“What are you doing there!”
I ended up yelling at my mother without realizing it. My mother looked at me with suspicious eyes, popped an orange in her mouth, and began to chew.
“What? Why?”
Without answering my question, she cocked her head once and turned to go into the kitchen.
I followed my mother, clutching my pounding heart. Upon entering the kitchen, she put down the orange she was eating and began to organize the fruits that Ji Seo Joon had bought.
I was uneasy…
Did she suspect something? As I hovered around my mother, I sneaked peeks at her expression.
“Ah, no way.”
Suddenly my mother stopped arranging and spoke into thin air.
“What… What’s not?”
Feeling uneasy, I asked my mother, and she stared at me. As her gaze lingered on me, cold sweat trickled down my back.
“Right. That’s not possible. What was I thinking? Ha ha.”
Shaking her head as if she was quite absurd, she retracted her gaze from me and returned to her organizing.
It was a somewhat unsatisfactory reaction.
However, I felt like I shouldn’t dig deeper. I put my uneasy feelings behind me, finished tidying up, and returned to my room.
“Good morning.”
I returned to work after being sick for two days. Perhaps the fact that I, who was usually healthy, had been sick enough not to come to work for two days was shocking, as Baek In Ha started fussing from the morning.
“Deputy. Your face is half the size it used to be.”
“Liar.”
“It’s true!”
“See this and then talk.”
I said while pulling at my cheeks.
“That’s baby fat……”
“Baek In Ha. Did you find what you just said a bit absurd?”
“……Yes. But you really lost a lot of weight on your face.”
“Ha, yes. After being sick, my skin got duller, lost elasticity… they say aging speeds up when you hit your 30s…”
I examined my face from various angles in the mirror on my desk.
“Take care of your health today, Deputy Moon.”
What care of health? I was about to refuse when the team leader walked into the office and spoke.
“Good idea. I’ll handle lunch today. Let’s each have a chicken!”
“Yes! Team leader!”
At the robust voice of Baek In Ha, the team leader nodded his head. So, our entire team headed to a Samgyetang (ginseng chicken soup) restaurant at lunchtime.
The white chicken, undressed and with legs crossed, tempted me. I didn’t particularly need nourishment, but my mouth involuntarily watered at the Samgyetang filled with the scent of herbal medicine.
“Deputy. That person there is Researcher Jung Chan Hyeong.”
While I was voraciously eating the chicken leg, Baek In Ha spoke to me. A little away from our table, Researcher Jung Chan Hyeong was having a meal with others.
“Huh. Researcher Jung Chan Hyeong?”
At Baek In Ha’s words, the team leader also raised his head to check and nodded.
“He looks like a good person. The team leader of that team praised him to the skies. He’s diligent, does his work well, and has a good personality, that’s what they said. I happened to have a brief chat with that team leader, he seemed okay?”
At the team leader’s generous praise, the person started to look different. Was that scandal false? Or was he just a capable social person with a promiscuous private life?
Then, Ji Seo Joon came to mind.
Ji Seo Joon was also a person living with quite a lot of rumors and scandals. Among them, 70% were unfounded rumors. Was it the same for him?
As I put Kimchi into my mouth with chopsticks, I glanced at him once again. He was laughing brightly, apparently finding something very funny with his colleagues.
Right.
Don’t judge someone rashly.
Just like Ji Seo Joon wasn’t someone who judged people solely based on their appearances, he wasn’t a man who used his handsome face to flit from one woman to another.
That person might also have been falsely accused of stealing someone else’s lover. Stopping my observation of Researcher Jung Chan Hyeong, I focused back on the Samgyetang.
“Even when I was that sick, my digestion didn’t fail. I finished all the meat and didn’t leave a single drop of soup.”
After work, on the way home. Ji Seo Joon was busy, and we didn’t even meet at the company. I called him as I headed home earlier due to Ji Seo Joon’s late work schedule.
As I rambled on about what happened at work today, laughter came through the phone intermittently.
I wish I had seen it today…
Ji Seo Joon expressed his regret throughout the call.
“Let’s meet on the weekend.”
The weekend is for us all to meet…
“I know it’s a pity, but still. Aunt Yoon Hee said she’d make something delicious for me because I’ve been sick, how could I say no.”
Aunt Yoon Hee had personally made porridge when she heard I was sick. My mother scolded Aunt Yoon Hee for going to such trouble. Aunt Yoon Hee, who was loudly claiming she was okay, had planned a family gathering this weekend.
“I’m not sure if she’s pushing herself too hard.”
My Ex-Girlfriend Is The Regent In The Female-dominant World (Male lead transmigrates to the matriarchal world)
Two years ago, Gu Sui picked up a homeless woman in ancient costume from the street.
Apart from occasionally claiming to be a princess from a female-dominant country due to illness, her figure, appearance, intelligence, and martial arts skills were impeccable.
Naturally evolving from roommates to girlfriends, as time went on, Gu Sui found it increasingly difficult to tolerate her queen syndrome.
“Mu Jiulu, can you stop controlling me inside and out? Let’s break up.”
Gu Sui made a breakup call, and since then, he couldn’t find any trace of her.
A year later, Gu Sui, who was planning to move, woke up the next day and found himself in a different place.
“Young Master, today is the day you choose your Wife-master through martial arts competition at Jade Dew Pavilion. Please get up quickly.”
Gu Sui: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
As the only son of a general’s mansion in a female-dominant dynasty, the young empress personally issued a decree allowing Gu Sui to select his Wife-master through martial arts competition. Whoever could defeat him could marry him.
Gu Sui: “……”
He didn’t inherit the original owner’s martial prowess, so anyone could defeat him! And what the hell is a Wife-master?
Forced to come to Jade Dew Pavilion, the densely packed women below made Gu Sui’s agoraphobia act up, and his face was full of resistance.
Until he saw the Regent sitting on the second floor, with a smile on the corner of her lips, her eyes wicked and nonchalant.
Hmm… she looked a little familiar.
It turned out that the Regent also found him a little familiar.
Mu Jiulu fiddled with her bone clasp, her deep gaze locked on the man who was out of place in this world.
“Finally, I found you.”
Male transmigrates into female-dominant world
One-sentence summary: What goes around comes around, taking turns in the crematorium
