In front of the station.
Hyun Ji ran into Sun Woo on his return from making the rounds. While Hyun Ji paused and reacted upon seeing Sun Woo from a distance, Sun Woo didn’t even glance her way and walked past.
Hyun Ji had actually been waiting for Sun Woo. This station, where one must pass to get to the professor’s office.
Seeing Sun Woo just walk by, Hyun Ji let out a bitter laugh. She had expected it, but she couldn’t hide her hurt feelings.
Hyun Ji took a long breath. She quickly closed the chart and moved to Sun Woo’s side. Her pride was hurt, but she didn’t want the time she had spent waiting to go to waste.
“Hey, Yoon Sun Woo. Do you find this funny?”
“What is?”
Sun Woo didn’t stop, looking only ahead as he responded. Hyun Ji had to nearly run to keep up with Sun Woo’s wide strides.
“I can tell you’re avoiding me. Just do as you usually do.”
“I’m uncomfortable around you.”
Sun Woo’s immediate reply stung.
She thought she would be okay, but when it became reality, it was hard to bear.
The wedding invitation she received on his behalf, and the unfamiliar sight of him avoiding her gaze and passing her by, was suffocating.
He had never turned around at her call at once. But he used to slow down when he noticed her, and even wait for her sometimes.
Yes, he used to.
The Yoon Sun Woo in front of her now felt like a completely different person.
As Sun Woo quickened his steps without once looking back, Hyun Ji, disliking his behavior, finally grabbed his sleeve and forcefully made him stop.
Without much of a reaction, Sun Woo simply stood still, looking down at her impudent hand on his arm. His gaze was dry beyond belief. Hyun Ji felt her heart sink further at that look.
He was a person who, even without affection, had once been warm.
“Did you expect this to some extent?”
At Sun Woo’s words, Hyun Ji bit her lip.
She never dreamed it would come to this, she didn’t even consider that you would reject her.
When you, who didn’t even date, said you were getting married, she knew. You would do anything to gain an inheritance.
She thought at the time.
To you, she might just be a means to an end, just a shell, but she had an excuse to be by your side.
She had planned to adapt to you unconditionally. It didn’t matter to her if the marriage was just for show.
“Yoon Sun Woo. To me, you are a friend, unchanged. I thought we would have many areas where we could understand each other. That’s why I proposed it as a business.”
Sun Woo was looking at Hyun Ji without saying anything, but Hyun Ji seemed to know what he was saying.
Are you asking me to believe that? That was exactly the look on his face.
Because of the forced smile, it seemed like her face was twitching.
Would she look ugly?
Even in the middle of all this, she was worried about how she would appear to you.
“Did you have different thoughts? Did I confess that I like you or something? Hey, that gives me the creeps. Me? You?”
While trying hard to manage her expression, Hyun Ji forced a smile.
She didn’t want to be caught. There had been no direct exchange, but the atmosphere held in the air that day was clear in the current flow that Sun Woo felt.
However, it seemed that Sun Woo also knew that there were ambiguous parts to change this relationship based on his own guesswork.
As Sun Woo’s silence grew longer, the anxious Hyun Ji voiced her desires directly.
“I’m more uncomfortable with you like this. Just do as you always did.”
After a brief hesitation, Sun Woo resumed his steps. Without bothering to touch the sleeve that Hyun Ji held onto, he naturally shook it off and said,
“Do it that way.”
It was a very Yoon Sun Woolike response. A voice similar to the indifferent gaze he cast down.
Sun Woo quickened his pace again. Hyun Ji didn’t give up and followed him closely.
“I didn’t receive the wedding invitation from this nurse. You should give it to me directly.”
At Hyun Ji’s words, Sun Woo, who was letting out a faint sigh, stopped in his tracks. Hyun Ji quickly intercepted what seemed to be a pouring outpour of words from Sun Woo, as if telling him not to say anything else.
“Let’s just do as we used to.”
While looking at Hyun Ji who was smiling brightly, Sun Woo let out another small breath and slowly brushed up his bangs. It was when he was about to say something and opened his lips. A phone vibration sounded from Sun Woo’s pocket.
Sun Woo let out a deep sigh and reluctantly nodded as if to agree. Then, he quickly pulled out the mobile phone from his pocket.
The expression of Sun Woo looking down at the screen changed in an instant. The hardened expression from a moment ago was melting away.
Just from a single call, Yoon Sun Woo.
“I’m going.”
Giving a brief greeting, Sun Woo turned around indifferently. While answering the incoming call, Sun Woo gradually moved further away.
“Where are you? I’ve arrived already?”
The faint sound of Sun Woo’s conversation after leaving his place could be heard. The excited voice, a smile that was never shown in front of me.
It was indeed that woman.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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