Chapter 229.1

Chapter 229.1

Now, even though she said she would accept her fate and wait, Lee Wooshin still tormented her in a strange way.

When she said she wasn’t anxious or scared anymore, he visibly tensed, his face contorting in unease. Despite all the love he had poured into her, which had filled the emptiness inside her, Lee Wooshin left marks on her neck with an expression of dissatisfaction.

‘I asked for something more than love.’

‘What?’

‘My love, my life, my weaknesses, my vital points, everything is you.’

‘….’

‘You took Han Seoryeong from me, but now your mind has changed? Do you hate me?’

When did I ever say I hated you?’

Seoryeong’s ears burned, as she blinked fast.

In the moment when the two of them had fallen, was ‘Han Seoryeong’ the thing Lee Wooshin had clung to, the thing he greedily took, for the first time? It felt like receiving an unscarred, flawless version of herself as a gift. Her breath, already erratic, grew warmer.

‘It sounds like this to me. The woman who tied me up, starved me, and forced me down is now telling me she’ll leave me alone and wait? That’s a fake confession, a fake marriage.’

‘What…’

Seoryeong let out a derisive laugh, unable to believe it, but with Lee Wooshin, who accepted even her ugly side and her true feelings so nonchalantly, her throat seemed to melt with warmth.

No matter how much she showed her messy inner thoughts, he always responded in an unexpected way. Even the insecure version of her back then, he embraced and adored it all.

His soft touch swept through her hair, and Seoryeong blushed, breaking into a silly smile. The time to recover her body was filled with moments where they listened to each other’s breathing.

With the atmosphere being what it was, the eyes of the team members started to prick at them. Especially when Jin Hojae, one of the members, passed by, Lee Wooshin would cling to Seoryeong even more, making it necessary to announce their marriage sooner rather than later.

And that day, the villa was noisy enough to make one ear feel numb. When Seoryeong confessed that she had been married twice, everyone looked at her with confused expressions.

‘But Han Seoryeong, didn’t you say last year’s company dinner was a fake marriage?’

Ki Taemin blinked, his voice dull. Twice? So that fake marriage…?

His gaze shifted rapidly between his superior and co-agent. He felt like he was heading towards some nonsensical conclusion, so Ki Taemin snapped back to attention.

‘A fake marriage…’

At that moment, Lee Wooshin muttered coldly. “That’s my story these days.” He took Seoryeong’s hand and gently rubbed her wrist, staring at her white cheek as if he was about to bite it.

Seoryeong pretended not to notice his heated gaze as she awkwardly looked at the team members, still confused. Then, suddenly, Jin Hojae, who had been stiff as a board, let out a loud scream.

“Aagh!” His face was oddly red.

‘Then… did you two know each other from training camp?’

‘Yes.’

Lee Wooshin answered casually, and Jin Hojae flailed around like a frog thrown into boiling water, screaming, “Ack, ack, ack!” Ki Taemin elbowed his friend, who was doing a crazy dance, and asked again.

‘Then did you treat your ex-wife like that, so harshly?’

‘I’ve never been divorced.’

Lee Wooshin dismissively waved his hand, as if annoyed.

“I was just away for a while due to some circumstances.”

Seoryeong chuckled at his vague explanation, which he had compressed into a single uninterested phrase.

“So, team leader, was that why you kept pestering me every time you had a chance?!”

Jin Hojae, covering his face with both hands, shouted with veins popping on his neck. His voice trembled with frustration. Seoryeong looked at the two of them, as if to ask what that even meant.

“Did I make you upset because I said Han Seoryeong looked pretty to me? That I thought Han Seoryeong might have feelings for me, that she kept staring at me, and I even joked that I might end up with a girlfriend?!”

“Shut up.”

Lee Wooshin clicked his tongue and glared at the reckless subordinate, as if he would kill him. Seoryeong looked up at him, still confused, but he stubbornly kept his jaw clenched, showing no intention of explaining. His suddenly cold attitude bothered her, so she turned her gaze to Jin Hojae, “Did you say something like that?”

She could feel Lee Wooshin taking a deep breath beside her. Jin Hojae, glancing around as if checking for someone, cautiously opened his mouth.

“I just thought our eyes kept meeting, I made a brief mistake, that’s all.”

“Ah! I don’t think it was a mistake.”