Yeon Woo greeted first, but there was no response. Attorney Hong was busy shaking off water from her hands and taking out her own makeup pouch.
Maybe she didn’t hear me because of the water? Yeon Woo thought lightly, applying her new lip gloss.
“Don’t you ever wear dried rose color. It makes your lips look like they’re floating separately.”
Attorney Hong attacked out of nowhere.
“Excuse me?”
“It doesn’t suit you at all. Don’t just follow trends blindly because others do.”
As Attorney Hong applied the same lip product, she sent an unwelcome glare through the mirror and left the bathroom abruptly.
‘What just happened?’
Was there a reason for us to be at odds? Yeon Woo couldn’t even guess.
She only knew that Attorney Hong, a few years younger than her, didn’t seem to like her much.
Attorney Hong was particularly prickly towards Yeon Woo. She would be all smiles and sweet to Jun Hwi and Attorney Yang, but the moment she faced Yeon Woo, her face would harden, and she’d swiftly turn her gaze away.
Yeon Woo had tried to ignore it, thinking it was just shyness. But this rude remark was a different story.
Yet, wiping off her lipstick right after such a comment would hurt her pride even more!
Upset and unable to decide what to do, Yeon Woo’s entire focus for the day shifted to her lips.
“It looked perfect when Kyung Ah chose it with me.”
She bit her lip every time it crossed her mind, then reassured herself that if she liked it, that’s all that mattered, reapplying her lipstick again.
After lunch, she reapplied her lip gloss, then doubted herself and blotted it with a tissue.
It was a day trapped in thoughts of dried rose and lips.
Unaccustomed actions led to unaccustomed mistakes.
After her Pilates class that evening, Yeon Woo realized she had left her makeup pouch at the office.
Despite having clung to it all day, she somehow left it behind when leaving work.
Reluctantly, dragging her tired body, she walked back to the office, just a 5-minute distance away.
The special situation room was dark, quiet due to dinner time.
Yeon Woo hesitated upon seeing a faint light from a desk lamp at the far end.
“…”
Amidst the clutter of documents and files, Jun Hwi was asleep, his face resting on his left arm.
‘He must be exhausted.’
He was so busy with work he’d been in the office all weekend. Today, Monday, he worked relentlessly without losing focus.
Even now, when others might have taken a break for dinner, he stayed glued to his desk.
‘Should I order him a meal?’
As Yeon Woo tiptoed to the cabinet to get her pouch, she noticed his neatly folded cardigan.
Glancing at his broad back, she noticed its emptiness against his white dress shirt. The sharp contours under the shirt were more pronounced.
Was he looking more incomplete today because he wasn’t wearing his vest?
After a moment’s hesitation, Yeon Woo picked up the cardigan and draped it gently over his back.
‘Oops.’
Afraid to wake him, she had been too careful, and the cardigan slid off, falling near his feet.
As she bent down right in front of him to pick it up, she found herself at eye level with his sleeping face.
“…”
The smooth, sharp jawline, with firmly closed lips where the upper lip was slightly thinner, caught her attention. Following a faint, small mole on his right cheek, she noticed how his long eyelashes cast thin shadows under the dim light.
It was Kwon Jun Hwi, the same infuriating attorney she had despised so deeply. And here she was, worrying about looking good for him with dried rose lipstick.
She still couldn’t believe the events that led to his confession of affection.
Nor did she expect to find herself wanting to scrutinize his sleeping face this closely.
She was hurt by his annoying words and actions, then healed by his gentle, pouring words, and didn’t mind repeating this cycle.
Maybe, just as he said, she really was a bit of a masochist.
‘Tastes can be terrifying,’ she thought, and her taste had alarmingly settled on this extreme man.
Her mind was still a mess.
Yeon Woo exhaled a shallow sigh, like a person done admiring a piece of art, and removed her gaze from Jun Hwi’s face without lingering.
As she straightened up to properly cover him with the cardigan, she was startled.
“…”
How long had he been awake? Jun Hwi slowly blinked his eyes open.
A tense silence stretched between them, as if she was caught stealing in a store, unable to move.
Finally regaining her senses, Yeon Woo turned to leave the space, but then…
“Ah…”
Jun Hwi’s firm hand caught hold of her arm.
Top Celebrity Younger Brother Bears Her Child (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: Forced to live stream romance with a top celebrity in a female-dominant world.
Yan Jin transmigrated into a brothel, with a fellow transmigrated junior beside her.
Hearing the obscene words coming from outside, the unfortunate junior covered his ears tightly, his cheeks flushed red, and whispered to comfort her, “Don’t worry, I will definitely help you escape.”
“Don’t worry, I will definitely defend your chastity.” Yan Jin looked at the flawless and delicate features of the unfortunate junior and gently comforted, “Because we have transmigrated into a female-dominant world.”
※※※
Top celebrity Yu Shu suddenly fell into a coma during a concert.
Research scientist Yan Jin fainted in the lab after working overtime.
Two people with no connection were rushed to the same hospital.
Three days later, neither of them had woken up.
Suddenly, the entire nation discovered that a live streaming app had been forcibly installed on their phones.
Upon opening it, they heard the two discussing how to escape from the brothel.
The entire internet was in an uproar.
After the two successfully escaped from the brothel, Yu Shu’s fan group rushed to make a banner and sent it to the hospital overnight.
“Big sister bravely took action to defend the chastity of our idol!”
※※※
When Yu Shu was diagnosed with pregnancy, Yan Jin stared at his belly for a long time.
Covering his stomach, he muttered gloomily, “If you don’t like it, I’ll go get an abortion.”
“It’s not that I don’t like it.” Yan Jin hugged Yu Shu and said softly, “I just feel like I’m not human.”
Yu Shu comforted Yan Jin, “I was already an adult when we got together.”
Yan Jin hesitated, “But you won’t be of legal marriageable age even after giving birth to the child.”
At the same time, a flood of bullet comments appeared in the live streaming room that the two couldn’t see.
[Although it’s inappropriate, I also want a young and handsome boyfriend to have my child.]
①Male pregnancy (highlighted)
The female lead is five years older than the male lead, and the male lead is already an adult when he appears.
