Ji Yeon waved her hand and happily called her friend whom she hadn’t seen in a long time. When her friend Ha Young spotted Ji Yeon, she rushed over and quickly sat next to her.
“Ji Yeon! It’s been so long! I missed you so much! My friend.”
“I missed you too, Ha Young.”
The two hugged each other warmly in greeting.
“First of all, let’s order something. What should we get? How about wine?”
“Wine sounds good! By the way, landing a job so abruptly in times like these, you’ve always been competent! I’ll treat you to a celebration meal for your reemployment, so order whatever you want!”
When they finished a bottle of wine and were about to open the second, Ji Yeon cautiously started a conversation that she hadn’t shared with anyone else.
She trusted Ha Young like family, and she wanted to talk to someone about the frustrations she felt.
But after listening to Ji Yeon’s story for a while, Ha Young’s expression turned serious.
“Ji Yeon! Let’s say I understand that you need about six months. And the company, well, I don’t understand, but it was a place you’ve always wanted to go, so I’ll try to understand that too. But once a month, why meet him. Are you trying to change his mind by doing this? You can’t, Ji Yeon! Have you gone mad?”
As expected, Ha Young jumped up and spoke.
“Why do you have to hang onto Min Woo. You’re not lacking anything, not in looks, money, or family. You have skills too, why are you doing this Ji Yeon. Is there a reason? Tell me, I won’t say anything. Tell me the reason for your decision. Even just talking about it will ease your frustration!”
“Ha Young.”
She wasn’t sad, nor did she feel hurt by her friend’s words, but suddenly tears fell from her eyes.
No, it was a feeling of her heart, which had been keeping her sadness and injustice locked behind a dam, saying to herself, ‘It’s okay, I’m okay’, pretending that everything was fine, but with Ha Young’s sincere word of concern, it felt like that dam was collapsing.
“Ji Yeon.”
With a saddened voice, Ha Young comforted Ji Yeon, holding her tightly.
“You’ve had it tough, huh… What am I going to do with you. I should have thought about comforting you first. I’m sorry.”
Being in frequent contact with each other, Ha Young had a rough idea of Ji Yeon’s situation.
As Ji Yeon’s closest friend, she felt regretful that she couldn’t be a bigger support.
To think that something bigger than that had happened to her, Ha Young’s heart ached immensely.
“That guy, no… You haven’t completely given up on Min Woo yet, have you?”
When Ha Young cautiously asked, Ji Yeon slowly nodded her head.
“Even though I’ve bitterly felt for the past three years that he won’t come to me, I can’t completely cut him out of my heart. I don’t even know why I’m like this. That’s why I did that. I needed time to get him out of my system. But it’s not because I want to hold onto him with just my lingering feelings that I’m planning to see him once a month.”
As she wiped away her flowing tears, Ji Yeon continued.
“I guess I also wanted to pay him back, and to that woman too.”
Ji Yeon shivered with anger as if she had just been wronged.
“Cha Min Woo, if I hate him so much and if I can’t forget that woman, he shouldn’t have married me. He should have coldly dumped me. Why did he spend the night with me when he said he loved that woman and couldn’t forget her? He shouldn’t have laid a finger on me! It’s like he despises having me, but feels too greedy to let me go, completely disregarding and trampling my love and effort. To be honest, I didn’t want to just hand him over to the woman he said he couldn’t forget because he loved her so much.”
As Ji Yeon spoke, she became increasingly excited, and her face turned bright red.
“That woman too. If she was madly in love with him, she should have fought with me, cried and clung on to him, and held onto her man by any means. But she disappeared and then suddenly reappeared, clinging onto her old love who’s now a married man.”
Ji Yeon spat out her words as if she was crying out, then took heavy, ragged breaths.
“That woman also needs to know, how it feels when the man she’s living with spends time with another woman. Shouldn’t they be tormented like I was? Can’t I hurt them even for a moment?”
Although Ji Yeon said she wanted to get back at them, from Ha Young’s perspective, it seemed like she was just making various excuses because she couldn’t let go of Cha Min Woo and wanted to have a moment with him.
Her tender heart was overflowing with lingering affections.
But she didn’t want to hurt Ji Yeon with such words right now.
She just wanted to sympathize with her, understand her, and comfort her.
“Ji Yeon, I’m just worried that you might get hurt more.”
Ha Young held Ji Yeon tightly, soothing her trembling back.
“You only had feelings for Min Woo, but why has it turned out like this. If you’ve liked him since college, that’s almost 10 years.”
11 years ago, that day was when Ji Yeon attended the longawaited freshman welcoming party she had only seen in TV dramas.
That day, her close friend Ha Young couldn’t come to school because she was sick, and her peers and seniors were swaying drunk.
Amidst that, two seniors who didn’t know Ji Yeon well kept bothering her to fit into the atmosphere while she sat alone, taking a swig of cola.
“Hey, why are you sitting here drinking soda alone? We’ve gathered here to drink alcohol on this kind of day. No freshman should stand out! Here, have a glass!”
A slightly drunk senior said in a loud voice towards Ji Yeon.
“Oh, I can’t drink.”
Since Ji Yeon was still underage and couldn’t drink, she spoke in a small, meek voice.
“There’s no such thing as can’t. If you drink, you drink. I’m drinking although I took some herbal medicine and shouldn’t be drinking.”
However, the senior who couldn’t know that said this and chuckled to himself.
“Hey, I also shouldn’t drink because my body is so weak, but I drink. Alcohol is medicine, alcohol is medicine~ right?”
The two drunk seniors exchanged ridiculous jokes and tried to pour beer into the cola glass sitting in front of Ji Yeon.
Just as Ji Yeon was at a loss with the seniors’ actions,
“Stop it, you guys. Can’t you see she doesn’t like it? Why are you doing this to a kid who doesn’t want to drink?”
When she turned her head towards the noise, she saw a tall man with short hair, snatching the cola glass from the drunk seniors.
“Oh, senior Min Woo! Senior, I heard you couldn’t come today, but you came! Anyway, you still haven’t gotten rid of your military style. What’s with this hair?”
One of the seniors who had his cola glass taken away from Ji Yeon seemed irritated at first but then recognized him and asked in a glad voice.
“Well, I still have a long way to go to shake off the military style. But you’re going in two months, aren’t you? Expect to get an even shorter haircut.”
The senior named Min Woo teased the drunken senior in front of him, ruffling his hair with a laugh.
“Ah, senior~ You’re saying such sad things with a smile! Today, I’ll drink with you and cause trouble!”
“Okay, I’ll take all that trouble, so let’s go over there. Shall we stay up all night together?”
“Sounds good. Senior!”
The senior named Min Woo naturally redirected the conversation and moved the two drunk seniors away, and they no longer bothered Ji Yeon.
“If you avoid those two, there shouldn’t be anyone here who will bother you. Welcome to our department, kid. See you around.”
Once the two seniors moved away, Min Woo softly spoke to Ji Yeon and gave her shoulder a tap.
Was this what a voice smeared in honey sounded like?
Listening to his voice gave her goosebumps, and her heart raced.
His hair was still short, and his face was still somewhat rough, giving off a soldierly feel, but that couldn’t hide the handsome features of his bold face. More than that, his tall stature and robust body exuded masculinity.
For the first time in her life, Ji Yeon felt a flutter towards a man.
She felt as if a white aura was radiating around him.
It was the start of a onesided love.
Male lead is a clingy little husband
One-line summary: The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
Introduction:
One day, Lu Yuner’s soul transmigrates into a female-dominant world. She enters the Imperial Academy and takes up the position of a doctoral instructor, teaching classes and grading schoolwork.
One day, she encounters the young prince Su Qingwan secretly skipping class from the male academy.
As a result, Su Qingwan is punished.
From then on, Su Qingwan sees Lu Yuner as a “thorn in his side”.
But before long, this “thorn” becomes the person he cherishes most, and he goes to great lengths to win Lu Yuner’s affection.
Mini scene 1:
One day, the sun is high in the sky but Su Qingwan still hasn’t gotten up for class.
Servant Xiaoyuan: “Young prince, it’s time for class. You’ll be late otherwise.”
Su Qingwan says arrogantly: “I’m not going. I am the esteemed prince, my status is so noble, why should I suffer this hardship? Besides, isn’t learning all this just to please women? Hmph, they’re not worthy!”
Mini scene 2:
After Su Qingwan falls for someone, he completely changes. He no longer skips class and diligently learns how to be a good husband and father. But he discovers that Sister Yuner is always surrounded by admirers.
Drunk and overcome with jealousy one day, he clings to Lu Yuner, crying beautifully like a pear blossom in the rain.
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan likes Sister Yuner.”
Lu Yuner: “Young prince, you’re drunk.”
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan isn’t drunk. Qingwan likes Sister Yuner, likes you so much, likes you to bits…” Before he can finish, Lu Yuner’s eyes flash with emotion and she leans in closer.
[Reading Guide]
1. The female lead is gentle, gracious, humble and polite but not weak. The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
2. 1v1, a bit torturous in the beginning but definitely sweet later on.
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