‘How on earth did you recognize me?’
Dressed in a patient’s gown, of all people to run into, it was Seo Hyun Woo.
How should I even begin to explain this situation?
However, the mind of the startled Sori had already become blank.
Perhaps, this is a time when quick action should take precedence over making excuses.
Sori bowed her head slightly and then, without making eye contact with him, she got out of the elevator.
With that, the elevator doors closed behind Sori’s back.
I wonder if feeling a sting on the back of my head is just my imagination.
Suddenly, Sori, who had turned around swiftly, pressed the open button quickly.
As the elevator doors, which were almost closed, opened again, she made direct eye contact with Hyun Woo.
With a slight frown, Sori gave him a shy laugh.
“Seeing you here, I completely forgot to greet you because it’s so unfamiliar. Are you here to see the hospital director?”
“Right.”
A short answer and silence came back again.
For some reason, Sori’s lips felt dry.
“If you’re going back in, then go ahead, otherwise…”
“Ah, yes.”
I must go, I must go.
Before his words were finished, Sori quickly got into the elevator.
As Sori licked her lips and looked at him, Hyun Woo turned to look at Sori at the same moment.
Looking at his face, why does it make me speechless?
Sori blinked her big eyes but was unable to say anything in the end.
The one who had been quietly observing her with his kind eyes broke the silence first.
“What’s hurting?”
The question about why she was wearing a patient’s gown was quite welcome inside Sori.
It was the question she wanted, perfect for making excuses.
“I have a bit of a stomachache.”
So you’re wearing a patient’s gown because you’re hospitalized? Even as I spoke, something didn’t add up.
“It seems I must have had food poisoning. So……”
Grrrumble.
Just then, a noise came from the stomach of the person who had food poisoning.
Sori hurriedly covered her stomach with both hands.
Gurggle.
But a clearer sound echoed cheerfully in the elevator.
He, who must have heard this sound right next to her, halfturned his body towards Sori.
Sori, who had been covering her stomach with both hands, grimaced as if in pain.
Regretting that she should have said she had enteritis, not food poisoning.
At that moment, a hand suddenly reached out and touched Sori’s forehead.
Sori’s surprised eyes grew wide.
“It doesn’t seem like you have a fever.”
It felt like the fever was just about to start.
“Hand.”
“Yes?”
He reached out his hand and asked for hers. He caught Sori’s hesitant hand and took her pulse.
“Do you have arrhythmia?”
“Ah, no?”
“It’s too fast.”
Well, it is because you suddenly grabbed my hand out of the blue, isn’t it?
The sudden examination startled her heart into pounding, and her cheeks rapidly flushed.
“There seems to be no fever, but fatigue may be causing indigestion.”
“So it seems…”
“Any other symptoms? Vomiting, diarrhea?”
“No. It’s not like that.”
She didn’t want to lie in front of Hyun Woo, no matter what.
“If you keep starving because you can’t digest, it’s bad for your body.”
“Yes. That’s why I’m hospitalized to get better.”
“But why did you come to the empire emergency room and then come back here?”
“I guess I’m just a bit uncomfortable there.”
He saw me there too.
Remembering the moment she met him made her heart flutter like a feather tickled it.
Ding dong.
The elevator’s notification sounded as it reached the basement second floor.
The moment the door opened, he slowly released Sori’s hand.
For some reason, Sori missed the warmth of him receding.
“You should go up now.”
With his cheerful words, he stepped out of the elevator.
It was a relief that he seemed to believe her lies easily.
“Then drive carefully.”
Facing his back, Sori gave the polite greeting she couldn’t give earlier.
He lifted his hand in acknowledgement and quickly crossed the parking lot with his long legs.
“Phew…”
Finally, she let out a breath of relief.
Returning to her hospital room, Sori touched her forehead, and touched her hands.
The places where Hyun Woo’s hand had touched still felt hot.
Does he know?
That his casual actions make me flutter.
“Would he do it if he knew?”
She grumbled, her cheeks flushing.
She placed her hand near her heart.
It still fluttered like a flounder pulled out from the mud.
Sigh.
It was a problem that she was shivering at his meaningless actions.
Wasn’t this a serious symptom for her?
Will I really be okay at the same hospital in the future? They say that if a workplace disease gets serious, it goes to the afterlife.
“But why isn’t Dr. Park coming… I’m hungry.”
As her thoughts continued, the hunger she had forgotten about came back to her.
Sori, looking at the bread and milk bought from the convenience store, was lost in thought.
Should she eat or not?
Eating might make things a bit chaotic if Ji Woong barges in, but she couldn’t stand it anymore and picked up the Castella and milk she bought.
While opening the bag, she even thought this was like a last meal.
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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