Asking if I shouldn’t go to sleep, Jaeha held me tightly, not allowing me to move an inch.
It felt awkward being pressed against him on the bed where a patient should lie.
“Jaeha, please let go of this.”
I pointed to the arm that was tightly holding me.
“If I let go, you’ll leave, won’t you?”
“I won’t. I’ll stay by your side.”
Seeing him tightly holding me, worried that his injured arm might hurt more, I couldn’t help but feel concerned. Honestly, I didn’t want to go home; it had been a long time since I saw Jaeha.
‘I want to stay with him.’
A house without Jaeha was too lonely. Rather than staying up all night with tired eyes, it seemed better to watch the sleeping Jaeha.
“I thought you were asleep. Have you finished preparing?”
“I finished a long time ago.”
Even when I came out after washing, Jaeha was still sitting on the bed.
I opened a bottle of chilled water, covered in dew, that I took from the refrigerator.
After a day so busy it was almost suffocating, I could finally catch my breath.
With an overwhelming thirst, I gulped down water non-stop.
“Ah, refreshing. It feels like I’m alive now.”
“Me too.”
Jaeha reached out to me as if asking for water.
Thinking his throat might be quite dry, I offered him the newly opened bottle of water.
However, Jaeha, despite my outstretched bottle, just looked at it and didn’t take it.
In puzzlement, I met his gaze, only to realize.
‘Right, he can’t open it because of his injured hand.’
Sitting by the bedside, I tried to open the lid.
Jaeha, preventing me from opening the bottle, swiftly moved it away to a small table.
“I didn’t ask you to open the lid.”
I looked at him in surprise and confusion.
But it seemed that what Jaeha wanted wasn’t that, as he shook his head.
“My thirst can’t be quenched with water.”
“…What?”
During my confusion, just as I was about to say something, I was pushed onto the bed by Jaeha.
Feeling the bed against my back, I opened my eyes briefly.
“I want this instead of water.”
Jaeha’s hand, moist, swept over my lips.
The warmth of Jaeha’s body temperature was fully conveyed to my lips.
‘How can I refuse this?’
As Jaeha stared at me with intensified eyes, my heart tingled.
Such words with that intense gaze are unfair.
After the incident, I felt guilty about Jaeha.
The thought that Jaeha got involved in the scheme I concocted against Serin didn’t leave my mind.
If I didn’t move, unsettling thoughts would slowly creep into my mind.
So, to prove Serin’s crime more quickly, I moved hastily.
‘If it was going to be like this, I should have stayed by his side.’
With Jaeha’s words, not only the tension but also my heart melted.
Perhaps that’s why. Looking down at Jaeha, who was staring at me, I pulled him closer.
He seemed briefly surprised that I was leading, but soon his eyes opened wider as he tilted his head towards me.
The lips met as gently as the affectionate gaze.
A warmth, warmer than the briefly touched hand, spread throughout my body through the lips.
As the sweet kiss continued, I found myself breathless, unconsciously caught up in this moment, forgetting even to breathe.
“Haah.”
The parted lips released a rough breath into the air.
However, as if that brief moment couldn’t be tolerated, Jaeha embraced the back of my head.
Once again, he approached, kissing my lips.
Jaeha, as if trying to relieve his pent-up desires, parted my lips and deepened the kiss.
As if determined not to miss even a small breath, Jaeha moved down my lips, teasing my neck.
Feeling a strange sensation tickling my throat, I unconsciously pushed Jaeha’s chest away.
“Not here…”
I felt uneasy at the thought that someone might come into the hospital room.
Jaeha gently embraced my worried face.
“Me too.”
“…”
“I don’t want to have you on a bed that other people use.”
With those words and his dazzling smile, my heart raced with excitement.
“Just allow a kiss. I’ve endured for too long.”
The cold air in the room, which had been circulating, was now enveloped by the warm heat we generated.
During this time when we focused entirely on each other, no distracting thoughts could interfere.
When Jaeha pressed a switch on the bed, darkness descended.
Although the intense kissing had ended a while ago, the heat still lingered.
“It’s good. Being together like this.”
Lying close together on the same bed, I could feel the warmth behind me.
“I have trouble sleeping these days when Jaeha isn’t around.”
I hadn’t realized it when Jaeha was here, but now, lying on the bed, I realized how large it was.
Certainly, I had trouble sleeping at home.
Now, however, I could feel Jaeha’s body temperature, and drowsiness gradually overcame me.
“Look at that. I should be discharged.”
Jaeha seemed very satisfied with my words, chuckling.
Was it that good of a thing? A patient deciding to be discharged because his wife couldn’t sleep.
Even though I thought it was unstoppable, I couldn’t help but smile.
“Are you going to sleep? Seems like you are.”
When I didn’t respond, he seemed to think I had fallen asleep.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
