His black hair that calmly covered his forehead swayed as he leaned diagonally against the door, watching her.
“Da Hyun, are you tempting me?”
Min Hyuk’s eyes slowly went down from top to bottom. Startled, Da Hyun hastily pulled her robe together. Her hands hurriedly tied the robe, revealing her flustered state.
“Why, why did you come back up? I thought you would be in the study or on the first floor.”
“My personal room is right next to the bedroom. I saw you as I was passing by. Sorry.”
Da Hyun’s pupils rolled around without being able to properly look at him.
“Mo, I didn’t know. Personal room, you say? There was another room apart from the study? My room? There was a separate room for me?”
“Yep. Isn’t it obvious? There isn’t just this one room on the second floor.”
Only then did Da Hyun remember that there were four rooms on the second floor.
She was really ignorant. Da Hyun had thought that she didn’t have a room because her clothes were in the bedroom.
“Seeing your dumbfounded expression, you didn’t know.”
“Why are you telling me this now?”
While muttering under her breath, Da Hyun hugged the clothes she took out tightly so she wouldn’t drop them.
She didn’t even know this and was stuck in the bedroom.
“I thought you knew. Who would’ve thought you still hadn’t fully explored the house?”
Da Hyun kept quiet at his nearly scolding tone.
Min Hyuk waited until she was the first to open her mouth.
The bedroom that was comfortable just a while ago felt uncomfortable with his appearance.
“I’ll go to see my room and change my clothes.”
Da Hyun took a step and approached the door.
She looked up at Min Hyuk who was leaning on the door and blocking the way.
By the way, with his hair covering his forehead, he looked younger than his age. His skin was also good, and his face was clearly defined, so he looked young even when he lifted his hair.
However, it seemed there was nothing she could do about the cold impression she got when she looked at his black hair moving naturally without any wax.
But his personality seemed kind.
“Move.”
“Hm, do I have to move obediently?”
She took back what she thought about him being kind.
“Da Hyun, do you want to pass?”
At his playful and mischievous tone, Da Hyun bit her lip.
“Never mind, I can change in the bathroom.”
“I like staying in the bedroom all day.”
“……”
An awkward atmosphere flowed though he just made a joke to relieve the tension.
“Da Hyun, relax. If I really wanted to do something to you, I would have done it a long time ago, right? It’s a joke. A joke.”
Min Hyuk was upset that she was still treating him like a stranger.
It would be nice if she could treat him a little more comfortably.
Although they were a couple in law, in reality, they were no different from strangers. He wished she wouldn’t be so guarded, but it seemed like it would take more time.
“How can you be so frozen when we’re a couple? It’s upsetting.”
It was embarrassing that he could see Da Hyun’s blushing face.
Shame is temporary. It’s only temporary.
“I wasn’t tense. I know how to take a joke and a serious comment too.”
Da Hyun moved her lips several times, but eventually kept them sealed. There was no need to blatantly show that she didn’t have a boyfriend.
“But Da Hyun, I wanted to ask, am I the first person you told that you had amnesia?”
“What?”
Da Hyun’s thoughts froze.
Had she told him that she had amnesia?
But she had no recollection of telling Min Hyuk.
Before she could express any doubts, Min Hyuk quickly added.
“You told me yesterday when you were drunk.”
“I, I said that?”
Da Hyun denied, finding it impossible to believe. But alcohol held the magic of making one lose memories. Especially in cases of excessive drinking leading to blackouts, it was even more so.
“Yeah. You were lamenting that you suffered from partial amnesia due to an accident, and couldn’t remember anything about Kang Si Hoon.”
Too detailed?
Da Hyun felt awkward, thinking she had let Min Hyuk in on her secret too easily. Not to mention, it was an unfortunate weakness of hers that he had discovered.
“…Weren’t you surprised?”
“Why should I be?”
“I have amnesia.”
“So what?”
He should know that it’s not easy to get amnesia, but he was so nonchalant about it.
It felt rather strange that she had been hiding it.
“What?”
“The past is the past. And from my perspective, it’s better that you forgot.”
“…..”
“Even if you told me while drunk, I appreciated it. So don’t worry.”
This was a first. Su Cheol had told her to hide her amnesia as if it were a huge flaw. But he understood her situation without knowing much about it.
Min Hyuk wished she wouldn’t worry about him knowing that she had amnesia. And he hoped she wouldn’t hide it from others either. It wasn’t a flaw. It was merely an unfortunate event due to an accident.
“I wish you’d be comfortable with me. Even if our relationship started with a contract.”
“…..”
“There are plenty of couples who get along well despite a rocky start.”
“There are many such couples, but our divorce is predetermined.”
At the mention of divorce, Min Hyuk’s expression stiffened momentarily but he quickly brushed it off.
“That’s right.”
Looking at his face with a bitter smile, she felt an unexpected pang of guilt.
He seemed to be reluctant, even though they had started with an end in mind.
“Why do you suddenly look so downcast? Your face has turned red. Are you a wilted cherry tomato?”
Min Hyuk chuckled as he noticed Da Hyun being cautious because of him. His demeanor hadn’t changed a bit from the past.
“What’s a wilted cherry tomato? That sounds so oldfashioned.”
And how could a tomato wilt anyway?
Da Hyun desperately held back her desire to argue. Min Hyuk gave a light shrug of his shoulders.
“Look in the mirror. Isn’t it the same? Haven’t you heard it often?”
“No? This is the first time I’ve heard it from you, Min Hyuk.”
“Really? Then I’m the first one to tell you. I’m also the first one who knew about your amnesia.”
He gave a satisfied smile.
His emotional swings must be quite severe.
Before she knew it, Da Hyun’s embarrassment had disappeared and she began to study his face more closely.
When he was expressionless, he seemed cold, but when he smiled, he was a man who had a gentle smile that gave comfort and a sense of stability.
“You’re really handsome no matter how I look at it.”
Da Hyun unwittingly let out the words she should have swallowed in silence.
At that moment, Min Hyuk slightly parted his lips as if he had been hit somewhere.
“Eh?”
“Ah… Did I say that out loud?”
Realizing belatedly what she had blurted out, Da Hyun quickly covered her mouth with her hand.
“Yes.”
At his brief response, Da Hyun widened her eyes while keeping her mouth covered.
Min Hyuk swayed and moved aside.
Da Hyun didn’t miss that moment and quickly passed by him with quick steps.
Min Hyuk watched Da Hyun intently as she hurried down the hallway and opened another door.
Only after she had gone inside did Min Hyuk cover his mouth with his hand.
“I almost made a very funny scene.”
Starting from his burning ears, his face turned red.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
