“And if you’re thankful, make Korean food for me next time.”
“……!”
“My place is fine, or your place, Manager Ji Yeon. Anywhere comfortable.”
“Uh…should we?”
“Well, if you’re opposed, there’s nothing I can do.”
“No! I would love to.”
Conversations with Kang Hyun were always subtly and quickly progressing and deciding something, making it hard to keep up.
“It felt more like we went out to have fun rather than practicing speaking.”
Returning home late in the afternoon, Ji Yeon lay down for a moment by the window, blankly staring at the outside scenery.
She wanted to indulge in more laziness, doing nothing, but looking at her still unpacked belongings, she couldn’t.
‘Once today passes, I won’t have time during the weekdays, so I can only organize next weekend.’
There were still a number of unopened boxes since she only arranged the necessities and some clothes in a hurry.
Thinking that it would be inconvenient when organizing, she had left the boxes as they were, except for the clothes and large items.
‘I have to organize at least half of this today!’
She had mostly sorted out her clothes, but she couldn’t find the missing dress in the end.
‘Did I lose it when I moved? Or did I leave it at that house? Should I go back to that house? I should have checked more carefully on moving day, but I was too distracted.’
Ji Yeon felt regretful, but she didn’t have the courage to revisit that house. No, she didn’t want to go back.
“It’s too expensive to just forget about it and most importantly, too precious. No, it’s a pity, but let’s say I lost it on purpose. It has blocked all the bad memories from that house and any potential issues in the future!”
She was upset, but she tried to erase the beautiful dress from her mind by saying this.
Thinking that she wouldn’t have time for other thoughts if she kept herself busier, Ji Yeon started to move even more quickly, unpacking the boxes.
They were filled with shoes, bags, and books.
“So this book was here. I wondered where it was.”
Ji Yeon was happy to find the things she had been wondering about, one by one as she organized them.
It was about three hours into organizing that she found a small box placed among the boxes filled with books and stationery.
A small document box, not a packing box.
This familiar box wasn’t something she was seeing for the first time.
On thinking back, she had seen it a few times in the storage room of the house where she had lived with Min Woo.
“This isn’t something I bought, did I accidentally bring something of Min Woo’s? If that’s the case, I should meet him or return it! This is troublesome.”
Ji Yeon, instead of just opening the box, pondered whether to open it or not with the box in front of her.
People say everyone has a sixth sense, and this could have been one of those moments.
A strange unease made her hesitate to open it.
“What am I doing, hesitating in front of a box? I need to know what’s inside to decide whether to organize it or return it.”
When she opened the small box, various documents came into view.
At a glance, it was clear they were not hers, but Cha Min Woo’s.
“As expected, it’s not mine. When should I return this… next time.”
As she was grumbling and about to push the box aside, an envelope caught Ji Yeon’s eye among the documents.
And her name written on it.
Like being drawn to a magnet, Ji Yeon’s hand moved towards the envelope.
She cautiously opened the envelope and looked at its contents.
Inside were a marriage registration form filled with Ji Yeon’s information, listing Min Woo and Ji Yeon, along with Ji Yeon’s resident registration card and various documents.
Her driver’s license, which she usually used as an ID, an ID she had not thought about, and other documents.
These are the materials I prepared!
Suddenly, that time came to mind.
“Min Woo, when should we register our marriage? Let me know the time, and I’ll take a leave.”
Not long after their marriage, while she was still working, Ji Yeon, worried about not having registered their marriage yet, cautiously asked Min Woo.
“Why rush? Living together for about a year before registering is the trend these days. We’ll do it then. We never know what the future holds.”
Faced with Min Woo’s chillingly indifferent response, Ji Yeon could only agree, not wanting to go against his mood.
The time when she remembered again after forgetting for a while was almost two years after they started living together.
Ji Yeon carefully brought up the issue with Min Woo again.
“Min Woo, if it’s difficult for you to make time, I can go and register alone. They say I can do it alone if I just bring the documents.”
“I don’t understand why you’re in such a hurry, Eun Ji Yeon. Do you think I’ll slip away if we don’t register this? Are you worried that I might run away?”
At that time, when everything was difficult and sensitive, she swallowed the pain that seemed to tear her heart apart with his every harsh word.
“Just prepare the documents. I’ll handle it.”
“Understood, Min Woo.”
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
