Hye Yoon was completely frozen. She could feel it while staring at the math problem that wasn’t even in sight. His gaze was carefully scanning her entire body. That avoiding his gaze wouldn’t solve anything.

A single strand of hair rustling gently, and the silent breath she was releasing. Ji Ho, who could discern her through such minor details.

So, the future one week ago, when she was worried that her feelings would be revealed, was right now.

“I think I read you pretty well…”

“……”

A soothing voice flowed as if to calm a child. Although it seemed like a problem already solved, he seemed to be revisiting it once more.

Hye Yoon, whose head still couldn’t hear, bit her small lips instead of showing her anxiety.

“Have I ever been wrong?”

“……No.”

“I see.”

Ji Ho gave a slight smile. The weight of satisfaction hanging on the corner of his mouth increased, making the arm resting on his cheek feel tingling. It wasn’t a perfectly satisfying answer, but it was still good.

How could he be honest till the end? She even wondered if he was smart. Whenever this happened, she wondered if he was aware of how beautiful she was.

“Now, please lift your face.”

“……”

Hye Yoon was as stiff as a wax figure, seeming as if she would tip over in her current posture with a slight push. It wasn’t just his words that were honest. If her body was like this, how could she not attract attention? But the problem was more her heart than her eyes.

Finally, with difficulty, she turned her head to look at Ji Ho. His light question had turned her small heart over like a tidal wave, leaving the arm touching him sensationless. In the midst of this, his tenderly smiling face was deeply etched in her eyes.

“Do you read other people as easily as you read me?”

In the end of his persistent gaze, for a moment, a mix of worry and an indiscernible anger was reflected.

“No… I keep… being seen through only by Ji Ho.”

“That’s a relief.”

It seemed like the most pleasing thing he had heard recently, so Ji Ho nodded rhythmically.

Even during the consecutive nights of filming, he hadn’t thought this way, but today he wanted to throw everything aside, including the shoot. He wanted to observe her being selfconscious a bit longer.

To erase the regret of not being able to do so, he straightened his posture by brushing his chin with his hand.

“So, for now, hand over those feelings to me. I’ll use them for Jong Soo. You prepare for Hee Soo.”

“……What kind of feelings?”

While subtly scratching the dining table with her fingernail out of embarrassment, Hye Yoon asked again. She still wanted to confirm it once. How he had read her feelings. And it seemed as if he was offering to confirm them for her.

There was a generosity in his voice, as much as the wide chest folded under the faint smile.

“Feelings of liking a little, and a lot of anxiety.”

“Ugh, this can’t be happening! I want to do this!”

Sunday morning. In her cafe, which was closed for business, Hye Yoon was suffering, looking at the mischief made by her fingers as guided by her true feelings. In the end, she promptly erased the words written on the laptop screen. Even though she had taken the entire day off yesterday, she didn’t realize adding three scenes would be so difficult.

She had to pair them up, but she didn’t want to.

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“I don’t want to. I don’t want to. I don’t want to do it.”

Her protruding lips wouldn’t stop muttering, but she managed to get it done anyway. Despite the prickly emotions, work was work.

The scene where Ye Won tries to link arms with Jong Soo on the way home, the scene where she feels embarrassed by Jong Soo handing her the medicine nonchalantly, the scene where Ye Won’s affection is revealed through their playful conversation. And then.

“Hye Yoon, include a scene where all three meet.”

“All three… including me?”

“Yes. Direct conversation isn’t necessary, just a chance encounter. Ye Won looks at Jong Soo, Jong Soo looks at Hee Soo, and Hee Soo is indifferent. This would be good, right?”

With Min Woo’s request, a scene was added where the three of them coincidentally meet in the neighborhood. In other words, all three would be filming together, which was already burdensome.

[Senior, I’ve sent the added scene. Please let me know if you want any changes. (10:45 AM)]

Hye Yoon, who spent an entire day to make up her mind for a task that could be finished in 30 minutes once she sat down, did it.

[Oh, good! Let’s go with this. I’ll tell Ji Na, so you tell Ji Ho. (10:55 AM)]

“See… why is this good.”

Min Woo’s reply was full of affirmation, but that also annoyed Hye Yoon. Still, the mention of Ji Ho’s name, which she hadn’t expected, temporarily calmed her irritable feelings.

[Ji Ho, I’ve sent the added scene. Please let me know if you want any changes. (11:00 AM)]

After sending the message and scanning the screen, Ji Ho’s usual response appeared.

[Okay. See you then.]

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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