‘Oh no! What should I do?’
At this rate, it looked like she would be exposed without a chance to react. Jaein desperately searched for words to divert the situation.
“Ah, on the day Manager Kang and I went to the same theater, I mentioned that I watched with the guy I had a blind date with, Jo Hyunjoon. That person is him.”
Unable to avoid it, Jaein once again summoned BOC’s vocalist Jo Hyunjoon.
Suddenly, Nahee’s face turned pale.
“Oh, that Jo Hyunjoon! What a relief.”
“A relief?”
“I’m so curious who he is. Can’t you show me a picture too?”
Nahee asked with innocent eyes, genuinely seeking the truth.
Jaein, who absolutely couldn’t show a picture, felt awkward. If Nahee found out that her boyfriend was Dohyuk, rumors would spread throughout the company within a day. However, if she refused to show the picture, Nahee would persistently pursue the matter.
After much contemplation, Jaein hesitated and finally opened her mouth.
“Well, actually… my boyfriend hates taking pictures so much that I don’t have any.”
“Not even one?”
“Yes, not even one.”
Suddenly, Nahee shot suspicious glances.
Kang Nahee, just let it go.
Worried that Nahee might press on, Jaein, who was tensely bracing herself, received a direct question from her mother.
“Jaein, you aren’t pretending to have a boyfriend when you don’t, are you?”
Can’t you just be honest?
Her mother’s gaze was telling her so.
“Well, I do have one…”
Ugh, frustrating!
Instead of Jaein, whose patience was about to burst, her mother intervened.
“Dongseo, why can’t you trust people? Do you see Jaein as someone who would lie about having a boyfriend?”
“No, but Hyung said Jaein’s boyfriend is a handsome and wealthy man, making a lot of noise. He said he’d bring him, but he hasn’t shown up, and he won’t even show a picture. It’s strange, isn’t it, Mom?”
“Isn’t it strange for you to doubt so much? How wonderful is our Jaein!”
“Mom, please stop.”
Jaein finally snapped at her mother, who seemed ready for a confrontation.
Just then, the event host approached and said, “The celebration will begin soon. Guests, please enter in advance, and only children, please stay.”
As people noisily vacated their seats, various instructions from the host followed.
Thanks to that, the discussion about Jaein’s boyfriend was buried.
Finally, Jaein could relieve her surprised heart.
Time passed, and the celebration for the eightieth birthday was well into its second half.
The festive mood in the banquet hall was heightened by lively songs and dances.
Nahee and Woojin were guarding the empty main table together.
Jaein’s parents and Woojin’s parents were busy enhancing the festivity, leaving their seats. Jaein, in the meantime, was busily working at the back of the banquet hall.
Nahee leaned towards Woojin and whispered.
“Mr. Woojin, since you and Ms. Jaein are cousins, you must be close, right?”
“Not really. Since we were young, my mom never liked her getting along with us.”
It was a familiar voice Nahee heard while listening.
Nahee felt somewhat relieved that Jaein’s words seemed unlikely to convince Woojin.
“Why, even though you’re cousins?”
“Well, actually… Jaein, she’s an adopted child.”
“What did you say?”
Nahee’s eyes widened in shock.
“Well, Nahee, you’ll find out if you become part of our family. Jaein was adopted when she was eight. My grandfather is the head of the family, and adopting her caused quite a stir because it was seen as disrupting the family lineage.”
“Such a story. Jaein must have had a hard time.”
“Indeed. Even now, everyone doesn’t seem to like her.”
No wonder she felt ignored by relatives.
While Nahee outwardly expressed sympathy, inside, she couldn’t help but rejoice.
After being irritated all day, unexpectedly, such a big harvest was waiting.
Considering the information gathered from Woojin about Seo Jaein, it was like this.
She was an orphan, adopted at the age of eight.
Her grandmother opposed the adoption, even going on a hunger strike, and the whole family was in an uproar.
Even now, she is not acknowledged in the family.
Her parents run an old bakery in a corner neighborhood.
Even that was on the verge of being kicked out due to redevelopment.
No accumulated wealth in the house.
In short, nothing special.
Compared to that, Woojin was a well-received figure in the family, almost treated like a prodigy.
His girlfriend, Nahee, received attention as well.
Woojin’s family, being educators, had relatively more economic power than Jaein’s family.
Even the property of the relatively wealthy grandmother was entirely left to Woojin.
Above all, Woojin was considered an excellent groom, a professional doctor.
This alone was enough to attract envy from others.
‘What’s this, Seo Jaein? We weren’t on the same level from the start.’
Nahee’s internal superiority complex surged.
It was a feeling of relief, washing away the frustrations she had suffered from Dohyuk because of Jaein.
Although the existence of Jo Hyunjoon, Jaein’s boyfriend, was suspicious.
Male lead says he’s pregnant — and it’s female lead’s child
Something seems a bit off about this world.
Wang Zhao thought as she watched a pregnant man walking towards her…
Intro
Female lead finds herself in a world where the men who possess the ability to bear children.
As she navigates this unfamiliar reality, she is caught off guard by the sudden appearance of her boyfriend, who reveals that he is pregnant.
Is this truly her boyfriend?
Why can’t she recall any details about their time together?
She begins to doubt whether the child her boyfriend is carrying is even hers.
Is there a hidden reason behind her amnesia, or could it be a side effect of her sudden arrival in this strange new world?
Just when it seems the protagonist’s life couldn’t become any more entangled, her ex-boyfriend makes an unexpected appearance, raising questions about the protagonist’s past.
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