“Hey! …Are you awake?”
Startled by Jiho’s touch, Isu opened her eyes.
“Why are you doing this?”
“Oh, I guess I nodded off while just looking at you.”
“Anytime I ask you to look, you never do…”
“When did I ever…”
Isu, feeling a bit puzzled, smiled.
Jiho desperately wanted to lay Isu next to him and hold her tight, but this time, he really couldn’t resist.
Isu’s loveliness, as she slept while he looked at her, had already exceeded the limit of what he could endure.
Patience, restraint – all of it was useless. The only thing he could believe in now was the physical distance between him and Isu.
“Let’s go out for breakfast.”
Exhaling a shallow sigh, Jiho went out first.
After eating Jiho’s homemade egg and seaweed soup, Isu’s hangover improved considerably.
“Since when did you become good at cooking?”
Every time he came home, Jiho cooked and prepared meals for her. He could have ordered delivery or bought simple meal kits, but Jiho always started from handling the ingredients, pouring as much effort into it as his mom did.
“I got used to it while living alone. And it became fun.”
“Well then, I’ll do the dishes. I may not be good at cooking, but I’m good at this.”
Isu tidied up the table and went to the sink.
Wearing rubber gloves and holding a scrubber, Isu looked at Jiho as if to say she couldn’t be stopped, and he laughed.
“Then let’s do it together.”
Standing side by side, Jiho rinsed the dishes that Isu had washed with detergent.
Laughter continued throughout the whole process, making it seem like doing the dishes was originally this fun.
“I wish we could be like this every day.”
When the dishes were almost done, Jiho mumbled to himself as if talking to himself.
“Hmm?”
“If we could be like this every day… it would be so nice.”
“Oh.”
“That’s probably why people get married.”
“…”
Awkward about the marriage topic, Isu wanted to change the subject, but nothing appropriate came to her mind.
“How about you?”
Curious about what Isu thought about marriage, considering she had said she disliked dating.
Now that the topic had come up, he wanted to know.
“What do you think about marriage?”
“Talking about marriage all of a sudden when we’re doing the dishes?”
Jiho didn’t propose marriage, but Isu’s face suddenly seemed to flush as if he had.
“Why are you suddenly talking about marriage?”
“If I don’t propose, why are you suddenly bringing up the topic of marriage?”
Although Jiho expected a negative answer, Isu’s eyebrows rose slightly.
It wasn’t an immediate concern, but Jiho had sometimes thought about it since meeting Isu.
If he felt like seeing her every day, being together every moment, couldn’t they get married?
“Then think about it from now on. Positively.”
Although Jiho spoke in a playful tone, he genuinely hoped Isu would consider it.
She was still young to think about marriage, but she wasn’t too young.
“Well, okay. If that’s what you want.”
She was still young to think about marriage, but she wasn’t too young.
“Well, okay. If that’s what you want.”
Isu nodded, answering ambiguously.
Isu shared her ordinary and mundane daily life with Jiho at home.
It felt like they were on a trip to a luxurious hotel with a fantastic view.
She slept in a warm bed, had the meal Jiho prepared, drank coffee, and watched TV.
While sipping coffee, she listened to Jiho playing the piano, sat in the living room gazing at the view, kissed Jiho, and snuggled in his arms to watch a movie.
They also lay side by side on the spacious sofa and took a nap.
It was a perfectly happy day passing by.
“You said you’d sing when you come home. You played the piano earlier, why not sing?”
As soon as she woke up from the nap, Isu spoke as if a thought had occurred to her.
Jiho, lying behind Isu, fell silent, lost in his thoughts without saying anything.
“Hmm?”
Recently, Jiho was pondering whether to reveal to Isu that he was J.
He didn’t want to keep it a secret, but he hesitated, thinking that it might spoil the fantasy of J in Isu’s mind. He wondered if it would be regrettable if she found out later.
Should he reveal it as a surprise gift someday? Or should he let Isu believe in the J she wanted?
Thanks to Jiho’s cousin being the CEO of the agency, Jiho’s secret was still being kept.
However, he had a premonition that someday, as public interest increased and his activities extended, the day of revelation would come.
Moreover, recently, Hyungjoo subtly expressed her desire for Jiho to have a more diverse range of activities than just releasing music.
Amid various inconveniences and ambitions he wanted to try, Jiho was gradually swaying.
To achieve that, he had to persuade his grandfather, and now he had to think about Isu.
“Do you want to hear it?”
“Yeah. You know how much I love it.”
However, when he tried to sing right in front of Isu, he couldn’t speak the words easily.
“I might not be able to sing right after waking up.”
At the excuse-like reply, Isu turned around and lay down.
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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