Hyunwoo, who had come to the director’s office, stared at Baek Sunhwa with a chilling gaze.
Sori left the hospital on her own. And she’s leaving my side.
Although there was a burning urge to overturn everything here, he was managing to exercise patience.
“In the course of life, there are days when Professor Seo visits me first, isn’t there?”
“Is it you?”
“What’s with that?”
Baek Sunhwa smiled playfully as she sat on the sofa, looking at Hyunwoo, who stood expressionless at the door.
“Stop smiling and answer. Is it you?”
“How does it change anything?”
Hyunwoo, who had walked swiftly, suddenly grabbed the hem of Sunhwa’s clothes as she sat. A button popped off and rolled to the floor due to the forceful grip.
“I politely told you not to touch.”
Sunhwa, seated on the chair, was lifted off the ground as Hyunwoo held the hem of her blouse.
This experience of his mind and heart boiling like lava was unprecedented.
It was strange. Since his mother passed away, he thought all emotions had dried up like a desert.
But recently, he had been experiencing a whirlwind of emotions.
Since when? Since meeting Yoo Sori? Or since finding out that he liked Yoo Sori?
One thing was certain: pieces of his frozen heart were melting and bubbling because of Yoo Sori.
“Let go and talk. Why are you behaving so violently?”
“Violence. It’s violence.”
A bitter laugh erupted. Hyunwoo tightened his grip on the collar of her clothes.
“I must have told you politely not to touch.”
As he let go of the blouse, Sunhwa’s body, which had been floating in the air, crashed onto the sofa.
Sunhwa breathed out heavily and laughed.
“It’s okay to be angry. I like it when you look at me like that.”
Baek Sunhwa seemed like someone who wouldn’t be swayed by words. When he turned to leave, looking a bit disgusted, she spoke up.
“Don’t you hope Yoo Sori finds happiness with her mother? If so, it’s better to leave her a hole to breathe through when she runs away.”
“What are you talking about? Speak clearly.”
Baek Sunhwa stood up and approached Hyunwoo. When she swept her hand over his broad shoulders, Hyunwoo uncomfortably brushed it away.
He took a slow step back, facing Sunhwa.
“I’m putting everything on the line for you, saying everything. If Yoo Sori wants to live by receiving treatment or doing medical work, then don’t turn your back on me. Professor Seo Hyunwoo.”
Having quelled his anger, Hyunwoo sat abruptly on the long, multi-person sofa beside him.
“I somehow think I know why you’re acting like this.”
As Sunhwa’s words grew longer, many things passed through his mind.
“Holding onto our father’s weakness, the two of them seem to corner each other. If it’s our father’s weakness, is it the position as the hospital director? Money? Honor? It’s probably just something like that.”
He raised his arm with a fingerless glove on his knee, staring at Sunhwa dryly.
“But, to me, our father is not a weakness.”
“…….”
“So, the essence of what I’m saying is.”
Sunhwa’s gaze shook uneasily.
“What you’ve done so far is just a futile effort.”
Hyunwoo laughed coldly. In that laughter, Sunhwa’s heart, on the contrary, felt a strange comfort.
He had forgotten. To Seo Hyunwoo, the fact that he was endlessly weak.
“How do you think Chairman Baek Jintae would feel about his daughter ruining his honor? I heard she’s an illegitimate daughter, locked up in the hospital for over a decade. Will he stay silent if there’s any more trouble?”
To prepare for such a situation, he had gathered information on Baek Sunhwa’s recent activities. He had even found out how she was connected to his father.
“How could you threaten me? You’re not that kind of person.”
“You must have done worse. There’s no reason why I can’t.”
“I’ve already said everything. Why I came this far.”
“That kind of thing would only make sense to someone who finds meaning in what you say.”
“Then, to me…”
“Just a pitiful human.”
Being harassed by her step-grandmother, and experiencing severe depression since childhood, that was the person he considered you to be.
“Thinking sympathy is a luxury like that is what you made me feel.”
“How could someone like you…”
“At least you should not have driven a person into a corner, especially someone with a sick family.”
One of Baek Sunhwa’s eyebrows, which had seemed relaxed, trembled noticeably.
“I’m not that heartless guy. If you have such faith, it’s better to abandon it now. People are relative.”
Sunhwa rushed suddenly to Hyunwoo, knelt on the floor, and grabbed his hands, looking at him pleadingly.
“Seo Hyunwoo, no, Hyunwoo oppa! Please think about it. We can be perfect together. I’ll give you everything. Money, honor, whatever you want. If you just look at me, I can do everything you want. Really. I mean it.”
Staring into Sunhwa’s visibly wavering eyes, he pushed away her hands.
He stared at Sunhwa’s tearful eyes, which quickly became dry.
“Coercing non-existent feelings is also violence, Director Baek Sunhwa.”
“Ahh, no…!”
Sunhwa screamed, tearing at her hair.
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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