At the calm voice of So Dam, Hanako lost her words. Was she always such a fluent speaker? Why does her Japanese sound more fluent than her English?
“If you go back as you are, I’ll understand that you didn’t attend the official meeting.”
And even a firm charisma!
Hanako was full of mixed feelings.
She desperately wanted to leave the place, but if she did, she could be seen as not attending the official meeting.
In a business based on trust, not attending a meeting can leave a big stain.
Moreover, it could be even more fatal from her position, where she has to attract investors on behalf of the company.
With the feeling of stepping on her own feet, Hanako sat down on the sofa again.
Her chest was hot with anger and her throat was dry. But the hot coffee in front of her only fueled her heat.
Why on earth is this room so hot! It’s so annoying!
Watching her fanning her face, So Dam proposed with a mischievous smile.
“Take off your coat. I’ll hang it up for you.”
It was like a devil’s smile.
Yes, now she remembered.
The person who had repeatedly blocked Hanako, who had been insistently approaching Tae Joon a few years ago!
What kind of grudge did this little woman have in her past life to become such a stumbling block in her path!
Driven by her rising heat, Hanako finally took off her coat and hung it on the sofa.
Then, the silk slip dress she wore to seduce Tae Joon revealed its brilliant figure, and her sensual body shone even more.
No one would think it was a dress suitable for a meeting.
The dress, which was almost indecent enough to be called underwear, seemed to clearly convey its purpose and intention.
But what could she do? She was boiling hot due to anger.
“Hmm! Hmm… I didn’t think about taking it off, but the room is quite hot.”
She made a silly excuse out of embarrassment.
So Dam then waved her hand as if it wasn’t necessary, and said with a smile,
“Oh, don’t worry! If you’re embarrassed to undress alone, shall I undress too and have a meeting?”
“……”
“I’m wearing underwear similar to that too.”
That little woman was definitely a devil.
“When did… you start having such dreams?”
Sitting across from Seo Rin, Tae Joon was cautious with each word.
Worried that he might be digging into her wounds with his questions, he simulated the conversation dozens, hundreds of times in his head before he could barely utter it.
“I don’t remember well. Seven, eight years old? After my mom and sister had an accident, from some point….”
“It’s been a long time.”
“……”
“How often… do you dream?”
“There’s no regularity. Sometimes it’s every few days. And sometimes it’s every few months.”
“Can you… tell me about it? You don’t have to if it makes you uncomfortable.”
“It’s just… it changes every time. But the message the dream always carries is the same. Just… a dream to remind me of that pain again.”
Tae Joon nodded his head. He had to offer words of comfort, but no suitable words came to mind.
He too had the memory of losing a loved one.
The woman who taught him as a child that love was the greatest thing, his very own mother.
Losing that single person felt like he lost the world. What must it have been like for Seo Rin?
He dared not even imagine.
And if that event kept repeating in her dreams….
“I tried therapy. But… it wasn’t effective.”
“……”
“They said as long as I don’t alleviate my guilt, the dreams will continue.”
“What… guilt?”
A surprised Tae Joon asked.
Then, Seo Rin began to unravel her secrets that she had kept hidden all this time, her eyes cast down.
Her story, which she had never told anyone except her family and doctor.
The story that she thought she would never utter again, having kept it in her heart.
“I… killed my mom and sister.”
“What…?”
“The day of the accident, we took a path we never took because of me. I wanted to pass through that path because the cosmos flowers blooming there were so beautiful. Despite my sister complaining about being late to the academy, my mom sided with me. So we took the detour… not the usual way, but that way.”
“……”
“And then… the accident happened.”
“……”
“I can’t forget that day for the rest of my life. The thought that if I hadn’t insisted on going that way, if we had taken the usual route, we could have avoided the accident…”
“……”
“So, how could I forget? How… could I alleviate this guilt?”
She didn’t cry. But her calm voice sounded all the more painful in Tae Joon’s ears.
For her to talk about it so calmly, she must have constantly prodded at her own wound.
Until the wound repeatedly healed and reopened, and the spot became numb.
Until even if she prodded it more, there were no more tears to shed from the pain.
“But you know what? My misfortune didn’t end there. Even after that, death seemed to follow me around. As if, I was cursed.”
“Don’t say things like that. There’s no such thing as a curse… in this world.”
“I want to believe that too. But, Tae Joon.”
“……”
“My dad also died, you know. I never thought I loved my dad. But after he died, I realized that I loved him. In the end… I couldn’t escape from the shackles of that evil.”
“……”
“Tae Joon, this is a curse.”
Tae Joon felt like his breath was being choked off. He was at a loss for what to say to persuade her.
“Everything I love dies. So… apart from love, I’ll do everything else.”
In the end, Seo Rin stood up from her seat after saying those words. As if she had finished saying everything she had to say, she went into her room.
But Tae Joon couldn’t let the conversation end like this.
How could he prove to her that there was no such thing as a curse?
How on earth could he…?
He abruptly stood up from his seat and followed Seo Rin. He grabbed her before she could close the door. Seo Rin’s beautiful eyes, turned around, were deeply shadowed with pain.
If he could alleviate her pain even a little.
If he could willingly do so.
“Baek Seo Rin, love me. Then… I’ll prove it to you.”
By living very confidently, that such a curse is really nothing.
“I will die a day later than you, even in death.”
Because he would prove it unequivocally.
“You’re crazy.”
The moment she spat out that painful secret, her voice, which had maintained its composure, began to tremble. Then, her eyes, which had been holding back well, started to moisten.
But for Tae Joon, those things no longer mattered. Because he realized that her trembling voice, her moist eyes, were not because she disliked him.
Now, he had no reason to avoid.
He had no reason to keep her at a distance.
So, he lowered his lips and whispered.
“Yes, I… I’m crazy.”
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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
