In the dark night, at two in the morning.
Tae Joon, lying on the sofa, was unable to sleep, staring at the ceiling with his eyes wide open.
This wasn’t the scene he had in mind. When he said he would sleep at this house, using President Baek as an excuse, using the pride of a man as an excuse, it definitely wasn’t meant to sleep on a sofa like this!
However, unintentionally, he ended up lying on the sofa.
Initially, he was a bit surprised at the positive response that came easier than expected. But soon, she ruthlessly crushed his hopes, saying that there was plenty of room.
Yeah, he never even thought it could progress that far in the first place. They agreed to get married, but it was all based on his onesided feelings, and for Seo Rin, it was merely another business deal.
But at least, there was the hope that the old feelings might resurface if they spent time in the same space. Because occasionally, when they were together, he saw her strangely tense.
The thought that it might not be just his onesided feelings, the thought that he might be able to return to the happiest times with her. All of these thoughts came together to inflate his expectations.
He pushed aside the base thoughts that came to him when he saw her again. He also suppressed the desire to steal her warmth several times when they were together.
First of all, it was important to penetrate her heart by whatever means necessary, so he decided not to discriminate between methods.
But she showed no response today, perhaps because she was extremely tired.
In the end, despite being told to sleep in the room, Tae Joon chose the sofa on purpose. It was because he calculated that if he slept in an uncomfortable place, she might look at him at least once.
However, it was a thorough miscalculation.
Even after several hours had passed since he went in, she didn’t come out once.
The sofa, located in the middle of the spacious living room, was large enough to cover his exceptional height and still had room to spare. However, the fact that it was more comfortable than he thought didn’t provide him much consolation.
He even regretted not just going back to the hotel, setting aside his male pride.
“Ha, insane attention seeker. No one does it better.”
He was like a child suffering from affection deficiency.
Look at me, like a child making all kinds of fuss.
And when constant indifference returned, he was like a kid who threw a tantrum alone, a kid who was disgustingly big only in body.
Even he thought it was ridiculous. He wondered what he had done while his body grew so much and his heart remained the size of a rat’s droppings.
Seo Rin, why do I get so impatient when I see you?
I want to touch you, possess you, hold you.
Am I the only one like this? Is it really just me?
It was like singing an endless round song. He should have been tired of the repeating song, but he was a man who surpassed others in stamina alone, so he didn’t get tired easily.
Damn it!
Swearing bitterly to himself, he raised his arm to cover his eyes.
But at that moment, he felt a slight presence along with a clicking sound.
Contrary to her expectation that she would drop dead after taking a shower with warm water due to her tired body and mind, Seo Rin couldn’t sleep until late at night. This was because her senses were on high alert in the most unlikely place.
‘He should have slept in the room, so stubborn.’
The sofa in the living room was a supersized one, fit for the size of the studio apartment, but no matter how big the sofa, could it be as comfortable as a bed? However, he deliberately chose the sofa, arguing that he could maintain patience and not attack her only if he slept uncomfortably.
Well, it wasn’t like she forced him, it was his own choice.
But he couldn’t help but worry.
Eventually, Seo Rin got up from the bed and put on a silk robe.
Carefully, she opened the door so as not to make a sound. Then, under the yellow moonlight, a welldefined silhouette on the large sofa caught her eye. The unmoving silhouette seemed to be already wandering in dreamland.
Wondering if he might be cold sleeping in the living room, Seo Rin checked the temperature on the digital screen. Humidity, temperature, everything was in an optimal state.
Still, she couldn’t help but approach Tae Joon silently, as her feet wouldn’t move away.
He was asleep with his arm raised to cover his eyes. And the blanket she had given him to cover up was only wrapped around his waist.
He used to kick off the blanket often because he had a lot of heat in his body. The memory of how the casually thrown blanket made his naked body even more precarious was still vivid.
Yet, unlike usual, he was sleeping all dressed up today, but he still wore the blanket like an accessory.
“Ha… He’s not covering himself with the blanket again.”
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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