Apart from not having an excuse to contact Summer, it was a very peaceful day. However, the problem was that Summer was everything to Taeseok.
Shooting with a tight schedule, followed by interviews and photo shoots. Taeseok always did his best, but there was no soul in all those actions. From deep within, Taeseok gradually faded away.
Whenever Ji Hyuk purposely showed off his friendship with Summer on the set, Taeseok would seek tranquility with unknown anxiety, reaching for tranquilizers.
It finally came to light some time ago, even reaching Director Hong, but Taeseok couldn’t stop. He couldn’t sleep at all unless he depended on something.
The thought that it might be irreversible sometimes threw Taeseok into the depths of hell. When the assumption that his existence might be as insignificant to Summer as dust in the universe crossed his mind, everything in the world lost meaning and shattered.
One day, two days, a whole week…
He waited vaguely for Summer, who stubbornly didn’t show up on the set every day, letting each day wither away. Then, by chance, he found a business card in his pocket and got lost in deep thought.
A pesky reporter who followed Taeseok around.
Judging by the fact that there were no dating rumors so far, it seemed like this reporter didn’t have any immediate plans.
However, the fact that Summer was the culprit of the accident remained unchanged. He wondered what she was thinking. Taeseok, who had been contemplating for a moment, finally entered the phone number and pressed the call button.
A call came to Seo Taeseok.
[Writer Choi Yeoreum, I have something to discuss about the traffic accident.]Oh Hyun-sik took note of Seo Taeseok’s home address and hung up. Actually, he didn’t need to jot it down since he already had the address memorized, but it was a habit due to his profession.
“What are you going to do after work? You got a new place in front of this. Let’s have a drink.”
Oh Hyun-sik periodically contacted Summer to check on her health, and Summer, unable to resist the attraction, had received treatment a few more times since their encounter.
Actually, considering that Taeseok and Summer had no relationship so far, meeting under the pretext of the traffic accident involving Choi Yeoreum was a transparent excuse.
She wanted to test herself. To find out how far he had investigated.
Although it was obvious that she saw through it, she hung up without revealing any clues. Even she, who hung up without exposing her feelings, was a skillful manipulator.
“I’m busy.”
“What have you been up to lately?”
A colleague journalist frowned.
“Working. Hey, you. If you keep playing around, it’ll be perfect for you to starve to death.”
“Who are you meeting?”
As a fellow journalist, the journalist couldn’t resist curiosity and asked.
“…Seo Taeseok.”
Oh Hyun-sik, who hadn’t clicked on a stubborn folder since a while ago, clicked on it.
Dragging through a vast amount of data, he finally squeezed it into an external hard drive. Depending on how Seo Taeseok turned out, the truth might be different, but for now, Oh Hyun-sik had firmly set his mind to reveal the truth.
“What? Seo Taeseok?”
The colleague journalist widened his eyes, spitting out coffee in surprise, but he didn’t look at him and just organized his belongings.
“I’m leaving.”
“Hey! Hey! Did you finally pull it off? When did you catch such a big fish? Speak!”
Ignoring the barrage of questions on the back of his head, he hurriedly left the office.
“It seems like you’re not a college student after all.”
The entertainment reporter questioned Oh Hyun-sik’s presence at the university filming site. Oh Hyun-sik nodded his head while glancing at Taeseok, who seemed strangely tired. Director Hong served coffee hastily in front of both of them.
“Yes. I was doing undercover reporting.”
As discreet discussions were possible, and there was no suitable place to trust and meet, they ended up at Taeseok’s house. Oh Hyun-sik, who had only seen it in photos, was seeing the inside of this apartment for the first time.
As the most expensive apartment in Korea, its scale and interior surpassed imagination. Thinking once again about how monumental of a star Seo Taeseok was, he spoke.
“I was following Seo Taeseok.”
At that time and even now, if he had written about what he knew on the front page of an exclusive, many things would have changed. He might have become a more famous reporter and lived a more affluent life.
He could afford all kinds of dolls that the daughter sang with every day, and he could also replace the kimchi refrigerator that the wife wished for with the latest model.
“But the accident was a coincidence.”
“Yes.”
He frequently questioned himself why he hadn’t made such choices but couldn’t find a clear answer.
Perhaps he was slightly attracted to Taeseok’s humane side. Seo Taeseok, observed for several years, was always a polite star who never raised his voice to stylists and managers.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
