Looking at the neatly arranged single serving of dinner on the wide table, Eunseo thought.
Why does such a busy person always deliberately come home, prepare dinner, and then leave? Maybe Suna’s words have something to do with all this.
[Yoon Eunseo decided to stay home for just one month. After that, she won’t have any excuses to keep her here. So, during the time she’s at home, she wants to spend as much time together as possible. However, it wasn’t as easy as she thought.While he was away, work piled up, and it happened to be the end of the year. There were not just one or two occasions where he had to show his face at various year-end parties.
Although his body was outside, his mind was at home, so he couldn’t really focus on what others were saying.
“……It’s tiresome.”
“…”
“President Kwon?”
Only then did Seungjoo manage to bring his focus back to Eunseo’s side.
“Yes, I’m listening. Please go on.”
He smoothed his gaze and looked at the person sitting across from him—it was none other than Chairman Woo of Taesung Group.
“Now that you’ve changed careers, you’re already in your mid-thirties, aren’t you? It’s good to work, but it’s about time to start thinking about building a family. Don’t you think so?”
In other words, he wanted to send his daughter away in marriage. Instead of answering, Seungjoo raised his glass to his lips. In fact, the reason he ended up clashing with Chairman Woo today was because of this.
“I heard something through Yejin. If you become my son-in-law, I’ll willingly yield on the issue of the Sinhyundong factory site. I promise it here.”
The issue at hand was the long-standing business project of Chairman Kwon, Seungjoo’s father. Despite numerous discussions between Taesung Group and Daewon Group, there had been no resolution so far.
“The successor issue is the same. If our Taesung can support it from behind, your father won’t be able to have any wild ideas.”
Chairman Woo was not a person to mince words. The conditions he presented perfectly aligned with what Seungjoo had desired. So, if it were in the past, he would have immediately knelt down and expressed gratitude to his future father-in-law.
But…
“I’m sorry, Chairman. I would appreciate it if you could forget about this.”
“What? Why all of a sudden?”
“I don’t think I’m the right person to make your precious daughter happy.”
Not openly declaring that he has feelings for a woman is, at least, a minimal courtesy toward someone ten years older than his own father.
“Doesn’t our Yejin appeal to you?”
“Please forgive me.”
Unable to hide his anger, Chairman Woo asked, “Is it because our Yejin doesn’t suit your taste?”
“Please forgive me.”
Having conveyed his apologies, Seungjoo bowed slightly and said his farewells. When he arrived home, it was just before midnight. Eunseo was curled up on the sofa, fast asleep, and the TV was blaring alone.
“…”
Seungjoo turned off the TV. To make sure she didn’t wake up, he gently lifted Eunseo and ascended the stairs toward her room.
Feeling the weight of the woman, as light as a feather, a memory suddenly came to him. Once, when she returned late from part-time work and collapsed on the porch like a fallen leaf, he had embraced her and carried her to her room. She was so light that it made his stomach uncomfortable. Thinking that he was leaning on the shoulders of such a small woman, he felt crazy. If only his memory had returned quickly, he sincerely wished he could do anything for her.
However, now that his memory had returned, he found himself unable to do anything for her. To be precise, he couldn’t do anything. What could he do for a woman who showed signs of discomfort and aversion towards him?
In her heart, only the eighteen-year-old boy was squeezed in, leaving no room for anyone else. Even though he offered to buy her a coat far more expensive than what she had, Eunseo stubbornly refused, insisting on the white coat her young lover had bought for her. She still wears it every day.
Eunseo remained blissfully asleep even after being gently laid down on the bed. Seungjoo sat by the bedside, quietly observing Eunseo’s sleeping form.
Even after moving her, a belated worry crossed his mind.
“What if she wakes up in the morning and jumps in disgust?”
Thinking about it made him sigh. He wasn’t asking for reciprocated feelings, but it would be nice if she didn’t hate him or, better yet, liked him a little…
Seungjoo knew how Eunseo viewed him. He knew clearly what parts she feared and found scary.
But there was nothing he could do. In the end, it was himself.
He was a guy who was so unlucky and blunt, uninteresting, and incapable of speaking kindly or smiling brightly. However, even with these shortcomings, Seungjoo wished Yoon Eunseo could look at him as he was. He didn’t want to imitate the boy she liked, putting on a forced bright smile or saying sweet words to gain her love.
He just hoped that she could see him for the thirty-three-year-old he was, not the eighteen-year-old she liked.
After staring at the sleeping woman for a while, Seungjoo quietly called her.
“Eunseo, are you awake?”
“…”
“I said wake up.”
Repeated questioning only yielded slow, audible breaths in response.
Holding his breath, Seungjoo gently pressed his lips against Eunseo’s forehead.
“…”
The warm and soft sensation shook his entire heart. It would be nice if it were just a fluttering feeling, but facing her skin, he desired more than that. If he could just jump into her bed, he felt like he would be willing to pay any price.
Suddenly, he remembered when they kissed. She had trembled and tried to escape his embrace.
She probably dislikes it because of me. If it were the me from when I was eighteen, just pressing my lips to her forehead would have been enough.
Suppressing the unwillingness to part, he pulled away after the kiss, gently stroking her hair with his fingertips like petting a cat.
He whispered in his mind the words he couldn’t say out loud.
‘How can I make you look at me?’
Not the me from when I was young, but the current me.
While gently caressing the hair of the woman who had slept for a long time, Seungjoo sadly rose and left the room.
As the door closed, the woman’s eyes flickered open.
“What the heck… why is he like that…”
Breathing out the held breath, Eunseo murmured with a trembling voice.
Cold Male Lead Became My Clingy Husband (Female-Dominant)
Feng Bai Su transmigrated into a matriarchal novel, becoming the sister of the female protagonist and the Seventh Princess of the Feng Ling Kingdom.
After working herself to death in her previous life, finally reincarnating as a princess, she only wanted to be a lazy fish who could eat, sleep, and play.
Until she met the male protagonist from the book, Wei Jing Mo, and he took a liking to her!
Wei Jing Mo is the top young man in Feng Ling City, talented in both appearance and ability, from a prestigious family, with a cold and otherworldly appearance, a figure like the bright moon in the hearts of noble ladies. It was thought that only the most powerful and talented noble lady in Feng Ling City would be worthy of such a brilliant young man. Who knew that this young gentleman would secretly admire the infamous Seventh Princess?
Short scene 1:
Feng Bai Su looked at the young man crying like a pear blossom in the rain before her, and couldn’t help but doubt her life.
Wasn’t the male lead described as a cold and otherworldly figure in the book?
Then who was this poor little thing crying with swollen red eyes and tear-stained face?
Short scene 2:
Wei Jing Mo stared intently at Feng Bai Su who was about to go out, wanting to say, “Be careful on the road.”
Before he could speak, Feng Bai Su suddenly bent down and bit his cheek.
Her peach blossom eyes were full of disdain: “Tsk! You’re so clingy!”
Wei Jing Mo: “…”
A talented fox spirit female lead with a flirtatious appearance but actually abstinent VS A cold-looking but actually naive and clingy little jealous male lead
