‘Check if the skirt is not flipped before going up. Don’t fall on the stairs. Don’t shake your hands when receiving the award. Just remember these. Oh Hyewon, you can do it!’
Seeing Hyewon, who was visibly tense, Juwon raised the corners of his mouth.
‘Don’t be nervous.’
As his soft gaze settled on her tense shoulders, her pounding heart calmed a little.
“Ms. Oh Hyewon from the Business Team, please come up to the stage. Employees, please give her a big round of applause.”
Clap, clap, clap, clap!
Hyewon tidied her skirt and walked confidently up to the stage.
Towards where Juwon was waiting.
“Ms. Oh Hyewon.”
Juwon descended from the stage to meet her.
A staff member who was waiting behind recited Hyewon’s achievements and the reasons for selecting her as a winner before handing over the certificate.
Juwon, holding the certificate in a navy case, faced Hyewon.
With slightly curved eyes, he extended his congratulations.
“Congratulations, Ms. Oh Hyewon.”
Well done, my girl.
“We wish endless development for DataS Korea and Ms. Oh Hyewon.”
“You did really well, our baby.
There was emotion in Oga’s gaze. His eyes expressed a sense of pride, as if wanting to boast to everyone in the neighborhood about how beautiful she looked.
“Thank you, President. I will continue to work hard in the future!”
Her two hands intertwined in the air.
After a light handshake, when she tried to withdraw her hand, Juwon exerted some force, gripping her hand.
With a gentle smile, his fingertips lightly explored, daringly making Hyewon’s heart pound.
‘You shouldn’t do this here, President.’
‘What does it matter? No one knows.’
‘Are you sure? Dozens of eyes are watching right now. Let go when you say something nice.’
Quickly pulling her hand away, Hyewon bowed to the employees.
A vigorous applause showered over her head.
[Star Icon]After the dinner, it was already eight o’clock.
With the certificate held close to her chest, Hyewon felt so proud that she felt full even without eating. She was so busy receiving congratulations and exchanging greetings that she didn’t notice when Juwon disappeared.
“Did the President go inside?”
“Yeah. It seemed like he was leaving around the end of the dinner. Hyewon, feeling good? Second round of drinks?”
Myunghwan made a ‘thud’ sound, pretending to empty a soju glass in one shot.
After a moment’s hesitation, Hyewon gently declined.
“I have something to attend to tonight. I’ll treat you all properly next time!”
“Oh, celebrating with the incentives you got? Is it going to be Hanwoo beef?”
“First round Hanwoo, second round tuna sashimi.”
“Cheers!”
The team members around clapped and cheered.
After most of the employees left the hall, Hyewon stood up last.
‘On a day like today, I should spend it with my boyfriend! But where on earth did he go?’
The reason Hyewon declined the second offer was none other than Juwon.
She wondered if he might be waiting nearby at the hotel, so she scanned the lobby thoroughly, but he was nowhere to be seen.
‘What’s going on? Did he really leave?’
Thinking of calling when there were no people around, Hyewon went out to the street to catch a taxi.
As the employees who left earlier had all caught taxis, there were no visible taxis at the moment.
Waiting for a taxi by the roadside, Hyewon looked at the certificate with a delighted gaze.
‘Finally, this is in my hands!’
Earlier, she couldn’t show how much she liked it in front of others and couldn’t even unfold the certificate.
Now that she was alone, she could enjoy it to her heart’s content.
“Look at this splendid figure. It’s good to look at two times, and it’s good to look at three times. Kya.”
Blowing a kiss to the case, Hyewon unfolded the certificate.
The first thing that caught her eye was a red Post-it note attached to the certificate.
[Come to room 3819.]“!”
Seeing the number 8 drawn like a snowman, she recognized it as Juwon’s handwriting.
Hyewon quickly closed the certificate, looked around as if expecting someone, and then reopened it.
“Come to room 3819? Where on earth is that?”
The first thing that came to mind was Juwon’s apartment. However, Juwon’s apartment was not on the 38th floor, and if he wanted to call her to his home, he would have left a note saying, ‘Come to my place.’
The next thing that came to mind was the company, but there was no 38th floor in the office building.
‘Where could it be?’
Hyewon’s head naturally tilted upward.
The hotel that rose like a cliff seemed to have more than 40 floors at a glance.
So, is he telling me to come to a hotel room now?
‘He seems like such a mischievous guy.’
Since his intention was so clearly understood, she casually shrugged it off.
She briefly considered pretending not to see the note for 0.1 seconds, but when she came to her senses, she was already in front of room 3819.
Ding dong! Ding dong!
Pressing the bell was frighteningly big hands emerging through the crack in the door, swiftly pulling Hyewon inside.
“Surprise!”
Hyewon, arms flailing like a paper doll, entered the room.
What came into view before Juwon’s face was the splendid scenery of the extravagant suite room.
“What is this place…?”
Oh my, she unequivocally had never seen such a luxurious hotel before.
For Hyewon, who had experienced no more than a standard, superior, and, if she musters up the courage, a deluxe room, this place was a whole new world.
“Well, it’s a suite room.”
“Wow, this is what a suite room looks like?”
Hyewon looked around the room like a country bumpkin.
The reception room, adorned with spotless marble, the panoramic window that reflected the night view, the glamorous chandelier hanging from the ceiling… The sofa in the center of the reception room was spacious enough for ten people to lie down comfortably.
“Why did you ask me to come here?”
“You probably know the reason.”
Leaning against the wall with his arms crossed, Juwon spread his arms.
“Come here.”
Under the white shirt, a firm chest spread out.
Forgetting what she had planned to do a moment ago, Hyewon eagerly ran towards him and embraced him in his broad arms.
“Oh, okay. I almost felt upset, thinking Oppa left first.”
“We have to celebrate.”
Embraced like a chick, she rested her head on his wide chest.
Juwon gently brushed away her hair, causing her heart to pound at the sound of his strong heartbeat.
Hyewon lifted her head to meet Juwon’s gaze.
“Did you prepare all this yourself?”
“You’re special, Oh Hyewon.”
Seeing him rent a suite room just for a congratulatory party, she couldn’t help but be moved.
“Thank you, really.”
Hyewon enjoyed a great sense of happiness, burying her face in Juwon’s chest.
Receiving a big award was certainly delightful, but the happiness Juwon provided was incomparable. It made her heart pound even more than receiving the award in front of over a hundred people.
In the midst of her overflowing happiness, the sight inside the room suddenly caught her eye.
“!”
What’s with those roses…
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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