“Sisterinlaw, are you really looking for my marriage partner?”
“A daughterinlaw must obey her motherinlaw.”
Yeryeong, shrugging her shoulders, took a seat. Fearing the smell of smoke might reach her, Taejo moved towards the railing.
“Even if I can’t disobey, can’t I stop her?”
“Can a rabbit jab a tiger? I don’t want to earn her dislike by trying to stop her.”
Yeryeong held her cheek and made a petite gesture as she spoke.
Taejo was dumbfounded. He had known Yeryeong for 20 years.
As the youngest daughter of a judicial family, she was overflowing with a sense of justice that she couldn’t ignore any injustice.
In high school, she befriended a bullied friend and ended up being bullied herself, which led her to turn the school upside down.
She called the police and the education office when she found out that a teacher knew about the bullying but did nothing, informed her parents, and got the bullies expelled.
Anyway, I knew that since then, there had been a rule in the school not to mess with Yeryeong. Now, what? A rabbit?
“That rabbit seems to have a pretty strong jab, don’t you think?”
“To others, I might not be, but in front of Mother, I’m also just an innocent animal. No one can win against our mother. Even Father can’t move a muscle, right, dear?”
Ye Ryeong asked for Yoon Jo’s agreement, and he nodded in response.
Even though she had to step down from the position of JK Food’s representative due to health reasons, Hye Young’s charisma was quite famous within the company.
A straightforward decision making and bulldozerlike drive, not to mention her boldness to take losses if it harms the company’s image.
Especially as Hye Young loved leopard print fashion items, she was given the nickname ‘Leopard Representative’ amongst the employees.
“But sir,”
Ye Ryeong called Tae Jo with a meaningful smile. He looked down at her with a ‘why are you doing this’ kind of look.
“Do you have a girlfriend?”
“What?”
The one asked was Tae Jo, but the surprised one was Yoon Jo who was next to him.
“Do you have someone you’re dating?”
What’s with this nonsense? Tae Jo, who alternately looked at the two people, scrunched up his face.
“What kind of nonsense is this?”
“No, I’ve felt it since we were eating earlier, but there was the smell of a woman’s perfume radiating from your body today.”
“…..”
“Unless it’s spilt by accident, if it lingers that much on the body, haven’t you been with her all day?”
Tae Jo clamped his mouth shut like a clam. Yoon Jo looked up at his brother with wide eyes.
“What, do you really have someone you’re dating?”
“No, nothing like that.”
He had a guess why Ye Ryeong would say something like that.
Claiming to find fragmented memories, he had sprayed the perfume Se Kyung gave him a few more times.
Maybe, the scent had soaked into his body.
“Then what is it? The smell of the perfume?”
“There was something. I had something to confirm, so I sprayed it.”
“Confirm? What are you confirming with women’s perfume?”
Ye Ryeong sparkled her eyes playfully. It seemed like she noticed something suspicious.
He couldn’t tell the truth. Women have good intuition.
“Anyway, how did you know it was women’s perfume? Do you know what brand this scent comes from?”
“I don’t know where it comes from. I just knew because it wasn’t your usual perfume. This sweet smell is also something women use often. You use the same one as our husband.”
“I used to do that. Now I don’t use the same one.”
“Anyway. Just tell me honestly if you have a woman. That way, I can at least make an excuse to choose my opponent later when facing Mother.”
Ye Ryeong looked up at Tae Jo with a bright smile. Even if he denied it, it seemed like she was already convinced he had a woman.
“I don’t have anyone I’m seeing.”
“Then, what kind of woman is your type? A woman with a lot of aegyo? Or a lovely woman like me?”
Did she poison the food……
As Ye Ryeong propped her chin on a flower stem, Tae Jo wiped his face as if he had seen something he shouldn’t have.
“Bro, stop your wife.”
“Why? She’s cute.”
Ah, shit……. I forgot this brother of mine is an idiot.
“I’m leaving.”
“Why? Stay a little longer.”
When Tae Jo stepped out onto the terrace, Ye Ryeong and Yoon Jo followed closely behind.
“I suddenly wanted to be alone.”
“Really? Mother! Our young master left first!”
Ye Ryeong shouted down the stairs towards the lower floor. Madame Ma, who was eating fruit, turned her head.
“Are you leaving already?”
“I just remembered something urgent I need to deal with.”
Tae Jo picked up his jacket, which was draped over the sofa.
If he stayed here, he might hear something else. He needed to get out of this house first.
“It’s already late. Can’t it wait until tomorrow?”
“No. It can’t.”
Tae Jo answered firmly and walked briskly towards the entrance. Then he seemed to remember something and spoke to his mother.
“Ah, and don’t try to find a match for me. Absolutely not!”
After Tae Jo firmly made his request and left, Madame Ma looked at Ye Ryeong.
“Did you ask him?”
“Yes.”
“What did he say?”
“He said he’s not seeing anyone.”
“Even though he reeks of a woman’s perfume?”
The scent of perfume that Ye Ryeong had noticed, Hye Young, who was sitting right next to her, could not have missed it.
He emitted such a sweet scent, and was so passionate about finding a match. No one to meet?
“Do you think he’s seeing someone?”
As Hye Young asked, Ye Ryeong recalled the conversation she had with Tae Jo just a moment ago.
Based on how he spoke, it seemed like there had been some incident rather than him seeing someone.
“It might not be a relationship, but it seems like there might be someone he’s flirting with.”
An incident must have happened for love to sprout.
Ye Ryeong nodded her head with a face full of conviction.
Tae Jo left the house and got into his car. He started the engine and buckled his seat belt, then a small shopping bag on the passenger seat caught his eye.
“Did I spray that much?”
Tae Jo wrinkled his forehead and put his nose to his arm. A sweet scent was mixed in with the harsh, spicy scent.
The sense of smell, they say, is quick to adapt due to its sensitivity. After spraying and smelling it all day, it seemed his nose had gotten used to the scent.
“…….”
Tae Jo’s hand tapped anxiously on the steering wheel. The perfume that Se Kyung had given him exuded a scent that was subtly different yet similar to her own.
At this point, it even seemed like the scent I first smelled at the hotel was this.
On top of that, the more he sniffed it like a dog… hmm, what should I say? A sense of selfloathing as if wondering why he’s behaving this way?
“What the heck, really.”
As Mun Seok Joo said, if it weren’t for a ghost, he would have dealt with it himself.
Why does he feel like someone is pulling the back of his head?
“I wonder if things would be different if I put a diffuser next to my bed and slept?”
He would find that out after today.
Tae Jo, who glanced at the passenger seat, turned the steering wheel.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
