“Sensitive?”
“Miss Ye Seul, your senses of smell and taste are sensitive.”
Ye Seul nodded her head.
Her strength was in being able to detect minute differences in taste and smell, which played a major role in her ability to excel as a chocolatier.
“I’ve been sensitive to food smells and such since I was young. I can even tell the difference in cocoa content when I eat chocolate.”
Ye Seul lifted her chin proudly.
“That’s why your chocolates are so delicious, Miss Ye Seul. When I tried the chocolates recommended by Sebastian from the seed bank, I was deeply moved. I finally understood what it meant to say that something melts in your mouth.”
Ye Seul’s face turned red.
She rarely received such explicit praise.
Baek Si Heon really did like Chloé’s chocolate. That’s why he had called her over.
Was this marriage contract for Chloé?
Was it for Ye Seul?
“Hmm. I appreciate the compliment. But I don’t have anything to offer.”
Ye Seul spread her palms out.
“Well, it seems like there’s something to me…”
Baek Si Heon’s finger lightly touched Ye Seul’s palm.
Ye Seul’s eyes widened.
“Let me taste the delicious chocolate made by these hands.”
The time his finger lingered was fleeting, but her palm felt as if it had been branded.
Ye Seul felt her face heat up as well.
She tried to change the subject to avoid his gaze.
“So what does ‘조난용’ mean?”
As Ye Seul persisted, Baek Si Heon flashed a bitter smile, as if in trouble.
“It’s like a dessert.”
“Dessert and ‘조난’ are different.”
“Do you remember the saying, ‘If the end is good, then the whole day is remembered as good’?”
“Ah…”
Ye Seul recalled the day she met Byung Suk, and the memory of going to a place with delicious desserts with Baek Si Heon.
“I eat it when I want to feel better.”
Baek Si Heon popped a piece of chocolate into his mouth.
“It’s a feeling of wanting to be saved when I’m in trouble.”
“So for you, Mr. Si Heon, it’s like medicine.”
Baek Si Heon paused and put down his wine glass.
“There was someone who said the same thing to me while giving me chocolate a long time ago.”
Baek Si Heon bit his lower lip lightly.
‘Si Heon. Here, try this. I’ll give you a magical pill that’ll make you feel better.’
He remembered the taste of the chocolate that his sick mother had pushed into his mouth with her frail hand.
‘When your heart feels empty and you want to fill it, put one in your mouth and close your eyes.’
Kyeong Hee would lose her sanity when the pain began.
She would grit her teeth, lose her temper, and even resent Baek Si Heon and his father.
When Kyeong Hee was sane, it was like a moment of chocolate that would melt in an instant for Baek Si Heon.
“Delicious, right? But you need to brush your teeth well afterward.”
Baek Si Heon, still a family member, hated living in Yeok Seol Jae, where, unlike before, he couldn’t sleep with his mother and had a fixed visiting time.
“If your mother is gone, listen well to your grandfather. Become a perfect child for your grandfather instead of your mother. It will be better here than going to the nursery.”
Kyung Hee believed that if she placed the expectation Byung Suk had on her onto Si Heon, he would receive quality education and grow up without any lack.
If only she had not been crazed with love, her fate wouldn’t have been this miserable.
She wished that at least her son wouldn’t get swayed by emotions and grow up accepting everything Byung Suk gives.
“I wonder who offered chocolate to Mr. Si Heon.”
Could the person who gave the chocolate to eat have been a lover or someone he loved?
Ye Seul felt needlessly dizzy.
Even though it didn’t matter whether Baek Si Heon had a lover, she felt uncomfortably bothered.
“It’s a secret.”
Si Heon didn’t want to share his gloomy story with Ye Seul.
“Dark chocolate is said to secrete the happiness hormone. So, I guess the expression ‘medicine for a good mood’ is right.”
Ye Seul picked up one more truffle that Si Heon had given and put it in her mouth.
“So, when does Mr. Si Heon need that happiness hormone?”
“When work is hard? When you’ve bought a tasteless dessert?”
Si Heon tapped his cheeks with the fingers that were held to his chin as if he was in a quandary.
“When you couldn’t recognize your wife in front of you…?”
Ye Seul, listening with her eyes narrowed, burst into laughter at Si Heon’s last words.
“I think you’d definitely want to eat it then.”
She hadn’t counted how many glasses she’d drunk, but she was beginning to feel tipsy.
She swung the wine glass and popped a truffle into her mouth.
Ye Seul licked the chocolate powder that had stuck to her fingers with her red tongue.
Si Heon stared fixedly at Ye Seul doing so.
“Did I get something on me?”
Ye Seul, unable to bear the hot gaze, asked.
“Yes. Here.”
Si Heon pointed to the edge of Ye Seul’s mouth with his long, white finger.
Ye Seul rubbed her lips with her finger.
“There, on the left… a bit lower.”
Ye Seul closed her eyes, feeling dazed.
Si Heon’s thumb pressed against Ye Seul’s lips as if to part them.
Cold Male Lead Became My Clingy Husband (Female-Dominant)
Feng Bai Su transmigrated into a matriarchal novel, becoming the sister of the female protagonist and the Seventh Princess of the Feng Ling Kingdom.
After working herself to death in her previous life, finally reincarnating as a princess, she only wanted to be a lazy fish who could eat, sleep, and play.
Until she met the male protagonist from the book, Wei Jing Mo, and he took a liking to her!
Wei Jing Mo is the top young man in Feng Ling City, talented in both appearance and ability, from a prestigious family, with a cold and otherworldly appearance, a figure like the bright moon in the hearts of noble ladies. It was thought that only the most powerful and talented noble lady in Feng Ling City would be worthy of such a brilliant young man. Who knew that this young gentleman would secretly admire the infamous Seventh Princess?
Short scene 1:
Feng Bai Su looked at the young man crying like a pear blossom in the rain before her, and couldn’t help but doubt her life.
Wasn’t the male lead described as a cold and otherworldly figure in the book?
Then who was this poor little thing crying with swollen red eyes and tear-stained face?
Short scene 2:
Wei Jing Mo stared intently at Feng Bai Su who was about to go out, wanting to say, “Be careful on the road.”
Before he could speak, Feng Bai Su suddenly bent down and bit his cheek.
Her peach blossom eyes were full of disdain: “Tsk! You’re so clingy!”
Wei Jing Mo: “…”
A talented fox spirit female lead with a flirtatious appearance but actually abstinent VS A cold-looking but actually naive and clingy little jealous male lead
