“Mom, why do you call the coding teacher ‘brother’?”
“Uh, that, well…”
Before Seoha could answer, flustered, Taekyung intercepted.
“Mom is younger than the teacher. To Mom, the teacher is like a brother. And Mom and the teacher knew each other before you were born. Back then, she called him brother.”
Hearing Taekyung’s detailed explanation unexpectedly, Minjun nodded. Seoha didn’t know how to react and just furrowed her brows.
Seoha was peeved at Taekyung’s next comment.
“You were quite picky, surprisingly. You tell the kid to eat kimchi, but why don’t you?”
“I, why wouldn’t I eat kimchi!”
“You don’t eat young radish kimchi, green onion kimchi, or perilla leaf kimchi. You barely eat napa cabbage kimchi.”
Seoha’s face turned red.
‘Is there anything he won’t say in front of the kid!’
Seoha was frustrated, feeling her efforts to correct Minjun’s picky eating habits were being undermined.
But Minjun, seizing the moment, pouted his lips and aired his accumulated grievances.
“Mom! You said if you’re picky, you get hurt! You eat kimchi too! That’s stingy!”
“No, how can you call Mom stingy, you!”
Seoha, so mature and capable at the kindergarten, bickered with Minjun like a friend.
Watching the natural interactions of Taekyung, Minjun, and Seoha, Myunghoon couldn’t help but smile contentedly.
Taekyung returned home in the evening.
Vrooooom.
Kyuwon was comfortably installing a console gaming system and enthusiastically playing a car racing game, as if it were his own house.
Taekyung frowned at the sight.
“This is my house, not yours.”
“Eh? Weren’t you planning to use this place as our company’s rest area? For employee welfare, at least. You’re going to use this big house alone?”
“Such grand dreams. Wake up.”
Taekyung sarcastically turned off the game console, causing Kyuwon to open his mouth in shock and jump up and down.
“Hey! I was about to win first place for the first time! You cruel guy! You stingy guy!”
“Why are you setting up your game console in my house, anyway? Don’t overstep your bounds in my house. Aren’t you going back to Seoul?”
“I don’t know! I don’t know! When you needed me, I was here, and now you’re kicking me out?”
Kyuwon sulked, pouting his lips.
“Save that fake tantrum for your girlfriend.”
“Girlfriend? I wonder if she’s even been born yet. Where are you, my destined one?”
“Oh really? Just finish the game you were playing. What’s with ‘my destined one’?”
Kyuwon suddenly switched to a theatrical tone. Taekyung laughed at him and put the doenjang stew he brought into the refrigerator.
It was a stew he had almost snatched from Seoha.
Seoha was good at other dishes too, but she often made doenjang stew. Although Taekyung wasn’t much of a foodie, Seoha’s doenjang stew was perfect for soothing his stomach.
Even though it wasn’t a luxurious side dish, eating doenjang stew made by Seoha felt like they were a real family.
“What’s that? And where have you been?”
“Don’t touch it. It’s mine.”
“Ugh, really stingy.”
Taekyung paid no attention to Kyuwon.
Kyuwon peered over and saw Taekyung carefully putting away the doenjang stew.
“You don’t like doenjang stew, do you? What wind blew to change that?”
Kyuwon leaned in front of Taekyung’s face, worriedly asking.
“Are you okay? You don’t have some incurable disease, do you?”
“What are you talking about! I don’t dislike doenjang stew.”
Taekyung hadn’t eaten doenjang stew for 5 years because it reminded him of Seoha.
Initially, he sought out her doenjang stew, but eventually gave up.
The more he searched, the deeper his longing for Seoha grew, and his hunger only intensified.
He hadn’t eaten doenjang stew since. Even the smell was avoided.
“Where did you get that?”
“You don’t need to know. Just don’t touch it. And I’m staying here from now on.”
“You’re going to commute from here?”
Kyuwon’s eyes widened.
“You left your decent house in Seoul to live far away? What about your house in Seoul?”
“I’m leaving it as is for now.”
“The life of a rich heir is different, huh? Some people struggle to get one house.”
“Shut up.”
Kyuwon slumped on the sofa and turned on the television.
On the news screen, Congressman Jin Cheol-wook appeared, shaking hands with market vendors, a friendly smile on his face.
“Congressman Jin Cheol-wook is running for president this time, right?”
Taekyung looked at the screen indifferently.
‘Yuna really resembles her father, Congressman Cheol-wook.’
He had never thought about getting involved with Yuna, her father Cheol-wook, or their family.
He vaguely sensed the craftiness hidden behind those genial smiles. He didn’t feel good about them, though there was no specific incident.
“Is that why Yuna seems anxious? Afraid of being caught in a scandal with you. Be careful with your conduct. Our company could get dragged into it too.”
“…….”
Taekyung felt a headache coming on.
‘I should have cut ties with them sooner.’
Rubbing his temples, he blamed himself for not severing ties with them sooner. He felt like giving his past self a good beating for bringing this upon himself.
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
