They slept, exchanged kisses, and even shared a meal like a weekend afternoon date. However, her rejection of becoming lovers no longer seemed fitting, and a smile was about to break out.
What is Cha Tae-kyung thinking?
How far does he intend to go with me?
He casually lifted the umbrella with one hand.
“Aren’t you coming in?”
“…….”
Ah, I missed the timing for a silly thought.
“Ms. Yoon Woo-yeon?”
“I’ll go.”
She walked into his embrace.
Yoon Woo-yeon at the swimming pool looked a bit precarious. Her eyes seemed like she wanted to cry whenever she looked at him.
Even though it didn’t seem like she was easily caught, every moment of her footsteps seemed to be revealed to him.
Tae-kyung pondered deeply.
Is it just me who keeps getting caught?
Or is it because I’m scrutinizing Yoon Woo-yeon too much?
Whatever it is, every time she moved, Tae-kyung’s nerves were agitated.
To put it differently, it meant that everything was bothering him.
… If I manage him like this, I won’t be able to leave the fishing grounds.
Restaurant reservations were made, as always, through Manager Han. He asked for a meal suitable for a moderately rainy day and instructed them to clear the restaurant.
Moving to the adjacent house where Yoon Woo-yeon lives seems to be in line with this context.
It was an action to thoroughly accommodate Woo-yeon, who had a tiring job.
Getting used to spending time becomes natural. He wanted to get used to Woo-yeon.
When she gets used to it.
Because she will eventually wither.
Tae-kyung didn’t move towards the parking lot but headed to a cafe about ten minutes away from the udon restaurant.
Of course, inside the cafe, excluding the employees, there wouldn’t be a single ant. This was also part of Tae-kyung’s plan, prepared in advance through Manager Han.
He wanted to take a rainy walk with Woo-yeon.
Tae-kyung knew where her eyes were heading every time she hit the ground and came up from the pool.
“Where are you going?”
Woo-yeon, who only now realized that they weren’t heading to the parking lot, asked beside him.
Tae-kyung replied.
“I’ll buy the coffee.”
“…….”
“We need to walk a bit more.”
So, don’t miss the chance and come closer, he gestured.
Annoyed by Woo-yeon’s hesitation, Tae-kyung gently put his arm around her waist.
To her surprised eyes, he threw out the prepared line.
“I don’t like Yoon Woo-yeon getting wet.”
“…….”
“Did you enjoy the meal?”
“Yes?… Yes.”
“Last time, you said you didn’t like cold food, so I deliberately asked for hot food. I’m glad.”
“Yes.”
“On weekends, what do you usually do?”
He looked down at the woman in the rain as he spoke. He clearly saw Yoon Woo-yeon’s clean forehead and lush hair, and he looked again.
It wasn’t a common appearance, but he couldn’t figure out why his heart was pounding so much.
Back then, Yoon Woo-yeon in the distant memory had a face that was more mature than now.
At that time, what made him decide to take her to see the sunset in New York?
What’s so pretty about her?
Even recalling the memories from seven years ago while making an effort to attract her attention.
“Reading….”
“Hmm?”
“… Not really, music appreciation, not much. Mostly monitoring news reports from other broadcasting stations.”
“Is that it?”
“Yes. Why?”
“Living boringly must be just like me.”
The woman, who stopped walking for a moment, looked at Tae-kyung.
“Representative, do you live boringly?”
“Mostly, yes.”
“Why in the past tense?”
“Because it’s in the past. Now I’m going to change it.”
Watching the speechless Yoon Woo-yeon was also fun.
Capturing things emotionlessly with cool eyes, and even when she got angry and shot back.
Of course, the most interesting thing among them was Yoon Woo-yeon’s face that he looked down at from the bed.
He closed his eyes and smiled.
After the cafe, he didn’t plan anything, but he thought he should bring Woo-yeon to her new home.
As I told her at the swimming pool, I’m thinking of spending more time with Yoon Woo-yeon.
Tae-kyung pushed the umbrella more towards Woo-yeon’s side.
“Do you want to see my house?”
When they had to go back to their respective homes, Tae-kyung looked at Woo-yeon and said.
Woo-yeon turned her head to the side.
On the day of her father’s memorial, she didn’t want to spend the whole day alone. She wondered if there had ever been a time when she wasn’t alone, and yes, there was.
For the past two years, Kim Min-jun has been with her all the time.
So maybe her heart has weakened. In the swimming pool, at the udon restaurant, and at the cafe, the reason she didn’t push him away was all because she was lonely.
This long loneliness used to torment people like a shiver when this time came.
People call Yoon Woo-yeon a loner, but more than anyone else, he was certain.
Throughout his life, he, a weak person whose heart was lonely and crumbled at the sight of flower petals scattering in the slightest wind.
But he decided to stop here.
When he looked at the world through the window at the cafe, what he saw was not the world outside the window but himself.
She didn’t ask why he looked only at her like that.
He didn’t say that Representative’s gaze was exactly the gaze a man has when he loves a woman.
He was curious, but today he thought it was enough.
Bitterness seeped in, thinking that he might someday reveal his true self to him, who looks into too many things.
“Next time.”
Before he could finish his sentence, he was grabbed by his wrist.
The strong grip of the tightly clenched man’s hand, Tae-kyung, on the contrary, smoothly used his other hand to open the door lock.
The password was six digits, and the doorknob turned within.
“You should see how the man who moved next door is living.”
“I’m tired.”
So, it meant she wanted to go back to her own home to rest.
“Rest at my place.”
“…….”
“I won’t touch a single hair.”
Did he see such a tightly closed wall?
He seemed to have no intention of letting go in the first place, as if he had planned this from the beginning when he asked if she wanted to see his house.
“Do you want to see my house?” and then, as if he had planned to be like this from the beginning.
Inevitably, he led Woo-yeon’s hand and brought her to the center of his house.
“I’m here. I’ll bring some alcohol.”
Helplessly, Woo-yeon found a large sofa in the living room and sat down. She glanced around the interior, but it seemed there was nothing interesting to see.
It promised to show how the man living next door is living.
His house was too plain and quiet. It seemed to resemble a prison.
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
