“Sit down, brother.”
Seong-hyuk complied with Arim’s request, deciding to hear the whole story.
As Arim sat down with a beaming smile, Seong-hyuk’s tightly closed mouth opened.
“A blind date?”
“Yes.”
“Between you and me?”
He didn’t even want to entertain the thought of an ‘us’.
“That’s right. We’re having a blind date today.”
Seong-hyuk chuckled humorlessly. It was so absurd that he couldn’t even get angry.
It made him wonder if this was how Young-in felt when she was suddenly put in a blind date situation with him. Now, he was experiencing a moment of empathy.
“What’s going on?”
“I begged my mom after hearing rumors that your mother is looking for a marriage partner for you. I asked her to formally arrange a meeting with you.”
“So, you knew I would reject the idea if you came to me directly?”
“…….”
Arim’s ears reddened slightly. Even though she knew, hearing it directly from him made her feel embarrassed.
“Did your mother contact mine directly?”
“No. There’s a matchmaker, Mrs. Jin, who helped us.”
Seong-hyuk, not understanding the true intent behind ‘helped’, asked irritably.
“Why would you do something like this?”
Arim wasn’t bothered by his description of her actions. She knew Cha Seong-hyuk’s personality and was prepared for this reaction.
“I wanted to meet you properly, in a formal setting.”
She had never seen him outside, had never shown him her dressed up and made-up self. She wanted to surprise him by appearing perfectly groomed.
“It seemed like the only way for you to see me not just as a friend’s sister, but as a woman. We need a change in our relationship, brother.”
“Don’t say ‘us’. I have no intention of being linked with you.”
Seong-hyuk only used ‘us’ for family, except for Young-in.
“And wake up. It’s not about the place or the situation. I’m just not interested in you. What are you doing, winning in your mind?”
“I think I’m not bad as a match for you.”
Seong-hyuk’s eyebrows twitched in irritation.
“Where does this confidence come from?”
Arim quickly shifted her attitude.
“Tell me what’s lacking in me, what you don’t like. I’ll improve and change. I’ll become the woman that suits you.”
In Arim’s mind, it was all or nothing. If she could have a man like Cha Seong-hyuk, part of Korea’s top 0.01%, groveling and begging was nothing.
“Really think you can change?”
“I can. I’ll do everything. Just say the word, brother.”
Seong-hyuk faced her expectant eyes and dropped a blunt comment.
“Can you change being rotten to the core?”
“…….”
“Maybe you need to be reborn to do that?”
Arim bit her lip and muttered after regaining her composure.
“Isn’t that too harsh?”
Her body trembled with indignation and humiliation.
“You thought I’d say something nice? That I’d praise you for secretly arranging this? If you start something without permission, be prepared for backlash. What are you, playing the victim?”
“You don’t have to choose only hurtful words even if you’re angry.”
“I’m serious.”
“What?”
“I’m not saying these things out of anger. I’ve always thought this way.”
“…….”
Anger flared in Arim’s eyes. She felt as if she had been dragged through the mud.
“Now that any respect I had is gone, don’t do this again.”
Despite his annoyance and displeasure, Seong-hyuk was thankful for one thing.
Arim had given him a platform to unleash his harsh words.
It was a kind of revenge.
Unable to directly tell others not to harass his woman, he took this as an opportunity to reprimand them.
His actions were a mix of revenge and punishment, but he hadn’t exaggerated his words. They were utterly sincere.
“I won’t. I’ve lost interest in you too.”
Arim was almost driven crazy by the thought of the money she had spent on this occasion. The thirty million won she had spent felt like buying humiliation.
“Thanks for that, then.”
“I’ll be watching to see who you end up marrying, someone really great, I bet.”
“As much as you like.”
Seong-hyuk sneered at Arim, who was glaring at him venomously, and stood up. Just then, as he was leaving the restaurant, his phone rang.
It was his mother.
He answered the phone with a serious expression.
“I was about to call you.”
Did you meet her?
“Are you really doing this?”
Did you meet Chae Arim or someone?
Seong-hyuk sensed something was off and became suspicious.
“Yes, I met her.”
It wasn’t supposed to be her.
“What do you mean?”
The person you were supposed to meet for the arranged date today wasn’t her. I had intended for you to meet the daughter of the Hong Eun Group, but Chae Arim interfered.
He couldn’t understand what she was saying.
“Interfered?”
There’s a matchmaker, Mrs. Jin…
“I know her.”
Well, she and Arim’s mother orchestrated this. I just met the daughter of Hong Eun Group and her mother at the salon. They had no idea about the meeting today. When I called Mrs. Jin, she confessed everything while crying. It was unbelievable…
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
