“Crazy. I’ve gone crazy.”
She blurted out whatever came to her mouth without even realizing what she was saying. She must have looked like a fool.
“It’s unbelievable.”
Lee Jae-ho lives next door. In this secluded lodging with no other guests. Just him and her. For a month.
A whole month!
“Unbelievable.”
She came here planning to do nothing but blink her eyes and kill time. Wake up when her eyes open, eat when hungry, sleep when sleepy. She wanted to live like a natural person, but her favorite celebrity intruded like an uninvited guest.
This country is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and there are countless pensions everywhere. Especially the seas near Seoul!
Is it even possible to meet Lee Jae-ho in a remote village in Chungnam? It seems like an even slimmer chance than winning the lottery. Is this really a coincidence?
“If it’s not a coincidence, then what is it?”
Dajeong laughed helplessly.
“If it’s not a coincidence? You mean he followed me here?”
That’s absurd.
“That makes even less sense. Yoon Dajeong.”
There was no one to answer her.
“Wow. How can something like this happen?”
She was filled with people she wanted to discuss this situation with immediately. Members of her fan chat room, cafe administrators, her sister Gyeongmi, even Kyungjun.
“I’m so desperate that I even think of Gyeongmi. Wow, what should I do? Who should I discuss this with? Amazing.”
Then, Jae-ho’s voice echoed in her ears.
‘Since you are someone who should know, I’ll tell you directly. Please don’t tell anyone that I am here.’
Dajeong’s hand, about to send a hasty message on her phone, froze for a moment.
“No, no. Let’s think from Lee Jae-ho’s perspective.”
Lee Jae-ho hadn’t shown up anywhere for the past few months. When he was in a good mood, he used to occasionally post on the fan cafe, but the last post he made seemed like it was at least three months ago. As for SNS, he never shared personal updates there.
Ah. No, that’s not true. He did post on SNS recently. #IMissYouToo. That selfie which unnecessarily made her heart flutter. It was an odd timing, but anyway, he had made a survival report to his fans.
Apart from that, he was nowhere to be found, and now, surprisingly, he’s vacationing in a remote village.
Coming to a place like this must mean he really wanted a break. He might be full of things he wants to empty out, just like her. Maybe he had broken up with a long-term girlfriend.
He didn’t want to be disturbed, so he intentionally hid in a rural area with no buses, but then he met a young woman. He might have been afraid of the excitement this woman could cause. On the cafe, SNS, group chats, blogs, etc. If she was a talkative woman, by tomorrow, there could even be an article pinpointing this place’s coordinates.
Ah…! That was it. That was it. Dajeong sighed.
He must have been scared. Him too. So that’s why he was nice.
He offered coffee and made a request. Not to tell anyone. He just wanted to hide quietly.
“Yeah. From that perspective, I’m a nuisance.”
Having finished her thoughts, Dajeong sprang up from the sofa.
“We might be in the same pension, but the buildings are different. I can avoid bothering him. In about a week, Lee Jae-ho will even forget whether I’m here or not. I’ll mostly just stay still.”
That’s what she had to do. Neither of them would be disturbed, and they could both have a complete rest.
She didn’t want to bother Lee Jae-ho. She just hoped her precious favorite celebrity’s rest would be complete and untroubled. That was all.
Jae-ho stared at the empty coffee cup on the table, lost in thought.
Yoon Dajeong.
When Dajeong appeared in front of him as a fan, Manager Jung quickly investigated her background and found out that she was a fan club administrator. Since then, he had taken every opportunity to watch her, but it was always fleeting, so he never had the time to observe her properly. So, really, this was the first time he had properly seen her in 13 years.
The girl in a school uniform was pretty too, but Yoon Dajeong now is just……
Breathtakingly beautiful. He closed his eyes for a moment.
What route could an actor have to personally contact a fan? After meeting Dajeong, Jae-ho was almost out of his mind and was about to send her a DM on the SNS that Manager Jung had found. If Byunghoon hadn’t stopped him, he might have really done something foolish.
‘Bro! Are you crazy? This isn’t right! If she publicizes this, you’re done!’
It was only after his phone was taken away that he began to think. That’s right. Privately contacting a fan like this could be seen as having a sinister intent.
‘Then what should I do.’
‘You should honestly reveal your past.’
‘I can’t do that.’
‘I thought so. Then there’s no way for now. Let’s think about it.’
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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