“Uiiiiing.”
A boy of about six years old sat in front of him, bursting into tears.
“Are you okay?”
Surprised, Nolan Jaehyuk sat down and examined the child before asking.
Without any intention of stopping his tears, the child burst into louder sobs.
Although Jaehyuk was meeting the child for the first time, he began to comfort the child in his arms with a warm and gentle voice.
Arlin’s eyes sparkled as she watched him.
The belatedly arriving mother of the child apologized profusely, bowing her waist repeatedly.
“It’s okay. Children can cry while playing.”
After reassuring the child’s mother, Jaehyuk sat in front of the child, holding the mother’s hand, and spoke while making eye contact.
“From now on, always hold your mom’s hand when you walk. Okay?”
As the child nodded slightly, Jaehyuk gently stroked the child’s small head as if finding it cute.
“Thank you, mister.”
“Goodbye.”
Jaehyuk watched the child until he moved away. Arlin, who had been watching from the side, felt uneasy.
‘Come to think of it, it’s not that my brother hates children; he just didn’t have an interest in them.’
In Arin’s memories, Jaehyuk was not an image of someone who liked children.
“Do you… like children?”
The question was strange, but Arin did not correct it.
“Ah. Yeah. Didn’t you know?”
“…I thought my brother wasn’t interested.”
“Ah.”
Holding Arin’s hand, Jaehyuk began to walk towards the road they were headed to.
“It’s not that I wasn’t interested; I just didn’t particularly like them.”
“…”
“But now, I’m starting to like them.”
Arin stopped walking and looked up at Jaehyuk.
Jaehyuk reached out, enveloping Arin’s cheek with his hand, and spoke.
“I’m not trying to make you uncomfortable, so don’t think too much about it.”
“…Oppa.”
“Arin, just having you by my side is enough. Understand?”
Jaehyuk spoke with a casual smile.
In a moment, an impulse rose in Arin’s heart.
“…Yeah. Let’s not jump to conclusions alone. There’s no way my brother would reject our child.”
She decided not to hide it anymore.
“Is it okay to say it now?”
While Arin was contemplating, a brief silence followed.
Jaehyuk tightened his grip on her hand. He turned his body to face Arin.
“Sorry, thinking about it, saying this might be a burden for you.”
Her eyes flickered.
‘I want to say it more delicately. Since it’s just tomorrow.’
After swallowing the words that had risen to her throat, Arin opened her mouth.
“No, oppa. It’s not a burden at all.”
Jaehyuk’s face relaxed a bit at Arin’s words. However, his face still remained dark.
Arin reached out and gently caressed Jaehyuk’s cheek.
“Oppa, I mean it. It wasn’t a burden at all. We’re a married couple, after all.”
‘Just wait a little longer.’
Arin lifted her tiptoes and kissed him. When their warmth met, Jaehyuk’s gaze trembled.
For a moment, he pulled her waist tightly.
‘This is driving me crazy.’
Jaehyuk knew better than anyone that his daily routine could be featured on the economic section’s front page. Those in power shouldn’t allow even the smallest cracks.
It was a moment where the fact that this place was outside was painfully apparent.
“I love you.”
So, all he could do now was speak.
“I love you, Arin.”
Words that would still be insufficient no matter how many times he said them.
On the day of the trip.
As Arin and Jaehyuk stepped out of the iron gate, a woman kneeling in front of a security guard caught their attention.
“No, please. Please, just let me meet him.”
Disheveled hair and a face smeared with tears.
Arin also recognized the face well.
Arin’s expression turned icy as she confirmed the woman’s identity.
“…….”
Turning her head at the sound of the door opening, the woman widened her eyes upon seeing Arin. Quickly, she approached Arin.
“What’s going on?”
“Ban, Ban Seobang.”
It was Arin’s mother, Yang Kyung-sook.
“How can someone with an arrest warrant walk around like this?”
Jaehyuk, tightly holding Arin’s trembling hand, intervened and blocked Kyung-sook. The security guard who followed belatedly restrained Kyung-sook’s arms.
“Let go of this. You know who I am. Let go of this.”
Despite Kyung-sook’s resistance, the security guards did not release their grip.
Jaehyuk glared at Kyung-sook with eyes filled with contempt.
“People who are now completely irrelevant to Arin, why are you addressing me as Ban Seobang?”
“W-What does that mean? W-We, we’re strangers.”
“It would have been a better fate if we were strangers.”
A chilling voice, as cold as the wind from the northern regions, echoed through the air.
Kyung-sook trembled all over.
“P-Please, let me and our family live. I-I did everything wrong. Y-Yes, I did everything wrong, so please forgive us now. Arin. You’re not going to send your kind mother to a real, cold prison, right? Arin. Please. You have a heart, don’t you? You’re not this heartless.”
“…You’re even more shameless than I thought.”
Following Jaehyuk’s cold words, Arin blocked her ears, not wanting to hear Kyung-sook’s resistance.
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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