At Hyeseok’s cold words, Okhee finally turned her gaze.
Seeing the woman standing tall and looking at her with chestnut-colored eyes, Okhee felt like laughing.
Until recently, she couldn’t even meet her eyes trembling, and now, she must have been thrilled that her daughter was dating Sajun.
“I heard Taehui and Sajun will get married soon. I came to congratulate you on such happy news.”
Elegantly and cultured.
Constantly reminding herself, Okhee presented the flower basket and shopping bag she brought.
“You like flowers, right? I bought them from the early morning market, so they’re very fresh and fragrant. And this is a homemade roll cake.”
“I don’t need them, so take them back.”
That’s why there’s no need to do well.
Muttering softly in her mind, Okhee erased her elegant smile.
Since we know each other’s true colors, there was no need to pretend.
“I came because I have something to ask. If our husband returns the house and land you so desperately desire, will you make our family disappear before our eyes?”
Instead of answering, Hyeseok pondered the words she had just heard.
Certainly, Taehui said that. Seontae would return the house but had no intention of returning the ancestral land.
At that moment, her stomach dropped.
She hoped to receive the house and land back from Seontae so that her father could rest in peace there.
It was the only thing she could do for her father, who passed away while she was an unfilial daughter.
But why would this woman mention the land that Seontae would never give up?
When Hyeseok didn’t respond, Okhee spoke again.
“Isn’t that why you stubbornly stay here like a cockroach? Or, perhaps, are you trying to find that name I gave you? Are you trying to reclaim your husband and your name?”
People may change over ten years, but Kangsan remained the same.
The woman in front of her was proving that.
For the first time, Hyeseok slowly revealed her inner thoughts to Okhee.
“I never gave you my name. You stole it. And I have more than repaid you for what you did to help me.”
This house, chased away under the name Hyeseok, and a bank balance of thirty million won.
It was what she did for the young woman in front of her when she was young.
Okhee laughed.
“Who asked for money stained with the scent of a pigsty? I wanted your name from the beginning, and I took what I wanted in return. And even if you helped me, who told you to imitate me like a fool?”
“I trusted you as a friend!”
With eyes reddened, Hyeseok shouted as if possessed by evil.
Seontae had introduced this woman as his cousin’s younger sister.
For the first time, she made a friend of the same age and trusted her, pouring out her innermost feelings.
Even as her weak body deteriorated further with pregnancy, she willingly accepted the help of a friend who promised to help her.
Unaware that the woman who was already pregnant with Seontae’s child and Seontae were deceiving her and taking everything from her one by one.
“Yeah, thinking about that pathetic friendship, let me ask you one last thing. The reason you won’t leave from near our family, is it because of the name or because of that land? I need to know to make a deal.”
Calm now that her boiling anger had subsided, Hyeseok wore a gentle smile.
“The name Okhee is yours for a lifetime. I just need the house and land back.”
Knowing how to forgive makes the remaining life comfortable, or something like that.
She couldn’t forgive completely, but she could let it go.
She let go of the attachment to that name so she could live until now.
Most importantly, she hoped her daughter, who started dating Sajun, wouldn’t find out.
Because her daughter, who would learn everything, would break down, suffer, and find it difficult to bear.
Ignorance would be better.
“You definitely said it with your own mouth. Keep your promise.”
With a satisfied expression, Hyeseok calmly called Okhee, who was getting up.
“Kim Okhee.”
Okhee turned around as if asking why, and her expression was exceedingly natural.
As if she had truly heard her name.
Hyeseok, who had slowly gotten up, walked into the dining room.
While throwing the flower basket and cake brought by Okhee into the trash, Hyeseok didn’t even look back and calmly spoke.
“These days, your husband keeps contacting and coming over, and it’s driving me crazy. So, could you handle your husband a bit?”
Although she gave up on the name, it didn’t mean she was giving up on revenge.
She couldn’t repay in kind, but she still planned to do her best.
You should experience heartbreak and pain at least once so you can understand my feelings a little.
Now was the beginning of the counterattack.
Upon opening her eyes, there was only Taehui on the bed.
Unable to fully wake up, she blinked her eyes slowly, scanning the surroundings.
Well, it was just a tiny one-room apartment, so there was nothing much to scan.
The sunlight streaming through the slightly open curtains was dazzling.
It must have been around 9 o’clock.
Last night, Sajun’s embrace made her initially lose sleep.
Awkward, uncomfortable, and nerve-wracking, yet strangely thrilling and exciting.
Then, at some point, she fell asleep.
Comfortably in Sajun’s cozy arms, where she could easily fend off even a group of thieves.
She always curled up like a shrimp and woke up a few times in the cold hands and feet, especially in the summer due to the air conditioning breeze.
Although she fell asleep a little late, she slept deeply without waking up even once in the warmth conveyed by Sajun’s body.
She didn’t know it would be this good not to be alone.
Is this why everyone gets married?
Although she had vowed countless times not to get married, she was now contemplating marriage.
“But where did he go?”
There was no way he went home, but Sajun was nowhere to be seen.
As she gradually woke up, a belated sound of water flowing from the bathroom reached her ears.
Showering as soon as you wake up—anyway, it’s neat.
While pulling the thin blanket up to her neck, she glanced around with only her eyes, and then the bathroom door opened with a creak.
“Kang…”
About to call Sajun, Taehui quickly closed her eyes, pretending to be asleep.
It would be more accurate to say she lightly opened her eyes.
With a towel around his neck, Sajun was in his underwear.
That night, Sajun thoroughly examined her body, but Taehui couldn’t do the same.
So, this was the first time she properly observed that body.
In the silhouette sharply defined by the shadows in the faint darkness, her heart pounded.
The sophisticated and elegant body, shining even brighter when undressed, twisted and wriggled with taut muscles whenever he moved.
Showered in front of the bathroom, the movements of putting on the clothes placed in front of the bathroom were slow yet composed.
She couldn’t take her eyes off Sajun.
The elegant body itself was remarkable, but there was an air of decadence and sophistication emanating from Sajun.
She couldn’t look away from him.
Staring as if enchanted, I couldn’t take my eyes off, and strangely, my heart raced.
In Sajun’s slow and composed movements, there was no hint of tension.
As if he were being cautious not to wake Taehui.
Once Sajun finished putting on his clothes, an inexplicable sigh of regret escaped.
An utterly unreasonable desire surged. On the second night, rather than Sajun, I had to carefully scrutinize my sophisticated body.
Unaware that Taehui had awakened, Sajun quietly opened the door and left.
Only then did Taehui slowly sit up, seemingly oblivious.
“Where is he going?”
Curious, but washing up was the priority.
Given the situation, I couldn’t present a beautiful sight, but I wanted to greet Sajun looking clean.
At that moment, the phone rang.
Considering it was an unknown number, I thought about not answering, but maybe because it was the weekend, and I had just woken up.
In a state of dulled vigilance, Taehui absentmindedly answered the call.
“Hello.”
Beyond the handset, after a brief silence, a unfamiliar voice came through.
[Hello, it’s me, Kang Heegu. I’m Sajun’s father-to-be.]An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
