“You’re pretty, even when you’re wet.”
As he brushed her wet hair behind her ears, those words became the fuse.
The taut nerves exploded all at once. The remnants of those exploded nerves eroded most of the brain that could think.
Tae Joon’s pupils, deep with desire.
But Seo Rin knew. She knew that her own pupils were also sinking with the same intensity.
In the end, it burst.
Without knowing, Seo Rin reached out to him and kissed him first.
A kiss so honest it couldn’t compare to a while ago. At her kiss, where her desire was blatantly revealed, a satisfied sigh poured out from his throat.
From then on, she didn’t even remember how they got to the bed. It was like there was a brief blackout due to the exploding emotions, only remembering bits and pieces.
As she let out a small sigh at the lips trailing down her neck, she noticed that the towel covering her body was already on the floor.
When she couldn’t resist and sought his lips, her body was already on the bed.
Everything happened in an instant.
“Tae Joon…”
“You don’t know. How long I’ve waited for this moment.”
“……”
“It’s been exactly 8 years. I lived telling myself that I had forgotten you.”
“……”
“It’s so vivid. Everything is disgustingly clear like it happened just yesterday…… only you were not there.”
A momentary flash of pain swept across his pupils filled with deep desire. It was a light so clear that you could tell how he had endured all this time without him having to say it.
Seo Rin placed her hand on his left chest.
His solid pectoral muscles swelled even more under her fingertips. And she felt it. The movement of his heart, beating roughly as if it would flow out through his skin, was too clear.
She couldn’t even dare to say sorry.
All she could do was empathize with how much he must have been hurting.
She didn’t know. If she could go back to that moment, what choice could she make?
She was sorry, but it would be the same choice.
She had no other choice.
For herself, and for him.
Yet, he eventually found her again. Like a butterfly naturally seeking flowers.
Now, she didn’t know how to push him away.
Should she accept him, calling it fate?
Just like this?
“Don’t think about anything.”
“……”
“Let’s just think about us right now. Just the two of us.”
Tae Joon, reading her complicated gaze, gently whispered as he brushed her hair aside. His voice settling in her ears was like a sedative.
Her mind became momentarily blurry and her vision clouded.
The only thing she could see in this moment, in this space, was Tae Joon looking down at her.
Yes, she wished it were so.
If it really was just you and me in this world. So if nothing disturbs us, maybe I could love you without reserve.
He lowered his lips.
The warmth, like fire, flowed down her slender neck.
She couldn’t regain her senses. Her dazed mind momentarily made her forget a lot. The sensations he gave were all she could feel and see.
But then,
“……I love you.”
That voice, which dug in clearly, grabbed onto her flickering rationality.
“So, try to love me too. Please……”
There was a chilling sensation in her blood at his desperation.
Something she couldn’t give.
But something he desperately wanted.
She had momentarily forgotten. The fact that there was something between him and her that could never be compromised.
And now, she realized that everything at this moment was planting a cruel hope in him.
She should have kept a distance. So that he couldn’t harbor such hope in the first place.
Creating that distance was entirely up to her.
“Tae Joon, wait a minute……”
Tae Joon sought Seo Rin’s lips, but her rationality, already coldly hardened, was back to the cruel reality.
She pushed him away.
At her sudden refusal, he lifted his torso, which had been leaning towards her.
“I’m sorry…… I’m sorry, but……”
She couldn’t dare to say it out. But his dark eyes were looking down at her as if they couldn’t believe it. Without even saying, it seemed to understand her intention clearly.
A cold rationality filled her eyes that were full of heat just moments ago. His surprised face was reflected in her cool pupils.
“Ha…… really.”
Eventually, he collapsed weakly onto her body, letting out a small sigh. At the same time, a groan of pain slipped out. A minor pain occurred in his body, freed from the control of rationality.
However, he didn’t ask her for anything more. Instead, he had to shower again with cold water to calm his furious body.
Feeling him leaving the bed, Seo Rin stared at the ceiling as if she was out of her mind.
The suddenly cooled heat left the air cold, brutally scratching and passing over her bare skin. A long sigh of selfreproach escaped for having forgotten her role.
“Ha……”
Even in bed, there should have been no flow of emotions.
Yet, she was quite surprised at her own feelings flowing in like water. Even though she had held back her emotions several times, everything was just irresistible to Tae Joon.
What should she do now?
A sense of emptiness rushed in.
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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