After a polite bow, he left the office. Kang Ihyun, still puzzled, stared blankly at the closed door.
“Can’t leave the Divine Palace because of the abnormal condition…?”
While his thoughts were intensifying in his mind, a beep sounded, and the alarm clock went off. It meant that today’s work was finished.
Kang Ihyun turned off the alarm clock on his desk. It was time to join Mr. Rood.
“You’re here. Dinner.”
“I already ate. You had a tough day, huh?”
“It was chaotic.”
After having a meal at the underground restaurant in the Divine Palace, a modified school cafeteria, the two went up to Kang Ihyun’s private room.
Rood, who had been stretching his legs on the sofa, temporarily deactivated his ‘Sensory Transfer’ skill. Kang Ihyun, who had barely adapted to having two perspectives, gripped his head tightly as the wind brought them back to a single view. Rood, with his eyes half-closed on the sofa, spoke.
“Is it true?”
“What?”
“I saw it. You examined Jung Sooho, and Isia Sung mentioned something. Is it true?”
“Oh, um, that.”
Kang Ihyun rolled his eyes.
Even with Sensory Transfer, only visual and auditory sensations are shared, and information obtained through emotions or skills is not shared.
‘Just tell him a blatant lie. Just say, “It’s a complete lie. Isia Sung just put on a show because he wanted to send Rood alone to the gate. He was perfectly fine.”‘ That’s all he needed to say.
And Kang Ihyun, being skilled in deception, had enough room to deceive Rood if he later grew suspicious.
“Oh, that? I examined him, and he’s perfectly fine.”
“That son of a bitch.”
Before Kang Ihyun could finish his sentence, Rood’s suppressed voice rang out.
With a grip on the sofa armrest, Rood was visibly agitated.
“That son of a bitch… It’s not that I didn’t come because I didn’t like it. It’s because something happened there, and I really couldn’t come, that’s the truth.”
Kang Ihyun thought that this voice was similar to Nari’s when talking about her father. It was a painful voice.
Thinking about someone who he still hasn’t grown fond of but also can’t purely hate.
For a moment, calculations rapidly rolled through Kang Ihyun’s mind. Rood slowly stood up from the sofa. As their eyes met, Kang Ihyun unintentionally blurted out the truth. It was irresistible.
“Yes, it’s true.”
Rood’s expression significantly changed in an instant. Suppressing the realization, Kang Ihyun casually looked at Rood.
Indeed, he decided to put aside the thought of a lifelong lie to him.
“…When I examined him, it was true. What Isia Sung said is correct. There were too many abnormalities, over six of them…”
“Haha, ha…”
Rood touched his forehead in disbelief. Bewilderment, anger, questions about why he wasn’t told about this, and disappointment stemming from those questions.
“So, what are you going to do?”
After biting his lips for a moment, Kang Ihyun turned back to Rood.
There was jealousy bubbling up at the point where he couldn’t pry any further.
“I don’t know, maybe we need to lift the abnormalities.”
“Oh, so are you going to ignore my advice and go to that gate alone?”
His jealousy crept into his tone more than he realized. Though he regretted it, fortunately, Rood seemed too absorbed in his thoughts to notice.
Eunhyun, having composed himself, spoke with a gentle attitude.
“If you’re going to fluctuate like this because of Jung Sooho, wouldn’t it be better not to do it? It could be a big problem if you get caught up in his mental strength.”
“Ah, it’s not because of that person; it’s because of birth control pills that I’ve been feeling up and down a bit.”
“Right, birth control… what?!”
“To delay my period. Don’t be surprised; I can’t take care of it, let alone be surprised. It’s nothing special.”
In response to Rood’s dry attitude, Kang Ihyun regained his composure.
Come to think of it, when Euisung unexpectedly mentioned birth control pills earlier, that must have been it. Kang Ihyun, realizing this, nodded quietly.
“My hormones are acting up, so I’m quite sensitive right now. If I don’t want to be influenced by mental strength like back then, you have to order a lot. Got it?”
“Yes! I’ll do that.”
Rood, who was nodding, took the opportunity to say it was time. He poured a bottle of water from the table, and then swallowed a pill that had been inside his coat.
Seeing Rood trying to offset emotional fluctuations or taking deep breaths, Kang Ihyun reached out his hand.
“Then, give me your hand for a moment.”
“Alright.”
In the hand he lightly held, Kang Ihyun subtly let his spiritual power flow.
Watching Rood, who seemed to have calmed down a bit, blinking his eyes.
‘This guy… Even using him as a human PMS treatment might be okay.’
[Nari. I’m using a period tracking app, but thinking about using Kang Ihyun too…? The master of chaos blinks his eyes in confusion.]Feeling the anger that was raging inside him calming down, Rood let out a deep sigh. Now, his emotions were a bit more organized.
“…I don’t know, honestly. I want to refuse, but…”
“I want to refuse, but I hate him so much. However, a glimmer of hope sneaks in.
The desire to forgive suddenly raises its head. Kang Ihyun spoke in front of Rood, who had been thinking for a while.
“Uh, then, can you tell me too? About your relationship with Jeong Suhwa.”
“What?”
“I’m concerned too. I have to act together. But it seems difficult to continue assisting you without knowing why you’re so concerned to that extent.”
“Ah…”
Come to think of it, he hadn’t explained to Kang Ihyun. Rood, who blinked his eyes, clenched his fist.
Only now did he realize that he had been waving Kang Ihyun around without any explanation tailored to his circumstances.
“Why, after the brake popped once 20 years ago, there were many orphanages that appeared.”
“That’s right.”
In the few years it took for the social system to fully restore its functions after the gates appeared. During that time, many orphans were born.
There were many private orphanages that took care of them with sincerity, but dealing with children without a thorough monitoring system and ample support often led to problems. Consequently, many places resembled the orphanages of the 1900s, where abuse was perpetrated.
“So, people whose situations were stable started taking the children of their relatives from bad orphanages where they were in danger.”
“Was that Jeong Suhwa?”
“Yeah, he was the grandson of our great-grandmother’s friend. I’m not sure, but something like that.”
And at Nari’s house, Jeong Suhwa did that. So, they lived together. When they were young, they played together, went to school together.
“But after my mom died and two years passed, he left too, well. Did he earn money? I believed that was true. But it was a lie. I later found out on the internet that he was ranked 6th in the S-class. Just a sleeping tiger pretending to be obvious.”
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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