Watching him squirm like a child, rubbing his eyes as if sulking, Su-yeong sighed lightly.
“Shall I read a book for you? Would you like to fall asleep while listening?”
“I won’t sleep… I won’t!”
As if a child throwing a tantrum, he rubbed his eyes, and Su-yeong, watching his temperamental display, sighed lightly.
“If I read to you, will you sleep?”
“I won’t… When will you leave? If I sleep…”
“Even if Seol Woo-jin doesn’t sleep, I’ll leave anyway. My mom worries if I go home late. Rather than seeing you not sleeping and leaving, it’s better for me to be here sleeping. I’ll come before Seol Woo-jin wakes up tomorrow morning instead.”
However, Woo-jin, with his eyes closed, did not respond.
Wondering if he had already fallen asleep, Su-yeong stared at his serene face. Suddenly, he spoke in a languid voice.
“Don’t look at my face; read the book.”
Huh! How does he know not to look at my face… a ghost-like guy. No, a ghost-like landlord.
Quickly lowering her eyes to the book, Su-yeong began reading diligently.
“On that night, after laying Mark on his bed in his room, Do-hyun left without looking back. Eugene, bowing her head toward his broad back, as if wings would spread out, greeted him. She knew that her friends were often startled by her greetings because she always bowed her head. Well, the unique Korean way of greeting couldn’t be fixed. Do-hyun also slightly bowed his head in response to Eugene’s greeting, then got into the waiting car. Around him, that black car always followed.
Though it was a short distance, Yu-jin, who got on that car for the first time after picking up Mark, wondered why the driver didn’t say a single word. It was conjectured that Do-hyun might be the son of a conglomerate, but since neither Mark nor Do-hyun explained, she couldn’t ask first….”
Soon, the sound of snoring reached Su-yeong’s ears.
Usually, the breathing sound over the phone was a gentle breeze-like sound, but now it sounded like someone was struggling to let the air out.
Thinking it might be more comfortable if he breathed through his mouth, Su-yeong was about to slightly open his lips with her fingers when, without a sound, the hospital door opened, and Ji-hyun came in.
Unconsciously, Su-yeong quickly withdrew her hand and stood up from her seat. Ji-hyun approached the bed and whispered softly.
“Is it you?”
“Yes, just now…”
“Su-yeong, you should go home.”
“Yes.”
“I’ll take you.”
“Uh, what if he wakes up at night?”
“I’ll administer medication periodically. Don’t worry; he’ll sleep well until morning.”
Despite Ji-hyun’s comforting words, seeing Su-yeong looking worriedly at Woo-jin, he said gently.
“Thank you for today. If it weren’t for Su-yeong, it could have been a big problem.”
“Yes…”
Although there might be no other way, there must be a way to calm Woo-jin without touching him… The doctor and nurse she saw earlier seemed very unpleasant.
Why are the experts like that?
Since meeting Naeun, the words that she is not an expert have been like a thorn somewhere in her chest.
However, today, seeing Woo-jin trust her completely and Ji-hyun also supporting someone like Su-yeong, that thorn felt duller.
The next day, someone blocked Su-yeong on her way to work at the hospital.
It was a well-dressed, affable-looking man.
“Could you come with me for a moment? Someone wants to meet Kim Su-yeong.”
It seems urgent to leave before Woo-jin wakes up, but despite his gentle demeanor, Su-yeong felt a certain strength in his voice, so she followed him.
The place he led her to was the rooftop garden. She thought the inside of the building was luxurious, but she never expected such a beautiful place.
While she couldn’t even take a walk in the hospital, she thought it might be a good idea to bring Woo-jin here today and looked around carefully.
At that moment, she noticed an elderly man sitting on a long wooden chair.
Wondering why there was a grandfather at this hour, the man who brought her bowed to that grandfather.
And he kindly said to Su-yeong,
“You must be Chairman Seol Majung. You’re Woo-jin’s great-grandfather.”
“Ah, yes…”
Seeing a chairman, whom she usually only saw in dramas, in person was quite an experience… Somehow, it felt like his status had risen.
At the same time, she became worried when she thought that this grandfather might be the one with many lawyers.
He didn’t interview at that time, so he wouldn’t have signed a dual contract, right?
Chairman Seol carefully examined the small, round-faced child standing in front of him from head to toe.
With an innocent face that seemed to have taken her dad out and put him there.
It was very different from the atmosphere with Naeun, who used to come to the house often.
If Naeun was like a narcissus, this child was… like a dandelion blooming on the roadside.
Judging by Chairman Seol’s taste… He liked narcissus, but whenever he saw a dandelion shaking along the roadside, he used to admire its vitality.
“Come and sit here.”
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
