Eunseo, who had been staring blankly at the scene as if in a trance, couldn’t guess the intention.
Flipping her shoes to search the floor, taking out new shoes from several shopping bags and putting them next to the old shoes.
They were undeniably small and cute shoes.
Is it not too absurd to suspect that he bought her shoes?
Tae-ha unfolded his bent knee and stood up from the spot. He could feel Eunseo’s peculiar gaze on him.
“Are you Miss Song Eunseo? It seems like not all of your luggage has arrived. You can’t just wear those shoes.”
“These are my shoes?”
They were obviously nice shoes. The boots reflected in Eunseo’s eyes, who always consciously chose cheap ones, were completely different from what she owned.
Above all, the person who bought her belongings could be counted on one hand.
So, is he the tenth person or so?
Eunseo looked at her worn-out shoes placed in the entrance and glanced at herself reflected in his eyes.
“I’ve dirtied the entrance, haven’t I?”
In his expression, there was a mixture of apology and embarrassment. And his gaze deeply scratched somewhere below Tae-ha’s feet.
It was a face that revealed embarrassment, yet why does she verbalize it, unable to endure it? She’s a truly peculiar woman.
“Why do you always say wrong answers as if they were correct? Is it a kind of defense mechanism?”
“If it’s not that… Why? …Do you feel sorry for me?”
“What?”
“Do you sympathize with me?”
It was not an accusing tone, but a genuine expression, asking.
“Sympathize? I don’t have that kind of feeling. ‘Sympathy’ is not a good virtue for someone in business.”
Tae-ha responded with a very business-like expression.
“Then why are you doing this?”
“To report when you run away. Even if we catch you later, it would be more comfortable this way. I’m going to run, and it wouldn’t be fair if you crawled.”
“That’s sympathy.”
It seems he doesn’t know that it’s another expression of ‘sympathy.’
“I don’t feel hurt or anything in sympathy. I’m quite used to such gazes. I respect those emotions. Sometimes, they save me.”
“It’s not sympathy. Why do you arbitrarily tailor someone else’s feelings?”
“I’ve almost never received gifts, so I don’t know how to refuse. I want to refuse, but I’m not in a position to do so. It’s shameless, but thank you.”
If he is showing such consideration to someone he is certain is a scammer, he is truly an angel with clipped wings. Or maybe he’s just very stupid.
With gratitude in her heart for his consideration, Eunseo put on the boots. She must show him a figure he likes while wearing them, so that he can feel proud.
Although the new shoes didn’t slide in dramatically like Cinderella’s, they fit perfectly.
Warmer than the snowfall bestowed by God. She could feel the warmth of the soft fur winding around her ankles.
“I like it. It’s pretty.”
Eunseo smiled, raising the corners of her mouth widely.
No, it seemed to happen naturally. Then her dimples appeared vividly, like thorns stuck on both ends of her smiling lips.
“You have dimples.”
Eunseo raised her eyes roundly in response to the low voice that touched her forehead.
“You didn’t know?”
“I’ve only seen you for three days.”
“Oh, right. That’s true.”
Eunseo laughed awkwardly with a blush.
It’s not as if he was paying close attention to her, but the woman he met only three days ago was somehow noticed for having dimples.
“It’s the first time I’ve laughed.”
Eunseo stared at his sturdy back, which disappeared without any lingering feelings. Somehow, it felt like wings had sprouted.
A high-rise apartment located on 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York.
Jung-woo closed his laptop, lifted a beer can, and looked down at the glamorous street that would never wither.
At times like this, he felt like a successful entrepreneur. And the desire intensifies more as reality proves otherwise.
He glanced at the wristwatch and then made a call to Chairman Kwon, who must have just finished the round.
“Uncle Wae-sam, it’s Jung-woo. How was the round today?”
It’s not fun anymore. It’s just so-so.
“Why?”
It feels like I’m losing everything. It gets boring to win all the time too. You have to be on the edge to make an effort and ignite the competitive spirit.
“Sounds like quite a show-off.”
Him too.
“Shall I report it?”
I didn’t ask you to contact me today to receive a report, but he must have been waiting eagerly and losing sleep because of me. Maybe I should check in.
“Yes. There hasn’t been much change from what I emailed you before. Yu Hae-eun, the person, doesn’t show much presence in work, but she’s not lacking either. Oh, I saw her at the party a while ago, and some men were dashing after her.”
So?
“We danced together, but she went home alone. I couldn’t follow her, so I’m just telling you what I saw.”
Jung-woo abandoned his mother’s struggling company a few months ago and, following Chairman Kwon’s orders, moved to the GK Hotel’s U.S. branch to check on Hae-eun. He reported on her whereabouts once a month.
Chairman Kwon instructed Jung-woo because the matter was private and confidential.
Jung-woo followed Chairman Kwon well and always imagined him as a father figure.
When he was young, he thought they were of the same class, like Tae-ha, but as he got older, he keenly realized that they were different.
The way people treated the two.
If Tae-ha was the crown prince, Jung-woo was a fallen noble.
Tae-ha’s father was the chairman who led the group; Jung-woo’s father was expelled from the company early on for embezzling money and causing the company to collapse.
When someone not from the GK bloodline is expelled, it ends there. And Jung-woo’s mother, who is from the GK bloodline, never showed any significant presence in the company’s work and did not gain trust.
Instead, after divorcing and being spurned by the chairman for a marriage that the former chairman tried to stop, she completely withdrew from the management of GK, liquidated her shares, and started a new business. Even after the death of the former chairman, she received quite valuable real estate through Chairman Kwon’s favor.
So, Jung-woo followed Chairman Kwon well, and Tae-ha was always the object of his admiration and jealousy.
“But why did Chairman Kwon ask you to watch over Yu Hae-eun?”
Hmm.
Chairman Kwon sighed deeply.
“If it’s because he wants to invest in the cultural foundation, he wouldn’t ask you to look into it this much. You mentioned that you would tell me the reason when you quit this job.”
I’m considering her as a potential partner for Tae-ha.
“What?!”
Jung-woo almost spilled his beer.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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