Jaein’s heart thumped and sank.
“Team leader…….”
I feel the same way.
Finally, the time has come!
Unable to control her heart, Jaein leaned against Dohyuk’s chest like clinging to a buoy in the surging waves.
Now, should I pretend not to lose this time?
Jaein, trembling in his arms, looked up, waiting for the next words.
But what’s this?
Suddenly, Dohyuk’s body twitched, and at the speed of light, he released her and stepped back.
Due to the wind, Jaein was awkwardly bounced out of his embrace.
Huh?
What’s happening now?
Jaein stood awkwardly, looking at Dohyuk, who smiled apologetically.
“Oh, sorry. I said something unnecessary. I shouted that I’d wait, but…”
“Ah……!”
Only now did Jaein regain her senses.
You don’t have to wait now?
Dohyuk, unaware of Jaein’s speed, gently stroked her head.
“Making a surprised face. Don’t worry, I won’t do anything. Absolutely.”
“Really?”
“Yeah.”
Nodding as if making a promise, Dohyuk continued.
“I’m a man of my word. No matter how long it takes, I’ll wait until Seo Jaein’s heart opens wide.”
“Team leader, I…”
Hasn’t it already opened wide?
You just have to notice, team leader.
Words she couldn’t bring herself to say out of embarrassment flooded Jaein’s chest.
Without even suspecting, Dohyuk laughed softly, placing his hand on Jaein’s head.
“So, trust me and be at ease. Don’t run away or anything.”
“……. ”
As Jaein’s complexion darkened rapidly, Dohyuk checked the time on the wall clock.
“Oh, it’s already midnight? Seo Jaein, you look really tired.”
“I-I’m fine.”
“You had a lot of work today, and you even went to the hospital, and meeting Yura at the tteokbokki restaurant. It’s understandable. Go rest soon.”
“I’m really okay…”
Dohyuk opened the door and politely ushered the hesitating Jaein inside.
Huh?
In a rush, Jaein, who was pushed into the room, turned back urgently to look at Dohyuk.
“Seo Jaein, good night.”
Without the usual good night kiss, Dohyuk closed the door without giving Jaein a chance to respond.
All of Jaein’s determined efforts were in vain.
Once again, the two found themselves spending a very innocent night.
“Chadohyuk, please just catch on. Do you have to hang a banner or something just because my heart has opened wide?”
Jaein covered her reddened face with the blankets as she collapsed onto the bed.
“It was really dangerous.”
Back in his room, Dohyuk sat on the sofa, pressing his forehead as if collapsing.
His chest boiled as if a volcano, and the intense heat didn’t seem to subside overnight.
A little while ago.
Dohyuk almost pushed his way into Jaein’s room.
“Now what? You scared Seo Jaein!”
Without realizing it, when the sincere desire to spend the night together emerged, Dohyuk felt it.
With that one word, he felt the trembling of Jaein, who was in his arms.
Seeing the fear-filled gaze of Jaein, caught in a trap like a frightened deer, regret immediately surged.
Two nights ago, during the company dinner.
Even when he casually brought up the topic like a joke, Jaein, who had fled in terror as if she had seen a ghost, was the same.
He had surprised her again.
‘She had a very troubled expression. Hah, I didn’t think I was this much of a beast….’
Dohyuk worried that he might have pushed too hard and that Jaein’s heart might close again.
Until now, when he was with other women, he was more like an emotionless robot than a beast.
But these days, when he was with Jaein, there were countless times when reason did not prevail.
Thanks to that, Dohyuk felt overflowing happiness in every moment with Jaein, but at the same time, it felt like walking on a steep cliff.
It was a precarious situation where he might willingly throw himself under a thousand-mile cliff at any moment.
“I’ll wait until Seo Jaein’s heart opens wide, and I’ll accept everything, not just my face. It’s okay.”
It was a promise he probably couldn’t keep.
Although he tried to smooth it over with a promise that slipped out of his mouth, judging by Jaein’s dark expression, he could tell she didn’t believe it at all.
‘Well, she made it clear that she wanted to spend the night together, so even I wouldn’t believe it.’
Dohyuk chuckled as he pondered over what he had said.
Nevertheless, the future was more of a problem.
He was in a precarious state, not knowing when the emotions he was barely holding back would explode.
‘This is all Seo Jaein’s fault. She’s too adorable; what can I do?’
Suddenly, he recalled Jaein’s sparkling eyes that had looked up at him.
Dohyuk’s face turned crimson in an instant.
Getting up from the sofa, Dohyuk went straight to the bedroom, thinking about Jaein as he collapsed onto the bed.
The next day, around Thursday evening.
Jinhyuk visited his hometown to meet his grandfather, Chairman Cha Dae-san.
Although he was tired from drinking with Sejeong until late last night, there was something he had to do today.
Because of what Sejeong had said last night.
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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