“How could that be possible?”
Do Joon’s house.
The place Shin Yeon headed after barely putting down her bag was the kitchen.
Two packs of ramen that were clearly left out to be boiled were neatly laid out on the island bar.
There was nothing more to ask. She quietly took out a pot and filled it with water.
As for the noodles that were requested to be boiled, she liked them chewy, so she was diligently stirring with chopsticks.
When boiling ramen, the noodles contract instantly as they come into contact with air due to a temperature change.
Being able to boil ramen with even chewier noodles… no, what was she saying…
“I really can’t believe it? How can you not know how to boil ramen?”
“I grew up more delicately than you think.”
While Shin Yeon was boiling the ramen, Do Joon was calmly sitting at the dining table fiddling with his phone.
He became more annoying the more she saw him, really.
Especially seeing someone playing while boiling ramen, even such a handsome face wasn’t forgivable.
She was getting angry.
“Is it possible to not even know how to cook, not to mention not cooking well? This isn’t criticism. It’s beyond common sense, and I really can’t understand.”
It should hold up theoretically.
Does it make sense that he can fix a copier but can’t boil ramen?
“Is that such a big problem? To the point where you’d be so passionate?”
“Yes, completely. I didn’t really think you’d call me over to boil ramen…”
Huh?
“…of course I knew that, but I didn’t know that the new recruit, no no Do Joon, no Do Joon likes his ramen chewy… that kind of…”
Why is it like this? Calm down.
“What did you expect.”
“Oh, then what have you been eating so far?”
Indeed. What did I really expect?
Shin Yeon, who had turned off the fire, carefully lifted the pot of ramen onto the dining table.
He soon picked up chopsticks and seemed to check the noodles by lifting them.
“You boiled it well.”
That jerk, really.
“I ate something. I had a lady who worked for me when I was in the U.S.”
He was a known newcomer who graduated from a university in the U.S., interned abroad, and hadn’t been in Korea for long.
She didn’t know it was Harvard, though.
“Is it true that you haven’t been in Korea for long?”
“One of the few known truths.”
He started eating the ramen quickly.
It was quite late when Shin Yeon got off work.
She thought she might be making a latenight snack because he asked her to boil ramen, but seeing him eat in a hurry, she thought it might be dinner.
Maybe, he waited without eating.
No way.
“So, since you came to Korea?”
“I paid and ate.”
“Every meal? How much is that? I mean, you’ve been in Korea for at least 4 or 5 months, including new recruit training?”
“Ms. Shin Yeon.”
He had been engrossed in his ramen, but he looked up at Shin Yeon, furrowing his brow.
Did she talk too much while he was eating?
“I don’t have a stake in it, but it’s not like I don’t have money.”
Ah…
Right. What am I rambling about…
Even if he was the unloved second child of Hanshin, he was still the son of Seo Min Cheol.
“Pl, please eat.”
When she made a flustered expression, Do Joon shifted his gaze back to his ramen.
While he was eating, Shin Yeon found herself enveloped by an unfamiliar feeling.
Lunch hours and company dinners. She had eaten with him multiple times.
But this moment felt strangely like a first time, to the point where she was even deluded into thinking so.
Even though they had grown closer by a small measure, everything about him felt unfamiliar.
“Are you going to keep staring like that?”
It must be because he was still handsome.
It wasn’t his appearance that changed. It was his personality that became detestable.
“Can I ask a few more questions?”
“No, you can’t.”
Damn it.
“You act so nice at the office. I understand that your image is important because you’re the president’s son, and you could become the representative, but isn’t it a bit over the top?”
“Didn’t I just say no?”
Just play dumb.
Shin Yeon boldly raised her chopsticks over the ramen.
Seeing her suddenly distracted, Do Joon laughed incredulously and continued speaking.
“I’ve never pretended to be nice.”
Huh?
Shin Yeon turned her gaze back to Do Joon.
With a very contemptuous look.
“Don’t tell me you’re going to spout nonsense like that’s your real personality?”
Why is he like this? Is he a sociopath?
Who is this chairman’s son who told me to cook the ramen until it was chewy?
“I’m just being professional. And you’re being too longwinded.”
He looked serious.
It was as if he was saying that he wasn’t pretending to be nice.
This is real. Does he just have multiple identities?
“No, you take all the work given to you, even when it’s too much.”
“Because it’s better when I do it.”
“The work given to the newcomer is just menial tasks. Others can do it too.”
“They’re slow. I don’t like it.”
So, all this time, he did everything because it was better when he did it?
Because he wasn’t satisfied when others did it?
Wow.
“No, you make mistakes sometimes too.”
“Of course. If I do too well, it’ll be obvious. I have to make basic mistakes.”
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!!!
