“What do you want to say?”
“What do you want to say? Seriously, don’t you know? I can’t break up with you like this. I’ve sent you all the baby ultrasound pictures. But you talk about breaking up?”
“There’s no such thing as not being able to break up. Even married couples separate. You and I, everything was over when I went to meet your father. Now, there’s no trust left between us.”
“Minwoo, no! It’s not true!”
“Maybe you don’t know, but I do. A child? Is it my child? I haven’t spent a single night with you. And during that time, a child appeared? A child that didn’t happen even after spending many nights with Eun Ji-yeon for the past three years?”
Despite looking at Minwoo with a shocked expression, who seemed to deliberately hurt her with harsh words, he didn’t care at all.
“Cha Minwoo, you’re really trash. Then whose child is this?”
“Sigh… Se-ah, you know that better than anyone.”
“Are you crazy to say such things?”
“Please, come to your senses. You and I, it’s time to break up now. I don’t love you anymore. I don’t have any feelings, and I just get annoyed when I see you. What do you want by holding onto someone like me? Do you need money? Is that it?”
Soon, water from the cup that Se-ah had in her hand was splashed on Cha Minwoo’s face.
“How can you describe me like that? How! You found me. Then you take responsibility! Did I make the baby alone? Huh?”
Water dripped from his soaked hair, trickling down onto the expensive-looking suit.
When the hotel staff brought a towel, Minwoo, who had caught it, wiped the water dripping down his face with irritation.
“Fine… So, you love me, right?”
Upon hearing this, Se-ah nodded, shedding tears.
“What more can I ask from you except your love? Mr. Minwoo, we were happy, weren’t we?”
However, there was only an icy coldness remaining on Cha Minwoo’s face, as if only a frigid chill had been left.
“You said the reason for holding onto me wasn’t money, right? It’s completely different from what I heard…”
“That… At that time, I got too excited because of what my mother said. I just said it out of anger. I really don’t need money.”
“Okay, let’s believe that. In conclusion, the reason you’re holding onto me is love, not money. You’ve taken responsibility for the child, and that’s good. Believe it or not, it’s my child. Later, when we check, we’ll know. And since you said you don’t need money, you won’t get a penny from me. Love me? That’s your situation, so deal with it yourself. Don’t tell me to take responsibility for your emotions.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Minwoo stood up from his seat, seemingly not willing to hear Se-ah’s response.
“Contact me when the baby is born. Not me, but our mom.”
Se-ah, who had been sitting blankly in the lounge, finally stood up after a while.
The conversation with Cha Minwoo was unbelievable, and she couldn’t focus at all due to his attitude.
Throughout the taxi ride home, the words he had uttered filled her mind, tangling up.
“Miss, this card isn’t working. Don’t you have another card?”
“What?”
“The card you gave, the payment isn’t going through.”
Annoyed, the taxi driver asked her to provide another card, and Se-ah was perplexed.
“What are you talking about? I used it until this morning.”
When Se-ah questioned, he swiped the card again on the card reader.
Beep
However, just as he had said a moment ago, a message appeared on the screen indicating the card was ‘unusable,’ which he showed to Se-ah.
“See, it says it’s a suspended card. Find another card quickly.”
With no other card, Se-ah collected the coins she had and paid the taxi fare in cash before getting off.
“No way…”
With an uneasy feeling, she held the card and headed to a nearby convenience store.
A response like, “Just bring anything and try to pay,” came from the cashier.
“This card says it’s suspended. Don’t you have another card?”
The black card that Cha Minwoo had given her was suspended.
Unbelievably, he must have suspended it right after they broke up.
Se-ah ran home in confusion.
“This can’t be. This can’t be, Cha Minwoo! How could this happen so quickly…”
She urgently needed to get home and sort out this situation.
The clothes she forcibly wore in the hot weather felt even more suffocating.
Breathing became more difficult.
She rushed home, panting, and found the card key at the entrance.
Perhaps due to her anxious heart, her trembling hands let the card key slip away.
Beep Beep
Strange sounds from the entrance lock, along with an error message, appeared.
Beep Beep
No matter how many times she tried again, it was the same.
Pressing the password didn’t change anything.
After several attempts, error messages appeared one after another, and eventually, the alarm began to sound.
It was the security device’s sound that rang when someone tried to forcibly open the entrance door.
It was because of continuously entering the wrong password.
“This number is correct. Why is this number…”
In this whole situation, it felt like her mind was about to collapse.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
