unconsciously, Woo-yeon clung to him and breathed thinly.
“Why… Ha… Ha, why are you here?”
“I thought you might be dead since you didn’t come up.”
“…What?”
“I saw you alive, so it’s fine.”
He casually slipped his arm through Woo-yeon’s armpit.
He pulled her body out of the water, unexpectedly bringing it up onto the edge of the swimming pool.
He touched the knee area. Although it was a week-old injury, there was no way it could still hurt, but he was still asking.
“Is it still painful?”
Woo-yeon removed the misfortune. Water dripped from her wet hair.
“No.”
“…….”
“A lot of time has passed… a lot.”
Her voice trembled. The reason was unknown.
At that moment, his hand, which was on her knee, slipped down and grasped her hipbone as if slipping.
“What are you doing?”
She asked coldly, but Tae-kyung smiled.
“Do you know? I have Yoon Woo-yeon by the ankle.”
“…….”
“If I pull here, Yoon Woo-yeon will fall into the water. Splash.”
Woo-yeon wiped the water dripping on her face. She didn’t know what he was trying to do.
“Why are you trying to make me fall?”
“I have to rescue you. Then I’ll make you fall again. If we repeat that a few times, eventually, you’ll get tired and hug me.”
“…….”
As if he was really going to pull her ankle to make her fall into the water, he tightened his grip.
Although she was about to ask him to let go, Tae-kyung loosened his grip and smiled gently.
“Let’s stop swimming and go wash up and eat.”
Come to think of it, she realized at this moment, after opening her eyes today, she hadn’t had a proper meal.
She felt hungry.
The desperation of the deceased, the guilt that couldn’t reveal the whereabouts of the two even until the last moment.
It seemed impossible to overcome hunger.
All directions were blocked by walls. A spacious space turned into a room.
Sitting as if they were a background for each other were Cha Tae-kyung and Yoon Woo-yeon. The air felt awkward, as if there were only the two of them.
It was a place they arrived after a thirty-minute drive.
Whether it was a time without customers, or whether Cha Tae-kyung had sent all other customers away, that couldn’t be known.
In the boiling hot stone pot was kimchi udon.
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.”
