Descent of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 642

‘What should I do?’

Choi Yeon-ha was in a dilemma.

Actually, what should I say?

To be honest, Choi Yeon-ha was feeling superior. In this situation, she was dealing with a very naive man, so she could be relatively confident.

But…

‘I’m the bigger amateur here!’

To be blunt, Choi Yeon-ha was more of a novice in this regard.

Of course, it wasn’t like she felt any aversion. It’s just that she hadn’t met a man who caught her eye. From the start, she couldn’t just grab anyone, could she?

She was always ready if someone she liked appeared. It’s just that no one she liked had appeared in nearly thirty years.

‘I haven’t even had a real kiss.’

She had done pecks.

She couldn’t skip pecks when filming dramas or movies. There were many kiss scenes too. Every time, she would struggle like she was dying and change the scene to an intense peck where she rubbed her lips vigorously. If the camera angle was good, it looked like a kiss.

So, in conclusion, she was just an empty shell.

The price for bluffing in an area where she lacked confidence was devastating.

Choi Yeon-ha couldn’t even twitch a finger, only blinking her eyes. The thought that even a slight movement would make the atmosphere awkward made her unable to move even a finger.

‘I can’t even breathe, seriously.’

She wanted to check Kang Jin-ho’s expression, but she couldn’t turn her head. If she turned her head awkwardly and made eye contact, Choi Yeon-ha’s face would explode.

If she didn’t want to see the headline ‘Actress Choi Yeon-ha, Mysterious Death in Hotel’ plastered all over Korean newspapers, she shouldn’t turn her head.

‘This isn’t what I wanted.’

The biggest reason was that she was ‘scared.’ But there’s that thing, isn’t there?

She was an actress. Therefore, she had a habit of writing her own scenarios when imagining every situation.

‘So, that scenario is…’

The male lead saves the female lead in a crisis. The female lead pretends to be calm but is trembling.

And in the darkened room, the male lead quietly reaches out and takes the female lead’s hand.

She had imagined such a romantic scene…

‘Is this romantic? Is this? Anyone would think we’re filming a thriller movie.’

Even if she were trapped in the same place as a criminal, she wouldn’t be as stiff as a frozen mackerel. She always knew that there was a difference between imagination, that is, scenarios, and reality, but wasn’t the difference too extreme to the point of changing genres?

Slight rustling.

At that moment, Kang Jin-ho shifted his body.

‘Eek!’

Choi Yeon-ha’s body flinched.

She thought she was already as stiff as a rock, but it was surprising that she could become even stiffer.

‘No, right? No? No? It’s not that, right?’

It couldn’t be. That man wasn’t that clueless, and even so, doing that in this situation would be too much.

But…

‘They said all men are womanizers.’
The entertainment industry, which some called a jungle.

The word ‘wild’ is used to mean alive, but it’s also used in another sense. People in the entertainment business often seemed to be more focused on dating than on their Korean language skills. As soon as rumors spread about who was dating whom, partners would change, and even worse situations would easily occur.

If reporters released everything they knew, it would be like a bomb going off in the entertainment industry. Reporters also knew that it was better to be treated moderately by agencies and have a long career than to create scandals and ruin the entertainment industry’s buzz, so they didn’t publish everything they knew.

But rumors always circulated among insiders, and Choi Yeon-ha, who always heard those rumors, could come to one conclusion.

Men are beasts.

And if that beast has the strength to hold a spoon…

‘No! It can’t be!’

But Kang Jin-ho was also a vigorous man, wasn’t he?

If people were all rational, why would accidents happen? Accidents happen because when blood rushes to the head, people can’t think straight.

No, it’s not the head, but somewhere else that the blood is…

‘I’m going crazy, seriously!’

It was a relief that her body was stiff.

If her body hadn’t been stiff, her legs would have kicked the blanket five times by now, and the atmosphere would have become irreversible, like Caesar crossing the Rubicon [a point of no return].

No, it was already irreversible.

‘No, right?’

Choi Yeon-ha’s neck turned very slowly.

She wanted to check.

What that unpredictable man was doing now.

Whether he was just lying there blankly as she thought, or if he was turning his head this way and looking at her.

Or maybe…

Slowly, very slowly, she turned her head and swallowed hard.

And then, Choi Yeon-ha saw it.

The eyes.

Kang Jin-ho’s eyes were looking directly at her.

“Hic!”

A hiccup burst from Choi Yeon-ha’s mouth. Normally, she would have done a blanket kick just for hiccuping in front of this man, but right now, she didn’t care about that at all.

‘Why are his eyes so passionate!’

Kang Jin-ho’s eyes were slightly burning.

It was like, looking at those ripe, passionate eyes, sweat was beading on her skin.

‘What should I do? What if he pounces?’

Normally, she would have kicked him without a second thought and yelled, ‘Do you think I’m a joke?’… But now, she wasn’t her usual self, and the man lying next to her wasn’t an ordinary man she had ever experienced.

‘W-what should I do?’

Choi Yeon-ha had a hunch.

The moment this gentle, cow-like man’s eyes went crazy and he charged like a mad bull, she wouldn’t be able to stop him. Not that she couldn’t stop him with force…

Anyway! There’s that thing, isn’t there?

The thought that something historic might happen today made Choi Yeon-ha’s breath as rapid as if she had run an 800-meter sprint.

‘Ah, this won’t do…’

She shouldn’t be breathing so fast. It would only further provoke the beast (?) on the other side.

Just as Choi Yeon-ha was at a loss for what to do, Kang Jin-ho’s mouth slowly opened.

“Choi Yeon-ha-ssi.”

“Yes? Yes! Yes?”

‘Agh! Damn it!’

Her ‘yes’ was too loud. After saying it, Choi Yeon-ha was so embarrassed by the loud voice that she even flinched. Wasn’t this practically announcing that she was so nervous she was about to have a heart attack?

Her carefully crafted, aloof and cool image was crumbling like a sandcastle swept away by a tsunami at this moment.

“I’ve been thinking…”

‘W-what is he going to say?’

Looking at Kang Jin-ho, who was looking at her with an incredibly serious gaze, only one thought came to mind.

‘He’s, he’s handsome.’

She wanted to pull out the brain that was thinking such things at this moment, wash it clean with bleach, and put it back in.

But what could she do? It was instinct.

Choi Yeon-ha, who usually claimed to be indifferent to men’s looks, couldn’t help it at this moment. Kang Jin-ho’s face, visible through the dim light, was pushing back her resistance.

‘I-it’s not because this man is handsome that I’m like this. Absolutely not.’

Choi Yeon-ha took a deep breath and calmed herself.

There were many handsome guys in the world. When she looked at it calmly, there were a few guys in the entertainment industry who were as handsome as Kang Jin-ho.

But when those guys flirted with Choi Yeon-ha, she had kicked them in the shin without hesitation, hadn’t she?

The order was reversed.

It wasn’t that Kang Jin-ho was handsome. It was because it was Kang Jin-ho that he looked handsome. Choi Yeon-ha, who had accurately diagnosed her own feelings, bit her lip slightly.

“No matter how much I think about it…”

“I, I am…”

“Yes?”

“I’m ready.”

Choi Yeon-ha gripped the blanket tightly. Even after saying the words, she was instinctively putting up her guard.

But what did it matter? If that man was determined, that barrier would be broken in an instant.

‘It wasn’t supposed to be like this…’

It wasn’t the romantic scene she had always imagined. But that’s how things are in the world, isn’t it? It’s never perfect.

If this man really had that intention, she had to give him an answer. Choi Yeon-ha bit her lip tightly.

Then, Kang Jin-ho tilted his head slightly.

“Ready? Ready for what?”

“Yes?”

“What do you mean…”

“No… I, I mean… uh, that… ha…”

Choi Yeon-ha, unable to find the words, turned her head away.

“I, I’m ready,” she said.

“Ready for what?”

Suspicion clouded Choi Yeon-ha’s face.

This man was insensitive, but he wasn’t stupid. There was no way he wouldn’t understand these words…

“W-what were you going to say?”

Kang Jin-ho raised his head slightly.

Choi Yeon-ha suppressed her pounding heart and listened to Kang Jin-ho’s words.

“No matter how much I think about it, I think it would be better to reconsider tomorrow’s filming. It seems like Choi Yeon-ha-ssi has been through a lot, so it would be better to rest for a day. I understand your desire to keep the filming schedule, but if you ruin your health, nothing will work out.”

“So, please rest tomorrow.”

Choi Yeon-ha’s eyes twitched.

Tears welled up slightly.

At this moment, she was so grateful to Kang Jin-ho for thinking of her this much. And she felt like a fool for having such unnecessary misunderstandings.

If it had ended here, it would have been a heartwarming moment…

What was it?

This thick, seething anger that was rising from her fifth vertebra?

It felt like her body was in a hot bath. Her blood was slowly boiling, and blood was rushing to her head. If this happened once a day, she wouldn’t need to take a half-bath. Her blood circulation would always be explosive.

“I-is that all?”

“Yes. Is there anything else?”

“Ah, no. Go to sleep.”

“Yes?”

Choi Yeon-ha’s anger, which she had been suppressing, finally exploded at Kang Jin-ho’s nonchalant question.

“Just go to sleep, you idiot! Go to sleep!”

“…Yes.”

Watching Kang Jin-ho slowly pull up the blanket, Choi Yeon-ha stared at the ceiling with a hollow expression.

‘I’ve gone crazy.’

She was crazy.

She was eating her kimchi soup before the rice cake was even offered [getting ahead of herself]. At this point, it wouldn’t be strange if she had died from eating too much kimchi soup.

Choi Yeon-ha, checking the state of her self-esteem rolling around on the floor far away, trembled with injustice.

‘That beastly man!’

He was a beast in a different sense. Not a beast because he was horny, but a beast because he was stupid!

“It’s my fate…”

“Yes?”

“Go to sleep!”

Kang Jin-ho, startled by Choi Yeon-ha’s rising anger, turned his back and curled up. Seeing that, Choi Yeon-ha let out a hollow sigh.

She felt the blanket rising into the air with a thudding sound as she threw it at Kang Jin-ho’s back.

But Kang Jin-ho never turned his head.

‘If I make eye contact, I’ll die.’

The Grim Reaper was behind him.

Kang Jin-ho now understood the feelings of others who had seen her angry.