“We meet again?”
“Huh? Ah. Yes. Hello.”
Honestly, I didn’t expect him to start a conversation, but Researcher Jeong Chan Hyeong greeted me as if nothing had happened.
“It seems you’ve been somewhere.”
“Yes. I went to the library a little…”
“The library? This path is quicker when returning from there.”
Researcher Jeong Chan Hyeong, still smiling beautifully. Unlike Ms. Yoo Na Ra, his calm demeanor actually made me feel even more awkward.
“Then, I’ll be going…”
“Hold on a second.”
Wanting to quickly move away, I was about to turn around after greeting him when he stopped me.
“Why, why are you doing this?”
“Huh? Oh, this.”
I stepped back in surprise as Researcher Jeong Chan Hyeong suddenly approached. What he plucked from my head as he came close was a small sticker.
“Why, why is this…”
“Exactly. I wonder why it was stuck there?”
It seemed he was just trying to remove the sticker from my hair. Just as I was about to feel embarrassed for overreacting, Mr. Jeong Chan Hyeong ruffled the back of my head and spoke.
“Should I have explained it to you? If I startled you, I’m sorry.”
“No, no, it’s fine.”
It was a moment where I felt more apologetic.
“We keep meeting like this, it must be fate. Should we formally introduce ourselves?”
“Introduce ourselves?”
“Yes. I don’t recall formally introducing myself before… Should we? I am Researcher Jeong Chan Hyeong from the Bio Team 3.”
He introduced himself and offered a handshake.
“Ah, yes. I am Travel Coordinator Moon Da Yul.”
Holding the book with one hand, I took his right hand.
His grip was neither strong nor weak, just the right strength. Shaking the hand he held comfortably, he smiled.
“I look forward to our future interactions.”
“Do you know Ms. Yoo Na Ra?”
“Who?”
“Don’t you remember?”
The autumn night was getting deeper. Despite agreeing to my suggestion of having soju with intestines because it was an autumn night, Ji Seo Joon seemed puzzled by the combination of autumn night and intestines.
As I entered the intestine shop and watched the deliciously cooking intestines, I asked Ji Seo Joon, but his expression showed he had no recollection at all.
“You’re amazing. You don’t remember the HR team ‘Ms. Yoo’ who confessed to you! You don’t know Ms. Yoo Na Ra?”
“Who?”
“Why, she’s pretty…”
Seeing him shaking his head as if he had no idea even after I explained left me flabbergasted. Was it because he had many people confessing to him? Or was it because there were many women of such beauty who had confessed to him? Either way, it didn’t feel good.
As I described her in detail, Ji Seo Joon, who finally recalled, nodded his head.
“Ah, that woman? Why her?”
“Do you have anything with her recently?”
While rolling around the intestines that were still far from being fully cooked, I casually asked.
“What? What am I supposed to have?”
“Just….”
Ji Seo Joon kept prying with his questions.
“I haven’t met her lately.”
I see.
Just as I was about to feel content, being able to eat the intestines without any awkwardness.
“Ah. It was a while ago.”
It was like hearing the sound of a shower falling on dried laundry.
“You met her?”
“Yeah. I was waiting at the company cafe, and she just started talking to me out of nowhere.”
“What did she say?”
“Just, how are you. Such greetings?”
“I see?”
“Yeah. But she spoke as if she knew something, and I think I felt bad.”
“What did she know?”
“I can’t remember exactly right now… Ah, this is cooked.”
In the middle of his sentence, he put one of the quickly cooked, finely chopped intestines into my sauce dish.
“It seemed like she was saying something about a girlfriend, but I didn’t want to talk about my private life so I think I just turned around.”
I poked the intestine that Ji Seo Joon gave me in the sauce, and popped it in my mouth.
“Ah. Hot. Phew. Girlfriend what?”
“Just, she seemed to be asking if she was doing well. But there’s no reason to tell her, right? Eat slowly.”
While rolling the toohot intestine around in my mouth, when I asked Ji Seo Joon, he looked at me as if I was pathetic and blew on a fully cooked piece before giving it to me. I put the intestine that Ji Seo Joon gave me back into Ji Seo Joon’s mouth.
“Do you know Researcher Jeong Chan Hyeong from Bio Team 3?”
“A little. Why?”
Ji Seo Joon frowned at the sudden mention of a male name.
“It seems like he and Miss Yuna are dating.”
“Really? That’s good.”
Upon hearing that the two were dating, he relaxed his brows and returned to grilling the intestines.
“Yeah. I was running errands for the team leader and went to the emergency exit on the far left of the building, you know? But that place is a bit isolated, so it’s like a sacred place for secret office couples?”
“There was such a place?”
“Yeah. I had only heard of it, but it was the first time I went there, and I saw those two there.”
“Really? Why didn’t I know?”
“Yeah. As soon as Miss Yuna saw me, she disappeared in a hurry. It seems like they’re in a secret relationship, right?”
“I don’t care. But where is that place?”
I was taken aback by Ji Seo Joon’s indifferent reaction.
“Right. You hardly pay attention to other people.”
I poured a glass of soju while looking at the deliciously grilled intestines. The sound of soju falling into the glass was refreshing.
“Why aren’t you saying anything. I’m asking where it is.”
“Why are you asking if you’re not interested?”
Even though I poured him one earlier, Ji Seo Joon’s soju glass hadn’t decreased at all. I clinked my glass against his and took a gulp.
“That place is the best place for a secret office romance.”
“Hmm.”
“I have to go see.”
Only then did Ji Seo Joon lift his soju glass, swallowed the soju in one gulp, and grinned.
“Do you have to go home today?”
This sly guy.
“Do you want to ask my mom for permission?”
“Ha ha. Right. It won’t work.”
“We have to be careful with my mom these days.”
“Why?”
“I think she suspected something when I was sick.”
“Ah….”
He just nodded, admitting that his behavior was different from usual.
“So, not today.”
“Hmm.”
Ji Seo Joon pouted.
Such a cute guy.
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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
