Tap tap. Tap. Tap tap.
He followed the faint sound that could be heard and headed towards the balcony. As he climbed the stairs, the sound of a basketball hitting the ground became louder.
“You’ve dropped off Ji An, right?”
“Yes.”
“I’ll report a few things and then go down. Rest well until tomorrow. … Woo Jung Hyun caused an incident at the Blue Moon Club. He wasn’t arrested, he’s staying at his officetel now.”
As Dan Woo threw the bouncing basketball that he had hit off the floor, the ball that left his hand passed through the basket and fell to the ground.
Only then did Tae Yoon approach closer and ask.
“You didn’t have any schedule, you could’ve stayed longer with Ji An, right?”
“I had an appointment. … From now on, don’t call Ji An for things like this.”
“That depends on what you do.”
Dan Woo spoke in a firm tone, as if warning Tae Yoon.
“If I say don’t do it, then don’t.”
Tae Yoon started to reply, but then closed his mouth.
The Dan Woo that Tae Yoon knew was a warm, affectionate, and witty friend, so everyone liked him.
However, Tae Yoon was most hurt because the Dan Woo he met again in the US acted like an emotionless machine.
However, glimpses of Dan Woo’s old self would appear when he was with Ji An.
Therefore, Ji An was more essential to Tae Yoon than anyone else.
Dan Woo laid down his sports towel and reached for the tablet.
“Hand it over.”
The tablet displayed information about Woo Jung Hyun’s activities and content related to Haesong Bio to be spread on SNS.
After reading the content on the screen, Dan Woo marked a few sentences with a touch pen and handed it back.
“That part seems too expertlike for a general person to post.”
“……”
“Let’s upload the composition of the drug under the name of the experts after a few days. Is Ji Young okay with this?”
“She said she will do as told.”
The night air was incredibly peaceful considering the stormy day they had.
The night breeze blowing on the penthouse’s balcony was so warm that it was hard to tell whether it was the city’s heat or the approach of spring.
Ji An saw the white van stopped in front of her at the Lakeside Tower garden, lightly kicking the garden with her foot.
Seeing the vehicle manager get out of the driver’s seat and open the backseat door for Jenis, Ji An grumbled to herself.
“Sister, you should open it yourself. It’s not like you don’t have hands.”
Ji An bent down towards the vehicle manager, who was Jenis’s manager, and pulled on Jenis’s arm.
Looking up at the Lakeside Tower, Jenis exclaimed.
“Is this the place? It looks good. A residential officetel, should I get one too?”
“What for? You’ve got plenty of money, just go to a hotel.”
Talking about buying a house as casually as buying gum from a convenience store. Even though she would only live there a few days in a year.
“I thought it might be nice for occasional breaks. You get found out quickly in a hotel, and there might be articles written.”
“Why do you want to be alone when you have a spacious house? …Follow me.”
Ji An smirked at Jenis as she unlocked the front door of the shared entrance. It felt strange, as if they had developed sisterly affection now that they were not in the waiting room.
Jenis’s exclamation, starting with “Wow!”, continued from the elevator to the inside of the house.
“The entrance is so small. What to do!”
“What do you mean, what to do? Just come in. What’s the point of it being bigger when I live alone? And this is how houses of ordinary people are.”
Ji An thought about the entrances of Dan Woo’s penthouse and the main house in Samsungdong.
The entrances of the houses where the rich live were indeed wide.
Jenis asked a lot of questions all at once while looking around the house.
“How is it to live alone? Can you sleep in as much as you want and order delivery food anytime?”
“I live roughly like that… Sit on the sofa for a moment. I’ll change my clothes and come out.”
As Ji An pointed to the sofa and walked into her room, Jenis followed her in and raised an excited voice.
“Give me some comfortable clothes too.”
“Clothes?”
Ji An looked at Jenis’s uncomfortable dress with a designer logo stuck right in the middle of the chest. She handed Jenis a pair of pajamas and a slab tshirt without a word.
As Jenis was straightening the wrinkles out of the shirt, she started talking about her mother Eun Ji’s gathering.
“My mother stayed overnight at the hotel for a college reunion. She was worried because my father wasn’t there, but she went anyway.”
Eun Ji, her mother, majored in piano at a provincial university, but she didn’t have much of a career as a pianist.
But when Jenis became a worldrenowned violinist, she proudly used her daughter’s name as a medal and started attending various social gatherings, including alumni reunions.
Ji An let out a hesitant voice.
It would be understandable if she received a call asking her to take care of Jenis, but she didn’t remember receiving any call from her mother.
“I thought she wouldn’t go because she’d be saying ‘what about our Jenis?’ But she went even though my father wasn’t there.”
“Why wouldn’t she go? I’m not a child… I told her I’m fine and she should go.”
Jenis felt sorry for lying to her mother, but she wanted to visit Ji An’s place.
After Ji An visited their home last time, she had thought about the times when the family lived together before she went to study abroad. As a result, she began to think a lot about Ji An, who seemed to have drifted away somewhere at some point.
It had been years since the family had a meal together, even though Ji An was always there to help with her schedules, albeit reluctantly. She didn’t feel good seeing Eun Ji, who still treated Ji An harshly despite having Attorney Yoon around.
Why did I take it for granted that my sister, who was disliked by our mother, would help me?
What was it like for my sister when the whole family was overseas?
Jenis wanted to share her mother’s love with Ji An, but that wasn’t something she could do at will.
But couldn’t she approach as an older sister, not as Jenis?
Even visiting Ji An’s solitary home and gifting a new bag were awkward gestures, but her intentions were genuine.
Jenis held out the shopping bag she had been carrying since the car.
When Ji An asked, “What’s this?” and looked straight at it, Jenis hugged the shopping bag without a word, as if to say she should just accept it.
Inside the shopping bag was a designer bag.
“Take it. It’s the new release this season. You saw me carrying it when I entered the country, didn’t you? Didn’t you see it sold out everywhere since then?”
“Why give me something you’ve used? … Take it back. I’m not a big animal lover, and I only use fabric bags.”
“So that’s how it is? I thought you didn’t have any money because you only had shabby bags.”
Ji An looked at Jenis with a complicated gaze, not knowing whether to describe her as pure or tactless.
Then, with a flare of irritation, a harsh voice slipped out.
“Why wouldn’t I have money? I may not have as much as you, but I earn enough to spend. Are you ignoring me just by listening to mom?”
As Ji An nervously clicked the TV remote, Jenis looked around awkwardly.
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The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
