Sulhee sometimes spoke her mind clearly, but at other times, her intentions were utterly incomprehensible. Sometimes it seemed like she disliked him, but then she would look at him shyly.
The more Eunwoo got to know Sulhee, the more complex she seemed.
However, he felt like he was starting to understand this woman named Sulhee.
Sulhee loved eating.
Like a hamster, she would take food in her mouth and chew it for a long time. If given a Choco Pie, she would hold it with both hands, take a bite, munch, take another bite, munch again.
After thoroughly chewing, she would fold the Choco Pie wrapper into a small note shape, glance at the trash can with sparkling eyes, then flick the wrapper into the trash with her fingertips.
She loved meat just as much as sweets. When buying lunch from a lunchbox shop, she always chose dishes with meat.
Meat lunchboxes, spicy pork lunchboxes, mayo chicken lunchboxes, pork cutlet lunchboxes… If there was no meat, she wouldn’t eat it. Once, when Choi Seonbae brought a vegetable-packed bibimbap lunchbox, Sulhee stared at Choi with disbelief.
“Full of vegetables… Is there no meat?”
“Yep, it’s just vegetables and fresh greens.”
“Then… How do you eat it?”
Watching Sulhee wrinkle her brow in genuine wonder, not only Eunwoo but also others struggled to hold back their laughter. Even the youngest, Chaelin, would sometimes call Sulhee “cute” because of such reactions.
Sulhee, who knew and liked a lot about food and had many interests, seemed particularly clueless about romance.
Even more oblivious than Eunwoo, who had questioned the necessity of love in the world. So, when he took a step towards her, she would run two steps away.
“I can’t just let her run away this time.”
Watching Sulhee hide from him, Eunwoo twisted his lips. Whether she was shy or for whatever reason, he couldn’t stand her drifting further away.
Then, realizing it was almost time for others to start arriving at work, Eunwoo quickly sat down.
“But now’s not the time to worry about that.”
He had come early today for a reason.
Turning on the computer, he opened the hospital charts from the previous day. He had to check all the charts written by Choi Ih-hyun.
Ih-hyun had a long history of not doing his job properly. Even in school, he caused a lot of trouble, and after graduating, although Eunwoo didn’t work with him, he knew.
When Eunwoo called a senior who worked with Ih-hyun in Jeonju, they summarized him in one line.
“He’s popular with the patients. Talks well, explains well. But that’s it. From what I see, he’s slack in his work. When will that guy ever do a proper job?”
So, Eunwoo had no choice but to check, even if it wasn’t his responsibility. To ensure there were no issues. That’s why he arrived a bit earlier every morning to review the charts.
“The worst.”
As expected, the charts were haphazardly written.
“Ah…”
Eunwoo sighed deeply, clutching his head. Ih-hyun was his junior, and their relationship had been quite good up until they entered the same lab.
Even after sharing a flat for about two years, the relationship between Eunwoo and Ih-hyun turned sour due to an incident during their third year of undergraduate studies.
Ih-hyun’s girlfriend, Sena, was a peer with long hair, a calm demeanor, and a classic beauty, popular within their department. She had been dating Ih-hyun, who was also popular, for a long time.
After Eunwoo and Ih-hyun started living together, Sena often visited their flat.
“Hi, Oppa.”
“Hey, yeah, hi.”
“Let’s eat together. I brought Tteokbokki.”
With a bright smile, Sena often suggested they dine together.
Eunwoo was ambitious. He had a lot to study and was busy assisting with research in the lab. He had no interest in things unrelated to his work.
So, naturally, he never gave a second thought to his junior’s girlfriend.
Then, one day, Sena dropped a bombshell.
“Oppa, I like you.”
It was an unexpected confession.
“Aren’t you dating Ih-hyun?”
“Yes, but I still like you, Oppa. I can’t help it. I know Ih-hyun will be hurt, but…”
It was a tricky situation.
Eunwoo had no special feelings for Sena and didn’t want to date. So, he rejected her.
But when Ih-hyun found out, he twisted the story.
“You seduced her, right? How could she do that if you hadn’t interfered? You used your family’s status to lure her.”
It was foreseeable that Ih-hyun would react this way, and he began to hate Eunwoo and eventually moved out.
But the most unforgivable part was yet to come.
Eunwoo was supporting the professor’s research on controlling a particular virus using existing drugs, working with 100 mice and 30 rabbits.
One day, the ventilation system turned off. It was the final phase of an 8-month experiment. Without the ventilation, the air couldn’t circulate.
Consequently, all 100 mice and 30 rabbits suffocated to death, necessitating disposal.
“It’s impossible. Even with backup power? Someone must have deliberately done it.”
After checking the entry records, they found that Ih-hyun was responsible.
He did it in a fit of rage against Eunwoo.
Such a petty reason.
Just petty.
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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