Ensnared by the Trap (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 6
“We should have the cocktail in the event hall.”
Kyle stepped in like a barrier between Se Hee and the drunk man, speaking in a cool voice.
The man, overwhelmed by the grip on his arm and Kyle’s intimidating gaze, couldn’t even think of resisting.
When Kyle flung the man’s hand away, the frozen man staggered violently.
Only then did the man seem to come to his senses; he glanced around nervously and backed away before fleeing.
“Thank……”
At the sound of Se Hee’s voice from behind, Kyle was about to turn his head, but before their eyes could meet, he faced forward again.
And just like that, Kyle strode away.
“Ha.”
Se Hee let out a hollow sigh at the man’s consistently arrogant attitude.
She had wanted to say thank you for saving her from danger, but once again, she couldn’t properly greet him.
Once out of that situation, perhaps because the tension had eased, the pain in her earlobe, which she had forgotten about, suddenly felt quite severe.
Her hand instinctively went to the injured spot.
The moment her fingers touched her earlobe, the loosely hanging earring hit her shoulder and fell with a thud.
The fallen earring unfortunately disappeared into the passage connected to the underground engine room.
“Oh my god.”
Unlike the passenger staircases, the metal stairs leading to the engine room had large gaps big enough for a small pearl earring to slip through.
The sound of the earring hitting the stairs grew fainter as it continued falling downward.
Because it was an earring with special meaning to her, Se Hee hurriedly followed it down the engine room stairs.
The lower she went, the louder and more intense the mechanical noise became, and the lighting gradually grew dimmer.
Finding the earring was becoming increasingly difficult.
How many underground floors are there?
How far down had she come?
Feeling like she was almost at the bottom, Se Hee looked around.
At that moment, through the open door across from her, something that looked like a pearl earring was faintly glowing.
Se Hee immediately went inside and checked the floor.
She had thought it was her lost earring, but what was shining on the floor was just a silver nut.
Se Hee, crouching down, let out a low sigh.
“What are you doing there?”
Suddenly hearing a man’s voice, the startled Se Hee whipped around.
When did this guy follow me again?
Because she had been completely focused on the earring, Se Hee hadn’t noticed at all that the man she thought had left after saving her had followed her down.
“My, my earring fell this way. I saw something sparkling and came in.”
Flustered, Se Hee even stammered.
“You should leave now.”
Kyle, having entered, spoke coldly.
The engine room hatch was not a place open to the general public.
“Just a moment. I’ll check a little and leave right away. I definitely heard it rolling this way. This earring is very precious to me.”
When Se Hee pleaded, Kyle made an uncomfortable expression.
Judging by the size of the earring still in her other ear, it didn’t seem like it would be easy to find.
Just as Kyle was thinking for a moment.
Suddenly the hull tilted to one side, and the open door slammed shut.
Clank.
With an ominous sound, the door locked.
Kyle quickly approached the door and pushed the hatch.
But the closed hatch wouldn’t open.
What on earth was going on.
He was clearly possessed by something.
Otherwise he wouldn’t make such a stupid mistake.
Kyle found it hard to accept being trapped in the underground hatch.
Hadn’t the “Curse of the Zaina Ho” already ended after the first day of sailing?
Was the power of that curse working in a different way?
Kyle mocked himself for even having such ridiculous thoughts.
Just in case, he pushed the hatch door again with all his strength.
Kyle had never been bested in strength by anyone, but the heavily closed door didn’t budge.
They were perfectly trapped.
“Damn it.”
A low curse leaked from Kyle’s lips.
“What’s wrong? It won’t open? We’re not actually locked in, are we?”
Se Hee, who had been standing behind Kyle, approached with an anxious expression.
“Come on, stop joking and open it.”
“Does this look like a joke to you right now?”
Looking at Se Hee with cold eyes, Kyle showed her his hand that had turned red from the pressure.
“N-No way.”
Shocked, Se Hee tried to open the hatch herself, but the door that even Kyle couldn’t open didn’t move at all.
She was trapped with this man whose name she didn’t even know.
Just the two of them.
Moreover, in a narrow, dark, enclosed space.
At that moment, Se Hee glanced at Kyle with wary eyes.
And slowly began to move away from him.
Se Hee tried to appear as natural as possible, but to Kyle, her awkward movements looked extremely unnatural.
“What’s with that attitude right now?”
As Se Hee pulled up the neckline of her dress and inched away, Kyle asked in disbelief.
“W-Well, the truth is, we’ve run into each other way too often for it to be coincidence, and now being trapped alone together is a bit… I mean, it’s not like I think you deliberately… in a bad way…”
Se Hee’s flustered words came out faster.
“Bad way? Me? Ha.”
Kyle sighed as if he couldn’t believe it.
“If someone deliberately created this situation… naturally.”
Suddenly, Kyle’s languid eyes looked down at Se Hee arrogantly.
And as if it were the most obvious thing, he said,
“…I should be the one on guard.”
What… what did he just say?
What kind of nonsense is this?
Se Hee stared at him with a dumbfounded expression at Kyle’s words.
“Right where you are now. It would be best not to move even one step from that spot. If this is clearly intentional.”
Kyle warned with sharp eyes.
His cutting voice strangely scratched at Se Hee’s nerves.
“I’ve been locked in bedrooms before, but an underground hatch is rather novel.”
Kyle looked down at Se Hee with an arrogant gaze, as if he already knew her next move.
“Hey. Are you in your right mind right now? Ah… I’ll admit you’re pretty handsome, but sorry, I absolutely hate guys like you. I’m totally against lookism. Me.”
Se Hee protested angrily.
“Lookism?”
Kyle found it interesting how Se Hee, who had been shrinking in fear just moments ago, now changed her expression and got fired up at his single remark.
“Yes. So drop the idea that I’ll pounce on you first. Aren’t you getting way ahead of yourself? I’m not that kind of person. Confucian girl, Confucian girl. Korean Confucian girl.”
Se Hee glared at Kyle with a displeased expression.
Why has this guy been speaking informally from the beginning?
“And hey. We haven’t even introduced ourselves, so why are you speaking informally? What if I’m older than you?”
Se Hee asked challengingly.
“I’m not that young.”
Kyle answered calmly.
Wow, this guy speaks informally so naturally.
“Is that so? May I ask how old you are this year?”
Se Hee asked sarcastically.
“Want me to say it first? You think I’d fall for such a cheap trick?”
Kyle countered, as if he saw through her intention.
“Do I really look like someone who’d use such a petty move? Fine. Then let’s say it fairly at the same time. Count to three.”
Se Hee seriously started counting.
“One. Two. Three.”
“Thirty-three.”
“Twenty-nine.”
The man and Se Hee said their ages at the same time.
What? He’s older than me?
Darn it. I should have added a few more years.
Se Hee suddenly felt like being honest had put her at a disadvantage.
“I’m older. I heard that in the Land of Courtesy, hierarchy is based on age.”
“Hmm. You really don’t look it. Well, fine, I’ll acknowledge it.”
“Shall we both speak informally then?”
Kyle subtly picked at her words.
“Then let’s both use honorifics. Normally when people first meet, they use honorifics. In the Land of Courtesy.”
“We feel like old acquaintances.”
He answered slyly.
This guy really picks up on every little thing.
Se Hee pouted in annoyance.
“Ah… yees, yees. This lowly one acknowledges it, sire.”
Then, as if asking if he was satisfied now, Se Hee teased in a comical tone.
Her expression was so funny that Kyle almost laughed but quickly covered his mouth.
After calmly composing his face again, Kyle checked his wristwatch.
The engine room hatch was designed to open only from the outside.
So unless someone opened it, they couldn’t get out.
They had no choice but to wait motionless until the early morning patrol.
Three more hours.
Kyle let out a long sigh first.
Dave, who thought he was in the event hall, would never think to look this deep in the underground engine room.
And to make matters worse, Dave had his phone.
If only he hadn’t seen the hem of that sparkling dress from the top of the engine room stairs.
No. If only he hadn’t followed her down.
Kyle’s uncomfortable gaze turned to Se Hee.
“What? Are you looking at me like that because you think I’ll jump you? What do you take me for? I’ll keep my distance, so move over there. I think we should bang on this door to let people know someone’s inside.”
Se Hee waved her hand as if telling Kyle to back off, her eyes sulky.
“Didn’t you hear anything while coming down the stairs? Because of the machine noise, even if we shout at the top of our lungs, no one will hear.”
“The door won’t open, so are we just supposed to stay like this? We have to try something. We need to get out quickly.”
Se Hee said worriedly.
“The patrol team will come in exactly three hours, so don’t waste your energy and just wait quietly.”
Kyle said in a calm tone.
“Three hours? The door is iron, the space is small… What if we run out of oxygen? What if this is a flood hatch and water suddenly starts pouring in? What if we hit an iceberg and sink? Huh?”
Se Hee fired off her worries like a machine gun.
“Sigh. Seriously.”
Kyle gently pressed his forehead.
“Hey. Look over there—the oxygen pressure gauge shows plenty of oxygen is being supplied. And flood hatches don’t open just anytime. Lastly, we’re sailing in the warm Mediterranean, so there are no icebergs.”
Kyle explained each of her questions one by one.
“As I said, the patrol team will arrive in exactly three hours—no, two hours and forty-five minutes. They check whether the hatch is operating safely every twelve hours.”
Kyle gave the exact time as if to reassure her.
But Se Hee’s expression didn’t improve.
She still looked visibly anxious.
“I see. Then what if we hit a reef or something? This is the lowest space…”
“The cruise ships of Evans Shipping Company have experienced crew and state-of-the-art equipment, so we will never hit a reef.”
Kyle said with confidence.
He immediately regretted saying it.
Explaining in such detail might make her realize he had some connection to the cruise ship.
He had ended up getting dragged into her panic.
“Oh, you sound like an expert. Do you cruise a lot? Explaining it like that suddenly makes me trust you a lot.”
Se Hee finally smiled.
For some reason, the man’s deep blue eyes seemed to calmly settle her anxious heart.
Kyle wasn’t sure whether to feel relieved or flustered that Se Hee was looking at him with an innocent expression, thinking he was just a cruise passenger.
“I’m Lee Se Hee. You probably already guessed I’m Korean.”
Se Hee, now much calmer than before, extended her hand to Kyle.
“Oh right. You probably hate skinship too.”
Se Hee quickly withdrew the hand she had offered.
Kyle quietly gazed at her.
“…Kyle Graham…”
“So it’s Mr. Graham. I was really curious about your name.”
Before he could finish introducing himself, Se Hee cut in.
Kyle’s brow momentarily furrowed.
“Thank you for saving me. I wanted to thank you properly, but you didn’t give me the chance. I’m finally able to say it now.”
Perhaps not noticing the change in Kyle’s expression, Se Hee continued.
“Don’t just stand there, sit down. Standing like that for three hours will be exhausting. I won’t jump you.”
Se Hee sat down in a suitable spot, keeping some distance from Kyle as she spoke playfully.
But even at Se Hee’s invitation, Kyle did not relax his posture.
* * *
“President, President!”
Captain Marcus burst roughly into Kyle’s office.
“Captain Marcus. What’s the matter?”
Dave, who was in the office, immediately stood up.
“Dave, are you alone? Where is the president?”
“Ah… he’s currently inspecting the event hall…”
Dave trailed off, watching Captain Marcus’s reaction.
“The event hall? The event hall is not the problem right now. Something big has happened.”
“Yes? Has there been an accident?”
Dave asked hurriedly with a shocked expression.
“The passenger in room 1305 has disappeared.”
Marcus said gravely.
“Yes? The passenger in 1305?”
Dave’s eyes widened.
Captain Marcus, who had been particularly concerned about the “Curse of the Zaina Ho,” had secretly ordered the crew to monitor the passenger in room 1305 without Kyle knowing.
He had even mobilized off-duty crew members to watch her every move, yet he received a report that she had suddenly vanished from the cocktail party.
They said only the phone she had been using remained on the table where she had been sitting.
The moment Captain Marcus heard that, his heart felt like it had frozen.
Hoping that the ominous incident he feared hadn’t occurred, he secretly ordered all crew members to find the passenger in room 1305.
But even after two hours, no one had found her.
Deciding he couldn’t resolve this on his own, Marcus had come straight to Kyle.
“We need to check all CCTV inside the ship immediately. Quickly report to the president.”
Since the president’s permission was required to access all CCTV footage inside the ship, Marcus urgently asked Dave.
But Dave’s expression was not good.
“Why are you hesitating? I said contact him quickly.”
The frustrated Marcus urged Dave.
“Um… Captain.”
Dave looked at Marcus with anxious eyes, fidgeting.
“What is it?”
“Actually… the president has also been missing for the past two hours.”
Dave said with difficulty, sweating nervously.
At those words, Captain Marcus’s face turned pale with shock.
“…W-What… what did you just say?”
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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