Huiran, who had managed to sit up with difficulty, looked at Yeongin in a daze and sighed.
“Ah…”
As her consciousness gradually returned, she remembered receiving a summons from the prosecutor’s office yesterday.
Filled with fear, turmoil, and a sense of injustice, she had a drink or two, lost control, and ended up forgetting about today’s advertising shoot while intoxicated.
“Do you have cold packs at home?”
“…?”
“Look in the mirror.”
Huiran picked up the hand mirror next to the bottles and examined her face. It was noticeably swollen.
With a face like this, participating in the advertising shoot might lead to receiving harsh criticism from the advertiser due to her serious condition. However, worrying about the shoot was not her current concern; she felt like she might die from her upset stomach.
“Dizzy…”
Huiran, who had been leaning against the sofa, lay back down on the rug.
Observing the two bewildered managers by her side, Yeongin issued instructions.
“Turn on the living room lights and wake up Huiran.”
“Yes.”
The on-site manager, now fully alert, quickly turned on the living room lights, and the stylist roused Huiran.
After some shouting and shaking, Huiran finally opened her eyes. Her gaze was clouded with the effects of alcohol.
Yeongin spoke calmly.
“Did you forget about today’s advertising shoot? I said I would pick you up by 6.”
As Huiran, who had finally managed to sit up, stared blankly at Yeongin standing before her, she sighed.
“Ah…”
As her mind slowly
While the stylist was on the phone conveying Yeongin’s message to the on-site manager, Yeongin also took out her mobile phone.
“Director, it’s Cha Yeongin. It seems urgent, and I need to get an IV. Is there a bed available? It’s because of a hangover. If we leave now, it’ll take about 15 minutes? Okay, see you in a bit.”
When the call ended, the on-site manager returned.
“There’s a hospital operating 24 hours. We’ll go there. Can Huiran handle it?”
Nodding confidently, the on-site manager approached Huiran. Meanwhile, Yeongin shifted her gaze to the stylist.
“Do you have a hoodie or something?”
“Just a moment.”
Yeongin draped a hoodie, brought from the dressing room by the stylist, over Huiran’s shoulders and covered her face with a hat.
“Let’s go.”
The four descended to the underground parking lot and got into the van.
Huiran, who had been dry heaving, insisted on going home and lying down, regardless of the advertising shoot or other concerns.
“You might regret it when you feel a bit better. Will you be able to handle the aftermath?”
“…….”
Yeongin applied a cold pack to Huiran’s now-quiet face.
While the on-site manager, sitting in the driver’s seat and keeping an eye on things, subtly started the car, the stylist, seated in the third row, leaned forward and whispered to Yeongin, who was in the second row alongside Huiran.
“Team leader, what about the shop? To standby until 8 o’clock, we need time…”
The original plan was to go to the shop for hair and makeup before heading to the shooting location.
“Call Huiran’s designated instructor and ask if they can come to the shooting location.”
The stylist promptly made a call to the shop and conveyed Yeongin’s message. The stylist’s complexion darkened.
“Team leader, Huiran unnie is under the care of Director Shin, and it seems she has a reservation right after Huiran unnie. The director said they can’t delay it for an important client. What should we do?”
“Ask if they can send someone else.”
“But there’s no one available…”
“Understood. I’ll find someone else to hire.”
After ending the call, the stylist looked worriedly at Yeongin, who was taking out her mobile phone.
She was anxious because hiring someone with no experience or reputation might be challenging.
The stylist just called mentioned that Director Shin, whom they had just talked to, said there wasn’t a suitable person available, implying that no one could meet the high standards set by Baek Huiran. Itched to explain the situation, Yeongin wanted to convey that the director was expressing the difficulty of finding someone capable of satisfying the picky preferences of Baek Huiran.
After a while, a calm voice echoed through the quiet car.
“Director, it’s Yeongin. Please help me.”
Yeongin explained the situation, excluding the fact that Huiran had induced vomiting from alcohol poisoning, to Director Shin. Then, after requesting her to come directly to the shooting location, she hung up.
As if waiting for it, the stylist asked eagerly, “Who was it?”
“Director Shin Kyung-ah.”
“What? Director Shin Kyung-ah?”
The stylist’s eyes widened with surprise.
“Director Shin is known for not accepting just anyone. The strict person asked to come out for a business trip like this?
Observing quietly about who was being cast, Huiran, who had been silent, suddenly intervened.
“I gladly accepted because Director Shin is famous for not accepting just anyone.”
Despite feeling nauseous and as if she might throw up, Huiran didn’t forget to boast.
“While talking to the team leader, he didn’t mention unnie’s name. He just said our actress. Even though he doesn’t know who it is, he agreed because you asked, Team Leader.”
“…….”
Huiran, who had needlessly stepped forward and found herself at a disadvantage, closed her eyes, savoring the bitterness of her own defeat.
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
