“You’re strange.”
Jaeho nonchalantly replied, suppressing his pounding heart.
In reality, he wasn’t calm at all. His neck was so red that it seemed it would burst, and the corners of his mouth kept rising as if dancing.
“Yeah, maybe it’s time to die?”
Ujeong made a senseless joke. At the end of the joke, he pulled out tissues again. Eventually, muttering that his nose might burst, he got up from his seat.
“I should check if the chocolate that Dajeong bought to give you is still there. If the kids ate it, I’ll really kill them.”
“It’s in the fridge. I’ve been keeping an eye on it.”
“Alright. You’re good. I was going to give it to Dajeong.”
Ujeong casually replied as if encouraging Jaeho and Dajeong to date. Feeling an itchy sensation in his ears, Jaeho glanced at a book for no reason.
He felt like he was going crazy.
Dajeong likes me. I couldn’t control my laughter. Ujeong, seeing Jaeho trying to stifle his laughter with his hand, looked at him as if to say he couldn’t stop him.
Everything was peaceful until the fire broke out five hours later.
Dajeong, who left work with Kyeongmi, headed to the agreed-upon meeting place. A few days ago, Gyeongjun had unexpectedly requested a “farewell party” during a phone call with Dajeong. The two entered a beef restaurant.
“It looks expensive just by looking. Are you crazy, Gyeongjun? Why did you bring me to a place like this?”
Kyeongmi looked around restlessly.
“Welcome. Did you make a reservation?”
“Yes. I’m Gyeongjun.”
“Just a moment.”
Following the guide of the staff, they entered a private room, and Gyeongjun had already arrived. Dressed in a neat suit, he looked a bit more sophisticated than usual. Come to think of it, it had been a long time since I saw him in his commuting outfit. Maybe it’s because it’s not a pair of sweatpants with stretched-out knees. I suddenly thought he had quite a handsome face.
“Are you here?”
“Yeah. Are you crazy? Why did you call me to a place like this?”
Instead of a greeting, Kyeongmi gave a complaint. Ignoring his sister’s scolding, Gyeongjun spoke to Dajeong.
“I told you to come alone. Why did you bring her with you?”
“Hey! Do you call this a conversation? When I checked that message, I was already next to her!”
“Oh. It’s expensive here. Did you open your mouth even wider?”
“Do you want to get hit?”
Just as the siblings’ fight was about to start in earnest, a staff member came in and started setting up the ordered menu. They forcibly closed their mouths. It was their private squabble when they were alone, and externally, they were quite friendly siblings. Dajeong smiled slightly, realizing that.
A set of beef and a bottle of soju. Two bottles of beer were placed on the table. Drinking a sip of beer, Kyeongmi glared at Gyeongjun.
“Crazy.”
“I’m being transferred. Nuna. I wanted to treat you two to something delicious before that.”
Just playing around, it was a promise made among the three. Naturally, Dajeong extended her glass as Gyeongjun spoke.
“Our nuna doesn’t have anyone to fight with now, so she must be bored.”
“Are you bored? Isn’t your heart refreshed?”
Gyeongjun and Kyeongmi skillfully made somaek (soju + beer) and drank it in one gulp. Dajeong just took a small sip, not wanting to drink much.
“Our company is really ridiculous. How can they send me to Jeju Island overnight?”
“Jeju Island? Suddenly? Is that even possible?”
Dajeong was slightly surprised, widening her eyes. She didn’t know they would be going so far.
“Yeah, exactly. It can’t be decided so easily. It’s strange.”
Kyeongmi also raised doubts.
“Hey, aren’t you being demoted?”
“Not really.”
Gyeongjun smiled confidently.
“Actually, I applied for it.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Well, there was a sudden vacancy at the Jeju branch. They said if you apply to go far, you’ll get a special promotion. The bonus is huge. The team leader said if he were unmarried, he would have gone right away, encouraging me with some ambitious words. So, I quickly applied. Ah, but I didn’t expect it to happen so quickly.”
“Still, Jeju Island.”
Gyeongjun keenly caught Dajeong’s soft voice.
“Why, disappointed? Worried you won’t see us often?”
“Well, you haven’t been separated for long, have you?”
Kyeongmi said, flipping the meat on the grill diligently. Then Gyeongjun replied with a heavy tone.
“Yoon Dajeong went to Taean for a month. We couldn’t see each other for a long time even then, right.”
And he added one more word reluctantly.
“Well, Yoon Dajeong didn’t seem too disappointed. She seemed to be doing well even in Taean.”
…Having dream-like relationships, too.
Dajeong glanced at Kyeongmi’s reaction, but Kyeongmi didn’t pay much attention. As always, she considered Gyeongjun just picking a fight. Placing well-cooked meat in front of Dajeong, Gyeongjun lifted his beer glass again.
“Let’s break up with Gyeongjun and live together, Dajeong.”
“Why? Are you going to erase me from your family register?”
“Oh, that’s a good idea.”
The three of them silently laughed, concentrating on eating for a while.
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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