That’s right.
Jung Yoon Jae couldn’t resist my charm.
Ji Woo smiled and pouted her lips for another kiss, and Yoon Jae also smiled and lightly pecked her lips.
Just then, Sa Rang came out of the bathroom.
She frowned upon seeing them, toothbrush in her mouth, coming out to grab clothes to change.
“Really, first thing in the morning.”
Ji Woo was startled but pretended to be calm.
Having been caught going to each other’s houses before, they had become quite adept at handling such situations.
“If you’re jealous, date someone too.”
“Forget it, forget it. You go ahead.”
Sa Rang, seemingly uninterested, grabbed her clothes and went back into the bathroom.
“When was the last time Lee Sa Rang dated?”
“She didn’t have a boyfriend until graduation, right?”
Ji Woo sighed and muttered, to which Yoon Jae carefully asked, looking at the closed bathroom door.
“That’s true. But whoever she met, it never lasted long. It’s all because of that guy…”
Ji Woo stopped herself, frowning. Realizing who she was talking about, Yoon Jae lowered his voice even more.
“I actually saw that person at the school a while ago.”
“What? Do Han oppa?”
Excited without realizing it, Ji Woo quickly shut her mouth.
It was unlikely to be heard in the bathroom, but she was still nervous.
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“What good would it do to know? If you accidentally tell Sa Rang, it will just complicate her feelings again.”
“True, better not to know. They won’t meet again anyway.”
Ji Woo clenched her teeth, recalling Do Han from five years ago.
He went abroad for studies after breaking up with Sa Rang and was shamelessly meeting friends at a hotel, a terrible person.
Sa Rang, who seemed to recall someone every time she drank, was pitiable, but she should never meet Ji Do Han again.
If only she could go back to that time, she would do anything to stop Sa Rang from liking Do Han.
She would chase them to the ends of the earth to prevent their relationship.
Ji Woo often regretted not doing so when she saw Sa Rang’s vacant eyes.
Even after arriving at the office, Sa Rang couldn’t get her mind together.
She had been dragged out by Yoon Jae in the morning and had ended up running a lap around the neighborhood.
Although it’s true that his method helped her get out of her poor physical condition, she wanted to skip exercise on a day like today.
But there was no way to make excuses to Yoon Jae, who would rather die than break his principles.
“Ugh, I want to leave work already.”
Sitting heavily in her chair, Sa Rang groaned, her whole body feeling heavy.
She should have just had one can of beer, but once she started chatting with Ji Woo, there was no stopping.
As she twisted her body, Deputy Manager Oh Na Young entered the room.
When Sa Rang greeted her with a nod, Na Young waved her hand lightly.
“Why do you look so tired? Didn’t you rest on the weekend?”
Sa Rang, in her second year at Seohan Electronics’ TV Business Division Development Planning Team, had no peers in the team.
Moreover, there had been no new employees in the team the year before she joined and the year before that, making her a precious junior.
That’s why Sa Rang was closest to Na Young, her mentor.
“No. I just stayed up late with a friend yesterday, so I’m not quite myself.”
She didn’t go as far as to say that she drank till dawn and then ran around the neighborhood from 6 a.m. with friends, ending up like this.
It was always good to keep a certain distance at work.
Even with Na Young, whom she was close to, she didn’t make an exception.
Sa Rang suffered more from the sympathetic looks around her after breaking up with Do Han.
Because of that incident, she was careful not to become the subject of gossip.
“Envy your energy. Even if I sleep all weekend, I feel like dying on Monday morning.”
“Me too.”
Sa Rang smiled and straightened her posture, trying to focus.
She couldn’t be spaced out on a Monday.
Then, Manager Kim In Soo made his third entrance of the day.
After exchanging morning greetings, he sat down at his desk.
“You all know that a new person is joining our team today, right?”
When In Soo asked them, Na Young turned her chair to look at him.
“Yes. But isn’t it kind of parachuting if they’re coming through the team leader, not through open recruitment?”
The person starting today was neither a new graduate nor had gone through the usual recruitment process for experienced hires.
According to the team leader, he met this talent in a social setting.
At twenty-six, he launched an educational software service and is currently supplying it to twenty countries worldwide, a promising businessman.
“It’s not parachuting, it’s scouting. Team leaders at our level have the authority to hire.”
“Still, we’re not even a research and development team.”
Na Young tilted her head, wondering why someone scouted for their abilities was being placed in a department that didn’t match their skills.
Successful people excel at whatever they do. They have quick learning abilities. That’s why companies try to recruit such talents. It’s tough for job seekers to get into companies, but it’s also hard for companies to find competent employees. For us, it’s a blessing. We didn’t have any new hires this year, and with Manager Jo suddenly quitting, everyone’s been struggling. He will be a great help.”
Na Young finally nodded.
Whether it was a parachute hire or a scout, if this person reduced their workload, she would be grateful.
“But if he’s such a great businessman, his earnings would be incomparable to an employee’s salary. How could he give that up to join our company? And as a deputy, at that?”
Sa Rang was just as curious.
She couldn’t understand why a successful young CEO would join as a deputy.
“The team leader was also surprised when he accepted the scout offer and asked why he wanted to join our company.”
“And what did he say?”
“He said it’s because our company’s building is beautiful.”
“What?”
While Na Young looked incredulous, Sa Rang froze.
It was a phrase she had heard before.
‘He said our school campus is beautiful.’
The reason Do Han left Korea University and enrolled in our school.
Tae Hoon had said that.
Sa Rang naturally thought of Do Han.
It wasn’t that she hadn’t dated other men since breaking up with him.
The pain of a brutal first love had dulled somewhat over time.
She thought she’d never meet anyone else, but she dated a few times without issue.
But no matter how sincere her boyfriends were, her heart was never filled.
She met kind people and men who only cared about her, but her heart always felt empty.
Her feelings for them never deepened.
They never grew to be as strong as her feelings for Do Han.
It was as if he had taken half of her heart, leaving her capable of only half-hearted love.
They had only dated for two months.
She couldn’t understand why those memories were still so vivid.
What was he doing now?
It had been five years, so he would be thirty-one.
Shaking her head to clear these thoughts, Sa Rang tried to focus.
Just as she was trying to put aside these unnecessary thoughts, a familiar, yet unexpected voice reached her ears in that place.
“Hello. I am Ji 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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