Seeing Taehui ordering warm herb tea on this warm summer day brought back memories.
Someone who always felt the cold faster than anyone else, so he always drank warm coffee and drinks even in the summer.
Just finding an unchanged aspect of Taehui made Jehyun’s heart ache.
At this moment, it felt like a dream that real Mintaehee was right in front of him.
Her long eyelashes, which were slightly raised, were still long.
The slightly lifted eye corners, the plump lower lip, the fair and slender hands, and the stubborn chin.
But the atmosphere had changed drastically.
It was sophisticated and easygoing, arrogant yet sexy and sophisticated.
Just looking at her was enough to make the heart beat violently.
Feeling the persistent gaze, Taehui finally looked at Jehyun beyond the long eyelashes.
“How long do I have to wait?”
At her calmly asked question, Jehyun made a puzzled expression.
“You said you have something to tell me.”
Instead of Taehui, who omitted even formal greetings, Jehyun kindly asked.
“How have you been?”
“We don’t ask about each other’s well-being. Just get to the point.”
Jehyun felt like time had reversed to before their relationship with Min Taehui’s reserved way of speaking.
It was like the cold wind blowing through the solid wall he had built up back then.
We really have to start over from the beginning. But if we can start again like that.
“Taehui, I’ve never forgotten you for 7 years.”
The last moment with Taehui came to mind.
He had said he loved her, apologized, and asked her to wait.
For her sake, he promised to succeed and come back. It wasn’t that we were breaking up; we were just taking some time apart for our futures.
“Even though I left like that, it was the best decision I could make by believing in our hearts. I was confident that I would come back, and I believed you would wait for me.”
Jehyun, who paused for a moment, took a deep breath.
The man who opened the car door for Taehui and affectionately kissed her came to mind.
Even from the eyes of the same man, the man’s appearance was exotic and dazzling.
He seemed taller than his own 182 centimeters. From a distance, his smooth physique looked like that of a model. However, if you looked closely, his entire body seemed to be made up of well-toned muscles, like an athlete.
Not only his face but also his body was impressive. It was uncomfortably unfair in the world.
If he had known it would be like this, he would have regretted not just working but also doing some exercise.
The overwhelming presence of the man made him feel pitiful for the first time.
“Of course, Taehui, you probably hate me and resent me a lot. I understand that feeling well. But Taehui…”
“I’ll listen up to your long-winded senior feelings.”
Taehui cut off Jehyun’s words.
The gaze of Taehui looking at him was still clear, sharp, and stubborn.
“I had nothing to say, but after hearing the senior, I have something to say. I’ll say just three things.”
The eyes that had smiled so beautifully at that man were now staring coldly at Jehyun, as if freezing him.
“First, I have completely forgotten about the senior. And it’s been a very long time.”
Someone said that when men love, they give only half of their hearts, and when they break up, they leave with that half of their hearts, eventually longing for their old lovers.
But for women, it was the opposite.
They give their entire hearts when they love, and when they break up, they take that entire heart and leave, eventually not coming back.
“So, there’s a good man I like just as he is, and I’m in a relationship with him. I saw it with my own eyes, so you’ll know it’s not a lie.”
So when men and women love and break up, women often don’t come back in the end.
In the past, when he heard such words, he casually laughed them off as nonsense, but now he found himself in that exact situation.
“Third, I hope I never have to see you like this again. Even if we happen to meet, let’s pretend we don’t know each other.”
Unlike himself, who realized his deeper feelings for her after leaving, Min Taehui had already started a new love.
She was dating a man even more outstanding than herself, not giving him a chance to interfere.
“Do you have anything else to say?”
There were countless things he wanted to say, but Jehyun couldn’t utter a single word.
The love I knew, the only Min Taehui, I thought it would never change for a lifetime.
I loved you because you were you, and I came back after not forgetting for 7 years.
But now I’ve realized that you’re not.
The icy gaze and words that stabbed the heart like ice picks were proving that.
“I’ll probably be in Korea for about three years. Is it okay if we occasionally see each other comfortably? What do you think?”
“No.”
The rejection upon returning was like a knife.
Without even saying goodbye, Taehui slowly stood up and turned away.
She didn’t look back once until she left the coffee shop.
Rather, she moved away with confident steps.
Watching Taehui’s retreating figure in dismay, Jehyun gained only a bitter realization.
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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