“Because of you. Because of you, did you hear?”
I had clearly said ‘because of you’. But, even after repeating it word for word due to his lackluster response, Ji Seo Joon kept staring at me without blinking.
In front of Ji Seo Joon, who had suddenly become a fool, I waved two fingers.
“How many do you see?”
Then he grabbed my fingers abruptly, and spread them to the sides.
“Ouch!”
He then took his fork from my hand and returned his attention to the tteokbokki.
“Why don’t you say something?”
I thought he would give me some sort of answer if I told him that I was thinking because of him, but was that my misconception? I picked up the fork again and poked a piece of tteokbokki.
When the tteokbokki was almost gone, Ji Seo Joon glanced at me.
“Do you… do you want to go?”
“Me? Well… I had fun when I worked in Australia, so I think I want to go a little.”
“But why did you tell the team leader that you would think about it?”
“It’s not a matter to be decided right away. And I told you that I would seriously consider it.”
Ji Seo Joon’s face, urging me to seriously think about it even as he used his wish, kept popping up in my mind.
Feeling sorry for the tteokbokki I had finished, I stirred the soup on the empty bowl with a fork.
“If… If it weren’t for me, would you go to Australia?”
“Hmm. There’s a high probability, right?”
Ji Seo Joon, with a subtle expression, took the fork from my playful hand. He neatly placed it on the table and stood up from his seat.
“Auntie, please check out.”
We left the snack bar and headed slowly home. Looking at Ji Seo Joon’s back, which seemed to be full of thoughts, I felt a bit of regret for speaking out of turn.
I quickened my steps to walk right next to Ji Seo Joon.
“Should I just not go to Australia?”
“Why are you asking me that.”
Just like that…
I stopped in my tracks at Ji Seo Joon’s curt response and glared at him.
“If you tell me not to go, I won’t go!”
I yelled at the back of his head, and he abruptly stopped and looked back.
“Should I not go?”
I immediately realized that Ji Seo Joon was deeply troubled. His usually cool brow was slightly furrowed that day.
Somewhere on a tree, a cicada was crying out loudly, desperately searching for a mate.
Neither I nor Ji Seo Joon said a word, the cicada’s sound felt so loud as we just stared at each other.
Just then,
“Jun? Are you Jun?”
Someone seemed to be calling Ji Seo Joon, and in English. And with very fluent pronunciation at that. I looked around to locate the source of the sound.
It was the woman we had seen earlier.
The incredibly beautiful woman who had made even my heart flutter was looking at Ji Seo Joon.
Could the person she was calling really be Ji Seo Joon? With a doubtful feeling, I quickly turned my head to look at Ji Seo Joon.
No way, could it be? Ji Seo Joon was also looking at the woman.
“I’m home.”
The silent and dark house greeted me.
“Right. They said they have a couples meeting today.”
I remembered my mom’s voice telling me to handle dinner myself since there was a meeting, yelling at the back of my head as I was hurriedly leaving this morning.
Not wanting to see the dimly lit house, I walked around turning on the lights brightly.
Then, I sat on the sofa and picked up the remote.
I turned on the news, which I usually didn’t watch.
The news anchor said something, and as the screen switched to a police station, the hurried movements of reporters appeared on the TV screen.
“The world is really harsh.”
After that, other reports followed one after another.
This concludes our 8 o’clock news. Thank you for watching. We will continue to provide faster and more accurate news.
After the anchor’s closing remarks, a familiar ending tune played. When I looked at the clock, the hands were already pointing towards 9 o’clock.
I barely lifted my heavy body and went into the bathroom. As I turned on the shower, warm water poured over my body.
As I watched the steam rising, I remembered what had happened earlier.
.
.
.
“Jun.”
She saw Ji Seo Joon standing there, looking only at himself.
“It’s been a while.”
She showed Ji Seo Joon the same pretty smile she showed me earlier.
“You came here……”
Ji Seo Joon finally spoke.
“I came to Korea and thought about the old times, so I looked around.”
“Oh. Is that so?”
“Yes.”
As Ji Seo Joon answered, she smiled and closed the distance between them.
“I didn’t expect to meet you by chance like this, I’m so glad.”
She and Ji Seo Joon were closer than I was before I knew it. Only then did she notice me.
“Oh? The one I saw during the day……”
I unwittingly smiled. I hurriedly lowered my smile, but it was already too late.
Foolish Moon Da Yul.
“Oh, hello?”
When I greeted her, she bowed her head slightly in response and alternately looked at me and Ji Seo Joon.
“Could it be, Jun’s friend he used to talk about… right? Jun?”
“Huh? Oh. Yeah. Say hi. My friend Moon Da Yul.”
“Hello. I’m Olivia Lee. Nice to meet you.”
How about that. Even her name was pretty.
“Yes. Nice to meet you.”
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 🙂
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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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