But no matter how long he had known someone, he couldn’t divulge such intimate and personal details.
“No. I thought someone was there.”
Unless a ghost came in, I must have been there. It was hard to carry you, so I drank some water. Why? Is it because of that?
Ah, come to think of it, there was a trace of someone having drunk water on the negotiation table.
So, was that why the bathroom was slightly messed up?
“When did you leave?”
I left as soon as I got a call that my mother was taken to the emergency room.
He wanted to ask more, but the call ended as someone was calling for Seok Ju.
It wasn’t clear, but at least some of the questions were answered.
If Seok Ju left me alone in the hotel, my assumption aligns somewhat.
If I hadn’t spent the night with a woman, then I must have taken care of it myself.
It wasn’t unreasonable to not remember anything, given that his alcohol tolerance had been greatly exceeded and his memory was a complete mess.
“Well, if that’s the case……”
Tae Jo shrugged his shoulders and stood up. Having shaken off his discomfort, he made coffee in the kitchen and returned to the sofa.
On the TV, Yun Se Kyung had been appearing and disappearing repeatedly.
“Is that from three years ago?”
He fixed his gaze on the screen as he tilted his cup.
Se Kyung looked more youthful than she did now.
Tae Jo remembered her from that time. That was about when he first met Se Kyung.
It was on a cold winter day when a cold wave was sweeping through, at the filming site of the drama in which Seok Ju was appearing.
At the time, Seok Ju’s manager had to take leave due to his father’s death, so the company assigned him a temporary manager.
It would have been nice if someone with some experience had been assigned, but the only available person at the time was a new manager who hadn’t been with the company for long.
As a result, it was inevitable to worry about the filming site.
And sure enough, accidents occurred from the first day. During a brief waiting period, the manager who was bringing coffee tripped, rendering the filming outfit unusable.
Because of this, Seok Ju had to reshoot all the previous scenes, and the atmosphere on the set was said to have frozen over, much like the Siberian plains.
Of course, Woo Hyun, who received the report belatedly, grabbed the back of his neck.
However, it was not something to blame on the new manager who had just started at the site, so he offered words of comfort, saying that’s how you learn.
It seemed that the issue was temporarily settled when Seok Ju apologized, but Woo Hyun, who was worried about the set, advised Tae Jo to meet the director at least once.
Tae Jo, who happened to have something to do nearby, visited the filming site after finishing his work.
“Ha.”
As he got out of the car, his breath dispersed in white puffs.
When he arrived, Seok Ju was in the middle of shooting.
Tae Jo greeted the new manager and looked around the set. Then, noticing Se Kyung in the distance reading the script, he furrowed his brows.
It’s cold out, why isn’t she in the car?
The first thought that came to him when he saw her shivering from the cold was just that.
It was a day when the temperature dropped to minus 13 degrees, with a wind chill factor that made it feel close to minus 20 degrees.
She was bundled up in a thick parka with a scarf around her neck, but her cheeks exposed to the cold wind were pale and freezing.
What on earth was her manager doing?
As Tae Jo looked around with an uneasy gaze, Se Kyung, who had risen from her seat, leaned forward.
At the same time, something fell to the ground with a thud.
Seeing the bright red blood wetting the ground, Se Kyung tried to cover her nose with her hand and tilt her head back.
Startled, Tae Jo ran to her.
“Bend your head down.”
Tae Jo pulled out a handkerchief and put it on Se Kyung’s nose. He then instructed the following manager to bring wet wipes and tissues.
“What are you doing? I told you to bend your head forward.”
Her ears, frozen red, twitched as if surprised. Tae Jo grasped the nape of Se Kyung, who was frozen looking at him, and applied slight pressure.
Only then did her head, which had been tilted back, slowly move.
Se Kyung, blinking her large eyes, moved her hand while watching Tae Jo’s face. But then, noticing the blood on her hand, she dropped it in surprise.
“Um, I’m fine now……”
“What part of you is fine?”
When he slightly removed the handkerchief to look, he could still see the blood flowing freely.
“It’s not fine at all.”
Tae Jo again applied the handkerchief to Se Kyung’s nose. She, unable to touch him with her bloodied hand, kept her arms hanging awkwardly in the air.
Looking at her still holding the script, he wasn’t sure whether to say it was admirable.
“Here, hold this.”
At Tae Jo’s gesture, Se Kyung cautiously moved her hand.
While she held her nose with the handkerchief, Tae Jo cleaned his hand with the wet wipes handed over by the manager.
“What the… It’s already frozen.”
Not long after he had taken it out, Tae Jo frowned at the sight of the wet wipe frozen stiff in the harsh cold.
Crunching the stiff wet wipe, he pulled out a tissue and handed it to Se Kyung.
“Where did the manager go?”
“I had some other work……”
“Other work? Leaving your charge, the actress, behind?”
“Yes. There are schedules for the other members besides me.”
“Other members?”
When Tae Jo couldn’t immediately understand her words, the rookie manager chimed in from the side.
“Miss Yoon Se Kyung is also involved in singing activities. She’s a member of a girl group.”
“Oh, I see.”
I had thought she only acted, seeing her often in dramas.
“So, you just left her alone like this? In this harsh cold? Isn’t there another manager?”
“No.”
“So, she’s outside shivering and reading her script?”
Se Kyung, holding her nose with a handkerchief, bobbed her head.
Tae Jo cursed inwardly, looking at her hands shivering from the cold.
What kind of company was it to abandon their celebrities like this in such a cold?
“Aaargh! What is this!”
Then, the scream of Mun Seok Ju, startled from behind, was heard.
Tae Jo narrowed his brows and looked back.
Seok Ju, who had been alternating between the fiercelooking Tae Jo and Se Kyung who was holding her nose with a handkerchief, covered his mouth with a shocked expression.
“Wow. Did you punch Miss Se Kyung or something?”
What the hell. This crazy bear.
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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