“I don’t want to hear the kids nagging about eating at this hour.”
“Do as you please.”
Although she had already finished her meal, Hyuk Joo was still hungry.
Moreover, since she had even packed a lunch box to eat together, Eun Soo couldn’t refute Hyuk Joo’s statement about having dinner.
The place Hyuk Joo’s car arrived at was a hotel.
The two of them went up to a Westernstyle restaurant on the high floor of the hotel.
“I’ll take you to your usual table.”
Sitting at the table led by the server, Eun Soo bit her lip hard as she looked down outside the window. It was because of the hotel annex building lit up with colorful lights.
That was the place where their wedding ceremony was held.
She was excited and happy just to hold the wedding ceremony.
She thought she could capture even a corner of Hyuk Joo’s heart if she tried. She expected that he would gradually show interest in her.
She didn’t realize at that time how vain that thought was.
If only she had known then.
What if she had completely killed her feelings for Moon Hyuk Joo and started this marriage?
She might not have been affected by Hyuk Joo’s words that the woman had reappeared.
She wouldn’t have been engulfed in a sense of emptiness from losing the hope she was barely holding onto.
Eun Soo was looking sadly at the outdoor wedding venue soaked in the winter rain.
“One A course, and a dessert for this person, please.”
“Yes, Vice President.”
Hearing the conversation between Hyuk Joo and the server, Eun Soo slowly turned her head.
Suddenly, she wondered if he knew about the place visible outside the window.
He might know. But to him, it might not be a meaningful place, that’s why he could have such an indifferent expression.
Hyuk Joo was looking out the dark window.
His eyes were so rigid that Eun Soo couldn’t tell whether he was looking outside or lost in other thoughts.
The ordered meal was served.
Hyuk Joo began his meal very quietly.
Sitting across from him, Eun Soo lifted her fork and started eating her dessert.
It was a tart topped with sweet and sour figs.
It was a dessert that Eun Soo liked. However, she ended up leaving about half of the fig tart, even though she was eating it eagerly with her fork.
“Aren’t you going to eat more?”
Hyuk Joo asked, looking at Eun Soo who had put down her fork midway. At this, Eun Soo slowly shook her head.
“I’m full.”
“Didn’t you like that?”
“…I do.”
“You used to eat it all even if you were full, but you don’t seem to eat much today.”
“It’s night.”
Eun Soo found it strange that Hyuk Joo was asking somewhat persistently for a reason for leaving her dessert. So, she quickly added an excuse, saying it was because it was night.
“I’m afraid I might gain weight.”
“I don’t know why you worry about that.”
Hyuk Joo spoke in a tone that suggested he couldn’t understand at all, and furrowed his brow. Then, he cut the steak on his plate with the fork and knife he held in both hands.
A suitable amount of blood shone from the cut surface of the steak cooked medium rare.
Watching Hyuk Joo chew a piece of cut steak, Eun Soo thought he looked like a predator at the top of the food chain.
Perhaps that thought might not be wrong.
Moon Hyuk Joo was always the dominant one in all relationships.
‘This is Moon Hyuk Joo.’
When he called and said his threeletter name, whoever it was, the other person bowed their head.
Moon Hyuk Joo was a man who never bowed his head first.
His declaration that the woman he cared about had come back and that he had no intention of divorcing her was a kind of judgement.
It was clear that Hyuk Joo had considered various situations when that woman contacted him again.
He must have pondered it deeply, without showing any emotion to others, and eventually came to the conclusion that divorce was impossible.
So, Moon Hyuk Joo’s statement that he had no intention of divorcing might have been an indication that he would never back down, no matter what situation arose.
Ignoring his words and if Eun Soo were to suggest breaking up first…
She felt anxious that instead of being happy to spend the rest of his life with that woman, he might show discomfort at Eun Soo’s disregard of his decision.
Eun Soo solidified her decision once again that it was not yet time to talk about the breakup, a decision she had made when leaving the hospital.
The aunt, seeing the couple returning home, casually greeted them and went into her room. Chairman Moon Kyung Soo was on an overseas business trip.
The couple went up to the second floor, where they had their own space.
As soon as they entered the bedroom, Eun Soo held out her hand to Hyuk Joo to take off his coat.
“Take off your coat first. It’s a mess.”
At the word ‘mess’, Eun Soo looked down at her coat.
The stain, which she thought was just a little bit of rainwater, was so dark that it looked horrible, as if it was smeared with muddy water.
Eun Soo pulled her arm out to take off her coat.
“……”
Hyuk Joo took her coat, and Eun Soo was quite taken aback. His minor act of kindness felt so unfamiliar to Eun Soo that she involuntarily hunched her shoulders.
Hyuk Joo, who had hung Eun Soo’s coat on the laundry basket at the end of the dressing room, began to take off his own coat.
Having removed his coat, he took out the cell phone and car keys from his pocket and placed them on the shelf.
Then he pulled out something rustling from the pocket of his coat.
It was a piece of paper that had been folded small.
“I’ll wash your coat separately tomorrow, Hyuk Joo…”
Eun Soo, who was entering the dressing room, stopped speaking when she saw the paper in Hyuk Joo’s hand.
It was a paper with the amount of her mother’s hospital bill written on it.
The paper, which she had noted down after considering various possibilities and taking advice from In Woo, was in Hyuk Joo’s hand. She had forgotten to take it out again after putting it in his pocket when he took off his coat in front of the hospital.
Hyuk Joo unfolded the paper with a puzzled expression. As he read the characters written on the paper, a strange expression began to cross his face.
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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