Flowers Are Bait

Chapter 58:

Chapter 58:

“You are making a mistake! I was trying to help you!”

Kwon Chae-woo turned away from Hwang Jo-yoon. He struggled with all his might, struggling where he was bound to the tree.

“I’m trying to help you before you get trapped by a gold digger, damn it! Do you know what kind of b*tch So Lee-yeon is?”

Kwon Chae-woo walked to Lee-yeon and leaned down to her. He hugged her quietly. His hands wrapped around her and pulled her close. She didn’t push him away.

“She is from a completely broken family! And that’s because the same family members fell in love with each other and committed adultery —”

“I know.”

“You know?” asked Hwang Jo-yoon in disbelief.

“I’m her husband, of course I know everything about her. She told me.” Kwon Chae-woo dismissed Hwang Jo-yoon. He pulled Lee-yeon to him and hugged her. Lee-yeon could finally breathe a little properly. Hwang Jo-yoon tried to spread his venom again. But they ignored him as they walked in the garden away from him.

“Kwon Chae-woo?”

“Hm?”

“The tree,” said Lee-yeon. “If leave him tied around it, the branches might break. It might harm the tree.”

He pressed his lips to her forehead. His heart ached for her. She was in pain but still she worried about her trees.

“The staff will find him soon enough and let him go,” said kwon Chae-woo. “But now is not the time for you to worry about trees, Lee-yeon.”

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“My... family story.” She couldn’t look at him. However, kwon Chae-woo didn’t care about that. He wanted to tuck her hair behind her ear.

“We are a married couple,” he said. “Of course, I would have known, wouldn’t I? It’s just I forgot it with the rest of my past.”

So, you don’t know about it.... It all felt absurd and strange to her. Just a while ago he was acting cranky because he didn’t know anything about her. Here he was now claiming he might know about everything just to comfort her.

“I... I didn’t tell you. Even before marriage,” she said. “I deceived you.”

A heavy silence fell between them. Lee-yeon dreaded what came next. She had confessed now. Even if it wasn’t the whole truth. She had deceived him. She was even deceiving him right now.

The Kwon Chae-woo burst into laughter.

Lee-yeon was confused. She didn’t know what she had expected. Anger, maybe. But his laughter didn’t match the situation at all. She looked at him. Kwon Chae-woo leaned back on the tree with his hands behind his head. He looked so relaxed.

“Then why are you telling me now?” he asked.

“What?”

“Are you implying that I am now more reliable and trustworthy than I was before?” He looked at her. “Is this a confession?”

How did it get interpreted that way? He squinted his eyes in the sun and smiled at her. His eyes only looked at her, unwaveringly.

“Lee-yeon, if you do this suddenly, then I might get turned on. Just saying.”

“No... I... it’s not like that,” said Lee-yeon hurriedly. “I just meant that I led you on. You were led on by a woman with a complicated family history. Think of the situation a little!”

“I maybe an idiot so I don’t know about that,” he dabbed at his dry lips. “But if it is you, I think I like being led on.”