Gradually, brown eyes that had lost their playful gleam stared closely into her eyes.
“But besides my rose, no one else caught my eye.”
As if confirming that Heesun was in his arms, he hugged her more tightly and spoke in a more forceful tone.
“For some reason, I felt like you hadn’t died. I was sure you were dead; I even went to Korea to confirm the death certificate with my own eyes. I found out where you were scattered after being cremated… But still, I felt like you must be alive. I knew it in my head, but my heart refused to accept it. That’s why I couldn’t meet anyone else.”
Hearing that much, Heesun suddenly remembered something.
“But you said you were married.”
“I was.”
His straightforward admission sank in her chest. Knowing something from someone else and hearing it directly from the person involved were worlds apart.
“I… made a lot of mistakes with her.”
Leon wore a bitter expression.
“My parents wanted me to marry her from the beginning. Our families were deeply entangled in business. Anyway, I never thought of loving anyone else in my life, so, rather than resisting my parents’ wishes, it was a marriage to fulfill their dreams. …But I realized later that she was sincere to me.”
Even hearing another woman’s story from him felt like a piercing pain to Heesun. She regretted asking.
“If that’s the case, you should’ve loved her.”
“If it had been a normal marriage, I might have. She was a good person. But instead of love, I kept feeling resentment. If it wasn’t for her, maybe my parents would have accepted Rose. If I had brought Rose to the U.S. a little earlier, she wouldn’t have been in a traffic accident and died.”
“…”
“It was a marriage that shouldn’t have happened from the beginning. I regretted it a lot.”
She thought it was just a simple strategic marriage, but there seemed to be more complicated circumstances. Heesun felt an inexplicable heaviness. If it hadn’t been me, maybe the two of them…
However, without much time to think deeply, this time, a question came to Heesun.
“And you? Have you liked someone else? Have you ever loved anyone?”
After asking, Leon hurriedly raised his head.
“No, cancel that. Don’t answer.”
“Why?”
“If you say there was, I might go find and strangle them.”
Heesun almost laughed, but Leon had a quite serious expression.
“Well, in the end, I’m the winner. Even if you liked someone else, what I bore was my child, right?”
I didn’t like anyone. There was only you. Swallowing those words, Heesun smiled.
“I’m glad our Taeha looks a lot like you.”
“Everyone says that, but in my eyes, Rose looks like you.”
Leon narrowed his eyes and looked at Heesun’s face again.
“So when I saw Taeha, I fell in love, just like when I first saw you.”
At the mention of love, Heesun hesitated for a moment and then spoke.
“Why did you… You said something at the press conference.”
Unlike Heesun, who couldn’t say it accurately, Leon quickly understood and said, “Did I say I love you?”
Heesun nodded.
“I feel like you might just feel sorry for me. I’m sorry for not being able to pick you up, sorry for making you give birth alone, sorry for making you live in hiding for so long… Maybe you think that’s love?”
Looking at Heesun with eyes full of pity, Leon suddenly asked, “Want to meet?”
Heesun looked at Leon in confusion.
“Just because we have a child between us doesn’t mean we have to get married right away or live together. Let’s just date like others do.”
Dating.
A long-forgotten word exerted a sweet enchantment. Despite thinking that one shouldn’t indulge, eventually, reaching out, just like devouring a fresh cream cake.
“Let’s watch a movie together, go to an amusement park… If we meet like that, you can confirm for yourself. Whether my heart is just filled with apologies or if it’s truly love.”
With a rising heat on his forehead, he pressed his lips and tried to persuade her somehow.
“I know what you’re thinking. But even if we’re from different worlds, we can try to get closer to each other because we like each other. Since we like each other, we can do that, right?”
Heesun recalled Leon in the store.
A person who could gather all Korean journalists in one place with determination, wore rubber gloves and an apron daily, doing the dishes in a narrow kitchen without hesitation.
What did I do while he was working so hard? Maybe I just ran away because it was burdensome and frightening…
The man, who didn’t know what she was thinking, wore an anxious expression without an answer.
“I’ll come to you. I’ll come a lot. So please, just take one step towards me.”
It was a pleading tone.
After a while, Heesun nodded subtly.
For her, this was the best effort she could make towards him, taking that one step.
[Star Icon]“Sihyeon…!”
From behind, the sound of Wujin bursting into tears was heard.
It wasn’t a voice calling out for her to turn around, but rather a sound of crying alone, filled with regret and sadness. Sihyeon thought,
Ah, this really is the end.
For some reason, she felt like Wujin might never come back again.
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
