Taehyuk sat in the driver’s seat, looking at the hospital entrance and tapping the steering wheel with his fingers.
He was waiting for Nayeong to finish work.
Since she had lied about something, and now that he knew the reason, he planned to have a proper conversation with her today.
After Sunday, when he felt Nayeong was avoiding him, he deliberately didn’t call her, unsure of what excuse she might come up with.
“Why did things turn out like this?”
Taehyuk chuckled at the absurdity of waiting for a woman who might show up anytime.
He regretted sending her away so warmly because of Jooah.
“But how did Jooah manage to find my grandfather?”
He thought his attention would be focused on the match against the son of the chairman of Hanil Group.
Even if it was known that the chairman’s grandfather was the major shareholder of the group, it was not easy to figure out who the grandson was.
Suspicious, he pondered deeply, and at that moment, Nayeong appeared from the main entrance.
Taehyuk tried to drive towards her, but a taxi suddenly overtook his car and stopped at the entrance.
Nayeong got into the taxi and left abruptly.
Baffled by the fact that he lost her to a taxi right in front of him, Taehyuk stared at the taxi for a moment before hastily chasing after it.
Naturally assuming she would go home, the taxi carrying Nayeong headed in the opposite direction of her house after driving for 30 minutes.
The taxi stopped in front of a coffee shop.
Taehyuk looked at Nayeong as she entered the coffee shop, wondering why she had come all the way here to meet someone. He thought he knew everything about her relationships.
“Who on earth is she meeting?”
Feeling a sense of guilt for unintentionally following her, Taehyuk was about to start the car, thinking it wasn’t the right timing to talk to her today. However, as he was about to leave, he noticed Nayeong sitting by the window in the coffee shop, pulling something out.
It was the ring box he had hidden in the fish tank.
In the end, she found the ring in the fish tank and actively avoided him. Taehyuk felt deeply bitter.
Nayeong looked at the ring in the box, and Taehyuk stared at her endlessly.
It was only later that Taehyuk realized someone was approaching her.
Seeing a man talking to Nayeong and intending to get out of the driver’s seat and go to her, Taehyuk froze when he saw Nayeong gesturing to the man to take a seat.
Nayeong had come all the way to this distant coffee shop to meet that man.
This fact left Taehyuk powerless.
As he was about to open the car door to get out, his hand that was reaching for the door dropped weakly.
The two of them started talking as if they had met for the first time, and Taehyuk belatedly realized who the man was.
Could he be her cousin?
Taehyuk forcefully concluded that the two could be relatives.
But it definitely didn’t seem that way.
Taehyuk clenched his fist as Nayeong’s gaze toward the man felt like there was a hidden story.
Thud.
He slammed the car door and stepped out.
Surreptitiously spying on others was not his style.
He’d rather meet and ask directly.
If it turns out they are not relatives, he’ll turn that guy into a rice bowl and make him visit the police station after a long time.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
Suddenly, Professor Choi Taehyuk appearing in front of the two felt like a dream to Nayeong.
But it felt vivid enough with his sharp gaze, and he questioned her while eyeing Jang Sooho warily.
“Who is this?”
Sooho handed a business card to Professor Choi Taehyuk, who had already turned rigid at the mention of the word ‘father.’
Introducing himself, Sooho said, “I am Jang Sooho, working under Mr. Moon Nayeong’s father at Taeyoung Construction.”
As the word ‘father’ came up in Sooho’s introduction, Taehyuk’s expression stiffened instantly.
Just the introduction made him feel extremely uncomfortable.
In a diminished voice compared to before, Taehyuk asked Nayeong, “The man who came to the hospital, right?”
Nayeong nodded in affirmation.
“Why did you meet separately today then?”
In response to Taehyuk’s question, Nayeong, whose mind had turned blank, looked at Sooho again.
Seeing her at a loss for words, Sooho spoke first.
“Ms. Moon Nayeong asked me to meet her because she has something to request.”
Taehyuk, glaring at Sooho while he spoke, asked Nayeong again, “What’s the request?”
“Oh! She said Seunghee wants to set us up.”
At that moment, Nayeong herself didn’t know why Seunghee’s name popped up.
It was all because of Cha Hyeon’s strange words.
Although she was the one who lied to Taehyuk again, Nayeong ended up blaming it on Cha Hyeon.
Taehyuk’s expression softened considerably at the mention of introducing her to Seunghee.
Because, if it was about Seunghee, Nayeong would have taken the initiative.
Once again, he misunderstood something so absurd.
“So, you agreed to the blind date?”
“No, she says she doesn’t like Mr. Jang Sooho.”
Taehyuk immediately turned his head toward Sooho and questioned him.
“Why reject without even meeting him?”
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
