Jae In sent a desperate gaze to Do Hyuk, trying to stop him.
“Team leader, please! You can’t speak so straightforwardly!”
Do Hyuk’s tightly closed lips twitched ever so slightly.
Those few seconds of hesitation felt like hours to Jae In, and she felt her blood drying up as if in a drought.
Finally, raising one eyebrow, Do Hyuk opened his mouth.
“Assistant Manager Kang, why are you suddenly asking about that?”
“I think I saw you, team leader. Did you happen to be at Gwanghwamun Cinema World yesterday around 4:30, watching ?”
When the words came out of Na Hui’s mouth, Gyu Min’s gaze shifted to Jae In.
With an expression full of puzzlement.
Oh my goodness! If Gyu Min finds out about yesterday…
He would surely start thinking strangely about her and Do Hyuk.
“Team leader, please, it’s not true! I beg you!”
Jae In looked at Do Hyuk with desperate eyes.
If she acted rashly and misunderstood, it would only lead to more misunderstandings.
But if she remained silent, it would drive her crazy.
When Do Hyuk didn’t respond immediately, Na Hui asked again with an anxious voice.
“Team leader… is it true?”
Whenever she tried to uncover the truth, she couldn’t help but worry if her guess was correct.
While Na Hui anxiously stared at him, Do Hyuk casually spoke, looking at her.
“That’s correct.”
“Aaaaaah!”
Jae In silently screamed inside.
Her heartbeats, soaring uncontrollably, had reached an unrestrainable point.
“So the person who watched the movie with Assistant Manager Seo was the real team leader?”
With a ghostlike expression, Na Hui glared at Jae In and questioned.
The other team members also looked at Jae In with mouths agape.
While Jae In’s vision turned dark, Do Hyuk showed no signs of wavering.
Jae In was bubbling with excitement at the seemingly comfortable appearance of Do Hyuk.
Mr. Cha Do Hyuk, how did you manage in the professional world with such obliviousness, huh?
Ah, I see. You’re the heir, so there was no need for you to engage in social life.
Oh, my goodness. My mistake. I overlooked the fact that it’s Cha Do Hyuk.
But it can’t crumble like this.
In a fleeting moment,
Jae In activated her brain circuits and desperately searched for a way to escape.
With the determination to get out of this crisis by any means necessary, after a frantic search, she finally came up with one solution that sparkled in her mind.
It’s called “Snatch and Let Go.”
Jae In exclaimed with a startled expression.
“Oh my, Team leader, were you also there at that time? What a coincidence, right?”
“A coincidence?”
Do Hyuk narrowed his eyes.
“Yes! I was there yesterday too, on a date. With a guy introduced by my friend. His name is Jo Hyun Joon.”
Hastily fabricated, the vocal name of the rock band BOC.
She briefly regretted mentioning the name, but she was willing to go the extra mile to increase the credibility of her words.
Ever since she started living with Do Hyuk, Jae In had been improving her acting skills day by day.
“Is that really true?”
Na Hui looked at Jae In and Do Hyuk alternately with a suspicious gaze.
“It’s true! Assistant Manager Kang, why would you even imagine something like that? We’re not in a romantic relationship, and why would we watch a movie together? Right, Team leader?”
Jae In rolled her eyes at Do Hyuk as if reprimanding him.
“If I go this far, then please catch on and cooperate!”
Pfft.
Suddenly, Do Hyuk let out a snort.
Do Hyuk’s smiling face was a rare sight, like rain during a drought, and everyone looked at him with surprise.
For a moment, even his laughter subsided.
Do Hyuk stiffened his expression and casually said, “Ah, Manager Seo was also there. On a date.”
“…Yes.”
Although it felt uncomfortable that Do Hyuk emphasized the word ‘date.’
Sure, a date.
Regardless, Jae In could finally wipe off the cold sweat.
Her heart rate, which had exceeded dangerous levels, gradually slowed down.
It’s finally over now.
Relieved, Jae In met eyes with Gyu Min.
Gyu Min smiled bitterly and averted his gaze.
It was only natural for him to feel bad knowing that she had watched the movie she had planned to watch with him, with another guy.
“Phew, there’s nothing I can do. I’ll explain later.”
But how?
She couldn’t honestly tell the team leader that she was forced to go and watch the movie.
Another dilemma made Jae In’s head throb.
At that moment, Na Hui persistently grabbed onto it, still not satisfied.
“Then, Team leader, who did you watch the movie with?”
“Do I have to answer that? It’s personal.”
When Do Hyuk drew a firm line, Na Hui’s momentum was instantly crushed.
“No, I mean, it’s not about that…”
Sensing the opportunity, Jae In quickly intervened.
“That’s right, we should respect each other’s privacy. It wouldn’t feel good for Assistant Manager Kang to find out about your intentions of constantly bothering her and the fact that you went on a date yesterday. Right, Assistant Manager Kang?”
In that moment, Na Hui’s face turned pale, and her eyes bulged as if they were about to pop out.
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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