As soon as Eunseo inserted the key into the gate, a welcoming voice came from inside.
“Nuna, are you back?”
The sound of retreating footsteps behind her abruptly stopped.
Cold sweat soaked her palms. ‘Am I going to get caught now?’ she thought, but unexpectedly, her response came out naturally.
“Yeah, I’m back. Don’t come out, it’s raining!”
Despite feeling like she was about to collapse from tension, her voice sounded surprisingly calm.
“There’s someone here; I’m just talking to them. I’ll be in soon.”
She nonchalantly shouted towards the gate and then turned to confront the man fiercely.
“I don’t know what’s going on with the president, but logically, he has no reason to contact me.”
“…….”
“Please be careful on your way, and don’t come back for such matters again.”
She watched the man walk away before she finally opened the gate. Her legs felt like jelly, but she managed to reach the porch and collapsed.
Seeing Eunseo in a daze, Seungju asked worriedly.
“Nuna, are you okay? What happened?”
But Eunseo couldn’t hear him; her heart was pounding so loudly it echoed in her ears.
‘Could he have noticed?’
She quickly shook her head. If so, he would have tried to follow and check.
Seungju’s manner of speaking was completely different from his usual self. Even if his voice sounded similar, nobody would dream it was Seungju calling someone ‘Nuna’. After all, he was six years older than Eunseo.
Realizing this, Eunseo felt a bit more relaxed but still anxious.
‘What if we get caught?’
Could harboring him, despite him being a fully-grown adult, be a crime? The opponent was Daewon Group. Realizing she was playing a dangerous game against a conglomerate, her fingertips trembled with vague fear.
“Nuna?”
Startled by Seungju’s touch on her shoulder, Eunseo flinched away, snapping at him.
“Don’t touch me!”
“I’m sorry,” Seungju apologized, looking panicked.
His previous words, his attempt to evict her, were now irrelevant to Eunseo. Why should she risk herself for such a man?
He had ordered the demolition himself. If he hadn’t, none of this would be happening.
As she glared at him, Seungju stammered an excuse.
“I’m sorry. I just wanted to eat together… you always skip dinner…”
Eunseo retorted sharply.
“Can you please stop calling me ‘Nuna’? I just can’t get used to it.”
His pretend innocence in an adult’s face was repulsive. Regardless of his memory loss, it was still his face that she saw.
“Go look in the mirror. Who’s the ‘Nuna’ here?”
“…….”
“And you’re the president. My boss. How could I sit and eat with you? Do you ever consider my position?”
Eunseo vented without filter.
“….I’m sorry.”
He apologized with a dejected look. Seeing his flushed face made her angrier. Why did she have to feel like the bad person? What did she do wrong?
“I’ve never lied to anyone before, but I’ve lied several times already because of you. Why do I have to lie for someone like you…!”
Even as Eunseo hurled sharp words at him, Seungju simply repeated his gentle apologies, as if accepting all the blame.
“I’m really sorry for being a nuisance.”
This only made Eunseo feel worse. It felt like she was unfairly beating up someone who wouldn’t fight back.
“Here.”
She practically thrust the bag with the packed dinner at him and retreated to her room.
As soon as she closed her door, she was overwhelmed with self-reproach and sat heavily on the floor.
“…….”
After cooling down, Eunseo realized she shouldn’t have been angry with him. They had agreed to this arrangement based on mutual interest. If she was going to hide him, she should have been prepared for this much.
Seungju had no place to go, no one to turn to. Perhaps he had spent the whole day waiting for her return. How lonely he must have been to greet her so eagerly at just the sound of the door opening.
Yet, she had harshly turned away his friendly face…
Sitting numbly, Eunseo decided to apologize.
‘I need to say sorry.’
As she left her room, a faint scent of food led her to the kitchen. There, she found a table set with food, covered with newspaper. Eunseo was surprised.
The house barely had any ingredients, yet Seungju had managed to make fried rice with what little was available, even humorously drawing a smiling face with ketchup.
[Sorry. I just wanted to have dinner with you because you always skip meals…]Eunseo finally understood his unfinished sentence. ‘I’ve made dinner.’
The taste was unknown, but it looked decent enough. The sight of the effort he made tugged at her heartstrings.
How did this eighteen-year-old know how to cook? Eunseo revisited his words.
[Tell my father clearly that I won’t go to his house just because of this…]Initially, he had spoken angrily. And since he said his mother left the house a year ago…
Eunseo realized belatedly.
‘He’s been living alone in this house, waiting for his mom.’
The thought of a high school student waiting alone for his missing mother brought tears to her eyes.
‘I’ve been so harsh to him…’
My Ex-Girlfriend Is The Regent In The Female-dominant World (Male lead transmigrates to the matriarchal world)
Two years ago, Gu Sui picked up a homeless woman in ancient costume from the street.
Apart from occasionally claiming to be a princess from a female-dominant country due to illness, her figure, appearance, intelligence, and martial arts skills were impeccable.
Naturally evolving from roommates to girlfriends, as time went on, Gu Sui found it increasingly difficult to tolerate her queen syndrome.
“Mu Jiulu, can you stop controlling me inside and out? Let’s break up.”
Gu Sui made a breakup call, and since then, he couldn’t find any trace of her.
A year later, Gu Sui, who was planning to move, woke up the next day and found himself in a different place.
“Young Master, today is the day you choose your Wife-master through martial arts competition at Jade Dew Pavilion. Please get up quickly.”
Gu Sui: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
As the only son of a general’s mansion in a female-dominant dynasty, the young empress personally issued a decree allowing Gu Sui to select his Wife-master through martial arts competition. Whoever could defeat him could marry him.
Gu Sui: “……”
He didn’t inherit the original owner’s martial prowess, so anyone could defeat him! And what the hell is a Wife-master?
Forced to come to Jade Dew Pavilion, the densely packed women below made Gu Sui’s agoraphobia act up, and his face was full of resistance.
Until he saw the Regent sitting on the second floor, with a smile on the corner of her lips, her eyes wicked and nonchalant.
Hmm… she looked a little familiar.
It turned out that the Regent also found him a little familiar.
Mu Jiulu fiddled with her bone clasp, her deep gaze locked on the man who was out of place in this world.
“Finally, I found you.”
Male transmigrates into female-dominant world
One-sentence summary: What goes around comes around, taking turns in the crematorium
