The night was quite at the residence of minister Im, Yujin seemed to be arranging some food on the table. Today she deliberately forced her servants not to cook because she wanted to prepare a special dish for Jinwoo.
She impatiently began to wait at the dining table staring nervously at all the dishes she was cooking. She couldn't wait to see Jinwoo's reaction when he tasted her cooking later. She hopes that tonight will impress the cold stiff general.
"Is everything all right?"
"General Lee..."
Yujin smiled brightly when Jinwoo suddenly appeared before her. Tonight the man looked many times more handsome than usual in jeans and a leather jacket that looked masculine. Usually she always saw Jinwoo in his army uniform which looked boring.
"Come on, sit down, let's have dinner together." Yujin exclaimed enthusiastically.
In contrast to Yujin who looked enthusiastic, Jinwoo didn't seem interested and was about to refuse Yujin's invitation to eat with her.
"I'll eat with the others."
"Did you just refuse my invitation?"
Yujin, who was no longer awkward at Jinwoo, began to show her true attitude shamelessly. She doesn't like it when her sincere invitation is simply rejected. Moreover, she had already cooked all that food for the cold, annoying man who was staring at her with that arrogant flat gaze.
"Eat up and don't try to argue with me." said Jinwoo warningly.
Without fear, Yujin approached Jinwoo and pulled the man's hand to sit on the chair she had prepared. But the man actually threw her hand roughly and made her heart quite hurt by his treatment.
"Don't touch me. If I don't want to, then don't try to force me."
This time Jinwoo looked even more dangerous than before. The cold face of the man showed off an aura of intense anger. Once again Yujin was being presumptuous to him, so he didn't hesitate to be rude to her. It doesn't matter if Yujin is Minister Im's daughter, to him all humans are the same. Anyone who has violated the code of ethics that has been determined, then he will punish that person indiscriminately. And since the first time he never let a stranger touch him, especially a woman.
"My father told you to take care of me, but you actually hurt me. Is this what an honorable general like you does, huh?"
Yujin looks angry and hurt at the same time. She never felt this resentful towards others because they never treated her so badly as Jinwoo treated her.
"You forced me to do it." Jinwoo hissed trying to defend himself. He is a member of the military who is accustomed to justice. If that person was not really at fault, then it would be impossible to punish that person.
"It's up to you General Lee, but if you don't eat, then I won't eat either."
Yujin shouted irritably in front of Jinwoo and immediately walked away to her room on the second floor. She felt regretful because she had more feelings for a cold, heartless man like General Lee. God should make her love another man who will truly love her back, not love a cold man like General Lee who will either love her back or will continue to hurt her like tonight.
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When the night was getting late, Jinwoo decided to go into his room and rest. He, who was previously in a guard post with his fellow military members, decided to change shifts with other guards who had previously rested. Even though he was not sleepy, he had to rest his body. Tomorrow he still has a lot of work to do. Including the interrogation of the criminal whom he caught two days ago.
When he passed the dining room, the tail of his eyes accidentally stuck to the dishes on the table which were still untouched. It seemed that Yujin had really realized her threat not to eat if Jinwoo didn't want to eat with her.
Furious, Jinwoo decided to go up to the second floor and see how Yujin was.
Still fresh in his head how when Yujin was thirteen years old, she had a stomachache when he was visiting his foster father's house. At that time Yujin shocked the entire house because she suddenly groaned in pain on the floor while holding her stomach like a dying person even though at that time his father and mother were not at home. Only Minwoo and the servants stayed at the house. Fortunately, at that time he had just returned from military camp after training, so he was able to take Yujin to the hospital before the woman actually died of chronic gastritis. And now she is arrogantly playing with her own death.
You woman! What a pain!
Two minutes later Jinwoo was standing in front of Yujin's room feeling doubtful. The code of ethics that he adheres to strictly prohibits himself from entering into women's territory. But on the other hand, he couldn't just stand by with a strange feeling creeping up in his heart because he was worried about that spoiled woman. What will minister Im say tomorrow if he finds out that his daughter is sick because of him refusing to eat with his daughter. His reputation as the top general in South Korea will be tarnished because he cannot properly look after minister Im's daughter.
Finally he decided to enter Yujin's room which was fortunately not locked by the woman.
"Tsk, she didn't lock her room?"
Jinwoo muttered softly while chuckling in annoyance that Yujin seemed so careless. What if one of the guards below broke into her room? Or if suddenly her house was attacked by a group of thieves? That woman would easily become a target.
The atmosphere when inside Yujin's room is dark. The woman apparently deliberately turned off all the lights in her room so that there was only a little light from the moon that infiltrated her room through the large window overlooking the garden.
Even though the atmosphere in the room was dark, Jinwoo could still see how Yujin's tidy room was. The man's eyes immediately fixed on Yujin's neat looking king size bed.
The woman was seen sleeping peacefully with a blanket covering her. Feeling that there was nothing strange about Yujin, Jinwoo decided to leave the woman's room. Besides, he himself felt uncomfortable in that strange room because what he was doing was not according to the rules he had made. No contact with women, no entry into women's territory, and no love for women!
Jinwoo then turned around and was about to walk away from Yujin's room. But suddenly someone grabbed him and pushed his body until he fell asleep on Yujin's bed with a loud thud.
"Who are you? What are you doing in my room?"
Jinwoo felt like he recognized the voice. Yujin's voice! The spoiled woman is now on top of his body with her tiny hands perfectly positioned above his chest and neck so he can't move.
At first glance Jinwoo was quite amazed by Yujin's ability, because the woman was not as weak as he had imagined. But the woman still didn't realize that the person she was ambushing was him.
"Hahhh? General Lee... "
Yujin shrieked in surprise when she realized that the man she had caught was Lee Jinwoo. But opening it to let the man go, Yujin stared at the thick iris for a long time until she gulped her own saliva from nervousness.
Really right now her heart seemed to be being pumped twice as fast. The man who was currently under her body really had such an extraordinary beauty that she was unable to blink for a second from Lee Jinwoo's handsome face. Unfortunately, this activity had to end because Lee Jinwoo immediately turned his body when she let his guard down and now pressed her small body under the confinement of his large body.
"You shouldn't see what you can't see, Miss Im. Don't ever look at my face again."
Yujin was frozen in place without a word. Even though Jinwoo had moved away from above her body, she was still frozen in place while blinking in disbelief at what he had just done.
"Why haven't you slept yet?"
Yujin immediately woke up from her wild fantasy after that cold voice echoed back in her dark room. With slightly clumsy movements and flushed face, Yujin immediately got up to turn on the light in her room. It doesn't feel good to be in a dark room with such a hot, cold man like Lee Jinwoo.
"Sorry, I didn't know if it was you General Lee. I thought there was an intruder because I heard the sound of footsteps approaching suddenly and the sound of the doorknob turning."
Yujin felt guilty as she played her fingers nervously. She was afraid that Jinwoo would be angry because she had ambushed the man without first confirming who had entered her room.
"Forget it! Why haven't you slept yet?"
Jinwoo repeated the question Yujin had not yet answered.
"Ee... that... because I'm hungry." Yujin replied in a small voice.
The woman was clearly very embarrassed by her attitude because she really couldn't sleep tonight because of hunger. The various kinds of food she had cooked today kept circling in her head as she tried to close her eyes. The shadows kept bothering her and seemed to mock her because she couldn't eat the food because she was sulking to Jinwoo. Finally, since earlier she was just busy moving around on her bed without really being able to fall asleep.
"Then eat it. Don't be stubborn because you have gastritis which will be very troublesome if it recurs."
Yujin stared at Jinwoo in disbelief because the man found out that she had an gastritis which was very dangerous if a relapse.
"Do you know? Did my father tell you?"
"That is not important. Hurry up and eat and sleep. I don't want to get into trouble because of your troublesome behavior." snorted Jinwoo as he walked away leaving Yujin's room. But Yujin didn't just give up. She continued to chase Jinwoo to ask the man for an answer.
"Tell me, who told you if I have chronic gastritis?"
Jinwoo simply ignored Yujin's question and continued walking down the steps in front of him. But his cold attitude made Yujin even more challenged to keep asking for answers from him until she really felt uncomfortable about it.
"Shut up and eat."
"I won't eat if you don't answer my question, General Lee."
Yujin started to make a sulking move which Jinwoo hated. Could that woman be a cute obedient woman just once?
"I once took you to the hospital when your stomachache recurred when you were thirteen years old."
Yujin starts to remember her past that feels vague. A few moments later she managed to remember it because she had been rushed to the hospital by someone she didn't know who she suddenly had a terrible stomachache ten years ago.
"So that's you general— ahhh..."
Yujin almost slipped because she didn't pay attention to her path. It was lucky that Jinwoo, who was in front of her, swiftly held her waist so that she didn't fall from the high stairs.
"You're sloppy."
Yujin snorted in annoyance and immediately removed Jinwoo's hand from her waist.
"If you don't want to save me, don't save me. Just let me fall and die. That's better than me constantly hearing your harsh words, General Lee." Yujin shouted irritably as she walked ahead of Jinwoo towards the dining table.
Meanwhile Jinwoo was silent and did not want to make any comments for Yujin. A spoiled woman like Yujin will never suit his assertive self. Whatever he does will make Yujin annoyed with him. It was better for him to be quiet and let her do whatever she pleased.