That Night's Circumstance (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 6
Deep dawn.
A raucous noise cut through the silence between sleeps.
Soo Yeon furrowed her brow.
It was far too loud.
“Ugh… I just want to sleep a bit longer. I don’t want to wake up yet…”
Even as she thought that in her drowsiness, her eyelids stubbornly fluttered open.
The sound that had suddenly shattered her peaceful slumber was piercingly sharp and unbearably loud.
Soo Yeon scrambled out of bed.
She reached around for her phone.
“There’s no one who’d call me at this hour…”
Without even checking who was calling, she hurriedly answered the phone.
“Hello…?”
— Hyung!! Why aren’t you answering your phone?!
“Huh? What are you…?”
The voice that pierced straight into her eardrum was utterly unfamiliar.
Soo Yeon belatedly glanced at the screen.
Through her sleep-heavy eyes, the name “Myung Woo” appeared on the display.
She tilted her head in confusion.
‘Myung Woo is Manager In Ho’s name…’
Had she ever saved Myung Woo’s number in her phone?
She tried hard to clear her groggy mind and search her memory, but no—she couldn’t recall ever doing so.
— Ugh, I was already on my way to take the elevator since you weren’t picking up! You must’ve been sleeping this whole time—snap out of it and get up right now! Got it?
The urgent voice rambled on chaotically, then abruptly cut the call.
Soo Yeon stared blankly at the screen again, utterly bewildered.
The home screen now glowed where the abruptly ended call had been.
Completely baffled by the inexplicable situation, she rubbed her eyes vigorously.
It seemed Myung Woo, In Ho’s manager, had clearly mistaken her number for someone else’s.
And In Ho himself—uncharacteristically—must be sleeping in.
He’d never done that before, so she probably needed to wake him up.
With that thought, she lifted the blanket covering her—but at that moment, Soo Yeon sensed something was off.
“Why is this blanket…?”
The blanket felt wrong.
She was certain she’d used the white lace blanket she’d bought recently when the season changed.
Yet what covered her now was a navy lightweight comforter.
Soo Yeon looked around the room, puzzled.
Now that she thought about it…
“Why am I sleeping in this room?”
Unless her mind had completely short-circuited, this was definitely the guest room.
What on earth was going on?
As Soo Yeon wracked her brain over this utterly incomprehensible situation, it suddenly hit her—something was deeply, horribly wrong.
The legs peeking out from under the blanket weren’t hers.
Neither was the sleepwear she was wearing.
This was clearly In Ho’s pajamas—and besides…
“W-wait a minute. Why does my voice sound… why?!”
Soo Yeon’s eyes flew wide open, and she shot straight up from the bed.
She bolted straight to the bathroom.
“What the—?”
A breath of utter bewilderment escaped through Soo Yeon’s clenched teeth as she burst into the bathroom.
Her face had gone deathly pale, as if she might collapse at any second, as she raised a trembling hand.
Everything she felt through her fingertips was completely alien.
“What—what in the world is this?!”
It was In Ho.
Reflected clearly in the mirror was In Ho’s face—his eyes, nose, mouth, his tall frame, his solid build.
Not a single part of it was hers.
Soo Yeon raised both hands to cover her mouth.
This was utterly unbelievable.
“No way. Am I still half-asleep? Is this just a dream?”
Uncharacteristically, Soo Yeon babbled incoherently under her breath.
She couldn’t help it—how could this possibly make sense?
She’d definitely fallen asleep in the marital bed.
Yet when she opened her eyes, not only had her location changed—but her entire body had too.
This had to be a dream.
Only an unnervingly vivid dream could explain such an impossible scenario.
Soo Yeon slapped her cheeks hard.
Once wasn’t enough—she did it again, and again.
But sadly, nothing changed.
If anything, her reddening, stinging cheeks screamed one undeniable truth:
This wasn’t a dream—it was reality.
“Ugh, this is absolutely insane! H-how—why—what’s going on?!”
Soo Yeon gripped the sink with both hands, squeezing her eyes shut before opening them again.
She was unmistakably Choi Soo Yeon—but no matter how many times she looked, the person in the mirror was Seo In Ho.
Confusion swirled in her head, and fear made her whole body tremble uncontrollably.
Then, like a flash of lightning, the earlier phone call replayed in her mind.
— Ugh, I was already on my way to take the elevator since you weren’t picking up! You must’ve been sleeping this whole time—snap out of it and get up right now! Got it?
Myung Woo, In Ho’s manager, was coming to the house—
To pick up In Ho… or rather, to pick up her, who currently looked exactly like In Ho.
Only then did a sliver of clarity return to Soo Yeon.
She couldn’t just stand here like this.
If she was wearing In Ho’s face, then In Ho must be wearing hers.
She had to confirm that first.
Soo Yeon rushed toward the master bedroom.
She flung the door open—and there, lying peacefully on the pristine white bed, was a doll bearing her own face.
Without hesitation, Soo Yeon grabbed her own body and shook it.
“Wake up, In Ho! Hey!”
She shook urgently, but the feeling was indescribably bizarre—
Staring at her own face on someone else’s body.
It felt like an out-of-body experience.
She even had the absurd thought: What if this body I’m shaking wakes up, looks me in the eyes—and just drops dead right then and there?
But even that wasn’t important right now.
Soo Yeon gripped her own body tighter and shook harder.
Finally, the In Ho wearing her face groaned, furrowed his brow, and slowly fluttered his eyelids open.
“Ugh… what is it…?”
“In Ho, snap out of it! Hey!”
“Ugh—I specifically told you not to wake me on days when I have an early shoot… Wha—what?! What’s going on?!”
The figure with her face—in fact, In Ho himself—jerked upright in horror.
“What—what?! Why is my face over there?!”
“I don’t know either! I woke up like this! But that’s not the problem right now!”
“If my face is over there, how is that NOT the problem?!”
Clearly just as bewildered, In Ho—unlike his usual calm self—raised his voice sharply.
That made Soo Yeon’s nerves fray even more, but she forced a deep breath and spoke urgently.
“Myung Woo is on his way up right now!”
“What?”
“Myung Woo! Your manager!”
“Why would Myung Woo—Wait, what time is it?!”
In Ho finally grasped the situation and checked the time.
His brow immediately knotted in distress.
“Ugh, we’re late! Of course Myung Woo’s coming up!”
“That’s not the point right now! What are we going to do? No—what am I supposed to do? When Myung Woo gets here, he’ll see me wearing your face and obviously drag me off to the set—but how am I supposed to go there?!”
Soo Yeon’s voice quivered as she blurted out her worries in a rush.
She could confidently say she’d never been this uncomposed in her entire life.
Her vision was going dark with panic.
Waking up as In Ho was already a bolt from the blue—but how was she supposed to act in his place on set?
She desperately hoped In Ho would offer a solution.
But that hope was clearly too much to ask.
“Ugh, I’m seriously losing it!”
In Ho clutched his long hair as if ready to rip it out.
That only made Soo Yeon feel more hopeless.
“What do we do? How am I supposed to act in your place? Can’t I just say I’m sick? Yeah! Just tell him I think I need to call off today’s shoot…”
“Say you’re suddenly sick? If Myung Woo said he was coming up, that means you already took his call. You sounded perfectly fine during the call—how can you suddenly be sick now?”
“I didn’t sound fine! I barely answered, and my voice was all groggy from sleep—so I can just say my voice is hoarse from being sick!”
Soo Yeon stamped her feet and whined like a child.
She’d never acted that way, not even as a kid.
She tried taking deep breaths to calm her racing thoughts, but she simply couldn’t view the situation logically.
Worse yet—
No matter how hard she thought, she couldn’t find any way out of this mess.
Wasn’t the phrase “driven mad with frustration” invented for exactly this kind of moment?
Frustrated, she stomped her feet a few times—
When In Ho suddenly snapped in a high-pitched voice, “Can you stop moving your feet?! Don’t do that with my face!”
“Is this really the time to care about that?!”
“Ugh, just stay still for a second! My head’s about to explode as it is!”
In Ho roughly swept his long hair back, his brow deeply furrowed.
Soo Yeon looked at him with desperate, pleading eyes.
But it seemed In Ho had no answers either.
“I swear, I’m going crazy!”
He slammed his clenched fist down on the bed in frustration.
Soo Yeon squeezed her eyes shut as her chest tightened more and more.
Her head spun dizzily.
Just then—as if things couldn’t get worse—the doorbell rang through the otherwise silent house.
Soo Yeon turned to In Ho with utter despair in her eyes.
In Ho, however, stood up with a grimly determined expression.
“Come on, let’s go.”
“What are you going to do?”
“Who rings a doorbell at this hour? Are we just going to leave it like that? If we pretend we don’t hear it, he’ll assume we’re still asleep and keep calling and ringing until the house catches fire.”
Though they had no clear plan, In Ho wasn’t wrong.
Soo Yeon trailed behind him, dragging her feet weakly.
In Ho strode straight across the living room toward the front door.
Soo Yeon stood frozen in the center of the living room, staring blankly at his retreating back.
Soon, the front door opened.
And through the gap appeared Myung Woo.
Myung Woo, not even bothering to check who had opened the door, pushed his way in with a deeply furrowed brow.
“Hyung, why on earth are you suddenly sleeping in so late—? Huh?! S-sister-in-law?!”
Myung Woo, who’d been about to launch into a tirade, suddenly stammered in utter confusion.
He quickly covered his face with hands dripping with panic.
Only then did In Ho slowly lower his gaze—realizing what Myung Woo must’ve just seen.
It was where Myung Woo’s eyes had just landed.
Damn it.
A torrent of curses filled his mouth.
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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