Taming the Dangerous Lawyer Secretly (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 42

Jun Hwi stood a short distance away, arms crossed, locking eyes with Yeon Woo. A glint of amusement suddenly sparked in his firm, steady gaze.

There was only one reason the normally expressionless man had started grinning like that—it meant he’d found a way to tease Yeon Woo.

“Exactly which part was the joke? Huh?”

Yeon Woo, who’d been holding her breath while deciding how to answer, bit down hard on her lower lip, cursing herself for getting dragged into this.

“That—that part. You know… the ‘top-tier lawyer’ bit feels a bit awkward.”

Of course, there was another part Yeon Woo really wanted to brush off as a joke: “the person who’ll soon be your lover.” That was the correct answer—but too embarrassingly cringey for her to actually say out loud, so she’d blurted out this random excuse instead.

“Ohhh. So you’re saying my skills aren’t good enough to boast about?”

“Well… normally, people don’t… you know, praise themselves that extravagantly, do they…?”

Hmm. Unusually agreeable, he nodded—but couldn’t hold back the smile spreading across his face as he continued.

“So that means you don’t consider any other part of it a joke.”

“Huh?”

“The part I said right before that—you’re taking it seriously, aren’t you?”

Just as expected. He wasn’t the type to miss the right answer.

“No, no! I mean, yes—that part too! It’s a joke! All of it’s a joke!”

“Exactly which word, which sentence?”

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