“What relationship? We don’t have any relationship.”
Hyo Jin said it with fire in her eyes, lest there be another misunderstanding.
“But why are you saying you’ll repay her money?”
The rook seemed suspicious, eyeing Hyo Jin.
“Sis, tell me honestly. Did nothing really happen between you and that man at that house? No matter how hard life is, it’s not that… Surely, not even with a single dad who has a 9yearold kid… Ah?!”
The rook, who was kicked under the table, got up and hopped around.
“Hey, you blockhead! Is your brain that dull? The kid asked me to be her mother at school, so I did it just once.”
The rook was more flabbergasted.
“Sis, you’re twentyseven now. Does it make sense that you have a nineyearold son? You would have given birth at eighteen, do people believe that?”
“I did it because I wanted to. Just for one day, she asked me to be her mother.”
“But why did he come back to get you?”
“That’s what I’m saying.”
When was it ever time to pack up and drive away.
“Everyone pretends to care about the baby a lot, but from what I’ve seen, nobody in that house really cares about the baby. The woman, who is called the great lady,
“When I first saw her, her heavenly beauty, like something not of this world, was so dazzling that I couldn’t open my eyes.
“But that man who calls himself the kid’s dad…!”
Hyo Jin spread her palm and examined the lines on her hand as if she had become a palm reader.
“He doesn’t even look at the pretty face of his own child because he’s always staring at his tablet.”
I, who share not a drop of blood with her, miss her so much after not seeing her for just a few days.
“Oh, my. How much the kid must have missed a mother’s affection to ask someone like our sister to be her mother. It makes me feel sorry.”
The rook, who had been clicking his tongue, opened his mouth.
“Uh, Sis.”
Thinking that he might have revealed his existence, Gyo Hwan lifted his head and heard Hyo Jin’s sobbing sound in his ear.
“Sis, are you crying?”
“……!”
“Sis, pull yourself together. She’s not such a pitiful kid. To the world, we’re far more pitiful than she is.”
“I initially thought so too, but honestly, our dad didn’t have money, but how special was he to us?”
Especially after mom passed away.
“Dad never came home emptyhanded when he got off work.”
When he collected money from clients, he would buy a chicken with both hands full.
“Has our baby ever felt such joy?”
“……”
“During my stay at that house, I never once saw her run into her dad’s arms when he returned from work.”
Instead, in front of me, she put on a tough act, but in front of her dad, she couldn’t make a peep because she was too busy minding him.
“No matter how much money that man makes, as a dad, he’s a complete zero. Our dad was too trusting and got used, but to us, he was a perfect dad!”
With a bang, Hyo Jin slammed the table and behind her, the voice of the male team leader who came to pick up Gyo Hwan was heard.
“CEO.”
CEO?
The moment Hyo Jin turned around, her eyes widened at the sight of a man’s silhouette backlit by an orange streetlamp.
Gulp.
The scent of his skin carried by the wind made her feel as if she had sobered up instantly.
“No, why aren’t you leaving? Why are you here?”
“……”
Stunned, Gyo Hwan, who had come to return the lipstick, forgot even that fact and silently turned around.
Hyo Jin, who had been gossiping earlier, felt uncomfortable looking at his dejected back.
“Surely he didn’t hear everything?”
The rook was incredulous.
After all that loud talking.
“CEO.”
The male team leader approached Gyo Hwan, who was bitterly emptying an ontherocks at his regular whiskey bar.
Even after downing glass after glass, Gyo Hwan’s deepseated selfloathing was not easily dispelled.
“It’s late, you should go home now. Seung Yul must be waiting.”
“……”
Thinking about the child who would be waiting not for her dad, but her teacher, made Gyo Hwan feel even more bitter.
“Oh, right, this.”
As he was unsteadily getting up, he handed Hyo Jin’s lipstick to the male team leader.
“I forgot to pass it on earlier.”
Why on earth did he personally insist on delivering the lipstick.
Despite waiting in the car, when he didn’t return, the male team leader went to fetch him only to find him standing, mentally stripped to the bone by Teacher Bong.
“The team leader should also go home now, it’s late.”
As the driver was waiting in front of the bar, the male team leader opened the car’s back door and watched Gyo Hwan unsteadily climb into the back seat with concern.
Evergreen house.
The crescent moon, shaped like an eyebrow, hung low in the dark night through the window.
Stepping onto the cold wooden stairs, Gyo Hwan, who stood in front of the bedroom, let out a deep sigh and loosened the necktie that had been choking him.
The door opened behind him with a click.
“Dad, where’s the teacher?”
A child in pajamas, with eyes as round as an owl’s, was peeking out.
“Aren’t you asleep yet?”
My Ex-Girlfriend Is The Regent In The Female-dominant World (Male lead transmigrates to the matriarchal world)
Two years ago, Gu Sui picked up a homeless woman in ancient costume from the street.
Apart from occasionally claiming to be a princess from a female-dominant country due to illness, her figure, appearance, intelligence, and martial arts skills were impeccable.
Naturally evolving from roommates to girlfriends, as time went on, Gu Sui found it increasingly difficult to tolerate her queen syndrome.
“Mu Jiulu, can you stop controlling me inside and out? Let’s break up.”
Gu Sui made a breakup call, and since then, he couldn’t find any trace of her.
A year later, Gu Sui, who was planning to move, woke up the next day and found himself in a different place.
“Young Master, today is the day you choose your Wife-master through martial arts competition at Jade Dew Pavilion. Please get up quickly.”
Gu Sui: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
As the only son of a general’s mansion in a female-dominant dynasty, the young empress personally issued a decree allowing Gu Sui to select his Wife-master through martial arts competition. Whoever could defeat him could marry him.
Gu Sui: “……”
He didn’t inherit the original owner’s martial prowess, so anyone could defeat him! And what the hell is a Wife-master?
Forced to come to Jade Dew Pavilion, the densely packed women below made Gu Sui’s agoraphobia act up, and his face was full of resistance.
Until he saw the Regent sitting on the second floor, with a smile on the corner of her lips, her eyes wicked and nonchalant.
Hmm… she looked a little familiar.
It turned out that the Regent also found him a little familiar.
Mu Jiulu fiddled with her bone clasp, her deep gaze locked on the man who was out of place in this world.
“Finally, I found you.”
Male transmigrates into female-dominant world
One-sentence summary: What goes around comes around, taking turns in the crematorium
