The bright red camellias and Sa Rang.
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As soon as she arrived home, Sa Rang washed her face with cold water and sat blankly in the middle of her room.
How much time had passed like that?
Ji Woo opened the door and rushed towards Sa Rang.
“Sa Rang! I got a boyfriend.”
At the startling news, Sa Rang pushed Ji Woo off and asked.
She knew who her friend liked from long ago.
“Are you dating Tae Hoon oppa?”
“Yes. It turns out oppa liked me too.”
“Really? That’s great. Congratulations, Ji Woo.”
Sa Rang was genuinely happy for her.
She was somewhat hopeful about the relationship of the two who had a sixyear age difference.
Because she and Do Han also had the same age difference, she thought that it wasn’t an impossible thing.
“Thanks. I feel sorry that I got a boyfriend alone.”
“Why would you be sorry? I can just start dating soon too.”
“Do you have someone you like?”
Ji Woo, who had been buzzing, suddenly stopped laughing.
Seeing Sa Rang hesitate to answer, it seemed like she really had someone in her heart.
Insisting on hearing it, Ji Woo pressed Sa Rang, who reluctantly opened her mouth.
“…Do Han oppa.”
Ji Woo blinked for a moment and then tilted her head.
“Do Han oppa?”
“Yes.”
“Are you talking about Tae Hoon oppa’s friend, secondyear computer science Do Han?”
“Yes.”
Ji Woo, who confirmed several times, froze as if she lost her words and raised her voice.
“That can’t be! Why out of all people, Do Han oppa?”
“Why, you have Tae Hoon oppa.”
“He’s gentle. Kind and affectionate.”
“Do Han oppa is too.”
“Who says so? Are you sure you’re talking about the Do Han I know?”
Even though Sa Rang nodded, Ji Woo couldn’t believe it.
The Do Han Ji Woo knew was a person who didn’t open his mouth unless necessary, always wearing a cold expression like ice.
Gentle? Kind? Affectionate?
None of it matched. What was she talking about?
“That oppa’s nickname isn’t Dreadful for nothing, Sa Rang. There’s a reason why they call him that.”
Ji Woo belittled Do Han, telling a story she heard from her female seniors.
He was a womanizer who accepted any confession.
He was a jerk who never once said he loved her during their relationship.
In the end, he was a dreadful guy who wouldn’t hold back his girlfriend even if she left, exhausted.
“You also heard what Tae Hoon oppa said before.”
“Yes. That Do Han oppa isn’t a womanizer.”
How could she only remember that and become so frustrated, Ji Woo squeaked.
“Not that! That oppa never says ‘I love you’ to his girlfriend.”
“He must have his reasons.”
“What?”
“There could be a reason for it. And do you have to say ‘I love you’? Can’t you just feel it without saying it?”
Ji Woo was at a loss for words.
Seeing her defending Do Han, it seemed she was serious.
What should she do with this innocent Sa Rang?
In dramas, the nice and innocent girls always fall for the bad guys.
She never thought her friend would become like that.
“Don’t worry. No matter how much I like Do Han oppa, he has no interest in me. To him, I am just a freshman. Not a woman.”
“Well, that’s a relief. If that oppa saw you as a woman, he’d really be a person without a conscience.”
While Ji Woo was scoffing, Sa Rang was recalling Do Han who she had parted with a while ago.
Naturally, the face of Hye Ri, who she ran into in front of her house, crossed her mind.
The words she said were engraved in her heart and wouldn’t be erased.
“But Ji Woo.”
“What. What now.”
Wondering if there was more shocking news, Ji Woo asked with anxious eyes.
“I met that unni a while ago.”
“That unni? Who?”
“Do Han’s little sister I know, right? The secondyear Korean literature student I ran into in front of the engineering building.”
“Park Hye Ri, right?”
“You remember her name?”
“Of course, it’s a pretty name. So you ran into her?”
“Yeah.”
Sa Rang couldn’t get the image of Hye Ri, who had smiled at her, out of her head.
The image of her getting into Do Han’s car was etched into her mind, appearing even when she closed her eyes.
“Today she said something to me.”
“What did she say?”
“That she and Do Han are close.”
Ji Woo’s mouth hung open.
“What do you think she meant by that, Ji Woo?”
Ji Woo couldn’t find the words for a while.
However, when Sa Rang persistently waited for a reply, he had no choice but to cautiously express his thoughts.
“Maybe… it’s that?”
“What is ‘that’?”
Looking into Sa Rang’s clear eyes, Ji Woo hesitated again.
“Why, you know. A sleeping partner.”
“What? A pa, partner?”
“Yes. That.”
“No way. Even though they are college students?”
“Since they are adults, it could be.”
Sa Rang’s heart pounded as if she’d heard something terrible.
She had guessed that being close could mean they loved each other.
She thought they might love each other but for some unknown reason, they might not be dating.
She had never considered that they could be sleeping partners, as Ji Woo suggested.
But after hearing it, it seemed that might be a more plausible meaning.
“Sa Rang, just give up on Do Han.”
Ji Woo, who was already displeased with Do Han, felt her spirits fall further when Hye Ri appeared.
“No matter how you look at it, he’s not for you. There are so many boys at our school.”
“Do you forget what you said when you saw Do Han on the day of the orientation? You said if I date such a guy, you’ll accept it.”
Ji Woo had immediately recognized that Do Han was the guy Taehoon had introduced her to.
The guy who she recommended to Sa Rang, saying she should date someone that handsome.
“Well, that was just judging by his looks.”
Ji Woo, who couldn’t take back what she had said, cleared her throat in embarrassment.
“Rather, meet that physical education student.”
“Why does Yoon Jae suddenly appear here?”
“I think anyone would be better than Do Han.”
“Forget it. Let’s just sleep.”
“Why do you have to like Do Han, of all people? And it’s your first love too.”
Sa Rang was too drained to sit.
As she was about to change clothes to sleep, she suddenly realized that today was an important day for Ji Woo.
“Don’t get angry because of me. It’s your first day with Taehoon today, right? Congratulations again, my friend.”
Sa Rang’s forced smile was painful for Ji Woo to see.
Nevertheless, she still wished and wished again that nothing would go well between her and Do Han.
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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