“Fool. If I had just hit you with my hands, you would’ve fallen to the ground.”
“What if it had splashed on your shoes?”
“What if it did? Besides, with a black dress, it wouldn’t even leave a mark.”
“She must have been upset.”
“Tsk.”
Eunjae continued to meticulously wipe his shirt with tissues. Seonwoo, who suddenly grabbed her wrist, snatched the tissue from her hand.
“Anyway, praise me since I did well.”
“What did you do well?”
When cracks appeared in Seonwoo’s forehead, Eunjae, who loosened her expression, immediately changed the subject.
“Here, right now?”
“Why are compliments choosing a location? Quickly.”
After glancing around for a moment, Eunjae slowly stroked Seonwoo’s head. Seonwoo, satisfied, smiled and leaned his head on Eunjae’s shoulder. The warm musk scent seeped into Eunjae’s nostrils.
“Remember, you are my wife. Ignoring you is the same as ignoring me.”
Wife. A word that didn’t quite feel comfortable before, oddly sounded warm today. Eunjae slowly brushed through his soft hair.
“Director Ju seems to know about our contract.”
“He probably knows about my circumstances.”
Seonwoo, who had been leaning on Eunjae’s shoulder, suddenly straightened his back and looked at Eunjae.
“You don’t actually believe what I said, do you?”
“I wouldn’t believe that.”
As Eunjae responded, her gaze fell on Seonwoo’s loosened shoelace.
In a rush again, it’s always a rush.
Adjusting her twitching lip, Eunjae gathered the hem of her dress. As she tried to crouch down, Seonwoo quickly grabbed her forearm.
“What are you doing?”
“My shoelace came undone.”
“Let it be; I’ll take care of it.”
“I want to do it.”
“Then, sit here.”
Seonwoo seated Eunjae on the bench again, placing his shoe on the bench with tissues. His small hands skillfully tied the shoelace.
Why is he so adorable every moment? Just looking at him made Eunjae feel like she was in a candy-colored dream.
I wish I could show you all my feelings. So that you won’t be anxious, so that you can trust me completely.
“Do you know why I’ve seen so many ties?”
“I’m not curious.”
Slightly pouting in response to Eunjae’s answer, Seonwoo spoke without caring.
“Because the person I wanted didn’t appear.”
“What kind of person did you want?”
Casually answering his question, Eunjae’s hand was lifted by Seonwoo, and he gently placed a ring on her finger.
“A woman I can touch.”
“What?”
“I did meet hastily because of the hospital. Until then, I never thought about marriage.”
Even if Grandfather hadn’t demanded marriage using the hospital as an excuse, he wouldn’t have considered ties like this.
“But I didn’t want to end up with a marriage I didn’t want, just for show. So, I wanted a woman I could touch. That way, I could make an effort too.”
His actions of presenting the contract and thoroughly abiding by it were in stark contrast to this side of him.
“There was no woman I could touch?”
“At that time, you appeared in front of me. How do you think I felt?”
“How did you feel?”
“I had to catch you, no matter what. By any means.”
The man’s grip on her hand tightened.
“That hospital ”
“If it’s you, I thought, perhaps I could have an ordinary married life like everyone else. I had such desires.”
His sincere gaze made Eunjae’s heart strangely warm. He dreamed of an ordinary married life, thinking that wishing for such a thing was being greedy.
Forgetting sometimes about his situation, always within reach of her, Eunjae reached out and wrapped her arm around Seonwoo’s waist.
“I’ll catch you more. I’ll hug you more.”
Seonwoo was enveloped in Eunjae’s fragrant scent whenever he sniffed at the tip of his nose.
“You keep trying to run away, so I tied you with a contract. That way, you can’t escape.”
“What am I running away from…”
“It’s been like that from the beginning. Every time, making me yearn for you and feel uneasy.”
Seonwoo slowly swept Eunjae’s hair.
“It’s still vivid. The day I first met you.”
“Me too.”
“The moment your hand touched me, it felt like the heart that had been frozen for 200 years was melting.”
While looking at Seonwoo, who was laughing with a mischievous face, Eunjae burst into laughter.
“What is it? Are you a cursed prince from a fairy tale?”
“You’re the one who broke that curse.”
“Now that I’m completely relieved, you can stop now. It’s not like I liked you from the beginning.”
“You have a habit of doubting my feelings.”
Seonwoo, tapping Eunjae’s nose with his finger, lowered his lips and gently kissed Eunjae’s lips.
“Don’t worry about it. Even if that relationship is still intact, I don’t care.”
Eunjae, nodding, massaged her swollen calf.
“I want to go home… ah, excuse me for talking to myself.”
Seonwoo, who burst into laughter at Eunjae’s words, sat on the bench and lifted Eunjae’s leg onto his thigh. His touch massaging Eunjae’s calf felt very lovely.
“I’ve been standing all day, and my legs hurt too much.”
Just as Seonwoo was massaging Eunjae’s calf, his hands, as if unintentionally, took off Eunjae’s shoes. It was a foot that had been trapped in the shoes all day. Eunjae’s toes involuntarily curled up.
“Oh, I’m embarrassed.”
Holding the shoe with one hand, Seonwoo suddenly hugged Eunjae without giving her time to react. Eunjae’s eyes widened in surprise at the unexpected event.
As Eunjae’s lips opened to say something, her lips met again.
“Okay, let’s go home.”
After Seonwoo had a few glasses of champagne and wine, he called for a driver.
Sitting side by side in the back seat, the two happened to stop briefly near Seonwoo’s apartment. Leaning on Seonwoo’s shoulder, Eunjae spoke in a small voice.
“The coffee there was really delicious.”
While Seonwoo, who had been looking out the window for a moment, suddenly stood up.
“Driver, can you stop here?”
“Oh, no!”
Looking at the brightly lit cafe outside, he casually brought up the words without much thought. When Seonwoo tried to park the car right away, the flustered Eunjae reached out in all directions.
“Yes, can you park here?”
“Uh, sure.”
The driver readily turned the steering wheel into the apartment parking lot.
“It’s really… I wanted to have coffee.”
“Tonight?”
“What about tonight, or that night? Just drink if you want to.”
“…”
“I’ll buy you the cake you like.”
It was a night when I couldn’t help but think I made the right decision to stop the car while watching Eunjae’s pretty smile as she got out of the car.
Wearing the slippers that were in Seonwoo’s car, Eunjae went up to the first-floor cafe. While looking at her reflection in the cafe’s glass window, she stopped for a moment.
“Shall we go up to the apartment to eat? It seems too attention-grabbing here.”
Seonwoo, examining Eunjae’s black dress, nodded.
“Then, wait here for a moment. I’ll quickly buy it and come out.”
“Yes.”
Eunjae, who answered with a cheerful smile, was about to head towards the bench.
“Jieunjae, right?”
Eunjae’s pupils shook at the coarse and unpleasant voice. Seungcheol Kwon’s gaze, uncomfortable and dirty, swept over Eunjae as if licking her.
“I almost didn’t recognize you.”
With trembling hands, Eunjae tightly gripped Seonwoo’s jacket lapel.
“It’s been a while.”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
