Seon Woo-jin’s forehead vein popped slightly.
“I’m not kidding.”
Good luck then.
“I’ll kill you.”
Yeah, die trying. Bye.
Click. The call ended.
“…….”
Seon Woo-jin cursed under his breath.
“That XXX XXX. I’ll really kill him. XX.”
I pretended not to hear.
Eventually, Seon Woo-jin called someone else – Lee Yeon-ho. Thankfully, Lee Yeon-ho readily agreed to come.
After hanging up, Seon Woo-jin said.
“Just wait a bit.”
From the infirmary to here, it’s all within the same school.
It shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes.
I finally let out a sigh of relief.
“Thank goodness. I thought I’d be here until tomorrow.”
Seon Woo-jin had returned to his usual indifferent expression, now that the problem was solved.
The PE storage room quietened down.
“…….”
“…….”
We ran out of things to say again.
To break the awkward silence, I tried some small talk.
“Did you come straight from the hospital?”
Seon Woo-jin, playing a game on his phone, nodded.
“Yeah.”
“Did you go home first?”
“No, I went home.”
Ah, that makes sense. He brought my phone, so he must’ve stopped by home.
I wasn’t really curious, just bored and asking.
I casually remarked.
“But it’s unexpected. I thought you wouldn’t come.”
“Why?”
“You always say everything is a hassle.”
“I didn’t want to come, but…”
Seon Woo-jin continued without looking away from his phone.
“Yoo Hee-na kept whining that only I could do it. It was more annoying to listen to her, so I came.”
I was momentarily taken aback.
‘What?’
I urgently asked.
“Yoo, Yoo, what exactly did Yoo Hee-na say?”
“Why are you asking?”
‘You’re the only one who can,’ she said.
Could she have said something strange?
I rolled my eyes and said.
“No… You came because of Yoo Hee-na. What did she say to make you…”
Seon Woo-jin frowned as if thinking, then spoke.
“Nothing much.”
That’s it? What ‘nothing much’?
I scrutinized Seon Woo-jin’s face.
It seemed like it was really nothing, but then again, he always looks like that.
He’s such a poker face, I couldn’t tell what he was thinking. Wait. Poker face? World’s top poker face, Ban Hwi-hyeol?
Ah, no. This isn’t the time for that.
I shook my head, dispelling the wandering thoughts.
‘But it’s strange.’
Annoyed that he doesn’t even eat well because it’s too much trouble, yet he came to rescue me? Why? What on earth did Yoo Hee-na say to him?
‘Didn’t she say something really weird?!’
Under normal circumstances, my train of thought wouldn’t have gone this way, but I was already out of my mind due to the successive Inso events.
Finally, I made a decision.
I can’t help it.
I need to find out what Yoo Hee-na said.
I blurted out desperately.
“Let me see your phone for a sec!”
I stretched out my hand to snatch the phone, but Seon Woo-jin was not easy to deal with.
“Why are you suddenly like this?”
Seon Woo-jin got up from his seat in a rare display of panic and moved away from me.
Not to be outdone, I also stood up and continued to try to grab the phone. Seon Woo-jin, determined, stretched his arm in the opposite direction to keep the phone away from me.
With his already tall height and long arms, it was impossible for me to reach it.
“I just need to do something!”
“Use your own phone!”
“It’s dead!”
I hopped towards the phone. In the process, I misstepped and stumbled heavily.
‘No!’
Bracing myself for the impending disaster, I shut my eyes tightly.
Contrary to my expectation, there was no pain. Instead…
“……Huh?”
In front of me was Seon Woo-jin’s face.
His arm wrapped firmly around my waist, the close distance. It was then I realized what had happened. Seon Woo-jin had caught me as I was about to fall.
Blinking, our gazes met, and an inexplicable tension filled the air.
That’s when it happened.
Creak.
“Um… is anyone in there?”
Suddenly, the storage room door opened.
‘Huh?’
I reflexively turned my head.
Surprisingly, the person who entered was Seol Yu-bin.
Our eyes met as she cautiously opened the door, still in that awkward pose.
“…….”
“…….”
A moment of silence passed.
“Sorry!”
Startled, Seol Yu-bin quickly closed the door again.
Bang!
…What just happened?
Turning my head back, I met Seon Woo-jin’s gaze again. Once more, he just blankly stared at me, saying nothing.
All sorts of thoughts raced through my mind.
What’s going on? Was that Seol Yu-bin? Why is he here? Did Lee Yeon-ho send him? To open the door?
Ah.
Realizing belatedly, I hastily got up and ran to the door of the storage room, banging on it desperately.
“Don’t go! Stay!”
My cry echoed inside the room.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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