Turning my gaze to the side, I see Cha Tae-kyung’s back. He takes out the alcohol, puts in ice, and picks up a glass. I just quietly watched him.
“Where did you originally find this house? Did you just come out of a hotel?”
It wasn’t that curious, but this silence made Woo-yeon uncomfortable, so she threw a question.
As he scooped out the ice with tongs, he turned around to answer Woo-yeon’s question.
“A manager found it in Samseong-dong.”
“Then go back to that house.”
Why did he come here to bother me? Although that was what she wanted to say, she couldn’t bring herself to say it out loud.
Tae-kyung laughed.
“I might stay here on the weekends if possible.”
“…….”
“Will you play with me?”
At that remark, Woo-yeon widened her eyes. She felt a momentary dizziness, but she thought it was nothing.
“If I have time.”
It was not a definite answer, nor was it a refusal. However, even if she thought differently, she couldn’t give a confident answer to Tae-kyung. It seemed like explaining their relationship to him.
During that time, Tae-kyung placed glasses on the table. He raided the fridge and took out some fruit.
His glass was straight, and Woo-yeon’s glass was an on-the-rocks glass with a few round ice cubes.
“Yoon Woo-yeon, were you born in winter?”
As he filled an empty glass with alcohol, he asked.
While Woo-yeon burst into laughter at Tae-kyung’s question, which, despite knowing the basic information, he asked as if he were a bit confused.
“Are you asking while knowing? Or are you asking to confirm because you’re a bit confused?”
“I’m asking because I’m curious. Asking directly is more accurate than the information recorded on one sheet of paper.”
“…….”
“Your birthday is the same day as Jesus’, right?”
Woo-yeon nodded her head slightly. She had to answer politely to Tae-kyung’s question.
“Do you want to drink? This time, Tae-kyung asked with a nod. Instead of answering, she grasped the glass and extended it in front of him.
While filling Woo-yeon’s glass, Tae-kyung spoke in a gentle tone.
“The front door password is Yoon Woo-yeon’s birthday.”
“What?”
“When deciding the password, I thought of Yoon Woo-yeon. It’s okay to drop by occasionally.”
Woo-yeon furrowed her brow. With a gaze as sharp as ice, she looked at him fiercely.
Why bother coming here? The house is within arm’s reach, so what could possibly happen?
She tried to get a little angry at Tae-kyung’s attitude, which seemed to deceive her.
When he seemed to read her mind, Tae-kyung murmured low.
“On the day you want to see me, be at my house.”
“…….”
“And Yoon Woo-yeon, call me.”
“…….”
“Then I’ll come running and hug you.”
If his eyes reflected in his words were a bit less fatal, she would have criticized him for being too presumptuous.
Ironically, as she listened to his words, she couldn’t help but imagine herself sitting in Cha Tae-kyung’s house, calling him on a day when she felt painfully lonely.
Before the imagination could even finish, he clinked the glasses. Woo-yeon’s eyes glinted coldly.
“Boss, was I really the first for you?”
As if it was an unexpected question, he scratched the side of his forehead with the back of his hand where the veins bulged.
“It didn’t seem like it?”
“I’m asking out of curiosity. Confusion is better resolved by asking directly at any time.”
Woo-yeon’s words echoed Tae-kyung’s earlier statement, and he grinned.
“I don’t really want to answer if you ask like that.”
“Still, give it a try.”
“…….”
“In terms of relationships? You really haven’t met anyone?”
He quickly downed the drink. When his moist lips parted, her head throbbed.
“At least less than Miss Yoon Woo-yeon, I suppose.”
Woo-yeon bit her lip, finding his answer as if Kim Min-joon knew he was her first man.
With a playful expression on his face, he smoothly refilled his glass. Their eyes met.
Without averting his gaze for a moment, Tae-kyung downed another drink in one gulp.
Come to think of it, Cha Tae-kyung really liked alcohol. It wasn’t unusual for a thirty-three-year-old man to like alcohol, but despite seeing him drink a lot, she had never seen him drunk.
What would this man say when he’s drunk?
Suddenly curious, she got lost in her thoughts.
Woo-yeon raised her glass to him and drank the leftover drink from before.
One glass, two glasses, the repeated cycle of filling and emptying the glasses continued.
The rain stopped outside, and the two were unusually silent.
Breaking the almost silent stillness, Tae-kyung looked at Woo-yeon.
“What are you thinking?”
He asked, and Woo-yeon pursed her lips neatly to the side. Her eye focus towards the air wasn’t clear.
“Thoughts about things that disappeared.”
“Things that disappeared?”
“Yeah. You know, things that you live with but end up losing in life.”
“…….”
“Thoughts like, is it okay to live like this.”
Staring into the emptiness for a moment, Woo-yeon blinked her eyes.
With the thought of speaking out what was on her mind without hesitation, she quickly regained her composure and looked at his face.
The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)
Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.
The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”
Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!
Warnings:
- Male pregnancy.
- Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
- Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.
