은지가 핸들을 잡는 바람에 놀란 지안이 고개를 돌렸다.
“왜?”
“잠시만 세워.”
“그러니까 왜?”
“화장실도 급하고 멀미가 심해.”
“Mom!”
은지의 평소 언행과 전혀 어울리지 않는 행동에 지안의 눈이 왕방울만 하게 커졌다.
제니스 못지않게 우아함을 중요시하는 은지였다.
그런데 길 한복판에서 차를 세우라니.
“조금만 더 가면 돼. 참아 봐.”
“이것아. 너도 나이 들어 봐. 한 끼만 굶어도 손이 떨리고 배 속이 꿀렁거리면 앞뒤 안 가리 게 되니까.”
“Mom!”
생각지도 못한 상황에 당황한 지안이 브레이크를 밟았다. 차에서 내린 은지는 뒤도 돌아보지 않고 길가의 야산으로 사라졌다.
비상등을 켜두고 핸들을 톡톡 두드리던 지안이 대시보드의 시계를 흘깃 보았다. 시간이 제법 지났는데 은지가 내려오지 않자 슬슬 걱정이 몰려왔다.
그녀는 차에서 내려 은지가 사라진 산을 흘끔거리다 결국 걸음을 옮겼다.
“Mom! Mom.”
평소엔 입에 담지도 않던 ‘Mom’을 연달아 부르며 지안은 은지가 사라진 곳으로 걸어갔다.
그녀는 지금까지 살아오면서 ‘Mom’를 부른 횟수보다 더 많이 ‘Mom’를 불렀다.
“Mom. Mom!”
덜컥 겁이 나 초조하게 입술을 씹고 울먹일 때 은지의 목소리가 들렸다.
“Mom. I’m here.”
“Mom!”
지안이 은지를 발견한 곳은 비탈진 언덕 아래 축축한 낙엽이 깔린 곳이었다.
“Don’t come in!”
Ji-an, surprised, took a step, and at the same time, Eun-ji shouted, but it was already a belated cry.
The desolate mountain, rarely visited by people, had unclear boundaries of fallen leaves accumulated over several decades. The moment Ji-an stepped on that boundary, her body sank, slid downward, and slipped away.
Lying on the damp leaves, looking up, the path she had been standing on seemed higher than the summit of the mountain.
At that moment, Eun-ji said disappointedly, “Don’t move from there. You look like Mom.”
“Is Mom okay? Did something happen?”
In the midst of this, Eun-ji, seeing Ji-an taking care of her own business, looked at her in disbelief and nodded briefly.
“What should I do? I left my phone behind. Mom, too, right?”
“Yeah, that’s why you should listen to people and move carefully. You stepped forward without any fear, huh?”
“It’s all Mom’s fault. Because she never taught me those things since I was young.”
“What?”
“Good things, bad things, dangerous things, things I don’t like. Happy things. Sad things. Mom should have taught me all that. …So why did I hate Mom so much?”
Ji-an, looking at the sky through the leaves of a fresh tree, unintentionally poured out her inner thoughts.
Then, realizing it, she quickly turned her head away from Eun-ji’s absent-minded face.
“Why continue? Is it enough?”
“I… still like Mom 1%.”
Ji-an closed her mouth with that statement. She thought that saying she was 1% fond of her was not as bad as saying she hated her 99%.
She hoped that after this weekend, her improved feelings would be at 2%.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ji-an and Eun-ji emerged from the damp pile of fallen leaves in the afternoon. Jenice, who had finished the interview, happened to pass by Ji-an’s car on the road and found the two of them.
As soon as they saw the manager and Jenice, Ji-an and Eun-ji simultaneously shouted, “Don’t come in!”
After the uproar, involving rescue teams and the police, the three of them completed their hospital treatment and entered the rural house only in the evening.
Exhausted Eun-ji, without even exploring the house, preserved her spot and lay down.
However, Jenice seemed busy exploring the house. Then, she sighed sadly while looking at an empty frame hanging on the living room wall.
Ji-an and Eun-ji stood side by side, glancing at the empty frame and smiling sadly.
Lost in thought, Jenice spoke seriously.
“Should I ask the agency to do some Photoshop work? Nowadays, technology is so advanced; it can be like magic.”
“Do we really need to fill that empty frame with a big picture?”
“If not a big picture?”
“Don’t you have photos of Mom and Dad on your sister’s phone? I only have pictures taken every time Dad comes to Korea. If you check the cloud, there might be a few old photos.”
As suspicion filled Jenice’s eyes, Ji-an took her phone from her. Then, she placed two phones side by side in the center of a large frame.
“This is how it goes. To fill it with many small pictures. That’s why I prepared this.”
“Ah!”
Only then did Jenice realize that the box Ji-an brought in contained a photo printer, and she applauded with excitement.
“It’ll look more artistic that way. Oh! Admirable. My sister is really capable.”
A few minutes later, the sound of printing photos began to fill the small living room of the rural house.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
*
At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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