She must be really good at writing. Considering she doesn’t become an actress with such a face.
Thud
“It’s dinner time so I prepared decaf.”
“Thank you.”
Ji Ho’s admiration could be halted by the arrival of a female staff member. In that gap, Hye Yoon turned her head and took a deep breath. And when they were left alone again, his resonant voice filled the wide space.
“I enjoyed the script. I wanted to start with this compliment, which is why I asked to see you. From the first narration… it was impressive.”
“Thank you for the kind words.”
“But, is this story fiction? Or is it based on some experience?”
Ji Ho posed the question while bringing the coffee to his lips. His gaze was still fixed on one person. His eyes, which seemed fascinating whenever he slightly lifted his chin, were mesmerizing.
Hye Yoon thought that with such a gaze, he could elicit the desired answer to any question from anyone.
“No, it’s a fictional story. I have never had luxurious ramen like Jong Su.”
“Luxurious?”
“Yes. Crab ramen is expensive, isn’t it?”
“Is that so……”
A peculiar smile crossed Ji Ho’s lips. The term ‘luxurious’ seemed a bit strange to him.
Jong Su, who lived with his father, a ship captain, often had crab ramen on their dining table. Good crabs would naturally have been sold, so he wouldn’t have even seen them, and he would have had to eat meals made from the unsellable bad ones. Among them would have been crabs missing two legs.
“Why? Was my statement a bit… strange?”
“No, I just find the term ‘luxurious’ interesting. I was wondering if you would consider a crab missing a few legs as luxurious.”
He was looking at the ice slowly shrinking in his coffee, and then he stared at Hye Yoon. He still wore a faint smile, but Hye Yoon immediately detected that something she said had touched a part of his heart.
That was the advantage of being a writer who observes everything closely, but it was also her innate ability.
Hye Yoon believed she could discern the inner thoughts of a person she was interested in, even with just a few words of conversation.
However, if there was something she didn’t know, it was that Ji Ho was quite an expert in that regard as well. Both in recognizing and preventing it.
In the midst of the silence, their eyes clashed. For a moment, neither would bend first and they were intertwined without any gaps, but it was Hye Yoon who first softened her gaze.
“I think Jong Su would have. He probably often imagined his father’s end of the day.”
“…End of the day?”
“Yes. The big and good ones would go out one by one… By the time the operation ended, only those with cut bodies or broken here and there would have remained on the deck. His father would have chosen the cleanest one among them… for one person.”
As if that one person was herself, Hye Yoon’s eyes gently shone. Her brightly twinkling eyes seemed to clearly depict happiness.
Ji Ho felt as if he could smell a faint floral scent from the story she was sharing. He also realized something when he felt her delicate voice flowing not into his ears, but into his heart.
It doesn’t take much strength to create waves in a calm heart.
Just one drop in the very center is enough.
“So, on the day when not a crab with two legs missing, but a crab with all eight legs came to the table… Wow, I wonder if anyone else gets to eat such a precious breakfast, and he would have laughed.”
At her cheerful laughter, Ji Ho felt as if his breath was momentarily stopped. Hye Yoon accurately read her own childhood as if it were Jong Su’s story. Because the people around him who pitied him for living alone with his father didn’t resonate with him.
Because that time was truly precious and utterly happy.
“…Mr. Ji Ho?”
“Ah, yes.”
What woke Ji Ho from momentarily wandering in old memories was Hye Yoon. He immediately came to his senses and silently looked at her. Although a lonely autumn evening descended outside the window, her surroundings seemed as bright and warm as spring.
He wanted to be right beside her.
“May I ask one last question? I’m getting more curious because I like the story.”
“Yes. That’s fine.”
While suppressing his wavering heart, he resumed the conversation.
“In your opinion as the author… what does Hee Su mean to Jong Su?”
The plot of “23 Centimeters” was simple yet somewhat complicated.
The setting was the early 2000s. When the aunt and uncle of the male protagonist, Jong Su, suddenly died in a car accident, their adopted daughter, Hee Su, who grew up between them, ended up living with Jong Su for a month.
So, Jong Su ended up liking Hee Su, his cousin sister, who could be considered a stranger in a way.
With a slightly tilted head and eyes looking beyond, trying to gauge Jong Su’s feelings, Ji Ho looked intently at Hye Yoon’s face.
Warmly, a bit affectionately.
“A sister with a similar pain? Or… first love?”
He also added a light touch to his gaze, which was filled with those emotions. The only being that he, who had actually lived through Jong Su’s time, didn’t have seemed to be Hee Su. So he was curious. What Hee Su might mean to Jong Su.
Sympathy felt too insufficient and the term ‘first love’ seemed to weigh a little more. However, it still felt lacking.
So, he was genuinely curious. Whether Hye Yoon, who laughed purely as a fictional story, really looked at this work with the same eyes as him. Whether she could provide the answer he couldn’t find.
Then, Hye Yoon’s eyes, which had been looking at Jong Su, turned toward Ji Ho. The sunset light coming in from beyond the window had settled beautifully on her cheek. It was then that she moved her lips with a smile more beautiful than that.
“…Maybe a savior?”
Ji Ho’s face froze in astonishment at the same time.
“For Jong Su, Hee Su… might have been a savior. The person who brought him out into a new world. A person who understands me completely without explanation.”
With an unexpected word, Hye Yoon began to shatter his mind and heart. Ji Ho, who had taken a brief sigh, stared at her with clear focus.
“A person who understands me completely… Is it different from my dad?”
“Well… For example, dad doesn’t mention the word ‘mom’ because he might worry that Jong Su will be sad. But Hee Su says it right away. She says calling someone ‘mom’ feels really warm and good.”
“…”
“She knows Jong Su’s heart. What he’s curious about, why he’s curious… what kind of answer he wants.”
Although her voice was thin, there was no hesitation. Ji Ho looked deeply into Hye Yoon’s eyes. Looking at her excessively moist brown eyes, he felt like his eyes would well up with tears too.
Hye Yoon, who did not avoid his gaze at all, added her final answer. An answer like a correct answer. Perhaps to imprint on him the meaning she would hold for him.
“Yes. Looking through each other with the same gaze… A complete ally.”
Ji Ho was certain he would never forget this moment in his lifetime.
When the male lead is punished by carrying the female lead’s child and having periods like a woman
“I’ve given birth to two children for you, yet you still think about him.
Was I nothing but his substitute to you from beginning to end?”
Synopsis:
Meng Huan, a scumbag who has dated countless girlfriends, transmigrates to a female-dominated country.
Day 1: Whether it’s female dominance or not doesn’t matter. The beauties here are passionate and amorous. Isn’t it easier to date them than in modern times?
Day 2: After a night, Meng Huan discovers the differences in the female-dominated world. Men here actually have chastity locks and menstrual cycles. This hinders his ability to perform, damn it!
Day 3: What’s wrong with sleeping around? I don’t want you to marry me. I’m meant to be a playboy. I don’t care about male virtues… What? You want to drown me in a pig cage? Marry, I’ll marry!
Day N: Meng Huan inexplicably vomits and receives the shocking news of his life… He’s pregnant.
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