Ji An, who had entered the house, took out a book placed on top of a hallabong.
Dan Woo put the basket on the kitchen island table. Holding a hallabong in one hand, he asked.
“So, who gave you this?”
“Mr. Nam Sang Chul. The previous owner of this house.”
As Ji An replied casually, Dan Woo blocked her way and fixed his gaze on her.
“Nam Sang Chul? Why him?”
“Why indeed. Probably came to deliver hallabongs. He was also apologizing.”
Opening the cap of a water bottle and quenching her thirst, Ji An scratched between her brows and turned towards Dan Woo.
She took a step closer, stood on her tiptoes, and looked straight into Dan Woo’s deep eyes.
Humans are adaptive creatures. If you see something enough times, it might not seem like much.
Whether it was in the yard or if Dan Woo looked at her with those eyes, it was more dangerous. So, she planned to become desensitized to his gaze.
Stepping back, Dan Woo looked at her and asked.
“Why?”
“You know, Mr. Woo Dan Woo?”
Dan Woo moved his body, which had been leaning against the island table, one step to the side.
When Ji An moved her step to the side and followed, he moved one step again. She followed his step.
She kept looking into Dan Woo’s eyes.
No matter how much she looked, they were kind eyes, so why was her heart beating like this?
“So, Mr. Woo Dan Woo. Are you wearing lenses?”
“No.”
Dan Woo, who was getting uncomfortable, put his palm on Ji An’s forehead and pushed, causing her upper body to retreat.
Ji An, who was trying not to be pushed back, grabbed his clothes and shouted desperately.
“Wait. Just a second. I’m falling.”
“You… really.”
Once she regained her balance, Dan Woo walked away from the kitchen island at a fast pace.
He, with his back turned, closed his eyes tightly.
Ji An, pushed back by her upper body, had brushed her lower body precariously as she grabbed her own clothes.
To hide his confusion, Dan Woo picked up a stubborn hallabong and began to peel it.
In contrast, Ji An was calm.
“Mr. Nam Sang Chul told me to be careful, saying that the men living in this house are bad.”
Coughing, Dan Woo faked a cough.
With an ambiguous smile, he popped a piece of hallabong into his mouth, put his arm on the island table, and called Ji An.
“Try some.”
Standing next to him, Ji An put a piece of hallabong into her mouth.
“Yum, it’s delicious.”
Tousling Ji An’s bangs, Dan Woo murmured low.
“Don’t trust people too easily.”
“People have to trust people, then who should I trust? Yum, it’s delicious.”
Pushing another piece of hallabong into his mouth, Dan Woo handed another piece to her while resuming speaking.
“I’m not a good guy. …… That guy, Ha Joon, is from the same department as me.”
“What does that mean?”
“Doesn’t Ha Joon say that there are many bad guys in the world?”
When she turned her head, Ji An’s eyes met Dan Woo’s gaze. Blinking her round eyes, Ji An replied.
“He did.”
“Ha Joon did a good job educating you. He just couldn’t indoctrinate you.”
Dan Woo, who mentioned Ha Joon whom he’d never met, smiled blandly.
Ji An also spoke with an incredulous expression.
“Anyone would think you two are friends.”
“Since you’re my friend, Ha Joon is a friend too.”
“Ha Joon will hate it. If I make friends, he’ll question it. What does the friend do? How did you know them? Things like that.”
“Is that so? Then I shouldn’t be friends with Ha Joon. I prefer people who befriend me without conditions.”
“That’s a roundabout way of saying you like me.”
Dan Woo’s voice, as he grinned, was affectionate.
“I really like you. You didn’t know that? I can’t live in the same house with someone I dislike.”
Ji An, who was standing side by side at the island table, blushed. Her heart fluttered and she turned her head to avoid his gaze, looking out into the yard.
Dan Woo’s gaze also followed her to the yard.
The yard deep into Jeju’s night, the grass dried yellow by the winter wind, and even the starlight of the night sky, it was a cold day.
Everything in his sight was desolate, but Ji An’s voice that reached Dan Woo was not.
“The yard is pretty. It seems like everywhere here is like that. It strangely soothes people’s hearts.”
“Indeed… yes.”
“I’m going to take a break tomorrow. What time are you going out? I’ll be quiet until then.”
“I’m not going out. And it’s okay if you chatter all day. I don’t mind.”
Ji An frowned insolently and asked Dan Woo.
“What on earth does that ‘chatter’ mean?”
“Did you forget the story of the duck commander? The day the boiler broke down, I made you the duck commander.”
“Oh right. That was it. That was the sound.”
“Forgetting that… It’s time to sleep. I have to go up too.”
Dan Woo, about to go up to the second floor, pointed to a book on the table.
The reason was that he remembered her whom he had accidentally seen at the library a few days ago.
Books had increased on the empty bookshelf, and since she wasn’t a resident of Jeju, she didn’t borrow them from the library.
“Do you happen to like books?”
“Didn’t I say I do?”
Looking at the book, Ji An’s eyes sorrowfully welled up before she added more words.
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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