Ha Joon had begun filling the spa bathtub with warm water as he entered the bathroom.
In the meantime, Seo Ah was changing into a swimsuit, filled with regret.
‘What on earth was I thinking with the spa idea! I must be out of my mind!’
She had gathered the courage from the wine she drank on the yacht, but now that she had spat it out, her senses were returning.
She thought she needed to drink more wine to gather the courage to enter the bathroom.
Seo Ah, now in her swimsuit and robed, slightly opened the door of the dressing room and looked at the dining room where the wine was located.
It seemed like Ha Joon was still in the bathroom, but would it seem strange if she was caught drinking alone? Just then, while she was wondering how to naturally drink the wine,
She happened to meet eyes with Ha Joon, who had just come out of the bathroom.
“Eek!”
Seo Ah’s eyes grew wide in surprise. She decided to fully open the door, pretending to be calm, so as not to make her actions seem suspicious.
She now had to walk boldly to the bathroom, but why did her legs feel so heavy?
Fortunately, however,
“Do you want to go ahead? I have something urgent to take care of.”
When Ha Joon showed the phone he had in his hand and said this, Seo Ah nodded.
Did she nod too vigorously? She felt regret creeping up, but Ha Joon seemed not to mind as he was about to make a call.
Soon, after seeing Ha Joon heading towards the living room, a relieved Seo Ah headed for the bathroom.
The bathroom was filled with the sweet scent of bath products and a cloud of mist. Despite the bright white lights being on, it gave the illusion that pink lights were glowing.
The spa bathtub was filled with bubbles. On the shelf next to the bathtub, Ha Joon had prepared wine and glasses, just as Seo Ah had wished.
Her heart that had been pounding fiercely since before began to race uncontrollably.
This was because she remembered the previous night, when she had been in his arms in this bathtub.
Seo Ah shook her head vigorously from side to side.
Then she poured a full glass of wine and gulped it down.
Would she calm down when the alcohol kicked in?
She took a deep breath.
Shedding her robe, she stepped into the spa bathtub and sat down.
Soon, Ha Joon would be entering this bathtub and sitting down too. What conversation should they have then? Could she even make eye contact properly?
Come to think of it, considering Ha Joon’s size, didn’t the bathtub seem narrower than expected? What would happen if their bodies touched?
No, so what! They had already gone beyond!
Would it happen again tonight?
It would be weird for a healthy adult man not to do anything while in a spa with a woman, right?
It was something Seo Ah had wanted as well.
She liked that his attention was focused solely on her last night. She hadn’t seen his expression because her eyes were tightly shut, but he had been considerate of her from beginning to end.
Just like how he referred to making love as ‘sharing love’, she wanted to experience his love again.
With these thoughts, her heart refused to calm down, so she poured another glass of wine.
And sipped it little by little.
The alcohol should kick in soon… it should kick in soon.
((()))
After finishing his urgent work, Ha Joon checked the time and was surprised.
In his focus, 30 minutes had passed unnoticed.
He shed his shower robe and entered the bathroom.
However,
Seo Ah was slumped, with her arms and head hanging over the edge of the tub.
“Seo Ah! What’s wrong with you?”
Startled, Ha Joon rushed over and shouted, at which Seo Ah lifted her head abruptly.
“Are you okay?”
Ha Joon kneeled down on one knee and examined her.
But then, Seo Ah lowered her head again and began flailing her arms.
It wasn’t that she was slumped, she seemed to be trying to pick up her fallen phone from the floor.
Ha Joon picked up the phone and handed it to Seo Ah.
Having received what she wanted, Seo Ah looked at Ha Joon and laughed sheepishly.
Thump! Ha Joon’s heart seemed to drop. Seo Ah was laughing with her face as red as a ripe plum.
It was hard to keep looking at her, so he turned his head to the side.
Seeing that half of the wine bottle was already empty, he asked,
“You drank all this… Are you okay?”
As he asked if she was okay, Seo Ah suddenly brightened her phone screen and thrust it into Ha Joon’s face.
“Smile like this.”
Ha Joon’s face turned red as he checked the photo. It was a picture of him laughing brightly, thinking Seo Ah couldn’t see him while she was horseback riding.
He hadn’t known he was showing that much of a smile, he thought he was just lightly smiling,
“You’re drunk. Get up now.”
“Chi…”
Seo Ah pursed her lips and stared softly at the screen of her phone.
“Mr. Kang Ha Joon doesn’t even know how to laugh…… He was a man who knew how to laugh……”
Seo Ah muttered and drooped her arms and head again, dropping her phone back onto the floor.
“Sigh……”
Ha Joon heaved a deep sigh and swept his hair up in frustration. Then, attempting to muster his courage, he reached out to lift one of her arms.
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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