The day after Christmas.
Seungju left his home office in time for Eunseo’s departure from work.
“Seungju!”
As Eunseo waited a block away, as prompted by a message earlier, she stood there, wearing a newly bought white coat. She looked like a cute baby polar bear.
“Was it cold?”
“I just came out, too.”
Sneaking around without being noticeable to others, secretly meeting away from the office, or going to a restaurant a bit away—it all felt like they were secretly dating.
“The heating is much better now. Wasn’t it too hot to sleep yesterday, so you took off your clothes in your sleep?”
“I didn’t see it, unfortunately.”
“Seungju!”
Time together seemed to pass in the blink of an eye. It felt like they hadn’t exchanged many words, yet the meal was already over.
“Let’s eat a bit more.”
Eunseo raised her head, not knowing his pace, saying she wanted to be with him a bit longer.
“I ate a lot. Seungju, you should go inside quickly.”
That was the right thing to say. She had to go inside. She had to go inside, but…
Unable to resist the urging, she reluctantly agreed to come out, but this time, she insisted on taking a taxi.
“I can go by myself.”
He couldn’t yield on that point. In the end, Seungju reluctantly drove Eunseo to her home in Yeonsadong.
When they arrived in front of the house, Eunseo asked,
“Are you going back to the office?”
“Yeah.”
Carefully bringing his face closer, Eunseo closed her eyes tightly, holding her breath.
Seungju lightly touched his lips to hers. Then, just one second longer than yesterday, he made a slight sound and separated their lips.
Did this woman know? To detach her lips forcibly, he had to secretly pinch her thigh.
He wanted to open her lips right now and taste everything inside. However, he knew she was afraid of such actions.
He vividly remembered the day he first kissed her. He kissed her passionately, but she screamed and ran away in terror.
That incident was like a trauma for him.
Oh, she hates it when I do this.
It wasn’t unreasonable. The person she liked back then was an eighteen-year-old, innocent boy.
Even now, his feelings for Yoon Eunseo were the same as they were then, unchanged in the slightest. However, he was already thirty-three, turning thirty-four in a few days. He couldn’t maintain the mindset of a cowboy treating Stephanie as a lady.
The time spent with the woman he loved felt like a happy torture. His mind was already filled with various fantasies, and even when she just touched his chest to unfasten the seatbelt, she flinched and shrunk.
It was his precious and cherished first love. He couldn’t make her run away by scaring her for no reason, so Seungju closed his eyes and continued wiping the steering wheel.
Little by little, approaching her.
So that she wouldn’t be surprised and wouldn’t run away.
“Be careful!”
Without knowing such feelings, Eunseo waved her hand with a bright smile outside the window.
On the way back to the office, he quickly wanted to see her again. The desire to turn the car around and head to Yeonsadong right now battled with the need to continue working. Well, in the end, it would only pile up more work.
When he returned to the CEO’s office, his in-house secretary, Secretary Park, had already left for the day, and Secretary Choi, who was guarding the office alone, looked surprised when she saw him.
“You’re already back after having a meal with Yoon Eunseo, sir?”
“Work piled up. What can I do?”
Without realizing it, he bluntly replied to the innocent secretary.
Seungju had already promised Eunseo that he would become the CEO.
[“Later, when I become the CEO of Daewon Group, I’ll buy you a department store. Wasn’t that just a casual remark?]Eunseo said that, but Seungju knew her true feelings. Somehow, she wished for him to achieve his dream. She had even tried to break up with him, fearing that she might hinder his future.
So, he had to reach his original goal somehow. Otherwise, Eunseo would blame herself.
The problem was that he couldn’t keep his position by working half-heartedly. As before, he had to work as if his life depended on it.
In other words, although he desperately wanted to date, the situation required him to focus on work.
‘Time is running out.’
If he were just a regular employee, he might have casually passed by and caught a glimpse of her face, but unfortunately, he was the CEO. The CEO couldn’t just wander around the office.
A day is limited to 24 hours, so how on earth could he work and date at the same time?
As Seungju was scratching his head in front of the mountain of tasks, Secretary Choi came in.
“What is it?”
“The newly appointed secretary is here.”
After cutting off the nosy and troublesome secretary, Kim Jiyeonhwa, and changing one of the in-house secretaries, Secretary Choi, to the role of task secretary, one position among the in-house secretaries had been vacant.
“They said they posted a hiring notice in the HR team and will soon shortlist the candidates, didn’t they?”
“Yes. But upon second thought.”
Secretary Choi, raising her horn-rimmed glasses, said,
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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