“Hello?”
With a gentle swish, Wooyoung opened the sliding door and entered “Solnae Sanghoe.” Everyone playing cards, sitting with their usual blankets, lifted their heads at his entrance.
The appearance of the outsider from the city was quite decent, and in this place, not a famous tourist destination, his arrival was not a common occurrence.
Wooyoung took out a canned coffee from the vending machine and placed it on the counter, pulling out his wallet.
“For payment.”
The lady president took the bill and, from the safe, took out a few coins to hand over.
“The change is ready.”
Wooyoung confirmed a hint of embarrassment in the owner’s smile and cautiously asked.
“Do you happen to know someone named Song Eunseo in this village?”
He had confirmed that Song Eunseo had entered her house, and this was just a process of faithfully following the instructions given by Taeha.
To check who she was.
“Eunseo?”
“Brother, she’s talking about Eunseo.”
“Why Eunseo?”
Unlike before, Wooyoung smiled gently at the guarded gaze.
“I left something and came to find it for her.”
“Where are you from?”
“Seoul.”
“Seoul?”
“She said she’s going back to study. Did you go to check on that? She was speaking a foreign language or something, I just did translation for the meeting.”
“Then what about Seongtae? Are we going to end up with a Nakdong River duck egg at this rate?”
In the midst of the bustling crowd, a somewhat awkward name popped up. ‘Seongtae’ was clearly a man’s name. Perhaps it could be the information that the VIP wanted.
“Seongtae? Who is he?”
Wooyoung opened the can, took a sip, and effortlessly joined the conversation.
“He’s the one who will marry Eunseo.”
Ah.
“You had someone to marry. I had a feeling.”
“Well, I did. Why? Did you come to see Eunseo from Seoul?”
“Well, partly.”
Upon that remark, Seongtae, who had been observing, stepped forward. It seemed like he might lose Eunseo to this neat Seoul bachelor at this rate.
“Hey, Seoul bachelor. Don’t eye the village maiden and leave. You, rural bachelors, have no one to marry in the countryside, wandering around abroad with your eyes falling out. Eunseo is my daughter-in-law, we’ve been close since she was young. This is a clear statement. Speaking of which, you seem to be satisfied, but why bother pursuing Eunseo?”
“Well, well. The relationship between the two of them is already over. Eunseo’s grandmother died, and now she’s alone, so they just need to get married and live together. The problem is that Eunseo doesn’t have much, but Seongtae doesn’t need all that.”
It seemed like a roughly settled matter.
Eunseo and Seongtae had their marriage promised from before. As Eunseo’s grandmother died, leaving her alone, Seongtae was soon planning to marry her.
While the exact circumstances were unknown, perhaps Song Eunseo did something to target Taeha to secure marriage funds?
Unfortunately, Taeha was not an easy person for such a rural villager to approach, nor was he an easygoing match.
He committed a reckless act.
Knowing Taeha, who is his closest friend and employer, Wooyoung, emptied the remaining coffee in a sip, hoping for Eunseo’s safety, and crushed the can.
“I apologize.”
Wooyoung opened the sliding door, intending to report to Taeha. Then, facing the cold wind, he put his hands in his coat pocket and took out his phone.
When the signal rang, Taeha’s somewhat sluggish voice came through the receiver. Listening silently to Eunseo’s story in the silence,
“I’ll go right away.”
Known to him, he left the message with an almost unheard-of cold tone.
Also, the message implied not to come to Seoul but to continue watching Eunseo. Unable to do otherwise, Wooyoung set off towards Eunseo’s house that he saw yesterday.
After ending the call, Taeha exerted force on his waist and pushed his upper body toward the pillow. The spasms intermittently returned, and strangely enough, the moment he left a message that he would go to Eunseo almost disappeared.
He fainted for a moment, and with the doctor’s reassurance of nothing serious, he removed the bandages and sling and left the hospital.
Before leaving, he left a message not to inform Chairman Kwon, his father, but he was sure that the news would spread.
Despite the objections of the chauffeur, Taeha personally took the wheel, and he set the navigation to the address Wooyoung provided.
It was quite a distance.
It was called Seongtae, right?
With a man there, fearlessly facing such a topic.
He played a trick, and what a cheeky move it was. Kwon Taeha, with his two-faced nature, even discarded one of the two rice cakes in his hands.
Ha. Unbelievable. Without going mad, it seems like drinking it won’t be refreshing.
Taeha organized his thoughts while speeding on the highway.
According to Wooyoung, the documents were not forged. The marriage report was made by Eunseo’s grandmother, and perhaps behind it all was Song Eunseo.
Probably, he was willing to take money from me, not knowing that such a marriage wouldn’t be valid.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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