The Best You Never Had
Description
Kim Yoon Ji is immediately infatuated with the son of her father’s boss, Kim Hyun Joong the moment she sees him once again after twelve years. The daughter of the most trusted servant of the wealthy and influential Kim household, she always thought Hyun Joong is out of her reach until her father’s wealthy master decides to have his only heir, Hyun Joong that is, to marry her. However, it doesn’t mean a happy ever after for Yoon Ji because Hyun Joong hates her and he makes it a point to make her miserable every day. Her perseverance and patience finally severed, Yoon Ji decides to leave her husband and meets an accident along the way which caused everyone she knew to believe that she is dead.
With his looks, charm, intelligence and status, Kim Hyun Joong can have any woman he wants. He doesn’t believe in love though he still expects that his father would allow him to marry someone of his own choice some day and that would be a woman befitting his status. Imagine his surprise when his father forced him to marry a servant’s daughter! Rebellious with the situation, he puts the blame on Yoon Ji and directs all his anger at her. But he doesn’t hate her truly; he is in fact, fascinated by her charm and cheerful personality and despite his cold exterior his heart isn’t made of stone after all for very soon that fascination turned into something deeper. The sad thing is he only realized his real feelings upon Yoon Ji’s death.
Two years later, still haunted by Yoon Ji’s memories and his love for her, Hyun Joong meets Jung So Min. An actress with a very promising career, So Min looks very much like his dead wife. But the resemblance stops there because unlike Yoon Ji, So Min is graceful, confident, sophisticated and cold as Yoon Ji was clumsy, funny, naïve and sweet. Nevertheless, this doesn’t stop Hyun Joong from going after her for in the back of his mind he couldn’t help wondering, impossible as it may seem: is Jung So Min really a different person, or is she Kim Yoon Ji, alive after all and has set her revenge on Hyun Joong? And whoever she may be, would he be able to melt the ice she has built around her heart?
A cold male protagonist + fighting couple + unrequited love (at first) + arranged marriage = my favorite plot.
May have adult content.
Foreword
She turned around and her eyes met his. Those eyes that belonged to a lost love…
His heart momentarily stopped.
“Yoon Ji?”
He stepped toward her, oblivious of her apathetic expression. Nowhere is the flicker of recognition in her eyes.
Is he dreaming? Is his vision playing tricks on him now? Has he gone mad?
He is afraid that she would vanish into thin air the moment he holds her in his arms.
“Is it really you?” he whispered as he gently cradled her face against his hands.
She doesn’t say anything but confusion is evident in her eyes.
Doesn’t she remember him? Doesn’t she know him?
He barely cared about it as he wrapped his arms around her.
Relief and disbelief surged through him at the same time. She is solid. She didn’t disappear. She is real.
His eyes went moist from the emotions that stirred inside him…joy, remorse and fear among others.
If it is a dream, he wanted to stay asleep forever. He wished that this moment would never end.
But that is until she spoke.
“Who are you?”
She struggled against his hold.
Her next words shattered his happiness.
“Yah, let go of me, you ert!”
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