Upon arriving at the neighborhood where Eun Jae was staying, Sun Woo furrowed his brow. Standing in front of the dilapidated building, he lost his words for a moment and let out a deep sigh.
“……Have you been staying here all along?”
“Ah, yes…….”
The woman looked at Sun Woo as if asking what was wrong.
He swept his gaze over the innocent face of the woman, then looked around the surroundings again, turning his head this way and that.
A tuckedaway neighborhood where not even one streetlight was properly installed.
He was displeased from the moment he had to park his car at the entrance due to lack of space and walked down the narrow alleyway.
The place they arrived at after a long walk was a small motel located at the end of a dark alley.
The signboard made with colorful neon lights was missing lights here and there, making it hard to recognize the original business name.
The pungent and heavy air, from an unknown source, was mixed together, making him feel suffocated.
Sun Woo, who had stepped into the entrance of the shabby motel without an elevator, pushed Eun Jae into the building as if urging her to lead the way, and followed her.
“Which floor is it?”
“Huh? Why?”
At the man’s words, Eun Jae, whose cheeks were burning, kept looking back at Sun Woo as she was pushed up the stairs.
What was he trying to do by following her here under the pretext of dropping her off?
What if he started behaving like this even before they had officially begun?
The sudden thought made Eun Jae anxious. Her feet, climbing the stairs, moved heavily like watersoaked cotton.
It was when Eun Jae’s toes touched the end of the stairs.
“Let’s gather what you need and go to my place.”
“What? No!”
Eun Jae, who was startled by the man’s words, turned around and shouted, but Sun Woo grabbed her wrist.
“I can’t leave you here alone.”
“…….”
“Or else, I should sleep over here.”
Their sticky gazes intertwined for a moment.
It shimmered in a similar way to the look they had exchanged not long ago, when they were nearly face to face.
The atmosphere and flow seemed oddly overlapped with that day.
As she felt like the sound of her pounding heart was echoing in the eerily quiet corridor, Eun Jae couldn’t look straight into the man’s eyes anymore. Eun Jae quickly turned her head to avoid his gaze.
“No. Why should I… why should I let you sleep over here? Leaving your nice home.”
“When you’re in a hurry, you always call me ‘old man’.”
Sun Woo pushed Eun Jae, who was at a loss for words.
“Or when you’re flustered.”
Eun Jae, who had sneakily glimpsed at Sun Woo laughing with an air of disappointment, cautiously inserted the key into the keyhole.
She remembered the day she rushed out after receiving Tae Gyu’s call. She seemed to have left without tidying up.
As Eun Jae slowly opened the door, the man’s voice, who was peeking inside through the narrow gap, came over her shoulder.
“Pack up and come out. Let’s sleep in a nice house together.”
“Huh?”
“Or else, shall we sleep here together?”
The room is small and nice. The man naturally let out an embarrassingly suggestive remark, and she felt him pressing closer behind her. Swallowing her dry saliva, Eun Jae hurriedly held up her arms in front of Sun Woo and pushed him away roughly.
“No, okay, I get it. ……Ah, there’s nothing to pack.”
As Eun Jae grumbled and complained, Sun Woo opened the front door wide as if telling her to hurry up and pushed Eun Jae into the room.
“I will never come back. Don’t cry and wail later about missing something, hurry up and pack.”
Eventually, she returned to the man’s house.
As she packed her belongings simply, the man had already paid the overdue rent.
As soon as they returned home, the man set Eun Jae in the room at the end of the hallway, placed a gown and towel that he fetched from somewhere on her arms, and said,
“Stay here. You can use the bathroom across. It’s a guest room, so it should have everything you need.”
Although it was called a guest room, he said it was a place where no one had ever stayed. The man added that she should speak up if she needed anything else.
“You’re going to live here after we get married anyway, so make yourself comfortable. Consider it as a rehearsal.”
“…….”
“I’ll pick you up after work tomorrow. We’ll talk about the rest then.”
“Yes.”
It felt like her thoughts had stopped due to the sudden decision.
Like being swept away in a torrent, she had no time to think about anything, and suddenly, when she came to her senses, she found herself here.
The man, while sticking his index finger in the knot of his necktie, spoke to Eun Jae with a very tired expression.
“I have an important surgery in the morning, I need to rest.”
“Yes. You should rest.”
“Ms. Ji Eun Jae, you should rest too.”
Eun Jae watched the man’s back as he untied his necktie and headed to the living room. When he disappeared from view, she moved her steps.
He looked tired.
Well, he would have been tired after working all day.
Eun Jae stood in front of the guest room door the man had pointed out. The room she entered by pushing down the gold handle, which reflected her face, was quite spacious. It seemed to be twice the size of the motel room she had been staying in.
The place smelled much better compared to the other, and more than anything, the space looked very bright, perhaps because of the pure white bedding.
It was a neat space with a bed, a small chest of drawers, and a desk.
Eun Jae picked up the robe and towel he had prepared, and briefly sat down on the bed. The goose down comforter sank as if it was suffocating.
It felt soft, as if sitting on a cloud.
Feeling so snug and warm, she slightly laid her sitting body to the side. The scent that had grazed her nose whenever the man came close was coming from the blanket.
She was just trying to lie down a little, but she kept getting sleepy.
After finishing his shower, Sun Woo, who had draped a bathrobe over his wellgroomed body, brushed up his damp bangs in front of the mirror.
His neat forehead was revealed, and his furrowed brow was visible.
Listening to the woman’s story about being embarrassed that she didn’t really have much to bring when he told her to pack her things, it left a bitter taste in his mouth.
He felt like he was doing something awful to a woman who had lived every day so fiercely.
Regardless of the reasons, it was a marriage that the woman did not want, a marriage by my need.
It was a loveless marriage, a mere formality with a predetermined end.
No one wanted such a marriage more than I did, but she was a woman I could not have unless I did so.
“A contract marriage.”
A hollow laugh escaped.
He thought it was just something that happened in dramas or novels.
Trying to find a reachable woman, or perhaps it was derived from the anticipation that maybe if such a woman appeared in front of me, I could have an ordinary married life like others.
Did I get greedy over my bounds?
Perhaps it was greedy of me to try and live an ordinary life with an extraordinary premise.
Unlike the form of marriage I initially envisioned, the constant shift in a different direction seemed pathetic, yet at times, I thought it was natural for this insincere marriage to end this way.
“Yeah, it’s just one year.”
What could possibly happen in that time?
After all, it was a oneyear contract marriage with a clear purpose.
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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