“Why? Do I need mother’s permission to have lunch with my wife?”
정 여사’s voice trembled slightly.
“No, no. I was just curious why you suddenly planned lunch.”
재혁 frowned at her response.
He suspected 정 여사’s involvement in 아린’s unusual behavior and thought a warning was necessary.
“Mother.”
“Yes?”
“You haven’t forgotten the promise we made before my marriage, right?”
“Yes?”
“I cooperate with everything you ask, only on the condition that you keep your promise not to interfere.”
“Right, I know.”
“Why did you go to the hospital? You should inform me before you take her there.”
정 여사 stuttered, caught off guard.
“Oh, no. The hospital visit was sudden. Dr. 김 had to go to a conference. You don’t think I took her there without you knowing, do you?”
“Don’t touch 아린 behind my back. It’s the same whether we have a child or not.”
“The child issue isn’t just about you two. You’re the heir to the VAN Group, how can I not intervene?”
정 여사 responded with a slightly sharp tone. 재혁’s voice was equally firm.
“Before being the heir of the VAN Group, it’s our child.”
“반재혁.”
“And the inability to conceive isn’t just 아린’s issue. It’s mine as well.”
“What? What are you talking about? There’s nothing wrong with you. And the issue of a grandchild…”
Cutting off 정 여사 as if her words were not worth hearing, 재혁 interjected.
“I do have an issue. So if you’re going to take 아린 to the hospital, I will also seek treatment.”
“Son. That’s not…”
“Then just leave 아린 alone. Unless you don’t want to announce that your son also has an issue with having children.”
“I won’t stay quiet if you keep this up.”
정 여사’s voice rang sharply through the speaker, assaulting 재혁’s eardrums. His head throbbed even more.
“Have you forgotten why I comply with you?”
“…”
“You’re keeping quiet about 최 씨 not being 아린’s real parents. If you break that promise first, I can’t do much either.”
정 여사 was infuriated, but her anger was not directed at her son. Rather than being upset with 재혁, who was oblivious to his mother’s schemes, she resented 아린 for causing this trouble.
“You’re doing this because of that woman? All the effort I put into raising you, and this is how you treat me?”
재혁’s teeth grinded at his mother’s words.
“That woman?”
최아린 was the only woman in 반재혁’s life. She had naturally been by his side since they were very young.
His proposal to 아린 as a child was more than just a simple joke.
He hated 아린 but also loved her, making it impossible to let her go.
“Make sure not to shake 아린 when I’m not around.”
“재혁, really.”
“I have to go; I’m hanging up.”
“Hey, 재혁…”
Beep.
재혁 hung up the phone. The incessant ringing of the disconnected phone prompted him to turn it off.
“Sigh.”
He let out a deep sigh and splashed water on his face. Closing his eyes, 아린’s voice echoed in his mind.
“오빠, I love you. Can’t you love me?”
It was after a late-night entertainment session. His steps towards the study veered to 아린’s bedroom instead. She, seemingly waiting, cuddled up to him in her sleep.
Thud. His heart sank.
Love? I’m already madly in love with her.
Why is she saying this to me?
That night, his heart tore apart hearing her choked, tearful voice.
“Don’t hate me too much. 오빠, you’re misunderstanding. I want to have your child because I want to be a real family with you.”
The next day, 아린 didn’t remember the conversation, and she never opened up again.
But since that night, many changes occurred in 재혁. His doubts and insecurities about 아린’s feelings settled.
He believed 최아린 could never leave him, and he had blind faith in her love.
재혁 thought they should appreciate being together for now. The reason was simple: his feelings for her were too complex to merely categorize as ‘love.’
Love and hate are separated by a thin line, aren’t they?
재혁 loved 아린, but at the same time, he hated her.
He recalled a conversation with 정 여사 from three years ago.
“Marriage? With whom?”
“With 아린.”
“아린…?”
“Yes. Didn’t I tell you? 천 도사 said the one destined to be your wife, based on her fortune, could bear a child.”
재혁 knew better than anyone that his mother, 정 여사, was superstitious. She even performed bizarre rituals with amulets written by 천 도사, especially on the day of her husband’s surgery.
“So I casually mentioned it, and it seems 윤경숙 heard about it. That woman somehow showed 천 도사 her daughter’s fortune.”
윤경숙 was 아린’s mother.
재혁 found his mother’s words puzzling, but superstitions were always vague, so he dismissed the questions in his mind.
“They said they would bear a child for money, on their side.”
His heart sank in shock.
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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