“Then you showed up at my house on Monday morning? I told you never to appear again, but you showed up again in the evening and caused a scene, didn’t you?”
[Dash] That, that was…“Answer me.”
[Dash] That was… because you were with that guy…“Hey!”
Ms. Seo shouted, startling Junghoon.
“Didn’t I tell you? I met him again because of you. Can’t even believe that? Should I bring evidence to prove that I’m not two-timing? What will you do then? What about yesterday, when you came to my office and screamed that I was filthy? How are you going to take responsibility for tarnishing my image? Huh?”
[Dash] I… Ina.Junghoon called her name in a flustered tone.
“How much you obsessed over me while we were dating, how suffocating you were, I have witnesses and objective evidence like call logs and chat records. And I can get enough CCTV footage of your scene at the office yesterday.”
Junghoon was heard swallowing hard over the phone.
[Dash] Ina, please believe me just this once. I really won’t appear before you or contact you again.So, just forgive me this once, okay?
Ms. Seo drew a deep breath from her core before responding.
“If you break even one word of what you’ve just said, not only will I sue you, but there will also be no settlement. And I’ll use everything at my disposal to twist the life you think is so perfect right now. Understand?”
[Dash] Yes… I understand.“Don’t contact me again after this.”
Ms. Seo ended the call ruthlessly. Once she hung up, her heart pounded tumultuously.
Was it really over? Would she never have to deal with Park Jung-hoon again?
Clutching her racing heart, she took a deep breath and re-entered the office.
“Ms. Seo, aren’t you leaving yet?”
Eun-jeong, who was just leaving the office, asked her.
Glancing at the clock, Ms. Seo saw it was past 6:40 PM.
“Oh? I should go. Head on out, I’ll leave shortly.”
“Okay. See you tomorrow.”
“Right.”
Ms. Seo turned off her computer and tidied up her desk when a message came in. It was from Kwon Ki Joo.
[Dash] I might be about 10 minutes late today. Take your time coming out. [Dash] Okay, got it.She finished tidying up and left the office after ten minutes.
She saw Kwon Ki Joo’s car parked in the distance. Dressed sharply in a navy suit, he waved at her. Ms. Seo approached with a faint smile, and he opened the passenger door for her.
“Thanks.”
After buckling up, Kwon Ki Joo asked, “Anything unusual today? Did that guy contact you?”
“…Yeah, I got a call from an unknown number.”
Kwon Ki Joo’s eyebrows twitched.
“Really?”
“…Yeah.”
“What did he say?”
Ms. Seo hesitated before slowly starting, “I don’t know what your cousin did, but… I recorded Park Jung-hoon saying he won’t appear before me or contact me again.”
“No words?” Kwon Ki Joo finally asked.
“Yes.”
“Can I hear it?”
“Sure, just a moment.”
Ms. Seo found the recording on her phone and handed it to him.
[You took me to meet your alumni friends last Friday evening, right? And in front of them, you asked how many guys I had slept with, didn’t you?]As soon as Ms. Seo’s voice played, Kwon Ki Joo pressed the stop button.
His face, wrinkled in anger, seemed ready to explode.
“This bastard… he asked you such a thing?”
Ms. Seo bit her lip and nodded. Kwon Ki Joo sighed deeply.
“Ugh… where does such trash crawl out from…”
He looked ahead, as if ready to confront Park Jung-hoon himself, and then played the rest of the recording.
After listening to the entire content, he exhaled deeply and handed back the phone to Ms. Seo, who silently accepted it.
Kwon Ki Joo’s face still showed unsubsided anger as he stared ahead, then sighed.
“You did good recording it. But still, be careful for a while. This bastard could suddenly show up drunk or something.”
“Oh? No, I don’t think so. The way he spoke, as if he’d kneel before me if I were there. I’ve never heard Park Jung-hoon sound like that. I think he really won’t contact me again.”
Kwon Ki Joo ran his hand through his hair and exhaled deeply.
“A coward that folds at just one call from a lawyer… It angers me so much that such a low-life treated you so disrespectfully…”
He clenched his fist tightly.
Ms. Seo quietly looked at his clenched fist and gently placed her hand on it.
“…Now that he’s out of the picture, don’t worry too much.”
Kwon Ki Joo looked at his hand, covered by hers, then raised his head to look at Ms. Seo.
As Ms. Seo locked eyes with Kwon Ki Joo, she gave a gentle smile.
That smile seemed to gradually ease the volcanic fury simmering within him.
“…Right.”
Kwon Ki Joo responded, softly clasping the hand Ms. Seo had laid upon his.
Ms. Seo silently gazed down at their intertwined hands.
Feeling the warm presence of Kwon Ki Joo’s large hand, her heart inexplicably began to flutter.
‘…Why does my heart keep racing like this?’
Pondering over her own racing heart, Ms. Seo slowly turned her head away.
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
