“It seems like the finish is worn out because it’s old. I need to get it fixed.”
“The earring has aged quite a bit.”
“You remember this? This earring has lived longer than you.”
“You should ask for another one.”
Eun Jung laughed brightly as she put on the ear clip. It was a ruby earring that matched well with her red dress.
“Come to think of it, if a baby is born that resembles you and Eun Jae—”
“Don’t jump to conclusions.”
As Sun Woo, who seemed annoyed, got up and started walking towards the room, Eun Jung whispered to him.
“Sun Woo, have a good time.”
Creak—
The door, which hadn’t been used for a long time, made a noise as it opened. At that sound, Sun Woo was slightly startled and looked at Eun Jae who was asleep. Fortunately, she seemed undisturbed.
“You should lock the door and sleep.”
“You’re so careless.”
Sun Woo chuckled and looked down at the sleeping Eun Jae for a long time before he finally turned around.
The blue light of the early dawn that hadn’t yet faded touched Eun Jae’s eyelids.
Was it because she had changed her sleeping place? She woke up from a light sleep. She rubbed her eyes, which were still halfclosed, and fumbled on the white sheets.
Tock, Eun Jae, who had picked up her phone that she felt in her hand, checked the time. As the bright screen illuminated her eyes, Eun Jae squinted.
5:00 AM.
Yawning with her mouth wide open and checking the time, Eun Jae quickly wiped her moist eyes and hurriedly looked to her side.
On the spacious bed, the spot where a pillow should be looked unnecessarily larger. The man’s empty spot made her feel bitter as it mirrored her own feelings.
Eun Jae brushed her hand over the sheets and got lost in her thoughts.
She had misunderstood the man.
She hadn’t intended to, but as various situations overlapped, she found herself making judgements and taking actions on her own. Even now, thinking of what happened earlier, she felt embarrassed and her face flushed.
If he was the type of man to take advantage of her, if that was his purpose from the beginning, he would have already achieved it.
There had been moments when she had potentially provoked the man without meaning to. When she had willingly entered the man’s room, when she was drunk and let her guard down, or when she stood before him lightly dressed like yesterday.
If he had impure intentions from the beginning, he wouldn’t have bothered with gestures like collecting the fallen flower petals.
“How pathetic, Ji Eun Jae.”
With a deep sigh mixed with a breath, Eun Jae, feeling that it would be hard to fall asleep here anymore, climbed out of the bed.
Having finished her shower, Eun Jae had a struggle with the necklace in front of the powder room.
It wasn’t bothering her. It didn’t matter much even if she didn’t take it off. Since the man had locked it, it hadn’t come off, and whenever it seemed too tight, she tried pulling the lock, she even tried looking for the locking mechanism here and there, but no solution seemed apparent.
Originally, if it can’t be done, she would want to try it, and if she shouldn’t do it, she would want to do it even more. Isn’t that human psychology?
Thinking that she would have to ask how to unlock it, Eun Jae cautiously opened the door and came out.
As soon as she left the room, she saw the man’s toes sticking out at the end of the sofa.
“Pfft.”
For some reason, the sight was somewhat pitiful and funny, and she barely stopped her bursting laughter with her hand. As she slowly walked around the back of the sofa, she saw the sleeping man.
How could even his sleeping form be so flawless?
“He looks just like a baby when he’s like that.”
She had heard somewhere that a sleeping baby looks like a real angel, and it seemed like those words were referring to this exact scene.
He looked no different from the child she had seen in the photos yesterday. Eun Jae looked at each of Sun Woo’s sleeping facial features as if she were dissecting them.
From the shadows cast by his eyelashes to the bridge of his nose, and even his lips, which stirred a small desire to swallow in one bite.
Even in the darkness that was just beginning to lighten, he was a man who shone.
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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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