Suddenly, it felt like all the surrounding noise disappeared; she couldn’t hear anything.
Even the sounds of their own breaths were absent.
Ji Yeon found herself so tense that she forgot how to breathe after her own provocation.
Soon, their gazes tangled in the void, and Kang Hyun’s eyes, staring intently at Ji Yeon’s, seemed to deepen and darken momentarily.
A burning sensation surged within Ji Yeon under his gaze, and her body began to shiver slightly.
“I hope you won’t regret this moment.”
At his lowered voice, Ji Yeon unwittingly closed her eyes.
Her closed eyelids were trembling lightly.
Her flushed ears, the blush spreading on her cheeks, and her shallow, panting breaths.
She felt like a naive rabbit that unknowingly approached a predator.
Kang Hyun’s hand gently enveloped the back of her head, pulling her closer, and he slowly lowered his face towards hers.
His lips lightly covered Ji Yeon’s, so lightly that it was unclear whether they had actually touched, and he murmured something under his breath against her tight lips.
When Ji Yeon’s lips slightly opened to release her rapid breath, Kang Hyun swiftly moved in and swam inside her.
His light invasion soon became deep and intense, soon seeming to rob Ji Yeon of all her breath.
‘I… I don’t know about such a kiss.’
Ji Yeon clung onto Kang Hyun, holding his clothes tightly with her trembling hands, like a person experiencing their first kiss.
Ji Yeon’s clumsy response seemed to kindle something deep within Kang Hyun, prompting him to pull her closer by the waist and delve deeper.
Ji Yeon’s slender waist, barely a handful, was held tighter in Kang Hyun’s embrace.
Having tasted Ji Yeon’s sweet lips once, Kang Hyun was utterly unable to regain his composure.
He didn’t let go of Ji Yeon until she, out of breath, started to tap on his chest.
“Haa…”
Still holding Ji Yeon’s waist, Kang Hyun looked down at her as she caught her breath.
Ji Yeon, feeling wobbly in the legs, clutched his shirt tighter and rested her forehead on his chest.
“Have you caught your breath?”
At Kang Hyun’s seemingly casual voice, Ji Yeon lifted her head.
His eyes, which met Ji Yeon’s, looked as dark and inscrutable as the pitchblack night.
“Yes? Yes.”
“Then, one more time…”
As Kang Hyun held a still panting Ji Yeon tighter and invaded her again, Ji Yeon had no choice but to wrap her arms around his neck and cling onto him.
They lost themselves in each other, oblivious of the time that had passed.
After countless shared breaths, Kang Hyun finally separated his lips from Ji Yeon’s, their breathing rough.
“I can’t… I can’t go on anymore.”
At Kang Hyun’s sudden words, Ji Yeon opened her eyes and stared blankly at him with a dazed look.
“If we don’t stop here, I don’t trust myself to let you go.”
With that, he pressed butterfly kisses on her forehead, the corners of her eyes, her lips… all over her face, and then he pulled away from her.
Both of them were still catching their breath, unable to suppress the lingering excitement.
It was Kang Hyun who first broke the awkward silence.
“We should go on another date. How about tomorrow?”
Embarrassed by the situation, Ji Yeon bowed her head and gave a shallow nod.
“…Okay.”
“Then let’s meet at 11 o’clock tomorrow.”
Kang Hyun pulled Ji Yeon into his arms once again, holding her tight before letting her go.
Upon entering her home, Ji Yeon’s legs were shaking so much that she immediately sat down at the entrance.
She couldn’t understand her own behavior.
‘Why did I provoke him?’
Was it a mix of slight intoxication, a bit of bluster, and a pinch of loneliness that made Ji Yeon behave differently?
All she wanted was to hold onto him. She just didn’t want to part.
She enjoyed Kang Hyun’s attention.
Although the remnants of the pain and separation from Min Woo were still buried deep within her, apart from that, she was also drawn to Kang Hyun.
And, the kiss she had experienced with him today was not like any kiss she knew of before.
What she knew of…
At times it felt oppressive, or like a ritual connected to another relationship, it was almost like an act devoid of any emotion.
But the kiss with Kang Hyun was different.
Her whole body was tingling, sweet, and ecstatic.
As if she was flying somewhere, or as if something was sucking her in…
Like being sucked into a black hole, she couldn’t snap out of it.
‘So this is what a kiss is supposed to feel like?’
Ji Yeon, feeling Kang Hyun’s lingering scent on her, sat on the floor and pondered over the feelings she had just experienced.
Ji Yeon found it hard to escape from the feeling that had hit her relentlessly, leaving her unable to think, or even breathe.
Kang Hyun had tossed and turned all night, ultimately waking up at dawn after hardly four hours of sleep.
The unexpected provocation from Ji Yeon had completely shaken him.
Her lips were more delectable and softer than he’d anticipated.
Kang Hyun longed to hold her more, the woman who perfectly fit in his arms, and it was incredibly hard to let her go in the end.
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
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