“I already know that Officer Heo Yoon Ju is pregnant. Please accept your grandchild.”
She hadn’t expected to have to say something like this.
With a soulless expression, Ji Na spoke.
“What? Pregnant?”
As if hearing an unexpected statement, Do Jin’s mother looked at Do Jin. Her gaze was pitiful and disappointed.
“You… I told you to be careful before the wedding! You!”
“Ah, Mom. These days, it’s not that era. This is,”
In the midst of hastily making excuses, Do Jin was targeted by his mother with a cushion she threw at him from the side. The cushion hit Do Jin’s shoulder and arm before falling off. It didn’t seem to cause any significant impact, but somehow, that sight felt incredibly satisfying.
“I told you to be cautious about just that one thing, but how did you disappoint me like this? Did you think I’d approve just because you got a girl pregnant first?”
As Do Jin’s mother hissed and screamed, Do Jin rubbed the arm that was hit by the cushion and muttered,
“Then what to do? How can I just leave such a pretty and sexy girl?”
“What?”
At Do Jin’s words, Do Jin’s mother seemed to become aware of Ji Na for the first time, looking at her with a flustered face.
Her complicated gaze seemed to say, ‘How could you blurt out such things in front of your exgirlfriend?’ However, contrary to Do Jin’s mother’s worries, Ji Na felt like she was watching a messedup family drama from the corner of her room.
“Now she’s pregnant, so what are you going to do? Just have to get married. I can’t raise a child without a father like me.”
At Do Jin’s final words, Do Jin’s mother eventually started shedding tears on the floor. Watching his mother cry and beat the floor, Do Jin grunted ‘Ah, damn it,’ and left the house.
Ji Na watched Do Jin’s mother with an anxious yet pitiful heart. As she opened her bag, intending to give her a tissue, her phone rang.
‘Of all times, now.’
It was the worst timing. Ji Na quickly hung up the phone and handed a tissue to Do Jin’s mother.
“Thank you, Ji Na. The truth is, I’m battling cancer.”
It was news to her ears. Of course, Do Jin hadn’t mentioned it. Ji Na was somewhat taken aback by the unexpected revelation.
“I see.”
That was all she could manage to say.
“When I die, our Do Jin will be left alone in this world… He should meet a nice girl, sexy or not, and they should live relying on each other.”
Do Jin’s mother, who had been sniffling, blew her nose into the tissue.
“Whether it’s Heo Yun Ji or Yoon Ju, she’s really not the one. She’s even unpleasant from the first impression.”
Ji Na’s head unconsciously nodded in agreement with her mother’s opinion.
“So, what I’m trying to say is… Ji Na, could you meet our Do Jin again, for my sake?”
Huh? Why was she suddenly saying this?
Startled, Ji Na waved her hands.
“What are you talking about, mother?”
Is this the taste of a messedup drama? Beyond spicy, it’s the numbing sensation of mala.
“Can’t you forgive our Do Jin if he’s done something wrong, hmm?”
Do Jin’s mother, who had risen from her seat uncomfortably, knelt.
“I’m disabled, a single mother, and now I’ve even fallen ill… I feel terribly sorry to ask you, Ji Na. But there’s no one else I can entrust our foolish son to. Ji Na, I beg you as his mother.”
Ji Na froze at her mother’s desperate plea, intermixed with tears. Even amidst this, she wondered if she could no longer protect Jin Woo. Her vision blurred. Was Jin Woo going to be cut off like this? She felt nauseous, as if she would vomit any second.
“I… I’m sorry. Mother.”
She barely managed to stand up and open the front door. She had thought she could convince her quickly, but things were going in the wrong direction.
“Ji Na, please, okay?”
The voice of Do Jin’s mother wound tightly around Ji Na’s ankle. She had to leave the house quickly, but her steps were heavy.
Then, a loud thud echoed through the house. Turning her head, Ji Na saw Do Jin’s mother collapsed in front of her.
With a voice that couldn’t even scream, Ji Na quickly pulled out her mobile phone. Her fingers were trembling so much that the simple threedigit number kept going wrong.
Hearing the sharp dial tone, the gloomy ashgrey sky she had seen beyond the car window that seemed to have foretold the day’s misfortune came to mind.
The chaotic ambulance lights and noisy sirens still echoed in her ears.
Do Jin had ridden the ambulance to the hospital with his mother, and Ji Na stood dazedly in the middle of the street like a lost child.
Finally, it began to rain in the already cloudy sky.
Without an umbrella…
She stood in front of a random shop to avoid the rain.
As if waiting, the rain fell heavily, and Ji Na stood there, staring blankly at the rainsoaked streets.
Buzzzz
With no energy, she answered her phone.
Sister, where are you?
“Here is…”
Where was it again?
It’s raining heavily, are you outside? Do you have an umbrella?
At the sound of Jin Woo’s warm voice, Ji Na slowly came back to reality. The thought that she had failed to protect Jin Woo choked her up.
Sister, can you hear me?
“Huh? Uhhuh.”
How should she explain? Where should she start?
If you don’t have an umbrella, I’ll come pick you up.
“It’s okay. I have an umbrella.”
She lied because she couldn’t face seeing Jin Woo.
I’m going anyway.
Jin Woo did not give up.
What should I do, I don’t have the courage to see you now.
Tell me where you are.
“I don’t even know where I am.”
What?
“I don’t know either.”
At Ji Na’s foolish words, Jin Woo was momentarily speechless.
Are you on the road?
“Yes.”
Then catch a taxi first. I’ll also head there.
Ending the call, Ji Na got into a taxi with a lifeless face.
By the time she arrived home, the rain had already stopped.
Perhaps it was a sudden downpour, as the dark night sky was already cleared without a single cloud.
‘It must be refreshing, having let everything out. You.’
She fruitlessly resented the sky. What to do now. How to change the mind of Do Jin’s mother.
Ji Na, who got out of the taxi, crossed the apartment yard with her still heavy steps.
“Sister……?”
At the low voice that gently sounded from behind her, Ji Na slowly turned her head.
Seo Jin Woo was standing a few steps away, in the shade of a tree.
As if he had risen from the darkness.
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The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
