“Seems like you can’t face reality.”
“What are you saying?”
“Why does the family background of the women I meet matter so much?”
The more Hyun thought about it, the more he chuckled as if finding it amusing.
“Regardless of the family background, if I take them, it means they’ll soon have Jaeseok Group.”
At those words, Seoyoon’s lips trembled.
Beyond Jaeseok Group in South Korea, there wouldn’t be a remarkable background.
Hyun seemed to be planning to systematically refute each absurd thing Seoyoon said.
“I also value personality a lot.”
“Then, even more so, Yerin won’t do.”
With a curious look this time, Hyun gazed at Seoyoon as if encouraging her to say more.
“Yerin has been my target since high school. Well, if I were with her, everything would have looked beautiful in her eyes, I suppose.”
“Is that so.”
Hyun ran his index finger over his eyebrows slowly and continued.
“Isn’t it the other way around?”
“…”
“You said something about me taking away many of Yerin’s men.”
“W-What are you talking about!”
There was no reason for him to endure such nonsense anymore.
Standing up, buttoning his jacket, Hyun stared coldly at Seoyoon.
“I strongly detest people ignorant of their status, soaked in greed.”
“…”
“At this point, you might find my reason for rejecting you acceptable.”
Even if it wasn’t acceptable, he had no intention of persuading further.
If she had spent the wasted ten minutes here on Yerin, laughter wouldn’t have stopped.
Without any lingering feelings, Hyun turned and left the cafe.
Seoyoon clenched her fist tightly, glaring at the disappearing door where Hyun had gone.
“How much gossip has Yerin spread about me?”
Without considering her own past actions, she only thought it was because Yerin had completely captured Hyun on her side.
However, she couldn’t give up here.
Men who easily gained her favor easily lost interest.
All the men Yerin had met so far were like that.
Whenever she smiled kindly and showed aegyo, they easily surrendered.
Even the recent meeting with Heejoon was the same.
To Seoyoon, who had always seen men like that, Hyun was even more attractive.
His lack of interest in her made even his sharp words sound refined.
Perhaps it was due to his outstanding appearance and splendid background.
It was an undeniable fact that among the men Seoyoon had met in her life, Hyun was the most outstanding in every aspect.
Seoyoon smiled slyly, lifted the corner of her mouth, and took out her phone.
“If Mr. Lee Hyun is so firm, I need to make Han Yerin tired first and make her fall off that person’s side.”
It has been too easy until now.
Thinking that way, Seoyoon busily played with her phone.
A noisy pub filled with the sound of lively music and surrounding conversations.
Nari and Yerin found a seat in the corner and sat down, taking a sip of freshly poured draft beer.
“What’s going on with Director Lee?”
To that question, Yerin hesitated for a moment.
She couldn’t say that she was putting in a lot of effort to be able to smoothly date when the woman Hyun was so eagerly looking for appeared.
Moreover, how could she say such a nonsensical thing as being the fake girlfriend of Hyun.
“Just the same.”
“Your director is also under a fair amount of pressure to get married at home. Isn’t today’s solo performance of Gwak Seoyoon an extension of that?”
Yerin also agreed with Nari’s story.
Especially, Seoyoon was the person chosen as the top priority among the women selected by Mrs. Yoon, who was being considered as the next presidential candidate.
Although she disliked the two meeting, there was nothing she could do.
Hyun wasn’t really her boyfriend, and even if the two started dating, she had never entertained the vain hope that it would lead to marriage.
Because the world Hyun lived in and where she was were too different.
She was well aware that Mrs. Yoon’s kindness extended to her was because she was a secretary helping Hyun work easily.
If, by any chance, she started to covet the position of Jaeseok Group’s hostess by standing next to Hyun as a woman…
It was natural to see the real side of Mrs. Yoon, who had always smiled kindly at her.
There are things that can be done by being greedy and things that cannot.
Trying to erase the constantly encroaching empty feeling, Yerin shook her head for a moment.
“Do you also feel subtly concerned?”
At Nari’s keen question, Yerin could only smile faintly.
“Of course, I’m concerned. It’s not just anyone; it’s Gwak Seoyoon.”
“That’s why. Why her among so many others?”
As if just thinking about Seoyoon’s face made her feel bad, Nari pursed her lips.
“Why bother about that fox-like girl trying to seduce your director.”
“Huh?”
“You’ve been keeping an eye on Director Cha Hyun, right?”
She thought she hadn’t revealed it, but it seemed that Nari, who had been close for a long time, couldn’t be fooled.
“So, you’re doing something unexpected, like having a one-night stand.”
“…”
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
