However, whether it was because of his mood or not, today felt even stranger. It was definitely a 180-degree different feeling from yesterday.
Exactly, it felt strange from the moment she spotted him waiting for her at the gallery entrance, not in the gallery office as agreed.
‘Huh? He clearly said he would be in the office.’
Since there didn’t seem to be anyone she knew, and Director Park should be in the gallery, Gaeul waved her hand to get Kitaek’s attention.
“Representative.”
Then, he instantly approached in the blink of an eye.
Approaching confidently, he entwined his fingers with mine, placing his fingers on the back of my hand where his ring was, leaving an affectionate kiss and then smiling sweetly.
Caught off guard by his refreshing smile, I stared blankly at him and suddenly came to my senses.
I’ve never seen him like this before…
It felt unfamiliar, making me momentarily bewildered.
Why is he doing something he didn’t do before?
I felt a sense of being cherished, even before coming to the restaurant.
Finally, Autumn, who had been puzzled, asked Kitaek.
“Representative.”
“Why?”
“Did something good happen today?”
He shook his head.
“No, not really.”
Recalling what happened at the gallery entrance, Autumn absentmindedly played with her food.
Then he asked, “What’s wrong? Why can’t you eat it? Does it taste bad?”
Startled, Autumn responded reflexively, “What? No, it’s just…”
Furrowing his brow, he called a waiter despite her response.
Even though there was plenty of food left on the table, he ordered a different menu.
Panicking, Autumn raised her hand hastily.
“No, it’s nothing like that. Really, it’s delicious.”
Autumn refused and sent the waiter away. Then, she said somewhat reproachfully, “I can’t finish what I ordered, why are you like this, really…”
“Well, try eating more sincerely. Because you’re not good at eating.”
Well, looking at it this way, it seems like a misunderstanding again. Autumn stabbed the detested salad with her fork.
Looking down at the struggling Autumn like an angry rabbit, he chuckled and wiped the sauce off Autumn’s mouth.
“Why don’t you like it so much?”
“There seems to be something I don’t know, you keep not telling me.”
Soon, watching Autumn, who had completely stopped eating, Kitaek pointed outside with a determined gesture.
“If you’re done eating, let’s go.”
“Wha… Okay.”
Now openly speaking, Autumn was all ears to Kitaek’s instructions.
Expecting to go straight to his penthouse where people’s gazes usually don’t reach, Autumn widened her eyes as she looked at the large building in front of her.
The place he led her to was Taesan Department Store.
“Why are we here…?”
“Just because. I want to buy you something you want.”
“But I don’t want anything?”
“I want to give a gift to my girlfriend, just accept it.”
“I really don’t need anything.”
Ignoring her rejection, Kitaek once again held her hand.
Except for mealtime, he hadn’t let go of her hand since they met.
However, they were now in front of his department store.
If anyone recognized them, it would be easy to meet. Thinking about that, Autumn quickly withdrew her hand. Even his older brother, Han Kijung, was like that. It was an easily recognizable place.
When Autumn rejected his hand, he immediately furrowed his brow.
To divert his attention, Autumn reluctantly chose to enter the department store on her own.
“Representative, shall we go inside for now? I don’t want anything, but I still want to look around!”
“…Sure.”
Kitaek, who had momentarily looked at his empty hand, followed Autumn into the department store.
Autumn stood beside him and wandered around the department store.
Since Autumn was just following him from a distance, he suddenly took her to the luxury goods section, picked up a women’s handbag, and handed it to her.
“How about it? Do you like it?”
“Haha… Well, I don’t know much about these things, whether it’s pretty or not.”
Autumn answered, forcing a smile.
He extended another bag. Perhaps thinking the rejection was due to a matter of taste, he showed her a slightly different design.
He kept asking as if he wanted to give me something. The cycle of asking and rejecting continued.
The bags seem too expensive.
Before someone recognized Kitaek, Autumn grabbed any dress in a reasonable price range and rushed to the fitting room, not bothering to check the design.
“Representative, instead of a bag, I want this dress!”
Escaping from the persuasion, Autumn grabbed the dress and ran to the fitting room. Since entering the department store, she hadn’t relaxed, so a sigh inadvertently escaped.
Without even looking at the dress properly, she changed into the dress she randomly picked up.
After changing, while Autumn was on the phone, Kitaek approached her, who was staring into space, looking at him with a momentary gaze.
Autumn, who didn’t look at him, approached Kitaek and said quickly, as if she were being inspected before leaving the department store.
“Representative, I’ve put it on.”
Then, he stopped his phone call and turned his gaze towards me.
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
