Sam Young, who had been spitting out a noisy exclamation, began to describe Jane’s appearance with enthusiastic gestures and foot movements.
“Perhaps the woman with that complex skin and pink bridges in her ponytail hair? A woman who’s extravagant with eyelashes as big as a fan and fingernails as long as Wolverine!”
Wolverine was a bit of an exaggeration, but anyway.
“Right.”
“She’s really hot these days. Almost everyone on SNS probably knows her, right?”
“Is she that famous?”
“She is famous. But why are you suddenly asking about Jane?”
“I met her in the elevator earlier.”
“What?! You met in the elevator? The apartment elevator? How?”
“She moved to the lower floor.”
“Moved?”
When she nodded, his halfclosed eyes flung wide open.
“Wow! She must have made a lot of money.”
Samyoung, who had been purely admiring, excitedly spilled all the information I knew.
“It seems her main job is a lecturer, but she also sells a lot of stuff on SNS. There’s hardly anything she doesn’t have? She has everything except for the things that aren’t there.”
“Really?”
“Yes. Cosmetics are basic, and she also sells nutritional supplements, garlic grinders, mask packs, and the like.”
…It seemed like there was a trap in the middle?
“She sells all sorts of strange things, you know? Grinding garlic while dressed in leggings and keeping beat with EDM, that video is super famous. The grinder sold out.”
I was wondering what I heard, but the funnier thing was that even when I imagined it, the picture wasn’t awkward at all.
“Ah, she’s doing YouTube these days.”
Finally, at the mention of YouTube, I remembered where I had seen her.
“Ah.”
I wondered where I had seen her.
I think I saw her in YouTube videos that occasionally pop up because of the algorithm.
While Samyoung was babbling, San, who had been silently listening, asked.
“Was there anything strange?”
“What?”
“I’m talking about that woman.”
“Well, she was a bit unique, but not particularly.”
“What did she say?”
“Just greetings, more or less?”
I didn’t know well yet, but Kang, claiming that her tension was definitely high, shared the short conversation she had with her.
“She seemed like a Korean American? From the way she talked, it seemed like her Korean was a bit awkward.”
But at that story, Samyoung burst out laughing.
“Hahaha!”
“Why are you laughing?”
“Jane is from Chungcheongdo.”
…Wasn’t she an American?
“Where was her hometown? Onyang or Dangjin, somewhere there, I think.”
…Not Texas or California?
Kang’s eyes widened in shock.
“Ah, then she must have lived abroad for a long time.”
“What living abroad? She said she only took a plane once in her life. That too, when she went to Yangyang, she took a domestic flight.”
“Yangyang?”
“Yes. Yangyang, next to Sokcho in Gangwondo.”
“But her accent seemed like a person who lived abroad? Even simple words are mixed with English…”
“Already because of that, I was scolded a lot at the beginning. But now everyone seems to enjoy it. I guess he is studying English hard as his dream is to go to Hollywood.”
Jane seemed weirder the more you got to know her.
Of course, she was quite noisy, but still, it felt like I had an interesting neighbor.
However, San didn’t seem to like the appearance of a new face again this time.
“Be careful.”
“What?”
“People who appear suddenly and naturally blend in.”
“……”
“That’s dangerous.”
At his words, Kang laughed and retorted.
“Like you?”
However, he didn’t back down.
“Yes. Like me.”
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After that day.
When I had a schedule and had to leave the house, I sometimes took the elevator down with San, and every time I finished work, I took the elevator up.
But strangely, there were no encounters with Jane as a group.
It’s not that I didn’t meet Jane at all, but she mostly ran into Kang alone at the apartment entrance or in the elevator.
I don’t know if it was a coincidence.
But since it was nothing strange, Kang didn’t pay much attention.
In the meantime, she and I became friends who casually greet each other and ask about each other.
Jane, who was friendly, always had a lot of energy, and sometimes she gave away this and that, claiming it was something she got from sponsorship.
Although she wasn’t quite a friend yet, she was a pleasant neighbor who greeted each other when they met.
For Kang, Jane was becoming such an existence.
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“Did they say it was going to rain today?”
Kang, who opened the window, mumbled to herself.
It was early in the morning, but the sky filled with dark clouds was unusual.
The air was damp, and the wind was blowing quite a bit.
I thought I should have an umbrella ready.
On days with shootings, the first thing I always do is go to the salon.
As always, the director greeted her with a bright face.
After finishing the first round of hair treatment, she pinned it up to fix the volume, and started her makeup at her familiar spot.
“But, Director.”
Kang casually opened her mouth about the fact she hadn’t asked for a while.
“The hair teacher I met on the first day I came back.”
“Who? Ah! Teacher Ji Eun?”
“Yes. I haven’t seen her since that day, did she quit?”
At her question, the director cringed.
“Stop talking. She ran away in the middle of work that day.”
“Ran away?”
“Yeah. She said she would go out for a bit and then didn’t come back, she’s not answering the phone, do you think she’s gone under?”
“Can’t believe it. She wasn’t sick, right? Nothing happened?”
“Even I was super worried thinking the same at first, but was it after 3 days? She suddenly sent me a measly text that an urgent matter came up and she was quitting.”
“Didn’t you call her?”
“Of course, I called. Her voice sounded like she was dying so I asked if she was sick, but she said it wasn’t that. Anyway, I don’t know. She quit in less than a month.”
It was a question she could have asked a long time ago if she had intended to do so.
But she deliberately didn’t because she felt it wasn’t the right thing to do.
For some reason, she felt that the reason was related to her.
“So, the day she met me for the first time, she quit?”
“Yeah, it was that day. But why? Did you have any issues with Instructor Jieun?”
“No, it wasn’t like that.”
Even though the director continued to share this and that story as usual, it really didn’t resonate.
Kang recalled the events of that day.
The memory of Jieun, who was belatedly washing her hair, disappearing without a word in the middle and hurriedly finishing the shampoo like a chased person, and not even properly making eye contact, let alone guiding her to makeup, crossed her mind.
The last time she saw her, her complexion was pale and sickly.
She felt something was odd then too, but she let the situation slide, pretending not to know.
But now, she couldn’t pretend not to know anymore.
Could she too have been,
“……a dreamer?”
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Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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