“Grandpa, did anything strange happen to my brother’s behavior after Dad passed away?”
“Strange?”
“Yes. People usually get mentally shocked or something when something like that happens. I couldn’t get my mind straight for a while when Dad passed away.”
Since hearing the news of her stepfather’s death, the world felt like it had ended.
The feeling of being left alone in this vast world was indescribably empty and overwhelming.
She didn’t know what to do, and even the sense of time was lost. At that time, Jaeyo reached out to her.
“Let’s get married.”
Although he proposed a marriage without emotions, just the fact that Jaeyo suggested that was comforting.
Ah, I’m not alone.
That’s why she took Jaeyo’s hand. Because this man was the only one by her side.
However, Jaeyo’s situation was a little different from hers.
I had no relatives; I was literally an orphan. In contrast, Jaeyo had Jipil, Gyeonghui, and Jeongung.
Even with so many people protecting me, Jaeyo didn’t rely much on Jeongung and Gyeonghui, let alone Jipil. Until now, I didn’t know why Jaeyo acted that way, but now I understood, having discovered the hidden side of Gyeonghui.
The reason Jaeyo kept his distance from Jipil was because of Gyeonghui. The reason I could be so sure was the conversation I had with him that night when I apologized for lying to him.
Chaeyoon asked Jaeyo, who was patting her back as she grew taller, “When did you know that your stepmother was such a person?”
“What kind of person is she?”
“An untrustworthy person.”
The hand that had been patting Chaeyoon’s back stopped.
Sensing his halted touch, Chaeyoon opened her eyes and looked at Jaeyo. Though he was hidden in darkness, his dark eyes were clearly trembling.
“Because of your stepmother, you have trouble making friends and drawing lines with people, right?”
Jaeyo nodded his head slightly.
“Can you tell me what happened with your stepmother?”
“…I just found out as time passed.”
Even though Jaeyo spoke as if it were nothing this time too, Chaeyoon understood. Something must have happened between them.
But why he couldn’t talk about it, and why he had to hide it even from Jipil, kept Chaeyoon awake with curiosity.
Throughout the night, Chaeyoon pondered whether she should delve deeper into what Jaeyo wouldn’t say.
The conclusion she reached after deep contemplation was to find out, and the reason was Jaeyo.
“Now I feel like I’m really living. Because of you, Song Chaeyoon.”
Jaeyo from the time when he didn’t like me.
If Jaeyo’s life, who lived alone without giving his side to anyone, thinking only about work, was lonelier than I thought, and if that was all because of Gyeonghui, Chaeyoon felt that she couldn’t just let it go.
So she went to find Jipil.
Hoping to gain some clues from their conversation, she asked to see his childhood photos and inquired about Jaeyo’s condition when Seungwoon passed away.
And as Chaeyoon expected, Jipil said, “Jaeyo couldn’t get himself together just like you said.”
Chaeyoon, applying pressure to her fingertips, asked as calmly as possible, “Other than that, was there anything strange?”
“Hmm…”
Jipil hesitated for a moment.
Feeling her mouth drying up at that silence, Chaeyoon waited without urging Jipil.
After a moment of silence, Jipil finally spoke.
“Jaeyo had a brief period where he lost his memory.”
Chaeyoon’s eyes widened in surprise.
What could that mean?
“Jaeyo lost his… memory?”
The memories of the past came back to Jipil, and with a stern expression, he nodded.
“Yeah. It seems like he still can’t remember what happened during that time.”
Feeling her spine chilling, Chaeyoon, with tightened grip, asked, “What happened?”
Chaeyoon felt a chill down her spine and asked with tightened grip, “What happened?”
“A little while after Seungwoon passed away, both I and Jaeyo were struggling. I thought it would be good for the family to go on a trip, so I took him with me, suggesting we go on a family trip.”
“Yes.”
“I usually thought going to a scenic or noisy place might make us feel a bit better. But one day, the child suddenly disappeared.”
The moment she heard he had disappeared, Chaeyoon felt her hair stand on end.
“Because he kept wandering off during the previous trips, we thought he was spending time alone again this time and waited. But the child didn’t come back until late at night. Ugh, just thinking about that time…”
Even now, thinking about it made Jipil unable to continue speaking.
Chaeyoon listening to Jipil’s story was no different. Sensing her body starting to shiver involuntarily, Chaeyoon tightened her grip and continued the conversation.
“So what happened? What happened next?”
“I thought there might be some accident, so I had people search around frantically. But the next morning, he walked in as if nothing happened. And then, he said he couldn’t remember what had happened.”
“…His memory completely disappeared?”
“Yeah, just for a few hours.”
“Can that happen?”
“According to Dr. Im, if you experience a very big shock, you might lose your memory. But I don’t know if that shock was sent by Seungwoon or what. So even though I kept asking Jaeyo to remember by holding onto him, he just says he doesn’t remember, and that’s the end of it.”
“…”
“Anyway, for a while, I had someone stick with Jaeyo. I was afraid he might go somewhere and get hurt again.”
“Did he get hurt that time?”
“Yeah. It seemed like he fell somewhere…”
The moment Chaeyoon heard those words, she couldn’t hear the rest of Jipil’s words.
‘Surely…’
[If you knew that… Jaeyo wouldn’t be by your side now.]‘The words “wouldn’t be by your side”…’
An unwelcome assumption flashed through her mind.
A shiver ran through her body, and the fine hair on her whole body stood on end.
Amidst the pounding beats of her heart that made her feel nauseous, a voice, endlessly malicious, came to mind.
[So if you want to keep seeing Jaeyo, handle it well on your own. Got it?]Chaeyoon’s complexion turned deathly pale.
My Ex-Girlfriend Is The Regent In The Female-dominant World (Male lead transmigrates to the matriarchal world)
Two years ago, Gu Sui picked up a homeless woman in ancient costume from the street.
Apart from occasionally claiming to be a princess from a female-dominant country due to illness, her figure, appearance, intelligence, and martial arts skills were impeccable.
Naturally evolving from roommates to girlfriends, as time went on, Gu Sui found it increasingly difficult to tolerate her queen syndrome.
“Mu Jiulu, can you stop controlling me inside and out? Let’s break up.”
Gu Sui made a breakup call, and since then, he couldn’t find any trace of her.
A year later, Gu Sui, who was planning to move, woke up the next day and found himself in a different place.
“Young Master, today is the day you choose your Wife-master through martial arts competition at Jade Dew Pavilion. Please get up quickly.”
Gu Sui: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
As the only son of a general’s mansion in a female-dominant dynasty, the young empress personally issued a decree allowing Gu Sui to select his Wife-master through martial arts competition. Whoever could defeat him could marry him.
Gu Sui: “……”
He didn’t inherit the original owner’s martial prowess, so anyone could defeat him! And what the hell is a Wife-master?
Forced to come to Jade Dew Pavilion, the densely packed women below made Gu Sui’s agoraphobia act up, and his face was full of resistance.
Until he saw the Regent sitting on the second floor, with a smile on the corner of her lips, her eyes wicked and nonchalant.
Hmm… she looked a little familiar.
It turned out that the Regent also found him a little familiar.
Mu Jiulu fiddled with her bone clasp, her deep gaze locked on the man who was out of place in this world.
“Finally, I found you.”
Male transmigrates into female-dominant world
One-sentence summary: What goes around comes around, taking turns in the crematorium
