Ji An quickly thinned her cheeks that had swollen from eating.
“It’s delicious. …Do you know? I was about to go for lunch when Woo called me.”
“I didn’t expect Tae Yoon to call you.”
Dan Woo often punished his body for things he couldn’t control, even in America.
It was like when he heard the news of his father’s accident, whom he believed would help him, and when he found out his mother was confined in a closed ward, he suppressed his emotions by tormenting his body.
It was a mistake to think that Tae Yoon would stand by and watch, as he had done in the past.
He already seemed to know that his boss had found comfort in Ji An and had given her his heart.
Ji An felt heavy at the sound of Dan Woo’s sorrowful voice.
“……Eat. It’s good.”
Instead of asking what was wrong, she put some bean sprouts on Dan Woo’s rice.
She wanted to hear about his haggard face, choked voice, and the small wound on the back of his hand when he was calm.
Hoping that he would feel at peace, even for a moment, because of her, Ji An suppressed her questions.
Dan Woo, too, for Ji An, who hadn’t had lunch, spared his words and put side dishes that suited his taste on top of the rice.
“This is also good. Try it.”
“It’s royal fern.”
“Royal fern? I didn’t know the name because it’s the first fern I’ve tasted since I came to Korea. I learned something.”
Ji An chewed on the green stem coated with perilla powder, the size of a finger.
The two who met eyes smiled as if they had made a promise. The longing was doubled seeing each other’s faces after a few days due to Dan Woo’s business trip.
After putting two sets of oneperson dishes in the kitchen counter, Dan Woo put his hand on Ji An’s shoulder.
As he turned towards the Irish table and opened the lid of the ceramic container, there were neatly prepared fruits in the divided dish, perfect for a bite.
With his arm around Ji An’s shoulder, Dan Woo moved his other hand to put a grape in her mouth.
As he promptly added another one, causing her cheeks to bulge, Ji An looked up at Dan Woo with furrowed eyebrows.
In a muffled tone, she refused the third grape approaching her mouth.
“What are you doing? Stop it.”
“When I first put in a grape, your cheek bulged, so I put in a second, and now that both cheeks are bulging, I’m curious about what to do next.”
It was Dan Woo who brought up an absurd prank because one of Ji An’s cheeks, which usually would have bitten the grape in her mouth, didn’t and bulged.
“You’re naughty. It’s the Woo Dan Woo I know, not the CEO.”
Dan Woo, with his lips against Ji An’s cheek busy chewing grapes, asked in a low voice.
“Why don’t you ask? You must be curious about what happened.”
Ji An, gently touching her lips to his, began to speak carefully.
“The truth is, I waited for you last night, thinking you might come. But when you didn’t call, I thought you must be busy. …But seeing you now, I should have nudged you to come see me. I shouldn’t have left you hurting alone. That’s the first thought that came to mind.”
“……”
“Do you need a reason ‘why’ when you think about me?”
“No. I just want to do it because it’s you, I want to hold you, touch you.”
“See, you don’t need a ‘why’. I would like to be a comfort to you when you’re hurting. That was all. …You can tell me about today whenever you feel like it.”
“I think I got a good girlfriend.”
Dan Woo gently stroked Ji An’s hair, briefly recalling his own situation, such as being chased to America, and his relationship with his mother and the Haesong Group.
If possible, he wanted to disclose to Ji An about his status as an illegitimate child of the Haesong family and the matters concerning his mother before they got exposed in the media.
However, he didn’t want to do so today after showing his broken state.
“My surroundings are a bit complicated. I feel like I have to tell you something, but I need a bit of time. Can you wait for a little?”
“I will.”
Just then, the intercom rang, and their gaze simultaneously turned towards the wall pad. There was no one else who would visit unless it was Tae Yun, but he never used the intercom.
As Dan Woo approached the wall pad, Tae Yun was seen standing, shrugging his shoulders on the monitor.
“What’s going on?”
“I don’t know either. Open the door for now.”
Dan Woo was startled as he saw a woman entering with Tae Yun. The woman with a kind face and tall height was Ji Young, J’s younger sister.
Ji Young looked at Dan Woo, quietly folding her hands.
J was the person who replaced Dan Woo in America because they looked alike.
Dan Woo deceived Woo Seon Ho by showing J as a decoy and living a low life as if he had given up on his own life, and J ended up being killed by Woo Jeong Hyeon. Therefore, Dan Woo always felt indebted to Ji Young.
Dan Woo asked with his eyes.
‘What the heck is this about?’
Tae Yun, awkwardly scratching between his eyebrows, began to explain the situation that happened while he was telling Ji Young about her brother J.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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