Bound by a Ruthless Contract - Chapter 17
Ga-eun was astonished.
Yang Si-mon, who had groveled and flattered before Gye Young-chul who ruled like a king at home.
And Kwon Si-heon, who sat in a place so high that even Yang Si-mon appeared as merely a dot.
Just what… who was this man?
“This is quite nice too.”
“What is?”
“You are curious about me.”
Then Si-heon tapped the table with his index finger, thinking ‘indeed.’
He was certain.
Just being with this woman cleared his mind and improved his condition considerably.
And sleeping with her brought perfect recovery.
She was truly the embodiment of the word ‘medicine.’
Having her by his side might help him find a way out of this insufferable insomnia.
The thought filled Si-heon with unprecedented pleasure.
“What does our Ga-eun want? We need to know so we can make a contract.”
After briefly hesitating, Ga-eun erased all traces of uncertainty and looked straight into his eyes, slowly parting her red lips.
“You said you got promoted and have no time to waste.”
“And?”
“Once you’ve adjusted to your current position… then… Please divorce me.”
Si-heon suddenly lowered his head and laughed out loud.
She was truly unpredictable.
Responding to a proposal with divorce.
Though she might not realize it herself, she knew well how to increase her value.
For the first time, Si-heon felt interested in another person.
How amusing.
Yet, maintaining his composure, he spoke casually.
“Then I’ll set my conditions too.”
“But just now you said sleeping together would be enough…”
“Let me revise that. Two conditions.”
Ga-eun bit her lip.
She wanted to object but wasn’t in a position to do so.
Kwon Si-heon held all the cards in this game.
If he were to withdraw his offer due to a simple change of heart…
She would be nothing but a doll, an ungrateful illegitimate child who had ruined her parents’ arranged marriage meeting and cut off her own lifeline to elevate the family’s status.
“I’m not someone who repeats themselves.”
“I rarely volunteer my name, and I’ve never given it three times like today.”
A man whose orders were followed after just one word, who was so well-known he didn’t need to introduce himself, who stood so high that Yang Si-mon appeared as just a dot.
A woman like her would be far beneath him.
“One, you’ll sleep with me. Two, you’ll have regular sessions with my personal physician.”
Si-heon’s eyes flashed.
He was planning to find a new physician soon.
He’d just need to train them well enough that they wouldn’t dare dream of betrayal.
This time, he absolutely wouldn’t fail.
“Why the physician sessions…”
“If we’re making a contract, it’s better to have someone healthy inside and out. You never know.”
Si-heon paused briefly before continuing.
“Even with a healthy body, if the mind isn’t… If you reach a state where you can’t help but tell someone else about this contract, that would be troublesome, wouldn’t it?”
In other words, he was saying he’d monitor her because he didn’t trust her, while also checking her condition.
“Once I achieve what I want from this marriage. Whenever our Ga-eun wants.”
His eyes suddenly darkened.
“We’ll divorce.”
“Then…”
“What is it?”
“Could I… add one more condition?”
Si-heon nodded readily to her cautious words.
“After discussing a few more things, including what you just mentioned, I’d like us to draw up a contract.”
“A contract.”
“Because if this marriage becomes nothing due to Mr. Kwon Si-heon’s whim, I’ll gain nothing.”
Interest flickered in Si-heon’s eyes.
Who would have thought this harmless-looking, doe-eyed woman would speak of gain?
“If I go back now, I’ll be rejected even by a middle-aged divorced man.”
“Well, that’s…”
Once again, Si-heon was about to use a word starting with ‘j’, but shrugged and corrected his expression.
“How cold. Why think that far ahead?”
“…You don’t have to hold back your words.”
Even if she was used to hearing crude words.
“It’s fxxxing awful. Just thinking that our Ga-eun might be treated that way.”
Though she’d told him to speak freely, hearing such words from his elegant, pristine appearance was certainly jarring.
