“I told you. I can’t live with a loss.”
His long fingers brushed his twisted eyebrows. Despite this, his uncomfortable squinted eyes did not relax.
“I couldn’t sleep for a while out of curiosity. Wondering what her purpose was.”
“Director. I’ll tell you again, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I am here representing Hanbit Architecture Office. So please, only necessary workrelated questions…”
A smirking laugh cut off Da Jung’s words. As if he had grasped some credible clue, he raised a question.
“Isn’t it strange?”
“……Yes?”
“Right. I met Yoo Da Jung for the first time in a long time, so I kissed her. Or maybe we slept together.”
His unreserved remarks gathered a hot heat in Da Jung’s ears.
“No, I wondered if it’s worth making such a fuss.”
“…….”
“Do you really have something to hide?”
A gulp passed through Da Jung’s throat. Her heart, as if on a spring, jumped around in all directions.
“…There’s nothing like that.”
“Suspicious.”
Tsk, he clicked his tongue discontentedly, and soon his relaxed eyes smiled beautifully.
“Don’t be scared. Just curious. I’ve been bad at resisting curiosity since I was a kid. That’s why I studied so damn well. If you dig and dig and keep digging, you’ll eventually get the answer.”
If you want to test your obstinacy, you can keep your mouth shut, pressure was strangling Da Jung’s throat.
Perhaps, avoiding might not be a wise act. Da Jung didn’t want him to dissect her any further.
Then, the only way to quickly end the situation would be to admit it straightforwardly and give him the answer he wanted.
Da Jung quickly revised her thoughts. She immediately and politely bowed her head in apology. It was the attitude of dealing with an important stakeholder.
“I was really sorry then. I had personal urgent matters to attend to……”
“Yes, I’m sure you did. You must have been in a hurry to get married and have children in the meantime.”
This time, the words that were spat out, as if something was displeasing again, were just at the level of being catty.
Da Jung was slightly confused whether the man in front of her was an adult or an uncontrollable teenage boy.
Facing such a man, Da Jung slowly began to feel her head getting hot.
Without a chance to filter them out, words she wanted to argue with spouted out.
“It’s an old story. Is that incident so important that you had to do all this?”
“Of course, I suffered a complete loss.”
“Executive Director, please!”
“No, I can’t ask for a refund if you got married. There are only 6 days left.”
With a handsome face and neat expression that one couldn’t take their eyes off, he nonchalantly brought up the embarrassing topic.
“You even got married, it’s odd to sue for breach of contract. Right, Miss Yoo Da Jung?”
“Executive Director, it’s uncomfortable. As you said, I have a husband. Please don’t make inappropriate remarks like this again. If this happens again, I will take formal action.”
There was a lot of force in her mild eyes. While she could not glare at him directly, Jung Hyuk laughed at the sight of her.
“You haven’t changed.”
She was still like a puppy.
It was annoying. He felt like teasing her more.
“Yes, that’s right. Let’s stop here.”
Before anyone noticed, he reverted back to his neat expression, with a gentle and deep smile lingering on his lips.
“It was nice meeting you, Miss Yoo Da Jung.”
As he slowly drove into the entrance, the panorama of the campus unfolded.
The cheerful vigor could be felt from the chatter of the huddled freshmen.
Do Jun, with a faint smile on his lips, fully lowered the halflowered car window.
The fresh scent of early summer mingled with the youthful aroma flooded into his nose.
After parking, Do Jun got out of the car and draped the heavy bag around his shoulder like a compulsion. He started to stride, then his gaze shifted to the wristwatch.
The time was well past 3. Looking at the lack of contact from Da Jung, it seemed that the briefing was being prolonged.
He felt a bit guilty as if he had dumped the work onto her. If it weren’t for his father’s sudden call, it would have been Do Jun’s job by now.
He’s busy with external affairs, but the area Da Jung is involved in was not easy.
She would be doing well. He didn’t worry. No matter the result, Da Jung was capable enough.
Do Jun hesitated as he pushed open the door after knocking on the Principal’s office, taken aback by the presence of visitors already there.
“Ah… Should I come back later?”
He asked reflexively out of surprise, but it seemed unnecessary considering that Hyeong Suk was already there.
No Hyeong Suk, Do Jun’s mother.
She held concurrent positions as a professor at Chung Myung Art University and director of the Chung Myung Art Gallery.
Do Jun swallowed a sigh without showing any signs of distress.
His father was keeping his seat, and his mother, seated next to him, was exchanging pleasantries with the guests, her face graced with a gentle and elegant smile.
Across them sat a sophisticated middleaged woman and a young woman, giving off a similar vibe as Hyeong Suk. He had an idea of what was going on.
“Oh, just in time, our Do Jun is here.”
Hyeong Suk greeted her son with a hint of surprise.
When Do Jun just stood there, Hyeong Suk approached and chummily crossed her arms. Then she whispered in a playful tone, scolding him.
“You, dress properly, will you? What is this look?”
Hyeong Suk sighed in displeasure at the sight of her son who had casually dressed in jeans, a Tshirt, and a casual shirt.
It couldn’t be helped. She hadn’t nagged him to dress up beforehand. If he had been informed about the nature of the occasion in advance, he wouldn’t even have shown his face.
A while later,
Do Jun was sitting awkwardly in a café, having tea with a stranger.
He had had a hunch that this would happen the moment he stepped into the Principal’s office. By now, he was quite used to silently having tea with unfamiliar women.
The woman who had been called to the arranged meeting in cahoots with his parents was named Lee Su Kyeong. She was in her late twenties and was the youngest daughter of the director of Han River Hospital.
It was said that this meeting had been arranged through an introduction by Do Jin, Do Jun’s elder brother and a professor at Han River Hospital’s Department of Neurosurgery.
Around the time he had finished his tea, Do Jun opened his mouth.
“My attire is inappropriate. I apologize. That’s just the nature of my work.”
He stressed that he was a person of no interest, laboring in a place filled with dust and sweat. But Su Kyeong’s reaction was unexpected.
“What’s the big deal? I think men who work up a sweat are cool. They’re sexier than men who just push pens in front of desks.”
Not knowing how to respond to her bold reaction, Do Jun ran his fingers under his hornrimmed glasses.
Su Kyeong found his awkward behavior interesting.
Su Kyeong hadn’t willingly come to this meeting either. She was practically dragged here, just to kill some time.
She had expected a typical snobbish man to appear. But the man who finally showed up defied her expectations.
While her parents seemed more interested in a potential soninlaw from an educator’s family, Su Kyeong found herself attracted to the man before her eyes.
His tall stature, solid build, kind words, and gentle, goodnatured expression indicated that he was a man of good character.
He would be completely different from the dimwitted and boring nobodies she knew. It was certain that he was different from the men who pretended to be refined while only playing with their pens, even starting from the smell of sweat.
“Do you like Kwon Do Jun? How about we date with marriage in mind?”
Facing a woman who was unusually assertive and full of confidence, Do Jun didn’t hesitate with his response.
“I’m sorry, Lee Su Kyeong. I have had someone in my heart for a long time.”
My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
*
Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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