Jian busily ate the served dishes, thoroughly enjoying the taste of the expensive ingredients and the delight of observing the plating.
“It’s so delicious.”
Each time Jian’s eyes met Kang Hyun’s across the table, she enthusiastically gave a thumbs-up.
“Let me know if you need more.”
Kang Hyun consistently replied like a recording each time.
As the meal neared its end, Jian, after dabbing her lips with a napkin, took Kang Hyun’s hand that had made its way back to the same spot.
During the meal, Kang Hyun would occasionally reach out his hand, asking to hold hers, which she found endearingly cute.
“I contacted the construction site and told them we’d visit at 10 a.m. tomorrow.”
“I’ll go to the 10 a.m. appointment alone.”
“What?”
“It will take about two hours. I plan to inspect the site under construction.”
“But I should obviously…”
“It’s dangerous on the site. If I worry about you, I won’t be able to focus on anything.”
Kang Hyun was firm in his words.
Even with a safety helmet, he couldn’t risk bringing Jian to a construction site where accidents could happen at any time.
Jian had only wanted to accompany him on the Gangwon Province business trip, not necessarily for work.
“I’m just a salary thief. A parachuter and a thief. If there were more staff in the secretarial office, I would probably be ostracized.”
“You’re the Vice President’s girlfriend, what can you do.”
“It wasn’t much different even when I wasn’t your girlfriend.”
“You’re doing enough, so don’t worry.”
Kang Hyun tapped her palm, causing Jian, who was ticklish, to burst into giggles.
Their first date disguised as work was excessively sweet.
“Vice President, there’s something I need to tell you…”
Jian, about to cautiously bring up the topic of the ultrasound picture and how Kang Hyun could help her the most, frowned as she caught the gaze of a man at a diagonal table.
It had been bothering her throughout the meal.
The man, who seemed to recognize her even before she lost her memory, had caught her attention several times.
While he looked unfamiliar, a noticeable mole below his eyebrow was familiar.
“Why does he keep staring?”
Hearing Jian’s muttered complaint, Kang Hyun turned around.
The man, startled by Kang Hyun’s look, quickly ducked his head.
“Don’t mind it.”
“Ah, do you know him, Vice President?”
“Just say what you were going to say.”
“Do you remember the day you met me and Ha Joon in front of the company? The day we had a meal together.”
“I remember.”
How could he forget?
His thick eyebrows fluttered slightly. Even the mention of Ha Joon’s name from Jian’s lips was displeasing to him.
“That day, I met a university friend. He said I had bought a pregnancy test and an ultrasound picture of a baby from him.”
“Pregnancy.”
Pregnancy.
Was this the real reason Gu Se Jun killed the real Seo Jian?
At the time, he was on the verge of divorcing his wife, so if Seo Jian had used the baby as blackmail, it would make sense.
“Are you disappointed?”
“No way.”
“I keep feeling disappointed. I feel really foolish and stupid.”
It’s okay because that’s not you.
Kang Hyun swallowed the words he couldn’t bring himself to say.
“Was it to blackmail a man? What on earth did I do?”
Jian shook her head, her mind as blank as a sheet of paper, her gaze downturned.
After finishing dessert, Kang Hyun, who had risen from his seat and approached Jian, gently stroked her crinkled eyes, offering comfort and encouragement.
“You wouldn’t have done anything bad, so don’t be too quick to assume.”
Just give me a little more time.
[Star Icon] [Star Icon] [Star Icon]Their own world.
That was the first thought that came to Seo Yoon’s mind when she accompanied Kang Hyun to a members-only gathering.
The meetings were usually held in hotel presidential suites or penthouses.
Some days involved light poker playing while enjoying champagne, wine, and whiskey, while others featured lengthy discussions on stock market issues and business.
In these small gatherings, where academic background, wealth, and connections were scrutinized, Seo Yoon floated around like oil on water.
After her first visit, she had declined a few times, but eventually started following Kang Hyun diligently, wanting to spend more time with him.
Of course, it wasn’t easy.
If she had loved him even slightly less, she wouldn’t have been able to endure such places.
Seo Yoon, making various excuses to step away from Kang Hyun momentarily, sat at a table on the terrace, facing the wind.
Throughout her way to the terrace, multiple gazes followed her.
Women eying Kang Hyun as a strategic marital partner mixed envy and jealousy in their looks, while men at the top of the food chain were burdened with curious interest about Kang Hyun’s woman.
“Seo Yoon, what are you doing here?”
Startled, Seo Yoon turned around, having been lost in thought under the dark night sky.
Wasn’t he the second son of Dae Myung Foods? She had exchanged greetings with him a couple of times.
He always carried an unpleasant warmth in his gaze whenever their eyes met.
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
