Spellbound

Won Ju-won rules over everyone through relentless calculation. What he hates most is self-sacrificing stupidity.

On his first day at his new post, he runs into Jin Eo-jin, the poster child of a "pushover," who mistakes him for an intruder and subdues him on the spot, and the two clash repeatedly.

Already allergic to anyone who seems foolish, he dislikes everything about Jin Eo-jin, but then Eo-jin discovers the secret of his birth.

As usual, he threatens him: keep your mouth shut in exchange for what you want.

“I don’t want anything.”

A guy who has someone else's weakness in hand, yet wants nothing. What am I supposed to do with this bastard?

* * *

“Among everyone I know, you’re the most unhappy, but you don’t act unhappy.

Stupidly. You trust anyone too easily, you never back down, and you smile a lot.”

“…….”

“I couldn’t help but keep looking at someone like that. Even if it was me.”

In the end, Eo-jin’s trembling breath scattered far away. He never imagined that Won Ju-won’s words would turn out to be something like this.

“That sounds like you’re saying you really like me.”

“I didn’t say that.”

“But you knew that’s how it would sound, didn’t you?”