With a thin body that didn’t feel like a person, she made a noise as if she were retching, and every time she made such a noise, Kim Team Leader felt as if a loach were standing in front of her.
Such people usually had bad habits.
Recalling Juhwan’s gaze as he scanned her, Kim Team Leader clenched her fist tightly.
“If he dares to hit me, he’ll be in trouble right away. Where does he think he can touch me?”
She raised her fallen glasses.
And as the sound of the elevator doors closing from a distance was heard, she picked up her phone.
She quickly wrote a message stating that CEO Oh Juhwan was going to Seoul to meet Director Moon Young-ran. After sending the message, Kim Team Leader took her seat.
“Having such a person in our company is really a loss.”
She confirmed that the indication that the recipient had read her message disappeared and immediately deleted it.
“How about leaving tomorrow morning?”
Manager Song asked with a worried voice when Hyuk-joo suggested going to the airport.
Hyuk-joo had been extremely busy, coming to Seoul in the morning to meet Seo Yeon-ji and attending a meeting to acquire a resort in Jeju until just now.
While understanding the boss’s concern for his wife, Manager Song was worried that this might be detrimental to his health.
He looked at Hyuk-joo’s face, which had no response, and spoke.
“Mr. Oh Juhwan’s secretary just contacted me. Mr. Oh went to meet Director Moon Young-ran.”
“If Eun-su can’t be reached, he’s probably going to see her.”
“Just let it be?”
“Leave it. It’s not a bad thing to make them a bit concerned about unnecessary things.”
“Understood.”
Manager Song nodded.
He told Hyuk-joo, who was looking at a cake on his phone, “I’ve reserved a cake for you to pick up tomorrow morning.”
“You knew it was Eun-su’s birthday?”
“It’s Mrs. Oh’s birthday, so I naturally had to know.”
Manager Song smiled subtly.
Hyuk-joo inwardly admired his thoughtfulness. Tomorrow was Eun-su’s birthday, and that was why he wanted to return to Jeju as soon as possible.
He wanted to use the method Eun-su told him last time to cook seaweed soup himself and prepare a birthday meal for her. To do that, he had to go back to Jeju today. If he arrived tomorrow morning, it would be too tight.
“Manager Song.”
“Yes, Vice President.”
“Cancel the cake reservation for tomorrow.”
“You’re saying you must go today. I’ll check if we can prepare the cake according to the arrival time of the plane.”
“Sure.”
Hyuk-joo nodded.
Arriving at the airport, he quickly passed through the security checkpoint. Standing in front of the gate, he waited for the boarding time, checking the time on his wristwatch.
When he arrived in Jeju, he needed to pick up the cake and stop by the mart to buy what he needed. After that, when he got home, it would already be around 10 o’clock.
“Eun-su is probably sleeping, right?”
Eun-su, who was already a heavy sleeper, often went to bed earlier than usual. He wanted to see her face at least once today.
It’s not like he couldn’t see her tomorrow just because he couldn’t see her today, but Hyuk-joo’s heart was eager.
Perhaps it was because he realized it too late.
Every minute and second spent with Eun-su was precious to him.
Hyuk-joo’s eyes relentlessly followed the second hand of the watch.
Even though he kept looking at the clock, it didn’t make time pass quickly, nor did it bring forward the departure time of the plane. He continued like that until the boarding announcement came.
Boarding the plane, Hyuk-joo folded his long legs.
Although he had hastily booked a flight, it was a low-cost airline, and he even got the last seat. He squeezed his large body into the narrow seat, but there was no discomfort visible on his face.
Rather, he seemed relieved that he could board the plane like this, and his eyes were sparkling.
As soon as they arrived in Jeju, Sang-joo called.
— You’re coming tomorrow, right?
“I’m in Jeju right now.”
— Oh, you’re coming in the morning and leaving in the evening. You must be very tired. If it’s okay with you, should I prepare a birthday table in advance?
“Just leave it. I’ll do it.”
— What?
A surprised voice, as if taken aback, came from the other side of the phone.
— Do you know how to do it?
“Yes.”
— It’s not that I don’t trust Vice President’s words, but I’m a bit worried. Or should I do it and sneak out, so you can say Vice President prepared it?
“I’ve decided not to lie to Eun-su anymore.”
“Oh, what kind of lie is that?”
“Don’t worry about it.”
Hyuk-joo replied with a smile. But Sang-joo kept asking, seemingly still not reassured. She asked several times if he would really be okay.
It was only when she recited the recipe for seaweed soup that Hyuk-joo knew that Sang-joo was relieved.
— Then I’ll go to the nearby salt sauna with the woman next door. I’ll eat until tomorrow lunchtime and come back, so spend some private time together.
Sang-joo said she would leave. Hyuk-joo felt his heart warm with her considerate words.
When he went to find the ordered cake and stopped by the mart, the time was much later than he expected.
When he arrived home, it was already well past 10.
“Is she still not sleeping?”
Wanting to prepare for her birthday without her knowledge, Hyuk-joo left the cake and groceries in the car and headed home.
A dim light shone through the living room window.
It seemed she hadn’t gone to sleep yet. When he opened the front door, the sound of the TV reached him. Eun-su was sitting on the sofa, apparently having fallen asleep after resisting drowsiness. She was uncomfortably leaning her head against the backrest.
“Eun-su…….”
He stopped himself from calling her name.
He didn’t want to wake Eun-su, who was sound asleep.
Taking off his suit jacket and leaving it on one side of the sofa, Hyuk-joo carefully lifted Eun-su’s body in his arms.
She didn’t move at all as if deeply asleep.
How amazing must the little one growing in her belly be, making Eun-su so tired like this?
Hyuk-joo narrowed his eyes and walked slowly to the bedroom.
He laid Eun-su on the bed, pulled the blanket up to her chest.
“Beautiful.”
Looking down at the sleeping Eun-su, Hyuk-joo softly spoke. His lips curved gently as he looked at his sleeping wife.
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
