My Husband's Scandal (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 11
The VIP wing of D Hotel was famous as a venue for chaebol family introductions thanks to its ironclad security.
The place was also quite spacious, so it was often used by celebrities for private weddings. That’s why it was chosen as the wedding venue for Kang Hyun and Yoon.
Since the announcement of their marriage had been postponed until late October, after Kang Hyun’s drama was released on an OTT platform, the wedding was held completely in secret.
Perhaps because extravagant weddings of chaebol families and politicians had recently become a social issue and caused quite a stir, both families actually welcomed the low-key approach.
Thus, a quiet ceremony attended only by immediate family members took place. However, none of Yoon’s real family were among them.
“Grandfather and Grandmother couldn’t even come.”
Since the two of them didn’t know it was a contract marriage, Yoon didn’t show it outwardly, but she couldn’t help feeling heartbroken thinking how disappointed Ok Soon and Ho Sik must be.
The image of the two of them smiling and waving at the front door kept coming to mind, almost bringing tears to her eyes.
At that moment, as the bride was about to enter, Ji Man approached Yoon’s side and spoke kindly.
“You look absolutely beautiful today.”
It was the dress Seo Jung had chosen, ignoring the experts’ opinions.
Even though it was a wedding dress with excessive frilly lace that made her look bulky and gave off a tacky vibe, it apparently looked pretty in Ji Man’s eyes.
Everyone had shaken their heads and opposed this dress, but Yoon didn’t want to argue with Seo Jung, so she put it on without complaint.
“Come on, let’s link arms.”
Ji Man looked at Yoon and flashed a practiced, gentle smile, while Yoon’s complexion, on the contrary, quickly darkened.
Feeling more awkward with Ji Man than with a stranger, Yoon linked arms with her and walked down the virgin road. When she raised her head, she saw Kang Hyun looking at her indifferently.
Although Kang Hyun didn’t look comfortable either, walking arm-in-arm with Ji Man made Yoon desperately want to reach him quickly.
When Ji Man reached Kang Hyun, she patted the back of Yoon’s hand like a caring father and even gave blessings, telling her to live well.
Yoon genuinely felt goosebumps all over her body. So she quickly pulled her arm away and grabbed Kang Hyun’s.
“That hurts.”
Kang Hyun frowned as he looked down at her. Come to think of it, she had apparently gripped his arm too tightly.
“I’m sorry.”
Yoon cautiously linked arms with him again and stepped onto the platform. Then she accidentally stepped on the hem of the overly voluminous dress and nearly fell forward.
He quickly wrapped his arm around her waist and held her steady. Thanks to that, the bride was spared the embarrassment of tumbling during the ceremony.
“Are you dizzy again?”
Kang Hyun asked, checking her complexion.
“No.”
“But did you really pick this dress? Your taste is… something else. And it’s way too big. No wonder you keep stepping on it.”
Even to Kang Hyun, who had zero fashion sense, it looked terribly tacky.
“Are you feeling tired?”
Yoon’s face looked as pale as it had during the engagement ceremony, so Kang Hyun asked.
“A little.”
She hadn’t slept the night before and had been dragged out at dawn, enduring endless nagging from Seo Jung and her daughters.
Still, she was relieved that Yoo Jin hadn’t attended the wedding. Yoon, who had been extremely nervous at the thought of facing Yoo Jin again, could at least breathe a small sigh of relief.
“It’ll be over soon, so hang in there a bit longer.”
Kang Hyun whispered into the ear of the exhausted Yoon.
“Yes.”
Even while the officiant was speaking, Kang Hyun kept glancing sideways to check on Yoon’s condition.
“Is she naturally frail?”
She had looked unwell during the engagement too; today she seemed to be struggling a lot.
As Kang Hyun had said, the wedding really did end quickly. Since his schedule was tight, additional rituals like the pyebaek were casually skipped.
Yoon felt sorry toward him, but she was so grateful that he was busy. As soon as the ceremony ended, the two headed straight to the airport.
“Madam, I will escort you.”
Kang Hyun had to move with the drama crew, so Cheol Young was assigned to take care of Yoon exclusively. Only Woo Jin, Cheol Young, and Kyeong Hwa knew about their marriage, so they had to move as quietly as possible.
“I don’t really have to go…”
Yoon wondered if they really needed to go this far for a honeymoon and wished she could just stay behind.
However, when Kang Hyun said he would combine filming with the honeymoon, Seo Jung—who had shown no interest in Yoon’s marriage—suddenly rolled up her sleeves and pushed the plan forward enthusiastically.
***
The view from the suite of the ultra-luxury resort on Seminyak Beach in Bali was sophisticated enough to deserve the title of Bali’s finest resort.
Yet it felt too modern, lacking much of a relaxing vacation vibe. At least the palm trees scattered around the resort reminded visitors that this was indeed Bali.
On the room’s balcony stretched an infinity private pool that created the mystical illusion of the blue sea and sky being connected.
Yoon stood on the balcony and looked down. A large crowd had gathered in front of the hotel pool.
It was because Korea’s top actor Cha Kang Hyun had rented the entire villa section of the hotel to film “Cruel Killer.”
Kang Hyun was dressed rather ordinarily in shorts and a shirt, but his standout looks made him instantly recognizable even from afar.
Having started as a model, his physique was naturally a work of art. Not only was he tall, he had perfect body lines—an admirably sculpted figure.
His broad Pacific-ocean shoulders, solid chest built of muscle, and thick thigh muscles hardly seemed those of an East Asian man.
Foreign women even flocked mid-shoot to take photos of him. And his face—said to be more perfect than his body—lived up to the nickname “male god,” with no flaws anywhere.
The pale face he’d had while filming “Vampire Doctor” was now suitably tanned, further emphasizing his masculinity.
His thick eyebrows, straight nose bridge, and sexy lips formed features that would make anyone do a double-take.
The female co-star filming with him was Shin Young Joo, a former model with outstanding beauty.
For a model she had quite a glamorous figure, and the flowing tube-top dress she wore made her sensual curves noticeable even from a distance. The two displayed perfect chemistry, creating stunning scenes.
Both of them fully utilized their long, refreshing proportions, shooting intimate scenes all around the pool area as if doing a photoshoot. Occasionally they faced each other and laughed, apparently in a good mood.
The Bali shoot was the final episode that would crown this drama. It was the story of the male lead finding the female lead—who had been hiding in Bali after all incidents were resolved—and achieving a happy ending.
The entire crew was pushing through a tight schedule with no time to care about the heat.
Yoon quietly watched the scene for a while before returning to the living room. She had just eaten the breakfast provided by the hotel and now needed to brush her teeth.
In the dazzling bathroom she brushed her teeth while looking at the equally extravagant glass fixtures.
“I wonder how much one night here costs. It must be insanely expensive.”
Of course, it wasn’t something she needed to worry about.
“So I get to visit a place like this because I married Cha Kang Hyun.”
Actually, this was Yoon’s first time traveling abroad.
“To think I came to Bali just to brush my teeth.”
Yoon rinsed her mouth and stepped out of the palatial bathroom that looked big enough to combine several ordinary rooms.
“You have work, so stay here.”
Kang Hyun had said that and didn’t come to the room on their first night. He said there were many meetings about the filming schedule. Yoon thought that was fortunate.
Of course they had verbally agreed at home to sleep in separate rooms and not touch each other, but since this was technically their honeymoon, Yoon had inwardly been nervous when entering the suite.
She now regretted not making the sleeping arrangements clearer. Since Kang Hyun seemed to dislike her, she had naturally assumed he wouldn’t think about that issue.
Moreover, Yoon still had no experience. She and Young Hoon had never even properly held hands or anything beyond that. Physical contact with Young Hoon had always felt awkward to her.
Perhaps she had only ever seen Young Hoon as a good senior. Being touched by him had strangely felt uncomfortable. Suddenly she thought that must have been hard on Young Hoon.
“We broke up for the best.”
Young Hoon, now dating Shin Joo, looked happy. At first it was painful to see them being affectionate, but over time she accepted it.
As he had said, the two of them hadn’t suited each other. He matched well with someone refined and lively like Shin Joo. Above all, she was now a married woman, one way or another.
“It’s stuffy staying only in the room.”
Yoon opened her phone and checked again the Bali attractions she had researched before the trip.
She didn’t know if she’d ever come back, so she couldn’t just waste time in the room. In a few days they would return to Korea anyway.
Truthfully, she had never even been to Jeju Island. She hadn’t gone on the school trip during her student days—Ok Soon had urged her to go, but she hadn’t felt like spending the money.
And this year, since she was teaching second-years, she couldn’t join the first-years’ Jeju trip either.
So when she had never seen Jeju yet came all the way to Bali, she naturally thought she should do some sightseeing.
“Then I’ll go do some sightseeing.”
While searching various places, she noticed several unread messages. When she opened them, they were from Young Hoon.
For a moment she wondered if Young Hoon had forgotten they broke up. She even checked the date thinking it might be an old message.
Seeing the last message, Yoon frowned and deleted all of his texts.
***
Yoon slung a small bag over her shoulder, left the suite, and walked toward the main entrance. That’s when it happened.
“Where are you going?”
It was Cheol Young. While watching Kang Hyun’s shoot, he spotted Yoon leaving the resort and hurriedly followed.
“Ah! Director Kwak, I mean—I’m just going to do a bit of sightseeing.”
“Huh? Sightseeing?”
Cheol Young couldn’t understand either of them. The one who was slightly harder to understand was Kang Hyun, though.
Coming on a honeymoon yet working, or not complaining at all about a husband who works—neither seemed quite normal.
He wondered if all arranged marriages were like this; as an ordinary citizen, it was hard for him to grasp.
“Have you decided where to go?”
“I was thinking of visiting some temples.”
Yoon answered awkwardly. She had planned to slip out quietly alone but got caught by Cheol Young.
“Have you been to Bali before?”
“No, it’s my first time.”
Cheol Young was shocked.
“Really? And you were going to go alone?”
“The resort called a taxi for me.”
“Wait just a moment. Please stay right here. I’ll be right back.”
Cheol Young told Kyeong Hwa he had an errand and dashed back to Yoon.
He couldn’t let her go alone. Even without him, Kang Hyun had Kyeong Hwa, the road manager Eun Kyu, and Woo Jin, so Cheol Young figured he should accompany Yoon.
“I can really go by myself…”
“No, that won’t do.”
Cheol Young had worried that Yoon might feel hurt because Kang Hyun was too busy with work to take care of her on their honeymoon, but she actually seemed completely fine.
“It could be dangerous to go alone, so let’s go together.”
***
“Unexpectedly, filming is going smoothly, so we can probably pull the schedule forward. That means we likely won’t need to stay until the day after tomorrow.”
Woo Jin said while handing water to Kang Hyun. Shortening an overseas schedule by a day would save production costs, so Kang Hyun would welcome it.
Both Kang Hyun and Young Joo were veteran actors, so filming progressed faster than expected.
“Only this afternoon’s scenes and tomorrow morning’s beach shoot remain.”
Director Lee Jae Su was also very satisfied. He especially liked what they shot today.
He was a star director signed to JM Productions, the company Kang Hyun headed.
It was his first project after signing with JM last year, so he had been nervous, but filming Kang Hyun in person made him understand why everyone raved about Cha Kang Hyun.
His charm filled the entire screen to the point even a man like himself felt captivated—naturally women viewers would fall for him.
Meanwhile, Kang Hyun came up to the room for a short break before the afternoon shoot. But Yoon was nowhere to be seen.
“Where did she go? Did she leave because she was angry?”
Seeing Yoon’s suitcase in the corner of the living room, Kang Hyun took out his phone and called her. It rang but she didn’t answer.
He had assumed she would stay in the room, so her absence made him a little concerned.
No matter how un-marriage-like their marriage was, leaving the bride alone in the room while the groom worked did feel a bit much.
Plus, bringing her here had required a full 007 operation. Cheol Young had escorted her from the plane to the accommodation to avoid people’s eyes in Kang Hyun’s place.
Kang Hyun, who hated troublesome things, was starting to regret bringing Yoon along.
He went into the bathroom. He wanted to wash off the sticky feeling first. Shin Young Joo’s overpowering perfume felt like it had seeped through his skin into his skin.
“Tone down the perfume a bit, my head’s splitting.”
He had never spent a whole day glued to a female actress before, so he hadn’t known it would be this tough. Plus, it was his first time doing romance acting, so he wasn’t used to it.
Lines like “You are my heart. I will protect you with my life. I love you” didn’t come naturally and were painful every time he said them.
That’s why he caused many NGs in the early Korea shoots, often delaying filming and tiring everyone out.
But after some practice it got better; today the director kept shouting “OK.”
After a long shower he noticed Yoon’s small cup and toothbrush on the sink.
“Where on earth did she go?”
Now genuinely worried, Kang Hyun wrapped a towel around his waist and called Cheol Young this time.
“Where are you?”
—Uh… um, President. We’re… we came to ride the s-swing right now.
Cheol Young answered in a crawling voice.
“What? Ride what?”
—Swing. Madam said she’s never tried it before.
“Madam? You mean Seo Yoon?”
—Yes.
“You two are together?”
Kang Hyun couldn’t process what he was hearing.
—Yes. Madam said she was going sightseeing alone, but it seemed dangerous, so I followed her.
“Sightseeing?”
—Yes…
“Ha! She went sightseeing? With Director Kwak, no less?”
The cruel killer, standing with phone in one hand and the other on his towel-wrapped waist, suddenly let out a hollow laughter.
“This is hilarious.”
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.
*
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!
***
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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Maldito jefe de curso y maldito exnovio, son basuras, tratando mal a los abuelitos de Yoon, ojalá queden en vergüenza los dos. Por otro lado, pensé que Kang Hyun iba a tardar más en llegar, que bueno que no alargaron tanto el drama. Finalmente, sospecho que la madrastra de Kang Hyun estuvo detrás de esto.
Maldito jefe de curso y maldito exnovio, son basuras, tratando mal a los abuelitos de Yoon, ojalá queden en vergüenza los dos. Por otro lado, pensé que Kang Hyun iba a tardar más en llegar, que bueno que no alargaron tanto el drama. Finalmente, sospecho que la madrastra de Kang Hyun estuvo detrás de esto.