About an hour later.
Having prepared for work and coming downstairs, Chae Yoon was confronted with an unexpected sight.
“Chae Yoon is here.”
The unexpected thing wasn’t Jipil, but Jae Oh sitting next to him.
Usually busy leaving the house as soon as he prepared for work, he was surprisingly sitting on the living room sofa drinking tea.
‘I thought he would have gone to work….’
Just when she was wondering why he was sitting there, Jipil asked a question.
“When did you get in?”
Chae Yoon, who had been momentarily distracted by the unfamiliar sight, quickly averted her gaze from Jae Oh and answered.
“I got in a little after six.”
“Oh, I see, you’re going to have breakfast before leaving, right?”
As if she had something to say to Jipil, Chae Yoon nodded and replied, “Yes.”
Jipil stood up from his seat. Seeing this, Chae Yoon naturally followed him towards the dining room.
But Chae Yoon, who had been following Jipil, had to stop after only a few steps.
Because she wasn’t the only one going into the dining room.
Her eyes trembled faintly as she saw Jae Oh following Jipil quite confidently, without a hint of hesitation.
‘Did he not go to work to have breakfast?’
If so, why did it have to be now?
Chae Yoon was about to ask Jipil if he had conveyed what she had said to Jae Oh. The reason for this question was Jae Oh’s constant contact from lunch until dinner yesterday.
She didn’t pick up because she didn’t want to talk to him, but she was still on edge.
He hadn’t been one to contact her continuously so far. No, he hadn’t been one to communicate much in the first place. The fact that such a man kept contacting her meant he had something important to say.
Wondering about Jae Oh’s purpose, Chae Yoon thought deeply about what he might have to say to her.
There was one place her thoughts went to the conversation she had with Jipil.
[Grandfather. I’m not seeing Deputy Lim.] [……] [I didn’t believe my brother, so I just admitted it and came out, but I… still like my brother.]After the conversation, judging from Jipil’s reaction, Chae Yoon thought he wouldn’t tell Jae Oh about the conversation she had with him.
He had accepted her words about wanting a divorce because she still liked Jae Oh, and it was also because he hadn’t stepped forward even though he knew she liked Jae Oh all this time.
But this was limited to ‘liking Jae Oh.’ The fact that she wasn’t seeing Hyun Min was not something she necessarily needed to hide, so Chae Yoon wanted to ask Jipil.
If Jae Oh knew this fact and called her, his purpose would be an ‘apology’.
Until now, she thought it didn’t matter if Jae Oh misunderstood her. But if Jae Oh apologized for his hasty misunderstanding, Chae Yoon was willing to accept it gladly.
But if Jae Oh wasn’t intending to apologize…
‘I really don’t want to talk.’ Just thinking about his distrustful gaze made her heart still ache.
If she had to see it again, Chae Yoon felt she would genuinely resent Jae Oh.
The desire not to resent Jae Oh.
This was something she felt yesterday.
Chae Yoon was fine with her heart aching because Jae Oh had no interest in her. But resenting him was the fading of the moments she had of Jae Oh in her mind. In other words, it was about the moments when she liked him fading.
[“Let’s get married.”]
He said it out of sympathy and necessity, but she was happy with the fact that he was the one to extend his hand first.
[“Ah, something urgent came up, so I think I won’t be able to have dinner.”]She was turned down every time, but the moment of excitement when she went to the promised place.
Every other moment that she liked him and trembled was a few of the happiest memories in Chae Yoon’s life.
That’s why she didn’t want to lose it. To avoid it, she had to avoid a verbal dispute with Jae Oh, and for the time being, she didn’t want to face him. But this man was doing something he usually didn’t do today.
Just like there’s a saying about the calm before the storm, she had a bad premonition that something was going to happen.
As she was unable to take a step, a low and thick voice tapped on Chae Yoon’s ears.
“Aren’t you coming in?”
An indifferent face like what she saw in the room, an unaffected tone, it seemed to say that the purpose of having breakfast was just for ‘eating’.
Moreover, she couldn’t find the anger or coldness that she saw when he brought up the topic of divorce, so Chae Yoon determined that Jae Oh had returned to the Han Jae Oh she knew overnight.
The fact that it only took a few hours to sort out his feelings was a bit bitter, but it was much better than being hurt by his words.
Chae Yoon, who had finished her thoughts, moved her feet.
Chae Yoon, who entered the dining room with Jae Oh, stared at the hot rice and soup placed in front of her.
“Let’s eat.”
Breakfast began, a bit awkwardly, with Ji Pil’s voice.
On the dining table, no words were exchanged except for the sound of chopsticks hitting the bowls.
When the rice was half eaten, Chae Yoon’s mouth felt dry.
“Grandfather, from today, I’ll stay at a hotel until I find a house.”
The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)
Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.
The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”
Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!
Warnings:
- Male pregnancy.
- Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
- Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.
