The warmth of his hand on her neck felt extremely hot.
Perhaps it was her own body that was feverish.
“If you tie your hair up, it will all be visible.”
Ra Jin usually neatly tied her hair, which reached her chest, downwards. She never let her hair down.
“I’ll let it down today.”
“That won’t do.”
Jae Heon furrowed his brows.
“My secretarial staff must be neat.”
This was not actually his real intention.
When Ra Jin had her hair tied up, she had a mature and dignified image, but when she let it down, she looked innocent.
He didn’t want to show this side of Ra Jin to other people.
……Why?
‘My people and I always have to be sharp. We have to set an example, and we can’t be found fault with by the extended family.’
This time, Jae Heon, who found a reason, nodded his head with a satisfied smile.
“Just wait a moment.”
While Jae Heon was making a call somewhere, Ra Jin went back into the dressing room.
Standing in front of the mirror, she tried hard to see the traces that were said to be left behind on the back of her neck, but it was hard to see.
‘If I had a hand mirror, I could illuminate the back.’
With a sigh, Ra Jin neatly tied her hair as usual.
Then, she gently touched the place where Jae Heon’s hand had covered earlier.
Suddenly, she wondered if this moment might be a dream.
She was getting ready for work at Jae Heon’s house.
And that was the day after they spent the night together.
“…….”
Excitement was only for a moment.
Then Ra Jin, who remembered why she had come to Jae Heon’s house, her eyes darkened.
‘I can’t go to the main house anymore. Now I…….’
Now, she was no longer a family to them.
Just…… ‘rootless thing’.
With a strong pain in her chest, Ra Jin frowned and gently pressed near her heart with her palm.
‘Will I be discarded?’
Some of her ‘seniors’ who had been adults and were discarded had come to the Hope Orphanage, where she had been entrusted as a child, and cried for a long time holding onto the director.
“Director, who is that person?”
“Uh, you can say it’s Ra Jin’s senior.”
“But why is she crying? She’s an adult.”
“Even as an adult, there are days when you can’t hold back your tears.”
Since that day, one adult man and two adult women had visited.
She found out the reason for their tears when she was in high school.
When Ra Jin turned seventeen, she visited the Hope Orphanage on Teacher’s Day without her parents knowing.
In middle school, she couldn’t visit the orphanage because she was trying to adapt to her new family and school, so when she became a high school student, she always thought she would definitely visit again and show them how she looked in her school uniform.
Ra Jin arrived at the orphanage and headed for the principal’s office.
With a fluttering heart, she knocked and opened the door, and a woman who was crying in the arms of the principal hastily tidied up her surroundings and left the orphanage as soon as she spotted Ra Jin.
It felt similar to the ‘seniors’ she had seen when she was young.
“I remember adults like her visiting frequently when I was young. Is today a day she couldn’t hold back her tears? But the crying looks almost the same.”
The principal, who had been quietly observing Ra Jin, closed her eyes tightly once and then quietly opened her mouth.
“She was abandoned.”
“Abandoned? When was she adopted?”
“At ten.”
“How old is she now?”
“She turned thirty this year.”
“What? But how…… she lived as a family for twenty years after being adopted at ten.”
At her words, the principal only looked at Ra Jin with a sad expression.
Then she realized.
“So you can be abandoned even as an adult.”
The shock at that time.
Being adopted, having a family, but the fact that she could not be with them forever was a tremendous shock and deep despair for her.
Unlike people connected by blood, Ra Jin was an entity that could be expelled at any time.
So she tried her best not to go against the displeasure of Sookyeong and Youngho.
But her efforts seemed to be in vain.
Because she was to be expelled outside the fence called family.
“What are you doing?”
Jae Heon, who had finished his call, came into the dressing room.
“Ah. I was tying my hair.”
There was a scarf in his hand.
He left the packaging outside. When she saw the brand logo engraved on the box, it seemed like Ra Jin would refuse it again saying it’s expensive, and she might let her hair down and go to work.
The brightly patterned light pink silk scarf suited Ra Jin’s neat yet adorable atmosphere very well.
“Here.”
Ra Jin took the scarf handed to her by Jae Heon.
“……Thank you. I’ll definitely return this.”
“Right. Leave it here and wear it whenever you need.”
Jae Heon spoke as if he took it for granted that Ra Jin would come and go from his house in the future.
Feeling strange, she wrapped the scarf around her neck twice and tied a knot.
“You look good.”
At his compliment, Ra Jin bit her lip.
Thanks to his thoroughness, preparing clothes and even cosmetics, she was able to get ready for work perfectly.
“Now, let’s go to the study. We need to prepare the contract.”
The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)
Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.
The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”
Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!
Warnings:
- Male pregnancy.
- Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
- Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.
