She briefly forgot her discomfort with the house.
During this time, Lee Hyun, having prepared for his guest, approached the living room.
“Let’s sit.”
Yerin turned and slightly widened her eyes.
“Lee Hyun, didn’t you say you’d serve tea?”
“That I did.”
However, what was on the living room table was wine, not tea.
“Why did you bring wine?”
“We don’t have tea at home.”
“What?”
It was hard to believe that this house, seemingly having everything, lacked tea bags.
Seeing Yerin’s disbelief, Lee Hyun approached and guided her to sit beside him.
“I have a ritual on the day I draft a contract.”
“What is it?”
“Having a glass of wine with someone I love.”
Hearing this, Yerin’s eyes widened.
“With someone you love?”
“Yes.”
“Who have you been drinking with until now?”
It was a question of pure curiosity.
Lee Hyun’s lips curled up triumphantly.
“Are you jealous?”
“What? No!”
“Your reaction is quite cute.”
Jealousy was far from her intention. It was just a question to understand her newly begun ‘boyfriend’ better.
Yerin quickly clarified.
“It’s not jealousy, Lee Hyun. It’s just… about my new boyfriend…”
Her words were a jumbled mix of excuses and confessions.
Lee Hyun enjoyed this, watching her with folded arms.
“Why do you stop mid-sentence? You’re making me more curious.”
“Well…”
Yerin took a deep breath, reminding herself to stay alert around Lee Hyun.
“It was just a question to get to know you better.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. I wasn’t asking out of jealousy.”
“Too bad. I was hoping Yerin would be a little jealous.”
“There’s no reason for me to be.”
After all, Lee Hyun wasn’t really her boyfriend.
Lee Hyun isn’t really my boyfriend.
But when he mentioned jealousy, or maybe because he kept evading the topic, my mood turned strange.
It felt like I was curious about a real boyfriend’s past.
“If you had admitted to jealousy, I would have opened up about the truth.”
“What do you mean?”
“I don’t feel like saying it anymore.”
“What?”
“You said you weren’t jealous. So, why should I bother revealing anything? Isn’t that right?”
Lee Hyun leisurely opened the wine, smiling at Yerin.
Red wine filled the empty glass.
Contrastingly, Yerin’s curiosity remained unresolved.
She looked alternately at the wine glass and Lee Hyun, lost in thought.
‘Should I admit to being jealous?’
No, the more I think about it, it’s not jealousy. It’s just curiosity.
‘Is this curiosity or jealousy?’
Thinking back, I never felt jealousy towards a boyfriend in any of my past relationships.
Yerin muttered to herself quietly.
“What is jealousy?”
“What did you say?”
“Nothing.”
When Seoyoon went after my ex-boyfriend, it felt more like betrayal than jealousy.
While Yerin was deep in thought.
Lee Hyun closed the distance, sitting right next to her.
His large hand gently grasped her chin.
“Lee Hyun?”
Our eyes locked in mid-air for a moment.
“I think you don’t understand what jealousy is, so let me explain.”
“…”
“I get angry even if you just make eye contact with another man.”
“What?”
“Especially at the thought of you drinking with another man.”
Lee Hyun slightly frowned, apparently displeased at the mere thought.
“It would make me very angry.”
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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