Ji Seo Joon was spreading out the tent and studying the instructions, I don’t know when he had taken it out.
“I studied hard again. Just trust me.”
Ji Seo Joon was still looking at the instructions. I went next to him, sat down and whispered in his ear.
“Can you hear me?”
“Hey!”
Ji Seo Joon covered his ears and abruptly stood up. Then, with a grimace, he rubbed his ears.
“You can hear me, huh?”
With a frightened look, I snatched the instructions from Ji Seo Joon’s hand.
“Just trust me. You trust me, right?”
With confidence, I began to set up the tent. First, I laid out all the tools for pitching the tent.
“Is this correct?”
“Maybe?”
But, it wasn’t.
“This isn’t it.”
“Right. That must be it.”
Why were there so many damn poles? Even though we rented what was supposed to be an easytopitch tent for beginners, I was seriously questioning what the standard for a beginner was.
“Is it this? No, this? Which is the front?”
Ji Seo Joon, who had been holding the other side, finally exploded.
“Give me the manual.”
“But I studied it?”
Ignoring my words lightly, Ji Seo Joon started reading the manual that he had put aside.
And exactly 21 minutes later, the tent was neatly set up.
“As expected. A science major.”
From then on, all the authority for setting up was transferred to Ji Seo Joon. Before the joy of completing the tent had even faded, I started panting.
“Hey. Why am I so tired?”
“Put that over there.”
“Here?”
“Yes. There.”
I wondered why the phrase ‘if the head is bad, the body suffers’ came to mind.
“Ah. Bring that from the car. Put this there.”
While assembling a table, Ji Seo Joon gave me a lot of things to do. After carrying the last load, I sat down next to Ji Seo Joon, who was sitting elegantly in his chair.
“Camping is better than I thought.”
I was sprawled out, too powerless to refute Ji Seo Joon’s words, when something cool lightly touched and fell off my cheek.
“Do you want a beer?”
When I nodded my head vigorously, Ji Seo Joon, with a smile tugging at the corners of his lips, cracked open a cold beer can and handed it to me.
Gulp, gulp.
“Ha…… I feel alive now.”
At my words, he let out a small laugh and took a sip of his beer.
“If you’re feeling a bit more alive now, put some stuff inside.”
“What?”
At Ji Seo Joon’s words, I looked inside the tent and saw the luggage we had carelessly thrown in.
“I can’t. I can’t lift a finger right now.”
“You were going to hang a bulb and do this and that. Where did all that sentimentality about camping go?”
“Sentimentality is a luxury in my life. I don’t need it.”
At my words, he shook his head solemnly. Ji Seo Joon, who had placed the beer on the beautifully assembled table and bent down to enter the tent, began to tidy up here and there.
I turned my chair slightly and sipped my beer while watching what Ji Seo Joon was doing.
In the brief moment Ji Seo Joon was away from his spot, I sneakily got up from my chair and placed my luggage bag between my sleeping bag and Ji Seo Joon’s. Then I sat back in my chair, pretending to know nothing, and drank my beer.
Ji Seo Joon, who returned after finishing his business, found the luggage between the sleeping bags and turned his head to look at me. Then, without a word, he flung away the luggage bag I had placed.
“Overdoing it.”
In the corner of the tent, my luggage bag was flung.
“I’m hungry.”
I wanted to take a walk and look around the campsite since we had finished tidying up earlier than planned, but I couldn’t move due to hunger.
“What should we eat?”
As I rummaged through the cooler and asked, Ji Seo Joon got up from his chair and looked at the food ingredients.
“Are you asking what I can cook?”
“Yes.”
As expected, the smart ones were different. After scanning the groceries once, Ji Seo Joon spoke.
“Why did you buy ingredients so haphazardly?”
It couldn’t be helped since I, who knew nothing about cooking, had chosen them. I only remembered stuffing everything I wanted to eat in.
“Since it’s hot, let’s keep it simple and have a cold noodle meal kit.”
“Okay!”
After that, Ji Seo Joon moved without hindrance. Of course, all we had to do was boil water and noodles, but when he boiled an egg and topped it with beautiful garnish, it looked just like the cold noodles sold in the market.
“I’ll enjoy the meal.”
As the cool, sweet and sour cold noodles entered my body, I finally began to feel a bit relaxed. I turned my head and looked around.
There were a lot of people camping in family units around me, and seeing the kids who were excited about going into the valley reminded me of my childhood memories.
“Do you remember when we went to the swimming pool when we were young?”
“……”
Ji Seo Joon, who was eating his cold noodles silently.
“I remember not applying sunscreen and getting a sunburn on my back, I couldn’t even lie down properly for a few days, but come to think of it, you were fine.”
I remembered being puzzled, seeing Ji Seo Joon wandering around perfectly fine, while I was suffering from the sunburn even though we had played together.
“I applied it by myself.”
Ji Seo Joon was still focused on his cold noodles.
“I can’t tell you how betrayed I felt when I found out later.”
I stirred the soup with my chopsticks, looking at my bowl that was now almost empty of noodles and filled with soup.
“Well, you felt sorry afterwards and even emptied your piggy bank to buy me burn ointment.”
I lightly kicked Ji Seo Joon’s foot as he was still unresponsive. Only then did he look at me.
“Say something.”
Only then did he open his mouth.
“Are you talking about the day when I had diarrhea but you forced me to go with you?”
“……Did, did I?”
I was taken aback by the sudden revelation of a new past fact.
“Are you talking about the day when you ate tteokbokki alone, got full, lay down and even took a nap, while I was crying and making a fuss, and only followed you after taking an antidiarrheal?”
Well, even though we have different memories, it was quite different.
It was towards the end of the summer vacation. The adults were too busy at the time to accompany us to the swimming pool. I wanted to go so badly, but I didn’t have the courage to go alone, so I pestered Ji Seo Joon.
Dragging a reluctant Ji Seo Joon to the swimming pool near our house, I had a blast like a fish in water. Ji Seo Joon, who didn’t go into the water but occasionally threw a ball at me, had an indifferent expression.
The memory of having so much fun, Ji Seo Joon playing with me as usual with his impassive attitude, and the vivid memory of my stinging back I had no idea that such a behindthescenes story was hidden behind these.
Seeing me laugh awkwardly, Ji Seo Joon chuckled and added more noodles to my bowl of cold noodles which only had soup left.
“Eat slowly.”
As if he was an angel…
I swallowed the noodles that Ji Seo Joon handed me in one gulp.
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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
