There was a reason why the alcohol tasted sweeter. Satisfaction spread across her face.
Indeed, having money brings a sense of freedom. Feeling proud of herself for enduring, she emptied the remaining glass while pampering herself. Then, she swiftly raised her hand to order a new glass.
On payday, what should I do? It was a moment when she happily pondered over a pleasant dilemma.
“By any chance, back then.”
Instead of the friendly voice of the staff, a toned-down voice reached her ears. The person who had nodded at her earlier was a female staff member, but the voice she heard now was unmistakably male.
Who is it? Instead of looking at the phone, she raised her head in the direction of the sound.
“That’s right.”
The man, after confirming Hae-jin’s face, confidently opened his mouth again.
“That notebook back then.”
Notebook? Hae-jin’s head tilted in confusion. Is this a new approach?
Still unable to recall the man’s face, he took a seat on the opposite side. With crumpled eyebrows, Hae-jin’s head followed him.
“Grace Hotel. You should remember that much, shouldn’t you?”
The man, casually crossing his legs and gently touching his face, turned it around in front of Hae-jin, showing it off.
It was a subtle pressure to recall his three-dimensional face. However, Hae-jin only looked at him with an indifferent expression.
“Excuse me, but…”
Hae-jin, silently watching him, finally spoke. The man, who had been actively turning his face, stopped moving.
“You don’t have that great of a face.”
Hae-jin calmly replied, still looking at him. The notebook, Grace Hotel, and that face. As she deduced the clues he had scattered, a certain scene finally came to mind.
“By any chance, the person who picked up the pen?”
“I remember now.”
Seo-woo looked a bit disappointed but seemed to take it lightly. Just then, a staff member approached.
“Here.”
Looking at Hae-jin’s glass, Seo-woo looked back at the staff member.
“I’ll have a drink like hers, and please bring a new one for her as well.”
Polite gestures, but it felt inconsiderate. Not only did he sit down without permission, but he also ordered without asking, arrogantly crossing his legs and pretending to be friendly.
He was nothing more than someone disrupting Hae-jin’s precious free time.
“Excuse me, but I don’t want to share a table.”
“Is that so?”
If he had any sense, she hoped he would get up and leave on his own. However, Seo-woo continued to sit there, seemingly deliberately oblivious.
The staff member brought two refilled glasses. After placing one for Hae-jin and Seo-woo each, he took Hae-jin’s empty glass and went back.
Once the staff member disappeared, Hae-jin spoke again as if poking him.
“It’s unpleasant.”
With a deeply wrinkled expression, she clearly expressed her displeasure. However, the man sitting in front of her leisurely raised his glass, still full of confidence.
“If you like this seat, I’ll go elsewhere.”
When Hae-jin tried to get up with her phone and the new glass, Seo-woo finally fidgeted in his seat. Stretching out his arm, he grabbed Hae-jin.
“Hey, this is fate. I sat down because I was glad to see you.”
“Let go of this.”
With an apologetic expression, he immediately let go of her arm. Glaring at the lowered arm, Hae-jin added.
“I’m not glad at all.”
This person disrupting her time didn’t look good at all. She wished he would stop bothering her.
“It will be pleasant.”
However, Seo-woo, with a gentle smile, took out a business card from his inner pocket. Hae-jin hesitated whether to accept it or not.
Should I bother? Reading Hae-jin’s hesitant expression, Seo-woo deliberately placed the business card where it was clearly visible to her.
Tosan Construction, Park Seo-woo, Executive Director.
Hae-jin furrowed her brow and focused her gaze. Tosan Construction was the company that built Grace Hotel. It was a significant company in the industry, so while working on the hotel planning, she became quite familiar with it.
But he was the executive of that construction company. As far as she knew, it was a family-managed business, and the chairman’s third son had recently taken on the role of executive.
Finally, Hae-jin picked up the business card. Seo-woo leisurely raised his glass to his lips.
“Look at this. I thought you’d be glad to see me.”
He acted as if he knew everything.
“How about it? Can I keep sitting here?”
Of course, that was a matter to consider, but his unexpected appearance was too surprising. Hae-jin involuntarily tilted her head. Why did he show up at this timing, and moreover, it seemed too peculiar to be a coincidental encounter.
But he seemed to be trying to tell a proper story as he slightly lowered his upper body.
“I heard you thoroughly inspected Grace Hotel from every corner while you were at Yeonchang Group.”
Thoroughly inspected? Well, that expression was a bit much. It was Hae-jin who requested business cooperation, so it made her feel even more uncomfortable.
“We formally requested cooperation with Grace Hotel.”
The expression “thoroughly inspected” was enough to feel displeasure. It was Grace’s side that responded to the cooperation.
“Okay. Fine. Whatever. Anyway, it’s a fact that Grace Hotel benchmarked Yeonchang Group.”
Hae-jin slightly crumpled the edge of Seo-woo’s business card. It wasn’t an incorrect statement. They had indeed visited multiple times for benchmarking.
“I might visit Grace Hotel frequently in the future.”
Moreover, she had obtained three opportunities to stay there without Taehong’s permission. Hae-jin, without changing her facial expression, neither wavered nor responded to Seo-woo’s words, simply listened quietly.
“If you need any related materials, I can provide them.”
There was never an intention to unconditionally accept the other party’s favor. Behind every favor, there was always a hidden deal.
“I don’t accept excessive favors.”
Hae-jin cut him off sharply. As if she didn’t want to hear any more, she still held her phone and glass in her hands. It wouldn’t be awkward to get up and move to another seat.
“Excessive favor.”
Seo-woo’s expression twisted ambiguously, then straightened out. Hae-jin rolled her parched lips into her mouth.
“This is not a favor but an interest.”
The moment Seo-woo’s gaze was fixed directly on Hae-jin.
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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