Our Every Moment - Chapter 16

Seo Hee had no idea how to calm Kang Mo’s restless heart. However, she couldn’t keep her mouth shut either. Without time to sort out her complex feelings, she carefully opened her mouth, trying to somehow get through the situation.

“Kang Mo, I… I’m still not sure. I’m honestly a bit confused about how I feel exactly and what I want. You’re still my friend’s precious younger brother in my heart, but… that was definitely the case, but…”

Unable to look into Kang Mo’s eyes, Seo Hee felt quite pathetic for her incoherent words spilling out. Averting her gaze diagonally, she agonized over how to express her heart.

“Like you said, honestly, sometimes… sometimes I do feel like you’re a man…”

Her heart, which had been tensed up and burning with anxiety wondering what on earth would flow out of her mouth after a long hesitation, fluttered and pounded loudly like a fish in water.

“But…”

“There’s no ‘but’.”

Kang Mo cut off Seo Hee’s words and unexpectedly bit her lips. Swallowing her surprised breath sweetly, he cupped her small face with one hand and wrapped the other around the back of her neck, leaving no room for her to back away.

The delicate body squirming in his arms soon became still.

‘Sometimes I do feel like you’re a man…’

The words Seo Hee had said earlier had already disappeared through his ears. He only listened to and engraved in his heart the last words he so wanted to hear and confirm.

It was only one step now, just a piece of her heart confirmed, but it was enough for Kang Mo. Just the fact that she, who rarely left room, admitted that she sometimes felt him as a man gave him the feeling of having gained the driving force to move forward.

Kang Mo, who pulled away his lips for a moment, quietly flowed words to Seo Hee’s lips as if reciting.

“It’s okay. That’s enough for now. Don’t try to push me away unconditionally. Just keep me by your side as a man, not a younger brother anymore. Watch me. Just open your heart a little, just like now.”

Her relentlessly shaking eyes and slightly trembling lips seemed to represent her confused heart. Without giving Seo Hee time to think deeply, Kang Mo stole her lips again.

Surprised, Seo Hee grabbed Kang Mo’s forearms as he sent his heart into her without hesitation through her escaping breath.

He should have stopped around this point, but Kang Mo could hardly stop his heart pouring out like a broken dam.

Sweet. The excited breath conveyed through the lips, the heat of the soft skin burning up, the clumsy kisses, and even the trembling of her delicate hands gripping his arms, everything was sweet.

Countless nights of being unable to sleep, dreaming of and longing for Seo Hee for a long time, flashed through his mind. The desire he had endured for a long time, wanting and yearning only for Seo Hee alone, became a huge flame, burning his heart hotly again and again.

His heart, engulfed in flames, was relentless and arbitrarily spread the flames, shaking Kang Mo’s reason.

He didn’t know when the hand cupping Seo Hee’s face had descended down her back.

The hand, unable to control the instinct to get as close as possible, seemed to exert a lot of strength, and before he knew it, he had strongly pulled her waist as if pressuring her.

“Ugh.”

Surprised by the momentary passionate force, Seo Hee inadvertently pushed Kang Mo’s chest. Unable to hide her startled expression, she looked at him, still not accustomed to Kang Mo approaching so recklessly without even giving her a chance to breathe.

“You, you…”

Damn it, the magic was over. The time as sweet as honey was not very long. Kang Mo cursed himself inwardly for being swept away by the strong heat and losing his soul, unable to control his overflowing strength. How could he waste this precious time like this?

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. My heart got ahead of me. Were you very surprised?”

He had just barely glimpsed a piece of Seo Hee’s heart, her heart wasn’t fully open yet, so why did he rush in so hastily like this? The self-control he had been so confident in seemed to be nothing but a bubble in front of Seo Hee.

“A little… But Kang Mo, I’m still…”

“Still what, do you still find me awkward? Not quite comfortable with me?”

Seeing Seo Hee silently nodding her head, Kang Mo quietly swallowed a sigh.

The size of the hearts holding each other and the speed of approaching were different, so even though he vowed not to rush or hurry her so as not to startle her, it wasn’t as easy as he thought.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to wait until Seo Hee could comfortably accept him, but based on past experience, the passing time only worked against him, so he couldn’t just wait and became impatient.

“Actually, I’m sorry for pushing my feelings so unilaterally, but I really can’t back down like this. You know what? It’s been over a decade since I’ve endured, looking only at you without getting distracted, from the turbulent adolescence until now.”

Without fail, her startled eyes turned straight to Kang Mo. It seemed like surprised eyes, or eyes that couldn’t quite believe it.

“What, what did you say?”

“If you knew how I’ve endured it, you couldn’t look at me with those eyes.”

“Those… eyes? How do I… look at you?”

“Well. It’s like looking at a lying playboy.”

“Ah… it’s not like that. I’m just so surprised and flustered. Ah…”

Kang Mo laughed silently, finding Seo Hee’s appearance cute as she mumbled her words and couldn’t even look him in the eye properly, avoiding him.

The reddened neck and ear tips, the flushed face showing through the light makeup, everything was just pretty, and the glistening lips, clearly revealing what they had done until a little while ago, were utterly lovely.

Trying to act calm, but the rising and falling chest that couldn’t hide the excitement, the awkward appearance of turning her face forward and fiddling with the back of her neck.

Kang Mo felt like he was going crazy with everything he saw being lovely. If it were up to his thoughts, he wanted to grab and hug her right away, but now was the time to calm his raging heart.

“From the moment I first saw you, you were a woman to me, and that thought has never changed even once.”

“Say that after knowing when I first saw you.”

“Yes, exactly from that moment. Even at that young age, in my eyes, you were a woman.”

“That’s absurd…”

Seo Hee was sixteen, and Kang Mo was fourteen. Just a first-year middle school student. He first met Seo Hee, who came to visit as his sister’s friend, before any signs of secondary sex characteristics appeared.

An unfamiliar fluttering feeling that he had never felt from his school peers rose softly.

Unlike his sister, who was generally dark-skinned, Seo Hee’s skin was distinctly white and clear, with blood vessels clearly visible on the delicate skin of her inner arms.

And how big and clear her eyes were, his gaze lingered particularly on her eyes in her pretty face. The gentle eye shape that became crescents when she smiled, the long eyelashes fluttering when she looked up at the sky, the way she wrinkled one eye like a wink when she laughed big. There was not a single corner that wasn’t pretty.

Moreover, why was her voice so soft and sweet?

On days when Seo Hee visited his house, his heart would inexplicably go wild, and he couldn’t do anything.

Whether she knew or not about such a youthful crush.

“Try to remember. Have I ever called you ‘Nuna’ even once?”

Seo Hee tilted her head and summoned her memory.

Come to think of it, she had no memory of directly hearing Kang Mo call her ‘Nuna’.

‘Nuna, your friend is here to eat.’
‘Nuna, give this to your friend.’

When they were young, there was nothing in particular for Seo Hee and Kang Mo to talk about, and even if there was something to say, it was usually done through Joo Yeon.

Even if they happened to face each other, they only exchanged short, one-word conversations, so there was no problem communicating without the title ‘Nuna’.

Also, when the conversation didn’t go well or when he was angry, Seo Hee often saw Kang Mo sometimes calling his own sister Joo Yeon by her full name, “Lee Joo Yeon,” or casually calling her “you” as if treating her like a friend, so she didn’t find it particularly strange when he spoke comfortably to her without any title.

It was absurd and a bit regrettable to learn that the reason he didn’t call her ‘Nuna’ was none other than because he felt her as a woman.

Should she have clearly drawn the line by making him call her ‘Nuna’? Then the relationship wouldn’t have gotten tangled up like this? Although it might be too late, Seo Hee wanted to try it once.

“You know what. Can’t you call me ‘Nuna’ from now on? I want to hear you call me ‘Nuna’.”

“Ha, all of a sudden?”

“Yeah. I want to hear it. Can’t I?”

Was her ulterior motive too obvious? Kang Mo, who suddenly turned serious, shook his head firmly.

“No. I won’t do it. I finally got rid of the label of a younger brother and started on the same level, so why would I do that?”

“Hmm… even if I say it’s my wish?”

“If it’s really your wish, I’ll think about it on the day my wish comes true.”

“What’s your wish then?”

Kang Mo’s mouth loosened as he raised his hand and rubbed his forehead with his middle finger out of habit.

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