difference in social status

Jang Hee-tae.
A man who ran gambling dens, handled money, and manipulated people, living like a dog in the back alleys.

“Yeah, shut that mouth of yours. Your teeth will fly out if I swing this club.”

That day, he was threatening an idiot who had borrowed money but hadn’t repaid it with a golf club.

“Please, I, I have a woman I’m going to marry. Her family is really well-off, and she has a lot of money. You know the daughter of the HJ Foods CEO, right?”

Hee-tae laughed at the woman the idiot mentioned.
He thought no one else could be as stupid as a woman who’d date such a fool.

But when an unbelievably beautiful woman came into view and took the golf club from his hands, he burst into laughter.

“This is really something else, huh?”

***

Chae Soo-yeon.
Daughter of the CEO of HJ Food. The face of Korean traditional painting.
She was known by many names but was just a fool who couldn’t end an unhappy relationship.

“Just one question. Is that face worth paying to be with? Is he at least good in bed?”

Soo-yeon went to pay off her boyfriend’s debt and got entangled with the insolent Hee-tae.
But instead of taking the money, he kept hovering around her.

“You’re doing this because the debt isn’t settled, right?”
“If you want to settle the debt, you have to sleep with me.”

She found him, who shamelessly revealed his crude desires, uncomfortable and detestable.

“If I sleep with you, will you leave me alone?”
“If you satisfy me enough to make me leave.”

It seemed like a fleeting connection that could be brushed off as a moment of lust.
But the insolent man kept on.

“I’m trying to be cute because I feel sorry for talking shit.”

He invades her daily life.

I’ve reincarnated as the maid of the female lead in an R-19 tragic novel.

Saving the injured villain had set the stage for my beloved lady’s life to spiral into chaos. But I couldn’t let that happen. I’ll protect my lady!

I hid the villain, treated him, and made sure he left so he wouldn’t cross paths with my lady again. Yet, somehow, the villain returned to our estate.

“You can’t meet my lady, so you might as well turn around and leave.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m here to see you, Claire.”

It turns out the villain was looking for me.

“Why me?”

“Because I’ve fallen in love with you.”

It seems the villain has gone mad.

“Rather than building up a worthless pride, it would be cuter to beg for help.”

The Lord of Disaster. To Yeonseo, Woo Taeheon was like that. Yeonseo, who had been working as a resident caregiver for the Sewon Group, unexpectedly became Woo Taeheon’s personal assistant. Love engulfed her like a wildfire. It was hot and intense and there was no way to avoid it.
She knowingly started a love affair that would hurt her. But because she wanted to breathe and feeling burdened by her solitary love, she chose to run away. Unaware that she carried a part of Taeheon’s life inside her womb.

***

Yeonseo, whom Taeheon had been desperately looking for over a month, was right in front of him. Just a few steps away, just within a short reach. Yeonseo, whose hair is waving in the air, whose eyes are shining, and smiling.

“Can’t you tell me with your own mouth if that’s my child?”
“We broke up, and I’ve repaid all the debts. Now, it just feels awkward seeing each other like this again.”

She became a tainted sinner in the dark underground. Her heart felt like it was being torn apart, causing excruciating pain.

Lena joined the knight’s order to earn a dowry. Despite being mistreated by her tyrannical superior, she persisted in her efforts to earn the dowry.
Granted a vacation, she planned to spend time with her fiancé and improve their relationship, only to discover his infidelity.
After breaking off the engagement, Lena raided her superior’s liquor stash to console herself, only to have him confess to her…

“You don’t have a fiancé to worry about anymore.”

Lena just blinked her eyes dumbly. The alcohol-addled thought process could not comprehend the meaning behind his words, leaving her frozen

“Lena Leshuriel.”

He took a step closer and met her gaze.

“How about formally dating me?”

Lena was unable to refuse as her superior leaned in to kiss her.

“Come into my house.”

A man with looks, family background, and even a brilliant mind.
People around me keep saying. That man is my husband.

“Since when did you become my husband?”
“Just go with it. I’m your husband.”

I was left speechless by his audacity.

*

“Let’s meet tomorrow.”

Appointments that keep happening.

“Let’s eat.”

Meals together.

“I’ll do it.”

Before I knew it, I was waiting for him.

“Why are you doing this to me?”
“Why do you think I’m doing this?”

Haji’s mouth closed tightly at his counter-question.
Seojin’s lips curved, having already anticipated such a reaction.
The distance between the two slowly narrowed. When his breath tickled her round forehead.

“It’s exactly what you’re thinking. So don’t avoid it.”

This man’s scheme, who wanted only me from the beginning.
Will I be able to handle this man?

“Congratulations. You’re going to marry me. You’ll become the Duchess.”

Lexion Ernst needed a suitable woman to avoid marriage with the Princess and to deceive the Emperor.

“A fake, huh.”

In her past life, Adelina’s nickname was ‘fake.’
Lexion forcibly pulled her out of the peaceful life she led after being sucked into the mirror.

“You don’t have to do anything.”

Lexion clearly said she didn’t have to do anything.

“This seems like a good spot. To kiss.”
“You said I didn’t have to do anything…”
“You don’t have to do anything. I’ll take care of everything.”

Even though he said she didn’t have to do anything, they had to keep kissing and engaging in intimate skinship.

“You don’t have to do anything. Just lie down.”
“When will you give me the mirror?”
“Soon. Once you bear my child.”

Lexion, this guy! He keeps breaking the contract without giving the promised mirror.

“I hate war, I’m a pacifist!”

Eventually, Adelina got caught up in a war. Now, even her life is in danger.
Can Adelina receive the mirror and return inside it?

She thought she was dead until she opened her eyes again and met him.

“Where am I?”

And she realized this wasn’t the place she had lived her entire life.
A body endlessly weakened; a whole new world that felt entirely unfamiliar.
The only place she could lean on in that unfamiliar place was,

“Ria, save her, my wife.”

He was the one that kept her alive.

However, before she could even sort out her confused feelings, three men approached her.

“I want you to know that everything I do is out of love and my desire to possess you.”

Another Duke confessed to her with a seductive, dangerous smile.

“Use me to get everything you want, take everything you desire, it doesn’t matter what it is, I can give it all to you.”

A Knight who claims to have cherished her from the beginning.

And then,

“I want to touch you. Let me touch you, Ria.”
Even the passionate prince, whispering with his golden eyes that she couldn’t look away from.

As they offer their own leash to her hand.

She has lived for over ten years as the childhood friend of someone she has unrequited love for.

“Judith, there is nothing in the world more precious to me than you.”

He whispers kindly with a smile, but their relationship is just that of cherished friends, nothing more.

Axel Fedelian is a cruel person.
Even if not everyone thinks so, Judith evaluates Axel as such.
Because he doesn’t have a cruel heart, he is even more cruel.

She was tired of hoping alone and getting hurt alone.
So Judith decided to cut off Axel.

***

As a means to push Axel away, she got engaged to another man.

“I’m getting engaged to you, but that doesn’t mean I cherish you as my fiancée.”

An engagement without love, which was exactly what she wanted.
But even though it was clearly like that—

“What would you do if I said I like you?”

Why does Chase keep approaching her?

“I want to be by your side.”

Moreover, why is Axel trying to shake her now?

Even though her circumstances are not that great, Lorraine Wiig, the second daughter of the renowned Count Wiig, is a graduate of the Academy.
After graduating, the 5,000 gold salary she was offered when she was looking for a job was a tempting piece of meat.
Naturally hooked, Lorraine becomes the secretary to Duke Edwin Duncan, whose mood swings are ‘a bit’ severe.
After serving the Duke of Duncan for 4 years,

“Rejected.”

This is the hundredth resignation letter that has been ruthlessly torn apart.
Like any ordinary wage earner, she holds the 101st resignation letter close to her heart, when one day, her employer, the Duke of Duncan, makes a shocking statement.

“I like you.”
“…Pardon?”

It’s all over.
Lorraine Wiig thought she should have left this situation a long time ago.

I was possessing someone´s body.

A bedchamber maid of a future tyrant of the romance fantasy novel I have been reading about!

Well, I took advantage of my major to live, and provided a five-star hotel-level service…… Doesn’t it look like the male lead is quite satisfied?

“I like the way you do things, except for that ridiculous way you talk.”

“If there’s anything you’re not satisfied with, I’ll correct it, Your Highness.”

The only way to keep me from dying is to work until the heroine comes.

But why does it seem like the more I work, the more twisted things get……?

“The young lady left the mansion some time ago.”

“……Eh?”

Now even the heroine who was supposed to be there has disappeared,

“Where are you going? What are you doing? Didn’t I say your life was mine from the moment you made the decision to serve me?”

The male lead is going crazy. Why doesn’t he grab the runaway female lead but grab me!

Costance Orsi.
Son of a fleet admiral.
It seems that the heir to the Marquisate likes her.

She doesn’t know why he likes a mere civil servant like her,
But his interest was overwhelming for her.
So she decided to quit her job and quietly live in the south…

“…It’s… it’s just a coincidence, Vivi.”

Meeting him in a quiet café in a southern rural village far from the capital,
The coincidence was too much.

*

“Why do you keep running away? Have I… have I done something wrong?”

He was always someone who observed propriety, no matter the situation.
Even when things were urgent, he never acted rashly…

“…I’m sorry.”
“For what, exactly?”

When she hung her head deeply low, Costance nervously bit his lips.

“I… I have something I must tell you.”

Oh no, could it be…

“The reason I kept following you. Vivi, I’m more serious than you think. I want to marr—”
“Stop!”

She cut him off in a panic.
Costance looked at her with tearful eyes wide open.

“Please, please…”
“…”
“Don’t propose to me. Please…”

Eventually, Costance’ expression completely crumbled.

“Let’s end it here.”

Jinwon and In-ah, a campus couple envied by everyone.
Their love shattered with one sentence from Jinwon.
In-ah barely managed to speak, looking like she had been hit on the head.

“Is it because I’m pregnant? You want to break up?”

In-ah shivered with betrayal and heartbreak.

Seven years later. Jinwon appeared as In-ah’s direct superior.
In-ah was still burning with betrayal, yet this man acted as if nothing had ever happened.

“Am I that terrible?”

Does that even need to be said?
Why is this man acting like this?