Thirtythreeyearold Kang Si Hyun was just such a being.
“Yes, aunt. I’ll contact you soon.”
After hanging up the phone, and boarding the bus that had just arrived, she let out a long sigh as soon as she sat down.
For some reason, Bora seemed to avoid giving a proper answer.
“I just saw him a few times somewhere before.” Si Hyun almost let out a shout. That’s right, it was amnesia, after all!
“Well, since our interaction was just limited to greetings, it makes sense he wouldn’t remember me.” But Si Hyun was certain. If Tae Ha had ever met a beauty like Bora, he would have remembered. There was definitely an issue with his memory.
With this realization, Si Hyun’s strides toward Tae Ha’s office became more confident.
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Though he only signed for a oneyear contract as chief, Tae Ha had many places that demanded his attention. Yesterday, it was the CEO, and today, it was the executive director who kept him in conversation.
[Tell me honestly, how did a person like Yoon Tae Ha end up in Future Bank?] Unable to answer truthfully, Tae Ha dodged the question with a faint smile.After nearly an hour of pointless conversation, he finally broke free and returned to his office where his secretary greeted him politely.
“Chief, you have returned.”
“You’ve been working hard.”
As he was about to enter his office, the secretary spoke.
“Ms. Kang Si Hyun from the Won App team has been waiting for you.”
“What?”
“She arrived about ten minutes ago. It seemed like you were held up, and I didn’t think it would be right to have her wait, so I let her in…”
The secretary belatedly noticed Tae Ha’s reaction.
“You should have informed me when she arrived.”
“But you were in a meeting with the executive director, how could I…”
“From now on, whenever Kang Si Hyun comes, no matter who I am with, inform me immediately.”
He took a deep breath and adjusted his expression, trying not to look too pleased, not to let his feelings show.
On the sofa in the middle of the office, a smallshouldered woman was asleep, her head tilted to one side.
The very woman who was the whole reason he was at this company.
“……”
Tae Ha quietly approached and sat next to her. Holding his breath so as not to wake her, he studied her sleeping face.
Her eyes without double eyelids, her delicatelyshaped nose, and her full lips.
There wasn’t a single place that wasn’t beautiful. She had always been beautiful, but now she was so beautiful it brought tears to his eyes.
He was amazed by the people who could spend the entire day in the same office with Si Hyun and act as if it was nothing. If it were him, he would probably have trouble even breathing properly.
Suddenly, Si Hyun’s hand caught his eye. A small, rough hand that was hard to believe belonged to a woman in her thirties.
More than half the reason her hand was in such condition was his fault.
For some reason, he desperately wanted to hold her hand and kiss her, but Tae Ha held himself back and only caressed her gently with his eyes.
It took him a while to notice the lunch box placed on the table as he was lost in looking at her. When he opened it, there was kimbap inside.
A skinny kimbap containing just cucumber, tuna, and mayonnaise.
It was the kimbap that Si Hyun, who was a high school student when he was in the second grade of elementary school, made for him for the first time during a field trip.
It tasted so good that he would sometimes nag her to make it even as an adult. Even when he insisted he didn’t want any other ingredients added, Si Hyun would grumble that he was a weird kid but still make it obediently.
Thinking that she made this to trigger his memory made him laugh and his heart hurt from its cuteness.
‘How could I ever forget you.’
Tae Ha murmured to himself.
‘Do you know how much I’ve looked for you? How could you not contact me at all…!’
The moment she held him in the elevator and burst into tears, he almost confessed, hugging her back. That he missed her too, that he thought he was going crazy from missing her so much.
It was a crisis. He had to say something to prevent his true feelings from spilling out.
So he unknowingly pretended not to know.
‘If you liked me, you could just tell me.’
Si Hyun was at a loss for what to do. He liked it when she followed him around, calling out Tae Ha, Tae Ha, clinging to him. He felt a thrilling satisfaction at her restless gaze, looking at him as if he was a completely different person.
Then he had a sudden thought. What if he pretended not to know her until the end and approached her, not as the young sibling Yun Tae Ha that she knew, but as Director Yun Tae Ha.
Whether it worked or not, Tae Ha decided to make a final gamble.
Seeing her nodding off to sleep, her head continuously falling, he felt sorry for her. Tae Ha carefully made her rest her head on his shoulder. The weight that quietly fell on him was so adorable it made his eyes sting.
“Director….”
The secretary, who happened to enter, flinched when she saw Tae Ha.
‘Shhh.’
Tae Ha put his finger to his lips to silence the secretary. He gestured the secretary to leave with his hand and lowered his body as much as possible, so the sleeping woman could rest a little more comfortably on his shoulder.
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The operation he ambitiously prepared ended in a disastrous failure.
After putting a piece of kimbap in his mouth and looking anxiously at Si Hyun, the Director said,
‘A lunch box in this day and age, such a classic method indeed.’
As if there was no need to eat anymore, he pushed the lunch box aside and stroked his chin.
“[Next time, please try a more innovative method.]”
In the end, Si Hyun turned around and walked out. Unaware that the director, behind her, was silently smiling.
‘What should I do for the memory to return?’
She had planned to just give the gimbap and go, but ended up taking twenty minutes because she dozed off.
Rushing back to the office, Si Hyun racked her brains. She felt she needed something more impactful, like a shock treatment. But how on earth should she…
“Miss Si Hyun, look at this.”
At that moment, Mi Ju smirked, thrusting her cell phone in front of Si Hyun’s eyes.
“I wore this on a trip to the amusement park with my younger sibling last week. It’s funny, isn’t it?”
Looking at the picture taken in a school uniform, Si Hyun inwardly shouted.
This is it!
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The next day, on the way home from work. As Tae Ha descended to the underground parking lot, he let out a small sigh. Today was the first time he had a company dinner with the Won App team. It was his own welcoming party.
The thought of being in the same place as Si Hyun for hours made his vision blur in anticipation. Would he be able to keep his gaze from constantly drifting towards her? Could he hold back the urge to strike up a conversation?
Could his feelings remain unnoticed?
He decided that he should abstain from drinking as much as possible. If his rationality was compromised even a little, he might hug her in front of all the team members and confess his love. Even though he knew the consequences all too well.
As he opened the car door to get in, someone called him from behind.
“Tae Ha!”
Surprised, he turned around and doubted his own eyes.
Gazing towards him with sparkling eyes, it was Si Hyun from 17 years ago.
A neat school uniform perfectly fitting her slim body. A face without makeup. Tightly bound hair. A black school bag.
To the eyes of Tae Ha, who was in the second grade of elementary school at the time, the girl seven years older appeared like a goddess straight out of a book.
A sight he would never forget until the moment he closed his eyes, far in the future.
“Do you recognize me? Huh?”
The moment he saw her, looking exactly like she did back then, all his earlier resolutions flew out the window.
“Tae Ha?”
Holding the surprised woman tightly in his arms, Tae Ha closed his eyes.
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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