The child’s cheeks puffed up. It wasn’t the time to find the angry child cute.
Hayaen forced a smile, looked directly into Jihu’s eyes, and said,
“Then, I’ll be a friend like a mom. Is that still not okay?”
Hmm, Jihu, who had been pondering, finally nodded. Faced with the child’s inevitable acceptance, Hayaen couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
The footsteps of Minje, who was climbing the stairs, abruptly stopped at the sound of laughter effortlessly passing through the closed door.
Had the sound of laughter echoing through this house become such a rare occurrence? He sighed as if in self-derision.
As Hayaen’s stay in this house prolonged, Minje somehow felt like he could understand Jihu’s feelings a little better.
After Hayaen left, the house was enveloped in an even more perfect silence than before.
The clattering sound of utensils hitting each other was the only noise during mealtime. Minje, who found the unusually quiet atmosphere stifling today, raised an eyebrow.
Although they didn’t have particularly warm conversations even before, since Hayaen left, Jihu seemed to be even more reserved in speaking.
‘Who on earth did he take after to be so stubborn…’
Tsk, Minje clicked his tongue and unintentionally shifted his gaze to Miran, the housekeeper, opening and closing the refrigerator.
The cola, still occupying one shelf of the refrigerator, caught his eye momentarily. The cola, as if intentionally not being cleared, seemed to be there indefinitely, just like her presence.
“I might get busy with the exhibition preparations for a while. So, I think we need to quickly find a babysitter…”
Minje, as if breaking the silence, looked at Jihu and spoke.
Currently, Miran was taking care of Jihu while doing household chores, but that was only a temporary solution. Unable to burden her further due to her busy schedule, Minje couldn’t let her continue.
“It has to be you.”
Jihu stubbornly replied while gripping the spoon.
What? This kid is getting bolder. Minje sighed.
Jihu had never asserted his opinion so strongly before. Therefore, although Minje found it peculiar, he couldn’t ignore the child’s opinion.
Well, since he already confirmed that she was trustworthy, there was no problem. However, just because he wanted it didn’t mean she would agree.
At that point, Jihu would have no choice. With that thought, Minje responded.
“I’ll ask, but if they decline on their end, will you stop insisting?”
“Yes!”
Jihu responded with a bright expression as if to say, “When did I ever do that?”
Minje made a groaning sound as he observed the child’s expression changing like flipping a hand.
The next day, Minje visited the convenience store at the time when Hayaen’s part-time job was ending.
Just as she was about to lift her bag, upon entering, she and Minje met face to face.
“Welcome… If it’s not too much trouble, can we talk for a moment?”
At those words, her eyes widened a bit. Seeing her unexpected reaction to his visit, Minje wondered what expression she would make when she heard his proposal.
Since it was early May and the weather wasn’t too cold, they sat facing each other at a makeshift table outside the convenience store.
Hayaen absentmindedly nibbled on her fingertips. It was unbelievable to be sitting across from her favorite celebrity, Kang Minje.
Trying to suppress the gaze that kept involuntarily turning toward his face, Minje spoke first.
“I don’t know how you’ll feel about this, but I have a proposal.”
A proposal? As Hayaen lifted her head with a puzzled look, Minje swiftly handed her a piece of paper.
“What is this…?”
Hayaen’s pupils shook as she looked down at the document Minje presented, which seemed to be a complex contract-like document.
“I happened to be looking for someone to take care of the child, now that I’ve moved in. Providing appropriate interaction and all necessary care for Jihu, residing in the room next to the child, how about that?”
While Hayaen quickly scanned the numbers written on the paper, Minje added an explanation.
“Oh, someone else takes care of things like laundry and cleaning separately, so you just need to focus on Jihu. The issue is that I can’t specify exact days off, but you can spend the time freely when Jihu is at kindergarten.”
Hayaen doubted her own eyes. This compensation was better than most jobs she could find, and moreover, as an art major struggling with finances, she wondered if she would encounter better conditions in the future.
However, there were many reservations about accepting the proposal without further thought.
“May I ask why you’re making this offer to me?”
Even she thought she wasn’t a suitable person as a babysitter. After all, a married woman who had experience raising a child would be much more suitable for the role.
“I’m making this proposal out of respect for Jihu’s opinion. He insists that it has to be you, Hayaen. If the person doesn’t suit my liking, I might stop abruptly, so I thought it would be better this way. Anyway, if Jihu doesn’t like the person, they won’t last long, so it’s better to be on this side.”
At Minje’s honest response, Hayaen blinked for a moment. How kind and cute Jihu was, and because of that child, people couldn’t endure and quit their jobs?
It was hard to believe those words literally, especially considering that Jihu had such a strong bond with his mother. Moreover, the earnest plea in the child’s eyes, begging her to become his mother, came to mind again, making her heart heavy.
Unable to easily respond, and lost in thought, Hayaen suddenly felt a shock as Minje’s gaze, silently peering into her eyes, made her snap out of her reverie.
As his gaze, seemingly reading her inner thoughts, overlapped with her favorite face, her heart suddenly started pounding.
“I’m not asking for an immediate answer. You can decide after thinking about it thoroughly.”
“O-okay.”
Hayaen, just to get out of this situation for now, nodded vigorously.
When Hayaen returned home, her legs seemed to lose strength, and she sank down with a sigh. Then, she abruptly regained her composure and took out the contract Minje had handed her from her bag.
“I wasn’t mistaken.”
Carefully examining the contents, Hayaen confirmed that her eyes had not deceived her and let out a short sigh.
For someone like her, working various part-time jobs and leading an unstable life, the opportunity to secure a stable job for the first time had been given. Moreover, since it was for the position of a live-in babysitter, she could also cut down on the current monthly rent expenses.
Considering her current situation where, after deducting living expenses and monthly rent from her current income, saving money was an impossible dream, it was a difficult offer for Hayaen to refuse.
“Is this good luck?”
Suddenly recalling Jihu’s face, who had smirked in an unchildlike manner, Hayaen pondered whether to accept this as good fortune or not.
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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