As I turned around reflexively, I saw Ji Han’s furious face.
“What’s going on? At this hour?”
I felt like I would be devoured any moment by Ji Han’s fierce gaze directed at me.
Judging by his car parked not far away, it seemed he had been waiting for me.
I shifted my gaze back to him.
Silent as if protesting against me, he finally parted his closed lips.
“What were you doing with your brother until now?”
He tightened his grip on my wrist with a strong force.
I frowned in pain as my wrist felt like it would break, but he didn’t care.
“Answer me.”
Was it the events at the hotel today that made him so angry?
Ji Han looked down at me with wild eyes.
‘I should be the one who’s angry. Why are you acting like this?’
It was ridiculous. He was the one who had been tangled up indecently at the hotel, yet he was angry with me.
I was disgusted by his shameless attitude, even when our roles were reversed.
“What’s there to answer?”
“What?”
As I shook off his grip on my wrist, I saw it swell red.
He didn’t even care about my condition, what a fiancé he was.
Ji Han, instead, seemed more provoked by my sharp reaction and frowned.
“I went to Jae Ha’s room because of the wine Seo Rin spilled.”
“……”
“And I just came back now since the clothes I left for dry cleaning have arrived. Are you satisfied?”
Even though I told him the truth, he remained the same.
I threw a cold glance at Ji Han, who was still looking at me with intense eyes.
“I want to ask you, too. How could you just stand by and watch me become such a mess?”
“…That’s!”
“Even if it was an event arranged by you, Ji Han, you should have taken care of me, not Seo Rin.”
His expression furrowed as he looked down at me, taken aback by my blunt rebuke.
It seemed he hadn’t anticipated that I would criticize him.
The original Yeo Jin wouldn’t have questioned anything, even if she found something strange.
“People might think you’re not my fiancé, but Seo Rin’s fiancé.”
“What a ridiculous thing to say… I’m speechless.”
As I stared at him silently, Ji Han let out a hollow laugh.
“You don’t really think that, do you?”
“I can’t say I don’t.”
“I thought I explained it was a misunderstanding. No, let’s go inside and talk.”
Though the area was sparsely populated, Ji Han strode toward the apartment, perhaps feeling self-conscious about people’s gazes.
I didn’t want to argue with him all the way to my home, so I spoke to him as he moved ahead.
“If there’s something to talk about, let’s do it here.”
“……”
“I’m too tired. I don’t want to bicker with you inside my home.”
I had no intention of letting him into my house, so I didn’t move an inch.
Eventually, he turned back to me.
His eyes were persistent as if trying to dig into my thoughts.
“You’ve changed.”
It was a remark he had made to me once before.
Pretending not to understand what he was talking about, I calmly looked up at him and replied.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“How can a person change so much in an instant? The person I know isn’t this cunning and doesn’t know how to raise her voice.”
“Sigh.”
I couldn’t help but let out a sigh.
I was fed up with his words, as if he thought I was some sort of doll that should fit into the mold he had set for me.
“I don’t know what happened today, but don’t hang around with him.”
‘Today?’
His words carried a nuance suggesting that he knew I had met with Jae Ha before.
Facing Ji Han’s deepening gaze sent a chill down my spine.
“I know you two met separately before.”
“Ha… Are you now investigating my activities?”
It seemed that his lengthy speech had been meant to say this.
He wanted to warn me not to plot anything behind his back or in places he didn’t know about.
The more I thought about it, the more audacious Ji Han’s attitude seemed, and I couldn’t help but laugh.
“It’s not an investigation, but concern. I should know what my person is doing.”
Usually, that’s called suspicion…
I couldn’t tell how long I had to listen to his sophistry, so I looked up at him.
“I don’t know what Jae Ha has told you, but he’s an unreliable person.”
Foolishly, he seemed to think that Jae Ha was the reason for my recent changes.
Of course… he could never imagine that the reason for my sudden change was because I had died and come back to life.
‘It would be more reasonable to think that way.’
In fact, I was grateful to Jae Ha for attracting his attention.
He wouldn’t dare to imagine the me sharpening my blade behind his back.
Then Ji Han handed me a brown envelope.
“What is this?”
He wordlessly gestured for me to open it.
As I opened the envelope, the large letters on the white document caught my eye.
‘Marriage Registration Form’
Unconsciously, my hand holding the stack of documents trembled.
“You’re twenty-nine, not a naive young age. Yeo Jin, your situation isn’t good right now.”
Ji Han spoke coldly about the reality I was facing, his face incredibly icy.
And with a warning look, as if telling me now was not the time to act stubborn, he stared at me.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
