Gyo Hwan’s rough breathing as he roared seemed like a slap to the face.
“I’ll take it off. I intended to do so even without you saying so.”
Damn it, who would want to wear these clothes?
Hyo Jin, unable to say that she was forced to wear it because of his son, felt tears welling up from injustice.
Of course, she anticipated that the high salary would come with a difficult position, but she didn’t know she would experience this kind of hardship.
“CEO. What’s the matter?”
Team Leader Nam Joon Seok, the executive secretary, rushed in as soon as he heard the noise inside. Of course, the housekeeper Pyo was with him too.
“Did the madam send this?”
As if in good timing, Gyo Hwan approached the housekeeper standing next to Team Leader Nam.
“No, I haven’t even greeted the madam yet.”
Housekeeper Pyo, standing behind him with surprise, looked at Hyo Jin and couldn’t close his dropped jaw. Team Leader Nam Joon Seok was the same.
It wasn’t only Gyo Hwan who thought of his deceased wife when he saw the clothes she was wearing.
“Why is Teacher Bong in this room?”
Hyo Jin, blocked by Housekeeper Pyo while trying to avoid Gyo Hwan, felt as if her very legs to escape were being burned.
“I’m truly sorry.”
“Shouldn’t you explain the situation before apologizing?”
Gyo Hwan, who had somewhat regained his composure than before, narrowed his eyebrows sharply, as if interrogating.
“Ah, I was coming out after meeting with the young master… um… the house is so big that I ended up losing my way?”
His eyebrows, which were slightly tilted, narrowed even further.
It was not a narrow door. The door to heaven might be wider than that.
“Um. At first, I followed Housekeeper Pyo, but when I came out, no one was there?”
“So…?”
Housekeeper Pyo looked at me as if it was my fault.
“No, that’s not what I mean. The door was open, so I thought this might be the room where I’d be staying.”
So, she dared to mistake the hostess’s room as hers.
Hyo Jin felt the silence making the public opinion worsen.
“So what do you want to say?”
Gyo Hwan interrupted as if to say, just state your request.
“I did it because I didn’t know. Because I didn’t know.”
If I knew, would I have done it? Honestly, I didn’t even want to wear it.
“I’m truly sorry. This won’t happen again. I’ll take off the clothes right away and put them back in their place.”
Above her bowed head once again, Gyo Hwan’s dry voice fell.
“Follow me.”
‘What should I do. Am I getting fired already?’
I came for an interview and ended up wearing the clothes of a deceased wife. Oh no, I’m definitely getting fired, right?
I should have declined the moment they asked me to play the role of a mother.
For money, I left my liver and gallbladder cleanly washed at home.
I didn’t expect to face such a predicament from day one because of my presumptions.
“Please, come in.”
Team Leader Nam, who was marching ahead like a guard, opened the door to his office for me.
Hyo Jin, who faced Gyo Hwan alone in a quiet room, felt like standing in a winter field hit by a cold northern wind.
“I’m truly sorry.”
“That’s enough.”
Passing by her while giving off a cool skin scent, Gyo Hwan, standing in front of the desk, didn’t even bother to look at her as if he hated excuses.
Hyo Jin watched his graceful fingers touch the screen of the white tablet on the mahogany desk, biting her lip.
“Saying sorry too often tends to lessen its sincerity.”
“Ah, yes.”
As it turned out, he didn’t just resemble his face.
The chic atmosphere and sarcastic tone were undoubtedly genes inherited from his father.
“How do you find Yul after meeting him? It seems that my son likes Teacher Bong very much.”
Even though I couldn’t quite understand.
“Pardon? Seung Yul?”
Oh my. Are you saying that little boy likes me? After getting me into this predicament, if he didn’t like me, it would be a betrayal.
“If you become my son’s tutor, there are things you must strictly adhere to.”
Gyo Hwan, who had no way of knowing the circumstances of the two, handed over the electronic contract on the tablet, making a red circle around the ‘contract termination clause’ as if to emphasize that she should be well aware of it.
“First, you should maintain confidentiality externally, but you should not have any secrets from me.”
Duty of confidentiality and notification in business.
“Above all, you should not hide any of the child’s wrongdoings out of fear of me.”
“Yes, I will bear that in mind.”
Hyo Jin, who had already violated the first clause without Gyo Hwan’s knowledge, braced herself.
‘Poor child. Losing his mother just after being born.’
The professor who recommended me urged to take good care of him with love, but Hyo Jin, who met his father Gyo Hwan at first, didn’t quite empathize.
What’s so pitiful? No matter how much he lacks a mother, he has such a young, rich, and handsome father instead.
However, having experienced a boneshattering shock just from a sidelong glance, Hyo Jin felt like she might understand why Seung Yul didn’t want to tell his father.
“Second, do not let the child manipulate you.”
Gyo Hwan, who had no idea what Hyo Jin was thinking, opened his tightly closed lips.
“As a teacher, win by your skills alone. Don’t try to appease the child’s whims or curry favor with baseless sympathy.”
“Ah, yes.”
Realizing that she had also violated the second clause, Hyo Jin bit her lip tightly and nodded silently.
“Third, please maintain the dignity and authority of a tutor.”
“……”
“As you’re always with the child, selfmanagement is essential to prevent unfair actions or being disregarded.”
“Ah, yes.”
Already, she had been disregarded and educated.
“Fourth, prioritize the child’s health and safety in any situation.”
She had already endangered Seung Yul’s life by lying to his father, so she had effectively violated the fourth clause as well.
“Finally, unless there’s a force majeure like a natural disaster or serious illness, I’d like it if you didn’t quit midway.”
Gyo Hwan, who had been staring at the tablet as if he didn’t like the sight of her the whole time, only lifted his head to watch Hyo Jin when he talked about this clause.
“As I’ve said, I don’t want you to quit midway.”
If she couldn’t handle it even now, she should leave.
“No. For the sake of Professor Kim Yong Hoon who recommended me, I absolutely won’t quit midway.”
Unless, of course, I get kicked out.
Hyo Jin, who could confidently promise the last clause, meticulously wrote her full name on the contract where ’employee’ was written.
“I’ll do my best to teach well, trusting in the confidence you’ve placed in me!”
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 🙂
*
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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