“What are you talking about?”
Jaeyo continued to speak, looking at Jipil as if he couldn’t believe his own words.
“There was a time when I asked Grandfather if he had assigned someone to Chaeyoon.”
As it was an unexpected topic, Jipil easily recalled that day.
The day Jaeyo was talking about was when he declared that he would stay in a hotel until Chaeyoon found a place to live.
“Where is Song Chaeyoon going right now?”
“Suddenly, what are you talking about? How would I know where Chaeyoon is going?”
“Did you assign someone to Song Chaeyoon?”
“Do you have nothing better to do?”
Since checking if Chaeyoon was adapting well after joining the company, he hadn’t shown much interest, but assigning someone to her?
“But why do you want to know where Chaeyoon is going?”
“…….”
“Hello. Jaeyo.”
“Contact Song Chaeyoon and find out where she is right now.”
“You find out.”
“She’s not answering my calls. Hurry up.”
As Jaeyo became impatient, Jipil told Secretary Yoon to check, but Chaeyoon didn’t answer the phone.
Feeling anxious as Chaeyoon didn’t even answer his calls, and since Jaeyo had given him Eunha’s number as well, Jipil vividly remembered what had happened that day.
“Oh, I remember.”
Pointing to the photo Jaeyo had given him, Jaeyo spoke.
“I thought this photo was taken by the person Grandfather had assigned to Chaeyoon for protection.”
Thinking that there was no one else but Jipil who could assign someone to Chaeyoon for any reason.
“But on the day I saw this photo, another photo like this came from an unknown number.”
Jaeyo placed another photo on the table. It was a picture taken in Eunha’s apartment parking lot.
Jipil’s eyes froze as he looked at the photo, which showed Hyunmin and Chaeyoon’s cars parked in the same parking lot and the two entering through the same entrance.
“That day, Chaeyoon stayed out overnight and, when she came home, said she would stay at a hotel until she found a place to live.”
Remembering the time Jaeyo mentioned precisely, Jipil raised an eyebrow.
At that time, it was a situation that could only be interpreted as Chaeyoon setting up a lover.
“I knew it was over the moment Chaeyoon left.”
“…….”
“So, I tried to catch her somehow. Grandfather must know.”
Recalling the scene where Jaeyo unexpectedly agreed to have breakfast and suggested sharing a room with Chaeyoon, Jipil nodded slightly.
After Jaeyo lightly scanned Jipil’s stern expression, he continued speaking.
“Since I blocked her from going out, now I think we need to have a conversation. I suggested having dinner, but suddenly she said she had other plans.”
As he spoke, Jaeyo remembered the conversation he had with Chaeyoon at that time.
“Sorry for canceling the appointment.”
When he heard those words, Jaeyo was about to retort, asking why she was canceling the appointment when he made the appointment first.
However, unable to recall my repeated broken promises with Chaeyoon, I brought up another topic instead.
“[Are you coming in?]”
“[Yes. I have to go in.]”
“[When will you come in?]”
“[…Do I have to say that?]”
“[Yeah. Say it.]”
“[…….]”
“[If you don’t tell me, I can’t do anything but wait for you. Tell me roughly who you’re meeting and when you’ll come in.]”
The call was abruptly cut off after Jaeyo’s request.
At that time, Jaeyo, not understanding why Chaeyoon reacted that way, simply thought she didn’t respond to his words. He was determined to somehow meet Chaeyoon and bring her home today, as it seemed she wouldn’t be coming home again.
‘You’ve been foolish with various things.’
Throwing a curse at his past self, who was always lacking, Jaeyo resumed the halted conversation.
“It’s an unavoidable promise, and she won’t tell me who she’s meeting. She doesn’t answer my calls or Grandfather’s, but it seemed suspicious that she was answering Choi Eunha’s calls.”
Jaeyo played a video saved on his phone and handed it to Jipil.
“She met with Grandma.”
The playing video was a CCTV recording from a restaurant.
Jipil’s faintly raised eyebrows suggested he was slightly irritated as he watched the recording, where Kyunghi, who had been conversing with Chaeyoon, casually passed by her.
“That would have been fine if that was all. However, after Grandma left, some guy approached Chaeyoon.”
As soon as Jaeyo finished speaking, the presumed man appeared.
It was only a side view, and no sound was audible, but based on Jaeyo’s words, one could guess their conversation.
“Even though Chaeyoon said she wasn’t interested, he kept pestering her.”
Thinking about it again, Jaeyo couldn’t complete his sentence as anger welled up.
Chaeyoon’s expression in the video was the same. As Jaeyo’s words seemed like proof, her expression gradually became more awkward.
Then, an expression that seemed vaguely frightened appeared, and Jipil’s eyes chillingly hardened.
“Perhaps, if I hadn’t gone there, I wouldn’t know what would have happened to Chaeyoon.”
Watching Jipil’s expression solidify, Jaeyo, who observed his increasingly stiff expression, placed a small business card in front of him.
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
