“Initially, it might just be the tip of the iceberg, but later it will snowball.”
He knew well that it was the wrong approach. He didn’t know why he was feeling guilty now, but,
If, by any chance,
This marriage turns out to be sincere,
Even if it’s just one of them, not both,
I’d rather it be me.
He didn’t want to end up hurting the woman, despite how it had started.
The next morning. As always, it was breakfast time at the dining table. The man, about to scoop up a spoonful of beef radish soup, paused.
“What time are we meeting?”
“We agreed to meet around 12.”
So it had come to this. The argument he had with the man last night had become meaningless.
What’s the use of being the superior in the contract if he’s going to do whatever he wants anyway? Though I have no right to argue.
Eun Jae roughly raked her fingers through her hair and asked.
“Are you not going to reconsider?”
“What did I just do?”
The man, who was picking up a side dish, paused. Eun Jae reflected on what she had done just now. She didn’t seem to remember doing anything noteworthy.
“What did I do?”
“Don’t shake your head there.”
At the man’s response, Eun Jae laughed as if she found it absurd and said.
“I washed my hair, you know?”
“Did you? I just thought you were doing it, too.”
“When did I? When did I do that?”
The man just smiled without answering.
Eun Jae glared at Sun Woo as if he was annoying, then suddenly recalled the day she first came to this house and fell asleep hugging the gown, which made her face blush.
“Seems like you remembered.”
“No, I didn’t.”
“No? Your face is redder than this one.”
The man’s smile, as he lightly tapped the appetizingly fried kimchi pancake and continued talking, seemed to melt her heart.
The joke he had thrown to tease her suddenly didn’t matter anymore.
Just once. Yes, just once that happened.
It was the moment when Eun Jae, who had finished getting ready for her appointment with the wedding planner, was about to leave the room grumbling.
“Are you ready?”
The man was leaning against the wall at the end of the corridor, flipping through a book with one hand.
“Why…… Why are you still at home?”
Eun Jae alternately examined the clock, which showed past 11, and the man’s attire with surprised eyes.
He was just wearing an ordinary shirt and pants, but perhaps because of the bow tie, or because he was wearing glasses.
No, it was because of his unnecessarily outstanding appearance.
In response to Eun Jae’s question filled with curiosity, the man softly closed the book and approached Eun Jae after placing his glasses in his shirt pocket.
“Let’s go. Where did you agree to meet?”
“You’re going together? What about the hospital?”
“It’s not a hospital that will fail without me.”
“This time, I was planning to listen to everything properly and make a decision, really.”
Eun Jae looked up at Sun Woo with an expression that seemed to say, ‘can’t you believe me?’, to which Sun Woo chuckled.
“How can I trust you?”
There was still a hint of laughter in the man’s voice.
Was he always such a person who laughed a lot? Recently, he had been laughing more.
Sun Woo, who touched Eun Jae’s cheek while she was looking up at him, headed towards the entrance first. His broad back blocked Eun Jae’s view and disappeared.
‘What the heck, all of a sudden……’
Startled by the man’s fingers touching her cheek out of the blue, Eun Jae froze in place, clutching the cheek where his fingers had touched.
In an instant, heat surged up in both of her cheeks. This time, her heart was acting up as well.
Sun Woo glanced back at her and said with a smile.
“Miss Ji Eun Jae’s face turns red when she lies.”
It’s not because I’m blushing, okay.
Sun Woo observed Eun Jae, who was flushed to the tips of her ears.
One by one, he recalled the actions of himself that he couldn’t understand all this time.
The fact that he wasn’t repulsed by the touch of a woman he met for the first time, that he kept bothering her by calling her out, impulsively intervening in matters that didn’t necessarily need his interference, and the inexplicable anger he felt when she said she was going to meet her classmate.
And the reason he couldn’t see anything but her among the scattering cherry blossoms.
Despite being a fact he knew long ago, it was also something he didn’t want to admit until the end.
A ridiculous laugh erupted from the corner of Sun Woo’s mouth as he realized the emotions he had been endlessly denying.
Back then, as well as now, he thought she looked pretty because of her clothes.
“Let’s go, we’ll be late.”
Somehow,
It didn’t seem like that was the case.
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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
