Tae Joon, who couldn’t sleep and was having a glass of wine in the living room, heard a strange sound.
It sounded like someone was moaning.
Realizing the sound was coming from the bedroom, he quickly got up and went to Seo Rin. As expected, he saw her moaning in pain, unable to make a proper sound, lying on the bed.
She seemed to be paralyzed by another nightmare.
He had seen this a few times in the past, but today it was severe. As if the pain wasn’t enough, he could see clear tear marks around her motionless eyes.
“Seo Rin, wake up! It’s just a dream. It’s just a dream!”
He shook her awake. However, the horrible nightmare seemed to stubbornly grip her, and her rigid body did not easily loosen.
“Seo Rin! Seo Rin!”
Only after forcibly lifting her up into his arms, did he hear the sounds that had been unable to escape, even though she was moaning in pain, explode all at once.
“Hah!”
“Yes. It’s a dream, Seo Rin. You just had a dream.”
“Ugh…ugh!”
Now that she had crossed over from the nightmare to the real world, she burst into silent tears.
Just how horrible a dream had she had that she couldn’t even cry properly?
He held her trembling body and comforted her.
In the past, when she had such nightmares, she used to make the excuse that it was because of academic stress. He thought that was possible.
It was plausible, living away from her family on unfamiliar ground and having to cope with a busy schedule.
But what drove you to this point today?
His heart was heavy.
Somehow, he felt like he might have a considerable part in her terrible nightmares.
Yet, he felt like there was nothing else he could do for her.
“It’s okay. I’m here.”
All he could do was just be there for her.
After crying in Tae Joon’s arms for a while, Seo Rin only seemed to calm down somewhat after washing her body, soaked with sweat and tears, clean with lukewarm water.
But just because the crying and trembling had stopped didn’t mean she had fully escaped from the nightmare. The trembling of her body had stopped, but her heart, running wild on its own, couldn’t distinguish between reality and the nightmare.
“How could…”
Never before had a living person appeared in her nightmares. But this time it was different. Tae Joon, very much alive, had appeared in her dream.
It was the worst nightmare she had ever had.
She looked down at her own hands, still trembling.
The feeling was vivid when she had lifted Tae Joon, floating on the water as if dead. His body, devoid of the vitality of life, was stiff like a log and cold like ice. Her skin was just as icy where it had touched his coldness.
Why had he, who was alive, appeared in her nightmare?
Was the dream warning her about emotions she didn’t even know were flowing?
Do not love, it seemed to say.
“Ah…”
A deep sigh flowed from her lips. She felt like disappearing into the ground due to a sense of selfreproach.
Everything she had loved dies.
Even her father, whom she thought she hated more than she loved, didn’t she realize only after his death that she loved him enough to hate him?
This was a curse.
A terrible punishment imposed on her.
And there was only one way to end this terrible punishment.
Not giving her heart.
Not loving.
Locking away her heart that wanted to flow out completely.
That was the only way.
She spent the rest of the night sitting on the bed with her eyes open. And when dawn broke, she got up mechanically and prepared for work.
She looked in the mirror. Her eyes, empty as if they had lost something, were exactly the same as those of the dead people she had seen in her nightmares.
She couldn’t distinguish whether this was the life of the dead or the living.
However, when she came out to the living room and saw Tae Joon sitting at the dining table, Seo Rin realized that she was truly living the life of the living.
“Are you already done preparing for work? How could you after not getting a wink of sleep all night?”
Could she really endure without loving that man?
“I made coffee. At least drink this before you go.”
Could she really do that?
“You were quite startled last night, weren’t you? I’m sorry.”
“No. But are you still being stifled by the same nightmare?”
“Yes.”
“It seems… to have gotten more serious.”
But this wasn’t a matter of choice. It was something she had to do.
“It’s nothing. Don’t worry too much.”
Everything was something she had to bear alone.
She couldn’t make Tae Joon another victim of this curse.
“Thanks for the coffee. I should head to work now.”
“Alright. Make sure to eat lunch.”
“Yes. You too, Tae Joon.”
And so, she stepped out the front door. In her turning eyes, myriad emotions were condensed.
As soon as she left the apartment, Director Park, who had been waiting for her with his car, bowed in greeting.
“Did you sleep well?”
A greeting no different from usual.
However, Seo Rin couldn’t smile back at Director Park’s greeting as she usually did. At her chilly response, Director Park tilted his head, feeling that something was off.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
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At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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