Hyo Jin had cleared away any signs left by Baby, but she hadn’t managed to handle the lingering smell and the container in the trash.
She hadn’t expected him to come to the scene…!
“When I hired you as a tutor, there should be a list of foods never to feed a growing child on page 1, item 3.”
Caffeine, sugar, MSG.
He kindly reminded her, his memory being excellent.
“I apologize. I didn’t think it was a problem since it wasn’t an everyday thing, but only once in a while.”
“Today is a yellow card. If something like this happens again, I will demand a penalty.”
“What? A penalty?”
What is this, it’s not like he bought it with his black card. I bought the ramen with my money…!
For Hyo Jin, who held money dear, this seemed more threatening than the threat of expulsion.
“So, you should have faithfully complied with the contract terms.”
He warned the rigid Hyo Jin and turned to leave.
What’s more, it seemed like his lips were smiling, satisfied with Hyo Jin’s reaction, leaving her even more taken aback.
The next afternoon.
“Alright, let’s take a break for just 10 minutes!”
Hana, who was under the hot spotlight taking pictures with the announcers for next year’s station calendar, came down from the stage.
“Hello? Today, we will meet Kang Hana, the announcer who was voted number one as the woman men want to marry, the woman female college students want to emulate, and the new bride mothersinlaw want to have.”
A reporter approached Hana, who was cooling off from the heat of the hot lights while drinking mineral water on the set.
“A lot of people are curious about your marriage plans. Do you have a boyfriend?”
“I am seeing someone, but he’s a noncelebrity, so I’m cautious about revealing it.”
“Oh~ So, you do have a boyfriend?”
“Well, if I talk about it like this, he might get upset because I said it without his permission.”
Hana shyly laughed and tucked her fallen hair behind her ear.
“Is there a man bold enough to get angry with the esteemed anchor Kang Hana?”
Even if he was a presidential candidate, she didn’t shy away from asking harsh questions and critiques. Some even pegged her as a future spokesperson for the Blue House.
“I kind of like the tsundere style.”
“By tsundere, you mean a person who appears gruff on the outside but is actually warmhearted and treats you well?”
“People who are overly nice are not charming.”
“Well, then say something to your charming future tsundere husband.”
“Oppa, you’ll be off the market next year. Let’s be truly happy, I love you.”
Sending a heart made with her fingers, Hana once again entered the shooting site with the sound of camera shutters ringing out.
After the shooting, Hana was changing her clothes in the dressing room.
“Senior, this is CEO Choi Gyo Hwan. He’s really handsome, right?”
The junior staff who were removing their makeup gathered around a smartphone that contained an article about him.
‘Ordinary Dad, Choi Gyo Hwan.’
‘A gambler in the legal world, but in front of his son, he was just an ordinary doting father.’
‘If I could turn back time, I would want to go back to the first time I met Seung Yul.’
“Scary how a kid can do this. A reclusive executive who never gives interviews to the press.”
“Wow, I thought he was a total old man because he said he had a nineyearold son, but this is a twist!”
“He must have a woman to marry, right? Seeing as how he mentioned a ‘mom’s style’ education.”
“What? Didn’t he raise his son alone after sending off his wife?”
“Senior Hana, who is it? Didn’t you say you knew each other well in your family?”
Hana’s pupils filled with shock as she looked at the photo taken with the child on her cell phone.
‘National Children’s Writing Contest Excellence Award. Is the secret a ‘mom’s style’ education?’
A photo of Seung Yul standing in front of a banner with a bouquet decorated Gyo Hwan’s desk.
Sir, Announcer Kang Hana is here to see you.
Gyo Hwan, who received the report from the female secretary via the speaker, pressed the intercom.
“I have a meeting soon so tell her to wait…!”
Before he could finish his sentence, the door to the executive office flung open.
“Um, excuse me…!”
The female secretary in uniform was flustered as she hurriedly chased after Hana, who had entered without permission.
“I’m fine, so you can leave.”
Looking at Hana after sending out the female secretary, Gyo Hwan felt more tired than annoyed.
“What do you want? I told you to contact me in advance if you’re visiting the company.”
“Don’t worry. I won’t take up much of your time.”
Hana smiled to avoid offending him.
“Please postpone the next meeting by 10 minutes.”
Gyo Hwan, who had instructed the male team leader through the intercom, sat opposite the seat Hana had been waiting for.
“I, I want to be with you tonight.”
“What?”
Gyo Hwan’s eyelid lifted as he checked the time, tilting his wrist as if measuring time.
“We’re supposed to get married, aren’t we? Some people check their compatibility before promising to marry. Aren’t you caring too much for me?”
For 8 years.
“Hana.”
Despite his tender voice, there was no warmth in his gaze.
“I made it clear, didn’t I?”
“……”
“Even if we get married, there will be no intimacy.”
“……!”
“Do you think I could feel desire for you, who I watched grow up from the age of seven, wetting your diapers in front of me?”
“So, I let you go. Go and fully love the woman you like, brother.”
But what could I do when that woman died?
“So, did you propose to marry again right after she died? Even before a year has passed since her death?”
Hana, who was adamant about marrying him, was even more exasperating than her father, who had been fussing about their engagement when he had just entered university at the age of 18 and she was only in fourth grade elementary school.
“You said you’d do it too, brother.”
“I said I would marry you, but I never said I would hold you. I certainly didn’t say I’d do it because I liked you.”
“Then why did you say you would?”
“Because of my mother, who thinks that I have to do that to repay your father’s kindness.”
Also because of Kang Jae Ik, who claimed that he would return the other half he held if he married his daughter.
Hana, who had waited a whole 8 years thinking that he might develop even a shred of feeling for her, was devastated.
“Now, are we done?”
Gyo Hwan really had to get up because he had a meeting to attend.
“Why didn’t you come with me to the awards ceremony?”
“Ha, did you come all the way here for that?”
Was that why she asked to spend tonight with him? A sigh slipped from Gyo Hwan’s mouth when he belatedly understood the real reason.
“I’m officially your fiancee, brother. When there’s such a joyous occasion, isn’t it natural that I should go with you?”
“I’m sorry. I didn’t consider that far.”
Not wanting to waste even the energy to face this, Gyo Hwan wrapped it up with a soulless apology and got up.
“You didn’t go to the awards ceremony alone, did you?”
Hana, who usually didn’t vomit out of fear of even receiving hate, let alone affection, kept scratching his nerves.
“Why are you curious about that?”
“As you say, for me, Yul’s mother is just the mother who gave birth to Yul.”
Even though she was dead.
“But, it changes if the person called Yul’s mother is alive.”
When I’m the one who’s officially going to marry you, brother.
“Keep hiding like that. I’ll definitely find out who that woman you call ‘mother’ is.”
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The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
