His familiar yet unfamiliar presence made her heart tickle in a strange way. As a result, the muscles that had been tense all day began to relax. A wave of languidness hit her.
With halfclosed eyes, she glanced at the passing neon signs. Then, Director Park suddenly threw a question at her through the rearview mirror.
“Are you… meeting a friend?”
Seo Rin was a person who lived life thoroughly planned. Therefore, she was not particularly fond of unplanned encounters.
She didn’t often meet her friends either, but even those meetings were not arranged as abruptly as this.
Her unusual behavior raised many questions in Director Park’s mind that he couldn’t easily ignore.
“No, not a friend.”
Not a friend? Then who?
He was more curious.
“So… not dating either, at this hour…”
Who was she meeting?
He didn’t add the end of his thought, but it seemed as if he had voiced it out loud.
Seo Rin, as if understanding the burning curiosity of Director Park, turned her gaze to look at his back as he drove.
She wouldn’t be able to keep her affair with Tae Joon a secret forever.
Moreover, Director Park was a person who, being in her close proximity, naturally had the right to know. However, how could she spill the beans about this marriage that she herself hadn’t fully accepted yet?
“Director Park, by any chance… is your heart strong?”
“My heart?”
His anxious eyes turned towards the rearview mirror at the unexpected question.
In the mirror, the two people’s eyes silently met. A sense of tension for no particular reason made the air in the narrow car feel even tighter.
Ignoring Director Park who was swallowing his dry saliva, finally Seo Rin’s lips began to slowly open.
“Director Park, hold the steering wheel tightly.”
“……”
“I’m not dating… but I’m married.”
Screech!
Taken aback, Director Park quickly turned the steering wheel and pulled the car over to the side of the road. Then he turned on the hazard lights and took a moment to catch his breath.
Did I hear that wrong?
“You heard correctly. I’m married.”
Although he hadn’t voiced his thoughts, Seo Rin spoke as if she had read his mind.
He was really confident about his health, but his heart was flipping at the mere news of his workplace superior’s marriage.
“Should I buy you some heart medicine?”
At this point, she was annoying.
“You should have bought it before you told me!”
“That’s why I asked. If your heart was strong. You didn’t answer, so I thought it was.”
He knew Seo Rin was usually very chic, but he didn’t know she could be this dry. She was talking about her own marriage as if it were someone else’s.
“Of course, not right now. It hasn’t been long since my father passed away, so a wedding ceremony doesn’t seem right. So we decided to just register our marriage first.”
“No… who, who with?”
The sudden news of the marriage was so absurd that Director Park stuttered. It was hard to understand.
He was Seo Rin’s closest colleague, so if she had been dating, Director Park would have known. She hadn’t even been seen with a man, but suddenly she was skipping the middle stage and getting married. It was more than absurd, it was devastating.
“You’ll know when you see him, Director Park.”
“……”
“So, let’s go quickly. He’s waiting.”
At Seo Rin’s words, he had no choice but to start the car again, but Director Park was still suffering from heart palpitations.
His entire body’s blood was rotating excessively due to the fast heartbeat, to the point where it wouldn’t be strange if he had a heart attack.
Who on earth? Who?
That was the only thing on his mind. And there was only one way to get the answer to this question.
Arrive at her studio apartment quickly and check the face of the other person!
Thanks to that, Director Park managed to cover the 15minute distance in just 10 minutes.
He hastily parked the car and quickly looked around. But all around, under the red street lights, there was only silence.
“Don’t get out, Director Park. See you tomorrow.”
Seo Rin spoke, but he wasn’t in the state of mind to respond to her words.
His eyes wide open, he followed the back of Seo Rin as she got out of the car. She, who had been showing tired movements just moments ago, was now heading somewhere with light steps.
Then a large shadow descended from a black SUV.
“Ah, damn… I can’t see. Am I already farsighted?”
He strained his eyes to the point of bursting blood vessels to focus, but was annoyed when he still couldn’t clearly see the face of the man in the darkness.
Unaware of his feelings, Seo Rin’s steps toward the shadow were as light as a feather.
“Who the hell……”
Then, the shadow took a step forward from the darkness, revealing his identity.
“Hehey!”
Director Park’s jaw dropped.
Kang Tae Joon! Yes, how could he forget that visual!
A man who left a powerful, let alone shocking, impression with just a fleeting brush!
While Director Park was losing his mind and watching the two with a shocked gaze, there were another pair of eyes observing them.
Those eyes were busy capturing the figures of the two through the camera lens.
About an hour later, those photos were sent to President Baek’s personal email through the assistant manager.
The shock that passed through President Baek’s eyes after confirming the photos was even greater than Director Park’s.
“What is… this?”
He had people tailing Seo Rin to figure out her movements until the temporary shareholders’ meeting, but he was confused about how to interpret the result that had come into his hands.
The location in the photos was definitely in front of Seo Rin’s studio apartment, and a few even captured the scene of the two entering her studio apartment together.
But what was more shocking was the faint smile that permeated her face as she looked at the man.
Living up to her nickname ‘Iron Lady’, Seo Rin’s unique, chic, and expressionless face had become her trademark. Even her father, who was close to her, had hardly ever seen Seo Rin smile like this, except when she was a child.
But, Seo Rin was smiling at the man.
“What the hell……”
What could have happened? That Baek Seo Rin was meeting a man with the temporary shareholders’ meeting, which would decide her fate, right before her eyes?
Of course, the man’s swagger was shining enough to penetrate even the dark photos.
But that alone could not be a sufficient explanation.
Wasn’t it none other than Baek Seo Rin! The Seo Rin he knew was not the kind of person to engage in unnecessary emotional expenditure like dating at a time like this. Therefore, he couldn’t believe these photos as they were.
Such doubts eventually led him to pick up his phone again.
“Find out who this guy in the photo is… what he does.”
There had to be a reason. A reason why she was smiling at him like this.
“From head to toe, everything!”
He had to find out that reason.
My Ex-Girlfriend Is The Regent In The Female-dominant World (Male lead transmigrates to the matriarchal world)
Two years ago, Gu Sui picked up a homeless woman in ancient costume from the street.
Apart from occasionally claiming to be a princess from a female-dominant country due to illness, her figure, appearance, intelligence, and martial arts skills were impeccable.
Naturally evolving from roommates to girlfriends, as time went on, Gu Sui found it increasingly difficult to tolerate her queen syndrome.
“Mu Jiulu, can you stop controlling me inside and out? Let’s break up.”
Gu Sui made a breakup call, and since then, he couldn’t find any trace of her.
A year later, Gu Sui, who was planning to move, woke up the next day and found himself in a different place.
“Young Master, today is the day you choose your Wife-master through martial arts competition at Jade Dew Pavilion. Please get up quickly.”
Gu Sui: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
As the only son of a general’s mansion in a female-dominant dynasty, the young empress personally issued a decree allowing Gu Sui to select his Wife-master through martial arts competition. Whoever could defeat him could marry him.
Gu Sui: “……”
He didn’t inherit the original owner’s martial prowess, so anyone could defeat him! And what the hell is a Wife-master?
Forced to come to Jade Dew Pavilion, the densely packed women below made Gu Sui’s agoraphobia act up, and his face was full of resistance.
Until he saw the Regent sitting on the second floor, with a smile on the corner of her lips, her eyes wicked and nonchalant.
Hmm… she looked a little familiar.
It turned out that the Regent also found him a little familiar.
Mu Jiulu fiddled with her bone clasp, her deep gaze locked on the man who was out of place in this world.
“Finally, I found you.”
Male transmigrates into female-dominant world
One-sentence summary: What goes around comes around, taking turns in the crematorium
