“Spend the weekends at home. You can do that once a week, right?”
Lee Soo agreed without hesitation.
As long as she could leave this house, she could do that, no matter what the reason.
“Then I’ll proceed as we agreed.”
“Thanks, Dad.”
“The reason I want you to come home every weekend is to make sure that Yumi or Yumi’s mother doesn’t ignore your existence. Of course, your room on the second floor will remain the same. Your place in this house remains unchanged. You can come back whenever you want.”
He wanted to make it clear that Lee Soo wasn’t being forced out because of an unavoidable situation.
“I know you’re thinking about me, Dad….”
Lee Soo was about to say there was no need for that but closed her mouth.
She wouldn’t be able to change Wonjin’s stubbornness anyway.
“Got it. When can I leave?”
Since that day, Lee Soo found it uncomfortable to see Soomin, so she deliberately came home late at night.
They hardly ran into each other, except at breakfast.
“The house is already prepared. Your mother was supposed to move in this year as planned, and I prepared a house for you two to live together.”
It was a house that Wonjin had taken special care to prepare, thinking that Lee Soo would be living with her mother.
It was a place he had kept vacant in anticipation of Hyejin’s arrival, but in the end, Lee Soo ended up moving into the house alone.
“Dad…”
Lee Soo was surprised by Wonjin’s unexpected words.
She hadn’t expected him to prepare that much.
Lee Soo felt touched by Wonjin’s thoughtful consideration.
“You just have to do the interior design, so you can move as soon as it’s done. I’ll give you the contact information for Director Yoon who decorated your room, so if there’s anything you want to ask for in advance, you can talk about it.”
“Thank you so much, Dad. You didn’t have to do all this…”
Lee Soo was so moved by Wonjin that she was on the verge of tears.
She would have been fine with a small oneroom apartment as long as she could be independent.
“I want to do everything for you.”
“I know how you feel, Dad. Don’t feel too sad about me leaving. We don’t have to live together to be happy.”
“Right. I think living together was my greed. I didn’t consider that it might be hard for you. I’m sorry.”
“No.”
Lee Soo swallowed her emotions and smiled brightly.
She was really grateful to her father and felt reassured thinking that he was always on her side.
“Did you tell Mom?”
“What?”
Seeing Wonjin’s cautious face, Lee Soo realized what he meant belatedly.
“No. Why should I tell her? She’ll just worry.”
“That’s good.”
It would have been embarrassing if Hyejin had known.
As per Lee Soo’s request, Wonjin didn’t get too angry at Soomin, but the initial anger had not subsided yet.
“Do you not contact Mom at all, Dad?”
“Only when you went to London.”
“I see.”
Wonjin and Hyejin said they were each other’s first love.
They met when they were twenty and got married before they even graduated from university, but their passionate love didn’t last long.
How could they change so easily?
Even though she knew it was irreversible, Lee Soo couldn’t help but feel bitter.
When Dad looks at me, who looks exactly like Mom in her youth, does he not think of Mom at all?
She had been curious sometimes, but she never dared to ask.
Considering how nice he is to me, he must have been good to Mom too.
“You might not be curious, but… Mom is doing well.”
“That’s good to hear.”
Wonjin smiled faintly.
How happy would it have been to live with a mother and father like an ordinary family?
Lee Soo learned too early by watching the two that there is no such thing as unchanging love.
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“Lee Soo, are you going to the library again?”
Era asked as they left the lecture room.
Lately, Lee Soo hadn’t been home before 10 p.m.
The discomfort of being at home, along with the preparation for midterm exams that were less than a month away, led her to spend her time at the library every day.
When Lee Soo nodded her head, Ae Ra shook hers vehemently.
“Hey, you’ll regret studying like this. What are you, a civil service exam student, always at the library?”
“I’m not only studying, I do a lot of other things. Reading books, listening to music.”
“That’s what I mean. You should go on a group date with me.”
“Today, huh. Go and have fun.”
“It would be good if you come along too. Why don’t you try it at least once?”
“You know I don’t like that.”
“Why?”
“It’s a bother.”
“I can’t understand you. The guys call you Ice Princess. Jong Oh kept pursuing you but I think he eventually gave up. It’s been quiet recently, hasn’t it?”
Jong Oh was a classmate who had publicly confessed his liking for Lee Soo.
He was a goodnatured person who showed determination and resilience, not giving up even when Lee Soo rejected him.
“Not only Jong Oh. You don’t realize how popular you are, do you? When the guys saw Jong Oh get openly rejected, they seemed to give up.”
“That’s good.”
Lee Soo answered with a quiet laugh.
“Hey, what’s good about it? You’ll never have a relationship at this rate. You should experience a lot of relationships when you’re young.”
“I’ll manage my relationships, you just focus on your group date today. I’m cheering for you. Friend, go well.”
Lee Soo gave Ae Ra’s back a slight push and walked in the opposite direction of the library.
Lee Soo walked with a slow pace, casting a wide gaze around her.
She even took a look at the cars leaving through the main gate.
When she reached the library, Lee Soo turned around with a regretful look in her eyes, scanning the surroundings once.
As if she was looking for someone.
From far to near, she cast her gaze thoroughly and then slowly turned around.
Lee Soo let out a shallow sigh and entered.
Sitting in her usual seat, Lee Soo pressed on her temples with the tips of her fingers.
‘Am I going crazy? Why do I keep thinking about it?’
Whenever there was a moment, Ji Ho would suddenly appear in her mind.
His face, his voice, his touch vividly came to mind.
Lee Soo clenched her eyes shut and covered her face with her hands.
‘This is really against my will.’
With a composed mind and an upright posture, Lee Soo opened her biochemistry lecture notes and her family tree notes.
Looking at the vast scope of the exam and the tremendous amount of memorization, she stuck out her tongue and began to note down ‘the composition and structure of DNA and RNA’.
In order to forget about Ji Ho, Lee Soo collected all her mental strength and focused.
As she studied without realizing how time passed, Lee Soo lifted her head for a moment.
It had already become dark outside.
‘Shall I take a short break?’
Lee Soo plugged in her earphones and added three songs by ‘J’ to her playlist.
Planning to rest just for that long, Lee Soo leaned on the desk and closed her tired eyes.
Then, for a moment, Lee Soo unknowingly dozed off and woke up.
Lee Soo, lifting her upper body, tilted her stiff neck back and turned it from side to side.
With her eyes heavy with sleep, Lee Soo struggled to open them and belatedly found a folded paper and an energy drink on her desk.
“Oh!”
Lee Soo’s head quickly turned back.
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Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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