As soon as the front door opened, Jae Oh swung the door open and entered.
His hastily moving feet halted upon seeing Chae Yoon standing in the hallway.
Jae Oh, who had met Chae Yoon, quickly assessed her state.
Seeing no apparent issue contrary to his worry, his hardened expression eased considerably.
Having been tense for a moment, Jae Oh exhaled a sigh of relief and approached Chae Yoon.
“Why didn’t you answer the phone……”
“Chae Yoon, it’s been a while, hasn’t it?”
Ji Phil interrupted Jae Oh’s words and approached Chae Yoon.
Chae Yoon, who encountered Ji Phil for the first time since leaving the house, just bit her lip.
She did so for fear of tears spilling, but this effort soon crumbled upon hearing Ji Phil’s voice.
“Why is your face like this, all upset? Your complexion isn’t good either.”
Ji Phil instantly noticed that Chae Yoon wasn’t in good shape.
“Have you been having a hard time lately?”
Hearing a voice that seemed to understand all her struggles, Chae Yoon’s face crumpled.
With blurred vision, Chae Yoon quickly bowed her head.
A gentle tone descended on the like of Chae Yoon.
“Chae Yoon.”
It was a voice she longed for every time she felt weak, every time she was alone at home.
“What’s wrong? Lift your head, huh?”
Upon the warm and soft voice, tears filling her sight dropped to the floor.
Tears rose to her throat. Chae Yoon’s small chin began to tremble as she bit her lip.
As she thought of moving quickly, Ji Phil’s voice once again touched Chae Yoon’s heart.
“You’ve been struggling a lot on your own.”
At those words, finally, the tears she had been holding back burst forth.
“Sob.”
Chae Yoon started crying, burying her face in her hands.
The outburst of crying, like a dam breaking, was beyond control.
Jae Oh’s eyes darkened at the sound of crying, very different from yesterday, but clearly showing how hard she had been having.
Then, Ji Phil cautiously called Chae Yoon.
“Chae Yoon.”
Chae Yoon’s sobs got louder.
Feeling that his words would only make Chae Yoon cry more, Ji Phil raised his eyes to look at Jae Oh.
Seeing his grandson who couldn’t take his eyes off the sobbing Chae Yoon, Ji Phil nudged Jae Oh and whispered very softly.
“You soothe her.”
“……”
“Hurry.”
At the look that questioned why he wasn’t soothing her, Jae Oh approached Chae Yoon and knelt beside her.
This was the same as yesterday, but Jae Oh’s heart was very different.
Because he now knew why Chae Yoon was crying.
It was a fact he realized after hearing Chae Yoon’s words yesterday.
“I… actually hate being alone.”] [But……No matter how scary and daunting it is to be alone, I can’t go back to my grandfather’s house.] Jae Oh, who had realized how lonely Chae Yoon must have felt while living alone in this house, felt his heart growing infinitely heavy.
Without even realizing her struggles, he felt bad seeing Chae Yoon, who had grown frail after defiantly leaving home.
It was all because of me.
When he realized that she was persevering alone because of him, even though living alone was difficult, and she lost contact with Ji Phil whom she relied on the most, he couldn’t stay still and visited Chae Yoon’s house with Ji Phil today.
He hadn’t anticipated that Chae Yoon would cry this much, but since he knew why she was crying, he had to say something to stop the tears.
But he couldn’t easily open his mouth.
Because he wondered if he had the right to tell her not to cry.
His mouth also felt heavy with the worry that he might make her cry more by clumsily comforting her.
Therefore, Jae Oh couldn’t take any action other than staring at Chae Yoon’s tearful face.
So he was just standing still, when suddenly a thick hand landed on Jae Oh’s head.
Thud! The sound echoed loudly.
“……Ah!”
Jae Oh, who was hit on the head by Ji Phil, complained about the pain a beat later.
Startled by the loud sound of the hit and Jae Oh’s subsequent reaction, Chae Yoon suddenly lifted her tearstained face.
Silence lingered.
Even though Jae Oh acted outlandishly, Ji Phil never laid a hand on him.
Chae Yoon, surprised by the fact that Ji Phil had hit Jae Oh, forgot to cry and stared at Ji Phil, and Ji Phil, who had hit Jae Oh’s head, spoke to his grandson who was staring at him with a stunned face.
“When will you console her like this?”
Tsk, tsk, Jae Oh’s mouth, which had been open in a daze, moved.
“But why did you hit me?”
“It’s my will. Why?”
Ji Phil, answering Jae Oh’s question with a look that seemed to question if there was a problem, glanced at Chae Yoon once and then spoke.
“It seems Chae Yoon has cried enough. Bring her in.”
After finishing his words, Ji Phil passed by Chae Yoon and Jae Oh and went inside.
Chae Yoon, still blinking her eyes filled with tears, watched Ji Phil leaving and then turned her gaze to Jae Oh.
His face was stunned from the blow to the back of his head. It was a moment when he seemed about to burst into laughter for some unknown reason, Jae Oh’s gaze turned to Chae Yoon.
As Jae Oh’s eyes met with Chae Yoon’s, she quickly lowered her eyes to avoid his gaze.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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