The time of dreaming about the sky and having futile dreams was over.
For the one with broken wings, all that remained was a fall.
“Huha!”
Yeonwoo, escaping to the kitchen after avoiding the sword, breathed heavily.
Her heart pounded busily as if doing jumping jacks.
The one who had various delusions about just one snowman lightly slapped her own face in embarrassment.
“What kind of thoughts are those over there!”
She hadn’t even married yet, and she didn’t understand what she was thinking.
But just thinking about a little kid who looked like Geon made her feel cute!
As she imagined a child resembling him, Yeonwoo’s cheeks turned red again.
“…Honestly, it would be incredibly cute.”
However, becoming someone’s mother, forming a family, was something she had never even imagined.
Now that she could fulfill the role of a person, marriage still felt like a distant story.
One thing was certain: a future without Geon was now unimaginable.
The time spent with him had become so natural.
She wanted to share happy moments and receive comfort from him when sad.
She wanted to enjoy good things together and overcome difficult times side by side.
Since she had experienced the excitement through Geon, the time they were building together now felt like a sweet fragment of an unwanting dream to Yeonwoo.
Rather than a vague future, she decided to focus on the happiness of the present with the two of them.
“By the way, what should I do for your birthday?”
Geon’s birthday was coming soon.
But celebrating the birthday of a lover was a first, so she didn’t know what to do.
“You said you wanted to see a lady’s figure…”
No matter what, wouldn’t it be best for the person in question to give the gift they wanted on their birthday?
Geon had said she could even sprinkle dust on him, but Yeonwoo’s pride didn’t allow her to fill it in such a careless way.
“Since I’m doing it, I’ll properly show the charm of Hong Yeonwoo!”
I don’t know where this confidence came from, but Yeonwoo decided to gather the femininity latent within her soul.
Although she had the enthusiasm, the real issue was different.
Yeonwoo had been busy making a living, so she had lived a life far removed from the adornments of a woman.
As an ordinary woman, she didn’t have any jewelry, no cosmetics, and she didn’t even know how to apply makeup.
While she could have tried to get cosmetics, it was obvious that Yeonwoo, who had never adorned herself, would look ridiculous if she tried to put on makeup.
“Anyway… I can’t ask Daebok to teach me.”
Daebok’s sense of aesthetics was a failure, and as a man, he couldn’t teach Yeonwoo the ways of a woman’s makeup.
Therefore, she needed someone who knew how to do makeup and could teach her how to adorn herself.
“That’s right!”
Just then, Yeonwoo thought of a mentor who could teach her.
“Miss Choa would be perfect!”
“Where are you going without saying anything?”
Geon called out to Yeonwoo, who was about to leave the main gate.
Yeonwoo, caught like a sparrow that exposed its nest, flinched and replied with a defiant expression.
“It’s a secret.”
“A secret?”
No matter how you looked at it, Geon raised one eyebrow at Yeonwoo’s suspicious behavior.
“Haven’t we decided not to have secrets between us?”
“That’s right. But still, it’s a secret.”
Since the gift had already been decided, the more unexpected aspects there were, the greater the impact, right?
Yeonwoo wanted to prepare Geon’s birthday present as a surprise gift, so she decided to keep today’s outing a secret.
For some reason, Geon squinted his eyes at Yeonwoo’s graceful appearance today.
“Why are you applying makeup when you usually don’t?”
“Gasp!”
Yeonwoo flinched again at Geon’s insight.
She had applied a bit as practice to get used to it before meeting Choa to learn makeup.
But how could this man be so sharp as to notice even a small change in Yeonwoo?
With his gaze still suspicious, Geon approached Yeonwoo.
Taking a step back, Yeonwoo’s back touched the closed door.
Geon reached out and confined her in his arms, turning Yeonwoo into a helpless captive.
With his black eyes lowered, he whispered in a languid voice into Yeonwoo’s ear.
“You’ve dressed up so beautifully like this.”
As if their faces were about to touch, the distance between the two suddenly narrowed.
A tingling sensation, felt from Geon’s breath at the nape of her neck, rose from Yeonwoo’s toes to her heart.
“Who are you going to meet?”
“That’s also a secret, so I can’t tell you…!”
At that moment, Geon’s crimson lips approached Yeonwoo’s lips closely.
Yeonwoo, with closed eyes due to the increasingly approaching fresh scent of the grass, waited for Geon’s lips to touch hers, as if expecting it.
“…?”
However, usually, Geon’s lips should have separated long ago, but she felt no sensation at all.
When she gently opened the eyes that had been closed in a strange feeling, she saw Geon’s face staring at her.
Why leave the lips untouched? What’s with the intense gaze?
“…Why aren’t you doing it?”
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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