Contrary to the icy atmosphere, Si Heon wore a springlike smile, he took Ye Seul’s hand, who was sitting next to him, and looked down at her for a long time.
“I wanted to experience a proper married life with my wife.”
Boldly, Ye Seul flinched at the sight of Si Heon’s condescending gaze, even if he was the man she loved.
How experienced must a man be with women to wear such an expression just for show?
“Are you… trying to defy what I’m saying now?”
A vein popped on Byung Suk’s face.
“Why on earth are you planning to maintain a marriage with a girl you haven’t met even once in the last 7 years?”
“Isn’t it a bond arranged by the chairman?”
That was nonsense. Did he mean to say he fell in love at first sight with a woman he met for the first time in 7 years?
“Stop talking nonsense and divorce right now!”
Unlike Byung Suk, who was furious, Si Heon remained calm.
“The marriage started according to adults’ wishes, but I want to decide on the divorce.”
Byung Suk felt a thud at the back of his head due to Si Heon’s rebelliousness, which had never been seen even during puberty.
Baek Si Heon was a creation Byung Suk had spent over 20 years perfecting.
Kyung Hee, who had deceived Byung Suk and ran away with the man she loved, bowed her pride and kneeled.
She claimed she would live well even without Byung Suk, but after that man died, it seemed she had finally opened her eyes to reality.
Ok Ja occasionally peeked in and updated him.
When he heard that she was diagnosed with cancer, he wanted to forcefully bring her back, but his pride wouldn’t allow it.
He wanted his daughter, who had abandoned him, to come back on her own, and Ok Ja, unable to bear it, tried to convince Kyung Hee to go back to Byung Suk for the sake of her child.
Kyung Hee, who had no life skills, had no choice but to accept the reality that she couldn’t treat her own disease or raise her child.
With her frail and sickly face, she pushed her son towards Byung Suk.
A child, who looked very much like Kyung Hee’s childhood but was too young to tell if it was a boy or girl, sparked another desire in Byung Suk.
This time, he felt he could perfectly raise his own child. He could be comforted for the deep betrayal he felt from his daughter, Kyung Hee, who fell into a blind love and lacked rational judgement, through this child.
Since the winter day when Kyung Hee begged him to accept only the child as she was at fault, Si Heon had belonged to Byung Suk.
He made his daughter, Kyung Hee, give up her rights to Si Heon and gave him the Baek surname.
Unlike his daughter, who was madly in love and abandoned him, Si Heon perfectly moved according to Byung Suk’s will and even quietly accepted the strategic marriage at the young age of 22.
But he couldn’t understand why Si Heon was defying him now.
“If you want to experience married life, you should do it with someone you’re going to marry anew!”
Byung Suk recalled Chairman Choi saying that his granddaughter, Ye Seul, was waiting for Si Heon’s divorce.
Considering what Han Kyung Corporation, the best domestic distributor, had promised to Baek Song, Si Heon, who had no immediate thoughts of divorce, was frustrated.
Are you crazy… Could it be?
“Although marriage started as adults wanted, I want to decide the divorce myself.”
Byung Suk’s eyebrows trembled.
For the first time, a crack appeared in the expectations Byung Suk had held for Baek Si Heon.
The daughter, who he had raised so perfectly, had turned into a failure.
Again, he couldn’t be betrayed by his child.
So he raised Si Heon more strictly under his control.
Seeing him speak with his own will, have I let him loose too much?
Despite strictly blocking the meeting with Ye Seul, Byung Suk could not understand when the two became like this.
He fiercely competed with Si Heon, starting from the bottom of the Baek Song Group.
Just as Ye Seul forgot her marriage to become a Chocolatier, Si Heon did the same.
Every birthday, he only formally borrowed the name to send money, Si Heon didn’t know about it.
Byung Suk thought he had cleared his debt to Okja with this. Damn old man.
“Did you fall in love?”
“Maybe. I can’t take my eyes off her.”
“Why are you suddenly doing this after living like there was no each other for seven years?”
Si Heon kept women at a distance because he was a married man.
Byung Suk found such a demeanor of Si Heon to be quite convenient.
If he played around with anyone and had a sudden child with that woman, it would be a hassle for Byung Suk.
He felt like his innocent grandson had been seduced by that foxlike woman, and his insides boiled up.
“She won’t be of any help in your future. It was a lossmaking marriage for us.”
Byung Suk poured out harsh words without hesitation in front of the person involved.
“Pitying her and taking her in, Si Heon, isn’t your future too bright?”
The one with a bright future is not Baek Si Heon, but Baek Song Group, who made a fortune from the wedding.
Si Heon needed about three months to divert Byung Suk’s attention.
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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