That Night's Circumstance (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 11
“Oh, Sister-in-law, you’re here?”
Myung Woo, who had just been about to sit on the sofa, called out awkwardly from an unsteady posture.
In Ho didn’t spare Myung Woo even a glance, striding straight toward the hospital bed.
Soo Yeon couldn’t tear her eyes away from the sight.
She was utterly dumbfounded by what on earth he’d done to his own body.
She longed to confront him immediately—but stubbornly pressed her lips together and turned her head away instead.
It was because the incident on set kept flashing through her mind.
“What happened? Why are you at the hospital? You didn’t actually come because something’s really wrong with you, did you?”
In Ho fired off question after question without even catching his breath, so intensely curious.
Soo Yeon stayed silent.
She was the one who truly had countless questions burning inside her.
Why was he dressed like that? What was his relationship with that actress? If they were so comfortable with each other, why had he described the article that way?
So many words rose to her throat—but she couldn’t bring herself to ask any of them.
Myung Woo, standing behind In Ho, kept pricking at her nerves.
“Aren’t you going to answer? Did you hurt your mouth? Is that why you came to the hospital?”
Frowning deeply, In Ho shot her a displeased look at her lack of response.
Still, Soo Yeon remained resolute.
Ignoring sarcasm like this was nothing to her—it barely registered.
‘But even so… asking if I hurt my mouth? Do you have any idea what kind of day I’ve had?’
She bit her lower lip stubbornly.
She didn’t want to simply yield—uncharacteristically—as much as she normally would.
It was Myung Woo who grew uncomfortable in the tense standoff.
After glancing warily between the two, he cautiously interjected.
“Um, Sister-in-law, it’s not like that—”
“Oh, right. You’re here too. You explain— Wait, no. Mr. Myung Woo, could you please explain what happened? Why did you suddenly come to the hospital?”
Myung Woo nervously darted his eyes around, clearly uneasy.
Every word slipping from Soo Yeon’s lips sounded strikingly like In Ho.
On top of that, she appeared highly emotional—not just from this morning, but now as well.
After hesitating for a long while, Myung Woo finally parted his lips tentatively.
“Well… just like Sister-in-law said, Hyung really did seem in terrible shape. He kept calling ‘NG’ over and over…”
Even after hearing Myung Woo’s careful explanation, In Ho’s frown didn’t ease.
That wasn’t what he wanted to know.
He’d fully anticipated NGs and filming disruptions the moment he decided to send Soo Yeon to the set.
What he couldn’t understand was why she was now lying in a hospital bed.
She’d left for the set perfectly fine—just startled by the sudden turn of events.
So why, then, had she abruptly ended up here?
Just as In Ho’s frustration peaked and he was about to press Myung Woo harder, a voice—not Myung Woo’s—pierced through his ears.
“I couldn’t say a single line of my script.”
In Ho turned toward the voice.
Soo Yeon, who until now hadn’t acknowledged him even with a glance, was staring straight at him.
“I tried, but it just wouldn’t come out. Since this situation is entirely my fault, please don’t blame anyone else.”
Her tone, while explaining herself, was unnervingly calm.
In Ho finally snapped, losing the thread of patience he’d been barely holding onto.
“That was entirely predictable!”
he suddenly shouted.
Immediately regretting his outburst as he sensed the uncomfortable stares directed his way, he sharply turned around.
What met his eyes was Myung Woo, fidgeting anxiously.
In Ho scowled deeper.
He knew he had to put on a convincing performance as Soo Yeon in front of Myung Woo—but right now, even just suppressing his emotions felt overwhelming.
Unable to contain his rising anger any longer, In Ho bluntly addressed Myung Woo.
“My wife and I need to talk privately. Could you please step out for a moment?”
“…Huh?”
“Are you that oblivious? I’m asking you to leave the room.”
“Ah—y-yes, of course!”
Hearing In Ho’s tone grow even harsher, Myung Woo paled and immediately leapt to his feet.
Only after confirming that Myung Woo had fully exited the hospital room did In Ho roughly turn his gaze back to Soo Yeon.
“I never asked you to play the perfect maid! But if you call an NG, why do you have to rush straight to the hospital like this?!”
His voice carried a chaotic mix of raw, unfiltered emotions.
The more he raged, the more Soo Yeon’s own fury steadily climbed toward its breaking point.
In Ho, of course, had no idea what was brewing inside her.
Acting as though her feelings meant nothing to him, he raised his voice once more.
“Couldn’t you at least consult me before making a mess like this? Just because it’s not officially ‘your’ job, does that mean you can recklessly go ahead without any sense of responsibility?”
Hearing his unfettered accusations, Soo Yeon abruptly sat up from the hospital bed.
She fixed him with eyes sharper than he’d ever seen before.
“Is only your work important to you?”
“I already told you! Countless people gathered for that shoot!”
“I know that! I was there today—so maybe I understand the weight of this decision even better than you do! That’s exactly why I felt like my head was splitting open!”
“What?”
In Ho looked utterly flabbergasted.
Soo Yeon desperately wanted to unleash everything bottled up inside her right onto his face.
But her body, trained by years of restraint, instinctively suppressed her emotions yet again.
She tightly clenched her lips shut and just stared at him.
As she did, memories of the shoot flooded back—and tears welled up before she could stop them.
“Just give me a reason! Why are you suddenly acting like this? At least tell me that!”
It was the other actress, Yoo Ri’s line.
Soo Yeon had heard it countless times already.
Her mind brimmed with the lines she was supposed to deliver—but her body, frozen stiff, wouldn’t even let her move her lips.
NG after NG piled up.
With each failure, the crew’s and director’s gazes toward her grew colder and colder.
It felt as though an invisible killer was tightening its grip around her throat.
She couldn’t breathe. Her mind kept drifting, and she feared she might pass out at any moment.
Each time, she clung desperately to her senses by recalling In Ho’s words from before leaving home:
“Just mutter a few lines awkwardly and pretend you’re not feeling well.”
But no matter how many times she repeated that to herself, she couldn’t calm down.
Worse yet, Yoo Ri’s gaze toward her was filled with such tender, pitiful affection.
Soo Yeon couldn’t tell whether it was genuine acting or not.
Her mind swirled only with thoughts of the unknown moments In Ho and this woman might have shared behind her back.
That unbearable sense of betrayal alone chilled her heart more and more.
That was why—
“Oh, heavens! Hyung, you said you suffered from fever all night—so you’re feeling better now? I told you we should postpone filming and go straight to the hospital! You kept insisting we had to honor our promise to the crew, and look—this mess happened! Oh dear, oh dear, whatever shall we do!”
Just then, Myung Woo, who’d been watching her anxiously nearby, started spouting clumsy excuses.
“I’m so sorry. Truly sorry. My condition hit rock bottom—I just couldn’t…”
Just then, thankfully, a splitting headache struck again.
So Soo Yeon clutched her temples and sank to the floor.
Startled, Myung Woo rushed over immediately, urging her to go to the hospital right away.
Perhaps because the headache was genuinely real at that moment, the director and several crew members—who had been glaring at her coldly—now approached with concerned expressions.
“Why didn’t you just say you weren’t feeling well?”
“Go to the hospital or at least get some rest inside for today.”
Warm words she hadn’t expected at all poured over her head.
Even a complete stranger showed her genuine worry.
Though they were likely more concerned about In Ho—since she was currently in his body—it remained an undeniable fact that, at that moment, they’d worried about her suffering from the headache.
Then how could her own husband, seeing her lying in a hospital bed, demand an explanation before showing even a shred of concern?
Soo Yeon couldn’t suppress her disappointment.
“I guess I always expect too much from you.”
Her flat, ice-cold voice heavily echoed through the hospital room.
In Ho narrowed his eyes sharply and stared piercingly at Soo Yeon.
She sensed unspoken emotions in that gaze—but she kept her lips sealed.
She no longer wanted to explain anything.
“…”
The hospital room fell instantly silent, and In Ho gritted his teeth.
So he always expected too much from her, did he?
He wanted to immediately demand what she meant by that—but his lips refused to move.
His face was utterly expressionless.
Staring blankly into space with tightly pressed lips, his expression was so devoid of color that she couldn’t guess what he was thinking at all.
At that moment, In Ho was seized by a strange feeling.
The face reflected in his pupils was undoubtedly his own—familiar beyond doubt—yet felt completely unlike himself.
It looked exactly like Soo Yeon’s face—the one he’d always regarded so indifferently.
A chill ran down his spine.
This expression, worn on his own face, felt utterly unnatural.
That unnaturalness made him unable to look away.
It was unmistakably Choi Soo Yeon’s signature expression—yet seeing it on his own face struck him with an indescribable shock, as though a heavy blow had slammed into the back of his head.
What was she thinking?
For the first time since their marriage, In Ho found himself genuinely curious about Soo Yeon’s thoughts.
What thoughts could possibly make him feel as if he were facing Choi Soo Yeon—even while looking at his own face?
But in the end, In Ho couldn’t ask.
Choi Soo Yeon and Seo In Ho were married—but that was all.
They were bound only by the word “spouses”—a relationship that existed on paper alone.
A purely formal arrangement, tied together by business between families.
Therefore, he had no right to ask what she was thinking right now.
In Ho clenched his hanging hands tightly into fists.
He’d merely recalled a fact he’d long taken for granted—but it left an unexpectedly foul taste in his mouth.
Slowly, he stepped backward.
Staying any longer would only make him feel worse.
Without even a farewell word, he turned his back on the hospital room and walked out.
Predictably, no voice called out to stop him.
Not even a polite, perfunctory “Take care.”
In Ho let out a sigh.
Forcing the tangled thoughts crowding his mind aside, he turned and headed toward the elevator.
But just then, an unexpectedly strained voice called out.
“Hey…”
He turned his head—and saw Myung Woo.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
*
At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
***
Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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