In front of the empty seat of the woman, a vanilla ice cream with fresh strawberries was placed.
“This is a service from our chef. He wanted to express his gratitude for the pleasant compliments. Well then, have a wonderful time.”
Everything provided to ‘Ban Do Construction, Seo Ji-wan,’ whether it be a hotel or a restaurant, included more than the special services offered to the general public.
The man who had received the best service without any difficulty, even making things not on the menu, laughed ironically at the newly presented ‘service.’
‘It shows that you’ve received plenty of love.’
The conscience of a man who had never given even a ‘little’ of love was stirred without a place to land.
“Wow! How did you know that I like vanilla ice cream?”
The woman who returned from the restroom seemed to misunderstand that Jiwan had ordered the ice cream for her.
“No, not me.”
“What?”
Inadvertently pointing at Jiwan’s chin, a large man wearing a white kitchen hat straightened his neck, stared, then shyly nodded at Doum’s gaze.
Only then did Doum realize the chef’s service and smiled brightly.
“They say, you are adorable.”
Perhaps afraid that I might misunderstand and say something I want to say, Doum conveyed the message on my behalf, and it was so brazen that it was almost ruthless.
Whether she said it or not, Doum presented a spoonful of ice cream to Jiwan.
“Oh, please.”
To the server with sparkling eyes who had supposedly received plenty of love and to the chef who was eagerly watching for Doum’s reaction to the dessert I made, there was no way to avoid their gaze.
Unable to refuse and feeling like a woman showered with love, Jiwan willingly accepted and ate the ice cream.
Sweet.
Almost sickeningly sweet.
As a man who originally didn’t like sweet things, when Jiwan furrowed his eyebrows, Doum laughed.
When the woman laughed, the server standing across from her laughed, and the large chef, in turn, also laughed.
It was a good night.
No, it was more than good; it was a pleasant night.
On the way back after finishing the meal.
Help, who was sticking close enough to touch her nose to the car window, looked at everything in awe, like a country girl who had just arrived in the city.
“Is there anywhere you want to go?”
Since we were out, in a rather good mood, the offered suggestion was a bit forced.
Unlike the previous atmosphere that exuded a strong, oppressive atmosphere with polite words, even with the suddenly shortened tone, the atmosphere was much softer.
“Anywhere is fine.”
The woman’s eyes twinkled as if she were asking for something extraordinary.
Nodding.
With Jiwan’s brief gesture, Help readily raised her hand to point.
“Then, there!”
It was a large discount store with a bright yellow square sign and black font clearly engraved.
“Is that it?”
“Yes, hurry.”
Even during parking, Help tapped her feet.
Every time those small feet bounced as if dancing on the ground, Jiwan’s heart fluttered along with it.
Wondering how excited she would be, just like in the garden waiting for me, and not understanding why she wanted to go on a date with me to a place that could be anywhere and anytime, Jiwan reluctantly took hold of the cart in her hand, followed her bustling departure, and eagerly pursued the disappearing woman.
The first shyly brought item that Help returned with was women’s hygiene products.
Although the blind woman, who shopped for groceries once a week and said she could buy anything I needed anytime, was willing to purchase even sanitary pads, it seemed unreasonable to ask a perfect stranger to buy them.
Despite trying to avert my gaze and pretend to be disinterested, if I wasn’t curious about what the woman brought by bouncing around like a squirrel, requesting even sanitary pads from a supposedly loved woman, it would be a lie.
Carrying a set of pajamas with characters drawn on them and a small stand, she disappeared and reappeared several times.
“How about this?”
The cups, each featuring a male and female character, were exclusively for couples. When the two are combined, a heart is formed above the characters.
“Cheesy.”
As if anticipating Jiwan’s reaction, Doum nonchalantly placed two cups in the cart.
“Originally, love is cheesy. Let’s make this my wedding gift. I received one too.”
When Doum unfolded a small hand that would hardly become half of Jiwan’s hand, a silver ring on her ring finger twinkled.
The cubic on the nail was not a simple cubic but a 5-carat diamond. The woman might not know that it was the price of a small studio apartment in Seoul.
Otherwise, since she would have to dig the soil with hands that had hundreds of millions attached to them, plant flowers, do the dishes, and couldn’t even wash the muddy sneakers, she wouldn’t know.
When Wooseok, who saw Doum digging the soil with her bare hands for the first time, rushed to her, he said it was better than not joining the precious thing rather than not publicly inserting himself into it.
Even without being conscious of it, Doum recognizing expensive jewels like a ghost was much better than the previous women who openly recognized them, and it was a marriage to show off, so it was only right to expose what could be shown.
Walking side by side with the woman, both holding cups, as they entered the grocery section, Doum stopped at each tasting corner as if it were a rite of passage.
Not looking like someone who just had a course meal, the woman sequentially pushed various foods stabbed with disposable forks like cookies, dumplings, and kiwi into Jiwan’s mouth.
“Enough.”
Jiwan turned his face away from the fifth fork.
“Ah, Saxy is so busy feeding her husband, so busy.”
“When you see something delicious, it seems like you feed your husband first, are you newlyweds?”
“Hoho, take it when I give it now. I won’t give it later. Hoho.”
As the closing time approached,
With few customers, Doum’s gentle act of filling the man’s mouth before her own was seen as charming by the tasting corner ladies.
“There is no separate male and female. How do couples look so alike? How well they live.”
To the words uttered here and there, Doum blushed.
“To have a quiet drink as a couple, only this cheese is missing.”
At that word,
“Please, that cheese.”
While unexpectedly getting cheese, the woman even seemed to enjoy the act.
By this point, it didn’t matter that they came to the mart not to buy anything but just to have fun pretending to be a lovely newlywed couple.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
