The excuse that maybe she could see him one more time.
That strange gap made Eun Jae’s heart flutter.
Sun Woo’s steps heading to the professor’s office were heavy. His steps, seemingly lost in his own thoughts, were slow.
Should I contact her? I have her keychain, so I could tell her to come pick it up. What should I say next? If we’re quick to marry, should we at least date?
It would have been better if I didn’t know.
That small, white woman has already disrupted his calm daily life for a month.
Whenever a gap formed in his thoughts, the woman’s face inevitably surfaced.
Her trembling figure in the bathroom, the flustered expression when told to come home, the slightly reddened cheeks as she withdrew her grabbed hand, the lips that ate food fiercely at the hotel lounge, and so on.
The seemingly innocuous images vividly surfaced, tormenting Sun Woo.
It was ridiculous. How much had he seen her?
“Hey, Professor Yoon!”
Sun Woo momentarily halted at the sound of his name and turned around. Hyun Ji, looking slightly out of breath, appeared.
Sun Woo stood still until Hyun Ji approached, then started walking again when she got closer.
“Just call me by my name.”
“What are you thinking about? I called you several times.”
You called me several times?
Sun Woo, who had stopped again, tilted his head and asked Hyun Ji with a meaningful face.
“How many times did you call?”
“At least ten times.”
“I’m hearing you for the first time.”
“Why have you been like this lately?”
When Sun Woo stared at Hyun Ji, she cleared her throat awkwardly and avoided his gaze.
“Even you can see that I’ve been strange lately.”
“Yes, you are strange.”
Like a screw had come loose somewhere, constantly dedicating time to an irrelevant woman.
“Why am I like this?”
“Stop talking nonsense. Make some time this evening.”
“What time?”
Sun Woo quickened his pace, seemingly annoyed, his hand plunged into his pocket.
“Last week, you adjusted your schedule for me, saying you’d pay me back. Buy dinner today.”
“Today—”
As if she had read the look on Sun Woo’s face about to say that it wasn’t going to work, Hyun Ji blocked his way and said more firmly.
“This is only for today.”
Hyun Ji handed a silver envelope to Sun Woo.
“What is this?”
The handedover envelope had the W Hotel’s logo stamped on it. It seemed to be a lounge meal voucher.
“I have something important to discuss. See you later.”
As soon as Sun Woo received the envelope, Hyun Ji turned around. Her footsteps were light as she slipped her hand into her pocket, a faint smile on her face.
Night fell, and Sun Woo observed the view of the W Hotel’s lounge, resting his chin on his hand.
Hyun Ji, cutting her steak, suddenly laughed. For Yoon Sun Woo, who was serious about food, it was unusual for him to leave his food aside and focus elsewhere.
Hyun Ji, who had been leisurely observing such Sun Woo, slowly shifted her gaze away.
“What’s up, Yoon Sun Woo? What are you looking at like a firsttimer?”
That’s the thing, it’s a place he visits three or four times a week.
Ever since a few days ago, after he had visited with the woman, even the flowing air felt different.
Was the night view here always this beautiful?
The lights of the twinkling night view sparkled in Sun Woo’s eyes.
“The night view is worth seeing.”
“So, when are you going to see your twentyeighth blind date?”
“Why the twentyeighth?”
“Didn’t you take a halfday off the day before yesterday for a blind date?”
It seemed he was referring to the day he had called the woman home a few days ago.
It wasn’t a blind date, but it was similar.
“It was a scam, already.”
Quite pleasingly.
Sun Woo drained the nonalcoholic champagne in front of him in one gulp. Due to the haste, the carbonation scratched down his esophagus.
“How about me for your twentyeighth blind date?”
“It would be a scam.”
“Yoon Sun Woo, marry me.”
Sun Woo silently looked at Hyun Ji, who was quietly meeting his gaze.
“You know, I also have to keep going on annoying blind dates, and no one knows your situation better than me. I’ll adjust to everything.”
I wonder if that woman felt this way too.
He must have been taken aback. He must have been bewildered. He must have thought it was absurd.
To think of that woman in this situation. He thought to himself how ridiculous it was.
Sun Woo’s phone on the table rang.
Ji Eun Jae
Sun Woo’s lips curled up gently as he confirmed the name of the woman that appeared on the screen.
The timing was exquisite.
While his attention was momentarily drawn to his phone, Hyun Ji stated once more, as if driving a nail into the conversation.
“Let’s do it.”
Sun Woo alternated his gaze between Hyun Ji, who sat across from him, and the name of the woman making his phone ring, and suddenly burst into laughter.
Was this some sort of cosmic joke?
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
