“Where are you planning to go?”
“I thought about directly volunteering at the childcare center.”
“Oh, really?”
Until now, Hyun had only sponsored the childcare center and hadn’t personally visited, considering his time as equivalent to money, making it difficult to find the time in his busy schedule. The fact that he was planning to go himself surprised Secretary Choi.
“Are you going alone?”
“No.”
“Then who are you going with?”
After a moment of contemplation, Hyun slowly spoke.
“It was a spontaneous promise made while talking with Secretary Han earlier.”
“So Director Lee is going to join the volunteer activity that Secretary Han is attending?”
“Yeah. I heard that CEO Kim Nari will also be there, so it shouldn’t be boring.”
At the mention of Nari, Secretary Choi’s ears perked up.
“Director, what did you just say?”
“I said it shouldn’t be boring.”
“No, before that.”
“CEO Kim Nari is coming?”
“Yes.”
At Secretary Choi’s exaggerated reaction, this time, Hyun looked puzzled.
“Really?”
“That’s what I heard.”
After confirming several times, Secretary Choi spoke.
“Director, I’ll join you on that day.”
“It’s okay. I can handle it alone. Until a while ago, Secretary Choi said she wanted to rest on weekends.”
Hyun thought Secretary Choi would join him because she felt sorry for leaving him alone, but that wasn’t the case. Secretary Choi was eager to go because Nari was coming.
The time they spent together last time, when Hyun personally drove Nari to her house, lingered in his mind. Although they had a pleasant conversation and got along well, there hadn’t been much contact since then. If there was an opportunity to meet again naturally, Secretary Choi would welcome it.
“Thinking about it, there may be no more rewarding rest than doing something proud like volunteering at the childcare center, right?”
Watching Secretary Choi awkwardly smile while brushing her hair back, Hyun also smirked.
“Yeah, let’s do that. Come to my place on that day, and we’ll leave together.”
“Yes, Director.”
On Saturday morning, Yerin was driving Nari’s car towards the childcare center located in the outskirts of Seoul. A lively song echoed in the car.
“How’s your relationship with Director Lee these days?”
Hearing Nari’s question, a faint smile appeared on Yerin’s face.
“It’s just okay.”
“That day, the day we drank together, your Director even came to see you. Did the conversation go well that day?”
“Huh? Oh… that day.”
It was a day when they walked together and had quite a lot of conversation. Hyun had complained about feeling close but running away whenever they got closer.
Seeing Yerin’s silence, Nari added another comment.
“Just by seeing Director Lee coming for today’s volunteer work together, it’s so obvious to me.”
“What is?”
“That man is really sincere about you.”
Yes, it was a fact that Hyun’s sincerity towards me was well known to me.
However, why is it so difficult to expose my sincerity completely?
“Nari, it seems quite challenging.”
“What’s difficult? Just follow your heart.”
As contemplative Yerin gazed out the window, Nari scrutinized her side profile intently.
“Han Yerin, there’s no right answer in love.”
Love.
At the mention of that word, Yerin’s eyelashes trembled.
‘Is this love?’
It seemed quite grand to call it love. However, it was ambiguous to define it as not love.
Meanwhile, Nari’s car arrived at the childcare center.
As Nari and Yerin got out of the car, they noticed a strange man here, and both furrowed their brows.
“Yerin, is that man by any chance Park Hee Joon?”
“Uh… it seems like him.”
“Why is that guy here?”
“Yeah.”
Nari empathized with Yerin’s bewildered feelings.
Hee Joon, who was standing alone in the childcare center’s playground, spotted Yerin, stretched out his arms in a seemingly friendly manner, and greeted her.
“Han Yerin, you came?”
He should have sharply criticized her on the day when he saw her with Hyun in front of her house. Yerin was greatly perplexed because she didn’t expect him to reveal himself like this again.
“Yerin, just ignore him.”
“No. I’m not the type to give up so easily. I’ll talk to him briefly and come back.”
Seeing Yerin approaching him, Hee Joon smiled cunningly, revealing his true intentions.
“You look beautiful today too, our Yerin.”
“I’d prefer you not to call me so flirtatiously.”
“Was this the same woman who knew how to push people away with such arrogance?”
Hee Joon approached to hand over Yerin’s hair.
Because Yerin quickly stepped back, Hee Joon’s hand stopped in mid-air.
“Oppa, how did you know about this place?”
Yerin looked at Hee Joon with caution.
Hee Joon, with a mischievous smile that made people uncomfortable, moved closer again as much as Yerin distanced herself.
“When we were dating, you rejected dates here every Saturday.”
‘He remembered that?’
Reading Yerin’s thoughts, Hee Joon continued.
“As you know, I have a pretty good memory. So, I memorized difficult medical books and everything.”
Although he asked why she came here, it was mostly about self-praise.
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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