“That sounds like you missed me. Right?”
Seo Jun was pleased.
“You have to look for the missing homeowner, right?”
So Yeon’s coy tone was evident, as if to tease him.
Looking down at her freshly washed face, Seo Jun felt an indescribable sense of fulfillment and pressure. It was as if So Yeon had truly become his woman, and a pleasant heaviness weighed on his heart.
He led So Yeon to the dining table and seated her on a slightly pulled-back chair.
“What’s this?”
Feeling hungry after skipping dinner, So Yeon asked with sparkling eyes. Seo Jun, taking out two cans of beer from the fridge and sitting opposite her, replied,
“Steak.”
As Seo Jun popped open a can and handed it to her, So Yeon thanked him briefly.
A bit of distance was maintained in her demeanor.
By the time the steak and several cans of beer were finished, Seo Jun cautiously brought up a topic he had postponed.
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“Do you know why sunflowers only face the sun?”
“Photosynthesis?”
So Yeon tilted her head slightly in response, to which Seo Jun replied with a grave expression.
“To survive. No matter how much you try to ignore it, the instinct for survival is undeniable.”
“……”
So Yeon seemed to understand the implication of his words, hence she couldn’t look directly at him. She knew his next words would be a merciless pressure on her already racing heart.
“Eom So Yeon likes me. You got caught earlier, so it’s better not to even try denying it.”
“What… So what?”
Although she was caught, as he said, So Yeon, with her innocent eyes, didn’t feel the need to deny it.
“Think of it as saving someone.”
“Saving? Who’s saving whom?”
“Me. I think I can’t go on without Eom So Yeon now.”
Seo Jun’s eyes emitted a deep heat as he stared intensely at her.
“I was lucky to have this……”
He opened his phone to show her. A picture known only to them from that day. The screen was filled with the image of a blissful Eom So Yeon on Heart Island.
“I might already be crazy. The only thing that drives me insane is you.”
“What, what are you talking about……”
It happened in an instant.
“……!”
With a slightly raised eyebrow, Seo Jun pulled So Yeon from her chair and enveloped her in his arms.
“Be a little honest with yourself, Eom So Yeon.”
Seo Jun pressed his black eyes close to her face, trapping her breath with his intense gaze and warm body.
“But, right now……”
Her eyes rapidly blinking, So Yeon stuttered.
“Are, are you not feeling well?”
Since the company, she had noticed his body temperature was abnormally high. Despite being startled by his sudden embrace, her concern for Seo Jun came first.
“No.”
“Not? Your forehead is burning up!”
So Yeon, doubting his denial, pressed her hand to his forehead, her voice firm.
Seo Jun chuckled, amused by her earnest expression.
“I haven’t been able to sleep lately……”
Ever since I let you go.
“You haven’t been sleeping?”
“That’s right.”
Because of you.
“And I haven’t been eating properly either.”
That too, because of you.
“So why can’t you sleep or eat?”
“Well, why do you think……”
Every time I close my eyes, I go crazy thinking about you. I thought if my body was tired, it would be less, but it wasn’t. The more exhausted I am, the more and deeper I think of you. I was going crazy. How could the old me be normal?
Seo Jun confessed, pressing his face close to So Yeon’s.
“Do you still not understand?”
You have to know!
Why my body is on fire! Why I, like a madman, only look at you! Everyone else might not know, but you have to!
“I kept pushing myself in exercise every day, thinking of someone. It’s become a habit to run a fever every night. It seemed like I was doing fine without you, but I wasn’t. That made me angry and frustrated.”
“Are you saying it’s all my fault, like you want me to take responsibility? Is that it?”
Her face, which had been pale, quickly flushed with shame and a deeper sense of guilt.
“Are you planning to take responsibility?”
“What can I do for you?”
“I want……”
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“I long for Eom So Yeon.”
“A blind love.”
That would be an accurate description.
Once, I had to let her go. But the flames of desire never died down. Instead, they grew more ferocious with each breath, burning away reason and consuming my entire being with a terrifying intensity.
How many times have I wandered, yearning for her? How much have I regretted letting her go?
Rather than go through that hell again, I’d rather kneel before her, abandon myself. If it means keeping her by my side, I would do anything.
Driven by that desire, I rushed to the company, practically kidnapping Eom So Yeon to bring her into my world. But now, I can’t quite remember how it happened. How I met her, what words I used to persuade her to come here.
Seo Jun couldn’t recall any part of that process.
It might be a temporary glitch in memory, but Seo Jun was so exhilarated that even now, he struggles to control his explosively growing emotions.
Having confirmed our mutual longing, perhaps skipping a few steps in the process isn’t too unreasonable.
Seo Jun was straightforward.
“Let’s date.”
“!”
Her long, lush eyelashes fluttered dramatically. As if time had stopped, all So Yeon’s movements ceased except for her gaze fixed on him.
He was the man she had deeply, painfully yearned for. And now, he too desired her just as fervently. This realization alone made her heart ache intensely. So Yeon decided.
No more hesitations. No more hiding her desires due to fear. She resolved to take a bold step towards him, to complete her love. Wherever that may lead, she was ready to go as far as possible.
Eom So Yeon, wanting to show all the corners of her heart to Seo Jun, where only he lived and could live, cautiously spoke.
“Even if I’m different from the person you know… will you still like me?”
“It doesn’t matter.”
Even if she were a bad woman, a notorious villainess.
Though that’s unlikely, even if it were so, I have no intention of backing down.
Seo Jun, holding So Yeon tightly without any gaps, gently pressed his lips to her luscious ones, conveying his unspoken deep affection again and again.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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