I opened a bottle of water on the table and gulped it down, hoping that drinking cold water might bring back my composure. However, the boiling heat remained.
I wanted to throw the PET bottle at Ji Han with his shameless gaze. Placing the bottle on the table with a thud, a faint crack appeared on Ji Han’s face.
“Why did you come… Ha, don’t you have anything to say to me?”
“Say something? Shouldn’t that be for you, who came to find me?”
Seemingly indifferent, Ji Han smirked.
“Why did you come today? Do you have nothing to say to me?”
“Nothing to say? That should be up to you, who came to find me.”
As if he didn’t care, Ji Han chuckled.
“Did you come to talk about the car brake today?”
“Brake? Ah, are you talking about the accident Hyung had today?”
It was a major accident that shook Jaeha’s life.
However, Ji Han talked about it as if discussing a trivial matter, as if it were an insignificant topic.
“I heard about it and knew it. How is he? I heard he’s okay.”
“…”
“Hehe, it must be hot because it’s outdoors.”
He took out ice from the nearby ice bucket, filled the glass with it, and poured water.
His demeanor was so nonchalant that it irritated me even more.
The events of today, when I went to see Jaeha, were still vivid.
“Is it this hot, really?”
He pushed me and Jaeha into a pit and said.
Throughout the day, my heart felt like it would burn as I rushed to the hospital.
Staring at Ji Han, who seemed unfazed even after committing such a terrible act, I snatched the glass he picked up.
Without hesitation, I poured it over his head.
[DASH] Splatter.I perfectly emptied the contents, including the ice, and put the glass down.
At first, Ji Han, who blinked slowly, glared at me fiercely.
“What is this…!”
“Today, because of you, Mr. Jaeha went through hell.”
“Ha. What are you talking about?”
“Today, you intentionally sabotaged my car’s brakes. I won’t just let it go. I came here to warn you.”
Ji Han seemed to forget the fact that water had been spilled for a while.
“Ha, hahaha. Did I do that?”
He shook off the water dripping from his head.
Then he swept back his wet hair and burst into a mocking laughter.
“Whether in the past or now, your imagination is truly rich.”
For a moment, Ji Han’s laughter, which had been on his lips, ceased.
Then, he stood up and took out the gun he had placed.
‘…Why a gun?’
Tension surged instantly.
Because of Ji Han’s subdued voice as he touched the gun.
“I was trying to kill you. I would have aimed at you right here.”
“What… are you saying?”
“Isn’t that right? There are only the two of us here.”
Ji Han slowly raised the gun.
A chilly smile appeared on Ji Han’s lips, aiming the muzzle at me.
I took a sharp breath.
At the moment when the eerie sound of reloading bullets was heard, I froze in place.
‘He can’t shoot me here…’
It was a perforated outdoor shooting range.
Thinking that Ji Han, who is usually cautious, would never pull the trigger, my hands were damp with sweat.
In the midst of the intense tension, Ji Han’s voice pierced through the silence.
“Read it.”
The pupils of Ji Han’s eyes, looking at me, deepened.
“Even with the gun pointed at you, you didn’t even blink an eye. If I really made up my mind, you would have.”
“…”
“But unfortunately, I have no intention of killing you.”
With those words, Ji Han lowered the gun aimed at me.
“Ha.”
Only then did I exhale the breath I had been holding.
As if sensing my tension, Ji Han smirked. Then he looked at me and shrugged.
“Yoon Yejin, the loss from killing you would be greater than what I gain. People with a lot to lose don’t venture into adventures. You should know that well, right?”
Ji Han put the gun he was holding into the storage.
Taking off the gloves he was wearing, he placed them on the table and added a comment.
“If you came to find the person who made my brother like that, you got it wrong. I also heard about the accident, and it was truly lamentable.”
I tightly clenched my trembling hand.
Looking into Ji Han’s eyes, his words didn’t seem like a lie.
That means there’s someone else behind the brake malfunction incident this time.
‘Who could have done such a thing?’
Is there someone who hates me enough to take my life, excluding Ji Han?
While my mind was busy with these thoughts, I heard footsteps.
I had heard that the entire shooting range had been rented, and in the distance, I saw Seorin approaching.
Seorin, who discovered me with Ji Han, widened her eyes in surprise.
Then, in an instant, her pupils sank coldly. A subtle expression, as if she had become more contemplative.
Seeing the deep anxiety and venom frozen in Seorin’s gaze, my heart chilled.
‘Surely…’
My mouth dried up in an instant.
“What’s going on here?”
“Director Kim said if I come here, my brother would be here… Why are you two together?”
Considering the fact that she saw her ex-fiancé and me together, her complexion seemed overly uneasy.
As if there was something to be exposed, her face looked nervous.
Seorin alternately glanced at me and Ji Han, then asked me.
“Unni, Representative Seo Jaeha had an accident and is in the hospital. Shouldn’t you be there?”
“How do you know that? It’s an incident that hasn’t even been reported to the media yet.”
“Well, that…”
Not only had the incident not been reported, but it had not even been reported to Chairman Seo and Vice Chairman.
Seeing Seorin knowing about Jaeha’s accident, her mouth twitched.
Ji Han also sensed an unusual atmosphere between us and narrowed his eyes.
“I heard it while talking to Director Kim.”
Seorin answered with a small voice, sneaking in.
A completely unexpected statement.
Director Kim, who only moves at Ji Han’s command, would not have conveyed such news.
Ji Han also seemed to notice that something was strange, and his face stiffened.
“I see.”
Now everything made sense.
‘You.’
The culprit who sabotaged my car’s brakes.
Looking at Seorin, the vague suspicion that I had been harboring became certain.
As Ji Han said, the only person who could do something so reckless and have nothing to lose was only one person.
Because of Cha Seorin.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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