“When that woman, no, when Seo Yeon Ji came back, I was stubborn for no reason.”
“……”
“It was more jealousy than stubbornness.”
Eun Soo corrected her words.
As soon as she heard Hyuk Joo’s words about that woman’s return, a heat had boiled inside her.
Seo Yeon Ji, who had turned all her efforts for the past two years into nothing… she was envious.
Even though she was always by his side, she had not won a shred of Hyuk Joo’s heart, unlike Seo Yeon Ji who completely owned him despite her long absence.
She was envious and hated it.
So, she clung to Hyuk Joo with the ridiculous excuse that she couldn’t have a child, blaming her mother.
Stupidly.
What if she had let him go to Seo Yeon Ji with a smile at that time?
No, what if she had rejected Hyuk Joo’s proposal to get married… if only.
“Eun Soo.”
Hyuk Joo called Eun Soo, furrowing his eyebrows.
“You misunderstood.”
“……What do you mean by misunderstanding?”
“I just wanted to help. I talked to you because I wanted to help the person I should take responsibility for.”
“……”
“There was no other intention than wanting to help.”
“Are you saying it was pity, like what you said to me?”
“Eun Soo……”
Hyuk Joo grimaced.
He believed that if he met with Eun Soo and talked, the misunderstanding would be resolved.
He had thought of his desire to help Seo Yeon Ji as pathetic love, and that he was sorry for hurting her from the start. He believed that if he apologized like this, Eun Soo would take his hand again.
That’s why Hyuk Joo had been waiting for her today.
He wanted to go back with Eun Soo somehow.
But Eun Soo was interpreting his words differently now.
“I don’t want to hear anything about how you feel about Ms. Seo Yeon Ji.”
“……”
“Let’s stop. I really want to stop now.”
“What do you mean by stop?”
Frustrated, Hyuk Joo’s voice rose at the end. Eun Soo reflexively lowered her hand under the table. She then wrapped her belly and parted her lips.
“Our relationship.”
“Eun Soo.”
“Let’s stop.”
“……”
“You know very well that we were already over from the start.”
Hyuk Joo briefly closed his eyes and then opened them.
“What do you mean, we were over from the start?”
“Just as it sounds. When you said that you had someone you liked, so don’t expect something like love from you. I should not have hoped from then.”
“That was my expression……”
“I remember your expression then.”
“……”
“Every bit of it.”
Hyuk Joo clenched his fist tightly.
The wound inflicted on Eun Soo by his carelessly spoken words, soaked in arrogance, was deeper than he thought. And during their time together, that wound had widened to the point where it was impossible to suture.
It was a painfully boneheaded mistake that couldn’t turn the situation around.
Eun Soo, who had started off injured, was now getting hurt by everything she said.
What should he do?
“When I faced your firm gaze, which told me you couldn’t give me a chance, I shouldn’t have harbored any hope.”
“I’m saying that’s not it.”
Hyuk Joo let out a deep sigh.
A woman that his aunt liked, the daughter of Oh Ju Hwan who he despised.
He had been captured by the prejudices he had against her before he met Eun Soo. That’s why Hyuk Joo told her that he had a woman he liked, just as the rampant rumors suggested.
He didn’t realize it when he spat out those words.
He didn’t know what Eun Soo meant to him from the first meeting.
“I wanted to package it as love.”
“……”
“I wanted to absolve myself for neglecting my sick mother. My mother had a last request. She wanted to say thank you to that child…”
Eun Soo tilted her head to one side.
She couldn’t properly understand what Hyuk Joo was saying right now.
“When my mother was sick, Seo Yoon Ji helped her, and I wanted to somehow repay that.”
“……”
Only then did Eun Soo understand what Hyuk Joo was saying.
He had said his mother had passed away after a long battle with recurrent cancer. It seemed he had known Seo Yoon Ji then.
The relationship between Hyuk Joo and Seo Yoon Ji was deeper than she thought.
What did it matter to her now how their relationship began, and what kind of feelings they had for each other?
It was merely a story of strangers who had nothing to do with her.
Eun Soo clenched her fist. The tight grip made her fingertips prick the inside of her palm.
“Live while repaying Seo Yoon Ji.”
“Now……”
Hyuk Joo furrowed his brows and opened his mouth. But he couldn’t continue his words.
Eun Soo’s face, as she looked at him, seemed clearer than ever before.
In her eyes, which even felt relieved as if she had finally solved a longstanding worry, Hyuk Joo lost his words.
Eun Soo, raising her head, smiled.
“I don’t want to get involved between you two anymore. So you two solve your own problems. I will step out.”
“It’s not like that.”
“I loved you, Hyuk Joo.”
“……”
“You might not have known.”
Eun Soo drank the remaining water.
The water that had been warm was cold now. Just like a person’s heart that ends up changing.
“But now, the desire to be happy is bigger than love.”
Eun Soo said with a smooth smile.
“I’ll try.”
“……”
“Tell me what I need to do, and I’ll do it.”
Hyuk Joo continued to speak, looking at Eun Soo’s face without any reply.
“I can just make an effort.”
“It doesn’t work by making an effort.”
“……”
“It’s the heart.”
Eun Soo slowly added the last word in a voice clearer than ever before.
“If it could be done by making an effort, I would have told you earlier. To look at me a bit more.”
A serene silence took its place between the two sitting face to face.
The arid time passed relentlessly, where even a slight movement of the fingertips seemed to make a rustling noise.
Hyuk Joo continued to gaze at Eun Soo.
Every movement of the second hand inside the watch on his wrist made him feel frustrated.
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Why She Is Still Unmoved (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: He uses various methods to seek her affection, but she remains unmoved.
Synopsis:
Si Qingyu is a doctor who has saved countless lives and enjoys tranquility.
Luo Shaoxuan is ruthless, deeply scheming, and the top young master in the capital. He admires Si Qingyu.
Luo Shaoxuan: I want to be the only one in your eyes and heart.
Features a cold and calm female lead vs A noble and scheming male lead.
There will be both sweetness and torture towards the male after their marriage.
