The 7-Day Contract (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 117

Jeong Hyeok narrowed his eyes slightly. Even without saying a word, his gaze was clearly suspicious.

Though she had anticipated this reaction, Da Jung had prepared no countermeasures and awkwardly rolled only her eyes.

“What’s your ulterior motive?”

He asked bluntly. Hearing it, Da Jung too felt she indeed looked like a woman scheming something.

“Ulterior motive? What ulterior motive? Cha Jung Hyeok, have you lately viewed me as some ambitious woman?”

At her apt analogy, Jeong Hyeok clicked his tongue in resignation, then muttered while stirring the rice mixed with ketchup.

“If you truly had ambition, I wouldn’t be suffering like this.”

Jeong Hyeok was certain: had the woman before him been that sort of person, things would have been far easier than they were now.

Ordinarily, when someone dangles their possessions like sausages, even stray puppies will inevitably sniff and wag their tails—but this woman would never budge for something as trivial as a sausage, even if she died.

No—come to think of it, the more he considered it, the more suspicious it became.

“Setting all else aside, you clearly dislike our elders. Quite intensely, in fact.”

I already know that—but now, out of the blue, you want to go pay respects? And still insist there’s no ulterior motive?

Every sharp barb in his words struck home.

Da Jung merely rolled her eyes in circles. True, given what she’d previously said, her sudden change now did make her cheeks burn with embarrassment.

“When did I ever…?”

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