Sun Woo quickly left the house. He was going to stop by the jewelry shop he had visited last time to get a wedding ring.
When he asked for the earliest date he could receive it, the reply was that it should be possible before the end of this weekend, as it was a popular size.
Sun Woo couldn’t suppress his protruding smile all the way to the hospital. As soon as he lowered the car window as much as he could, a fresh breeze came into the car.
Let’s see. It seemed like they had flirted enough to move on, and they had agreed to date…
“Is it time for a formal proposal now?”
Sun Woo had thought that day, swallowing Ji Eun Jae’s lips.
He wanted her to experience everything by his side, from harboring feelings for each other, to a fluffy romance, to sometimes being jealous and passionately in love, to finally marrying.
He had decided to take it slow.
“Slowly my ass.”
They had only flirted for a few days, and it was only a day since they had decided to date, but he was already thinking about proposing.
Although he found it ridiculous and absurd, he didn’t want to delay any further.
He hoped that the upcoming wedding, which was not far away, would be something they both truly wanted and was sincere.
Maybe he should go out of town this weekend.
“There’s a nice fine dining place nearby.”
He seemed to recall a hospital associate mentioning that someone had proposed there, along with a story about how his current wife was very moved.
After briefly parking his car in the hospital parking lot, Sun Woo, who had searched for the name of the fine dining place, immediately made a call.
When he asked when was the earliest possible day for a reservation, the employee asked if he would like to make a reservation for this weekend as there was a cancelled spot.
Sun Woo did not hesitate. Both the ring and the smooth progress of things seemed to be aiding him.
Having finished making the reservation, Sun Woo scrolled through the website introducing the fine dining place.
The outdoor onetable fine dining place was adorned with countless bulbs like stars, making it very atmospheric. He thought that Ji Eun Jae, who liked night views, would surely love it.
There didn’t seem to be a more suitable place to give her the ring and firmly convey his feelings.
Since it was outdoors, night would be best. She shouldn’t just be looking outside over her meal, as she did before.
It might be chilly, so he should take a coat too.
“Sigh…”
He felt nervous for no reason, even though it hadn’t started yet.
He hoped not, but if she were to reject him, how would he cope?
There was still time left in the contract, and things could get more uncomfortable than now.
“Ah, maybe I should have taken her up on her offer when she mentioned calling Mr. Shin, the lawyer.”
Then he might have been able to send her off coolly when she decided to go.
“This is really absurd.”
The laughter that slipped out was not sweet. As he thought that he was now having all sorts of thoughts.
Sorry, but he had a feeling that he wouldn’t be able to send her off coolly.
“Why don’t you like me, meet me once, I’m a decent guy than you think.” He would be grateful if he didn’t nag her like that.
While thinking that it might be a blessing in disguise that he didn’t call Mr. Shin, the lawyer, Sun Woo laughed.
The first class was full of mistakes, perhaps because it was the first.
Among them, the most difficult was flipping an egg pancake during a practical class. Even a slight misadjustment of the heat would cause it to burn, and it often tore while flipping. It was hard to believe that flipping an egg could be such a difficult task.
After a fourhour class, she was going down the stairs with her exhausted body when she heard someone calling out in desperation from behind.
“Excuse me!”
When she turned around at the sound of the voice, a bespectacled man who looked about her age was standing in front of Eun Jae, panting. Eun Jae scanned the man with puzzled eyes.
“Who are you?”
“Oh, I’m the student who took the class with you.”
Did she have such a person next to her? She had been so preoccupied that she didn’t seem to have had a chance to look around her.
“Ah… hello. But what can I do for you?”
“You dropped this pen. Is this yours?”
“Ah. Yes, it is.”
While Eun Jae was taking the pen from the man, a call came in on her mobile phone that was in her hand. It was a call from Sun Woo who had come to pick her up from the academy. The man, with whom she had made eye contact for a moment, gestured as if to say she should take the call.
“See you tomorrow.”
“Yes, take care.”
Watching the man quickly descending the stairs, Eun Jae pressed the call button on her phone.
Inside the car heading home.
Sun Woo drove leisurely, intentionally catching a red light at the next intersection. The car stopped, and Sun Woo’s body leaned toward Eun Jae, as if he had been waiting for this moment.
“Let’s have dinner outside this weekend. Somewhere other than the usual hotel.”
“This weekend?”
“Yes, Saturday.”
“Ah, Saturday…”
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
