The Kim Ji An that Dan Woo knew wasn’t a person who suffered deprivation due to a mother who favored her sister.
She was just a thoughtless girl who had a fight with a guy friend who was like family and went to Jeju. She thought she was at least bright and not ordinary.
Then, from the other side of the bookshelf, Yu Jin’s voice was heard.
“Ji An.”
Dan Woo straightened his upper body, which had been shielding Ji An, with a slanted smile.
Ji An ran to Yu Jin and turned her around.
Ji An’s back entered Dan Woo’s view, leaning against the wall. She was getting further away, just like her voice getting smaller.
Yu Jin glanced back at Dan Woo and asked her.
“Who’s he?”
“Someone I know.”
“Which someone you know?”
“A person I met in Jeju. ……I ran into him by chance.”
“By chance?”
Yu Jin turned her head and looked back at Dan Woo. Then she narrowed her eyes and moved her face closer to Ji An.
“You mean you ran into him by chance? You two seemed quite intimate for such a relationship?”
“We had to live together for a month because of a double contract. Don’t misunderstand. We used separate rooms. ……Ah. That’s not it.”
Unknowingly, Ji An answered honestly and bit her lip, showing a troubled expression.
It was only a matter of time before Ha Joon found out. Then he would call Dan Woo a bad guy and would probably nag at her about how he knew it would happen.
Even excluding all those reasons, she didn’t want her feelings exchanged with Dan Woo to be revealed. Because they were so poignant. To the extent that she wanted to hide them.
Looking back at Yu Jin, Ji An pleaded.
“It’s a secret from Ha Joon. Never say it, okay?”
Yu Jin grabbed Ji An’s shoulder and nodded solemnly.
Whenever Ji An met a guy, Ha Joon would go and question him directly, so she had never had a first love.
“I understand how you feel. Why wouldn’t I? Still, we are adults now, do you want to do like when we were in high school?”
“He’ll investigate. He’s a specialist in that nowadays.”
“Right. He’ll dig up all my background.”
“Bad guy. Going around charming this girl and that girl.”
“One of them is me. ……I should be pretty good.”
Yu Jin shook her head in disappointment, which made Ji An burst out laughing.
Ji An and Yu Jin toured a house they had previously researched with a real estate agent.
It was neither wide nor narrow, and sunlight came in well. Given that her dad’s retirement money was mixed in the deposit, there was no financial issue. They chose a house with good security, considering she would live alone.
Lake Tower 1103.
Yu Jin thought this was good enough and happily helped with the contract.
Yu Jin, who had left the real estate agency, pulled Ji An close.
“You’re buying dinner.”
“Of course. Let’s eat something delicious.”
Ji An and Yu Jin entered an Italian restaurant called ‘La Ruma’.
Ji An, guided to her seat, brought up the story of her visit to a job fair. Yu Jin, who hadn’t even sat down, asked in an awkward position.
“What? What did you do?”
Yu Jin raised her hand. It meant to wait a moment. After finishing the order, she asked Ji An again.
“Outsourcing? That’s ridiculous. What about the tutoring classes?”
“I delayed the start of the class once for translation, and again for going to Jeju. How dare I ask them to start the class according to my schedule? If I get translation work, I will do it. I visited the publishing company.”
“But that’s not right.”
“I have never tried starting work in the morning and waiting to finish in the afternoon. When I thought about it, I realized I hadn’t.”
Maybe that’s why she felt lonely. She lived differently from others.
Ji An, who swallowed her words, awkwardly smiled while putting lobster risotto into her mouth. It was because Yu Jin was staring at her as if she could see through her.
Yu Jin was always a supportive friend. Moreover, it seemed unnecessary to dodge and deceive since she didn’t do anything seriously wrong.
Ji An took a sip of her drink and opened her mouth.
“If you pass, you’ll get to work at the Play Round Library, in customer support.”
“Your standing as a translator isn’t bad, with the academy and all. I hate to say this, but the library has its own staff, you’re just a contract worker.”
“What’s wrong with not being a regular worker? It’s a library, remember? You remember me preparing for the librarian position, don’t you?”
“Of course I remember. You suddenly stopped lecturing at the academy, so I thought you had forgotten.”
Translating novels was something she genuinely enjoyed, and teaching at the academy was something she was pushed into out of haste. She had also envied her friends who had secured jobs after failing the librarian examination several times.
Every time she failed the examination, Ha Joon would give her such a hard time. She found another job because she couldn’t bear his reproaches anymore.
‘How can you fail again? Are you a fool?’
‘The competition was incredibly fierce. Besides, it was tough!’
‘How are you studying foreign languages?’
‘I’m doing fine. They just need to hire someone who loves books. It’s too hard. How on earth did you study those weird laws?’
Ji An remembered looking at Ha Joon with incredulous eyes and chuckled.
She held her hands together, swaying them with a smile, as if begging for trust.
“I feel like I’ll regret it if I don’t try. There’s time to spare, wouldn’t you call this an opportunity?”
“Alright. I’ll trust you for now. If you’re feeling upset about anything, don’t suffer alone, alright?”
“Yeah. Definitely.”
Having finished moving, Ji An safely spent her first night at Lake Tower.
Although it was a moving service, there was a lot to do, like cleaning and tidying up.
After she finished cleaning, she sat quietly on the sofa, looking out the window. The sound of her cellphone made the afternoon sun seem heavy.
She knew what the phone alarm announcing her schedule was about.
[Dinner at the main house in Samsungdong. Dad’s request.]Staring out the window, she sat vacantly, wondering, ‘Do I really have to go?’ But the thought, ‘It’s dad’s request, I should go.’ promptly followed.
She turned her head to look at the clock.
It was a unique clock in the world, where Aunt Yeon Woo had designed the frame, and she had added constellation patterns with napkin art.
“1:47.”
Though she hadn’t decided on a place for it and had left it on the living room floor, the clock had tirelessly worked, ticking away. The moment she wished time would stop, unfamiliar music flowed through the house.
The sound was different from Happy Officetel, and Ji An belatedly realized it was the intercom. When a voice announced there was a visitor, she looked at the wall pad and saw an unexpected face.
“Ha Joon!”
“Yeah, me.”
Before Ji An could respond, Ha Joon added.
“I met attorney Jung at the courthouse yesterday. Just in case, I asked him first.”
“I guess so. It’s not like Yu Jin to not answer.”
“And your dad called me. I came because he asked me to.”
“Dad?”
“Open the door first.”
Ji An, who had opened the entrance gate, put on her slippers.
The moment she opened the front door and listened to the elevator sound, a sigh slipped from her lips.
I’m doing this again.
Back when she lived next to Happy Officetel, this was what she did every time Ha Joon, who had finished work, rang the intercom to apartment 902. The sight of her waiting for Ha Joon with the front door slightly open.
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My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
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Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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