“Let’s go, Seo Ah.”
Ha Joon took Seo Ah’s hand and lifted her up, with his strength making her sway as if being dragged along. In a hurry, Seo Ah bowed to Min Jeong and left the room.
“Kang Ha, no, brother.”
When alone, she would address him as ‘Kang Ha Joonssi’, but hastily changed the honorific with people around.
“What should we do if we get caught?”
“Avoid meeting with mother alone as much as possible. If she contacts you, get in touch with me.”
Ding. The elevator arrived with a sound, and Seo Ah was once again led into it by Ha Joon’s hand.
However, Ha Joon continued to hold Seo Ah’s hand.
Seo Ah raised her head to check the CCTV on the ceiling, then bowed her head again. Was he really paying attention to the CCTV, even though they were alone?
“I’ll handle Jeju Island.”
“What do you mean, you’ll handle it?”
Seo Ah looked at him and asked. He was only staring straight ahead.
“There’s no need to force yourself to go. I have a lot of company work, even on the weekends…”
“But I want to go?”
Ha Joon’s gaze turned towards Seo Ah.
And then, Seo Ah quickly looked straight ahead.
She wanted to follow. Knowing what he would do if he went alone, if it weren’t for her mother, she probably would have found out about the overnight stay on the same day. In that sense, she was grateful to her mother.
“Alright then, do as you please.”
As Ha Joon’s words ended, the elevator arrived at the underground parking lot, and Ha Joon, still holding her hand tightly, headed towards the parking lot.
“Do you have class in the afternoon?”
“Yes.”
“I think I’ll be late today. No, I will be late. This time it’s for real.”
Ha Joon wanted to tell her the truth this time.
And only after seeing her get into Yeong Ju’s car did he start his own car.
Worried that she might storm out and go back to Min Jeong, he did that.
He would have liked to take her to school himself, but having carved out time from his busy schedule to come here, he had to work even more.
Meanwhile, left alone in the room, Min Jeong picked up her phone and called someone.
“Driver Park. Can you check if Ha Joon ate in room 3 here?”
And a little later, the phone in Min Jeong’s hand tightened at the incoming call.
He did not eat.
Soon after, Min Jeong, who had gotten up, left the room, and a young woman approached her.
“Mom! Mother~.”
It was Kim Ji Yeong, the artist of the Hyo Seong Gallery, who had wanted to set her up with Ha Joon.
Ji Yeong and Ha Joon had been schoolmates from kindergarten through high school. Both were outstanding and had only attended prestigious schools recognized in Korea, hence their current situation.
The Hyo Seong Gallery was run by Ji Yeong’s mother. It was a leading gallery representing Korea, and Ji Yeong was set to inherit it. Even her father had been appointed as the police chief last year.
Thinking about this family, which was set to become even more prominent, Min Jeong felt her anger rising.
“Ah~. Ji Yeong. Did you come for lunch?”
“Yes. Have you eaten, mother?”
Ji Yeong naturally took one of Min Jeong’s hands in both of hers and asked.
Min Jeong felt sorry for not being able to set her up with Ha Joon, knowing that she liked him too. Yet, she was grateful and proud of Ji Yeong for treating her as before, and couldn’t hide her regret.
“I just had a meal. It’s nice to see you, even though we saw each other the day before yesterday.”
“Is that so? You must have been very tired, mother. Your face has gotten gaunt.”
“Really?”
Min Jeong turned her head and checked her face reflected in the glass door. The fact that Ji Yeong cared about even these small details warmed her heart.
“Don’t be like that, and let’s take some time. I’ll treat you to some nourishing food!”
“No, I should pay. How about lunch tomorrow?”
“That’s good for me! Is 12 o’clock okay for you?”
“Yes. Let’s do that.”
“I’ll make a reservation at a nice place. Then, my friend is waiting so I should go.”
As Ji Yeong walked away, Min Jeong couldn’t hide her bitterness. Apart from her family and education, Seo Ah even seemed to compare to her in terms of her caring personality.
((()))
That evening, after finishing her classes, Seo Ah was meeting her friends and waiting for Yeong Ju.
Although they were not in the same school, her friends often gathered at Seo Ah’s school because she only went between home and school.
“But why do you look like that? Do you have any worries?”
Her friends looked at her with concern at her unusual expression.
“What worries! I’m just weak because I’m hungry!”
“Eeish!”
Seo Ah tried to smile brightly, and fortunately, her friends seemed not to mind.
And then, Seo Ah, after pondering for a moment, opened her mouth.
“Hyun Jeong, what happened to the guy you had a onenight stand with after meeting at the club?”
Instead of all eyes being directed at Hyun Jeong at her question, they were all directed at Seo Ah.
It was because they never thought that this girl, who was so pure and would fluster and avoid when talking about sleeping with a man, would be the first to bring it up.
“Why?”
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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