The next morning at 6 o’clock.
Ding-dong!
To the unusual doorbell sound that didn’t match the early hour, Isu walked to the front door with a rustling sound.
Having just received a phone call, there was no need to check who it was.
Upon the opening of the entrance door, Jiho stepped in with a refreshing morning smell.
Isu, still in pajamas and not fully awake, half-folded his sleepy eyes and smiled.
“You really came like dawn.”
“I wanted to come earlier, but I waited before coming.”
“I couldn’t stop you. Really.”
Jiho, with an amazed smile, embraced Isu with both arms and gently pressed his forehead against his.
After about one, two, three seconds, Jiho pulled away his lips.
“Isu, your forehead feels hot.”
As soon as his lips parted, Jiho’s large hand covered Isu’s forehead.
The warmth he always felt from that hand strangely felt cool today.
“Really?”
“Do you have a thermometer at home? Let’s check your temperature.”
Jiho’s bright expression quickly faded.
Isu took out a thermometer from the first aid kit.
It was 38 degrees.
Unaware because he was sleeping, he now felt a slight warmth in his throat, and his head felt heavy.
“I really have a fever. Are you okay?”
“Yeah, for now. I thought my body was just tired and collapsing, but it seems like I’m getting sick. I’ll be fine if I take medicine.”
Isu walked to the dining room with the fever reducer and cold medicine.
He took the medicine with lukewarm water mixed with hot and cold water.
“Do you have any plans today?”
Jiho, who followed behind, asked with concern.
“No.”
“Then you should rest well at home. If it gets worse, go to the hospital.”
“Yeah, that would be better.”
For the past few days, he hadn’t slept properly, and he had eaten roughly, which seemed to have caught up with him.
Fortunately, he could rest at home all day during the vacation, so that was a relief.
“It seems like I woke you up because of me, but now that you’ve taken medicine, you should sleep more. It’ll be much better after a good sleep.”
“If I sleep, what about you?”
Although his condition wasn’t great, Isu felt sorry to say that to Jiho, who had come running to see him early in the morning.
The lingering sad voice from the phone call last night still lingered in his heart.
“If you sleep, and I’ll watch over you.”
“What?”
Momentarily feeling sorry for Jiho, Isu covered his face with both hands, laughed absurdly, then raised his head again.
“Is that really going to happen? You won’t go home again?”
Jiho, holding Isu’s hand, walked toward the bedroom.
“Where are we going?”
“To put you to sleep. You look like you’re about to die from drowsiness right now.”
“Do you really want me to sleep?”
“Really.”
Jiho laughed when he saw the bed Isu had just come out of.
“I really slept under my blanket?”
Jiho burst into laughter as soon as he saw the blanket.
Although he did ask for a blanket, he didn’t know that he would actually sleep under that particular blanket.
Thinking of Isu, who fell asleep under the blanket all night, a warm feeling filled the chest, and there was a ticklish sensation in the heart.
At the same time, the lingering sense of disappointment from last night about Isu disappeared as if it had been washed away at once.
“Can you still smell me?”
“Yeah.”
As Isu covered himself with the blanket up to his nose and lay still, Jiho’s scent subtly permeated through his breathing.
It wasn’t too strong, almost soothing to the point that his heart wasn’t pounding, making it even better.
Even in his half-asleep state, smelling that scent made him feel like Jiho was right beside him, creating an illusion that he might enter his dreams.
“Do you like me that much?”
In the current situation, Jiho, unsure of what to do, asked Isu.
It was a question with an obvious answer, but he still wanted to hear it.
“Kukuk. Why ask when you already know?”
“I don’t know. So, just answer.”
“Fool.”
Leaving Jiho behind, Isu climbed onto the bed.
After taking medicine, he felt like he might fall asleep soon.
Jiho, even after hearing the silly words, laughed happily.
Although there was a separate phrase he wanted to hear.
“Hey, answer me since I asked.”
“Go to sleep. I’m going to sleep.”
Isu, who slipped under the blanket, closed his eyes quietly.
Jiho, looking at Isu with an expression of cuteness, felt happy.
‘There’s no one else but me who would be so delighted by silly words.’
A genuinely foolish laughter burst out.
‘If I’m going to act cute like this, what can I do?’
After closing his eyes for a moment and holding his breath, Jiho approached Isu and lay down next to him.
“Hey, why are you lying here?”
“To sleep together. I woke up early this morning to come here, but I also feel sleepy. I’ll just sleep next to you, so don’t imagine anything strange.”
Even in his drowsy state, Jiho laughed with a pleased expression while looking at Isu, who blushed from ear to ear.
Just by looking at his face, it seemed like Jiho could see what he had been thinking.
‘With such a clear and transparent face. It’s really driving me crazy.’
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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