Acts We Shouldn't Do (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
“Madam Hwang, is this really how you’re going to act? I’ve got so much on my mind already that my head’s splitting open.”
—Madam, unless you’re trying to cut off my livelihood, please just accept it. Okay?
Gwang Soon, already clutching her throbbing head from Madam Hwang’s incoming call, threw aside the hair tie she’d just grabbed again. She’d lain down to calm her churning stomach after stamping the redevelopment consent form, only to be bombarded with endless interruptions.
“What exactly did I do to deserve having my livelihood cut off by you, Madam Hwang?”
—I’ve matched so many couples in this business. Helping you forge good family connections and hearing just one sentence like “Thanks to you, my kids got happily married”—that’s what keeps me going.
“Who even said anything like that? And besides, Madam Hwang, do you really think you were doing this out of pure goodwill? If you’re taking money for introducing ‘decent young ladies,’ at least don’t charge so little that I have nothing to complain about. I even gave you extra on top of the usual fee.”
Gwang Soon smoothed her disheveled hair with an irritated hand. She was furious—this ridiculous person was treating her like a joke.
—What good is money if there’s literally no one to be found? Where in this world today would you find a young lady who meets your conditions? Not even in the Joseon Dynasty! If I go around presenting your demands to other mothers with daughters, my livelihood really will be cut off.
“Look here, Madam Hwang.”
—I simply can’t do this anymore, so I’ll return every penny you’ve already paid me. Please, just stop arguing and give me your bank account number.
“Wait—what happened to your bold promise earlier this year that I’d see a daughter-in-law before year’s end? And now you’re pulling this?”
—That was before I heard your actual conditions, Madam. Honestly, you need to lower your standards a bit. No, a lot.
“What do you mean, ‘lower my standards’?”
Who did this woman think she was, lecturing her like this? Gwang Soon was so flabbergasted she nearly laughed out loud.
—And this is me speaking for your own good, Madam. Suppose there’s a young lady who contacts your son based purely on his profile, talks to him, then meets with you—and even after all that, still insists on marrying into your family.
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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