“……You’re not misunderstanding, are you?”
Ji Seo Joon’s voice, who asked cautiously, was filled with tension. His flushed face was telling how much he was worried and had thought before speaking. I wondered if he was that worried about my misunderstanding.
Of course, we were spending time together to decide whether we would become lovers or stay as friends, but that didn’t mean we were lovers. Therefore, I thought it was not my role to restrain him from meeting his exgirlfriend.
But when I thought of Ji Seo Joon being with Olive U, I didn’t feel good. I was afraid to call it jealousy. Jealousy was envy that arose when a lover or a person you like looked at another person of the opposite sex.
“I’m not misunderstanding. And even if there are any feelings left between the two of you, I have no right to say anything.”
At my words, Ji Seo Joon’s brow furrowed.
“Why don’t you have the right?”
“Huh?”
As if his throat was parched, Ji Seo Joon downed all the remaining coffee in the can.
“Why don’t you have the right?”
Ji Seo Joon’s deepening gaze was on me.
‘Thump, thump.’
My heart started to beat suddenly and fiercely.
“Even if we’re not lovers, we’re seriously considering and spending time to see if we could become… so why don’t you have the right?”
Ji Seo Joon turned his gaze that had been fixed on me. His brow was still crumpled without any intention of smoothing out.
The shape of the empty can that was tightly held in Ji Seo Joon’s hand and slightly deformed stood out to my eyes. I had something to say, but my tongue was as if it had been stiffened and wouldn’t move. In my head, only jumbled words were floating around.
Ji Seo Joon, who was quietly looking at me, sighed with a thud.
“Well, if you’re not misunderstanding, then that’s it. Let’s go.”
“Huh, where to?”
Ji Seo Joon, crumpling the can with one hand as he got up from his seat, walked towards the entrance of the playground with a heavy step. I blankly stared at his back, which seemed smaller than usual, before hastily following him.
“Where are we going?”
“We need to eat.”
Ji Seo Joon and I walked out to the main road. The large 24hour hangover soup restaurant was fairly bustling with customers from the morning.
“Two servings of rice soup, please.”
I sat at a suitable spot, looking around, and saw Ji Seo Joon, who had sat down quietly in front of me, cutting the kimchi into eatable sizes with scissors.
Ah, a face that didn’t match well with hangover soup. There were days when, out of the blue, Ji Seo Joon’s face seemed unusually handsome.
Each time, I was surprised, and this was exactly one of those times. Why it happened in a rice soup restaurant, I didn’t know, but anyway, it was now, this moment.
Despite being in the morning, his face showed no swelling, and even nearing 30, his pores were hardly visible. His cool, straight nose seemed like it had been meticulously crafted by a deity; its shape was very beautiful.
And those lips, my favourite. He only diligently applied colourless lip balm… What was that colour called? What was that colour…?
As I scrutinized him, trying to squeeze out the name of the elusive colour, his beautiful lips started to move.
“What’s with that perverted expression?”
Ji Seo Joon’s words snapped me back to reality.
“Perperverted! What’s with such an offensive term this early in the morning…”
On the table, right in the middle between Ji Seo Joon and me, was the kimchi that he had diligently cut, looking delicious in the bowl.
“This restaurant’s kimchi is tasty. The life of a rice soup place is indeed its kimchi.”
Feeling embarrassed, I shifted my gaze to the kimchi. At my words, Ji Seo Joon, who tasted the kimchi with a perturbed expression, nodded. This time, I went for the mixed radish kimchi.
The place I deliberately turned my gaze to, while eating wellseasoned kimchi with a perfect balance of saltiness and ripeness, happened to be Ji Seo Joon’s hand.
The merit of being forced to learn the piano by my aunt when I was a child was here.
Long and delicate hands. More beautiful than my hands? I alternated between looking at my hand and Ji Seo Joon’s hand.
“You’ve got chili powder on your mouth.”
“Eh? Where?”
I took a tissue and scrubbed around my mouth.
“How do you manage to carefully wipe everywhere but the stained area?”
Ji Seo Joon let out a small sigh and opened a wet wipe to scrub around my mouth. His touch was so cautious today that it made my heart flutter.
“Be careful, it’s hot.”
Perfect timing. The restaurant’s aunt brought out our bowls of rice soup, placing one in front of me and Ji Seo Joon each.
Handsome Ji Seo Joon was unfair no matter what he did today. In times like this, the correct answer was to bow my head and just eat.
While I cautiously lifted the lid off the hot bowl of rice, Ji Seo Joon added green onions and salt to my bowl.
Moved by his tenderness, I eventually opened my mouth to ask what had been bothering me.
“It might not be a question to ask while eating rice soup…”
“If it doesn’t seem right, why not ask after eating?”
Male lead is a clingy little husband
One-line summary: The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
Introduction:
One day, Lu Yuner’s soul transmigrates into a female-dominant world. She enters the Imperial Academy and takes up the position of a doctoral instructor, teaching classes and grading schoolwork.
One day, she encounters the young prince Su Qingwan secretly skipping class from the male academy.
As a result, Su Qingwan is punished.
From then on, Su Qingwan sees Lu Yuner as a “thorn in his side”.
But before long, this “thorn” becomes the person he cherishes most, and he goes to great lengths to win Lu Yuner’s affection.
Mini scene 1:
One day, the sun is high in the sky but Su Qingwan still hasn’t gotten up for class.
Servant Xiaoyuan: “Young prince, it’s time for class. You’ll be late otherwise.”
Su Qingwan says arrogantly: “I’m not going. I am the esteemed prince, my status is so noble, why should I suffer this hardship? Besides, isn’t learning all this just to please women? Hmph, they’re not worthy!”
Mini scene 2:
After Su Qingwan falls for someone, he completely changes. He no longer skips class and diligently learns how to be a good husband and father. But he discovers that Sister Yuner is always surrounded by admirers.
Drunk and overcome with jealousy one day, he clings to Lu Yuner, crying beautifully like a pear blossom in the rain.
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan likes Sister Yuner.”
Lu Yuner: “Young prince, you’re drunk.”
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan isn’t drunk. Qingwan likes Sister Yuner, likes you so much, likes you to bits…” Before he can finish, Lu Yuner’s eyes flash with emotion and she leans in closer.
[Reading Guide]
1. The female lead is gentle, gracious, humble and polite but not weak. The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
2. 1v1, a bit torturous in the beginning but definitely sweet later on.
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