8 PM.
At the underground club of the El Stella Hotel, Seo Jun, who had a drink with Kwon Je Ho, was distressed by the constant thought of her.
Unaware of the repeated crumpling and smoothing of his frownless forehead.
“……”
Why did I do that?
The moment I found Eom So Yeon on the roof, I ran like crazy, ready to shatter her with a desperate embrace and a wild kiss, completely against my will.
Would that thing, which I harshly crumpled and then carefully kept in my wallet, have caused me to act like that? Could the uncharacteristic muted emotion of that time have made my heart race so much in that moment?
My head and body were acting separately a few hours ago. Even as I think back now, a confused Seo Jun, unfamiliar with his behavior on the rooftop, clenched his fists even tighter.
“……”
But, she was crying there.
She who said with pretty handwriting, “I will take your sadness, so you can be happy. I will also become a happy person.”
Why was she standing alone at the edge of the rooftop in the cold weather? Why was she sobbing quietly, as if she didn’t want to be found by anyone? What made her large eyes so sorrowful?
Was it because the world, where things go awry more often than they go as planned, was hard to bear? Or did she meet a horrible man? Did that guy make her cry and then leave? Well, it’s not my place to care whether Eom So Yeon cries or not.
She, who used to share the same bed with me, disappeared like smoke.
In the face of that unilateral fact, I was thrown defenseless. I was angry because it was so absurd, but that was just my feeling. There’s no reason to deliberately look for her, who I loathed and left behind.
That was a matter concluded three years ago.
But, the moment I met her again, I felt thrilled. With the twinkling eyes, just as pretty as before. With the beautiful figure, still looking young, but mature in some way.
Okay. Let’s say that’s how it is for me.
But you didn’t say anything, did you?
Even a cliché greeting, “Have you been well?”
Even as you nodded as if you were dealing with a stranger and disappeared from my sight again, walking away hastily.
As if you met someone you’re not happy to see. As if you don’t even want to remember a grain of memory about me.
Was I just that to you, Tae Seo Jun?
Was I that uncomfortable?
Like your words that “you forget a person as a person and feelings as feelings,” how should I erase you, who made all that possible?
I didn’t know how, but I realized it today.
Maybe the tiny sentiment, which is not even worth being called lingering affection, has grown bigger, feeding on the grandeur of time. Yes, that must be why. I’m going crazy over Eom So Yeon right now. You’re irritatingly annoying.
So, what should I do?
If you hadn’t caught my eye, I might not care, but I can’t just let you go, rolling into the palm of my hand. I feel like I might feel a little better if I played a nasty prank or something.
Suddenly overwhelmed by a feeling of discomfort, Seo Jun frowned heavily.
But the clear lips softly curled up in consolation. Just like that, Tae Seo Jun’s emotions were leaping between heaven and hell.
“I was just about to contact you, but you’re here. Let’s have dinner together.”
“No, thank you. I have somewhere to go.”
“You’re not even dating anyone, why are you so busy every day?”
“Well, since I don’t have one, I have to go find one.”
Just before leaving the rooftop, Eom So Yeon had a lighthearted exchange with Kwon Je Ho, who had come up late.
At that moment, Seo Jun had a strange experience.
That’s why. A relieved smile overlaid on a frowning face.
Although there was no taste in the ear, So Yeon’s voice saying she had no boyfriend sweetly seeped into my ears.
“Whoa?”
Watching Seo Jun’s peculiar facial changes all along, Je Ho snickered and stretched his crossed leg before crossing the other one on top.
“What are you thinking, sitting in front of someone? Is your injured head not yet healed?”
Lifting his slanted head slowly, Seo Jun chuckled.
“……As you can see.”
He looked fine on the outside. But laughing alone, frowning, even his mood was undecipherable whether it’s good or bad, which was definitely strange. But the first thing Je Ho wanted to ask about was something he’d been curious about since earlier.
“Can’t I know a little too?”
“What.”
“You seemed to know Ms. Eom So Yeon.”
“We ran into each other a while ago.”
Replacing the previous ambiguous expression with a presumptuous smile, Seo Jun lifted the crystal glass to his mouth and sipped the pumpkincolored liquid.
“Your eyes were pretty sticky after a single shot?”
“Are you sure it’s not your eyes that are sticky?”
Won Hu, who had understood it as something they had bumped into on the filming set, subtly brought up the conversation they had had in the office.
“Anyway, you’re usually very productive. You’ve taken a break for a while, so I thought you might want to relax and do a drama.”
“I said I don’t want to.”
“Well then, I guess there’s no other way. I’ll have to appeal directly to the drama investors.”
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
