Her slender body began to visibly tremble.
Seeing Chaeyoon shivering, Jipil opened his eyes wide and called her, “Chaeyoon.”
Chaeyoon, deeply immersed in shock, couldn’t properly hear Jipil’s voice.
Concern crept onto Jipil’s face as he saw Chaeyoon, who turned pale, with her eyes blankly blinking.
“What’s wrong?”
“…”
“Chaeyoon?”
Calling her several times with no response, Jipil gently shook Chaeyoon’s shoulders.
“Chaeyoon.”
Only then did Chaeyoon react.
Surprise, fear, and shock mingled in her motionless eyes, slowly turning to fixate on Jipil.
As if facing shattered glass eyes full of shock, Jipil’s expression subtly changed.
Although he knew his story was surprising, it seemed a bit unusual. With a voice filled with concern, Jipil gently asked, “What’s wrong? Is there a problem?”
Chaeyoon opened her lips, which had been gaping in astonishment.
“…Ah, well…”
She couldn’t bring herself to say that the incident with Jaeyo being injured was related to Kyunghee. There was no clear evidence.
“Ah, I was just too shocked by the news of my brother getting hurt…”
Chaeyoon, with lips parched from the shock and fear, spoke after wetting them with her tongue.
“Grandfather, my head suddenly hurts a lot. I’ll go upstairs and rest for a bit.”
With a complexion that looked like she might collapse at any moment, when she said this, Jipil couldn’t ask her any more.
“Yeah. Go upstairs and rest.”
After Jipil nodded and gave a reply, Chaeyoon got up from her seat.
Feeling as if her strength was draining from her body, Chaeyoon, who exerted effort to step forward, walked out of Jipil’s study with as little tremor as possible.
Watching Chaeyoon leave the study, Jipil’s gaze became sharp.
[Star icon]The meeting that lasted longer than expected had finally ended.
Jaeyo, who came out of the business room, immediately called Chaeyoon.
However, the connection tone, which he thought would be cut off after a short time, didn’t seem to be cut off at all. A slight twitch appeared on his even forehead.
Is she not picking up the phone because she’s engrossed in the conversation?
Guessing why Chaeyoon might not be answering, Jaeyo, this time, sent a message instead of calling.
「I’m heading out now.」
Pressing the send button, Jaeyo expected a reply from Chaeyoon after a certain amount of time.
However, Chaeyoon’s response didn’t come until Jaeyo had started driving.
The longer Chaeyoon’s contact was delayed, the deeper the wrinkles that had settled in his forehead deepened.
Even though he thought it wouldn’t be a big deal since she was with Jipil, the notion that people-related matters are unpredictable made him uneasy.
In the end, growing impatient, Jaeyo contacted Jipil instead of Chaeyoon.
[Dash]“Where’s Chaeyoon right now?”
[Dash]Her head was hurting, so she went into the room. She’s sleeping now.The end of his thick eyebrows shot up.
“She’s not feeling well?”
[Dash]Yeah. But according to this lady, she seems fine…The rest of the words weren’t heard properly.
At Chaeyoon’s mention of being unwell, Jaeyo’s eyes, focused solely on her, grew noticeably serious.
Why would she suddenly be unwell when she was fine just until a while ago? His confident demeanor crumpled. Jaeyo, who had dismissed all concerns until now, now radiated worry, anxiety, unease, and impatience. He promptly ended the call, firmly pressed the accelerator with his foot.
The speed of the car heading towards where Chaeyoon was increased.
As the speed rose, the time it took to reach Jipil’s house decreased. Jaeyo, who arrived much faster than the average time, hastily parked the car in front of the main entrance and stepped out.
The feet that had walked with a wide stride almost began to run.
Accelerating his steps, as he entered the house, Jaeyo was greeted by Secretary Yoon.
“Executive Han, you’ve arrived…”
Ignoring Secretary Yoon’s greeting, Jaeyo immediately asked Jipil, “Is Chaeyoon still in her room?”
Jipil responded by nodding his head.
Jaeyo’s steps headed towards the second floor.
Having reached the front of the room after climbing two steps at a time, Jaeyo gently opened the door and stepped inside.
Although the sun had not set yet, the room was dark due to blackout curtains covering the full-length window.
Jaeyo reached out and turned on the indirect light.
The warm glow illuminated the darkness, and finally, through the soft light beyond the indirect light, Chaeyoon’s figure came into Jaeyo’s retinas.
Perhaps because he heard that she was unwell, why did seeing her like this make his heart feel so heavy?
Experiencing this situation for the first time, Jaeyo, whose mouth had dried up due to the unexpected circumstances, approached Chaeyoon while swallowing his dry saliva.
Chaeyoon, lying on her back, looked pale even in the dimly lit room.
Jaeyo’s jaw muscles stiffened.
What could have happened in the few hours they were apart to make her end up like this?
In a moment of both doubt and worry, Chaeyoon tossed and turned.
“Umm.”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
