In the midst of constant pain, In-ho made an effort to face reality.
He thought and pondered to find a solution, but ultimately, he had to sigh in powerlessness.
No matter what he attempted, this room held nothing. There was no phone or contact with the outside world, and there was no window to escape.
“Ha, it’s worse than I thought.”
His head drooped weakly. The blood accumulated in his mouth, unable to resist gravity, flowed down.
In-ho blinked his eyelids slowly. This wasn’t the time, but drowsiness continued to overwhelm him.
With a body lacking any trace of energy, it soon leaned against the wall, tilting slowly.
And he couldn’t keep his eyes open for quite a while.
“What do you want to say?”
Daeho, who entered the bedroom, asked Hye-kyung with a cold tone, not even glancing at her.
“Let’s stop hitting now. I said it earlier, but it’s already messy enough.”
“Didn’t that woman tell me anything? She’s just a street punk! You expect me to stay still even after hearing that?”
Growling roughly, Daeho rolled his eyes.
Hye-kyung, seemingly fed up, grabbed her head as she sat on the bed.
“If you don’t stay still, are you going to kill the child? Then how will Su-jin’s marriage proceed? Don’t you know that the only person Su-hoon can bring in is Choi Soo-yeon?”
Hye-kyung frowned as if expressing her annoyance. It was right before her head exploded.
Until now, her plans, once set, had never gone wrong even once.
Until now, she had never experienced a moment where her deliberately laid plans went awry—not even once. However, she couldn’t understand why, of all things, Su-jin’s marriage didn’t go as planned and kept going awry.
Yet, it was not a problem she could simply give up on. Hye-kyung, holding her temples, organized her thoughts.
Then, as if making an announcement, she addressed Daeho. “If we keep making mistakes, we might not even get started or mess everything up. So, from now on, let’s act calmly.”
“What do you want me to do?”
“First, let’s resolve Soo-yeon’s divorce issue. We can think about the next steps later.”
Daeho exhaled roughly, his uneven breath alone intensifying Hye-kyung’s pounding headache.
Soo-yeon couldn’t leave in front of Tae-sin’s mansion until late at night. She had hoped that if she waited like this, someone would come in and the gate would open. However, the firmly locked gate remained shut.
Soo-yeon sat in front of the gate, despairingly shaking her head. Even though her entire body had frozen from the cold wind throughout the day, she couldn’t feel the cold due to her worry for In-ho.
“What should I do? What should I do, really…”
In her panicked state, she couldn’t think of any solutions. All she could do was helplessly shed tears.
When Daeho and Hye-kyung had forced her to divorce In-ho, she should have done this then. If only she had notified In-ho of the divorce today. Would the worst situation like the current one have been avoided?
Soo-yeon blamed herself entirely. Choi Soo-yeon’s life was unfortunate. Perhaps that was why sudden misfortunes befell all the connections she briefly had.
So, she had once thought. Maybe Choi Soo-yeon’s existence itself was sinful. It was too challenging to bear the thought on her own.
So, she wanted to believe. Even if she couldn’t reach such extremes of happiness, enduring patiently might eventually bring a better day.
However, she shouldn’t have entertained such thoughts. She should have resigned and accepted rather than endured.
Especially with someone you love, you should have kept them at a distance and wished only for their happiness. If she had done that, if she had…
“You could have experienced ordinary happiness too…”
Murmuring in despair while staring at the gate, she couldn’t overcome the feeling of heartache. It felt like her chest was going to burst.
Thinking of In-ho enduring all kinds of suffering and torment in there instead of her made even breathing feel sinful.
If she had known it would come to this, she should have honestly told him everything.
One should have kept their loved ones at a distance, especially wishing only for their happiness.
If only she had done that, if only.
“You could have experienced ordinary happiness too…”
Murmuring while staring blankly at the gate, she couldn’t overcome the feeling of despair. It felt like her chest was going to burst.
Thinking of In-ho enduring all kinds of suffering and torment in there instead of her made even breathing feel sinful.
If she had known it would come to this, she should have honestly told him everything.
Wasn’t it enough to be an adopted child, but now, as a timid girl who couldn’t even flinch in fear of her adoptive parents, wasn’t she tired of it all? She wished she could give In-ho a chance to escape.
On the day she had resolved to die, she should have jumped without hesitation.
Or if not, she should not have brought that absurd scented candle…!!
Soo-yeon regretted too many things. She, who was inherently sinful, should never have held In-ho’s hand in the first place.
If she had missed that chance, she should have rebelled fiercely against the world at that moment she stood on her own two feet.
She should have done that before ruining In-ho like this.
But in the end, she clung to life with lingering attachments and created this situation.
Soo-yeon staggered to her feet.
Then, she leaned her head back and gazed at the tall wall.
She tried to find the hidden mansion and the unseen room within.
All she could do was this.
She had received too much from In-ho, and there was nothing she could do for him.
Soo-yeon couldn’t bear her own incompetence.
“Think about it. Anything, anything is fine. Please, just think of something.”
Soo-yeon forced herself to concentrate.
There might not be much she could do for In-ho’s body, but still, she sincerely hoped that something, anything, would come to mind.
Forgetting even to breathe, she desperately searched for any sign of a divine intervention and pleaded with all her heart.
After some time had passed suddenly, she felt a vibration in her coat pocket.
Soo-yeon, who had momentarily lost focus, urgently took out her phone.
And the moment she checked the screen, Soo-yeon’s pupils trembled violently.
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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