Seonyoung, who had been anxiously waiting, rushed over and hugged Hyuna tightly when she saw her daughter. Then, with a defiant voice, she shouted.
“What are you doing? Drive away the reporters!”
Secretary Pyo and the staff pushed away the reporters.
“Oh Hyeona, please say a word to the tent accident victims and the injured children.”
“Come on, if you have any questions, post an official notice in the group promotion department. We will respond officially through the group procedures.”
“Oh Hyeona, the soccer national team player Kim Youngjun confessed to receiving bribes from you and intentionally collapsed the tent. What exactly is the relationship between you two? Is it simply between the kindergarten director and the physical education teacher?”
“Move, move aside!”
“Oh Hyeona, you drugged a kindergarten student, put them to sleep, and then caused them harm. Why did you do such a thing? Is this the first time you’ve committed such an act?”
“With this incident as a starting point, people are coming forward claiming to be victims of school violence in the past. What are your thoughts on this?”
Click, click, the sound of flashes continuously exploded. Hyeona, with a deep black hood, squeezed into the waiting black sedan as if pushing through.
Even after getting into the car, it had to move as slow as a tortoise due to the overwhelming media fervor.
“Oh, our daughter.”
Finally escaping the reporters, inside the moving car, Seonyoung uncovered her daughter’s hood and gently covered her pale cheek. Her face was half-visible as they hadn’t seen each other for a while.
“Oh Hyeona, are you okay?”
Hyeona remained silent. Over the past few days in prison, intense impulses had turned into fear, tormenting her.
Hyeona suddenly began to feel uneasy.
“Mom, why did you release me? Is Dad going to confine me to the hospital? Is that why you released me?”
“No, Hyeona. No!”
Seonyoung tightly embraced her pitiful daughter.
“Hyeona, you don’t have to go to the hospital again. Mom promises.”
They arrived at a university hospital, and the VIP room admission process was already completed. All they had to do was enter the hospital room, avoiding the reporters.
However, Seonyoung prevented Hyeona from getting off. Instead, a woman who had been sitting in the front passenger seat prepared to get off. She covered herself with a deep hood. It was the first time Seonyoung had seen her, but she was wearing the same clothes as Hyeona’s hooded attire.
“Hyeona, listen to Mom. Mom can’t stand seeing you locked up. Going into the hospital is the same.”
“Mom…”
“Go to China. Mom has everything prepared.”
“Aren’t I under travel ban?”
Without saying a word, Seonyoung took out a passport and a ticket from her handbag and firmly placed them in Hyeona’s hand.
When unfolded, the passport bore the name Bae Sanghwa, but the photo matched her face. It was a forged passport.
“We depart in three hours. The passport is obtained through a reliable route, so there’s no chance of getting caught. The rest is all prepared by the secretary, and they will take you there.”
“What do you mean? Are you telling me to sneak out now?”
“First, go to China. Our people will come out to wait for you, so when you arrive, quietly hide as that person instructs. Once things settle down here, Mom will prepare to go to another country, so follow and join me. Got it?”
Hyeona burst into tears.
“N-No. I don’t want to go alone. Ahaaah, no. Mom, come with me. I’m scared.”
“O Hyeona. Do you want to go to jail?”
Hyeona wailed and struggled.
“Do you want to be confined to the hospital then?!”
“Nooo! Why would Mom say that!”
“Then do as Mom says. If you stay here, it’s either the hospital or prison!”
“Mommy aah!”
“Secretary Pyo, make sure to send the child well without delaying the flight.”
“Do not worry, Director Lee.”
Secretary Pyo patted his head from the driver’s seat. Seonyoung tenderly stroked her crying daughter’s cheek and got out of the car. The woman dressed like Hyeona also got out of the front passenger seat.
Hyeona hid behind the glass, sobbing as she watched Seonyoung and her doppelgänger walking towards the hospital entrance.
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
