The place Jiho had led Lee Soo to was his car parked by the path next to the library.
“Get in.”
Jiho opened the passenger door and said.
As Lee Soo got into the car, she could smell Jiho’s fragrance inside it.
Jiho, who had gotten into the driver’s seat, pulled out a bottle of perfume from the console box.
It was a fancy brown bottle with a golden crownshaped lid.
“Ah, this one. Just a moment.”
As Lee Soo pulled out her phone to take a picture, Jiho held the perfume bottle above it.
“Take this.”
“Huh?”
Lee Soo looked at Jiho with wide eyes.
“It’s hard to find this perfume in Korea. Even if you take a picture, you can’t buy it.”
“Ah… But how can I take something you use?”
“I have more at home. It’s almost finished anyway, so you don’t need to feel burdened.”
Jiho placed the perfume on Lee Soo’s hand.
“You said you remembered because of this perfume. That means you liked it. Don’t refuse and take it.”
He made it seem like it was nothing big with his casual expression.
Lee Soo hesitated whether she should accept it or not, but it seemed like it really was nothing big for the lightheartedly laughing Jiho.
“Thank you… And though it’s late, thank you for that day on the airplane.”
Lee Soo said while fiddling with the perfume bottle.
“I didn’t really do anything.”
Jiho slightly shrugged his shoulders, turned his upper body towards the passenger seat and looked at Lee Soo.
At that, Lee Soo, who had been smiling softly, looked at Jiho with a calm gaze.
Their eyes met in the silence, and they stared at each other for a long time.
Lee Soo silently recalled that day.
How much would Jiho remember?
Would he remember all of me, who had been stained with tears and cried all night?
I hoped that those memories would have faded as time passed.
Even if he remembered, I looked at him with the hope that he would pretend not to know.
The first to look away was Jiho.
This was probably the first time he had seen a woman who could so calmly meet his gaze.
Come to think of it, it might have been Jiho who was on the receiving end of the gaze.
The deep brown eyes, whose depth he couldn’t know, seemed to be communicating something.
At the unfamiliar gaze, Jiho’s eyes trembled slightly. This was a first for him.
When Jiho looked forward again, Lee Soo slowly turned her head too.
The rain falling against the car window obscured their view like a curtain.
Within the awkward silence, the sound of rain hitting the roof filled the car, which felt like a space cut off from the world.
All the air they were breathing was filled with Jiho’s scent.
It was time for Lee Soo to think about getting out of the car.
Jiho, who had fastened his seatbelt, started the car and asked,
“Where’s your home?”
Lee Soo looked at Jiho with a face asking why he would ask that.
“I’ll take you there. It’s raining too much.”
“No, it’s okay.”
Lee Soo waved her hands and said.
For Jiho to take her home, she thought it was absurd.
“Just lend me an umbrella…”
“I’m not lending you an umbrella, so tell me your address.”
Jiho cut off Lee Soo’s words and opened the navigation search without hesitation.
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Outside the moving car’s window, the wipers tirelessly pushed away the rain.
The cars, unable to speed up, were lined up long in each lane and moved at a turtle’s pace.
The car in front clearly illuminated a red light and stopped again.
As the traffic jammed up and the rain intensified, Lee Soo’s complexion darkened.
The comfortable seat that enveloped her body felt like a bed of thorns.
“You look like you’re about to die of discomfort. Cheer up.”
Jiho glanced at her and said.
“I’m sorry. Because of me unnecessarily…”
“You’re sorry? I’m the one who said I’d take you.”
“…”
“When it’s raining like this, even if it wasn’t you, I would have done the same. Just go comfortably.”
“Thank you…”
“Yesterday, I saw you easily entrusting your heavy bag to Kang Dong Woo…”
Jiho brought up something that came to his mind, thinking that continuing the conversation would be better.
He was a little curious too.
“That’s…”
“I’m uncomfortable, and he’s comfortable?”
Lee Soo stayed silent.
“So, that’s really how it is.”
“Dong Woo and I were in the same class in the first year of high school.”
“High school classmates… That’s been a while.”
He recalled Kang Dong Woo, who had been looking at Jung Lee Soo with eyes brimming with affection.
And the absurd interference he had made when he said that Jung Lee Soo had come to find him.
“Were you close since then?”
“Yes.”
“Just… Friends?”
“Yes.”
In her unhesitant answer, he couldn’t feel a single bit of emotion.
Ji Ho chuckled as he thought about Kang Woo, who had always been sensitive around him.
“How did you find out that I’m part of the ski club?”
It seemed as though Lee Soo had suddenly remembered to ask.
“I heard it from Ha Joon.”
“Oh, you’re close with Ha Joon. So that’s why you joined the club?”
“Huh? Ah, well, something like that.”
Why did I join again?
They’d probably find it ridiculous if I said it was just an impulse.
My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
*
Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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