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Do Han quit Tae Seo Jun’s fan club today.
Living like an immature girl, she’s now a broken 26-year-old with nothing substantial achieved. Despite years since she left home, declaring to her parents she’d become the head of an entertainment company, she realized she hadn’t changed.
It was Eom So Yeon’s skyrocketing popularity after ‘The Owner of the Sun’ aired that awakened her. So Yeon was steadily realizing her dreams, and Do Han couldn’t just stay complacent.
But having looked only at Tae Seo Jun for years, the emptiness of letting go of her unrequited love was inescapable.
Hence, Do Han rented a room at the El Stella Hotel’s cocktail bar for the first time to console herself, deciding to splurge.
However, sitting alone in the large room with expensive whiskey and snacks made her feel ridiculous. She thought about inviting So Yeon but hadn’t heard from her for three days.
Moreover, So Yeon’s house, which should have four people including her mother and Hyun Woo, had been empty for days. Even repeated calls to So Yeon went unanswered.
Unsure of what to do, Do Han, having received a text from So Yeon promising to explain everything soon, could only wait.
“Typical of her, always busy and secretive!”
Resigned to being alone, Do Han indulged herself to the point of a sore throat and drunken daze.
Clearing her hoarse throat, she set down the microphone, downing the remaining drink in her glass.
Then, tearing a long piece of tissue, she placed it under her eyes, puckering her lips comically, and snapped a photo with the grand room as a backdrop.
[Here I am, all alone, So Yeon. Tired of diving? Why don’t you join me? I’m so lonely.]After sending the photo and message expressing her current lonely state to So Yeon, Do Han spent another hour wrestling with the microphone.
“Ah, my throat hurts! Is this laryngitis?”
Around 9 PM, realizing the futility of solo enjoyment, a drained Do Han decided to call it a day.
Yet, there was something more exhausting than being alone.
“I can’t take this anymore!”
Rushing out of the room, Do Han headed straight to the restroom connected to the hall.
Moments later, feeling refreshed and thoughtlessly walking back to the hall, she stumbled.
Thud!
“Yikes!”
Tangling her own legs and falling in a comical disaster, the embarrassment was unbearable, especially with someone witnessing her absurd fall.
“Yeo… Do Han?”
Hearing a man’s voice, Do Han looked up with wide, startled eyes.
“Mr… President?”
Trying to hold back a smile while looking down at her, the man was an unexpected savior she never anticipated.
The provided Korean text has 24 lines. Here is the English translation, maintaining the exact same number of lines as the original:
The two met unexpectedly at this place.
Whether it was coincidence or fate, it seemed like a cunning move by the gods.
It was as if the threads of destiny had already been pulled to lead to this moment.
Before arriving at the El Stella Hotel, Won Hu visited the mourning hall of Yu Jung Hwa’s father.
Intending to offer his condolences to Jung Hwa, Won Hu was taken aback by her indifferent behavior, looking around restlessly, and asked,
“Is Seo Jun here? It’s the last day of the funeral, he couldn’t possibly not come, could he?”
Her expression was far from sorrowful. Instead, she eagerly sought her old flame. Her odd behavior from the beginning, insisting Seo Jun accompany her to announce the passing, was strange, but seeing her act so bizarrely was even more puzzling.
“That cold-hearted guy? Would he come?”
Frustrated, Won Hu gave this response and left the funeral.
Heading straight to the El Stella Hotel, he pondered over Eom So Yeon and Tae Seo Jun’s relationship while sipping a drink at the cocktail bar.
To his knowledge, Seo Jun never lingered on women. Even during his relationship with Jung Hwa, Seo Jun remained indifferent to his own girlfriend. Jung Hwa often came to Won Hu, unable to find Seo Jun.
Especially Seo Jun, known for his straightforwardness. Yet, he appeared at the company he had sworn not to, actively pursuing Eom So Yeon, who didn’t push him away either.
Although he only saw their silhouettes behind the curtains, the intensity of emotion between them was unmistakable.
When did their relationship start?
“Eom So Yeon and you, you seemed acquainted.”
“We crossed paths a long time ago.”
“Just crossed paths? Your eyes said more than that.”
“Perhaps your eyes are the sticky ones?”
That feeling wasn’t baseless. It wasn’t something to laugh off. That ‘crossing paths’ wasn’t just a mere encounter.
Meanwhile, his mother’s actions towards her were another issue.
His mother, unrepentant and brazen about her wrongdoing, was the worst. Won Hu himself couldn’t forgive her.
The more he thought, the more complex Seo Jun and his increasingly toxic mother seemed.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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