He wasn’t interested in other people’s affairs and wasn’t meddlesome. He only cared because it was Yeong-in and interfered because it was Yeong-in.
“Am I crazy?”
Arim shrieked in horror, and Beom-jun’s cold gaze shifted to him.
“Did you hear that? She says it’s crazy.”
Beom-jun, caught off guard and feeling unjustly accused, waved his hands in denial.
“I didn’t arrange the matchmaking, okay? It was our mom, mom!”
“Aren’t you worse for knowing what kind of person Chang-geun is and not stopping it?”
“…”
Beom-jun avoided Seong-hyuk’s gaze, pretending to be distracted. He thought it was better to be misunderstood than to be caught actively promoting the arrangement.
Seong-hyuk didn’t press further. Instead, he questioned himself.
Would he have felt less disgusted if Yeong-in had been linked to a decent guy, not Chang-geun?
The answer was ‘no.’
Just imagining another man beside Yeong-in was unbearably unpleasant.
Beom-jun’s room was on the first floor, and Arim and Yeong-in’s rooms were on the second. It meant Seong-hyuk had no reason to come upstairs.
This fact brought immense relief to Yeong-in.
Receiving stares from all three as she went upstairs, Yeong-in could finally relax her tense shoulders.
Her jaw ached from clenching, and her palms were sweaty.
‘Should I go out again, saying something urgent came up?’
She quickly dismissed the thought as too feeble an excuse. Just making such an excuse seemed like acknowledging Seong-hyuk’s presence, so she decided to stay home.
‘Just don’t go downstairs.’
Hurrying to her room, Yeong-in closed the door and leaned against it.
Her body slid down as the tension eased.
Sitting on the floor, she calmed her racing heart. Seong-hyuk’s unexpected appearances were taking a toll on her.
As her heartbeat normalized, the headache she had been unaware of resurfaced.
Pressing her temples with her fingertips, Yeong-in stood up and picked out some clothes before leaving her room. She hoped a warm shower might help ease her headache.
As she headed towards the bathroom, glancing at the stairs, she suddenly paused. She remembered the problem she had momentarily forgotten: her sister and brother now knew that her matchmaking date was with Cha Seong-hyuk, not Oh Chang-geun.
Though she had expected and braced herself for their reaction, facing it head-on still made her sigh deeply.
“Ha…”
Even amidst her turmoil, she didn’t resent Seong-hyuk. She was confident he wasn’t the one who informed her brother. It was just an intuition; no promise of secrecy had been made.
The real source of her resentment was herself for speaking carelessly to her sister the day she returned from the matchmaking. She despised her sister for urging her to marry, knowing Chang-geun’s true nature. She wanted to show off to her sister that she could marry Seong-hyuk, even if it meant selling her soul to the devil.
Just like before.
Like the day three years ago when Seong-hyuk asked her out.
Had she not been slapped by her sister that day for no apparent reason, she might not have accepted his offer in a fit of pique.
She hadn’t known then how deep the relationship would get or how painful the breakup would be. If she had known, would she have been able to reject him entirely? She wasn’t sure.
Lost in these thoughts, Yeong-in entered the bathroom. After showering and returning to her room, her headache showed no sign of improvement due to her cluttered thoughts.
Sitting on the edge of the bed and then lying back, a neat knock on the door broke the silence.
‘Who is it?’
Yeong-in sat up abruptly, her eyes flickering anxiously.
Her sister always opened her door without knocking, and her brother either kicked the door or yelled from outside. It couldn’t be either of them.
‘Mrs. Kim?’
As she thought of the housemaid and cautiously responded, her voice betrayed her unease. Opening the door, she saw who it was and understood her apprehension.
Cha Seong-hyuk stood there, wearing his characteristic languid smile.
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
_____
Please help me, I want to bring you the best possible things.
If you find any chapter or novel with poor translation and editing quality, let me know by commenting directly under that novel or chapter. I will retranslate it as soon as possible.
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
