She hadn’t slept well all night. After showering in the bathroom, Se Kyung stared at her mirror with bleary eyes.
“What should I do about this?”
Se Kyung pressed down on her reddened skin with her fingertips. There were messy marks where her neck and shoulders met.
They were the traces of Jin Tae Jo biting and sucking all night. She exhaled a deep sigh with both hands covering her face.
“Sigh.”
She couldn’t understand why she had behaved that way.
Even if he was drunk, she hadn’t taken a single drop of alcohol.
“What should I do…”
By now, had he woken up?
She was apprehensive that Jin Tae Jo might call her about what had happened at dawn.
She was so nervous that she woke up from sleep, startled by the alarm sound of her cell phone placed on the desk.
Ding ding ding.
Suddenly, the phone bell rang in the silent room. Se Kyung, swallowing dry saliva, nervously checked the caller with a tense face.
Fortunately, the caller was her manager, Je Hoon.
At his word that he would arrive in 10 minutes, Se Kyung quickly finished preparing to go out and left the room. As she exited the hotel front door, a chilly wind messed up her wet hair.
Just when Se Kyung was leaning toward the roadway, wondering if the car was coming.
“Yoon Se Kyung.”
Se Kyung flinched at the sound of the familiar voice. As she slowly turned her head, she saw Tae Jo in his dark blue suit.
“Ah, President…”
The approaching figure looked like a grim reaper.
Even though they were staying at the same hotel, she didn’t expect to see him in the morning.
Her panicked mind spun round and round.
What should she say if he asked about what happened at dawn?
I’m sorry. That incident was an accident. Or, I must have been carried away by the atmosphere……?
While thinking about all sorts of excuses, she suddenly remembered what Director Song had said to her a long time ago.
He said there were numerous actresses who had confessed to President Jin. What happened to them……
‘Confessed actresses? You wouldn’t know if you saw them. They’re all gone. Some probably left even before their contract ended?’
Before fulfilling the contract period…
A gloomy shadow cast over Se Kyung’s head.
What if Tae Jo realizes my feelings through that incident? What should I say if he asks why I drank with him?
Because I like you, President? If Tae Jo were to shun me then…
Then there would be no point in confessing, I would never see his face again.
“……”
Se Kyung clenched her fist tightly, watching Tae Jo slowly approach her.
Before Tae Jo asks, what if I strike first?
That last night was a mistake, it’s not because I like you, President, you were drunk and I think I was a bit drunk too.
The moment Se Kyung, who had not slept all night due to an impulsive act, was about to speak.
“Why is Miss Se Kyung here?”
“……Pardon?”
Se Kyung looked at him with a stunned face.
Just a few hours ago, they were passionately intertwined. Tae Jo, looking down at her, had an expression as if he found Se Kyung, present here, unfamiliar.
“Why are you in the hotel from morning? Reporters might misunderstand.”
“Uh, that’s……”
Caught off guard by his unexpected reaction, Se Kyung stammered.
What’s going on? Does he want to pretend nothing happened at dawn?
She stole a quick glance at Tae Jo’s expression.
She thought he might be pretending not to know about last night’s event, or trying to avoid her, but seeing his usual face, it seemed he did not even remember what happened with her.
“Um… I’ve been staying in the hotel for two days now.”
“Since two days ago?”
At his repeating question, Se Kyung nodded her head.
While someone hadn’t slept all night because of that incident. Seeing him clueless about everything, a bitter laugh leaked out.
“Yes. My house is under remodeling. The lease on the house I used to live in expired.”
“Oh, so you are on a long stay at the hotel?”
“Yes.”
“Why don’t you go to your mother’s house? …Ah, she’s in Jeju Island.”
Tae Jo changed his words as if he remembered belatedly. Se Kyung looked at him with somewhat surprised eyes.
“Why?”
“No, I didn’t expect you to know that my mother lives in Jeju Island.”
“We shared family details when we wrote the contract.”
“Even so, it’s not common for the president to remember everything.”
A bitter smile hung on Se Kyung’s lips.
At 19, the president of the management company she was tied to for seven years, cared only about making money through Se Kyung, he had no interest in even knowing where her family lived.
She hadn’t even received the typical holiday gift from the company during those seven years, so much so that when she moved to a new company the year before last and received a beef gift for the Chuseok holiday, her mother asked her if it was okay to receive such a thing.
“Last year, my mother was very happy to receive the beef.”
“Really? Then I have to send it again this year.”
“But why are you here, President?”
“I’m waiting for Executive Kang. My car is somewhere else.”
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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