Dan Woo stopped in his tracks towards the living room and leaned against the wall, watching Ji An. Tae Yun also followed suit, crossing his arms and looking at the same place.
When Ji An and Ji Young sat on the living room sofa, laughing as they conversed in sign language, the lips of the two men also curled up in satisfaction.
Tae Yun murmured softly.
“I didn’t know Ji Young could smile. Why does it feel like I’m seeing her for the first time?”
“Always looking somber, she seems like our peer when she smiles. Perhaps she was like that because she had no one to talk to.”
“Why would she talk to us? She needs a friend.”
There were others who were struggling because of a family that didn’t feel like one.
Dan Woo let out a bitter sigh looking at Ji Young, who became silent after experiencing horrible things in her adopted family.
When Ji Young saw Dan Woo and Tae Yun approaching, she stood up from the sofa and conveyed her greetings in sign language.
“Ms. Ji An, it was nice meeting you. Thank you for your phone number.”
“Let’s continue our conversation later through texts.”
As the greetings between Ji An and Ji Young took a bit longer, Dan Woo tilted his head slightly, with his hands in his pockets.
Meeting her gaze, Ji An finished the greeting with a slight smile.
When only Ji An and he were left in the house, Dan Woo asked what she talked about with Ji Young.
“You had so much to talk about even though you just met Ji Young?”
“Yes. She was adopted when she was young and knows nothing about Korea’s geography. We agreed to meet outside. She said she only knows English sign language because she doesn’t speak Korean well.”
“Is sign language different in each country?”
“People think sign language is a universal language, but it varies by country. I only know Korean and English.”
Dan Woo looked at Ji An with eyes as if honey was about to drop any moment.
She liked languages and even knew sign language. It was remarkable that Ji An knew sign language in two languages.
With a content and proud heart, he wanted to give Ji An a hug and take a lap around the earth if he could.
“Ah! That’s right.”
Ji An clapped her hands as if she remembered something, then took out a small pouch from her bag.
Following her hand with his gaze, Dan Woo smiled as a duckshaped scrubber came out of the pouch.
After shaking the end of the scrubber, Ji An placed it on her palm and held it up close to Dan Woo’s face.
It was not a flat scrubber, but a bulging one that took the shape of a baby duck.
“Quack quack. The duck has arrived.”
“What is this?”
Dan Woo alternately looked at Ji An’s face and the scrubber as she pushed the orange beak and the yellow duck came closer.
A tender smile that didn’t know what to do bloomed at the corner of his mouth.
As Ji An explained about the duck scrubber with wideopen eyes, Dan Woo could not take his eyes off her serious expression.
“I put in every bit of my soul and breathed into it stitch by stitch. Can you see its sullen lips? It’s because I missed you while knitting.”
How does that mouth only pick beautiful words?
Dan Woo’s heart was about to turn into a fluff of cotton, tickling and fluttering.
“It’s so precious I even feel bad touching it.”
Ji An bit her lips inward out of embarrassment as Dan Woo’s words were too flattering.
What should she do with this man who called her small handknitted gift precious as if it were an expensive luxury item?
“It didn’t even take 30 minutes to knit this… you’re making my hands embarrassed.”
At the sight of Ji An pulling her lips, wrinkling her brows, and laughing, Dan Woo’s heart, which had been fluttering, swelled with a soft lump.
The more they were apart, the deeper the longing he felt, and once he saw her, he wanted to hold her.
He had wished for Ji An, who was always like spring, to just pass by.
The one who would be hurt when he missed her, the one who would be in pain was himself, so he did not stop her from leaving Jeju.
But having her in his arms, he found that he had become this tender.
How could he have thought of living without seeing her?
From when he first saw Ji An at the Libera Hotel, their reunion in Jeju, and the bookstore and library at the playground. Recalling in order the places and times he had met her, every moment was precious to him.
Dan Woo took a step forward and spoke to her.
“Thank you for being there that day.”
“That day, that place?”
“Every place you were, every moment you passed by me… thank you.”
Ji An’s heart throbbed heavily.
She had always lived waiting for someone, but waiting for Dan Woo had a different meaning.
No matter when, no matter where, Dan Woo was the one who came to see her alone.
‘Every moment with you is precious to me too.’
As Ji An’s expression became tender, Dan Woo stroked under her eyes.
“Why are you about to cry? These are words said out of affection.”
“Why do I feel like crying when I’m bored?”
“When you cry, you’re pretty because you’re crying, and when you smile, you’re pretty because you’re smiling. Everything’s so pretty I could go crazy.”
My Ex-Girlfriend Is The Regent In The Female-dominant World (Male lead transmigrates to the matriarchal world)
Two years ago, Gu Sui picked up a homeless woman in ancient costume from the street.
Apart from occasionally claiming to be a princess from a female-dominant country due to illness, her figure, appearance, intelligence, and martial arts skills were impeccable.
Naturally evolving from roommates to girlfriends, as time went on, Gu Sui found it increasingly difficult to tolerate her queen syndrome.
“Mu Jiulu, can you stop controlling me inside and out? Let’s break up.”
Gu Sui made a breakup call, and since then, he couldn’t find any trace of her.
A year later, Gu Sui, who was planning to move, woke up the next day and found himself in a different place.
“Young Master, today is the day you choose your Wife-master through martial arts competition at Jade Dew Pavilion. Please get up quickly.”
Gu Sui: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
As the only son of a general’s mansion in a female-dominant dynasty, the young empress personally issued a decree allowing Gu Sui to select his Wife-master through martial arts competition. Whoever could defeat him could marry him.
Gu Sui: “……”
He didn’t inherit the original owner’s martial prowess, so anyone could defeat him! And what the hell is a Wife-master?
Forced to come to Jade Dew Pavilion, the densely packed women below made Gu Sui’s agoraphobia act up, and his face was full of resistance.
Until he saw the Regent sitting on the second floor, with a smile on the corner of her lips, her eyes wicked and nonchalant.
Hmm… she looked a little familiar.
It turned out that the Regent also found him a little familiar.
Mu Jiulu fiddled with her bone clasp, her deep gaze locked on the man who was out of place in this world.
“Finally, I found you.”
Male transmigrates into female-dominant world
One-sentence summary: What goes around comes around, taking turns in the crematorium
