Unable to bear the anger that felt like it would burst any moment, I leaned against the wall and took a deep breath.
‘A couple?’
Overwhelmed by my emotions, I lifted the frame high.
I was about to throw the frame to the floor when I saw myself holding Ji Han’s hand in the picture.
The moment I saw myself smiling so beautifully, I slowly lowered the frame with a feeling of emptiness.
“…Don’t make me laugh.”
I closed my trembling eyes, as if a spasm was about to happen.
“Seo Ji Han, I won’t marry you again.”
I opened my eyes.
I grabbed all the picture frames on the shelf and dumped them into the trash can beside me.
Ji Han’s smiling face overlapped on the pile of frames in the trash can.
“Never.”
I twisted a smile, imagining his face that would soon know everything and crumble.
.
.
.
I lay awake all night and finally got up from my bed as the morning sun rose.
Seeing the fully stocked wardrobe and simple clothes in the dressing room, I realized that I was back.
“When did all these clothes get here?”
Even though I had never been to our newlywed home.
I sighed deeply, looking at the clothes that were undoubtedly filled by his secretary.
The clothes he bought for me hanging in the closet felt like a version of me tailored to him, making my mouth dry.
‘I should get rid of all of them.’
In the end, I headed to the department store.
As I walked, I found myself arriving at the shop I used to frequent during my announcer days.
The manager recognized me, even though I hadn’t visited the store in quite a while, and approached me with a warm smile.
“Oh, Announcer Yoon. It’s been such a long time, hasn’t it?”
It had been over a year since I took a leave of absence from my anchor job after the engagement ceremony, but she was still the only manager who called me by my announcer title.
I smiled at her, who still greeted me warmly even though my visits had become infrequent.
“It’s been a while. How have you been, Manager?”
“So, what brings you to our store? Maybe for some special occasion?”
It was a brand I often wore during my time as an announcer.
I waved my hand at the manager, who was looking at me as if wondering if what she was thinking was correct.
“No, nothing’s been decided yet.”
“Oh, you must be considering it! Announcer Yoon, it would be great if you came back to TV. Then you would visit our store more often, right?”
I was planning to subtly discuss my return with the director soon.
As we talked at the entrance, we moved further into the store. I saw a woman sitting on a sofa in the distance.
“That’s the KBC weather caster. Do you two know each other?”
The familiar back of the woman, who was introduced to me as the weather caster, came into view.
I couldn’t help but frown.
‘Chae Seo Rin.’
There’s more than one department store in South Korea.
Why do we have to meet like this?
“She’s going to be an anchor soon, and she’s so excited. Our brand will become famous thanks to the anchors.”
‘Chae Seo Rin as an anchor…? No way.’
In the conservative KBC, the probability of a caster becoming an anchor was like plucking a star from the sky.
It was even stranger considering that she wasn’t particularly outstanding and didn’t have a strong background.
I walked towards Seo Rin, who was sitting down.
“You’ve been shopping, I see?”
I asked the question, finding it quite strange that Seo Rin was in a luxury shop.
I glanced at the clothes she had chosen, and they were worth at least a couple of million won.
“Uh, sis. What brings you here?”
“Oh, you two know each other? I see, it’s because you’re both from KBC?”
Seo Rin, who was startled by my sudden voice, looked up at me.
Her round eyes showed just how flustered she was.
The approaching manager also seemed to be happily chatting with Seo Rin, as if they were old acquaintances.
“She’s my very close junior.”
“I thought so. You two go ahead and chat comfortably.”
The manager whispered something to the staff member next to Seo Rin, and then disappeared from the store.
I saw a purple card inserted into the card payment machine and a catalog spread out where she was sitting.
It was a card Seo Rin couldn’t possibly afford with her salary.
“A purple card? Can you use this?”
She had a card that only black-grade customers could use.
It was even more surprising because it was a card that only the top 5% of VVIP customers at W Department Store could use.
Seo Rin, noticing my gaze, reached for the card in the machine.
“Th-that’s…”
As she took the card from the staff member’s hand, she read the engraved name.
“Seo Ji Han? Why would my fiancé’s card be here?”
It was just as I had expected.
The unbelievable words that came out of my mouth left the staff member rolling their eyes, trying to grasp the situation.
‘She even got the card before the wedding.’
I couldn’t even imagine when the two of them had started seeing each other.
Seeing Seo Rin’s eyes trembling and seemingly tense, there was no doubt she was flustered.
She must have been worried that their relationship had been discovered.
“Ah.”
I suppressed my boiling anger at her obvious behavior. Instead, I showed an even more relaxed smile and spoke.
“I told him not to do things like this. That guy, really.”
“…”
“I asked if he needed anything, and he finally asked his junior for help. So, this time it’s clothes as a gift?”
I gave a sly smile to the flustered staff member and took out the clothes Seo Rin had chosen one by one.
As the clothes slipped from my fingertips and fell onto the table one by one, Seo Rin’s face grew more and more tense.
“I don’t like such flashy patterns. I guess Seo Rin got confused.”
“Ha.”
A sound close to a moan escaped her lips.
“Here.”
I handed the card I had snatched from the staff member back to her with a smile.
“Ah. Will you proceed like this?”
I spoke to the rushing staff member.
“No. Please refund everything.”
Judging from the clothes piled up in various colors on the table, they seemed to be Seo Rin’s favorite brand.
“All of them…?”
The flustered staff member looked at Seo Rin, as if asking what to do.
But she bit her tightly closed lips and abruptly turned her head away.
She must be angry and embarrassed.
“Seo Rin, are you okay? I’ll choose my own.”
I patted her shoulder with a worried expression.
As I continued to speak, her face flushed with embarrassment.
“…Let’s do that. It’s your stuff, after all.”
With her face red up to the tip of her nose, her voice trembled with embarrassment.
And she tried to smile as she took the card back from the staff member.
“I’ll go now.”
I quietly sat next to her as I watched her hurriedly gather her coat and bag left on the sofa.
“Oh, by the way, you said you were going to be an anchor.”
“How did you know about that…?”
At my words, Seo Rin, who was packing her things, looked down at me in surprise.
Her eyes were shaking without focus.
It was as if she had been caught doing something wrong; her lips trembled.
‘Seo Ji Han, your junior.’
Her unusual reaction turned my vague suspicion into certainty.
‘What should I do? You can’t be an anchor even if you die and come back to life.’
I would be taking that position, after all.
“I know everything, Seo Rin. We’ll see each other soon.”
A cold smile spread across my face as I looked at her.
“Take care.”
Seo Rin’s face turned pale, and she turned away as if running.
Perhaps she didn’t have the strength to respond to my courtesy, she disappeared without looking back.
Then I finally turned my head.
Her hasty escape looked somewhat amusing, and I smiled as I opened the catalog.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
*
At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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