“Yes. Our mom was really healthy back then. Even now, on a rainy day, it feels like the smell of that day is in the air. It’s funny, isn’t it?”
“No. Even I would have felt the same.”
“I said I didn’t like it. But looking back, there were some good moments.”
Seon-woo wiped away Eun-jae’s remaining tears and looked at her silently. It seemed like the time to confess had come.
“Actually, your umbrella was in my car.”
“What are you talking about? Huh, I didn’t know that… Do you know how much I looked for it? I was so sorry, thinking I lost it.”
While staring at Eun-jae who was bravely confronting him, Seon-woo spoke with his hand placed under his waist.
“Just because a girl like you was standing without an umbrella. Mom said she was busy.”
“…”
“I couldn’t just let it pass, right?”
Somewhere, I’ve heard that there’s always a reason for things to happen.
That umbrella was meant to go to that child. Thinking like that, I involuntarily smiled.
“You did well. You needed it more than I did.”
“You can share it with me.”
Seon-woo nodded, gently caressing Eun-jae’s smiling cheek.
“What about you, Mr. Seon-woo? Don’t you have memories of rainy days?”
“Well… I didn’t like rainy days at first. Even though I was doing well, strangely, on rainy days, things often went wrong. I would mess up exams on rainy days or lose a medal I had never missed before. So, I used to hate it―”
Seon-woo laughed, adding, “It’s like fighting against natural disasters, you know.”
“Then, I started paying a bit more attention to competitions or exams on rainy days. Surprisingly, it helped me overcome things. In the end, my grades got better.”
“Oh, that’s a good coping mechanism. Oh, right. If you swept through medals like that, why didn’t you become a taekwondo athlete and became a doctor instead?”
“I didn’t learn taekwondo to become an athlete, you know? I’m naturally good at whatever I do.”
“…”
“Whether it’s the first time or not.”
“Why does the conversation always go there…?”
“I want to go home.”
At the main house, after finishing dinner and eating fruit dessert, the family was having a lively conversation.
Resisting the kitchen aunt’s offer to give them fruit, Seon-woo and Eun-jae held hands, quickly went upstairs, and came to a separate building.
During the climb up the stairs to the third floor, Seon-woo, who hadn’t said anything, waited as soon as the bedroom door closed. He then pulled Eun-jae’s hand as if waiting, and swiftly swallowed her lips.
“Wash up, wash up.”
“Just a little.”
Clashing their lips eagerly, Seon-woo quickly unbuttoned Eun-jae’s cardigan. Once the unbuttoned cardigan was removed, a short-sleeved T-shirt was revealed.
“Why did you wear something like this underneath?”
“It’s chilly because of the rain.”
Hearing Eun-jae’s answer, Seon-woo lightly laughed and kissed Eun-jae’s neck, lifting her up and placing her on top of the dresser. Seon-woo lowered his head, and as soon as the bedroom door closed, he pulled Eun-jae’s hand and swallowed her lips in a breath.
“I want to go home.”
Back at the main house, after dinner, while having fruit dessert and chatting, Seon-woo and Eun-jae were reluctant to accept fruit from the kitchen aunt. Seon-woo held Eun-jae’s hand and quickly headed to the separate building. As they climbed the stairs to the third floor, Seon-woo, who had been silent, waited as soon as the bedroom door closed. Then, as if waiting, he pulled Eun-jae’s hand and quickly swallowed her lips.
“Wash up, wash up.”
“Just a little.”
As their lips clashed eagerly, Seon-woo swiftly unbuttoned Eun-jae’s cardigan. Once the unbuttoned cardigan was removed, a short-sleeved T-shirt was revealed.
“Why did you wear something like this underneath?”
“It’s chilly because of the rain.”
Hearing Eun-jae’s answer, Seon-woo lightly laughed and kissed Eun-jae’s neck, lifting her up and placing her on top of the dresser. Seon-woo lowered his head, and as soon as the bedroom door closed, he pulled Eun-jae’s hand and swallowed her lips in a breath.
“I want to go home.”
It was raining heavily outside, and Eun-jae’s gaze alternated between the large raindrops falling from the window and Seon-woo.
“Then when are you planning to wear it? Do you want to wear it when the sun is shining brightly? That would be even more awkward.”
He had intended to take her out before Eun-jae changed her mind. Seon-woo, who embraced Eun-jae from the drawer, personally put on the purple poncho raincoat for her.
“Is this why you took it off?”
“Why, are you disappointed because it wasn’t what you expected? Or, can I go out like this?”
“Oh, no…”
Swiftly kissing Eun-jae’s heated cheek, and even putting on her boots, Seon-woo stepped back two paces, observing Eun-jae from top to bottom as if appreciating her.
“It looks pretty.”
Eun-jae hesitated for a moment, then raised her hand to Seon-woo’s shoulder. One kiss seemed better at expressing her feelings than a hundred words of gratitude.
Lifting her heels as high as possible, Eun-jae aimed her head towards Seon-woo’s lips but fell a little short. Stopping a few inches away, Eun-jae, who stood on her tiptoes, lifted her heels again.
Despite that, the lips that couldn’t quite reach were tantalizingly close, then retreated.
“Lower your head a bit.”
Smiling with a hint of laughter, Seon-woo lowered his head and kissed Eun-jae’s lips. As Seon-woo took a step forward, Eun-jae took a step back.
“You’re cute.”
Lowering his head again, Seon-woo kissed Eun-jae’s lips, then took another step, seemingly pushing Eun-jae away, and quickly began unbuttoning his shirt.
“Why are you unbuttoning?”
“I just wanted to go out.”
With all the buttons undone, Seon-woo wet the shirt behind him and again tilted his head downward, covering Eun-jae’s lips. Eun-jae, who knelt on the mattress, weakly fell over the bed with a thud.
Seon-woo, who had instantly occupied Eun-jae’s place, smiled dangerously and said, “Well, now do as you please.”
Eun-jae clamped down on his lips that seemed within reach with just a slight movement or word.
In the meantime, the snap buttons on the raincoat were undone by the man’s rough touch. As the hand that had swept away the flushed cheek gradually moved downward,
“Professor! I brought some sliced fruit.”
The voice of the kitchen aunt from the first floor echoed all the way to the third-floor bedroom. All of Seon-woo’s actions abruptly stopped.
“Well, you should’ve brought it when you gave it to me.”
Munching on Eun-jae, Seon-woo pulled up the shirt that was precariously draped over his forearm.
“Put it back on.”
“Sigh…”
Kissing Seon-woo’s lips that let out a deep sigh, Eun-jae, caressing Seon-woo’s soft cheek, whispered.
“Let’s go out.”
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
