Yuin stood rooted to the spot, her eyes blinking rapidly as she fixated on the small piece of paper, reading and re-reading the few words it bore.
Wondering if she had misread or misunderstood.
But the neatly printed typeface was just as she first saw it, and it remained unchanged no matter how many times she looked.
The executive of Ilrang Entertainment. And the name boldly printed beside it.
“Ha…”
Exhaling a deflated breath, Yuin leaned her head against the corridor wall, her gaze lost in the void.
She was more shocked than when she first saw the man who had appeared like a savior today. The person who had helped her all this time was an executive from her sister’s agency.
Only then did the man’s strange and mysterious actions begin to make sense.
Putting her, drunk, unprotected in his car, calling her out on the pretext of her phone, prying unusually into her affairs, and treating her with a strangely familiar ease.
“Ha…” Yuin sighed again in disbelief.
“Did he know all along?”
Clearly, those were the actions of someone who knew she was Nam Yujin’s sister.
He had crossed the lines she had drawn, nonchalantly, as if it was nothing.
She was bristling with warnings, telling him not to do anything, and now she wondered how much he must have laughed at her inside.
Yuin buried her face in her hands, her cheeks burning with embarrassment and shame. And then, the man’s words before he left came back to her. That he had something to say and insisted she contact him.
What was it he wanted her to contact him about? Because a mere thank you wasn’t enough? Or did he want to give her a piece of his mind for everything she had said so far?
Lost in thought about his ambiguous intentions, Yuin was rubbing her cheek where the man’s cool touch had lingered when suddenly…
“Nam Yuin! What are you doing here?”
A woman in a cap and mask, covering her entire face, yelled down the corridor, echoing loudly.
Dazed, Yuin, still touching her face, jumped at the sound and turned around.
“Is this where the bathroom is? I’ve been waiting, and you look totally out of it.”
“……Unnie.”
“Why are you touching your face? Did something happen?”
Yujin strode over quickly, scanning Yuin’s body with the only exposed eyes beneath the mask.
Yuin stiffened slightly and, trying to hide the crumpled card in her hand, muttered.
“My stomach… it hurts.”
“Your stomach?”
“Yeah. I went to the bathroom and suddenly felt sick, so I was just resting.”
Yuin spoke without knowing why she had to lie. It just seemed like she should after hiding the man’s business card.
“How does it hurt? Should we go to the hospital? You barely ate, and now your stomach hurts?”
Worriedly, Yujin gently felt Yuin’s barely eaten belly.
Indeed, Yuin thought, as she clenched her fist tighter around the card.
It felt as if a part of her heart had crumpled up like that piece of paper, unable to unfold again.
Trying to calm her sister who was fussing about going to the emergency room, they left the restaurant. Yujin, who came alone without her manager, offered to drive Yuin home.
And then Yuin was first shocked at the sight of a bright cobalt blue sports car, and then completely flabbergasted as it roared to life.
Nam Yujin, always flamboyant and liking everything loud and flashy, couldn’t hide her instinct to stand out, as evidenced by her car.
“When did you buy this one?”
“Just recently. The schedule for the recent drama was so intense, I was so stressed I had to splurge.”
“And you buy a car…”
“Why? Should I buy you one too?”
“No. I don’t even have a license.”
“Just get one.”
“I don’t want to.”
Yuin knew she didn’t need it as she was still a student, and if she got a license, her sister would undoubtedly saddle her with some expensive car of her liking.
Yuin knew well her sister’s desire to give her everything, but she had to nip any possibilities in the bud with Nam Yujin, who knew no limits.
Observing her sister with a critical eye, Yuin quickly turned her gaze out the window. Watching the cars passing by meaninglessly, she suddenly remembered the crumpled business card she had shoved away.
And the worries that accompanied it returned.
The thought occurred to her that maybe the man’s words were related to her sister, a suspicion that kept prodding her reluctant mind.
Then, a sudden realization flashed through Yuin’s mind.
The protagonist of the conversations that always came up whenever her sister saw her. The man who parachuted into the company one day, completely flipped it over, and then rapidly rose through the ranks.
With a gulp, Yuin tentatively asked her sister.
“Unnie, about that executive you were talking about earlier.”
“Yeah, what about him?”
“How old is that executive?”
Yujin briefly furrowed her brows at the unexpected question, then relaxed and replied nonchalantly.
“Thirty-one.”
A sense of foreboding enveloped Yuin, thinking the man she had just met seemed about that age too.
“And his name?”
“His name? Do Kiyeon. Why are you asking all of a sudden?”
“Just curious.”
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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