In the early dawn, Eun Soo woke up from her sleep.
Even though she didn’t have a nightmare, her body was damp with cold sweat.
The blue dawn light seeped in through the gaps of the curtains that didn’t fully cover the window.
Hyuk Joo seemed to be in a deep sleep, motionless. In the faint dawn, Eun Soo quietly looked down at his face.
His neat and handsome face maintained its dignified composure even while sleeping. Upon reflection, she realized that he had never shown a disheveled image in front of her.
“……”
Recalling the image of her husband who had always been perfect for her, Eun Soo held back the tears that threatened to spill from her lips.
His ruthless perfection, never showing any flaws, hurt her.
It felt like a firm refusal to open up to her.
Barely covering her mouth with her hand, Eun Soo carefully got out of the bed so as not to wake Hyuk Joo.
When she went out to the living room, she could see the outdoor scenery, where the darkness hadn’t fully lifted.
“Sigh.”
Approaching the window, Eun Soo breathed onto it. With her finger, she idly drew lines on the foggedup window.
As time passed, the traces that were clearly etched on the window disappeared as if they had never existed.
With regretful eyes, Eun Soo stared blankly at the window before sinking down onto the spot.
How long would she have to live like this?
“It’s hard. I just want to let everything go……. I want to…….”
She clasped her face with her dry hands.
No tears came out.
“Can I do that?”
A deep sigh flowed out between her fingers.
Eun Soo slowly removed her hands from her face. Simultaneously, a faint sound burst from her lips.
“……Mom.”
That was the reason she had barely endured up to this point.
She had put up with such a situation because she wanted her mother to receive treatment in a better environment. But had she really done it for her mother?
Eun Soo slowly shook her head.
It wasn’t solely because of her mother.
The arranged meeting with Hyuk Joo, who was virtually pushed by her father’s coercion.
Eun Soo had no choice.
She had to do anything to make Moon Hyuk Joo choose her, Oh Eun Soo, as his wife.
Because of her father, who had asserted he wouldn’t maintain her mother’s pointless treatment any longer, she had met with Hyuk Joo with a fearful heart.
Eun Soo recalled her first meeting with Hyuk Joo.
That summer was unusually hot.
The heated air showed no signs of cooling down even though it was September.
As usual, Eun Soo had been with her hospitalized mother on the outskirts of Gyeonggi Province since morning.
Working on translating a doctoral thesis of a person she was introduced to into English, she hadn’t noticed it was already late afternoon.
“Mom.”
Eun Soo, who had looked up to check the time, called her mother.
“I’m going for a blind date today.”
She placed her hand on the forehead of her mother, who was in an unpredictable sleep.
“He’s a remarkable person. Father said that his aunt likes me a lot, and that’s why it’s happening.”
Eun Soo told her mother who she was going to meet.
“I heard that he really loved a woman, but they broke up due to family opposition. So, he didn’t have any thoughts of marriage.”
Ah, I shouldn’t have said that.
Eun Soo regretted the words that had just slipped out of her mouth. Thus, she swallowed her next words.
The words were that if things went well with him, she might be able to move her mother to a better hospital and have her treated by a skilled doctor.
Worried that her mother might think she was going on a blind date reluctantly because of her, Eun Soo hastily said something else instead.
“Would he have broken up if she was really the woman he loved?”
She tried to infuse her voice with a laugh.
“If he really loved her, he would have held onto her by any means, clung to her. Breaking up just because of family opposition means that the love was just that. And he must have a desire to meet someone new, so he agreed to meet me. Isn’t that right, mom?”
Her mother’s dry lips did not move at all.
Would her mother abruptly wake up and chastise her for such madness if she laid bare the bottommost reason for going on this blind date?
Eun Soo wiped the tears welling up in her eyes with her hand. But the spot she wiped became moist again with newly shed tears.
“…I need to wash my face and put on makeup.”
After gently placing her mother’s hand under the white sheet, Eun Soo got up from her seat.
She washed her face with cold water and even applied sunscreen.
If she had her way, she wanted to do her makeup herself and leave. But her father, who viewed the blind date as a turning point in her life, was even more desperate than Eun Soo, the person involved.
He had made a reservation at a shop frequented by famous celebrities and repeatedly emphasized that Eun Soo should definitely stop by there to get her makeup and hair done.
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
