A date with Teacher Ok?
“Do you… want to go on a date?” A date meant spending romantic time together, just the two of us.
Did it mean he wanted to spend more time with me, apart from going to gatherings and greeting my grandmother?
At Seol Hee’s question, he turned and raised an eyebrow.
“Don’t we need at least one or two photos of us having fun together?”
“Ah.”
It was then that she realized his intent was purely to deceive others, and she nodded her head.
“People will be curious about our story together.”
For a moment, I was flustered because I thought he just wanted to date me purely, but it was a misunderstanding.
Yeah, if my friends asked for a picture and the only picture we had was one taken at the hospital, they would doubt. Same with Grandma.
“Let’s date every weekend before we go to greet her.”
I understood why it was necessary, but to meet every weekend?
“Do we have to do that?”
“Yes.”
Eun Woo’s answer was succinct. A face that says there’s absolutely no other choice.
“Every week?”
“We have to. We don’t have much time.”
“But then….”
It’s like a real relationship.
I was about to say that, but I met Eun Woo’s firm eyes. A look that said of course we should.
I didn’t have the courage to say no to him.
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It was a long day.
Eun Woo, fresh from the shower, exited the bathroom while shaking his head. Drops of water raced down his sturdy shoulders, landing on his welldefined muscles.
“Haa.”
Taking a deep breath, he opened the refrigerator. Though wellstocked with ingredients, nothing piqued his appetite. It was before dinner, but he had no hunger. Thus, his choice was a cold beer.
Thud.
He popped open the can and chugged the beer in one go.
With each swallow, his pronounced Adam’s apple moved up and down. The cold beer entered, the stinging carbonation stimulated his mucosa, and only then did his head, heated up all day, cool down chillingly.
“Haa….”
He breathed out long, clearing his mind.
“Yu Seol Hee.”
He called out the name of the woman who had stirred his insides today.
A few months since she had started working at the Dongmari Veterinary Clinic. His mind had been a mess because of the unpredictable Seol Hee. And these days, it was even more so.
Eun Woo, who was not particularly interested in women, or rather, in other humans, was different with Seol Hee. That small woman entered his mind and tossed it around.
She, looking at me with round eyes and an expression without a hint of suspicion.
He chuckled. Seeing her believing he truly had no ill intentions, that he was a grandson who only cared for his grandmother.
He was still thirsty even after downing the beer.
Gulp, gulp.
Having finished his beer, Eun Woo picked up his cell phone and searched for the name [Lee Jin Ho]. The call connected before the ringing even finished, and his voice echoed.
Eh, Ok Eun Woo. What’s up?
Jin Ho was a longtime friend of Eun Woo’s. It was a welcome voice since they hadn’t been in touch frequently due to busy hospital schedules. Eun Woo crushed the beer can and flung it into the distant trash can, then opened his mouth.
“I need a favor.”
A favor? From me to you? Not you to me?
At Jin Ho’s fussing voice, Eun Woo twisted the corner of his mouth.
I mean, what’s going on? The sun might rise in the west tomorrow.
He was like this even before asking the favor, wondering how he would react after he asked.
He sighed out his words.
“Yeah, I have a favor to ask you.”
What is it? I must listen if it’s a request from Dr. Ok Eun Woo. What, what?
“Can you let me in after the closing time this Friday?”
Why all of a sudden?
“……”
You usually don’t come even if I ask you to. Do you want to see something?
“It’s not me. There’s someone I want to show.”
Huh?
There was a brief silence at Eun Woo’s words.
For a while, Jin Ho didn’t say anything, just sighing in disbelief at Eun Woo’s unexpected request. After a long silence, he seemed to finally come out of his shock and quietly whispered.
Could it be… a girl?
This is going to get noisy.
But, she was going to meet him on Friday anyway, so it was better to stir up the fuss over the phone. It might be hard to hear, but it was better to take the blow first than to watch Jin Ho make unnecessary comments in front of Seol Hee.
“Alright.”
A woman? A real woman? Are you coming with a woman, not for work?
“……Yes, that’s right.”
Really, truly?
Unable to hold back from Jin Ho’s excitement, Eun Woo heaved a heavy sigh, his eyebrows furrowing deeply.
“Should I just not go?
Huh?
“If you’re going to act like this, maybe it’s better not to go.”
No, no. I’m just……
Jin Ho, who had been dragging his words out, quickly added on.
No, please come. Please, please come, teacher Ok Eun Woo. It’s really rare that you ask me for something. I can’t miss this opportunity. And it’s a woman. Wow.
Eun Woo knew Jin Ho would react this way, but the fuss was even greater than he had expected, deepening the lines on his forehead.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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