About the thing she couldn’t even tell her mother, Sol’s parents helped Dajung stand up like that.
Shake off the dust, stand up, and walk again.
That one sentence seemed to have supported Dajung to stand firm until now.
The mother and daughter, who had been sitting heavybuttocked, got up from their seats long past mealtime.
“Call me right away if anything happens. Got it? For sure.”
“I got it. Just go.”
After responding several times to Sol’s earnest words, Sol finally turned around and left.
When Dajung returned after seeing the two off, her cell phone rang. An unsaved number popped up on the screen.
“Hello?”
“Is this Yoo Dajung’s phone?”
“Yes, who is this?”
The man’s voice continued, introducing himself as the detective in charge of this case.
“I’m not calling about anything else but to verify something related to the Seo Namsik case. It’s about Yoo Dajung and Yoo Siwoo. I called to check if there was any additional financial damage.”
“Financial?”
“Yes, we found a document that promised 20 million won, on the condition that there would be no contact with Miss Yoo Da Jung and Mr. Yoo Shi Woo among Seo Nam Sik’s belongings.”
“20 million won…. Who?”
Da Jung questioned in a puzzled voice.
“A man named Kwon Do Jun, do you know him?”
Checking the time, Da Jung took another sip of her halffinished coffee. She felt her throat burn with an inexplicable sense of urgency.
How long had it passed? Do Jun’s figure, sprinting and pushing through the cafe door, caught her eye.
He spotted Da Jung, stopped at the entrance to catch his breath, his face slightly flushed.
As if to signal the idle flow of time, the ice cubes inside the glass cup settled with a clinking sound.
Do Jun simply toyed with the surface of the glass cup placed before him.
Do Jun couldn’t hide his awkward expression, happy deep inside that Da Jung contacted him first, yet not knowing how to react.
Only after a silence long enough to be boring did he finally open his mouth.
“……Have you been well?”
“Yes, you look good too, senior.”
After returning the formal greeting, Da Jung hesitated for a moment, then pulled out a white envelope. As she extended it over the table, Do Jun’s eyes grew wide with surprise over his hornrimmed glasses.
“What is… this?”
“It’s the 20 million won you gave to Seo Nam Sik.”
“…….”
Do Jun’s lips clenched slightly. Swallowing the overwhelming emotions, Da Jung strove to keep her voice steady.
“Why did you do that? Did you think I would be grateful if you did this?”
Da Jung knew. That everything Do Jun had done was for her. But this kind of approach was never something to be thankful for.
“I just saw you struggling because of that guy…….”
“If 20 million won could have solved it, I would have given it to him long ago. Don’t you know their habits? Once you give them, they keep demanding. You should have at least told me.”
“I see…… I was shortsighted. I’m sorry for not telling you in advance.”
Do Jun obediently apologized, his head lowered.
If he had spoken earlier, would Da Jung have accepted his help? Despite just wanting to help, the result always made him feel pathetic, and Do Jun once again felt shameful of himself.
To suppress her rising agitation, Da Jung closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She felt sorry for the fact that she couldn’t hold back her emotions and confronted him.
“I’m sorry, senior. I didn’t mean to do this, always receiving your help without even being able to say thanks. I always seem to be a bad person to you.”
“No, no, don’t say that. You haven’t done anything wrong.”
After an uncomfortable silence, Do Jun finally managed to open his mouth.
“Da Jung, could you come back to the office?”
“Senior…….”
“I won’t make it uncomfortable for you. Let’s just work as before. I can’t do it without you. The company is something we built together, you and me.”
At his earnest plea, Da Jung’s heart softened.
Reluctantly, I had to quit, but it would be a lie to say that I didn’t love the company. For the past five years, it was a company that I had grown with Dojun, with more passion than anyone else.
Given that affection, there might be a day when I could return to the company someday. But that time was not now.
Da Jung looked straight into Dojun’s eyes filled with desperation.
“I’m sorry, senior. I’m still uncomfortable seeing you.”
A space where a sensual saxophone performance was flowing. Due to the lighting focused on the performer, the corner of the bar was relatively unnoticed.
Dojun, who occupied a seat in that gloomy corner, kept tilting his glass. He liked the isolated atmosphere and the sparkling reflection from the showcase mirror blurring his vision.
Suddenly, laughter flowed from his alcoholsoaked lips. The mournful melody of jazz that wet his ears seemed to represent his pathetic self.
He wished for a romantic and beautiful love. He used to dream fairly often about discovering happiness in mundane daily life.
Da Jung was always in that dream, but it was just his imagination and delusion. The more he realized this fact, the more his pathetic and insignificant self was etched clearly.
Trying to console his terrible loss by tilting his glass, but there was no way to fill the void as if a part of his body had fallen off.
Dojun, trapped in a solitary glass bottle, chewed on such miserable and again miserable feelings.
“Mr. Kwon Dojun?”
A familiar tone penetrated his dulled ears. Turning his head, Dojun strained his fading eyes.
A woman with long orange hair flowing over a white sleeveless blouse gave off a cosmopolitan and sophisticated vibe.
In particular, when she smiled, her confident and beautiful white teeth were revealed.
“Ah……. Lee Sookyung…… I met you here again…….”
His numb tongue produced a slurred pronunciation. Sookyung closely observed such a state of Dojun.
“Mr. Kwon Dojun. Are you drunk?”
“Ah, yes…… I drank a bit. But Ms. Lee Sookyung, why are you here…….”
“I came to a bar to drink, what else would I do?”
Upon hearing a serious joke, Sookyung burst into a short laugh.
“It’s all my fault. I wanted to protect her…… but I think I’ve only hurt her…….”
Dojun, who had somehow joined Sookyung, was spilling out his sorrow.
“Ah! The woman that Mr. Kwon Dojun said he loves? You got dumped?”
“Yes…… I think so. But I don’t know where it went wrong……”
His selfesteem hit rock bottom and his heart collapsed. Looking at Dojun babbling, Sookyung let out a wry laugh.
Although she didn’t know the exact story, seeing the defenseless appearance of a man who always acted flawlessly was quite amusing.
“Cheer up, Mr. Kwon Dojun! I’ll be your drinking buddy.”
Sookyung patted his shoulder, encouraging him. That was the last memory that replayed in Dojun’s mind.
When he opened his eyes again, he was in his studio apartment from which he had moved out. The boxes of unsorted items were stacked up, and it was generally messy.
With a long sigh, Dojun held his throbbing head and thought. It seemed like a major disaster.
Even while feeling hungover, he was clueless. He didn’t know why he was lying side by side with Sookyung in one bed.
And even after doing such a thing.
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Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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