He looked straight into her brown eyes, which were shaking dangerously, and muttered.
“Please make me pregnant, try saying it.”
Ki-ju, who was looking down at Ah-yeon who was sobbing with shame at those words, smiled faintly.
As her husband, he was the ultimate scapegoat in this dysfunctional marital relationship.
At dawn.
Ahyeon looked at the sleeping Kiju.
A few strands of jet-black hair flowed down his forehead.
A chiseled jawline, deep-set eyes, sharp nose and smooth lips.
My heart thumped uncontrollably as I watched the usually sensitive and cool-headed man, who fell asleep beside her.
She looked at him as if possessed and then reached out her hands towards him.
I gently swept my fingertips from the space between his eyebrows to the tip of his nose.
Then, I found myself laughing bitterly at how my heart raced just from the slightest touch.
During that time, Ki-ju was reluctant to even get touched by Ah-yeon’s fingertips.
If he even slightly brushed past me, he would frown as if I was dirty.
That man, just a moment ago, was madly in love with Ah-yeon.
He kissed every nook and cranny of her body, leaving red marks.
‘Don’t…expect anything.’
Because only scars remain.
‘Let’s not even hope for his heart.’
I once looked forward to it.
Marrying the man who was my first love.
I thought it was fate.
Jeong Ah-yeon and Yoon Ki-joo are destined.
What a ridiculous idea that was.
After being treated as an invisible person for two years, Ahyeon came to realize that, to this man, she was worse than a dust.
‘But when we first met……’
Ahyeon recalled something that happened a long time ago.
A long time ago, the main house of Taekyung Group where the honorary chairman’s mountain water lily was held.
Ah-yeon, a middle school student who was brought to the banquet hall by her father, was standing alone and awkwardly.
“The second son looks just like his real mother. He’s cool.”
“He will become a great person. How can he be so handsome?
Even though he’s still a high school student, he’s much taller and has a better physique than an adult male.”
At the end of the women’s gaze was Yoon Ki-joo.
“His biological mother was just an actress? No, she was the nation’s first love.”
“He inherited those genes.”
“It’s funny to say this, but I understand why Chairman Yoon had an affair with that actress.”
“Wasn’t she the prettiest woman in our country?”
“Oh my, watch what you say! If Director Choi hears this, then you’ll be completely kicked out of this social circle.”
Ah-yeon glanced at Ki-ju while eavesdropping on the women’s conversation.
He was the most noticeable person whenever he came to Taekyung Group events.
His tall stature and muscular physique gave him a manly air that was different from his peers.
“But he seems a bit cold. He’s also a bit scary.”
“The atmosphere is definitely cold, isn’t it?”
“I can understand that cold personality. I heard that when his biological mother was young, she cut her wrists in front of her child. She was mentally unstable and abused him.”
Ah-yeon looked at Ki-ju as if possessed, then flinched.
This is because Ki-ju, who felt her gaze, turned his head towards Ah-yeon.
My heart was beating strangely fast.
I didn’t know why my face turned red every time I made eye contact with Ki-ju.
Although I had only met Ki-ju a few times, I could tell that there was a deep sense of empathy between us.
He looked as lonely as I was.
I felt like I was in a similar situation where I was surrounded by family but couldn’t fit in.
‘Still, I’m happy that I met the mom I have now.
I hope that he becomes happy too.’
At that time, Ah-yeon’s nape was grabbed by her father.
“Jung Ah-yeon!”
Her father dragged her into a dark room.
“Tch, what are you doing alone? Not hanging out with your friends!”
“I don’t want to hang out with those guys…….”
Ahyeon cried as if she felt wronged.
“Why did I bring you to Sansuyeon then!
“I brought you here to help me build my network, but you can’t even do that properly.”
“But… they kept talking badly towards me. You are adopted. Your real mother abandoned you… they kept on saying that.”
“Did they say something wrong? They’re smart kids, so they only said the right things!”
“No! My real mother didn’t abandon me… sob.”
Slap!
Ahyeon’s head turned.
The thick gold ring on her father’s finger scratched her cheek.
Blood gushed out onto the white skin.
“Enter the banquet hall immediately!”
At the thunderous shout, Ahyeon entered the banquet hall while sobbing.
I felt the gaze of the Ki joo on me.
Ki-ju’s gaze lingered for a moment on the bruise on Ah-hyeon’s cheek before moving away.
“Ah-yeon, are you hurt?”
Seongjun approached her.
Seongjun, who had a bright personality, was the only person Ahyeon became close with here.
Seongjun also stayed by Ahyeon’s side when she was alone.
“…I got scratched by a cat.”
“Did you play with the kitten again?”
Seongjun looked at her and smiled as if he couldn’t stop her.
“Master Ki ju said that the young lady is injured and that you should treat her.”
At that moment, an employee approached Ah-hyeon holding a first aid kit.
Ah-yeon looked at Ki-ju, who was standing next to Chairman Yoon, with a surprised face.
Ki-ju didn’t seem interested, as if it wasn’t something he had been asked to do.
Ah-yeon’s heart started pounding again.
“I heard that Seongjun oppa is very close with that oppa?”
“Yeah. He is my best friend.”
Seongjun said while putting a bandage on Ahyeon’s face.
“We’re the same age, so we grew up here together since we were little. Ko joo lives in the main building and I live in the staff quarters.”
That night.
Ahyeon took out a secret diary from the drawer.
I wrote down one word at a time about what happened at Sansuyeon today.
Ah-yeon, who wrote her diary with a flushed face, put a lock on the diary and kept it safe in a drawer.
As always, it was full of stories about Ki joo.
But after Ki-ju went to study abroad in the United States, he was no longer seen at Tae-kyung Group events.
College student Ahyeon was loitering in front of the Taekyung Group headquarters.
In her arms was the novel she had borrowed from Seongjun.
“You said you’d be here soon. Seongjun-oppa, you’re late.”
Ahyeon looked at the huge mansion and suddenly thought of Kiju.
‘I’ll live well with him…….’
A long time ago, I heard that my grandfather had arranged a political marriage between his grandchildren and the honorary chairman of Taekyung Group.
But, seeing that there was no contact no matter how much I tried, I suddenly remembered that Jungbeom had been annoyed that Taekyung Group was consistently pretending not to know it.
‘There’s no reason for Taekyung Group to do something like marry me to Ki joo…….’
Whoa, a heavy rain suddenly started pouring down.
It was a shower.
“Oh, I don’t have an umbrella.”
While Ah-yeon was flustered, a luxury sedan stopped in front of her.
Ah-yeon’s gaze was drawn to the uncommon model.
The driver got out of the sedan.
He opened the back seat door and waited, while holding an umbrella.
Before long, a long leg emerged from inside the car.
The middle-aged driver raised his umbrella higher to match the height of the man getting out the back door.
Looking at the driver closely, it turned out to be Seongjun’s father.
“……”
Ahyeon’s gaze was instantly captured by the man standing under the black umbrella.
So much so that she didn’t even realize she was getting drenched in rain.
Ah-yeon’s face hardened as she recognized the man.
The tall man looked very large and physically strong.
The chest covered in a black suit was large, and it seemed to be twice the size of the middle-aged driver standing next to him holding an umbrella, giving him an even more powerful impression.
There are delicately sculpted facial features and a convex chin beneath them.
Ah-yeon’s heart skipped a beat as she was completely overwhelmed by the man.
It was because my eyes met with the man’s directly.
‘Scary……’
Yoon Ki-joo’s eyes were cold to the point of being piercing.
Maybe that’s why.
Ahyeon felt nervous in the threatening atmosphere.
My heart was pounding nonstop, perhaps because of the tension.
Ki-ju took a pack of cigarettes out of his suit jacket pocket and put one in his mouth.
The driver next to him hurriedly took out a Zippo lighter and opened it.
Click, a flame rose from the Zippo lighter.
Ki-ju, who looked to be old enough to be a man, lit the end of his cigarette without hesitation from the Zippo lighter he was holding.
He took a deep drag on his cigarette, his neat eyebrows furrowing involuntarily.
White smoke continued to disperse from his plump lips.
A man smoking a cigarette under a black umbrella.
A man who gives Ah-yeon a blank stare.
Ah-yeon, who was completely taken in by the decadent atmosphere that Yoon Ki-joo gave off, even had the illusion that it was just like a scene from a movie.
It felt like I was being swallowed up by pitch-black eyes.
Ah-yeon eventually lowered her gaze.
Still, Ki-ju stared at Ah-hyeon indifferently, while exhaling the cigarette smoke.
His gaze lingered longer on Ah-yeon’s wavy brown hair that reached her chest, her slim waist, her slender thighs and calves visible under her skirt, and her flushed cheeks.
Ki-ju approached Ah-yeon briskly.
The driver carrying an umbrella followed suit.
“……Ah, hello.”
Ki-ju received the umbrella from the driver and tilted it towards Ah-yeon.
The pouring rain bounced off the umbrella.
Only then did Ahyeon realize that she had been staring at him as if possessed while getting drenched in the rain.
Like an idiot.
“… I’m Seongjun’s junior. I borrowed a book from senior Seongjun, and we agreed to meet here. Ah, he told me to contact him…..”
Ahyeon spoke nonsense.
