Ina’s eyes widened at the man’s words.
“How do you know my name…?” Ina asked, looking as if she had seen a ghost.
The man chuckled again at her astonished expression.
As Ina stared at his smiling face, she suddenly furrowed her brow and looked at him intently.
After a moment of intense scrutiny, her eyes widened in realization.
“Could it be…?” Ina’s mouth fell open in disbelief as she stared at the man.
“Could it be… Joo Won?”
As Ina asked in a surprised tone, the man gave a casual shrug. Joo Won was a friend from Ina’s middle school days, the twin brother of her close friend Joo Hee.
“Wow,” Ina exclaimed, covering her mouth with her hand, then quickly withdrawing it as she felt the pain of her split lip, uttering a small cry of pain.
Joo Won reached out, gently lifting Ina’s chin with his hand. Ina looked at him with startled eyes, and Joo Won frowned slightly.
“Let’s go to the pharmacy first.”
Before Ina could respond, Joo Won grabbed her hand and started walking briskly.
“Wait! Hey, wait a minute!” Ina called out, but Joo Won continued striding forward, and she had to hurry to keep up with his large strides.
As she followed, she noted Joo Won’s tall figure and broad shoulders. Above all, his hand pulling hers was large and warm.
‘Wow. When did he get so big? He’s completely grown up now,’ Ina thought, admiringly looking at Joo Won’s back.
Upon arriving at the pharmacy, Joo Won stepped in confidently.
“We need ointment for a wound,” he said, pointing to Ina’s lip as he spoke to the pharmacist.
The middle-aged male pharmacist looked over Ina’s lip wound and then at Joo Won, misinterpreting him as the perpetrator. Noticing this, Ina quickly waved her hands in denial.
“No, it’s not him!”
Ina’s loud explanation made the pharmacist and Joo Won look at her.
“I didn’t say anything,” the pharmacist said nonchalantly, handing over the ointment and a cotton swab.
Feeling embarrassed, Ina reached for her wallet to pay, but Joo Won had already extended the money.
“I should be the one to pay,” Ina protested.
Joo Won silently picked up the ointment and cotton swab and gestured for her to leave. After thanking the pharmacist, Ina quickly followed Joo Won out of the pharmacy.
“Here, take this. I should pay for the medicine,” Ina said, offering a ten-thousand-won note.
Joo Won looked down at her expressionlessly.
“Buy me a drink.”
“Huh?” Ina blinked in confusion.
“Buy me a drink.”
“A drink?”
“Yeah. I was actually going to have a drink. At that bar earlier.”
Ina recalled seeing Joo Won in front of the bar where she had been with Jeong Hoon.
“Really? I’m so sorry. You should go.”
But as Ina urged him to go, Joo Won cut her off with his phone call.
“Hold on,” Joo Won said, holding up his hand to wait, then answered the phone.
“Hello? Oh, no, I can’t make it. Something came up. Yeah, so I won’t be able to go.”
Ina, surprised, was about to tell him to go, but Joo Won was resolute.
“Yeah, it’s important. I’ll talk about it later. Tell the guys for me. Okay. Bye.”
After hanging up, Ina looked at him in shock.
“Don’t go. You should hurry. I’m fine, so go ahead.”
“Would you just leave like that?” Joo Won replied.
Ina was speechless for a moment before she spoke again.
“Yeah, Joo Won. It’s really embarrassing and sorry to show you this side of me after so long. But I appreciate you worrying about me, you don’t need to cancel your plans for this. So please go ahead.”
Joo Won gazed at Ina silently before letting out a short sigh and saying, “There’s nothing to be embarrassed or sorry about. It’s not your fault, right? You didn’t know he was that kind of person.”
“But still…” Ina bit her lip, looking down at the ground.
“It wasn’t an important appointment. They’re friends I see often. We can drink another time. So, don’t worry about it,” Joo Won reassured her.
Still, Ina looked uncomfortable, prompting Joo Won to chuckle lightly.
“Stop feeling sorry, okay? Let’s not just stand here. How about we grab a drink of soju?”
Joo Won led Ina to a nearby bar, pulling her arm gently.
“Do you drink well?”
As they settled down inside the bar, Joo Won asked while opening the menu.
“Soju? I drink… moderately.”
“Didn’t drink much at the bar you were coming out of?”
Ina remembered crossing paths with Joo Won earlier in front of the bar.
“No… I was just going along with the atmosphere, didn’t drink much.”
“Alright then, let’s just have a quick drink and head home.”
Joo Won called a server and ordered a bottle of soju and fish cake soup.
After a while, Joo Won took out a cotton swab, applied some ointment on it, and gestured for Ina to come closer.
Startled, Ina quickly extended her hand.
“No, give it here. I can do it.”
However, Joo Won remained still, looking at her intently.
“Shall I come over to you, or will you come closer?”
Sighing, Ina reluctantly moved her face closer.
Joo Won gently dabbed the ointment on the end of Ina’s left lip with the cotton swab.
As Ina grimaced in pain, Joo Won sighed softly and continued to apply the ointment gently.
Male lead says he’s pregnant — and it’s female lead’s child
Something seems a bit off about this world.
Wang Zhao thought as she watched a pregnant man walking towards her…
Intro
Female lead finds herself in a world where the men who possess the ability to bear children.
As she navigates this unfamiliar reality, she is caught off guard by the sudden appearance of her boyfriend, who reveals that he is pregnant.
Is this truly her boyfriend?
Why can’t she recall any details about their time together?
She begins to doubt whether the child her boyfriend is carrying is even hers.
Is there a hidden reason behind her amnesia, or could it be a side effect of her sudden arrival in this strange new world?
Just when it seems the protagonist’s life couldn’t become any more entangled, her ex-boyfriend makes an unexpected appearance, raising questions about the protagonist’s past.
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