The Sin of Loving Me (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 3
After cutting ties with Kyung Ae and Yeon, Hae Joo had no choice but to become a stubborn fighter.
She never broke down, even in front of customers who hurled insults at her, believing that crying meant losing. It was the grit she had built up dealing with all kinds of people as a sales clerk.
Thanks to those efforts, handling people who hit on her or acted rudely was no big deal. Even the coworkers who used to ignore and envy Hae Joo eventually stopped treating her carelessly.
After becoming an actress, she earned praise from film directors for her boldness that didn’t feel rookie-like at all.
Hae Joo herself believed she had quite a strong spirit, but compared to most, yet it was nothing next to Do Jun. From him emanated a presence overwhelming enough to crush anyone ordinary.
If what she was seeing now was only a fraction of it?
He might be a man she couldn’t handle.
“Park Do Jun-ssi.”
“Speak.”
“If you interrupt me one more time, I won’t let it slide.”
The corner of Do Jun’s mouth lifted briefly before settling back.
To him, a rabbit that had walked straight into the tiger’s den and was barking angrily was nothing but adorable.
“Sorry. Go ahead.”
“I’m an actress, and I want to keep acting in the future too.”
“So?”
“As I said yesterday, everything got messed up because the fact we’re married got out.”
“Is being married a crime?”
“The public didn’t know I was married, and I didn’t feel any particular need to announce it either.”
“Why not?”
“Because it was exactly two weeks! That’s the length of the marriage I knew about.”
Hae Joo had been prepared to humbly admit it if the marriage ever came to light. The man she had thought was her husband had passed away after their short connection, so she could package it however she wanted.
But the fact that their marital relationship had continued all this time was on a completely different level. It only looked like she had hidden the existence of a living husband.
The price for unintentionally deceiving the public was brutal.
The companies she had signed CF contracts with demanded the exact truth. If her image took a hit, not only would the contracts be terminated, she would also be held liable for the losses.
Sensational articles poured out in real time. With unspeakable malicious comments added on top, public sentiment was turning ugly.
“I see. I don’t know much about the entertainment industry.”
Only now did Do Jun respond seriously, nodding repeatedly as though lost in thought.
“If things keep going like this, my life is over. There’s no hope left.”
The person indispensable to Hae Joo’s life as an actress was Jin Han.
She was so guarded and distrustful of people that casting her had been a headache from the start.
He poured energy into making her the best actress possible, to the point people at the agency said he was excessively devoted.
And the result was success.
As soon as her debut film was released, Hae Joo was hailed as the next-generation actress to lead the industry and quickly rose to fame.
Then the marriage scandal broke. If she secretly divorced now, there would be no turning back. Considering the image Hae Joo had built up until now, as Jin Han said, it was better for Do Jun to play the role of a pure, devoted husband.
“Tell me what you want.”
“Can you really help me?”
“If it’s possible.”
A young, promising actress having a secret marriage was already difficult enough.
She had to overcome this crisis no matter what.
The agency had already suggested pretending Do Jun was a husband who had devoted himself to Hae Joo.
They were supposed to act like a couple who had continued true love, but whether that was feasible remained unknown.
What was strange was Do Jun’s attitude.
Unlike the anxious Hae Joo, he exuded an inexplicable ease.
The way the corner of his mouth occasionally lifted briefly and his eyes curved secretly showed it.
Yet he wasn’t being unserious. He actively responded to what Hae Joo said while periodically falling into deep thought. That only made his true intentions harder to read.
“Let’s do it this way.”
“Tell me.”
“From now on, Do Jun-ssi and I are a married couple bound by first love.”
“First love…”
“Do Jun-ssi will be the pure, devoted husband who quietly supported me when I was still unknown.”
“Pure and devoted?”
“Yes. Can you do it?”
“So we’re going to act like we’ve been living together from the very beginning?”
Deceiving the public wasn’t something Hae Joo liked either.
Moreover, in the entertainment industry, one wrong move could bury you forever—it was dangerous.
They couldn’t erase the three full years of marriage either. Getting divorced now as if they’d just been caught would be an even bigger mistake.
“If we’re going to do it, it should be a romance the public would envy, right?”
“I actually want to ask you the same thing.”
“Ask what?”
“Can you do it?”
His low, resonant voice vibrated through the room and stimulated all of Hae Joo’s senses. It suddenly rushed in and shattered even her last bit of guard.
A quiet madness captivated her.
There were rumors he was insane—it seemed those rumors were about his talent for driving others crazy.
The one flustered by this unexpected situation was Hae Joo. At Do Jun’s provocation—which felt far from romance—she turned her gaze to empty space.
“What do you mean?”
“I’m asking if you can really pull off romance with me.”
Do Jun’s counter-question completely scrambled Hae Joo’s mind.
Honestly lacking confidence, she squeezed her eyes shut and opened them again.
“I’m an actress—do you think I can’t even manage that much?”
“None of the films you’ve done were romances, were they?”
“What are you thinking right now?”
“Because acting in front of a camera for a little while isn’t the same as actually living as husband and wife.”
Legally, the two of them were indeed a real married couple. Yet it was an ambiguous situation where they couldn’t quite be called a couple.
In an instant, the daily life of a real married couple unfolded in Hae Joo’s mind.
Sharing the same bed in the same house, passionately making love every night…
For the first time, Hae Joo became afraid of the night.
Just imagining it made her ears turn red and she snapped.
“Hey!”
“We’ve been married for a whole three years. Wouldn’t a normal couple have seen everything there is to see?”
“Why are you saying that—what’s your intention?”
“I’m looking forward to it.”
“Hey, Park Do Jun-ssi!”
“Normal couples wouldn’t bat an eye even if one walked around the house naked. So whether it’ll be okay is up to you, not me.”
Hae Joo hadn’t even thought that far.
To perfectly pretend to be a couple, living in the same house as Do Jun came first.
Suddenly she felt sorry to Jin Han, who had made her an actress. Trying to avoid a brief shower, she had walked straight into a typhoon—so her tone grew sharper.
“Do I look that easy to you?”
“We’re a married couple. A real married couple who’ll see everything there is to see.”
The tie was neatly wrapped between the perfectly buttoned collar of Do Jun’s shirt.
Every time he spoke, thick veins appeared and disappeared along his throat.
Even though he was covered head to toe in a suit, Do Jun was different.
Despite being fully clothed, the ends of his words—spoken with those straight lips—carried a strange seduction.
Unintentionally, more images overlapped in Hae Joo’s mind.
When she pictured the strong body hidden beneath that suit, she clenched her fists.
“We don’t have to act like a couple even inside the house.”
“We have to keep up appearances at home too, don’t we?”
“Stop pushing me like that.”
“You’re the one who needs to stop avoiding reality and accept it.”
According to the information she had heard, reporters were already digging into Hae Joo’s past. If they acted half-heartedly, it would be worse than doing nothing.
So his words weren’t wrong. She just wanted to avoid it.
“It’s exactly one year.”
“One year?”
At Hae Joo’s serious expression, Do Jun’s mouth formed a straight line.
He leaned deeply into the sofa and poured the coffee Hae Joo had left into his mouth.
Soon the sound of ice being crunched rang out.
After swallowing the remaining ice cubes, he gave a short nod.
“Let’s maintain this relationship for one year only. After that, we part ways for each other’s happiness.”
“So I’m just being used and then thrown away.”
“Used?”
“I wouldn’t mind living like this forever. The one who’s desperate is you, Lee Hae Joo.”
“How could that be possible?”
“I was born as trash who can’t live an ordinary life.”
Do Jun’s brows lowered darkly. His cold gaze held no attachment to life.
President Park hadn’t kidnapped Hae Joo and forced her to stamp the marriage papers either.
No matter the circumstances, arguing over every detail now was pointless.
“Don’t you date either, Park Do Jun-ssi?”
“You’re worried about someone else’s love life? Pretty nosy.”
“…!”
“That’s probably why a mother would enter a loveless marriage to pay off debts.”
Hae Joo’s gaze toward Do Jun turned icy.
Anything else was fine, but this was a wound that must never be touched.
Clenching her blood-drained hand, she shot back with a sneer.
“What do you know.”
“…”
“Do you have any idea how I’ve survived all this time through sheer spite?”
Do Jun stood up from the sofa.
He took a long cigarette from the silver case on the desk and walked to the window. Just as he was about to bring the filter to his lips, he paused.
He shook his head, then threw both the cigarette and Zippo lighter into the trash.
Returning to the sofa, he looked straight at Hae Joo.
“Don’t force yourself to endure. I’m already doing enough of that.”
It was Do Jun’s rough consolation.
The will seeping from his eyes was so clear that there was no lie in his words—Hae Joo could read it perfectly.
Feeling awkward, she brushed her hair back.
As her heated emotions subsided, a sudden thought occurred to her.
From the very beginning, his words and actions felt as if he had known Hae Joo all along—somehow that bothered her.
Even now, Do Jun was already acting like her husband.
“I have a question.”
“Yeah.”
“Did you… happen to know me before?”
“You’re an actress.”
“Not that. I’m asking if you knew me before that.”
“Does that matter? Shouldn’t we put out the urgent fire first?”
A subtle war of nerves continued.
Confidence leaked from Do Jun’s expression as he deftly dodged her suspicion.
He really was someone you could never figure out.
His large yet smooth hands rested on his knees, urging Hae Joo’s answer.
Life returned to Do Jun’s eyes as he concentrated on the conversation. Shaking her head slightly—feeling the frivolity she had sensed at their first meeting was now far away—Hae Joo drew a deep breath.
“The urgent fire… we have to put it out.”
It was a serious issue that even required moving houses.
Even if she checked everything meticulously, time was desperately short.
Worry seeped from Hae Joo’s tightly knitted brow.
Her words kept getting stuck, and she was already exhausted.
“I’ll finish what I was saying.”
She couldn’t dig into everything right here. First, as he said, they had to put out the urgent fire and release a statement.
With no time to argue, Hae Joo clearly stated her conditions.
“We have to divorce in exactly one year.”
“Fine. But you also have to meet the condition I want.”
Hae Joo realized her mistake. In her haste, she hadn’t even considered that Do Jun might be a victim too.
With this, the compromise between the two became a tense tug-of-war.
Yet the question she had momentarily set aside quietly raised its head again.
She had come to him only yesterday. Do Jun had welcomed her as if he’d been waiting, and when she suddenly made her demand, he immediately set a condition.
It could only be explained as either incredibly quick thinking or that he had known this would happen.
“What’s the condition?”
“During the one year of married life, we have to live in the same house.”
“We are not sharing a bedroom.”
“I’ll concede on that part.”
“And?”
That much Hae Joo had expected.
She felt nervous about what he would say next.
Even if she didn’t like being dragged around by urgency, she was willing to hear him out.
“I don’t want to tell clumsy lies, even for your sake. Because I’m serious.”
“What does that mean?”
“You’ll find out as we live together. How about it?”
Lighting a dying ember only takes a gentle breath. Right now, Hae Joo felt her normal thinking had stopped because of the wind Do Jun was blowing.
All she could do at the moment was thoroughly defend and guard against his flames.
“I can’t allow skinship inside the house.”
“Does that mean it’s okay in public?”
The problem was the traps lurking everywhere.
Do Jun, mouth wide open ready to swallow Hae Joo whole, was definitely a monster.
“Only when absolutely necessary.”
The moment the compromise was reached.
Male lead says he’s pregnant — and it’s female lead’s child
Something seems a bit off about this world.
Wang Zhao thought as she watched a pregnant man walking towards her…
Intro
Female lead finds herself in a world where the men who possess the ability to bear children.
As she navigates this unfamiliar reality, she is caught off guard by the sudden appearance of her boyfriend, who reveals that he is pregnant.
Is this truly her boyfriend?
Why can’t she recall any details about their time together?
She begins to doubt whether the child her boyfriend is carrying is even hers.
Is there a hidden reason behind her amnesia, or could it be a side effect of her sudden arrival in this strange new world?
Just when it seems the protagonist’s life couldn’t become any more entangled, her ex-boyfriend makes an unexpected appearance, raising questions about the protagonist’s past.
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