TMPW Ch 6 part 1

Why did you go and do something like that?

Have you really lost your mind?

The next morning, Yuan stared at her mess of a face in the bathroom mirror as she berated herself. This wasn’t the time to be doing things like that with him. Seo JoonHun had ruined everything and was closing in on her right now!

To think that he put half of his assets on the line! Thanks to that, the sinking Dubai project had caught its second wind. Instead of tearing apart, R&K and HyunJin were on better terms after having weathered through this obstacle together.

And you went on top of him and rode him as all this was happening? As you wickedly rotated you’re hips and seduced him?

You stupid idiot, Min Yuan.

Last night, Yuan didn’t get a wink of sleep. She was worried about TaeKyung, but she couldn’t contact him because her cellphone had been taken away. She had managed to keep things from unraveling any further by claiming he was her lover, but if he was caught, it would be hard for him to escape with his life intact.

She had to help him escape no matter what.

Just in case, she had to get him out of Korea. Oppa would definitely say that she had to leave with him, but if she disappeared with him, it would look even more suspicious.

What was she going to do? How could she contact him?

“Alright, I understand now. Then have a good time meeting with Lee TaeKyung, Min Yuan. Don’t contact him in the bathroom like that. It doesn’t suit you. If we ever get bored with our partners, why don’t we try going for a threesome? Maybe we can even try swapping partners. I’ll arrange it if you ever feel up to it.”

She suddenly recalled JoonHun’s words to her before he had made her nearly pass out yesterday. What? Have a good time with Lee TaeKyung? So he was saying that it was okay to just meet him in public, right? And if we ever felt bored, we could call our partners over and have a threesome or swap?

He’d allow for all that but not a divorce?

It didn’t make any sense. She couldn’t do it anymore. She couldn’t continue to play the role of his wife.

Last night was strange. After last night’s incident, a strange atmosphere had developed between them. Whenever they brushed against each other, a current traveled to the spot they touched. The aftermath of yesterday’s events prickled her skin.

“Get yourself together, Min Yuan.”

Yuan warned herself as she looked at her own reflection in the mirror. First things first, she needed to tell TaeKyung-oppa what she had learned. They needed to retrieve the 500 billion won before its whereabouts were found out. If they had that money, they might be able to find another opportunity in the future.

When Yuan left the bathroom, she saw Yoon HeeSoo standing by as usual. She didn’t know what she could be thinking at this moment, but her cold face framed by her bob-cut hair didn’t reveal anything.

“The director is waiting for you in the dining room.”

Her voice wasn’t different from usual. Yuan didn’t reply and silently sat in front of her vanity and began to put on her earrings.

Today, Yuan was wearing a simple ivory dress with pearl earrings. She liked her usual quiet, poised style. She planned on killing and burying the seductress from last night.

“What would you like to do with the anniversary present?”

Yuan heard Yoon HeeSoo’s voice once again. For some reason, it sounded like it was covered in thorns. Of course. After seeing them last night, there was no way she’d be comfortable with this.

Just what are they doing…

Yuan glanced at Secretary Yoon through the mirror and replied.

“Hand me the box. I’ll just give it to him now.”

Suddenly, the watch box fell onto the vanity table with a thud. Immediately, Yuan heard Yoon HeeSoo’s haughty voice as she met her eyes through the mirror.

“Ah, my apologies. My hand slipped…”

Yuan gazed at her coldly. What did it matter? No matter what kind of relationship JoonHun had with this woman, or no matter how much this woman hated her, it would all come to an end anyway.

“Also, you have dinner at the main house scheduled for today.”

Yuan had forgotten about that. As she thought about her father-in-law Seo JaeHyuk, her complexion stiffened.

“Was that today?”

“Yes.”

Once every month, the HyunJin family members got together at the main house and shared a meal. They all met in the ridiculous name of family harmony while they talked about how much more money they’d make as they ripped each other apart.

“Secretary Yoon, please take care of the gifts for that as you always do.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Yuan didn’t want to prepare the formal gifts she had to bring for something like that.

Picking up JoonHun’s present, Yuan got up from her seat and exited the room. She walked along the corridor. Like any other day, Secretary Yoon promptly walked behind her. It almost felt as if the ex-wife was bringing the husband’s lover to him. It was nauseating. This whole situation felt like trash.

No matter what…

As she walked along the beautiful corridor, Yuan thought to herself.

No matter what, let’s end this shitty situation.

The spring sunlight entered through the windows. Outside the windows, Yuan could see the tender, yellow rapeseed blossoms and the red peonies signaling the new spring. As she entered the dining room, she saw that Seo JoonHun was already sitting in front of the wide table.

His black hair was swept to the side with its usual, clean style. His cold eyes didn’t look up at her as he read his documents. Wearing a white collared shirt with a light gray necktie underneath his suit jacket, he looked like a businessman right out of a fashion magazine.

Yuan felt as if everything had returned to normal.

However, now she knew what kind of man hid behind that facade. Suddenly, she recalled the way his eyes looked last night as he approached her. His messy hair, his usually cold eyes burning in flames, his shadow hanging over her as he looked at her with longing…

Ba-dump, Yuan’s heart began to race.

Crazy, Min Yuan, stop it!

Yuan clenched the watch box.

“Did you sleep well?”

Thankfully, her voice sounded the same as usual.

“No.”

JoonHun’s voice sounded the same as usual too, but his reply was different.

“What?”

“I didn’t sleep well.”

He turned his head and looked at her.

“Thanks to you.”

Yuan blushed. She pressed her lips as she slightly glared at him. His dark chocolate eyes looked back at her. Damn it. She quickly turned away. She didn’t even want to know why he said that.

“Please give me some coffee.”

In a low voice, she spoke to Choi Myung. As always, he poured the coffee diligently.

As the coffee trickled into the cup, its warm fragrance wafted into the air. The teaspoon clinked against the cup as she added the sugar. The only other sound in the dining room was the rustling of papers as JoonHun read his documents.

“This is…”

After she took a sip of the coffee, Yuan lowered the cup and pushed the box she had brought with her towards JoonHun.

“It’s your anniversary present.”

He glanced up.

He had gifted her with high-end diamonds. It had been a necklace with two loops that had been perfectly connected. The name of the necklace was ‘Eternity’. Because of its meaning of everlasting love, Yuan had been horrified, but it wasn’t polite to return it back to him either.

“It’s a watch.”

Without opening the box, JoonHun guessed correctly. A watch was the simplest way for a man to show off his luxurious status, so he recognized the brand right away.

“I like it.”

He didn’t look at the watch and spoke. How sincere.

“I’m… glad.”

Yuan coldly answered as she raised her cup of coffee again. She relaxed a bit. She liked this normal, dry atmosphere. As he continued to look over his documents, JoonHun spoke.

“Secretary Yoon, leave the room.”

At his words, Yoon HeeSoo startled and raised her head.

“Excuse me?”

“I’m asking you to leave us. Wait outside.”

At his words, Yoon HeeSoo’s face became colder than ever. Until yesterday, he had never spoken to her so coldly in public.

However, JoonHun was clearly her boss. She lowered her head and left the dining room.

“Starting today, I’m going to assign Secretary Yoon to work at the main office.”

Not long after Yoon HeeSoo left the dining room, JoonHun told Yuan the news indifferently.

“What?”

Yuan’s hand stopped as she was about to take another sip of coffee.

“Weren’t you uncomfortable with her?”

JoonHun raised his eyes and looked at her. Yuan’s fingers clenched the handle of her cup. She didn’t know how to interpret this. So what? Are you telling me that by assigning her to the main office, you want to keep her by your side?

Yuan barely stopped the words from leaving her mouth.

“Why? I’m fine with it.”

She slowly took a sip of coffee and swallowed.

“That’s not what it seemed like last night…”

“Our privacy.”

Yuan spoke in a low voice as she lowered her cup and placed it back on the table.

“Didn’t we agree not to be concerned?”

She was wearing a subtle smile, but she still spoke in her cold voice.

As a chilly silence settled in the room. JoonHun continued to gaze at her. What do you want?

The other people in the room were still moving around them. The damn surveillance cameras in the dining room were also recording them.

“Will everyone leave us for a moment?”

JoonHun suddenly spoke up.

Everyone froze and stopped what they were doing.

What? Yuan raised an eyebrow.

It was time to go to work. She was curious as to why he was doing this. JoonHun and Yuan were always punctual when it came to their work schedules. Choi Myung began to leave the room and the other assistants followed suit. JoonHun took out his smartphone and made a call.

“Please turn off all the cameras in the house.”

Yuan stared at him in shock. Turn off the cameras? Why?

Suddenly, he got up. As she stared at him in confusion, she suddenly recognized the look in his eyes. No way…

“JoonHun-ssi!”

He heard his wife’s shocked voice, but JoonHun couldn’t take it anymore. He grabbed her hips and placed her on top of the table. The vase of fragrant, spring flowers rattled, and the expensive dishes clinked as they shook, but he couldn’t do anything about it now.

“Why are you doing this?”

Why are you doing this? He wanted to ask her that same question. Why are you really doing this, Min Yuan?

Something definitely happened last night. Something completely different. Something they had never experienced before.

But Yuan returned to her cold self and disappeared behind her wall. Like a never-ending song, she transformed back into his contract wife.

Did you feel nothing last night?

What did you do to me yesterday?

He was not a teenager ruled by his sexual desires. It’s not like he was unfamiliar with women either. However, yesterday’s Min Yuan knocked down every single experience he’d ever had with her intensity.

“Don’t move.”

Who’d believe that her voice had truly paralyzed him? Who’d believe that he, Seo JoonHun, had become an obedient beast with one word as she grabbed his hair?

Did he have masochistic inclinations? No, definitely not. If any other woman had said that to him, he would definitely have exploded in anger.

So Min Yuan was the problem.

As if she was humiliating him…. When she coldly looked down at him and grabbed him, he couldn’t explain why he felt a shiver run down his spine.

Something was wrong. One of the many explanations he could come up with was that he had encountered an error in his brain.

However, what happened after that was the problem. His body wouldn’t cool down all night. His wife’s voice, her eyes, her body… Every time he recalled those images, his cock hardened.

Unless he had gone crazy, this loss of control was impossible. He had groaned all night long as he tried to soothe his throbbing cock. Even after taking five or six cold showers, he still wasn’t able to fall asleep.

Damn it. This didn’t make any sense.

Around dawn, he was standing in front of his wife’s bedroom door. He found out that she had locked the door and had even put a chair behind it to make sure he couldn’t get inside.

However, this morning, she approached him with a calm, clear expression. As if last night had been a short dream, she was now wearing a simple dress with pearl earrings. No matter how one looked at her, she looked like a virtuous wife.

Then she said it. She said that they shouldn’t be involved in the other’s privacy.

What? Privacy? That damn privacy. She had driven him absolutely crazy and now wanted to kill him too.

“JoonHun-ssi!”

Shocked, Yuan blocked him with both of her hands. Her pale hand went on top of his suit jacket. She still wasn’t wearing her wedding ring.

Laughter burst out of his lips. Him, her, this damn marriage. He wanted to throw all of it away.

“Why are you doing this?”

“I should have told you this clearly yesterday, but I think I got too worked up and forgot to tell you.”

“Back up first.”

“Yoon HeeSoo isn’t my lover.”

Yuan stiffened.

“What?”

“I don’t know how you came to that misunderstanding, but I have no interest in Yoon HeeSoo at all. If I did, I would never have put her by your side. What do you take me for, a psychopath?”

But…

Then what was that night all about?

“However, I am very interested in you.”

His hand slid up her leg. Yuan gasped in shock and quickly grabbed his hand.

“Why are you like this? Do you know what time it is? It’s time to go to work…”

JoonHun didn’t reply and wordlessly pulled up the skirt of her dress. Shocked, Yuan blocked his hand.

“Are you crazy? You can’t do this.”

“That’s what you said last night.”

Underneath her ivory lace panties, he got a glimpse of her dark curls.

“JoonHun-ssi!”

He shoved his hand underneath her panties. Unlike her objections, inside…

She was wet.

Surprised, both of them breathed in and looked at each other. Their eyes spoke more than a hundred words as they gazed at each other.