Visible Love (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 13
By the time I got home after stopping by the library following my part-time shift, it was already past 9 p.m.
Assuming Mom would be working late as usual, I’d planned to just fill up on dumplings, so I walked in jingling the plastic bag they came in.
But unexpectedly, Young Soon was already sitting at the dining table.
“Why are you coming home so late?”
Young Soon asked as she looked at her daughter, and Su Young, in turn, looked at her mother and asked,
“Why are you home so early today? No overtime?”
“Mom took half-a-half-day off today.”
“Half-a-half-day? What’s that? Just take a half-day or don’t.”
“It was too awkward for a full half-day, so I took a half-a-half-day.”
“What kind of awkward timing?”
At that, Young Soon let out a light sigh and said,
“There was a memorial service for Dae Heon’s family today.”
“Oh… Ugh, why even go? People there don’t even like you anyway.”
“I didn’t go inside—just watched from far away. Nobody saw me.”
Ignoring her mother’s words, Su Young went straight to her room, dropped her bag and outerwear beside her desk, and came back out to the kitchen.
“Don’t go there anymore. It’s not your fault.”
“But he’s still your father.”
“Whatever.”
She couldn’t understand why her mother had to bear responsibility that rightfully belonged to her father. He’d just cowardly run away. She wasn’t completely unaware of his feelings, but it still hurt.
“How’s your studying going?”
“Huh? Uh… yeah, I guess…”
Every time her mother asked this, Su Young agonized over whether to mention her part-time job or not.
But with less than two weeks left, she figured bringing it up would only upset her mother, so she decided to stay quiet.
Young Soon looked at her daughter’s clean, composed face and said softly,
“Su Young, even if studying is tough right now, find a steady job you can stick with. Women need to be independent. Only then can you handle any situation—whether you get married or not.”
“Can’t I just keep doing what I’ve been doing?”
Su Young, who’d been silently listening to her mother, cautiously asked while watching her expression.
“What do you mean, ‘what you’ve been doing’?”
“Just teaching kids at the local academy and writing whenever I have time.”
“That’s exactly why it’s not stable.”
She understood what her mother meant by “finding a stable job,” but while preparing for TOEIC and drafting resumes and cover letters, she’d realized one thing clearly: office work just wasn’t her thing.
If only she could do something like her mom—architectural design—but Su Young hadn’t even majored in design.
She knew her mom wanted to see her daughter succeed in a respectable career, and she’d been trying hard to explore options, but it still hurt that her mother didn’t seem to understand what she truly wanted.
Su Young felt like a small stone was rolling around inside her chest and unconsciously rubbed her sternum.
[This is the timeline separator]“I’ve corrected all the typos on page 23, so please check. Also, your characters’ dialogues keep overlapping—is that intentional?”
At Ji Hyun’s words, Woo Jin activated the screen reader on his laptop, and the computer began reading aloud the text he’d written.
The speed was so fast that ordinary people would struggle to understand, but trained Ji Hyun quickly found the part she’d flagged.
“Here, right here.”
“Hmm…”
Woo Jin, lost in thought, simply said,
“I’ll fix it.”
“Don’t worry about the publication date—take your time.”
“How can I not worry? Every day it’s delayed costs money.”
“It’s fine—the braille translation’s running late anyway.”
“So you’re trying to make me feel responsible if the publisher goes under?”
Woo Jin grumbled needlessly, but Ji Hyun just smiled warmly and went to sit on the single-seater sofa.
“When have I ever blamed you?”
“You’ve never had reason to. You’ve always met your deadlines perfectly.”
“Which is exactly why you never get enough sleep. Take care of yourself.”
“I’d sleep even less if I didn’t write. At least when I’m working, I get drowsy—and that’s when I sleep.”
Just then, Ji Hyun suddenly rustled through her bag, pulled out a white box, and deliberately placed it with a thud on Woo Jin’s desk.
“Left your nebulizer medicine here. It’s almost empty, right?”
“Yeah.”
The words “thank you” hovered on his tongue, but Woo Jin swallowed them back down.
Honestly, he was grateful for everything—being allowed to freely pursue what he loved, and the small, constant care she showed him.
But ever since their big fight the day before the accident, Woo Jin couldn’t bring himself to say “thank you,” and Ji Hyun didn’t expect it either. In fact, she didn’t just not expect it—she considered it natural.
Instead, Woo Jin expressed his gratitude by never missing deadlines and editing or publishing exactly as Ji Hyun directed, while Ji Hyun expressed her remorse by fully supporting whatever her younger sibling wanted to do.
And this mutual understanding had become a driving force that kept them both going.
[This is the timeline separator]After heating up a lunchbox for a late dinner, Ji Hyun watched her younger sibling set down their spoon and asked,
“Why is your lunchbox always untouched when you eat with Miss Su Young?”
“Su Young buys it.”
“Every day?”
“Yeah.”
“She’s really thoughtful.”
“Yeah, so pay her well.”
Ji Hyun expected sarcasm—maybe even a snarky “What’s so great about that?”—but her sibling unexpectedly agreed and even suggested a raise, so Ji Hyun smiled and asked,
“You okay with that?”
“With what?”
“I mean, are you okay with Miss Su Young?”
“What do you mean, ‘okay’?”
Woo Jin’s eyes sharpened, so Ji Hyun lowered his voice and clarified,
“I mean, is it okay having her live with you?”
Woo Jin didn’t respond, just started scooping rice silently. One hand held the spoon, the other neatly cupped underneath—a gesture of meticulous neatness.
It wasn’t about manners so much as his deep aversion to getting any food or side dish on his clothes.
“I already told you before—I’m bothered by it,”
he muttered gruffly before shoveling rice into his mouth, clearly signaling the conversation was over.
But Ji Hyun didn’t let up.
“Yet you keep letting her come.”
“…It’s not like there’s much time left, anyway.”
As he said this, it felt like a grain of rice got stuck in his throat. He cleared it with a cough and reached for his water—but ended up knocking over the cup instead.
“Ah—”
Flustered, he stood up abruptly, but Ji Hyun quickly grabbed a dishcloth and wiped the table. Woo Jin snapped irritably,
“Why’d you have to go and say something useless like that!”
“I wasn’t being tricky—I was just asking sincerely. Is it okay for Miss Su Young to keep working? I was wondering if Jo Young Mi could come back.”
After wiping up the spill, Ji Hyun refilled Woo Jin’s cup. This time, Woo Jin carefully held it with both hands and gulped the water down.
Then he set the cup back on the table with a stern expression and said,
“Stop asking useless questions. Just because I want her to stay doesn’t mean she will.”
“But if you ask her…”
“Ask her what? She’s still just a kid—with her whole future ahead of her. Do you really want to waste her potential as a housekeeper here?”
“Hey, anyone hearing this might think I’m some evil employer! ‘Waste her’? She’ll quit once she lands a real job after interning here. She hasn’t found one yet, right?”
“…Won’t staying here interfere with her job hunt?”
Ji Hyun replied quietly,
“You help her prepare.”
“Help her with what? I don’t even know what she wants to do.”
“Didn’t she say she wants to be a writer? Help her with that.”
“Do you think writing’s easy? Does everyone just pick up a pen and write?”
“Exactly—since not everyone can do it, that’s why I’m saying you should help her.”
Woo Jin had never seen the usually indecisive Seol Ji Hyun advocate for something so assertively.
But Woo Jin said nothing in response—just kept eating his rice, untouched side dishes sitting aside as he mechanically shoveled rice into his mouth.
After chewing plain rice for a while, Woo Jin finally murmured softly,
“…What about the previous housekeeper if that kid keeps coming? How am I supposed to explain it to someone who’s desperately trying to keep her own family from getting laid off?”
Ji Hyun’s eyes widened at Woo Jin’s words—he wanted her to stay!
Worried that Woo Jin might not actually want this, Ji Hyun had been anxious about finding a way to keep Su Young around, per Hyung Min’s suggestion.
Short-term help and long-term employment were different things, after all.
But hearing Woo Jin’s words now made it clear: he did want Su Young to keep coming.
And he was even worried about Jo Young Mi’s situation—something truly surprising, given Woo Jin’s usual indifference toward others.
“Don’t worry about that. I’ll handle it.”
When Ji Hyun said this smoothly, Woo Jin turned his distinctive golden eyes toward him—as if actually seeing him, locking gazes directly.
Meeting his younger sibling’s eyes, Ji Hyun calmly said,
“I’ll find Jo Young Mi another suitable job, so you don’t need to worry. Got it?”
“Seol Ji Hyun.”
Though Woo Jin called his older brother’s name with unusual firmness, Ji Hyun just looked at him as if it were normal—only to hear something unexpected from Woo Jin’s lips.
“How long are you going to keep doing this?”
“Doing what?”
“How long will you keep stepping in without a second thought whenever it’s about me? Are you really going to do this your whole life?”
“Woo Jin…”
“You know Grandfather wants you to take over the hotel. You were only supposed to run the publishing house for three years—to build management experience. How many years has it actually been now? When will you finally stop?”
At Woo Jin’s serious expression, Ji Hyun smiled gently and asked,
“Do you really think I’d do well running the hotel?”
“You’d be great at anything you took on. You’ve already proven that with the publishing house. How many publishers are barely hanging on these days? Everyone’s reading web novels and webtoons—who even buys physical books anymore? Yet you’re publishing braille editions that don’t even make money, and you’ve kept the business alive this long. That shows real management skill—more than enough.”
This was the first time Ji Hyun had ever heard such praise from him. His eyes welled up, and he pressed his fingers firmly against the bridge of his nose.
Woo Jin, as if he could actually see the gesture, made a faint scoffing sound.
“Touched, are you?”
Ji Hyun lowered his hand and quickly shot back,
“Yeah, damn right I am. But you’ve got one thing wrong.”
“What?”
“I’m not running this publishing house just for you. I do it because I enjoy it—it suits me. And honestly, I love reading books too.”
“What do you even like?”
Woo Jin said incredulously, but Ji Hyun pretended not to notice and replied,
“You just don’t know, but ever since I started running the publishing house, I’ve grown to love books. I used to think web novels were childish, but while editing them, I realized many actually have real literary merit. Don’t you have any idea how fun it is to discover and nurture new writers?”
“…Do I need to know that?”
“Anyway, this is something I genuinely enjoy—completely unrelated to you. So stop worrying about it. Seriously, if I ran the hotel, would everyone suddenly say, ‘Oh look, even dogs and cows are managing hotels now,’ like you claimed?”
Ji Hyun smiled and started mixing rice into his cold soup. Woo Jin put more plain rice in his mouth, chewing silently without another word.
Seol Ji Hyun had been raised since childhood as the eldest grandson meant to inherit Seongha Group. Yet he’d always lived in Woo Jin’s shadow—whether in academics or sports.
Though his smoother personality gave him more friends than the prickly Woo Jin, honestly, even his friends paid more attention to Woo Jin.
Burdened by inferiority and constant comparison but never showing it, Ji Hyun finally snapped after failing the college entrance exam and missing his dream university.
Through his second and third attempts at the exam, he began deliberately ignoring Woo Jin as if he didn’t exist in the family, openly criticizing him like Grandfather whenever they crossed paths.
When the only person in the household who’d ever shown him genuine care—his cousin hyung—started treating him that way, Woo Jin gave up on studying entirely.
He spent every day gaming and working out. Yet his grades stayed high, so no one scolded him—which only infuriated Ji Hyun further.
Finally, when they were scheduled to take the college entrance exam together, Ji Hyun hurled cruel words at Woo Jin:
“I’ve never met a bigger dumbass like you. Just looking at your eyes makes me wanna puke. Go find your mom.”
And then, as his final blow, he spat out an unspeakable slur mocking Woo Jin’s mixed heritage.
Ji Hyun would never forget the look in Woo Jin’s eyes after those words. Why had he said that? Had he really been insane? He regretted it every single day.
After his uncle passed away and Woo Jin lost his eyesight, Ji Hyun felt as if it was all his fault—because of those words. He couldn’t speak for three months.
He wanted desperately to apologize, to beg for forgiveness—but the words just wouldn’t come out.
Only when he finally resolved to live for Woo Jin, to support him in everything he did, did his voice return.
He force-fed porridge to his starving, sleepless sibling, bathed him, cut his hair—and took countless blows in return.
Losing his sight didn’t mean Woo Jin lost strength. His blind swings hurt even more. But Ji Hyun endured every punch steadfastly, never leaving Woo Jin’s side.
Everyone around them praised him, saying, “Where in the world do you find a brother like that?”—but even their praise felt like a burden.
He wanted to grab them and shout, “Do you even know what I did?”
But Woo Jin never brought up what Ji Hyun had said that day, so how could Ji Hyun go around blabbing about it himself?
“You’re gonna die! The moment you see me, I’ll kill you first! You’ll be the first to go!”
Woo Jin screamed at Ji Hyun, who was forcing him to bathe. As Ji Hyun lathered soap onto his skeletal frame, he repeated the same words over and over,
“I’ll stay by your side. I’ll be with you until your wedding day.”
“Aaaagh! Seol Ji Hyun! You damn lunatic!”
“I’ll be there! Right beside you! So you don’t have to be scared!”
“Aaaahhh!”
Watching Woo Jin thrash on the bathroom floor, screaming that he hated being touched, Ji Hyun’s face crumpled into tears as he kept repeating,
“You don’t have to be scared, Woo Jin.”
Those words became a kind of magic—enough for Woo Jin to eventually live independently. Woo Jin himself acknowledged this, though Seol Ji Hyun still had no idea.
Male lead is a clingy little husband
One-line summary: The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
Introduction:
One day, Lu Yuner’s soul transmigrates into a female-dominant world. She enters the Imperial Academy and takes up the position of a doctoral instructor, teaching classes and grading schoolwork.
One day, she encounters the young prince Su Qingwan secretly skipping class from the male academy.
As a result, Su Qingwan is punished.
From then on, Su Qingwan sees Lu Yuner as a “thorn in his side”.
But before long, this “thorn” becomes the person he cherishes most, and he goes to great lengths to win Lu Yuner’s affection.
Mini scene 1:
One day, the sun is high in the sky but Su Qingwan still hasn’t gotten up for class.
Servant Xiaoyuan: “Young prince, it’s time for class. You’ll be late otherwise.”
Su Qingwan says arrogantly: “I’m not going. I am the esteemed prince, my status is so noble, why should I suffer this hardship? Besides, isn’t learning all this just to please women? Hmph, they’re not worthy!”
Mini scene 2:
After Su Qingwan falls for someone, he completely changes. He no longer skips class and diligently learns how to be a good husband and father. But he discovers that Sister Yuner is always surrounded by admirers.
Drunk and overcome with jealousy one day, he clings to Lu Yuner, crying beautifully like a pear blossom in the rain.
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan likes Sister Yuner.”
Lu Yuner: “Young prince, you’re drunk.”
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan isn’t drunk. Qingwan likes Sister Yuner, likes you so much, likes you to bits…” Before he can finish, Lu Yuner’s eyes flash with emotion and she leans in closer.
[Reading Guide]
1. The female lead is gentle, gracious, humble and polite but not weak. The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
2. 1v1, a bit torturous in the beginning but definitely sweet later on.
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