Kang, who gave a small smile, followed her up to the shampoo room on the second floor, and Sam Young stepped out to answer a phone call.
Leaning against the wall, arms crossed, San silently observed the two women’s backs as they faded into the distance.
Having arrived on the second floor, she lay down in her usual spot.
The designer carefully covered Kang’s face with a towel to prevent it from getting wet. Then skillfully checked the water temperature before beginning to wash her hair.
“How’s the temperature?”
“Good.”
“Is the pressure okay?”
“Yes. It’s okay.”
True to the headmaster’s words about her being good with her hands, she indeed was quite adept.
With the tensed muscles loosening drowsily, she felt as if she might unknowingly fall asleep.
However, gradually, the silent hands massaging her scalp began to put more pressure.
‘…It’s a bit painful?’
Around the time when her brows slightly furrowed due to the pain, which felt as if nails were being hammered into her scalp.
The designer, whose eyes had been blankly unfocused, started to breathe more raggedly.
Then, as if inhaling a scent, she deeply drew in a breath.
“Haaa….”
Between her open lips, her saliva seemed about to trickle down, and the halfdazed woman soon muttered softly.
“A delicious smell.”
The right hand, which had been massaging Kang’s neck, had now slowly withdrawn.
Her darkly painted nails were reaching towards the tool belt around her waist, and a sharp hairdressing scissor emerged in her hand.
“I want to eat…..”
I’m going to eat. I want to eat….
With the unknown sound, the raised scissors glinted sharply in the air.
The cold blade swiftly lunged towards Kang’s neck.
And at the same time,
“Eup!”
A large hand appeared from behind, brushing past her nape and sealing her open mouth.
In an instant, the designer’s body disappeared into the shadow cast on the wall.
Without a single noise, it all happened in the blink of an eye, and it happened so fast it appeared as though she had been swallowed whole by the darkness.
Kang still lay there, with a towel covering her face, listening to the sound of the hot water flowing.
She hadn’t heard the murmuring as though talking to herself due to the sound of the water.
She felt an odd chill.
“Ma’am?”
She quietly called out to the designer, but there was no response.
After a long while of no movement, she began to think that something was off.
…What? Where did she go?
“Ma’am? Where are you?”
Kang called out again, but it remained silent.
At that moment,
Inside the dark storage room where even the lights weren’t turned on.
“If you scream, I’ll kill you.”
The soft voice revealed a deadly seriousness.
The scissors she had been holding were now pointed at her own neck.
The edge of the finely honed blade was precariously close to her pulsating carotid artery, as if about to penetrate any moment.
Cold sweat ran down her spine.
The judgment that she might die was close to an instinctual intuition, and under the oppressive weight pressing against her body, she couldn’t move a finger.
“……uh.”
With a moan close to a sob, the woman’s eyes, which had been shaking uncontrollably, moved towards my left.
Half of the face that had been shrouded in darkness behind the massive hand pressing against her jawbone was revealed.
“I hate vulgar things like this.”
“……”
“Trying to eat anything without knowing anything.”
The reddening eyes gazed gently at her and whispered in her ear.
“Act as if nothing happened. Then nothing will happen.”
The woman, trembling with fear, nodded urgently, and there were bright red veins in her eyes.
A moment later.
A designer with a somewhat flushed face came out of the fitting room and approached Kang.
She had difficulty standing, let alone taking a step, because her legs had lost their strength, but the fear ingrained in her bones made her move.
“……I’ll finish the shampoo for you.”
Kang, whose vision was blocked, couldn’t see her pale face.
She could only feel an unknown hurry from her rushing hand movements.
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Director Hwang had no tolerance for her on her first day back.
Rather, he was desperate to make up for the loss of work that had been postponed or abandoned due to her inactivity.
Kang, who had left the shop, started her first schedule with a magazine interview.
She quickly returned to the company for a brief meeting, and in the evening, she had to accompany Director Hwang to a prearranged dinner with industry stakeholders.
It was a fairly long day.
If she hadn’t been able to catch some sleep during the day, she might have collapsed in the car much earlier.
Samyeong encouraged her after she safely finished her schedule, urging her to go home quickly.
“Kang, the fridge is empty, isn’t it?”
He offered to buy her some simple food, which she declined.
“Wouldn’t it be better to let me rest early today?”
“I guess that would be better, wouldn’t it?”
With that, Samyeong quickly gave up and turned around.
Kang, who was no longer surprised by such situations, just let it go.
And so he left, and the two of them got onto the elevator side by side.
After the card was recognized, the floor buttons, located above and below, were pressed in turn.
Today, the silence of the enclosed space felt heavier.
Kang was the first to break the silence.
“You said you’d come whenever I call, right?”
“Yes.”
“So how should I call you?”
It might have been a strange question.
But San didn’t mind and answered her.
“Call my name.”
“……”
“Because if you call, I have to come.”
The answer was as strange as the question itself.
Call out the name.
Ding
With the arrival sound, the hefty elevator doors opened.
Slowly stepping out, Kang turned her head and looked at the mountain.
He too, was looking at her.
“I need you.”
“…….”
“Even if you say you’re not a human, enough so,”
Whether it was an alien, a goblin, or an identity that she couldn’t even imagine.
She hoped her desperate feelings would reach him.
Of course, if Han San were an ordinary human, these stories would be mere nonsense, but he simply looked at her silently, without any response.
“So, whenever and wherever you hear my voice desperately calling out your name.”
“…….”
“I hope you never miss it.”
At Kang’s request, Han San wore a smooth smile like a painting.
Then, he opened his tightly closed red lips and greeted.
“Good night.”
The moment the elevator door closed, it felt as if it was stretching slowly like a slowmotion scene.
The gazes of the two people were tied to each other until the door completely closed.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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