“I’m sorry, Tae Beom. I don’t think I can do this…….”
It was an extremely cold night.
An even quieter voice rang across the phone.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry…… I’m sorry……”
Despite how hardfought the love was, the end came all too easily.
Due to a dream he hadn’t had in a long time, Tae Beom tossed and turned in his sleep.
The deeply furrowed expression held all of the emotions from that day. His tightly shut lips parted due to a heavy breath.
Not a single word dropped when she said she couldn’t stand it anymore, when she said she had to leave.
Then what am I supposed to do, how am I supposed to live if you disappear like this, tears swallowed the questions, he didn’t know what to do.
“I’m sorry……”
That was when he first learned how terrifying the words “I’m sorry” could be.
His stifled cries felt like tearing apart. His heart beat irregularly, it felt as though it could stop at any moment.
Then how are you going to live from now on? How are you going to live without me
The piledup questions were incinerated by the burning sadness. After the call ended, after a long time passed without hearing your crying voice, he finally sank into his seat.
……Should I now wish for your unhappiness? Or should I wish for your happiness?
How could I be glad about seeing you fall apart crying, crushed by unhappiness.
How could I hope for you, who will be dyed in happiness, laughing without me.
He fell into an abyss where he could not choose anything.
“I’m sorry…… Tae Beom…… I’m sorry…… I’m sorry……”
Was it since then?
When morning came, it felt empty and cold as if there was a hole in his heart, he woke up curled up.
There was no way something could replace it
Ah. So I’m going to live my life like this. I’m going to live a meaningless life like this.
I am just a seed of a family that considers its mountainlike wealth as glory, nothing more, nothing less.
I’m like the princess in the booze.
I’ll finish off my remaining life watching the princess in the booze……
Tae Beom opened his eyes abruptly. As the past dream flew away like an arrow, the drunken face of Hye Won floated up vividly.
He hurriedly turned on his phone to check the time. It was half past four in the morning.
“Did she wake up?”
He laid back comfortably and put down his phone.
Last night. As if the enemy of the house had struck with textbooks, no matter how much he shook her, Hye Won didn’t budge.
Time passed relentlessly and Tae Beom pulled out a myriad of scenarios and pondered.
Naturally, the hotel and his home came up as strong candidates, but Tae Beom shook his head strongly as if denying it.
He ruled out other candidates for various reasons, and what was left were the police station and the company.
Having spat out all the curses he knew, Tae Beom helped Hye Won back to the office.
Considering laying her on the couch in the executive office, he decided against it and instead laid her on the floor.
Sigh. Twisting his tie once, he took a breather, then looked down at Hye Won who was wasted. He casually dropped her bag, which she had been carrying diagonally, on her desk, then coolly turned away.
“It’s cold…”
After taking a few steps, he stopped.
The princess sleeping in the booze was clear in her demands even then.
With a long sigh, Tae Beom went into the executive office, brought out newspapers that had been piling up for a few days, and dropped them on the floor. He rolled the princess of the booze onto the newspapers. As he watched Hye Won roll around well, he found himself laughing without realizing it.
He was about to leave but stopped once more. He looked up at the office ceiling, quietly extended his palm to check the temperature, and then took off his jacket.
He gently laid it on her and also neatly removed her uncomfortablelooking shoes and placed them side by side.
Taking a few more steps, he returned one last time, meticulously spread out the jacket, and covered her again.
“She must have woken up. She’s not a bear.”
Planning to go back to sleep comfortably, but that was only for a moment. Tae Beom checked the time again on his cell phone.
“You won’t be left alone today.”
Ah…
In the end, Tae Beom got up from his spot. There’s no way she’d still be in the office. Unless she was a bear in hibernation, it would be impossible for a sentient human.
Convinced that she had gone home, Tae Beom finished his shower.
The bearlike princess was still in the office.
“Hey, has our princess arrived?”
At six in the morning.
Hye Won, who had noticed the light coming from the executive office, cautiously entered.
Having clearly just washed her face in the common rest area provided for employee welfare, Hye Won was shivering.
Tae Beom, who had just arrived, took off the jacket he was wearing and hung it on the coat rack.
Hye Won then picked up the jacket she had been holding and hurriedly moved.
“Um, this…”
“There is no case. If you slept well covered, you should have cleaned it. Who are you leaving the aftermath to?”
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
