At her answer, his Adam’s apple bobbed up and then down.
“Are you mad at Seung Hee?”
It seemed absurd, but since he reacted that way to Seung Hee’s name, Na Young had to ask.
Tae Hyuk frowned deeply and blurted out,
“No, I’m mad at myself.”
That was equally puzzling, so her face turned serious, but then he grumbled,
“I want to say something interesting, but I can’t think of anything.”
Na Young chuckled at his comment.
“That was funny.”
Tae Hyuk denied it, shaking his head, promising to try harder.
Na Young thought he was acting strangely today, but couldn’t pinpoint exactly what it was.
Soon, the car arrived at their destination.
“…….”
“…….”
Both of them silently looked at the closed sign of a club.
It was where they had first met 17 years ago.
“It’s closed.”
“It figures. Now that I think about it, we always came here at night.”
Her laughter at his seemingly foolish response reflected the irony of the situation. It was a very uncharacteristic mistake for Professor Choi Tae Hyuk.
“But why did we come here?”
Both of them had their reasons for being at the club that day. She was on the eve of starting her residency, and Tae Hyuk had just returned from the USA, dragged there by Cha Hyun as a welcome gesture.
But today was just an ordinary day.
“I kept thinking about that day.”
Na Young turned to look at him, unsure of the exact meaning of his words, much like the ambiguous ending of ‘The Giving Tree.’
“It can’t be helped.”
Just when she thought Tae Hyuk had given up, he grabbed her hand and said,
“Let’s start at the hotel.”
The word ‘hotel’ startled Na Young; she had only been there intoxicated, never sober with a man.
“Now? You really want to go now?”
“I just wanted to go to the club. Since it’s closed, we have no choice.”
His excuse seemed plausible.
“We have another place where we drank for the second round.”
“That place opens in the evening.”
Their final destination that day had indeed been a hotel, but a hotel in broad daylight was overwhelming.
If they ran into someone they knew, there would be no explanation.
“But a hotel is….”
As she hesitated, Professor Choi Tae Hyuk turned to her with a serious look.
“Don’t you trust me?”
That line felt awkward at the moment.
“I trust you.”
What else could she say? Trusting him meant going to the hotel, so Na Young ended up following him there.
The atmosphere was entirely different from their first visit, making her wary of his every move.
The hotel front desk staff seemed to know why they were there, or so it felt to her.
“Room 1005, please.”
Her heart raced as he asked for the room they had shared before. She never imagined they would return.
“Sorry, that room is currently occupied. Would another room be okay?”
Disappointment was evident on Tae Hyuk’s face as their desired room was unavailable.
Na Young’s tension deflated rapidly.
“What should we do now, Professor?”
His jaw tensed, then Professor Choi Tae Hyuk handed his card to the front desk staff.
“A suite, please.”
As he requested the most expensive room in the hotel, Na Young’s mouth fell open.
Before Tae Hyuk could finalize the reservation, she grabbed his arm urgently.
“This defeats the purpose of coming here.”
They had come not just for the hotel, but for the room where they had spent the night together.
But even in this situation, his response was the same.
“Just trust me.”
What exactly was she supposed to trust? He was beginning to feel like some kind of cult leader.
Tae Hyuk, holding the suite room key, briskly walked Na Young to the elevator.
Exhausted from trying to dissuade him, Na Young silently followed.
Surprisingly, Tae Hyuk didn’t head to the suite room but got off at the 10th floor with her.
He walked to room 1005 and knocked on the door.
Initially, there was no response, but persistent knocking finally drew an annoyed voice from inside, and the door soon opened.
A young woman in her 20s brightened up instantly upon seeing the tall and handsome Professor Choi Tae Hyuk.
“Oh, what brings you here?”
Her voice dripped with charm.
Despite Na Young standing right beside him, the woman seemed oblivious to her presence.
Through the ajar door, filming equipment could be seen, suggesting she was a YouTuber.
While Na Young observed the woman keenly, Professor Choi Tae Hyuk extended the suite room card towards her.
“I’d like to exchange this suite room for this one, would that be okay?”
The woman’s eyes widened at the sight of the suite room card, and Na Young looked at Professor Choi Tae Hyuk’s face.
She wondered how far he was willing to go today, taking this matter so seriously.
His grip on her hand tightened, as if to prevent her from running away.
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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