Yoon Tae Kyu, who had been watching him, finally couldn’t hold back his laughter and snorted.
A momentary silence flowed in the room.
The sharp gaze Seok Hee had been casting at Tae Kyu was withdrawn. Tsk— Seok Hee, who clicked his tongue, tore the chicken leg with his bare hands.
Again, the sound of spoons and bowls clinking, and the conversation asking about recent events went back and forth, and the uncomfortable atmosphere was quickly diffused.
Just as the seasonal fruit dessert was being served, Sun Woo stood up first, claiming he had something to do, and slipped his arm into his jacket. Eun Jung, who was holding an orange, hastily shoved it into her mouth and followed Sun Woo.
Eun Jung stuck closely to Sun Woo, pretending to brush off nonexistent dust from his back.
“I ran into Hye Ji when I was at the hospital a while ago.”
“Do you mean Doctor Joo?”
Eun Jung smacked Sun Woo’s broad back, watching him answer dispassionately and hurrying along his way.
“When will you stop referring to her as Doctor Joo?”
“Well, I call Doctor Joo, Doctor Joo, what else should I call her?”
As soon as Eun Jung, who had been carefully listening to Sun Woo’s words, stepped out of the entrance, she quickly looked around on both sides. Then, as if sharing a secret, she whispered to Sun Woo.
“Apparently, Hye Ji is still single.”
“…….”
“Hye Ji’s grandmother seems to be choosing a suitable man for her. Hye Ji has been going on a lot of arranged dates recently.”
“What are you trying to say?”
Sun Woo, as if annoyed by the trailing Eun Jung, only hastened his footsteps, stepping on each basalt stepping stone laid out in the garden.
“She’s a nice girl with no flaws, and her family background is decent too.”
“Ah……”
As if understanding what Eun Jung was trying to say, Sun Woo, who had been stepping forward, abruptly stopped in the middle of the green lawn.
“That’s our mother’s opinion. To me, Doctor Joo is just Doctor Joo, nothing more, nothing less.”
Smiling, as if to say don’t worry, as if to say he’d take care of it, Sun Woo gently brushed Eun Jung’s shoulders.
Watching the retreating figure of her son striding away, Eun Jung heaved a sigh laden with regret.
The sky was gradually overtaken by an orange sunset.
Two days had passed since then.
Sun Woo went on his twentysixth arranged meeting as scheduled.
From the moment they exchanged greetings and shook hands, the outcome of this meeting was set.
Boredom spread across Sun Woo’s face.
As the meal was nearing its end, the girl who had been nibbling all along barely took a bite of the dessert, a hallabong sorbet, and gently put down her spoon.
This sorbet, known for its exquisite taste, was so good that people said they came to the hotel just to eat it.
The face of a woman who had completely finished it, saying she liked the spread of hallabong scent in her mouth, came to his mind.
Her figure, who enjoyed whatever was served without any complaints.
“Mr. Sun Woo, I had a good time today. Next time―”
“Did you not enjoy the meal?”
“Pardon?”
There was irritation in Sun Woo’s voice. A wrinkle formed on the forehead of the girl who had been smiling all along.
“Or, do you naturally have a small appetite?”
“Oh, the food was really delicious.”
“Do you even taste it when you eat like that?”
Sun Woo laid down the napkin he was holding and began to button up his jacket from the top, which he had unbuttoned for a while.
“My only pleasure is having dinner at this hotel. When I see the person I came with taking one bite and putting down her spoon, it feels like my appetite is completely―gone.”
“Pardon?”
“Extreme dieting is not good for health. If you don’t want to suffer when you get older, you should change your eating habits first.”
As if he wasn’t a doctor.
The woman felt as if she was a patient receiving treatment in a hospital, not here on a date.
No, she felt even worse than a patient, she felt offended.
“It doesn’t look like you’ve eaten much, so I’ll cover the bill.”
The woman, watching Sun Woo’s perfect back as he briskly disappeared with the bill in his hand, fell into a moment of contemplation and then scoffed at her own reflection.
“What’s with that lunatic?”
Around the time he was heading to the front with the bill, a familiar figure came walking from afar.
She looked again, thinking she had seen wrongly, but it was indeed Yoon Tae Kyu.
“Why is that kid crawling out from there?”
Sun Woo muttered under his breath so only he could hear, grinding his teeth.
As always, he was accompanied by an unfamiliar woman. Sun Woo’s face distorted unpleasantly when his eyes met with Tae Kyu’s.
What was so urgent that he was out in broad daylight?
Just pretend you don’t know him and keep going on your way, don’t unnecessarily start a quarrel and end up worse off.
Although he had probably already seen him, Sun Woo, who wanted to pretend he hadn’t, covered his face with his large hand and turned around.
“I guess you didn’t meet your destined woman today either?”
But you, of course, couldn’t just walk by.
“Mind your own business.”
As if Sun Woo’s response was amusing, the corner of Tae Kyu’s mouth rose sardonically.
“Hyung, aren’t you tired of coming to this hotel just to eat when there are so many rooms here?”
“And you, how soon are you planning to ‘conquer’ all the rooms in this hotel?”
At his unexpected choice of words, Tae Kyu’s expression froze in surprise. Sun Woo, who patted his shoulder with a loaded snap, returned the sardonic smile he had received earlier.
“Go easy, it’s grating on my nerves.”
“I will assist you with the payment.”
Sun Woo handed his card to the staff member standing at the front desk.
While waiting for the payment to be processed, his grandfather’s voice echoed loudly in Sun Woo’s mind.
“I’ll give it to whichever one of you gets married first.”
It felt like a tape recorder that turned on without fail every day for several months.
At first, it was thought to be just words to quell the commotion. So it wasn’t taken too seriously.
But it was precisely three days later.
During the dinner where all the family had gathered, without a single word of warning, he brought along a lawyer and amended his will.
“Who cares about the hospital when I’m showing off a grandchild as fat as a rice cake, I’m going to hand over everything I have in its entirety, you should all know that.”
He drove the nail in as if to prove that it wasn’t just talk. The words that followed were even more outrageous, probably.
“Fair is fair. I’m leaving with nothing anyway, it’s fine if it goes back to society. What’s a hospital to those useless guys who can’t even get married at that age.”
After grandfather’s decree was declared, the one who was really under fire was Sun Woo.
Yoon Tae Kyu, who could meet women as much as he wanted if he set his mind to it, was rather relaxed.
It was a problem that women changed as frequently as meals for him.
After the drafting of the will was finished, Tae Kyu, who was looking up at Sun Woo with his legs crossed on the sofa, raised one corner of his mouth and smiled, it was infuriatingly sly.
As if the position of the next hospital director, and the succession rights, were all his, he laughed openly like a cunning snake who knew his weakness.
‘I will never give it to you.’
Whether it was because of the situation, Sun Woo’s head was filled with her face.
“Sir, here is your card.”
No, if I had to say, there hasn’t been a day since I encountered that woman when she didn’t come to mind.
“Sir?”
The woman whose life seemed precarious.
The woman who asked for help, reaching out her thin hand to me.
Her eyes were chillingly cold, but her hand was insanely hot.
“I’m going crazy.”
My Ex-Girlfriend Is The Regent In The Female-dominant World (Male lead transmigrates to the matriarchal world)
Two years ago, Gu Sui picked up a homeless woman in ancient costume from the street.
Apart from occasionally claiming to be a princess from a female-dominant country due to illness, her figure, appearance, intelligence, and martial arts skills were impeccable.
Naturally evolving from roommates to girlfriends, as time went on, Gu Sui found it increasingly difficult to tolerate her queen syndrome.
“Mu Jiulu, can you stop controlling me inside and out? Let’s break up.”
Gu Sui made a breakup call, and since then, he couldn’t find any trace of her.
A year later, Gu Sui, who was planning to move, woke up the next day and found himself in a different place.
“Young Master, today is the day you choose your Wife-master through martial arts competition at Jade Dew Pavilion. Please get up quickly.”
Gu Sui: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
As the only son of a general’s mansion in a female-dominant dynasty, the young empress personally issued a decree allowing Gu Sui to select his Wife-master through martial arts competition. Whoever could defeat him could marry him.
Gu Sui: “……”
He didn’t inherit the original owner’s martial prowess, so anyone could defeat him! And what the hell is a Wife-master?
Forced to come to Jade Dew Pavilion, the densely packed women below made Gu Sui’s agoraphobia act up, and his face was full of resistance.
Until he saw the Regent sitting on the second floor, with a smile on the corner of her lips, her eyes wicked and nonchalant.
Hmm… she looked a little familiar.
It turned out that the Regent also found him a little familiar.
Mu Jiulu fiddled with her bone clasp, her deep gaze locked on the man who was out of place in this world.
“Finally, I found you.”
Male transmigrates into female-dominant world
One-sentence summary: What goes around comes around, taking turns in the crematorium
