About to open the driver’s seat door, Ha Joon turned his body slightly toward Ji An.

“Why are you sorry? The meal was good.”
Ha Joon lifted one side of his lips and smiled bitterly.

He used to say the same thing every time Ji An’s family returned from overseas performances.

Why do you hate your own family? Your hatred sounds like the capricious tantrum of a full stomach. What you are doing is common jealousy between sisters. Don’t be sensitive and come home.

All the decorum of the world, she would babble as if she were the only person living up to it.

While brushing Ji An’s hair, Ha Joon spoke softly.

“Our Ji An has grown up well, without a single crease. Wait here.”

Ha Joon clenched his fist, tapped Ji An’s arm, and got out of the car.

Ji An got out of the car and blankly watched the commercial building where Ha Joon had disappeared.

Being treated as a jealous younger sibling would have been better.

To put it mildly, she felt embarrassed; seriously speaking, she was deeply hurt and ashamed to look at Ha Joon.

Her image floundering within her family…

She felt like she had become a person who couldn’t even do the basics.

As she got on a bus that had just stopped, she looked back and saw Ha Joon coming out of the pharmacy.

Ji An was unable to cope with her surging emotions. Facing her mother’s cold gaze and sharp words made her unbearably miserable.

As tears welled up, she wiped them with the back of her hand, trying to console her uncomfortably sullen self.

“I just thought being alone would help improve this terrible mood.”
It might be hypocrisy, but to strangers’ eyes, she’d just be a regular person.

Ding.

Just then, a text message arrived on Ji An’s phone. It was a message stating that she had passed the interview and was accepted into the customer support department of Play Round.

There was no law saying people should die. Even in the middle of this, she was receiving a message notifying her of acceptance.

Ha Joon paused as he was about to get in the car. Looking at the empty passenger seat, he straightened up.

He surveyed the path he had come from over the car, but Ji An was nowhere to be found.

Seeing that her bag was gone, he looked down at his phone, which was diverting to voicemail, with a pained expression.

Ding.

The name Ji An appeared clearly on the phone screen alerting a new text message.

[Thank you, Ha Joon. Today is that day for me. The day I want to be among strangers. Don’t wait in front of my house, just go straight home.] Reading the message, Ha Joon murmured to himself.

“What are you thankful for? Why do you try to be alone on such days?”

He quickly pressed the keypad and sent a message.

[Where are you. I’ll be with you.] Knowing that he wouldn’t receive a reply, he still sent the message.

The word ‘thank you’ felt so distant. He didn’t want to hear ‘thank you’ from Ji An again.

The subtly twisting and misaligned events were grating on his nerves, and he felt impatient towards Ji An, who was always running as far as he tried to approach.

Although he got into the driver’s seat, Ha Joon couldn’t start the car for a long time.

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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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