In the early dawn, before the sun had risen.
The woman applying lipstick in front of the mirror smirked bitterly at the man reflected in the mirror.
The man, who had been flat on the bed for several hours without moving, was barely visible with just his hair peaking out of the soft white comforter.
“Oppa.”
He was a man she had spent three months with, a man she had welcomed countless mornings with.
“Aren’t you gone yet?”
The man had changed. Unless it was a day they hadn’t agreed on, he never contacted her first. But last night, he suddenly called her to the hotel.
“Why are you like this?”
“Dajung.”
Her name was called affectionately, but the fingers of the woman holding the lipstick shook and paled. The woman slammed the lipstick on the vanity and glared at the man trapped in the comforter.
“It’s Dajin, not Dajung!”
“Right, Dajin. I really liked your haughty side. Whether outside or inside.”
The man’s giggling laughter flowed from within the comforter.
“What’s the problem?”
“What’s the problem……”
The man’s voice, buried in the comforter, was barely audible.
“Probably from the moment you answered my call and came to this hotel?”
Dajin didn’t hear the man’s following words.
The man didn’t lift his face once and didn’t move at all in that position.
“Go.”
Upon hearing the clear voice, the woman who had been looking down at the back of the man’s head for a while bit her lips tightly, picked up her bag lying on the sofa, and exited through the door.
Bang!
The sound of the door closing echoed loudly in the hotel. The sound of the door conveyed the woman’s feelings vividly.
Only then did the man lift his body from under the comforter.
As the comforter fell from his body, his firm upper body was exposed starkly.
“This is normal.”
He thought of Dajin, who came to the hotel less than 30 minutes after the call.
She easily caught his attention with his small favor, and if he handed her a business card during the day, the call would come by the evening at the latest.
No one ever waited a day.
But,
Always Ji Eun Jae, the damned Ji Eun Jae did this every time.
Looking at his mobile phone placed on the table, Taegyu, whose hair was already a mess, muttered a low curse and ruffled his hair even more.
He chuckled hollowly.
Taegyu, who was exhaling heavily into the air, looked towards the vanity. He could see the lipstick Dajin had left behind. He walked over and picked up the lipstick. It was a luxury lipstick from C brand that he had gifted her not long ago.
As he remembered Eun Jae looking for something in front of the elevator a few days ago, the corner of Taegyu’s mouth holding the lipstick twitched bitterly.
After three attempts to call, he was waiting for Eun Jae’s call, which did not come back.
It had only been two days.
Eun Jae just lay there, blankly staring at the ceiling.
It was the start of a pointless daily routine.
Looking back, apart from the recent few days, every day had been quite similar.
The events of the past few days feel like a dream.
Seeing her powerless self, who couldn’t do anything, made her laugh.
In retrospect, she thought it would have been better to accept the man’s proposal rather than living like this.
“Because it’s so desperate for me, this marriage.”
The words and look in the man’s eyes come to mind.
Black pupils that shone as brightly as black pearls. The deep, intense pupils that made her lose herself the more she looked at them.
To be so sincere about a fake marriage.
The deprivation the man, who seemed to have it all, showed was enough to shake Eun Jae.
“Even if it’s more than 200 million, I’m willing to pay. Because Ji Eun Jae is worth that much to me.”
An employee at the bottom who was luckily noticed by the president and recruited with a salary in the millions.
He acted as if he would accommodate everything, just pleading for her to join his company.
It would have been easier if he had just done that.
He could have done anything else. Why did it have to be marriage?
“I will do my utmost to ensure that you do not regret this choice.”
He was cautious when he spoke, and he showed an attitude of carefulness all throughout, so as not to upset me even a little.
A contract marriage with a set term of one year. Even things beyond that which he didn’t necessarily need to worry about.
Leaving all that aside, the fact that my mother, who was frequently in and out of the hospital, could comfortably stay there was a valuable thing for me.
Eun Jae, who had let out a deep sigh, fumbled around on the bed to pick up her mobile phone.
His face was flickering on the ceiling.
Would she think of him every time she saw it?
It wasn’t a face that could easily be forgotten. It was quite handsome, after all.
She rationalized it to herself, saying that’s why. Eun Jae rolled her mobile phone in her hand, continually repeating meaningless actions.
That’s when it happened. The phone rang with good timing.
Eun Jae, who had been listlessly sprawled on the bed until a moment ago, sat up straight. Eun Jae, who checked the screen immediately, couldn’t hide her disappointment.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
