With her hands placed on the blue shirt, Youngja smiled with a calm face.
“You’ve arrived, CEO Choi?”
“Congratulations on your son’s marriage, Mrs. Choi.”
Youngja, who laughed cheerfully, shook hands with the man, expressing her gratitude.
“Thank you for coming all this way.”
Continuously welcoming guests, Youngja busily greeted them.
“Your son is impressive, isn’t he, Chaewon?”
“Haha, actually, I wanted my son to be a celebrity. But he happened to pass the bar exam because he’s so smart.”
Proudly boasting about her lawyer son and her daughter-in-law, Youngja suddenly turned her gaze and checked the empty seat next to her for a long time, then surveyed the surroundings.
“No, where did Jenny go again? Guests keep coming in.”
Mumbling to herself, when Jemin, who was dressed in a tuxedo, greeted her with a bow, Youngja turned her head.
“But she’s not coming in properly. She had a restless night and is upset, but where is she going that she’s not coming in like this? It’s worrisome.”
Indifferent to whether the dream was good or bad, Jemin turned his head as if it didn’t matter.
Spotting a precious acquaintance coming towards him, Jemin briskly approached and respectfully greeted the man.
“You’ve arrived, senior? Thank you for coming all this way.”
“Congratulations. I was a bit surprised because you came in so suddenly.”
“Haha, yes, that’s how it turned out.”
“No, I didn’t even know you got divorced. But suddenly, a remarriage.”
Jemin, at the unnecessary chatter of his senior, scanned the surroundings after a quick glance and smiled.
“You never know about life.”
“Right. Anyway, congratulations.”
Jemin, who smiled nicely, glanced at the man and carefully opened his mouth.
“But, senior, when should I know exactly when I’ll start my fixed appearance on the broadcast as a legal consultant from next month?”
“Mom! Mom! Mom!”
Jemin, who was shaking hands and greeting, frowned at the sight of Jenny running towards him from a distance.
“Hey, No Jenny. Can’t you be calm today? Many important guests are coming, and you’re running around like that in a hanbok.”
“Ugh, can’t I run in a hanbok?”
Jemin rolled his tongue and turned his head.
“Jenny, where have you been and now that you’ve come back. Don’t leave your seat and quickly stand next to me! Why are you here for Gong Hyuk? We don’t even know anyone from that side.”
“Mom! Do you know what I like about Gong Hyuk?”
“That actor who appeared in the drama ‘Time Flies’?”
“Uh-huh. It’s amazing, really! I went to the bathroom and when I came out, Gong Hyuk passed by! Wow, I took a picture with Gong Hyuk? Haha, look at this!”
Although Jenny bragged while showing the picture, Youngja, who became anxious about the approaching guests, pushed Jenny’s phone away.
“Don’t talk nonsense and stand next to me as soon as the guests arrive! Why is Gong Hyuk coming here? We don’t know anyone from that side.”
“No way. Are there a lot of celebrities there? Next door, there’s a party for the entertainment company’s founding anniversary. So, singers and actors are here now! You know Nam Jin-pil, whom Mom likes? That singer is here too?”
“Me, Nam Jin-pil?”
“Yeah!”
Although he glanced away briefly, Youngja’s gaze returned to the same place due to an approaching guest.
“Oh! You’ve arrived. Thank you. Thanks.”
“Huh, Mom!”
At Jenny’s surprised voice when she saw someone else, Youngja gestured as if telling her to stay still.
“Haha, that’s right. Your face seems to have improved more than when I saw you at your son’s wedding. Tell me if you’re eating something good. I want some too. Hoho.”
“Mom, look over there!”
“Oh, why is she like that.”
Pushing Jenny aside and smiling at the approaching guest, Youngja pretended to be pleased.
“Mom, something big happened. There, sister!”
“Yeah, yeah. Okay, be sure to eat before you go. Hoot.”
After greeting the guest, Youngja immediately turned her head toward Jenny with a determined expression.
“Why are you like this today!”
Following Jenny’s gaze, Youngja’s pupils gradually widened.
“Who, who, who is that?”
“Who else, who is she? She’s my new sister. What do I do, Oppa?”
Startled by the name Hee-joo, Jemin, who had been smiling, stiffened.
The woman entering with a tight white dress, a long, neatly tied hair, and a slim and elegant figure was undoubtedly Kim Hee-joo.
“That, that’s who.”
Turning his head at Hee-joo’s name, Jemin’s smiling lips suddenly tightened.
With the dazzling appearance, the attention of the people around finally focused on Chae-won standing in front of Jemin.
“Why are you so nervous?”
“Kim Hee-joo, how…”
“That, I think I should ask you. To you, who suddenly marries another woman without even getting a divorce, I think I should ask.”
A bewildered Jemin looked around.
Several guests nearby were gaping with their mouths wide open. Among them were connections that should not show a bad image under any circumstances.
“Hee-joo. Aren’t you going to close your mouth?”
“Oh, should I say it louder?”
Holding onto Chae-won’s arm with a pale face, Jemin whispered to her in a trembling voice.
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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