At In-woo’s question, Hyuk-joo looked up.
“No.”
“Then why are you asking me about Seo Eun-seong? If you know personally, wouldn’t it be better to ask directly?”
“I wanted to confirm.”
“Confirm…”
In-woo let out a bitter laugh.
Was his speculation correct?
What would he achieve by confirming Eun-su’s painful past?
In-woo tightened his grip on the cup with his hand. When they met a few days ago at the airport, Hyuk-joo had clearly stated.
He would live on Jeju Island, where Eun-su is.
He had declared war against himself, speaking as if making a proclamation. His firm eyes openly radiated a light, boldly marking his presence around Eun-su.
What could have changed in Hyuk-joo’s heart during that time?
In-woo fell into a brief contemplation.
Was it only after Eun-su said she was leaving that he began to feel regret?
Human emotions are cunning; they often remain indifferent until something that has been lingering around disappears, making its presence known.
“Can I ask you to confirm something about Vice President Moon Hyuk-joo?”
“Go ahead.”
“How does Eun-su appear to him?”
Hyuk-joo’s gaze suddenly turned cold.
“Why should I explain that to Mr. Hwang In-woo?”
“I want to know. Frankly, the image you have over there is just too low for me.”
In-woo raised an eyebrow.
Meeting the eyes that instantly revealed hostility, Hyuk-joo responded with a composed smile.
“Mr. Hwang In-woo, I appreciate your concern for Eun-su. However, you don’t need to worry anymore. There won’t be anything to worry about.”
Hyuk-joo stood up and added before leaving.
“Thank you for today’s work.”
Nodding briefly, he greeted and left the cafe.
Hyuk-joo, who parked the car near the beach, tightly gripped the steering wheel with both hands.
After meeting Hwang In-woo, his mind had become a mess.
“Seo Yeon-ji, who are you really?”
He never thought that everything Yeon-ji had said so far was true. There were many times when he didn’t believe them, but he didn’t show it and pretended not to know.
The lies Yeon-ji told were about trivial things that made her body ache. When she hinted at being sick or needing care at the hospital, she quickly recovered once it was evident that someone was concerned or cared for her.
It was a kind of trick to gain attention out of the desire to be noticed.
“But this is different.”
Hyuk-joo shook his head.
It wasn’t a small lie like having a slight cold or feeling weak. She claimed to have suffered from pediatric cancer, even mentioning
Feeling sorry for the man who was drunk and crying alone, someone handed him a handkerchief. Hyuk-joo, comforted by the gesture that seemed to soothe his wandering self, touched the handkerchief in his hand for quite a while.
However, whether it was all a hallucination or not, the warm sensation that was once held in his hand was no longer felt.
When he opened his eyes, Seo Yeon-ji was offering a handkerchief.
‘What is this…’
The moment he saw the handkerchief, the intoxication disappeared instantly.
It was something like the handkerchief left by his mother as a keepsake. The meeting that day felt like a kind of miracle, thinking that he had met the child his mother had been looking for until the moment of her death.
He bombarded Yeon-ji with various questions like whether she had been admitted to the Sungsim Hospital when she was young, whether she gave this handkerchief to his mother or not, as if he were an absent-minded person.
“Sigh…”
Recalling memories, Hyuk-joo let out a bitter laugh.
Yeon-ji only answered yes to the questions he asked, and he believed that she was that child just from that answer.
“Maybe it was wrong from the beginning.”
Hyuk-joo rubbed his forehead with his hand.
After thinking for a long time, he took out his phone. Then, he pressed Yeon-ji’s number.
Although he had deleted the number, recent call records made it easy to find. After a few beeps, Yeon-ji answered the phone with a voice full of anticipation.
— Oppa?
“I have something to ask.”
— To me? Ask me anything.
Not knowing what question he was going to ask, Yeon-ji was excited. Hyuk-joo decided to handle her as he did before for a while.
If suspicion appeared in his voice, Yeon-ji might tell another lie to avoid the situation.
“It’s nothing much. I just suddenly thought of my mother.”
— Mom? That’s interesting. I was just thinking about mom a moment ago.
“Is that so.”
Hyuk-joo lightly touched the tip of his chin with his hand.
“My mother said she gave you a hat before. Do you know? It was a hat she wore throughout her cancer treatment.”
— A hat?
“Yeah. A hat woven with yarn.”
— Oh, you mean that. I had it because the ahjumma gave it to me, but I lost it after moving several times. I don’t know how upset I was when I realized the hat was gone.
Hyuk-joo’s gaze instantly froze. Lips that suppressed the boiling anger froze coldly.
After maintaining a moment of silence, he asked in a chilly tone.
“Were you upset?”
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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