The car that had been slowly following Eunseo and Seungju came to a stop.
“Ha!”
Seeing Eunseo running away and Seungju following behind, Seunhyun, sitting in the driver’s seat, let out a hollow laugh.
Seunhyun was relieved to have personally followed them rather than relying on someone else. If he had heard it from someone else, he wouldn’t have believed it. It was almost unbelievable even seeing it with his own eyes.
That Kwon Seungju could look at someone with such eyes!
I couldn’t hear well what the two were saying, but there was no need to hear. Just by looking at the eyes directed at Yoon Eunseo, I could tell. It was truly the eyes of someone deeply in love, eyes that could only see one woman in the world.
[You caused trouble.]A few days ago, I was dumbfounded by the expressionless words spoken to Yoon Eunseo.
‘That was an act?’
Not knowing that, I was now newly shocked by the thought that Yoon Eunseo had been used as a tool by my brother.
‘Anyway, the two are definitely in love with each other…’
Perhaps the ‘older woman’ that the crematorium employee witnessed a few days ago was also Yoon Eunseo.
[When he called her ‘nuna’ and used honorifics, it didn’t seem like just one or two years older. He looks like he’s in his twenties without a doubt. Isn’t it amazing?]I now understood what Mother Yeonhwa Lady had said. Of course, she must have looked like she was in her twenties because she was in her twenties!
What I couldn’t understand was why my brother was calling that woman ‘nuna.’
Just a little while ago, Kwon Seungju called Yoon Eunseo that at the bus stop.
[Nuna!]I heard that clearly with my own ears.
Just in case, I checked the employee information, and Yoon Eunseo was definitely twenty-seven years old this year. She was six years younger than my brother, but why were they calling each other ‘nuna’ and ‘Seungju-ya’? It was a mystery.
Thinking that they might be role-playing lovers, I considered it, but it seemed too natural for both of them to be doing that.
Seunhyun confirmed with his own eyes that the two went into the house together and then turned the car around. As expected, it seemed to be the house where Kwon Seungju had lived with my birth mother.
‘Should I expose it?’
Actually, even if I exposed it now, it would be a tremendous blow to Kwon Seungju. After expanding the company under the pretext of nursing care, he was living with a female employee. How scandalous was this?
But his intuition was telling him something. There seemed to be something even bigger than what he could see now.
‘I guess I need to find out more.’
Seunhyun made up his mind.
On a particularly cold evening the following week, Suna came to Eunseo’s house with chicken and beer in both hands.
They were planning to watch ‘Idol Project 10’ together.
“Today is the day when the number decreases from 60 to 30, right? Our Yunho’s goal is to be in the top 20.”
“Really? You said it might be difficult to pass the second round at one point.”
Eunseo recalled what Suna had said before. Chris barely passed the first round, ranking around 54th out of 60, so Suna was worried about the second round.
“After that, his popularity increased a lot. As expected, being good-looking and talented, even if he doesn’t get much screen time, he eventually stands out. I don’t know about the debut, but there shouldn’t be a problem passing the second round today.”
Suna asserted.
After a while, the program started, and Eunseo finally saw Chris’s face for the first time.
“……!”
The moment Eunseo saw Chris’s face, what she felt was confusion.
When watching such a program, viewers generally watch based on whether the contestants fit their type or not. In that regard, Chris didn’t match Eunseo’s taste at all.
Even though they both had handsome faces, Seungju was a cold handsome man or a mature and handsome man, while Chris had an attractive smiling eyes and delicate features, truly a look that suited an idol.
Currently, Eunseo’s preference was clearly the former. However, strangely, she couldn’t take her eyes off Chris. Even though he clearly didn’t match her taste, she was captivated as soon as she saw him. She felt her heart beating rapidly.
It was different from the feeling of falling for someone. To put it bluntly, it was like déjà vu.
Even though he was someone she was seeing for the first time, it somehow didn’t feel like the first time. As if she had known him for a very long time…
“What’s with that intense gaze? Did you fall in love at first sight?”
Seeing Eunseo staring at the screen without blinking, Suna teased, but even that didn’t register in her ears.
“You won’t get it stolen twice. Just vote when I say nice things.”
Today, the second round vote was scheduled to take place in real-time during the broadcast. The trainees would form teams and cover songs from different senior idol groups.
The song assigned to Chris’s team was an old famous idol group ‘Dong Bang Yak Gi’ song. Eunseo hadn’t even heard of the title, but Suna clapped her hands in delight.
When male lead is the homewrecker
“I know she doesn’t love him.”
I’ve read the novel below twice already. Girls, I’m highly recommending it to you!
The female lead? Not a good person.
The second male lead? Not a good person.
The male lead? Willingly plays the third party, breaking up the female and second male lead’s relationship despite all the warnings from his friends—so yeah, he’s definitely not a good person either.
Basically, nobody in this novel is simple-minded or without scheming.
The female lead starts off as the male lead’s secretary, but don’t worry—later on, she takes over the company while the male lead steps back to support her. He won’t steal her spotlight, overshadow her, or dull her shine.
I love novels where men are out here snatching wigs, tearing each other down, and going to war just to win the female lead’s affection. And this is exactly that kind of novel. Most of Hai Dai Ran’s works have this dynamic. You’ll see the male characters’ emotions being pushed to the absolute extreme.
There’s even a scene where the second male lead exposes the male lead online for being a homewrecker. The brotherhood immediately gangs up on him, dragging him through the mud. I find it compelling —it completely flips reality on its head, where usually, women are the ones fighting over a man and getting torn apart by the sisterhood.
For me, female leads in the novels I read should only struggle in their careers, not in love. But if the brainless romantics in the story are all men? I have zero complaints.
I’ve pretty much read all of Hai Dai Ran’s novels and even translated all of them—her works are just my thing. I’ll slowly upload everything here. One day, when my website is official, I hope I can invite her to join as one of the star authors.
Here’s the story synopsis:
One-line summary: She is his lifelong obsession, to the point where he was willing to be a third wheel, scorned by society, just to wedge his way into her relationship with her fiancé.
Cold-hearted and indifferent female lead + Scheming and subservient CEO male lead
Intro 1:
“I know she doesn’t love him.”
With blood trickling from his clenched fist, Rong Xiu gazed at the woman before him, his eyes clouded with anguish. Hidden in the wardrobe, he had witnessed Fan Xia – the woman he desperately loved – in an intimate embrace with her fiancé. Yet his heart still yearned for her, defying all reason.
Fan Xia, the elegant and composed assistant, carried something mysterious in her eyes whenever she looked at her fiancé, Wen Lan Sheng. Strange occurrences began to surface – secret meetings with the young Gu Jin Yi, an unexplained withdrawal of 5,000 yuan… Then suddenly, her fiancé’s sister, Wen Jing, violently attacked her.
In this matriarchal society, Rong Xiu had risen to become the chairman of a powerful healthcare conglomerate, breaking through gender prejudices. But for the first time, he willingly stepped into the shadows as the other man, disregarding his friends’ warnings to become her secret lover.
Because he had discovered the truth – Fan Xia wasn’t the pure angel everyone believed her to be. And perhaps, he was the only one capable of helping her execute her mysterious plan…
Intro 2:
Rong Xiu’s biggest regret in life was missing out on Fan Xia.
He secretly loved Fan Xia for 7 years.
Watched her go public with her boyfriend.
Watched her kiss her boyfriend at their wedding.
Until that man blissfully nestled in Fan Xia’s arms, obtaining everything he could only dream of.
The crazy jealousy stripped away his hidden secret love, layer by layer, burning like wildfire.
Fan Xia, how can I have you!
【Reading and Trigger Warning Guide】
1. Female dominant, male submissive, male pregnancy
2. Male lead schemes his way to the top, male competition
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