After getting her hair and makeup done at the shop, Eun Soo put on a dress that accentuated her slender waistline and heels and looked at herself in the mirror. She smiled faintly at her uncharacteristic appearance.
She felt like Cinderella from the fairy tale, transformed by a fairy that appeared while she was scrubbing floors and cleaning out a fireplace.
Eun Soo looked at the mirror and deliberately lifted the corners of her mouth.
This should do if I keep smiling like this.
Remembering her reflection in the mirror, she headed towards the meeting place.
As she told her name to the staff greeting her, he led Eun Soo to an inner room. When the staff knocked a couple of times, a voice from inside told them to come in.
As the door opened and Eun Soo entered, she was momentarily taken aback by the sight of the man sitting inside.
It was a face she had merely brushed past, but undoubtedly had met before.
In that moment, she didn’t understand why a feeling of relief welled up in her. Nor did she realize that a natural smile, not a forced one, had found its way onto her face.
“Are you the daughter of Executive Director Oh Ju Hwan?”
Without even a greeting, Hyuk Joo first threw out a question. Only after seeing his frozen, cold face did Eun Soo realize that she had been foolishly smiling.
“…Yes, that’s right.”
Hurriedly pushing away her laughter, Eun Soo responded. After she sat down, Hyuk Joo spoke a few more words, but all Eun Soo could do was answer ‘yes’ to whatever he said.
All the words Hyuk Joo uttered were related to her father.
It seemed like he had come to meet the daughter of Executive Director Oh Ju Hwan, not Oh Eun Soo.
“Do you live with Executive Director Oh?”
“No. I moved out when I was twenty.”
At the word “moved out”, Hyuk Joo’s face twisted slightly. It seemed odd to him that the daughter of a conglomerate executive director, who wasn’t living in the countryside, would say she moved out.
“My mother fell ill around that time. I wanted to live near the hospital where she was admitted, so I said I’d move out.”
Eun Soo quickly added, as if making an excuse.
Part of it was true.
Of course, the biggest reason for moving out was that as soon as her mother fell ill, Ko Ju Kyung, who had been her father’s mistress, seemed to have been waiting and moved into the house.
A moment of silence passed.
Eun Soo stared quietly at Hyuk Joo’s face, which showed no sign of interest in her.
Upon hearing that she would face him, she had searched for the three characters of ‘Moon Hyuk Joo’ on a portal site.
A profile appeared, stating that he had graduated from the best university in the country, earned a master’s degree in business administration from a famous business school in the United States, and was currently working as an executive director at Myungjin Group.
She read each of the articles dealing with his recent business achievements listed under his impressive credentials.
In none of the articles was there a photo that fully revealed Hyuk Joo’s face, so Eun Soo had been curious about what he looked like. What if she had seen his face beforehand?
Maybe, then, she would have been sitting here with a heart full of joy at the reunion.
“I don’t know if you already know.”
“……”
“I have a woman I like.”
Moon Hyuk Joo confirmed the rumors that had been quietly circulating about him as true.
“I’m still looking for her.”
And that he had not yet forgotten that woman.
“…What will you do when you find her?”
At Eun Soo’s question, Hyuk Joo rested his chin on his hand.
At that moment, Eun Soo wondered if her question might be perceived as rude. But she was genuinely curious.
What would Moon Hyuk Joo do if he found the woman he had loved and couldn’t forget all this time?
Having once let her go, he’d probably ensure that she wouldn’t leave again.
She thought she’d asked a question to which the answer was all too obvious, and was about to apologize for her rudeness.
However.
“I’m not sure.”
Hyuk Joo responded, shaking his head.
Caught off guard by his unexpected words, Eun Soo sighed low, saying “Ah”.
“If you’re expecting something like love, it’d be better to consider a marriage with me as nonexistent.”
“It’s okay. I just need to get married.”
“……”
“I want to take my mother to a good hospital. A really good hospital.”
At Eun Soo’s words, Hyuk Joo tilted his head to one side.
Whether it was interest in the idea of a marriage without love being necessary for him too, Hyuk Joo’s stiff face relaxed slightly.
“Excuse me for a moment.”
He got up from his seat and left the room.
Left alone, Eun Soo let out a big sigh.
Hyuk Joo couldn’t remember her at all. It was understandable. He had been drunk at the time.
Even though she thought it was understandable, Eun Soo felt a bit upset.
“Wishing he would remember is a foolish thing.”
Eun Soo chuckled dryly.
The phone in her bag vibrated. It was a message asking when the English translation of the paper would be possible.
“Wasn’t it due next Wednesday?”
Eun Soo made a puzzled face at the pressing message, even though the deadline was still ahead.
Feeling that she needed to check, Eun Soo pressed the call button.
“This is Oh Eun Soo.”
— We agreed on having it done today, but I haven’t received an email yet.
“Excuse me?”
Eun Soo hastily pulled out her diary. Flipping through the pages, she finally realized that she had mixed up the schedule with another translation job.
— The paper presentation is next week.
“I’m sorry. I confused it with another schedule.”
At the sound of the other party’s sigh, Eun Soo bit her lip. Her head was throbbing from the aftereffects of not sleeping properly for several days due to translation work and taking care of her mother.
“Would it be okay if I send you an email before 9 am tomorrow?”
— Can you do it?
“Yes. I will send it as soon as I finish.”
— Sigh……
The other party’s breath deepened. Eun Soo took a sip of water.
“It’s my mistake. How about deducting 300,000 won from the original payment?”
— Please make sure to send it by 9 am tomorrow.
“Yes, I will definitely send it.”
— Okay.
As soon as the other party hung up the phone, Eun Soo drank the rest of the water in one gulp. She had to stay up all night again to finish the translation by tomorrow morning.
“I’m going crazy.”
Eun Soo muttered under her breath and soon clasped her face.
It was when she raised her head in despair over the situation created by her own mistake.
“Does Director Oh have a debt she doesn’t know about?”
A clear bass voice was heard. As she fully raised her head, she saw Hyuk Joo.
When did he come in?
Eun Soo was so confused by the tangled schedule that she hadn’t even felt a slight sign of his presence. She just stared blankly at Hyuk Joo’s face, looking down at her.
“I was wondering why you had to work so hard.”
With a cold tone, Eun Soo lowered her gaze and spoke.
“They said a new treatment drug came out. It’s expensive because it’s not covered by insurance.”
“It’s not like the drug costs tens of billions, can’t Director Oh cover it with her salary?”
“……”
“Since everyone has their own circumstances, if I dig any further, I’d be rude.”
Hyuk Joo left the room as is.
She thought that was the end of the encounter.
But a call came at 6 a.m. the next morning. It was the moment she was about to fall asleep on the hospital cot after just sending the translated paper file.
It’s Moon Hyuk Joo. At the voice over the phone, Eun Soo felt her halfawake mind snap awake.
— I would like to get married. What about Miss Oh Eun Soo?
Eun Soo’s answer was already determined.
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Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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