“We’ve arrived.”
At Director Min’s words, Cha Jung Hyuk’s eyelids, which had been tightly shut, opened. After checking the time on his wrist, he gazed quietly outside the car window.
“Does anyone have a cigarette?”
His voice was listless.
“Cigarettes… Ah.”
Unconsciously, Director Min patted his chest and pockets, but being a non-smoker, he obviously didn’t have any.
It struck him as odd. He had never seen Executive Cha smoke before.
A competent secretary never says ‘NO.’ As Director Min pondered a solution, his eyes quickly shifted towards the driver’s seat.
Secretary Kim, the attendant secretary, had occasionally been seen smoking outside during breaks.
Knowing this but feigning ignorance, Director Min nudged Secretary Kim’s elbow, signaling him to hand over the cigarettes quickly. Secretary Kim frowned.
As a driver, one must be cautious about odor, and he resented Director Min for carelessly revealing his smoking habit.
“Here you are, Executive,” said Secretary Kim, passing a cigarette to the back seat. Cha Jung Hyuk, taking it, stepped out of the car and leaned against the door, placing the cigarette between his lips.
Director Min, who had hurriedly followed, flicked his lighter and extended the flame towards Executive Cha, who scowled in response.
“Are you insane?”
“What?”
“This is a kindergarten.”
Cha Jung Hyuk hadn’t forgotten that this was his son’s kindergarten.
Someone who knows that, seeking a cigarette? Director Min awkwardly sniffed and put the lighter back in his pocket.
The unlit filter crumpled softly between his lips.
He was just trying to calm his nerves. Without it, he felt like he would collapse into ash.
Chairman Park had loathed smoking, fearing his grandson might also not live out his days, just like his son who died of lung cancer.
Thus, Cha Jung Hyuk had completely quit the habit he had once picked up, five years ago.
He even remembered that the last cigarette he smoked was on the morning Yoo Da Jung disappeared.
His pride was wounded by the fact that he had resumed smoking because of that woman, and again by the pathetic sighs he emitted while smoking.
Since then, he hadn’t looked at a cigarette, but the fact that he craved one after five years proved Yoo Da Jung was no ordinary woman.
Cha Jung Hyuk wasn’t used to being rejected.
He hadn’t expected it. A man like him, proposing and being turned down?
His arrogance and pride had been shattered by Yoo Da Jung’s conviction.
And now, she had delivered another blow to his ego. A sly woman. Sleeping with him, bearing a child, yet refusing to marry?
“Ah, really…”
A frustrated sigh escaped through the crushed filter.
There was a way to make her accept the marriage, albeit unwillingly.
Take Yu Shi Woo. Just one sentence would do…
But he didn’t want to. He had resolved not to be like a foolish woodcutter.
Cha Jung Hyuk checked his watch. It was time for his son to come out.
Responding to Sol’s call to pick up Shi Woo, he had rushed to the kindergarten as if it were his duty.
Removing the cigarette from his mouth, the filter, clinging to his lip mucosa, left an unpleasant sensation as it fell off.
Walking up the stairs amidst the clamor of children’s screams, he heard a child’s voice.
“Heaven!”
Just as he was about to take the last step, his ears caught a strange remark.
“Hey! That’s what it means to be fatherless.”
Cha Jung Hyuk’s head tilted curiously at the odd statement.
“No, what did the child’s mother say? It’s widely known he’s a child of an unmarried mother, how ridiculous.”
Cha Jung Hyuk closed his eyes tightly and then opened them. His gaze drifted towards a small, forlorn figure standing still, surrounded by women who seemed like witches.
Cha Jung Hyuk tightly closed his eyes and then opened them. His gaze fell upon the sad back of a child standing immobilized, encircled by women who seemed like witches.
“After summer break, I thought I wouldn’t see you anymore, but you’re so persistent. You don’t realize you don’t belong with our high society.”
“How dare a commoner intrude and muddy our waters. Unbelievable.”
As the witches’ nonsensical chatter continued, the intact cigarette in his fingers crumbled into pieces.
Hearing their words, Cha Jung Hyuk stepped forward with a gleaming toe of his shoe. He halted and cast an indifferent look diagonally downwards. The round, small head of the child below looked gloomy.
As his towering shadow covered the view, the child, who had been fiddling with his clothes, slowly tilted his head back.
Their eyes met, and Cha Jung Hyuk gave a faint smile. Normally, the child would have greeted him cheerfully with a bright smile.
But feeling utterly down, the child’s large, pitiable eyes quickly dropped to his sneakers.
The arrival of the man standing with his hands clasped behind his back silenced the women.
The women, who were just hounding a child like witches, now wore kind smiles, as if they were completely different people.
The clueless women bickered among themselves until the daughter-in-law of Yeongshin Woolen Mills spoke up.
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.
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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!
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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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