Taming the Dangerous Lawyer Secretly (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 6
“Assistant-nim. Good morning.”
“Hello, Attorney Yang.”
To the ever-kind-smiling Attorney Yang who was arriving at work, Yeon Woo recommended one macaron like a sales employee desperate to sell off stock.
“They’re in the pantry, please try one, Attorney. They’re really delicious.”
“
“Really? They’d probably taste even better with coffee. Assistant-nim, want to have coffee with me?”
Attorney Yang clearly had something she wanted to say only to Yeon Woo.
Having accurately read that intention, Yeon Woo took the lead and scurried toward the pantry.
“Did you rest well yesterday?”
“Yes. Thanks to you.”
“Aigoo. I was worried our kind Assistant-nim might have been hurting alone again and suffering in silence.”
At the sentence that precisely pinpointed her troubles, Yeon Woo almost burst into tears again.
Lately at the office, pointless emotions keep welling up for no reason. This is bad.
“Here, macarons. Attorney Kwon bought these, right? He called me at the crack of dawn asking if there were any places nearby that sell sweet things.”
“He called you, Attorney?”
“It was so unlike him that I burst out laughing. The man’s sharp when it comes to client entertainment items. Looks like he does feel sorry toward Assistant-nim. Hmm, he picked pretty well!”
Yeon Woo envied Attorney Yang who could leisurely savor the taste.
“Assistant-nim. I’ve known Kwon Jun Hwi for quite a long time, ever since his prosecutor days.”
“Yes.”
“It’s personal, so I’m a little hesitant to say it, but I’m telling you because I feel bad seeing you hurt.”
“…”
“Attorney Kwon doesn’t reveal the details… Anyway, that friend of mine suffered a big mental shock in the past—trauma or something—so he has his circumstances.”
Trauma? Kwon Jun Hwi?
She never even imagined it.
“It’s gone beyond just having a prickly personality, Attorney Kwon.”
“That’s true.”
“He doesn’t trust people. Because of that, he rarely opens his heart. His mood swings are severe too. He can’t properly look at blood or wounds.”
“Ah…”
So that’s why yesterday, because of the nosebleed! That whole commotion.
“If he kept working as a prosecutor, he couldn’t avoid violent crimes, so he probably moved to a law firm partly to pick his cases.”
“I had no idea.”
“Right, it’s not something you’d know. Even I only know because I’ve watched him for years. If I didn’t, I would’ve just thought he was a nutcase and moved on.”
Attorney Yang shook the remaining macaron, then popped the rest into her mouth and continued.
“And him buying things like this is his way of apologizing to you, Assistant-nim. Go easy on him.”
Apology. His apology.
Even after parting with Attorney Yang and sitting at her desk, those words refused to leave Yeon Woo’s mind.
Goodness. He’s so good at spitting out cold words.
‘I’m sorry I pushed you too hard yesterday. It’s not because of you, I have my own reasons. Eat something sweet and cheer up.’
Wouldn’t it be nicer if he just said it that straightforwardly?
But thinking about it afterward, Yeon Woo hadn’t been entirely in the right either.
Was it punishment for having the childish, malicious thought of deliberately poking at things the other person hated?
That doesn’t mean he was right to get worked up without explanation and corner someone.
Ah. Who would’ve thought the day would come when she’d consider Kwon Jun Hwi’s position.
‘Right, the macarons I abandoned in the pantry!’
He must have seen them earlier.
Yeon Woo gnawed at her lower lip, which she had been biting hard while brooding over Jun Hwi.
Should she run and bring them back now? A new dilemma began.
She never meant to disregard Kwon Jun Hwi’s sincerity, yet… Of course, part of her still resented him.
But now that she knew there was a story behind his tantrum yesterday, for some reason Yeon Woo felt like she was the one who had done something sorry to him this time.
“The trial next week is being prepared without issues. …The other side has probably prepared mainly around testimony. …Yes, team leader, just memorize the anticipated questions. I’ll contact you again.”
In the short time it took to return to the office after a meeting on another floor, he had already finished calls with two clients, and in fifteen minutes there was another meeting.
Jun Hwi checked the time by twisting his left wrist and quickened his steps back to the office.
“…”
When he returned to his seat, two macarons were neatly placed on his desk. Perhaps because of them, a sweet scent filled the entire room.
He sat down, slowly loosening his tie with deliberate movements.
While staring at the macarons proudly perched atop a pile of documents.
He rubbed his tired brows, then reached out and picked the scarlet-colored one.
He turned the small, round macaron held in his large hand this way and that, examining it.
He thought Yeon Woo had been wearing clothes this color earlier too.
In front of him, Kim Yeon Woo always had at least one part of her flushed bright red; today it was vivid scarlet.
He’d thought she was still upset because she left them in the pantry. Had she changed her mind?
Jun Hwi gave a soft scoff and took a bite of the macaron. A bright orange fragrance spread in his mouth.
She came to mind.
The treat melted away in an instant, leaving only rich sweetness behind.
Feeling a little regretful, he took another bite and held it in his mouth.
It’s just this tiny thing. If he wanted, he could finish it in one go.
Yet he wanted to slowly, keep looking at it for a while, rolling it bit by bit with his tongue, savoring it.
For the next few days, Ro And Yul’s ordinary daily life continued without anything special. Still busy, still intense, a nonstop string of tasks that flipped from morning to lunch to evening.
And just like that, the day of the dinner party arrived before they knew it.
[It’s xx, Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul.]Jun Hwi double-checked the salon address Yeon Woo had sent and parked the car right in front.
He got out of the driver’s seat, leaned against the car at an angle while looking at the building entrance where he was supposed to pick her up.
‘A three-million-won makeover.’
She couldn’t refuse because her superior ordered it, yet the party itself felt burdensome.
The idea she came up with—working that little head hard to find a way to get rejected by Jun Hwi—was such an un-Yeon-Woo-like and peculiar request.
Thinking about it again made a wry smile escape.
Jun Hwi slowly shook his head, took out a cigarette, and put it in his mouth.
Ever since catching her secretly crying on the rooftop and seeing that flustered new side of her, he was curious what other amusing situations might arise.
Even Jun Hwi, usually unmoved by most things, felt an excitement this time whose limits he couldn’t predict.
He twisted his wrist to confirm the appointed time, picked up his phone to text that he had arrived—right at that moment, the building door opened.
Yeon Woo stood on the stairs wearing a burgundy halter-neck dress that exposed her shoulders.
The gorgeous beadwork embroidered from chest to neck glimmered softly under the yellowish late-autumn afternoon sunlight.
The long hem that covered her instep was boldly slit on the side, revealing tantalizing glimpses of what lay beneath with every step she took.
When Yeon Woo spotted Jun Hwi and slightly tilted her head, the elegant dip of her collarbone moved gracefully.
The intense red of the dress against her snow-white skin kept drawing Jun Hwi’s eyes.
“…”
He looked like someone who had forgotten how to breathe.
Jun Hwi simply watched her carefully holding the fur shawl on her shoulders as she descended the stairs.
“Hello, Attorney. Have you been waiting long?”
“…”
Even when Yeon Woo brushed her richly waved hair behind her ear, smiled brightly, and greeted him, he only blinked slowly without a word.
“Attorney?”
Click-clack. As the clear sound of high heels approached, Yeon Woo tilted her head slightly right under his chin; the bold drop earrings dangling from her ears swayed proudly.
His gaze traveled along the graceful line from her ear down her jaw to her neck.
When she called him again and her eyes curving softly, Jun Hwi finally snapped out of it and removed the cigarette from his mouth.
“Um… I really didn’t expect you to actually come pick me up. Thank you.”
“Ah.”
Jun Hwi barely let out a sigh-like sound, pressed his brow for a moment, then faintly furrowed his eyebrows.
Was his mind broken on one side or something?
He kept feeling the inexplicable urge to gently brush his thumb over the soft flesh under her eyes, or trace the smooth curve of her smiling lips.
Jun Hwi’s deep, dark eyes that seemed to pierce straight through her without any conversation. Facing him, Yeon Woo awkwardly bit her lower lip out of habit.
When his gaze landed and lingered on her especially full, glistening lips, the breath he had been holding rushed back into his lungs.
“Shall I get in the car?”
Seeing Yeon Woo reach for the passenger door handle, Jun Hwi finally moved and opened the door for her.
He waited until the long hem of her dress was completely inside before carefully closing the door.
He couldn’t remember the process of walking to the driver’s seat and starting the engine. Jun Hwi’s head, now blank and white, was filled only with creaking noises.
The closed car was full of a sweet fragrance. He had thought the sweet smell he noticed the moment he saw her was an illusion, but apparently not.
His suddenly distant and confused mind felt chaotic.
Looking straight ahead, Jun Hwi instinctively reached to loosen the tie that felt suffocating around his neck, then realized he was wearing a bow tie instead and withdrew his hand.
The car glided through the city on a late-autumn weekend afternoon and stopped briefly at a traffic light.
Tap tap. Jun Hwi lightly drummed the steering wheel, then reached into the back seat, grabbed his suit jacket, and held it out to Yeon Woo.
“Cover yourself.”
Thanks to the fur shawl neatly draped over her lap, her beautiful shoulder line was fully exposed. That kept bothering Jun Hwi.
“No, I’m fine.”
“Put it on. Don’t make the person looking at you feel cold too.”
Please. He forcibly swallowed the two syllables that almost slipped out.
Yeon Woo hesitantly accepted the jacket and placed it over her shoulders.
Phew. Jun Hwi let out a soft breath and swept back his neatly combed hair.
“Is it very awkward? I’ve never dressed up this much either.”
Yeon Woo fidgeted with the suit hem covering her and showed an embarrassed expression as she looked at his still-stiff brow.
What should he say in reply? Dozens, hundreds of expressions boiled inside Jun Hwi.
Well, if he had to answer honestly… his hands felt like they might move before his words.
It was because of the strange impulse to carefully brush his fingertips along her white, slender neckline right this moment.
“It’s not bad.”
The moment he forced out that restrained comment, Jun Hwi immediately regretted it. Should he have mixed in some genuine praise that it suited her well?
Even at his half-hearted, vague answer, she softly said “I’m glad” and shyly nodded.
The light turned green. Jun Hwi, carrying only an inexplicable thirst, withdrew his gaze from Yeon Woo, looked forward, and started the car again.
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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