With eyes full of horror, Seontae fumbled with the car door.
Even in this situation, you’ll try to escape alone. Even if I can’t take Min Tae-hee, I’ll take my man.
With a snort of contempt, Okhee shifted gears again and roughly reversed.
Due to that, Seontae’s body swayed. Using the hand he had been fumbling with the door, he hastily grabbed the handle mounted above.
As Okhee raced fearfully on the punctured road, she checked the rearview mirror upon hearing the noisy siren.
A police car was chasing her. What the hell is this fast police response in Ilsan?
Cursing inwardly, Okhee stepped on the gas with determination.
With the loud siren and the police car in pursuit, she accelerated, determined to escape.
Seontae, who had not yet let go of his terrified plea, began to beg earnestly.
“Hyesuk, I was wrong. I really was! So, first, can you please slow down…?”
“Shut up before my eyes roll even more.”
Locked in a frightening silence, the inside of the car was filled with the loud siren sound and Seontae’s rough breathing from behind.
The car that had left the road raced into the park.
“Hyesuk, where are you going? Can you at least say something…!”
Kyaaaah, screams erupted here and there as Okhee’s car, racing down the pedestrian path, narrowly avoided people.
Swaying unsteadily, Seontae’s elevated view revealed a vast lake that easily swallowed a car and still remained.
No, it can’t be. Despite being harsh, a woman who cherishes her own life wouldn’t commit suicide.
Despite forcing herself to think that way, a car suddenly soared into the lake at an incredible speed.
Splash-.
Inside the slowly sinking car, Okhee finally turned her head towards Seontae.
With eerie bloodshot eyes, Okhee stared intensely at Seontae.
Those eyes were pouring out a resentful gaze full of vitality.
Why did you betray me like this? I gave you my whole heart, why didn’t you reciprocate?
In that gaze, Seontae’s mind went blank, and he lost consciousness.
With Seontae losing consciousness, Okhee smiled gently, whispering as if confessing her love.
“I love you, Min Seontae.”
In response to the chilling love confession, Seontae unbuckled his seatbelt and attempted to escape.
However, either due to confusion or a car internal issue, infuriatingly, the car door wouldn’t open.
Rear door, rear door! Trying to move to the back seat, Seontae felt Okhee clinging to him like a leech.
Tearing her away resulted in her clinging again and again.
How is this woman so strong?
As they struggled, the outside of the car was completely submerged in pitch darkness. Water began seeping in gradually.
Helplessly facing imminent death, Min Seontae, near panic, felt his head spinning and his eyes rolling.
“Hey, you, b***h! If you’re going to die, die alone! I don’t want to die!”
Unable to contain his anger, Seontae’s large hand began ruthlessly assaulting Okhee.
Thunk, thud.
Despite the ongoing beating, Okhee, instead, laughed loudly as if enjoying it.
Sa-jun, who got out of the car, approached and knelt on one knee in front of Tae-hee.
“Tae-hee, are you okay?”
Sa-jun’s voice faded into the distance.
As her mind grew hazy and a ringing sound echoed in her ears, Tae-hee closed her eyes.
What just happened?
She saw a car rushing towards her frighteningly.
At first, she wondered what it was, and when her eyes met the woman inside the car climbing onto the sidewalk, she instantly sensed it.
That woman is trying to kill me.
She should avoid it, but although her mind understood, her stiffened body wouldn’t move.
Fortunately, Seontae, sitting in the front passenger seat, was seen turning the steering wheel.
The car that was rushing head-on veered to the right, crashing into the wall, covering Tae-hee’s right side.
Even in the moment of brushing impact, she was thrown out and fell to the ground.
Despite everything, instinctively, she curled up, covering her belly with her hands.
Backing up again, closing my eyes tightly as an immense noise pounded my eardrums.
Kwaang-.
As I lifted my trembling eyelids, Sa-jun’s car, blocking the woman’s car, came into view.
Backing up with a crumpled hood, I also saw a police car chasing the woman’s car again.
“Min Tae-hee, open your eyes.”
In a subdued voice, I slowly opened my eyes, and there was Kang Sa-jun in front of me.
Even though he could have embraced me, Sa-jun didn’t lift a finger.
With calm eyes, he scanned Tae-hee’s body here and there.
“The ambulance will be here soon.”
Unable to speak due to a choked throat, Tae-hee silently nodded her head.
“So, just endure a little longer.”
With calm eyes, expression, and a composed voice.
Seeing the usual Sa-jun, time, which had come to a halt, began flowing again.
The cement-like stiffened body began to tremble.
I almost died with the baby.
Perhaps that’s why the baby in my belly felt incredibly precious compared to my own life. Without realizing it, I had such thoughts.
“Huuk.”
Tears that had welled up in my eyes streamed down my cheeks to my lips.
Sa-jun, who silently stared at those tears, embraced Tae-hee.
It would have been good if he hugged her tightly, but his touch was very cautious.
His trembling hands lightly swept over her back like a feather.
“It’s okay, Min Tae-hee.”
The voice whispering gently into her ears amid the tears was affectionate and tender.
“You and our baby.”
The voice that whispered again seemed at times to be addressing not Tae-hee but Sa-jun himself.
“… It will be okay.”
The constant stroking of her back and the gentle, affectionate whisper gradually eased the trembling in her body.
As she found solace in Sa-jun’s arms, the pain radiating throughout her body became vivid.
“Kang Sa-jun, I’m in pain.”
“…Where.”
Whether it was an illusion or not, the asking voice seemed to tremble.
“I don’t know either, my whole body… hurts.”
Speaking in a whisper, Tae-hee closed her trembling eyelids in Sa-jun’s embrace.
The familiar embrace and scent, and the powerful heartbeat that erased all surrounding noises, sounded like a lullaby.
As the tension in her entire body eased, the pain spread throughout, and just before falling into a deep sleep, she heard Sa-jun’s voice again, assuring her that everything would be okay.
“….”
Tae-hee in Sa-jun’s arms was too quiet.
Suddenly feeling frightened, Sa-jun quietly opened his eyes.
Long eyelashes soaked in tears heavily lay down.
Holding my breath and tensing my senses, I heard the feeble breathing sound faintly.
Only then did Sa-jun heave a sigh of relief.
In his heart, he wanted to hold the frail body hanging limp in his arms with all his might, but he couldn’t. The legs revealed under the dress were completely covered in blood, swept away on the cement floor.
I shouldn’t have left her alone. Even if she insisted, I should have stubbornly insisted on going to the parking lot together.
Self-blaming, I slowly closed my eyes. When I opened them again, the horrifying scene vividly flashed before me.
Min Tae-hee, who was sitting in a chair, being thrown by the car and falling to the ground. The car, reversing again to rush towards the helpless Min Tae-hee. The hellish feeling of fear, experienced for the first time in my life.
Reason was lost, and the next thing was not in memory.
Blocking that car with my own car was more of an instinctive judgment than reason.
Sa-jun was not in his right mind until he pushed the car away by stepping on the accelerator to secure a safe distance.
Only after calling an ambulance and seeing the lifeless Min Tae-hee did Sa-jun come back to his senses.
His heart, darkened by fear, may have burned, but in front of Tae-hee, he pretended to be calm.
“It will be okay.”
Closing his eyes and pressing his lips firmly on Tae-hee’s round forehead, Sa-jun whispered once again.
“You’ll be okay, and our baby will be okay too.”
And once again.
It was a message to himself, not Tae-hee.
With the sound of the approaching ambulance, Sa-jun slowly opened his eyes, and his reddened eye sockets were wet.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
