“Hello, Grandma. I apologize for coming so late. My name is Choi Seungyul. I enjoyed the sweet rice cake you made last time. Thank you.”
Exiting Soonye’s room in pajamas, Hwang Sae was sharp.
“What is it? You didn’t even greet me. Why are you here at our house? It’s late; you should go home.”
“I ran away.”
Hwang Sae’s eyes widened in disbelief at the nonchalant words.
“Sister became a teacher, so what are you doing? A student ran away, and instead of sending him home, you bring him here like this? Is that reasonable?”
Hwang Sae glared at Hyojin.
“Then pretend you don’t know about the student who ran away after becoming a teacher?”
“Even so, why bring him here? Our house isn’t an inn. There’s no place for him here. Hurry and go to your house.”
Phew. Seungyul let out a disdainful snort as if to say it’s deadly.
“Is this man from this house?”
Rather than asking for a place to stay, he arrogantly talks as if he won’t allow it.
“You, when speaking nicely, immediately get away from my sister. Don’t cling to my poor sister; go grow up in your wealthy house!”
The more he insisted, Seungyul clung even tighter to Hyojin, fanning the flames against Hwang Sae.
“Hey! You find it fascinating and fun how we live like this, right? This is a two-room. You know what I’m talking about, right?”
“No. I don’t really understand.”
“You may not know since you live in a big house, but once you live here, you’ll see it’s cramped and uncomfortable. Understand now?”
“No. I prefer smaller spaces.”
“Ha! Do you have such a desire to beat me that you can’t distinguish between sense and nonsense? So you keep denying it without going through your brain, just because I say it’s not? Is that it?”
“No, not at all.”
“Then why! Why leave a palace-like house and say this tiny house is better?”
“Because I can be closer to the teacher.”
Huh. Unable to fend off the verbal attacks any longer, Hwang Sae, using Sunhye as a shield, retreated.
“Ugh, Granny. He’s disrespecting me.”
Tsk. Sunhye, as if acknowledging his incompetence, swung a fist as if to dismiss him and spoke gently.
“But, what should we do? To sleep at our house, he has to sleep with this guy.”
“Wow. I have to sleep with this man to live in this house?”
Perhaps influenced more by Granny’s expertise than Hwang Sae, Seungyul’s eyes, which had remained unfazed, shook as if caught in a whirlpool.
“This man, huh. I am significantly ten years older than you by age, and externally, I am a financial planner and internally, I could become your uncle, an important position.”
Even if the two insist that there’s nothing between them.
“Bonghwangsa, can’t you shut your mouth?”
Ugh, who’s the adult and who’s the child, really?
Watching from the side, Hyojin couldn’t bear to witness the embarrassment.
“What on earth are you thinking? What if the kid’s dad finds out?”
As if asking for an explanation, Sunhye pulled Hyojin close and nudged her.
“Granny, if he falls asleep, I’ll take him home. Don’t say anything, don’t say words that could hurt the kid.”
Hyojin lowered her voice considerably, not wanting Seungyul to hear.
“Oh my. Can’t you see if you have eyes? Look at who is hurting whom right now.”
Sunhye pointed confidently at Seungyul, who was negotiating with Hwang Sae, her finger unwavering.
“Alright. Then, from now on, I’ll treat him well. In return, treat me like your uncle, okay?”
“Okay. If that’s what you want, I’ll accept you as my uncle.”
Thinking this is an excellent opportunity to investigate the relationship between his sister and the boss all night.
“Hey!”
Sunhye shouted at Hwang Sae.
“Kid, today, sleep in the teacher’s room. Not with this man!”
Sunhye, who comforted Seungyul and ushered Hyojin into the room, asked Hwang Sae, trying to soothe him.
“Did you bring the child close, thinking it would be fun to play together and now regretting it because you’re getting scolded?”
“Why? Even though he’s not my nephew born from my sister, if I could have both a son-in-law and a nephew at once, it would be nice for Granny, right?”
“Shush! That’s why you get ignored by the child.”
Already upset, Sunhye seemed like her outfit might be turned upside down.
What were you thinking, bringing the child here? If feelings deepen, it’ll only be harder for me.
“Wow, being here in the teacher’s room feels like being at a pajama party.”
After washing his face, hands, and feet in the bathroom and brushing his teeth, Seungyul, wearing the T-shirt Hyojin had changed him into, sniffed at it like a puppy, his nose on the shirt.
“Why? Is there a smell?”
Even though it was a freshly washed T-shirt.
“It’s the teacher’s scent.”
A warm and comforting fabric softener fragrance brought a smile to his face, as if he was nestled in the teacher’s embrace.
“Today, two of my wishes came true. I really wanted to sleep with the teacher.”
“Two? What’s the other one then?”
“I had a swimming competition with Dad, and I won.”
“Wow, really? What else happened?”
Turning off the lights and lighting a Christmas-scented aroma candle, Hyojin, lying on the bed with Sunhye, pulled out a conversation thread that hadn’t been finished.
“Teacher, didn’t you hear? Roy likes me.”
“But didn’t you really not know?”
Smiling as she faced each other, Hyojin pulled out a half-finished piece of yarn while lying on the bed.
“Then when did the teacher know? What did you say? Do you like Roy?”
“Honestly, I’m not sure.”
Seungyul lay back on the bed, looking at the ceiling, exhaling deeply.
“When did the teacher know that Dad liked him?”
“Hmm… from the first time we met?”
“Really?”
Hyojin nodded, watching Seungyul, who sat up yawning after wetting the blanket.
“When I first saw Dad, he looked so lonely.”
Recalling the face that seemed desolate if not desolate, a chilly wind seemed to pass through her heart.
“So I wanted to warm him up. To keep him from being cold.”
“But why did you separate from Dad? You still like him like this.”
Instead of answering, Hyojin gently brushed Seungyul’s forehead, where his bangs had come down neatly, and looked into his clear and transparent eyes.
“Just because you say you love someone doesn’t mean you have to marry them, but not marrying doesn’t mean you don’t love them.”
Even though they couldn’t become a family by getting married. The teacher will love you and Dad more than anyone else in the world.
“Teacher, I’m sleepy.”
In response to the lullaby-like gentle voice, Seungyul yawned, closing his eyes heavy with sleep.
“Oh? Already sleeping? The teacher hasn’t said what I wanted to say yet.”
Even though the sleeping arrangements changed, it seemed like they were extremely tired since they fell asleep so quickly.
“Seungyul, do you remember? We decided that if today were the last day, we would spend it together, eating lots of delicious things.”
The child, unaware that today was indeed that day, quickly drifted off to dreamland.
“Seungyul, sleep well.”
When you wake up, the teacher won’t be by your side anymore.
“Seungyul, I’m sorry.”
I wish time had stopped like this….
Even in that moment of thought, time continued to flow cruelly.
“Seungyul, thank you.”
Thank you for teaching me about love, even though I came to teach you for money.
If it weren’t for Seungyul, the teacher might still not know what love is.
Dad and the teacher have to part ways because they truly love you.
“Seungyul, goodbye.”
Someday, when you grow up, you’ll understand why I had to let you go.
Will you curse and resent the time we spent together then? I hope not.
Hyojin gently stroked the sleeping child’s face, pressing against the wet pillow with moist eyes.
From the stubbornly protruding forehead to the well-defined eyebrows, the soft texture of the two plump cheeks, and even the sweet scent of the hair, like glutinous rice cake. As if you could see and feel without looking or touching.
Tears welled up in Hyojin’s eyes as she engraved Seungyul’s face with her fingertips, flowing down her cheeks.
My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
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Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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