Late at night, In Ho sat on the living room sofa, unable to rise for a long while.
His head hurt.
It was the worst headache he’d ever experienced in his life.
“……If my head didn’t hurt, that would be strange.”
In Ho spat out a selfjustifying murmur, recalling the day’s events.
Even so, he could not let out a sigh.
His headache was unbearable.
Finally, he rose from his spot and headed towards the bedroom.
Normally he could bear it, but there was no sign of it improving.
As soon as he entered the bedroom, he kneeled in front of the visible nightstand drawer and searched for medicine.
“There has to be medicine here somewhere.”
In Ho’s hand frantically ransacked the inside of the drawer.
On very rare occasions when his digestion was not good or when he had body aches due to his strenuous schedule, Su Yeon would always find medicine in the nightstand drawer for him.
Following that memory, he thoroughly searched each drawer.
Only after ransacking the bottommost drawer was he able to find a neatly organized packet of medicine.
In Ho rifled through neatly arranged boxes of medicine, searching for one labeled ‘headache’.
He was just about to hurriedly open the lid of the pill bottle in his hand when he suddenly remembered the events of the day.
“Excuse me……”
As soon as he left the patient’s room, Myung Woo grabbed him.
“If you’re not too busy, could you spare me a moment?”
Myung Woo approached me with a face full of difficulty.
In Ho wanted to escape from his seat right then due to the overwhelming annoyance, but seeing Myung Woo’s face like that for the first time, he reluctantly nodded his head.
The place they headed together was the break room.
Myung Woo, with a canned drink from the vending machine in front of him, moved his lips full of hesitation.
“You must have been surprised by the sudden hospitalization, right?”
Though he knew that Myung Woo had made a hard effort to lighten the mood, In Ho did not answer.
Perhaps it was more that he couldn’t answer than that he didn’t.
It had only been a few hours since he had taken Su Yeon’s body, and although he was confident in acting anywhere and anytime with his longstanding experience, it was not easy at all to play Choi Su Yeon.
Thinking about it, pretending to be Su Yeon made no sense.
To the public, Seo In Ho was a genius actor who had a natural talent for acting from the moment he was born, but in reality, he was much closer to a hardworking actor.
In Ho hadn’t had a good night’s sleep since his debut whenever he had a shoot ahead of him, as he would research the character.
He invested countless hours and effort into immersing himself in the character.
Despite doing his best to prepare like this, it would be strange if he couldn’t fully understand the character.
That’s why it was so difficult to play Su Yeon.
He didn’t know much about her to act naturally.
He didn’t know when Choi Su Yeon would be happy or sad, not even the slightest thing.
How could he play Su Yeon like that?
That’s why he couldn’t open his mouth.
The only thing he could do to pretend to be Su Yeon was to keep his mouth shut and listen, just that one thing.
Whether he anticipated the silence or not, Myung Woo continued his words.
“The situation was a bit like that.”
“……”
“You’re a perfectionist, so you’re very stressed during shooting, but today you seemed especially troubled.”
In Ho, who had been staring elsewhere, quickly turned his head to look at Myung Woo.
Myung Woo’s face was reflected above In Ho’s trembling eyes.
Myung Woo was narrowing his brows as if remembering the situation at the filming site.
“Since my sisterinlaw said something, I watched you carefully while you were filming, and I thought it would be better to postpone filming. So, at the timing of NG, I stepped in and tried to deal with it in my own way, but you collapsed right away, saying that your head hurt too much……”
In Ho clenched his lips tightly.
A heavy sigh rose to his throat.
If he interpreted Myung Woo’s words, it meant that his visit to the hospital wasn’t a reckless action due to the pressure of firsttime acting.
“……”
“……”
In Ho blinked his eyes slowly with a suffocating face, without answering.
He wanted to hear this explanation.
Not from Myung Woo, but directly from Su Yeon.
Even though he said he didn’t know much about Su Yeon, he was confident about that much.
Choi Su Yeon was not the kind of person who would feign illness to escape a situation.
Instead, she was an honest woman, to the point of naivety, because she knew nothing of tactics.
That was why I had asked.
About why she had suddenly come to the hospital.
It didn’t seem like Choi Su Yeon, she wouldn’t have come to the hospital without a plan to avoid the situation.
But now, belatedly, a doubt had occurred to me.
If I had heard that she was truly in pain…
Could I have not treated Su Yeon so harshly if that had been the case?
I thought about it for a moment, but I wasn’t sure that would have been the case.
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.”
