Taehyuk was genuinely faithful to the reflection, but he suddenly became excited. If he had called him a servant, he would have worked to death for a week, but being a slave for a week, only working hard when the owner wants, didn’t seem too bad.
Just as his lips were about to touch hers, his phone loudly rang. He muttered a curse, and Nayoung opened her eyes wide. Taehyuk took out his phone, and his irritation increased when he saw the caller ID. It wasn’t a hospital call; it was Hong Sik.
“This guy has no tact.”
Taehyuk pressed the call button, irritated.
“Don’t call me from now on.”
As soon as he answered the call, he hammered in the prohibition of calls. However, inside the phone, Hong Sik spoke with a faithful voice.
“Hyungnim, a person named Jang Suho came looking for Hyungnim, saying he’s looking for an elder. I thought you should know, so I called.”
Taehyuk’s eyebrows shot up at the mention of Jang Suho skipping him and going to his grandfather.
⭐⭐⭐
Although Choi Namgi didn’t have a proper title like a conglomerate chairman, he was simply called ‘elder,’ he wasn’t someone just anyone could meet. Even politicians running for election had to put in months of effort to have a meal with him. However, the reason Choi Namgi came suddenly was because Jang Suho mentioned his grandfather’s name.
That had never happened before. Since Taehyuk’s hair had thickened, he had thoroughly hidden who his grandfather was, and no one knew who his grandson was anymore. So, Choi Namgi’s only acquaintance who knew Taehyuk was Cha Hyun, someone he had known since childhood.
“What’s the relationship between my grandson and you?”
Choi Namgi just wanted to spend some time alone with Jang Suho because he was curious.
Since Jang Suho’s image was that of a sincere construction man, he couldn’t find any points that matched with Taehyuk even more.
“It’s not a good relationship.”
He expected that.
“Is my grandson doing something to get a settlement from you?”
If Taehyuk gathered only the settlement money he had been asked due to his accident, he could build a small building.
“No.”
“Then why did you come looking for me?”
If it wasn’t to get a settlement, Choi Namgi wasn’t interested.
“If someone has to make a difficult choice this time, I would like it to be you, Elder, rather than Professor Choi Taehyuk.”
At the mention of choice, Choi Namgi frowned.
“My boss, Director Moon Sungcheol’s daughter and Elder’s grandson are in love.”
It was the first time Choi Namgi heard the story, so he didn’t show any expression. His life experience taught him not to believe other people’s words right away.
“Director Moon opposes Professor Choi Taehyuk being Elder’s grandson, so he prepared this to separate Director Moon’s daughter and Professor Choi Taehyuk.”
Jang Suho took out documents from the envelope and presented them to Choi Namgi.
Choi Namgi’s eyes twisted as he read the characters written on the document.
“If Professor Choi Taehyuk had conveyed this to him, he would have to make a choice. Between the woman he loves and one of his only family members.”
So, Jang Suho couldn’t go to Professor Choi Taehyuk, so he came to Choi Namgi.
“I hope you, Elder, can make that choice for him.”
Everything he had heard about Choi Namgi was an inhuman success story. Nevertheless, Jang Suho had come with a glimmer of hope.
“Between your grandson and the settlement, what will you choose?”
Because Jang Suho believed in the notion that family should protect each other.
Choi Namgi stared at him without a response, as if contemplating how to deal with a young man with no blood on his hands.
“Obviously, the money.”
The response came from the entrance to the reception room.
When Jang Suho turned around, Taehyuk was walking into the reception room.
“My so-called grandfather is a man who thinks it’s a waste to spend money on socks. But giving up several hundred billion in settlement money. Do you think that makes sense?”
Taehyuk’s voice was light, but the content of his words couldn’t be light at all.
Taehyuk grabbed the documents that Jang Suho had tried to hand over to Choi Namgi, as if fishing for them.
“Looks like you got the wrong address again this time, Jang Suho.”
Jang Suho looked at Taehyuk handing over the documents with a puzzled look.
He didn’t expect him to suddenly appear at this hour.
“Come out. Stop fooling around here.”
As Taehyuk was about to leave with the documents, Choi Namgi finally spoke.
“So, are you going to break up with that Director’s daughter?”
Still.
Taehyuk’s steps came to a halt.
From where Jang Suho was sitting, Taehyuk’s Adam’s apple moving prominently could be seen.
⭐⭐⭐
Nayoung became worried. Professor Choi Taehyuk, who left urgently saying there was something going on at home.
But since he hammered in that it might be difficult to answer the phone when he leaves, she couldn’t call first.
Helpless, with each passing second, her frustration increased by 1 gram.
“What on earth is happening?”
She was anxious in case it was related to her father.
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
