It wasn’t an issue worth explaining.
Why do I feel prickled?
“Aren’t you getting in?”
Why doesn’t he ask? Doesn’t he care? Or was it not a situation worth misunderstanding?
I should’ve just taken the pen. Or smiled a little. To make him misunderstand, to make him jealous?
“Why aren’t you asking?”
Sun Woo, who was about to get in the driver’s seat, paused at Eun Jae’s words and stood up again.
“Asking what?”
“Don’t you care? Your girlfriend was standing with another man.”
At Eun Jae’s words, Sun Woo leaned on the open driver’s side door and laughed.
“Okay, I’m curious. Who is he?”
“He’s a classmate. Sits next to me.”
“Yeah?”
“Yes. So don’t misunderstand like you did yesterday.”
After ending her words bluntly, Eun Jae got in the passenger seat. Sun Woo then took the driver’s seat and pulled her seatbelt tightly. Eun Jae froze, inhaling sharply.
Click. The sound as Eun Jae’s seatbelt locked.
“Fine. If my girlfriend says it’s okay, then it’s okay.”
It looked like I’d have to spend the night at the hospital today because I had a patient to monitor.
After dropping off Eun Jae at home, Sun Woo, who returned to the hospital late, pulled a red ring box out of his jacket pocket.
Two diamonds lying side by side inside the opened box glittered brightly.
Seems like he put some thought into the proposal ring. Whether it was because the ring arrived earlier than expected, his mouth felt dry.
Staring blankly at the ring, Sun Woo decisively closed the box and tossed it into his desk drawer.
“What’s a ‘classmate sitting next to me’ anyway.”
You can’t see that kid’s eyes, can you? Is that how you look at a classmate sitting next to you?
Recalling the situation when he ran into Eun Jae in front of the academy, Sun Woo nervously closed the drawer.
It didn’t feel strange. A fresh atmosphere, like a campus couple, filled the air. That’s probably why I unconsciously stared at the two of them.
It was the same when I was next to Yoon Tae Kyu.
I don’t know why, but it looked comfortable, and it seemed like I could really see Ji Eun Jae’s smile.
“Ah…”
Sitting at his desk, Sun Woo’s head slowly dropped toward the floor as he touched his forehead.
It seems like the arrow of resentment is pointing in a useless direction.
I wish I hadn’t known.
I’ve been on edge ever since I found out a fact I wasn’t curious about. No, actually, I’ve always been curious and concerned.
“What am I doing?”
Sighing, Sun Woo, who had been staring blankly at the sofa, remembered Eun Jae eating cheesecake deliciously on that sofa about two months ago.
“Ji Eun Jae, why are you so bad at seeing men? I’m much better than Yoon Tae Kyu.”
And then, as if she was in front of him, he poured out his complaints.
“Should I just say it all?”
Yoon Tae Kyu hasn’t seen a woman for more than a month, and the number of women he’s dumped could fill a truck. And he’s about to get a stamp from W Hotel soon…
“No, let’s not say this.”
Then, suddenly, he met his own eyes reflected in the mirror.
The world’s most pathetic man was reflected in the mirror.
After the theory class ended, during the brief break.
Sitting listlessly in her seat, Eun Jae was twirling a pen in her hand and thinking about this dawn.
I fell asleep waiting after we parted ways like that yesterday. When I opened my eyes at the sound of rustling, I saw a man putting on a shirt.
“Did you wake up? I tried to be quiet.”
“Did you just come in?”
“No, I’m about to leave.”
He has been particularly busy these days. The man quickly buttoned up his shirt and pulled out a tie. Eun Jae instinctively reached for the tie, but the man she couldn’t see quickly tied it.
“You’re going to the academy again today, right?”
“Yes.”
“I’ll pick you up at that time yesterday.”
“No, you said you have to go to the hospital again. It’s just one bus ride, really, I’m fine.”
“No, I’ll pick you…”
For a moment, the man hesitated and took something out of the drawer and put it in Eun Jae’s hand. It was an umbrella with a pink background and white polka dots.
“Yeah, it’s supposed to rain in the afternoon. Take an umbrella.”
His tone was strangely cold and blunt. Thinking about the man’s words, Eun Jae left the umbrella that he had handed to her in the bedroom.
In the meantime, she chuckled at the thought of the cotton candy-like umbrella he had given her.
“Do I look like a child?”
The tag was still on the new umbrella. Did he buy it for me? My mood improved a little thinking it was something he chose while thinking of me. Even while grumbling, a smile never left Eun Jae’s lips.
The surgery took longer than expected. Although the surgery went relatively well, it seemed that the patient’s condition had to be monitored for the time being, so it looked like he couldn’t avoid being on call today.
By the time he wrapped up and returned, half a day had passed. When he returned to his professor’s office, rain was pouring down outside the window.
Sun Woo approached the window and poured hot water into a cup with a herbal tea bag and waited for a moment. Steam rose, stimulating his sense of smell with a fragrant herb scent.
While waiting for the tea to brew, Sun Woo stared blankly out the window. He rested his arms, which were crossed, on the windowsill and pushed up his slightly lowered glasses with his thumb.
It seemed there were people who hadn’t managed to bring their umbrellas despite the forecast. He saw someone crossing the street quickly, getting wet in the rain.
“This year, they say the monsoon will come early. I don’t particularly like rainy days. I have far too many memories of getting wet.”
“Compared to what you see, I’m weak, so inevitably I catch a cold after getting wet in the rain.”
A conversation he had with Eun Jae a while ago suddenly came to mind.
She had said she didn’t like rainy days. At that time, her words didn’t sound particularly poignant, but now recalling Eun Jae’s voice seemed somewhat melancholic.
Sun Woo took a sip of the well-brewed herbal tea and lowered his gaze. He lifted his wrist to check the time.
The classes must have already ended. Both yesterday and today, he had unintentionally been a little distant, and it weighed on his mind.
“I never knew I was this narrow-minded.”
The herbal tea he impulsively sipped filled his mouth with a fragrant aroma.
His head really must be messed up. Seeing as he’s even thinking of Eun Jae’s sweet lips at this moment.
He still regretted rashly proposing by shoving a contract in her face.
So this time, he wanted to propose again, offering a ring in a nice place. If it could alleviate some of her past bitterness, he wanted to do it, even if only a little.
Both the ring and the fine-dining reservations were progressing relatively smoothly, he thought. But ironically, the protagonist of the ring had a prior engagement, and it was supposed to rain on the weekend.
A defeated smile slipped through Sun Woo’s lips.
Whenever he planned for A, he meticulously prepared for contingencies B, C, and D.
So why were you always Z?
That question seemed to be resolving a bit now.
Because winning over a person’s unpredictable heart was never something that could be planned in the first place.
Sun Woo put down his cup and walked briskly toward the desk. He picked up the phone, as if making a decision.
“Nurse, I’ll be stepping out for a bit.”
“Okay. Mr. Jung is here, so you can go ahead.”
“Contact me immediately if anything happens.”
As soon as he hung up the phone, Sun Woo took off his gown and slipped his arms into his jacket.
Then he took a ring box out of the drawer. He clenched it tightly in his hand and stared at it for a long time.
“I know I’m a bad guy.”
Because I’ve come too far to let you go.
Because it seemed like it didn’t matter who was in your heart.
“Let’s see who wins.”
He was intent on shaking things up, if they weren’t already shaken.
He wanted to give it his best effort.
To win your heart.
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
