The next morning, Chaewon, wearing small droplet-shaped earrings, stood up and looked at herself in the mirror. Wearing a white sleeveless dress that revealed her shoulders, Chaewon adjusted her hair with her hands and headed to the front door. Putting her feet into sandals, Chaewon reached for the front door handle when she heard the door next to hers close with a bang. After a brief pause, Chaewon, as if making up her mind, pushed the door and came out.
Yugeon, who had turned his head naturally, was dressed in a well-fitted navy suit. Chaewon, momentarily lost in thought by his captivating appearance, soon greeted him.
“Did you sleep well?”
“I doubt it.”
Chaewon, who knew why without asking, ended the conversation with a quiet cough.
The elevator that had slid down from the 45th floor opened with a ding.
A woman in her mid-30s who was already inside, with her head bowed, was completely absorbed in her phone. The two of them naturally entered the elevator.
“Did you sleep well, Miss Chaewon?”
With her gaze fixed ahead, the woman casually asked, and Yugeon, who was nonchalantly questioning, turned his head towards the woman, catching her attention away from her phone.
As if surprised by the unexpected presence in their apartment, the woman briefly glanced at Chaewon, then turned back to her phone.
“Yes, I slept well.”
“Can you really sleep well after how long we talked yesterday?”
Chaewon, surprised, turned her head to the woman instead of Yugeon, who was not present, as predicted. The woman, who seemed equally surprised, couldn’t focus on her phone and looked at Yugeon before turning her gaze back to her phone.
“Well, we did talk a lot yesterday.”
“We didn’t just talk a lot.”
Chaewon, with her face flushed, urgently turned her head to Yugeon.
Now, she knew she couldn’t avoid it, and it was also his pressure not to be cowardly anymore.
As the kiss deepened yesterday, it was challenging for them to go to each other’s homes, and Chaewon, like Yugeon, couldn’t sleep deeply.
“If I were the type to reject, I wouldn’t have pretended not to know since our first kiss.”
Yugeon finally turned his head towards Chaewon.
As they gazed at each other, the elevator door opened with a ding.
The woman, who had been holding her breath the whole time, quickly exited the elevator.
Chaewon, who also turned her head in a hurry, quickly left the elevator.
She admitted her feelings to him, and their relationship had changed.
Now, she didn’t know what to do, but she had to go to work…
“Well, have a good day.”
After a casual greeting to Yugeon, Chaewon sat in her car.
Feeling a bit disoriented while pulling the seatbelt, the passenger seat door suddenly opened.
“Oh.”
As Yugeon, sitting in the passenger seat, turned his head naturally, Chaewon, flustered, suddenly felt like the car was filled with something.
“Meanie. I don’t think I can do anything if I leave like this.”
Yugeon, who approached without hesitation, embraced Chaewon’s cheek and naturally kissed her.
The deepening soft kiss felt even more sensual than yesterday.
Pausing for a moment, as if kissing her lips were quenching a thirst, he spoke.
“I’ll be late today. I gave in yesterday, so.”
Chaewon, who was about to say something, had her lips sucked back into Yugeon’s.
Only then did Chaewon realize that his words were a notification. In the heated breath, she felt a dizzying sensation and slowly closed her eyes.
She thought of the kiss as an inevitable delay.
“Ugh, my head.”
Jaemin, getting up from bed, held his head as if it would shatter and groaned.
When he opened his eyes with difficulty and looked around, Rona, wearing a loose dress, stood expressionless.
Come to think of it, this familiar place was Rona’s bedroom.
“What? How did I sleep here? Yesterday, I…”
“I drank with Kim Hee-joo. She contacted me like crazy, so I came out with Kim Hee-joo.”
Jaemin, blinking his eyes slowly, urgently began to make excuses.
“Oh, no, Hee-joo wanted to meet first. It’s a matter of…”
“I saw the text she sent to herself. She showed it to me. She’s clinging to herself like crazy.”
“What?”
“Hee-joo showed it to me. She said you’re hanging onto her like this.”
Looking at Jaemin’s vacant expression, Rona spoke in a composed voice.
“Maybe she already noticed something between us.”
“That’s not it. She can’t lie. Even a little thing gives her away, and she starts crying. She would never do that.”
Confident voice. How could he be a lawyer? Well, he studied, but for the past few months, he hadn’t had any clients.
Jaemin, who lacked sensitivity, did not have many clients asking him to handle their cases due to his low winning percentage.
“Hee-joo, maybe there’s another man besides me?”
“What nonsense.”
Again, a confident voice.
It was a face that wouldn’t believe it unless seen with my own eyes.
“She has no chance to meet another man except me. Hee-joo likes me so much.”
“Don’t just believe blindly; at least, try a test. I saw Hee-joo going out with a man yesterday, so.”
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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