Due to terrible traffic, they had dinner midway. By the time they arrived near Jian’s house, it was close to midnight.
Given the unpredictability of when the memory would return and the situation could change rapidly, Kang Hyun parked the car on the side of the road, urging her not to get out, not once but twice.
“I’ll have a carbonated water.”
“Okay.”
Watching Kang Hyun’s retreating figure beyond the car, Jian, with an urge to stretch her wrinkled waist, got out of the car without thinking and briefly stepped onto the sidewalk.
“Ah, it’s cool!”
Stretching her arms out, she yawned; it couldn’t have been better.
While Jian was stretching and glancing at the entrance Kang Hyun would come out of, she turned her head hearing the quickly approaching footsteps from behind.
“…Choi Do Young?”
His eyes weren’t visible because of his hat, but she could recognize his face just from the wellengraved features in her brain.
It was just a brief moment when the metal badge reflected the light from the street lamp against his alldark attire.
The one who fell to the ground due to the sudden assault was not Jian.
“Cough!”
Some unknown person, closely following the thug who was running towards Jian, used a stack of plastic boxes next to a telephone pole as a stepping stone to jump.
“Nice shot!”
The woman who kicked Choi Do Young’s waist with both feet and landed on the ground, pressed his back down with her solid body.
“Urgh, argh! What the, damn it!”
“I’m good with a knife, brother. I suggest you not resist in vain.”
The woman who picked up the abandoned knife scraped the wellsharpened blade next to the man’s fallen face, threatening him.
Frozen in place, Jian stared at the woman with the long hair who had flown in with a blank face.
“Who, who are you?”
“An employee of Woocha Gang.”
The woman who was pressing down Choi Do Young muttered indifferently.
“Excuse me?”
“Hey, Cha Hye Joo!”
“Do you not exercise these days, brother? You’re too slow.”
“Exercise or not. Leave it to me, and you disappear from here quickly.”
“Why, I caught him!”
“If you caught him, you should hand him over to the client.”
“I know that.”
“Everyone heard you calling him brother. Your husband might come causing a scene. Go and pacify him.”
“Ah! Right, Ian was listening. I’m dead.”
The woman, who was looking around, picked up her earpiece, which had fallen out during the scuffle, and disappeared quickly into the alley, looking for the unknown.
The man who appeared afterward pressed down on Choi Do Young so that he could not move.
Kang Hyun, who realized the situation belatedly, ran over and took care of Jian.
“Let, let me go!”
Choi Do Young, who was frustrated with Joosejun’s help and impulsively attacked Jian, tried to resist, but he could not move at all in his fallen state.
Why do such things keep happening?
Jian, who could not grasp the situation, was clinging to Kang Hyun’s arm, which had wrapped around her shoulder, before she knew it.
Her body, which was surely frozen stiff, began to shake uncontrollably at some point.
It was more of a shock than fear, but strangely, her hands in sight did not shake at all.
“Director?”
“Why did you get out?”
“My, my back hurt.”
It wasn’t her who was trembling this time either.
She had felt it before, but Kang Hyun seemed to have a serious trauma from a past accident.
Even though he recognized the danger and put up his guard, he couldn’t calm his mind easily.
“Just wait here.”
Jian, who had been pushed to the passenger seat in the surprise, locked the door with a clang, staring blankly at Kang Hyun as he moved away.
She was certain the man she had met in the past was Choi Do Young.
The most plausible assumption was that he was seeking revenge because his family had been ruined due to an affair with her.
She might have ruined someone’s family with a ridiculous love game.
The fabricated past was getting more and more outrageous.
“Jian Seo, what have you been doing in your life?”
Covering both cheeks with her hot palms, the despairing face of Jian brought to mind one of the famous artist’s works.
“Are you okay?”
Kang Hyun, who had held back the urge to throttle Choi Do Young and expose the mastermind behind it all, returned to the driver’s seat.
His gaze, scrutinizing Ji An without even blinking, was somewhat sharp.
“Where are you taking that man? To the police station?”
“To the Gapyeong villa.”
“That’s a relief. I have so many questions. I’m not even sure if he really has my video.”
A sigh of relief spontaneously burst out.
Though it was a sorry thing to say to Ha Jun, who made his living as a policeman, he had read articles like a daily meal, saying that the police power was not much help in situations like these.
“When did you hire the guards?”
“You accompanied me to the preevent where many eyes were on us. I thought there could always be danger.”
“But isn’t Choi Do Young someone related to my past? I think he might be the married man I met.”
“I can’t guarantee that. Choi Do Young sought out Ms. Seo Ji An after we met.”
“……Right.”
Ji An, who realized a fact she had overlooked, lowered her palm that she had stuck on her cheek.
“I’m sorry, I should have been more careful.”
Kang Hyun’s hand, clutching the steering wheel, was filled with firm strength.
Even on a dark night, he didn’t expect someone to brandish a weapon in the street.
The method was too crude and rough to be contrived by a meticulous businessman like Chairman Tae Seok Kyu or CEO Kim Seok Hyun.
He should have warned her in advance of the situation, even if it meant mixing in some lies.
Was Choi Do Young really the man Seo Ji An had met?
“Anyway, it’s over since he’s caught! I’m perfectly fine too. When that woman flew earlier, I thought I was watching a movie. I should learn to exercise when I have some free time.”
“Say it if you’re scared.”
“I was a bit scared earlier, but now I’m okay. Because it’s safe.”
“Were you always this fearless?”
“Maybe I became sensitive because I was in the hospital for a long time due to the accident. After wasting time in treatment and rehabilitation, I began to feel indifferent to everything. I guess I’ve become an optimism king, thinking there’s nothing worse than that. Although the affair was quite shocking.”
“You’ve grown up well.”
“Of course.”
Ji An, who washed away her unease by swallowing the carbonated water handed from the guard outside the window, smiled with the corners of her eyes folded.
Seeing her face, now clear of shadows, in front of him, Kang Hyun felt a choking feeling in his throat.
Every time he confirmed the look of someone who had received love in a stable family, all the time spent with Seo Yoon was utterly denied.
Always, all the time.
Though he thought he wanted her not to hurt.
The fact that he was the one who had hurt her was becoming clearer and clearer.
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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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