Contract Marriage with Memory Loss on Top - Chapter 6
” Yeon-woo, do you hate me…?”
That wasn’t all. Not only did he embarrass Yeon-woo, but he also asked a strange question. Yeon-woo’s skin, which had been quiet, heated up again. Yeon-woo looked up at him in a hurry, unable to even think about erasing the heat. Unlike Yeon-woo, who was shaken by the remnants of his memory, Kwon Ki-won had a calm face.
“Hy-Hyung…”
What came out of his trembling lips was neither an apology nor an excuse that he wasn’t in his right mind. Only a deflated call made Yeon-woo’s lips mumble.
Yeon-woo’s feelings were clearly confused. It was obvious what he was thinking about in his head. Kwon Ki-won put his hand on Yeon-woo’s small head as if stroking it.
“Yeah.”
There was affection in his short answer. Yeon-woo bit his innocent lower lip in embarrassment. He called him, but the words that followed didn’t come out. What should I do, his mind was noisy and complicated.
“You must be thirsty, do you want to drink some water?”
Ki-won handed him a glass of water as if to soothe Yeon-woo, who was puzzled. Then he went back to the table where he was looking at the documents and sat down so that Yeon-woo could calm down. Yeon-woo quietly watched Ki-won’s actions and then looked down at the glass of water.
Kwon Ki-won didn’t go back to work and stayed by his side as he slept. Yeon-woo, who clearly faced this, rubbed the side of the cup for no reason. It was a strange feeling. Even if it was a contract, family is family…. It seemed natural for him to take care of a sick spouse, and his heart tickled strangely on one side. It felt like he had become something. Yeon-woo, who had suppressed his noisy inside, spit out the words he couldn’t say.
“Thank you for buying me medicine. And for taking care of me afterwards.”
The pheromone that filled the bedroom had disappeared without a trace. It was thanks to the medicine Ki-won had bought.
“And I’m sorry for saying weird things…. You were surprised, right?”
How could it be just words, he even tried to lie on his lap and cling to his arms. Yeon-woo, who was embarrassed, gave an awkward smile, and Kwon Ki-won raised one eyebrow.
“Why…?”
Yeon-woo asked intermittently, sensing an anxious current in his gaze. Ki-won was staring intently at a certain part, but he couldn’t tell what it was. Chin? Is he looking at his chin?
“Your lips are a bit swollen.”
Lips…? Yeon-woo, who was listening to his words, touched his own lips falteringly.
“My lips? Why are my lips….”
It’s not that his eyelids were swollen, but his lips…. Yeon-woo, who had a question, cut off his own words and inhaled sharply.
“…Gasp!”
He was so surprised that his body flinched.
‘This…. What memory is this?’
The memory that filled Yeon-woo’s head was becoming clear belatedly. It was as if he was protesting how he could only remember this memory.
Soft lips, warm breath, the sensation of a tender tongue…. Yeon-woo’s face turned blue and then red with heat as he recalled it.
Yeon-woo, who covered his hot cheeks, glanced at Kwon Ki-won. Was he trying to give a hint by saying his lips were swollen? For example, to ask if he remembered the kiss in a subtle way.
‘This can’t be a dream, right?’
It was too vivid to be a dream. Even Kwon Ki-won’s meaningful words. Yeon-woo stuttered like a broken robot and then bit his lips tightly.
‘It was my first kiss….’
Even though he had kissed his cheek to take a wedding photo, it was the first time his lips had touched. Above all, this could not be called a peck. Didn’t the tongue go in? Unlike the confused Yeon-woo, Kwon Ki-won, who had opened his mouth as usual, was calm.
Yeon-woo rubbed the corner of his lips for no reason. It wasn’t like he was doing it alone, Kwon Ki-won started looking at the documents again. Yeon-woo, who had become a rabbit’s eye, tried to cool his head.
Either way, he needed to calm down. Yeon-woo hugged the blanket tightly, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath. Yeah, strictly speaking, it wasn’t a kiss.
Even though his tongue went in. His tongue.
It was just a kind of treatment to make him take the medicine. It must have been, but the sensation of the tongue that roamed inside his mouth didn’t go away. Yeon-woo flapped his feet hidden under the blanket. Woo-da-da-dak! As the top of the blanket was kicked up, noise arose in the quiet bedroom.
“My, my legs are a bit numb.”
The moment Kwon Ki-won’s head slowly rose, their eyes met. Yeon-woo hurriedly lowered his gaze with an excuse that didn’t make sense. Even though he hadn’t done anything wrong, his heart was pricked and it was difficult to look at him.
“Can you move like that? You’ve been sick all the time you were sleeping.”
“I’m fine now. The fever is down too….”
It was true. The skin that ached like a cold had subsided as if nothing had happened. After hearing the answer, Ki-won roughly organized the table and stood beside Yeon-woo.
“It seems the fever has definitely gone down.”
The touch on his forehead was soft. He knew it was just an act of checking his temperature, but Yeon-woo’s insides became noisy in an instant. I wonder if I smell because I sweated a lot, and my hair must be terribly tangled because I was lying down until now. Unnecessary worries filled his mind.
Because they shared the same bedroom, he showed his disheveled appearance countless times every morning. Nevertheless, Yeon-woo couldn’t erase the unnecessary worries and slowly pulled his upper body back. This was also an extension of the kiss. If it were normal, he wouldn’t have thought much about simple physical contact, but he reacted unusually.
“I’ll take a shower first. There will be remnants of pheromones….”
He chose to shower as a way to change his mind. Yeon-woo acted as if he was bothered by his pheromones soaked in his clothes. Then he passed by Kwon Ki-won and moved awkwardly towards the bathroom.
The reason Yeon-woo’s footsteps gradually slowed down was because of the tingling gaze he felt on his back. When Yeon-woo slowly turned his body, doubting, he saw Kwon Ki-won arranging the bedding.
“Uh… hyung, do you have anything to say to me?”
Kwon Ki-won’s movement, who was smoothing the wrinkles of the blanket, stopped abruptly. But this was only for a moment, and Kwon Ki-won, who put the pillow back in place, gave a faint smile.
“Not really.”
I knew it would be like that. Yeon-woo’s gaze fell on his cell phone as he started to take a step again. Oh, it was there. Yeon-woo, who glanced at the cell phone placed on the table, narrowed his eyes slightly. Come to think of it, he vaguely heard the sound of vibration just before falling asleep. There were few places to contact, so the first person Yeon-woo thought of was Kwon Ki-won.
“Hyung, you know what.”
“Yeah.”
“Did you call me before you came home?”
Yeon-woo asked the question while looking at the wardrobe. The movement of choosing clothes to change into after washing was quite busy. Then his gaze shifted to Kwon Ki-won’s wardrobe on the opposite side. The half-open door was empty. Did he send them for laundry? It seemed to be full until the morning, but Yeon-woo passed it off as nothing.
“No, I didn’t.”
Yeon-woo, who was taking out a hanger, stopped moving for a moment.
“Oh…. I see.”
At the same time, a cold current flowed down his spine. Then there was only one person left. The loan shark. He didn’t have to be shaken because he didn’t know about the loan shark. However, Yeon-woo’s gait was oddly creaky.
“Why, did you get a call?”
“No, I just…. I think I was mistaken.”
Yeon-woo, who glossed over it roughly, put his cell phone in his pocket. It would be troublesome if he left it in the bedroom and got a call. Of course, he knew that Ki-won was not the kind of person to answer the phone or look at the screen without permission, but the anxiety did not easily go away.
Yeon-woo went into the bathroom with a big secret stuffed in his pocket.
* * *
The effect of warm water was excellent. Yeon-woo, who had wiped off the moisture roughly and put on his clothes, wiped the mirror that had become hazy with moisture with a towel. His lips, which were thick before taking a shower, had returned to their original state. Yeon-woo, who was looking at his lips with a blood-colored glow, picked up his cell phone from the shelf.
‘…I can’t really block it.’
The look in his eyes looking down at the screen was like looking at a mortal enemy. Even though he didn’t say he wouldn’t pay the interest, the loan sharks persistently tried to contact him. Yeon-woo, who suppressed his rising irritation and confusion, deleted the missed call records and text messages one by one. Rather than telling them not to contact him early in the morning, he should have told them not to call at all. He felt stuffy as if a large stone was stuck in his stomach. Yeon-woo, who was about to go to the living room, sent a text message after much consideration.
[ I didn’t intentionally miss your call. I had something to do for a while, so I couldn’t see my cell phone. ]
Yeon-woo’s finger, who pressed the send button, tapped the keypad.
[ I will pay the interest within 3 weeks, so please refrain from calling as much as possible in the future. ]
After finishing what he had to say, Yeon-woo was about to delete the contact history. As if he had checked the message right away, a call came in. Yeon-woo, who shrugged his shoulders, frowned. They called again the moment he asked them not to call. To this extent, it was clear that his opinion was not even considered by them.
The bewildered Yeon-woo pressed the call button. Then, in order to prevent the voice from leaking out, he turned on the shower strongly and went into the booth. The clothes he had struggled to put on began to get wet from the splashing water.
“…I told you not to call.”
– What?
It seems that his voice is too small to be heard. Yeon-woo, who kept looking at the bathroom door, raised his voice slightly.
“Why did you call?”
– Sigh…. this bastard, really.
The loan shark said something absurd when he could have just gotten to the point. Yeon-woo, who was anxious that his voice might be heard, got closer to the shower head, and his clothes got soaked helplessly. If he had known this would happen, he should have put them on a little later. Late regret followed Yeon-woo.
“I will pay the interest within this month, so please don’t contact me out of the blue.”
– Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. Where did you get all that money from? You were begging like you couldn’t pay before.
“…Why are you curious about that?”
Yeon-woo’s voice faltered. He didn’t expect them to be curious about such a thing.
– Don’t I know you? There’s no way you have money, but you say you’ll pay it back willingly? It’s very suspicious.
“You just need to get the money you’re supposed to get anyway. Don’t worry about it.”
– Ha… bastard, if you borrow money from somewhere else to pay it back, you’re dead. Seriously.
Yeon-woo pressed his throbbing forehead. It was something loan sharks sometimes said. It was an absurd claim that if he couldn’t pay back the loan he borrowed to pay them back, they would be in trouble too. It was like a kind of morality in their own world. Of course, Yeon-woo had no way of knowing whether their claim was true or not.
“It’s not like that.”
– It’s even more suspicious…. Forget it, tell me your home address. It seems you moved? You’re so sneaky. You should have told me if you moved.
The loan shark clicked his tongue, saying that he had secretly moved and didn’t even inform them. He must have gone to the room he rented when he got married to Kwon Ki-won. There was no way he could let them know where he currently lived. Yeon-woo, who became impatient, shook his head.