A woman, who was the daughter of an executive of a subsidiary company, was pleading with someone on the phone in front of him.
She was saying, “I’ll deduct 300,000 won, can’t you send me an email by 9 o’clock tomorrow morning?”
Hearing Eun Soo’s troubled voice, Hyuk Joo, who had roughly grasped the situation, wondered who this woman was.
It started with curiosity.
Hyuk Joo wondered how such a diligent person could emerge from under Executive Ju Hwan, who was notoriously wild. After the meeting, he looked into the woman named Eun Soo.
Taking care of her sick mother while doing translation work seemed like a fairytale scenario, but it turned out that the woman who had taken over her father’s seat was doing it because she was given the bare minimum for hospital fees.
“You also have an arranged meeting this Saturday with the son of Congressman Kim Won Jae.”
At Manager Song’s words, Hyuk Joo couldn’t help but sigh.
The son of Congressman Kim Won Jae.
A man who had driven his own father’s political life to the brink of ruin due to a series of scandals involving drinking, gambling, and assault. An arranged meeting with such a man.
At that moment, Hyuk Joo felt a sense of compassion for Eun Soo. At the same time, he felt a desire to help her creeping into his mind. He didn’t know why he felt that way.
He just wanted to.
He felt he had to. If he didn’t, he thought he would regret it for the rest of his life.
However, he should have cut off Ju Hwan earlier when the topic of marrying Eun Soo came up.
Then he wouldn’t have come with these nonsensical photos and blathered on about making Eun Soo raise the child born by Seo Yeon Ji…
Should he be grateful that he hadn’t yet told Eun Soo about this?
Hyuk Joo put the photos Ju Hwan had given him back into the envelope.
“Take them away.”
“What is this…?”
Ju Hwan’s eyes grew wide in surprise at Hyuk Joo’s unexpected action.
“Do you think the woman in the photo is my child?”
“What?”
“That woman is sick. She went to the hospital for a checkup because she’s sick. You’ve made all sorts of assumptions on your own. What a waste of time.”
“Are you trying to fool me right now?”
“Why would I deceive my father? There’s nothing to gain from deceiving him.”
“……”
“Resign from the president’s position of the sports team after a year.”
“I can’t do that!”
“Then get investigated by the prosecutor’s office next week.”
At the mention of the prosecutor’s investigation, Ju Hwan’s face turned pale. Even if Hyuk Joo didn’t explicitly mention the crime he committed, Ju Hwan knew well about his own misconduct.
“My consideration for you ends here.”
Hyuk Joo stood up from his seat and straightened his clothes.
Ju Hwan’s face, holding the envelope, was flushed. He couldn’t easily accept the fact that what he thought was his trump card was of no use.
After glancing at Ju Hwan, who sat with a stunned face, Hyuk Joo walked towards his desk.
Seo Yeon Ji was pregnant.
‘She said it would be hard to have a child because of the aftereffects of cancer treatment.’
He didn’t remember exactly when, but she definitely said so. Of course, it wasn’t just because of that story.
There was never such a relationship between the two of them in the first place.
If Seo Yeon Ji was really pregnant, the child wasn’t his.
“Do you have anything else to say?”
Hyuk Joo spoke, looking at Ju Hwan who sat as if he were petrified.
“I have to go into a meeting soon. I would appreciate it if you could leave.”
“……Understood.”
Only then did Ju Hwan get up from his seat.
He bit his lip as he opened the office door and left.
It was clear that Hyuk Joo was adamantly denying everything to push him and Eun Soo away.
After claiming his offspring, he probably planned to seat that woman in his wife’s place.
He couldn’t just sit back and watch the plan that his soninlaw was likely conceiving.
Eun Soo put a folic acid pill in her mouth and swallowed it with water.
She had to protect the child, no matter what was happening around her.
Now there was one more thing to protect, including her mother. But Eun Soo didn’t feel overwhelmed for some reason.
It was strange.
As she was fumbling with the bottle of folic acid, the ward door suddenly opened and Hyuk Joo entered.
Approaching, he saw the folic acid in Eun Soo’s hand and let out a soft sigh.
“Eun Soo.”
Hyuk Joo’s voice was heavy.
Even more so than his stern expression.
Not long after getting married, Eun Soo had started taking folic acid. It was part of her preparation to have a child.
Watching Eun Soo take folic acid daily without fail, Hyuk Joo felt heavyhearted.
He couldn’t understand whenever he saw Eun Soo desperately trying as if she absolutely had to have a child.
Their marriage wasn’t intended for having a child.
When checking Eun Soo’s medical history before marriage, the doctor said that there were occasional cases of infertility due to the side effects of chemotherapy.
Fortunately, Eun Soo had never been diagnosed with infertility in the several tests she had undergone. Hyuk Joo wished that she would care more about her health than pregnancy.
“You can stop taking this.”
“There’s nothing wrong with taking it.”
“I told you, I didn’t marry you for a child.”
“……”
“So don’t be so obsessed.”
“It’s not obsession……”
“I’ll handle Auntie, so don’t worry too much. You don’t need to have a tracking test, right?”
“How would you know that?”
“I know someone in the same situation as you.”
Hyuk Joo answered in an indifferent tone and then reached out towards Eun Soo. He naturally wrapped his arm around her shoulder and exited the ward.
He was expected to go straight home, but the place where his car stopped was a quiet restaurant.
“I’ll keep that ward in your name, so use it if you want to rest.”
“There’s no need for that.”
“I would appreciate it if you’d do as I say.”
His words sounded like a request, but the tone of Hyuk Joo’s voice was far from it. It was a firm voice as if to say, since I decided to cover your secret, you should follow without a word.
Eun Soo had no choice but to nod her head.
When they entered the restaurant, a staff member guided them to a room. Upon opening the door, an excess of food displayed on the table was visible.
It was a meal with all the possible dishes from this restaurant.
Eun Soo crinkled her nose at the smell of the mixed food.
Could morning sickness start so early?
According to what she had looked up, morning sickness was supposed to start after 2 to 3 more weeks. Although there could be individual differences.
Eun Soo instinctively held her breath.
Her stomach churned. Unconsciously, her body flinched.
In haste, she grabbed a napkin and covered her mouth and nose. A tear trickled down.
When she looked up, she saw Hyuk Joo’s face, who hadn’t taken his eyes off her.
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My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
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Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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