“How is it now?”
Unable to wait for her response, he prompted her. Na Young changed the direction of her steps and started walking first, speaking tersely.
“Let me see how it goes today, then I’ll answer.”
Seeing her intent to respond depending on his actions, Tae Hyuk chuckled dryly.
He stared at the shark for a moment before following Na Young.
“Then I’ll show you what a gentle shark looks like today.”
A venomous snake professor talking about being gentle.
If the hospital people heard this, they would think the snake had gone mad.
“What do you want for dinner? You can have whatever you want.”
The Gentle Shark asked her about the dinner menu.
His simple way of showing gentleness was so simple that Na Young laughed to herself.
“I want pasta.”
Na Young chose a safe menu.
When no reply came, Na Young turned her head to look back, and only then did Professor Choi Tae Hyuk speak.
“Alright, I know a place that makes good pasta. Let’s go there.”
Although his words said so, his eyes did not look as comfortable as when he was looking at the fish in the aquarium.
Like someone who had a story about pasta.
“If you don’t like pasta, we can change it.”
“I like pasta, too. Otherwise, how would I know a good pasta restaurant?”
His explanation was too wordy for Professor Choi Tae Hyuk.
His eyes, slightly larger than usual, looked unnatural.
But since he said he was fine, Na Young didn’t insist on changing it and moved on to another topic.
“There’s a place I want to go before dinner, is that okay?”
At her words, Tae Hyuk nodded.
After leaving the aquarium, Na Young headed to a pet shop with Professor Choi Tae Hyuk where they could buy fish.
“I’ll buy you a pet fish. Choose one you like.”
When she said she would buy it, not ask him to buy it, Tae Hyuk looked at her with strange eyes.
“Why are you buying this for me?”
“I thought if you raise a fish, your personality might improve.”
When Professor Choi Tae Hyuk made a dumbfounded expression at her joke, Na Young finally spoke honestly, laughing.
“You helped me a lot with the Eun Byul case. So it’s a thank you gift.”
“Then I can’t accept it.”
Na Young, who hadn’t expected Professor Choi Tae Hyuk to refuse, was slightly flustered.
“It’s because of me that Yoon Ina cornered you. So it was right for me to resolve it. How could I accept a gift for that?”
His words weren’t wrong, so it became awkward for Na Young to give him a gift.
“But we’ve come all this way, it’d be a waste to just go.”
Tae Hyuk suggested as he looked around at the fish in the aquarium.
“How about we each choose a fish that suits the other and raise them?”
Na Young had never raised anything before, but she nodded in agreement.
She thought it would make Professor Tae Hyuk happy to receive the fish she was giving as a gift.
After selecting the fish, the two agreed to meet again and went in opposite directions.
Na Young stopped in front of a black Betta fish with beautifully spread fins and tail, like a horse’s spur, after looking at various kinds of fish.
She called over a staff member and pointed to the black Betta.
“Please give me this black fish.”
When she had chosen her fish and turned back, Professor Tae Hyuk was already waiting for her with his own selected fish.
“The one I chose is a yellow honey gourami.”
The fish Professor Tae Hyuk showed her was a beautiful yellow fish.
Tae Hyuk clicked his tongue when he saw the fish she had chosen.
“So, I’m the dark one to you.”
“I chose it because it’s cool.”
She praised the fin and tail of the fish, but Professor Tae Hyuk closed his lips straight, as if he did not like it.
Seeing him dislike it made her think she had chosen the right fish resembling him.
They decided to name the fish ‘Yellow’ and ‘Black’.
Since Professor Tae Hyuk said he would raise Yellow that resembled her, she ended up raising Black.
After leaving the aquarium, the two headed to a pasta restaurant Tae Hyuk knew.
“Do you really like pasta, professor?”
She asked again, and Professor Tae Hyuk, who was driving, laughed loudly and replied.
“I like it. I’ve even had it three times a day.”
“…….”
As she stared at him in silence, Professor Tae Hyuk slowly turned his head away, maintaining a smile on his face.
Eating it three times a day might have been too much.
“Actually, I don’t really like pasta.”
Upon her confession, he quickly turned his head to look at her again.
“What? Then why did you suggest eating pasta?”
“It’s a safe choice.”
Tae Hyuk made a face as if he had been slapped, looking straight ahead.
Na Young had said pasta, and he once again felt he was out of luck, but it turned out she had chosen it just because it was a safe choice.
“So if there’s food you want to eat, professor, you can choose that.”
“No way. It was my idea to go to the aquarium.”
Cha Hyun’s heartfelt plea to choose whatever Na Young wanted to eat was firmly planted in his mind.
He had never been wrong following Cha Hyun’s advice, especially when it came to women’s issues.
“Ah! You said you like raw fish.”
“With Yellow and Black at home, you want to eat raw fish?”
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
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After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
