On the last day of their short honeymoon, Yura prepared gifts for her team members.
She bought everything including basic local tourist products, the essence that Manager Jung frequently used, the perfume Sung-hoon favored, the lipstick Eun-young liked, and the limited edition tumbler Ji-hye wanted.
Yura told Lee Hyun, who insisted on accompanying her, to pick out gifts for the secretaries, but he dismissed the idea, saying he didn’t know what was necessary and that giving a special bonus later would suffice.
Yura believed that gifts held a special meaning. Even a small, trivial item from a superior made employees feel cared for, fostering respect and loyalty.
Indeed, giving large bonuses and praise was effective, but achieving the same effect with small gifts was, she believed, an even better strategy.
Thus, Yura never forgot to bring gifts for her team members on her short business trips, always expressing her appreciation to maintain their unwavering support.
Returning from the honeymoon, they visited both families, an uncomfortable experience, followed by a meal together, akin to catching up on overdue homework. Just one day had passed since these two awkward visits.
Before fully recovering from the trip, Yura headed to the office with gifts in tow. Though her official return to work was the next day, her desire to catch up on pending work was stronger.
“Everyone, you’ve worked hard, haven’t you?”
“Manager! Isn’t your vacation supposed to last until today?”
“I came back early because I missed you all. These are gifts of gratitude.”
Yura smiled cheerfully at her surprised team members. She didn’t mention that not working made her restless and that she had escaped the clingy Baek Lee-hyun.
“Why did you bother to bring these? Thank you.”
“It’s nothing. Just my way of showing gratitude.”
As the team members expressed their satisfaction, Eun-young approached Yura with a worried look.
“Was your honeymoon difficult?”
“Pardon?”
“Your face looks half its size.”
Dodging Eun-young’s concerned gaze, Yura stroked her cheek with the back of her hand.
“Really? Maybe I toured too much. Ha. Ha.”
She hastily retreated to her office, hiding her awkward laughter.
That morning, Baek Lee-hyun had made the same comment. She had rebuked him for not letting her sleep during the honeymoon.
Worried about his remark, she had applied makeup more meticulously, but apparently, she couldn’t fool the observant Eun-young.
As she rechecked her face in a small mirror, there was a knock. Sitting down quickly and turning on her laptop, Manager Jung entered with a bright expression.
“Manager, A&J Management contacted, wanting to meet you.”
“Really?”
Joy spread across Yura’s face. She had heard positive expectations from Song Min-woo, but couldn’t be certain.
If this proposal was rejected, finding another artist as skilled as violinist Yoon Ga-eun wouldn’t be easy, which added to her anxiety.
“Yes, they asked you to contact them as soon as you returned from vacation. Here you go.”
“Thank you.”
Yura, receiving the note from Manager Jung and reaching for her phone, was interrupted by her ringing cellphone.
She recalled asking to be contacted as soon as Baek Lee-hyun arrived at the company. Like Yura, he too had left early for an urgent matter and had sent a message.
Thinking it excessive to call just for arriving at work, Yura’s expression hardened as she took out her phone.
The caller, unexpectedly, was her father, Jin Kang-soo. Yura took a deep breath to suppress the involuntary sigh and answered the call.
“Yes.”
Where are you?
Kang-soo, demanding her location abruptly, was met with Yura’s stiff and dry voice, as if addressing a superior, not her father.
“What’s the matter?”
Come to the office.
“To the office?”
Yes.
His words, more a command than a request, irked Yura. She had thought marriage would free her from her father’s control, but that was merely her own delusion. Kang-soo still saw Yura as someone he could manipulate.
The idea that he wanted to exploit her further for his own gain twisted her insides. Despite having enough, Kang-soo always seemed thirsty for more. It was pitiful that he hadn’t realized such greed was futile at his age.
“I’ll be too busy for a while.”
When your father tells you to come, you should come. What could you possibly be so busy with?
Just the phone call was suffocating and head-throbbing for Yura. She wondered how someone could be so obsessed with power.
“I’ll come home in the evening. I have to work. Hanging up now.”
After reluctantly setting a meeting due to her father’s persistence, Yura leaned her head back on the chair and took a long breath.
Age, marriage – what did they mean? The past five years, when she had cut off contact, felt like a dream, as Kang-soo hadn’t left her alone at all this year.
During the time without contact, he hadn’t even asked how she was doing; he just pressured her into marriage.
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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