Eun Soo left the hospital building and headed towards a bench.
The zelkova tree, having shed all its leaves for the winter, looked grim, as if it had withered and died.
When spring came, new buds of a smoky color would sprout from the dried branches, flowers would bloom, and the leaves would turn green.
Eun Soo stood still, gazing at the zelkova tree, then headed towards the bench.
Sitting on the bench, Eun Soo fiddled with her cell phone.
“……”
She wondered whether she should call Hyuk Joo to thank him for looking after the caregiver, or if it would be better to talk to him after he got off work.
The sound of a woman’s conversation, sitting a bench away, reached her ears.
“I called you to decide what to eat because I couldn’t decide.”
With an irresistibly affectionate voice, the woman laughed. She covered her mouth with her hand, but her happinessfilled laughter flowed pleasantly through her fingers.
“Just have rice? But I want to have tteokbokki.”
For a moment, Eun Soo envied the woman.
The woman was on a call about deciding the menu for dinner, a trivial matter.
She was so envious of the woman, who was different from herself, who had to ponder several times about whether it was right to make a call for such a thing.
Did she sense Eun Soo’s gaze?
The woman on the call glanced up and down at Eun Soo, then moved away.
Left alone on the bench, Eun Soo could only stare at her toes.
“Phew……”
After a deep sigh, Eun Soo picked up her phone.
She stared at Hyuk Joo’s number, saved under the name ‘husband’, then pressed the call button firmly.
She closed her eyes tightly.
Suddenly, a hollow laugh escaped her lips.
A wife finding it so hard to call her husband.
The call connection tone seemed unusually long for a few seconds.
He must be busy.
She thought she should probably hang up.
Just as she was about to pull her phone away from her cheek.
Oh, Eun Soo.
Hyuk Joo picked up the phone.
Eun Soo, who had thought he wouldn’t answer, was taken aback and swallowed dryly. Over the phone, she could hear Hyuk Joo giving instructions to someone.
Eun Soo?
“……Hyuk Joo.”
What’s up?
“Just……”
The words ‘I wanted to hear your voice’ rose to the tip of her tongue.
If she were to say that, what reaction would her husband show?
He would probably ask if she was sick and tell her to contact the family doctor to get checked.
A phrase that would mean nothing in a normal couple’s conversation became a bomb between Moon Hyuk Joo and Oh Eun Soo.
That was their marriage.
A marriage faithful to the external obligations of a couple.
Eun Soo clenched her free hand into a tight fist.
“I was just curious about when you’ll be off work today.”
…I’m not sure. Eun Soo, I’m a bit busy right now. I’ll hang up.
“Yes, I’m sorry Hyuk Joo……”
I’m sorry for stealing your time when you’re busy.
She wanted to say that, but she couldn’t spit it out to the end.
Hyuk Joo had already hung up the phone. Eun Soo held the phone against her cheek as it was and spoke.
“Don’t you even have a moment to talk to me, no matter how busy you are? I’m not asking for an hourlong conversation, just 5 minutes, no, just a 1minute talk…… ugh.”
Eun Soo, who had been pouring out her feelings as if Hyuk Joo were listening, ended up bursting into tears.
She placed her cell phone on the bench, and Eun Soo clenched her face in her palms.
She thought she would be fine.
When she heard that the woman had returned, her emotions stirred, but she tried to calm them, thinking it was just a brief, noisy storm. But before she knew it, her emotions welled up.
She felt like she had become a crybaby who only knew how to cry all of a sudden.
Since a few days ago.
No, since the day her husband’s woman appeared.
“……As soon as you get the information, report it directly to me. Don’t go through anyone else.”
“Yes, Vice President.”
“You may leave now.”
“Yes.”
Hyuk Joo didn’t even glance at Chief Kim, who was bowing his head, and instead flipped through other documents.
Having experienced this situation frequently, Chief Kim left the vice president’s office as if nothing had happened.
Thud.
At the sound of the closing door of the vice president’s office, Hyuk Joo lifted his head. He took off his glasses, placed them on the desk, and rubbed his temples with his fingertips.
The consecutive meetings and reports had intensified his fatigue.
As he was drinking water, his cell phone placed on one side of the desk came into Hyuk Joo’s view.
He picked up the phone and checked the screen.
The sender was the same person. Hyuk Joo just glanced at the popup messages with an indifferent eye, then skimmed through his call log.
‘Wife’
He fiddled with the phone after confirming the call from 30 minutes ago.
It was rare for his wife to call first. She was a woman who only contacted him when she had an important matter.
The hesitant voice of his wife, as if she had something to say, stuck in Hyuk Joo’s mind.
Hyuk Joo pressed the call button.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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