Bong Ki glanced at the rear seat through the rearview mirror as soon as the signal was given. There hadn’t been a sound from the back since they got in the car. There was no expression on Ji Ho’s face reflected in the window.
‘See you at the first shoot.’
Ji Ho recalled Hye Yoon’s greeting in the parking lot. Like each cut of a film, it felt like there was a clicking noise with each passing scene.
Her hair swaying as she turned around. Her light, petallike steps. Her scent and shrinking figure were fading. The man who was looking at him with a distant, guarded gaze. Hye Yoon stopped beside him as if he was her destination.
His chest felt heavy.
“Ji Ho, you’re listening, right?”
“…Sorry. What did you say?”
Despite his apology, Ji Ho’s still unfocused expression was quite cold. Bong Ki cleared his throat for no reason.
“No, I meant the guy who was waiting for the writer earlier. Just wondering if he’s really just a friend.”
“…I suppose.”
His voice laced with a hint of sharpness and eyes that quickly grew fierce. The hairs on the back of Bong Ki’s neck who was sitting in the driver’s seat stood on end.
Thankful for the timely change in the signal, he smoothly accelerated. He too thought about Woo Jun. While Ji Ho was grappling with unfamiliar emotions, Bong Ki was methodically making rational decisions.
“Right? She wouldn’t have admitted to a love affair with you if she’s meeting someone.”
“….”
The tip of Ji Ho’s tongue deeply prodded his right cheek from inside his mouth. In the quiet car, the sound of the turn signal created a regular noise.
“There’s no separate access card, so she must have come in with him… I guess I’ll have to tell her to be careful next time. A friend who waits for three hours in a car is perfect for misunderstanding.”
Bong Ki lightly tapped the steering wheel in rhythm with the clicking sound.
The best course of action in this situation was to pretend to be dating neatly, and pretend to break up neatly. They had to avoid attracting any more attention or making any noise.
Whether Hye Yoon and that man were simply friends, or if there was a possibility of them being something more, that was an issue for them to figure out after the breakup news was released.
At least, that was how it was from Bong Ki’s standpoint.
“By the way, your mother called. She said she made some side dishes, so I said we’d visit over the weekend.”
He suddenly raised his chin as he said this, following a thought that had sprung up in his mind.
“She must have contacted us out of curiosity about the dating rumors. She’s only contacted us once every two weeks via text for the past few years regarding side dishes.”
“…”
“I talked around the subject. She seemed to like it when I said it seemed like you’re dating a kindhearted woman.”
Ji Ho slightly nodded his head. Ji Ho wasn’t a particularly obedient son, but then again, most Korean men weren’t, so it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary.
If there was something special about Ji Ho’s situation, it was that his overly handsome son was now a globally renowned actor, outgrowing Korea.
Therefore, he sometimes had to deal with petty issues like, ‘grew up between his biological mother and stepfather after their remarriage….’ or, ‘has a younger stepbrother with a considerable age difference….’
It was the only personal information about Ji Ho that was known to the public.
“You should contact her once. She’ll want to hear it directly.”
“…Yeah.”
Ji Ho quietly opened the window. The sky was slowly turning red, as if the sun was preparing to set.
Just like the eyes of a child crying and holding onto their father’s pants, pleading him not to leave.
“Ahhh… so this was the building.”
Hye Yoon looked back and forth between the map on her phone and the building, sighing in frustration. She had been walking around aimlessly for 20 minutes even though the building was right in front of her nose. This frustration was a part of her daily life, too.
On the second floor of the building was the costume production room Min Woo had told her about.
Her heart dropped
“…How did you get here?”
“I’m here because of PD Kim Min Woo’s drama.”
As soon as she opened the door and stepped in, a woman who seemed to be behind a desk appeared from behind a quietly drawn curtain and spoke to Hye Yoon.
There were several long sofas in the waiting room, and each room had a gap of about a foot at the top and bottom of the door. A significant amount of light was leaking out through these gaps.
“Just a moment.”
The woman, with a pin cushion strapped to her wrist, disappeared back behind the curtain. Hye Yoon hesitated before hovering around the long brown sofa. The sofas, whose cushions were only faded in the middle. There were two women already seated, engaged in a conversation, but there was plenty of room for a few more.
“Oh, I see!”
At that moment, the woman came back out, pushing aside the curtain. The sound of the curtain moving was louder than before, her voice, which had previously been devoid of enthusiasm, was now vibrant.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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