“Mom! Did Lee Soo come home?”
“Why are you looking for Lee Soo as soon as you get home? She hasn’t come yet.”
Upon hearing this, Yumi hurriedly ran up to the second floor and opened Lee Soo’s room.
She went straight to the powder room and found perfume on the dressing table.
“Ah, this is it! It’s a brand I’ve never seen before.”
Yumi muttered to herself as she examined the perfume.
It was a very luxuriouslooking perfume.
Yumi, holding the perfume and examining it, took out her phone, took a picture, and opened the cap.
She sprayed the perfume a few times in the air and a few times on her wrist.
She sniffed deeply with a serious expression as if she were a perfume connoisseur and tilted her head.
“It’s too similar. I think it’s the same perfume.”
Although she wasn’t sure, the scent was very similar to the one she smelled from Ji Ho at lunch.
If she had paid attention at that time, she would remember it properly, but her senses were not intact because she was too excited.
Was it correct? It was unique and impressive.
“What are you doing in someone else’s room?”
“Ah! I’m surprised.”
Yumi was startled to see Lee Soo standing in front of the powder room without any sign.
Yumi stammered because she was caught touching the perfume in a room without its owner.
“No, the perfume smelled so good in the morning. I came to see what it was.”
“……”
“You said you didn’t know the name of the perfume. I just wanted to look at the name and leave.”
“Did you also spray it?”
The scent of the perfume vibrated in the entire room, revealing how much she sprayed.
“I wanted to smell it again.”
“If you’re done, you can go.”
For some reason, Yumi didn’t want to leave, she lingered.
Given that she was wearing the clothes she had seen at lunch and even had a bag over her shoulder, it seemed that she came straight home and immediately came up here.
She was curious about what was so urgent about confirming the name of the perfume.
“Aren’t you leaving?”
“……Is this a gift from someone?”
Yumi asked cautiously, looking at Lee Soo’s expression.
In fact, she was more curious about who gave the perfume than about the perfume itself.
“Why do you need to know?”
Lee Soo spoke irritably to prevent Yumi from asking more.
It would be a mess if she knew that Ji Ho gave it to her.
Thinking about this, Lee Soo chuckled.
Why am I worrying about this?
It was a ridiculous situation where she had to hide something that she didn’t need to hide.
“Just, I could be curious.”
Yumi pouted her lips and shrugged her shoulders.
Lee Soo pointed at the door with her chin.
“I got it! As if it’s some big secret. Tsk.”
Yumi, who was grumbling, turned her body around and reluctantly left.
Lee Soo thought she should lock her room door from now on.
((()))((()))
Yumi lay down on her bed and searched for the perfume she had photographed with her phone.
The perfume that Lee Soo received as a gift was a niche perfume from the UK, famous for its devilish price among luxury perfumes.
It was a perfume that was difficult to obtain because there was no official distributor in the country.
“Who would give such a thing to Lee Soo. Did she really get a boyfriend?”
Yumi sniffed the remaining scent on her wrist again.
Strangely, she was still bothered by it.
Yumi, who did not erase her suspicious expression and was deep in thought, took out her phone.
“I can contact Ji Ho using the perfume as an excuse.”
She was happy to have an excuse to contact Ji Ho naturally.
Ji Ho, I contacted you because I was curious. By any chance, is this the perfume you sprayed today? The smell is too similar. Please reply as soon as you check.
Yumi pressed the send button with the perfume picture after writing and erasing it several times.
((()))((()))
Ji Ho squinted his eyes at the bright sunlight seeping in through the curtain.
He lay in bed and stretched his arm out long over the bedside table.
The time checked on his phone was 6:50 a.m.
He was about to close his eyes again, but he opened the app and checked the weather out of habit.
Chance of rain 30%.
There was a 70% chance that it wouldn’t rain.
“Today is messed up too.”
Ji Ho brushed his face with his big hand.
He put his phone down next to him and sat up.
He opened the curtain wide as if to check with his own eyes.
Ji Ho, who was looking at the sparkling Han River in the pouring sunlight, laughed.
He squinted at the sight of the clear sky and found himself frowning without realizing it.
“When have I been waiting for rain like this?”
It’s been a week since he last saw Lee Soo.
She could have looked in the meantime, but a strange stubbornness made her wait.
Foolishly hoping for the rain.
Should I have a rain ritual?
((()))((()))
“Lee Soo, it’s going to rain this afternoon, do you have an umbrella?”
As soon as she saw Lee Soo in the library lobby, Ae Ra asked.
“No. It doesn’t seem like it’s going to rain. It’s just cloudy.”
Lee Soo had been checking the weather every morning lately, which she always did anyway.
More specifically, whether it was going to rain or not.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
