Eun Chae, who had been watching, twisted her hair up with a claw clip and spoke towards him.
“What do you want?”
Ki Joo, who had been looking down at his viola case, slowly opened his mouth after lifting his gaze to Eun Chae.
“When did you get here?”
At his words, Eun Chae chuckled in disbelief, furrowing her brows.
“You know everything. What I ate today, what I did. There should be nothing you don’t know.”
“That’s true. There’s nothing I don’t know.”
Ki Joo, who had been silent, opened his mouth again.
He tilted his head, raising his sideburns with one hand.
“Even your feelings towards me, Eun Chae.”
“……”
“I know them very well, now.”
At the sound of his staccatolike speech, Eun Chae nodded her head.
“Well, that’s good then. I don’t have to explain one by one that there are no lingering feelings.”
“Yes.”
Ki Joo, who answered as if it was a matter of course, spoke again.
“Meet me.”
It was completely out of context. As if she had misheard, Eun Chae blinked her eyes.
Despite her reaction, he remained unchanged.
“There’s no need to wait for a response, right? Since I suggested it first.”
“I never asked you to meet. If you’re going to do it, do it as a second.”
Eun Chae scowled and turned around. But then, her slim wrist was caught in a large grip and her body swiftly turned forward. Eun Chae, who stood before his nose in an instant, lifted her head with a surprised look.
Ki Joo, who was holding Eun Chae’s wrist with one hand and lifting her small chin with the other, leaned his torso forward.
“So let’s do it.”
“……”
“If it’s starting something with me, whatever it is.”
Eun Chae’s pupils were filled with surprise.
That Ki Joo would accept her suggestion to act as a second.
Eun Chae, who unknowingly put strength into her chin that he was holding, took a step back while pushing his hand away.
“Fine.”
At the monotone voice, Ki Joo collided gazes with her.
Eun Chae, who did not avoid his gaze, spat out her unhidden thoughts.
“Ki Joo, it’s fitting for you to be a second to me. It should have been like this from the beginning.”
Knock, knock.
At the end of Eun Chae’s words, a knock followed. The housekeeper’s voice came from behind the door.
“Miss, the chairman is looking for you.”
Eun Chae, who glanced at Ki Joo, whispered as she passed by him.
“I’ll go out first, so come out when you’re ready.”
Eun Chae, who came out as if she had been alone, followed the housekeeper down the stairs. She wanted to look back at him, who would be in his room, but she didn’t.
Ki Joo, who suggested that they should start a relationship, whatever it is, was serious. It had been a while since she had been swept up in his emotions. She couldn’t grasp his intentions. Perhaps she calculated that she would be swayed if she took his suggestion lightly.
For sure, she hadn’t been calm since he appeared after 2 years. It was as if she had been hit by an unexpected event with no way to handle it.
She accepted Ki Joo, who barged into her life again without notice. In a different way, painting a different ending.
Eun Chae let out a small breath and blinked. Her sight went dark and then brightened.
If she had even a little faith in someone, she might have been shaken the moment she confirmed his sincerity. But that kind of belief was something he had destroyed, so there was nothing left.
Then she would have to let him know. Even if he throws away all his pride and comes, he is just that much in her life.
How miserable I was then. How cruel you were.
She wore herself out to have it, but in the end, she couldn’t get it, and only a sense of loss remained.
The misery of aching bones and trembling flesh, I hope Ki Joo experiences it.
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The next morning, Eun Chae left the house to go to school.
It was hard to move unless it was for a promise with Han Seung Yoon because of what happened at the engagement party, but last night Chairman Song first asked how the concert practice was going and even made the clueless move of buying a new viola.
Normally he didn’t care, but now that he’s getting married to a family that is very interested in classical music, he was fully supportive of joint practice. No matter what the reason, as long as he wasn’t trying to interfere, it was good for her.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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