Seungyul, smiling with a mischievous glint in his eyes, comforted Hyojin like patting her.
“Thanks. The teacher got a call from Grandma and said she needs to stop by home for a moment.”
Even if he is worried about being alone, he wouldn’t want to stay at the hospital when it’s a family emergency. He should shine his face and come.
“I’ll be reading a book until the teacher comes. Don’t worry, Mr. Nam will be with me, so don’t worry.”
Hyojin, who praised Seungyul as if he did something commendable, stroked his head once again and left to take a taxi, arranging for a driver to bring her home.
In case Grandma doesn’t like Dad’s car, you know.
“Thank you.”
Hyojin, who arrived at the villa in a taxi, paid with a card and got off but stood still for a moment.
A black car that hadn’t been seen in the parking lot was parked.
What’s this black car? It’s not a permanent car.
Thinking it was an illegally parked vehicle, she peered inside to see if there was a note left, but suddenly, the driver’s side door opened.
What? There was someone inside the car, right?
Ignoring it, she turned her head and headed to the villa, and from behind, she heard a strange man’s voice.
“Are you Ms. Bong Hyojin?”
The man who got out of the car was dressed in an ordinary suit like any other office worker, with a friendly demeanor.
“Who are you?”
Hyojin stepped back as if she had encountered a debt collector.
“I have something to tell you briefly. Would you like to get in the car?”
Does he know where to take me in that car?
“Director Park.”
At the unpleasant laughter coming from inside the car, Hyojin felt a chill.
‘Who is it? Why is he looking at me like that?’
The middle-aged man, who made eye contact with Hyojin through the side mirror, came down from the car through the door opened by the employee.
“Then, let’s talk at a nearby cafe.”
“What on earth do you want to talk about?”
“It’s about your late father.”
“What?”
My late father…!
Hyojin couldn’t refuse the man’s offer any longer, as if she were possessed, and went to a nearby coffee shop.
“I’m sorry, but I’ll send a message to Grandma. If she thinks I’ll be home soon, she’ll wait.”
Sitting by the window, Hyojin received coffee that the man, who seemed like a secretary, brought from the counter.
“You are preparing for the law school exam after quitting as a home tutor, right?”
“How do you…?”
He came to talk about Dad, who passed away, after all.
Putting her phone in her pocket and melting her hands in a warm mug filled with coffee, Hyojin carefully examined the face of the man sitting across from her.
With intentionally undyed, clean hair and genteel horn-rimmed glasses concealing wrinkled eyes and a gaze that harbored a subtle sharpness.
“Why do you want to go to law school?”
In a tone that seemed deliberately dismissive, Hyojin straightened her neck to not appear indifferent.
“Why does it matter?”
The man seemed quite satisfied with this reaction and smugly raised the corners of his oily mouth.
“Do you really need to be this sharp? I’m trying to help a young and smart woman like you who is wasting her talent.”
Well, wasting talent?
Hyojin’s eyebrows trembled as she wrapped her hands around the mug.
“Your late father had a major accident eight years ago. Even if you go to law school, do you think you can become a proper legal professional?”
“…!”
“Even if you pass the bar exam with outstanding grades, the public prosecutor won’t be able to function properly because of your late father. Even if it’s a case that ended due to the suspect’s death and there’s no prosecution, there is still a judicial record. Even if you pass the bar exam with excellent grades, would there be a client who wants to appoint you, knowing about your father?”
“Who the hell are you?”
Unable to identify his true identity, Hyojin glared at him while swallowing her trembling breath.
“Just who are you to avoid talking about my late father and make such insolent remarks?”
Is he possibly a victim of Dad’s accident?
“Choi Gyu-hwan.”
“What?”
At the name Gyu-hwan uttered by the man, Hyojin’s pupils stiffened.
“He is currently in a coma in the hospital, right?”
“…!”
Unable to speak due to her confusion, Hyojin stared at the man who smiled as if he already knew everything, leaning in closer.
“Fortunately, when he collapsed, CPR was performed, and he miraculously survived due to emergency treatment in the ambulance. He is still unconscious. If an ordinary person collapsed, they would have died already. Money is indeed good, isn’t it? If you had been a little late, he could have died.”
It’s a pity. In response to the unexpected reaction beyond imagination, Hyojin’s face contorted even more.
“Why do you keep doing useless things? In the end, you’ll have to part with Choi Gyu-hwan when he wakes up. Why do you keep taking care of him? Even if your dad had an accident and died, who would have known that the person who died in Choi Gyu-hwan’s accident was his wife? Right? Even if they love each other, they should separate when considering the child.”
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
