“Isu, let’s go to my house now.”
“Huh?”
Isu wondered if he misheard something and asked.
They had dinner together, drank alcohol, watched a movie, and even booked a flight. It was now time for Jiho to go home.
“Why?”
“We agreed to spend the entire weekend together after the exams. There’s about an hour left until the weekend. You didn’t forget, did you?”
Looking at the wall clock, it was 11 PM.
Jiho casually mentioned it as if it were a premeditated statement.
Did saying, “Let’s be together the entire weekend,” mean being together for 24 hours or 48 hours?
Isu blinked with a bewildered expression at Jiho’s overly confident words.
‘Did I promise that?’
No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t recall making such a promise. Logically, he couldn’t have made such an enormous promise to stay at his boyfriend’s house for two days.
“I never made such a promise.”
Isu cut in decisively based on what he could remember.
Then he realized something.
Jiho’s expression seemed uneasy, with his shoulders visibly dropping.
Jiho wasn’t lying either.
Isu was pretty sure Jiho had said, “Let’s spend the entire weekend together.” But Jiho didn’t seem to remember it that way.
Feeling hurt by Isu’s immediate denial after Jiho had clearly suggested spending the entire weekend together, Jiho asked with a drained voice, “So, are you telling me to go home alone now?”
Isu found the situation awkward too.
He felt like he had done something wrong even though he hadn’t.
“You spent a week studying and I couldn’t even see your face. Even before that, we only saw each other briefly at night for a few minutes… Now that exams are over, it’s the weekend. Can’t we just continue to be together? Don’t you like that?”
How could he casually suggest going to his place at this crucial moment? It felt so natural that Isu even started to think it was genuinely nothing.
“If we break up now and meet again tomorrow, we’ll have to go back and forth, wasting time. That’s why.”
A long silence followed as Isu waited for Jiho’s response.
Isu wanted to be with Jiho and cuddle with him. However, Isu wondered if that was all Jiho wanted.
He couldn’t claim to understand men well, but he had a dangerous intuition that following along might lead to being devoured by a wolf.
“Why? What’s the problem?”
Jiho asked with a frustrated voice, looking at Isu hesitating.
“Jiho, I…”
“I’ll play the piano for you. I’ll even sing for you!”
Isu vividly remembers the gaze Jiho had while lost in thought and looking at him.
In response to Jiho’s words, Isu burst into a bewildered laughter while glancing at Jiho.
Remembering the look in Isu’s eyes when he was staring at himself, Jiho felt a slight tremor in Isu’s pupils.
“What are we going to do at your house…?”
“Whatever you want.”
Jiho could read what answer Isu wanted from his eyes.
“If you don’t want to, I won’t do anything… You don’t need to worry unnecessarily.”
Jiho, who spoke without avoiding Isu’s gaze, exuded confidence.
“…Don’t you trust me? I won’t bite you.”
Jiho said playfully, mixing in a mischievous laugh.
Jiho hadn’t suggested going to Isu’s place with any ulterior motives.
“I genuinely just want to be with you. I’d feel really unjust if you misunderstood.”
If he could express his feelings, he wanted to do so.
“Do I only need to trust you?”
The conviction in Jiho’s sincere persuasion had already swayed Isu’s heart more than halfway.
What events might unfold if they went to Jiho’s house this night?
“Then trust only me.”
With a confident expression, Jiho looked at Isu and raised the corner of his mouth.
‘As long as I can keep you by my side, I can endure anything.’
When Isu arrived at Jiho’s house, it was close to midnight.
“Do you want something to drink?”
“No, I ate everything before coming here.”
“Then…”
Jiho hesitated a bit.
“I’m going to take a shower…”
Due to the late hour and the fact that it was his boyfriend’s house, Jiho’s words sounded oddly mysterious.
“I had a half-bath earlier, so… You only need to wash your hands. You go first.”
“Oh, okay. Then, you can use the bathroom in the bedroom.”
After Jiho went into the bathroom in the living room, Isu slowly turned the doorknob of the bedroom and entered.
It felt strange to enter Jiho’s bedroom again, even though it wasn’t the first time.
Jiho’s bedroom was so neat that it felt like walking into a hotel room, with no signs of disorder.
Neatly arranged blankets, a well-made bed, a wall-mounted TV, and half-covered curtains.
Even the TV remote was neatly placed on the bedside table as if it belonged there.
It was a scenery no different from that day.
While Isu was looking around Jiho’s room, the thought suddenly occurred to him about how his own place was.
With all the rushing around for several days, he must have left his home in a real mess. He hadn’t even thought about it.
Handing over the passcode to his apartment to his boyfriend, he hadn’t bothered to clean it.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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