“A morning with warm sunlight streaming in through the window.
Thud.
Hyojin, lying sideways on the bed, cautiously reacted to the sound of the door closing behind her.
Perhaps from crying all night, the sunlight coming in through the window felt unusually dazzling.
She sat up and looked around, but it seemed Syeyul had already gotten up, leaving Hyojin alone in the bedroom.
‘It’s too late, but can’t we sleep here tonight? Yul might be disappointed if he wakes up in the morning, and the teacher isn’t here.’
Considering the teacher might feel uncomfortable, Hyojin couldn’t refuse Exchange’s offer to sleep on the sofa.
‘I hope it wasn’t a dream when I woke up.’
If only she hadn’t heard those words?
It’s okay; she can wake up early in the morning, greet Syeyul, and leave.
As she opened the door, she heard Exchange calling Syeyul from the living room, lowering his voice.
“Yul! What if you hide the teacher’s shoes there? Hurry, bring them back before the teacher wakes up.”
“What if they disappear like last time when you hid them from me?”
Ha, hiding shoes like that.
Hyojin was so surprised that words wouldn’t come out.
“Did I talk well with the teacher when I slept yesterday?”
“What did you talk about?”
Hyojin, about to leave the room, unknowingly stopped and listened.
“About marriage.”
“What? Marriage…!”
Exchange was speechless and sighed deeply.
“Then what did you say?”
Even though she fell asleep early as told to talk quietly with the teacher.
“Well, since the teacher’s father was wrongly accused and passed away, I apologized for being sorry.”
Because of the misunderstanding all this time.
“So, what about the teacher?”
“She cried.”
Thinking of Hyojin, who cried all night, Exchange, remembering the painful feeling of alcohol passing through the liver, felt bitter.
“But why leave the teacher alone in the room and sleep here? Without comforting her?”
Syeyul, as if showing off how well he could do, clenched his fist and rolled his eyes up and down.
“Then what do you want? She said it’s uncomfortable here, so she’ll go home. I told her I would sleep well on the sofa thinking of you, so she should sleep in bed.”
Instead of being grateful, he scratched away at the scab.
There was no other senior besides my son.
“Why are you making excuses for me? If Dad wants to be with me, he should say so. If he sees the teacher crying, it hurts my heart. Let me stay next to her. Why can’t you say that?!”
There’s a mouth…!
“Yul. Forcing someone’s feelings is not something you can get by pushing it forcefully. If you force it like that, you might end up farther away.”
What is he going to do when he grows up and tries to date later?
“Then if the teacher says she doesn’t like Dad. If she says let’s not meet again, will Dad give up?”
Cornered, Exchange refuted Syeyul.
“Why are you bringing up my story? We’re talking about the teacher right now.”
This is not some kind of court.”
“Why is my story coming up here? We’re talking about the teacher now.”
This isn’t some kind of courtroom.
Exchange pointed out that Syeyul was clouding the issue and clarified that this place was meant for discussing the teacher’s story, not his own.
“But if you stay quiet, how will the teacher know Dad’s feelings?”
By expressing it, the teacher would understand that Dad loves her.
If you don’t express it, how will the teacher know Dad’s feelings? How can you get married in a thousand years?
Waiting until now.
“What if the teacher looks at another man like yesterday and gets rejected?”
Even though he’s not a bachelor but a single father with a child.
“Hey, rejected…!”
Why is his vocabulary so similar?
“Honestly, the one who confessed to liking the teacher first was Dad!”
“What?”
“I told her I liked the teacher. When I become an adult, I’ll wait. Why can’t you say to marry the teacher now?”
“Well…!”
Because Hyojin’s father was wrongly implicated and passed away.
Of course, it’s a joyous occasion that her deceased father’s honor has been restored. However, if there hadn’t been an incident of driving her wife’s car by chance, he wouldn’t have returned.
From Hyojin’s perspective, it was almost certain that she would have negative thoughts about herself.
And Exchange felt the same way.
Thinking of his wife who tragically died in an accident. Even though he felt relieved to hear that Hyojin’s father was not the perpetrator, it wasn’t something to be celebrated.
“Hugging the teacher, holding hands, even kissing. You did all that, but you won’t get married?”
“What nonsense!”
Anyway, why did he give the phone to the child at that time?
Caught in a weak spot, Exchange couldn’t offer any rebuttal.
He didn’t know that Hyojin was inexperienced in such matters because she was the first.
She was bold and honest enough to confess first and actively show affection, competing against non-existent ex-boyfriends. However, now that he knew everything, he was careful in various ways.
The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)
Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.
The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”
Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!
Warnings:
- Male pregnancy.
- Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
- Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.
