Ji Ho, with his dwindling patience, waited another seven minutes.
They had agreed to meet when it rained, and at that time, Ji Ho had said he would wait for Lee Soo’s call.
Ji Ho’s patience was already at its limit, and after barely enduring ten minutes, he found Lee Soo’s name in his recent call list.
It was late, but not yet bedtime.
In retrospect, there was no reason they couldn’t meet.
If Lee Soo was okay with it, Ji Ho could just go to her front door.
The thought that Lee Soo might not know it’s raining made Ji Ho’s grip on his phone tighten.
Why am I thinking so much just to make a call?
With a sense of absurdity, Ji Ho chuckled and pressed the call button.
Looking at the rainy night scenery, he brought his phone to his ear.
The signal rang several times.
Had she already fallen asleep?
Earlier in the day, he had glimpsed Lee Soo sitting at the back of the lecture room.
He couldn’t see her clearly from a distance, but she seemed a bit listless.
Was she sick?
Just as a flicker of worry passed across Ji Ho’s face, the ringing stopped and all he could hear was the sound of the rain.
When he asked if she was crying, Lee Soo only responded with a single syllable.
Her voice sounded more like a scratchy throat than speech.
Ji Ho focused all his senses on the sound coming through the receiver.
Then, he heard a faint sobbing mixed with the sound of the rain.
When he asked if she was crying, there was no response.
She must be crying.
“Ah, why again…”
Ji Ho’s heart pounded and his face grew hot for a moment.
He continuously ran a hand down his face, waiting a long time for Lee Soo’s crying to subside.
During the time that felt like eternity, Ji Ho’s gaze darkened.
While waiting, all he could think about was that they had to meet.
No matter where she was or what condition she was in.
Without knowing the destination, Ji Ho grabbed any clothes he could find, took his car keys and left the house.
His hand gripping the phone was throbbing.
By the time he went down to the underground parking lot, Lee Soo’s sobbing had subsided.
“Tell me anything you see in front of you.”
Ji Ho asked as he started the car.
He entered the place Lee Soo told him into the navigation system.
At this hour, it would be a 10minute drive.
“Don’t hang up, I’ll be there soon.”
With that instruction to Lee Soo, Ji Ho picked up speed.
((()))((()))
This night, she had called out to Seo Ji Ho.
Knowing how shameless she was, she couldn’t refuse Ji Ho who said he would come.
He had heard her crying, so there was no chance her lie about being okay would work.
To be honest, when he said he would come, Lee Soo felt relieved.
Despite knowing how embarrassing it was to show him such a mess,
She had needed someone by her side since she realized something was wrong with her body.
It wasn’t the first time anyway.
On the plane. In the lecture room. And today.
She thought that Seo Ji Ho might be better than Ae Ra.
While waiting for Ji Ho, Lee Soo kept her phone to her ear.
Listening quietly to the calming voice and breathing of Ji Ho over the phone, she began to find some stability when Ji Ho’s car appeared.
While she was crouching with her shaking body, Ji Ho, who got out of the car, quickly approached her.
Lee Soo staggered to her feet from her spot.
“Ah, what on earth…”
Upon seeing Lee Soo, Ji Ho was at a loss for words.
Her wet hair and clothes, her flushed face, her chapped lips, her shaking shoulders.
Instinctively, Ji Ho reached out his arm and pulled Lee Soo into a hug.
His body moved before his mind.
Her frail body collapsed into Ji Ho’s arms without any resistance.
Lee Soo’s wet hair brushed against Ji Ho’s chin.
“…Thanks for coming.”
A shaky voice barely audible came from Lee Soo’s mouth.
“You don’t have to say anything.”
Holding Lee Soo closely so that his warmth could be felt, Ji Ho stroked her back with his large hand.
Her clothes, wet from the rain, were cold and damp.
How much Lee Soo must have been trembling in the cold, her trembling did not easily stop.
Lee Soo stood still, completely surrendering herself to Ji Ho.
Nothing else came to mind except how warm and cozy Ji Ho’s embrace was.
Her head was gradually growing blank.
From the moment Yumi entered the room, until now, nestled against Ji Ho.
Everything felt unreal and distant.
“You’ll catch a cold at this rate. Let’s get to the car first.”
Lee Soo’s body was shaking heavily.
Ji Ho, circling his arm behind Lee Soo’s back, firmly held her trembling shoulders.
After putting Lee Soo in the passenger seat, Ji Ho who had climbed into the car covered her with a blanket from the back seat and turned up the heater to the highest.
“You’ll warm up soon.”
Ji Ho looked at Lee Soo, who was leaning against the seat, with a hardened face.
She was dressed casually as if she had just left home, without a bag, and her feet were bare, having crumpled her sneakers.
‘What on earth happened.’
Ji Ho had a suffocating feeling.
Unknowingly, in his upset heart, he reached out for Lee Soo’s face.
As he brushed her wet hair behind her ear, he saw a long scratch running diagonally across her reddened cheek.
It was a mark scraped by something sharp.
At Ji Ho’s surprised gaze, Lee Soo raised her hand to cover her cheek.
“You……”
There was no need to ask how she got the wound.
Because it was an unbelievable injury even after seeing it.
Ji Ho couldn’t speak any more.
He took back the hand he had stretched out and tightly gripped the steering wheel.
The air inside the car became as heavy as if it were suffocating.
With a hardened face, Ji Ho who had freshened up, leaned towards Lee Soo and fastened her seat belt.
“… Did you come from home?”
Lee Soo, who was covered with a blanket up to her neck, barely nodded her shaking head.
Her consciousness was getting fuzzy and her eyes kept closing.
Letting out a low sigh, Ji Ho changed gears and started the car.
Not long after, the car entered the underground parking lot of a building that seemed to pierce the sky.
Ji Ho parked the car in the spot he always used and turned off the ignition.
He got out of the car and opened the passenger door.
“Can you walk? Do you want me to carry you?”
“… I’m fine.”
Lee Soo got out of the car without asking where they were going, just following Ji Ho’s lead.
On the way to the elevator, Lee Soo stumbled several times as the strength in her legs gave way.
“Lean on me.”
Ji Ho pulled Lee Soo’s shoulder tightly against his chest.
Lee Soo’s body was hot as fire.
Ji Ho hesitated for a moment whether to go to the hospital, but it was too much for Lee Soo in her current state to wait for treatment in the complicated emergency room.
It seemed better to take some medicine at home, monitor the situation, and let her rest comfortably.
If her fever did not go down then, they would go to the hospital. With that decided, they got on the elevator.
Lee Soo kept lifting her heavy eyelids that kept closing.
Everything in front of her was blurry and her ears were deafening.
Inside the quickly ascending elevator, Lee Soo felt like she was sinking into an endless floor.
With her head spinning, she barely managed to hold onto Ji Ho’s clothes.
“Lee Soo!”
Ji Ho’s voice did not sound clear to her foggy mind.
As all her senses gradually faded, Lee Soo closed her eyes.
Cold Male Lead Became My Clingy Husband (Female-Dominant)
Feng Bai Su transmigrated into a matriarchal novel, becoming the sister of the female protagonist and the Seventh Princess of the Feng Ling Kingdom.
After working herself to death in her previous life, finally reincarnating as a princess, she only wanted to be a lazy fish who could eat, sleep, and play.
Until she met the male protagonist from the book, Wei Jing Mo, and he took a liking to her!
Wei Jing Mo is the top young man in Feng Ling City, talented in both appearance and ability, from a prestigious family, with a cold and otherworldly appearance, a figure like the bright moon in the hearts of noble ladies. It was thought that only the most powerful and talented noble lady in Feng Ling City would be worthy of such a brilliant young man. Who knew that this young gentleman would secretly admire the infamous Seventh Princess?
Short scene 1:
Feng Bai Su looked at the young man crying like a pear blossom in the rain before her, and couldn’t help but doubt her life.
Wasn’t the male lead described as a cold and otherworldly figure in the book?
Then who was this poor little thing crying with swollen red eyes and tear-stained face?
Short scene 2:
Wei Jing Mo stared intently at Feng Bai Su who was about to go out, wanting to say, “Be careful on the road.”
Before he could speak, Feng Bai Su suddenly bent down and bit his cheek.
Her peach blossom eyes were full of disdain: “Tsk! You’re so clingy!”
Wei Jing Mo: “…”
A talented fox spirit female lead with a flirtatious appearance but actually abstinent VS A cold-looking but actually naive and clingy little jealous male lead
