Beautiful, beautiful. It wasn’t a phrase Sajun often used, but Taehee occasionally heard it from him. So, even though the words themselves didn’t particularly resonate at this moment, Taehee’s face brightened. Still, it was in contrast to the indifferent tone, and due to the intense gaze that seemed to touch her gently. It was because of the massive wave of emotions in the clear black eyes with sharp outlines.
That was why she couldn’t throw back a comment with a touch of soul, as she usually did. Honestly, she knew it was an absurd feeling, but it felt like receiving a confession from Sajun.
It was just a feeling. If Instructor Sajun were to confess his love to me, it might be with the same gaze as now.
Countering casually seemed to have missed the timing.
With a slightly awkward smile and a shrug of her shoulders, Taehee subtly averted her gaze. “It doesn’t seem to be to the extent of being insanely pretty.”
Muttering to herself, unsure if it was self-talk or an answer to Sajun, she continued. There was nothing different; it was just that the gaze was a little different.
However, she felt completely swayed by that gaze. Because it was Sajun, she wanted to attach meaning even to trivial things, to misunderstand.
That’s why unrequited love doesn’t work. It obsessively clings to insignificant things, twisting the hope circuit.
After venting her thoughts, Taehee turned her head again and smiled brightly. “But I’ll believe you. Today is a good day.”
After that, she passed by Sajun and headed for the car first.
Listening to the distinct sound of high heels echoing on the asphalt, Sajun slowly closed his eyes.
A pleasant scent brushed by his nostrils.
Even the artificial scent that he detested seemed pleasant coming from Mintaehee.
Momentarily enchanted by the fragrance, Sajun’s eyelids rose as something came to mind.
However, even though he reluctantly believed, it didn’t mean he completely believed. It hadn’t quite resonated that way.
Suddenly, Sajun’s mind became complicated.
Not believing the words “I love you” and not believing the words “You’re pretty.”
What words should he say to make her believe? Was it that he couldn’t believe any words he said to her, thinking that he was a liar who only spoke unbelievable lies?
Turning slowly, Taehee, who had already taken the front passenger seat, spoke confidently. “What are you doing? Aren’t you coming?”
Creating a mess inside someone else’s head and remaining so carefree herself. While silently observing Mintaehee, Sajun let out a deep sigh.
To be honest, he was relieved. He thought our relationship would change rapidly when we started dating, like speeding on the highway. However, the friendship we had maintained for 13 years was incredibly strong. It was with Mintaehee, not himself. Narrowing the emotional distance was more challenging than the physical one. It had reached the point of making his head spin because of Mintaehee, who wouldn’t believe anything and constantly twisted Sajun’s sincerity. Was she truly ignorant, deliberately feigning ignorance even when she knew, or avoiding responsibility?
Because of Mintaehee, who didn’t believe anything and kept distorting Sajun’s sincerity, my head was spinning to the point of almost going crazy.
I wondered if she truly didn’t know, or if she deliberately pretended not to know because she didn’t want to take responsibility.
Above all, Mintaehee, in her elaborate spiderweb to date Sajun, unexpectedly caught my ankles instead. Taehee firmly believed that Sajun considered her as a means to break away from Heegu and the competition.
To the extent that the sincerity he had difficulty bringing out was obscured.
Anyway, Mintaehee, nothing is easy for you. So, I like you because you are like that.
With a sigh-like smile, Sajun, who had lowered his head late, took a step forward. Instead of starting the engine after getting into the driver’s seat, he silently looked at Taehee, who was sitting in the passenger seat.
Feeling the penetrating gaze of Sajun, Taehee turned her head. “Why are you looking at me like that?”
“Just.”
At the excessively bland response, when Taehee tried to smile weakly, Sajun spoke again.
“Because I like you.”
The crescent-shaped pupils that had been round before returned, and the smile that spread around the lips disappeared abruptly.
The coral-colored lips, which seemed to be saying something, closed without uttering a word.
The shaking hazel eyes were a mess.
It seemed like it had worked properly this time. Although she couldn’t believe it easily, it seemed that she couldn’t pass it off lightly either.
Sajun somewhat understood Mintaehee.
Sajun was awkward in expressing himself.
He had only suppressed emotions and had never expressed them. Neither hatred nor anger, loneliness and solitude, pain nor sadness.
It was natural that he couldn’t do it since he had never tried. Someone who has tried says it’s easy; someone who hasn’t tried can’t do it.
Even if it weren’t the day he caught onto the first confession, Mintaehee would never believe it.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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