As soon as Ruby vanished, Hyeju shouted in frustration. Hearing such a ridiculous story, she was dumbfounded at first, then bewildered, and finally angry.
“Why are you calling someone out of the blue and saying something like that?”
When I saw Seungwon’s face, which was filled with memories, I became even angrier. The meaning behind his “slept” comment was crystal clear.
It was different from when he fell asleep while tossing and turning in the hideout during the pig camp.
“Yesterday… You weren’t the one who took me home, right?”
Seungwon asked with a perplexed expression.
“No.”
“The person who came to the squat house, it wasn’t you?”
“It must have been Dahee. Are you even confused about the person you’re dating?”
“No, it was definitely you….”
“Why would I go there? I haven’t been there since the fire incident.”
“….Really?”
“Why would I lie about something like that? If you’re so suspicious, ask the boss.”
Hyeju jumped as if she had heard a terrible sound.
“It seems like you haven’t sobered up yet. Try to leave early and rest.”
Hyeju turned around.
“Just a moment, Hyeju!”
Seungwon grabbed Hyeju’s wrist in his urgent state. She, who would have remained silent in the past, was startled and shook off his grip.
“Oh, why are you like this today? Knowing how much Dahee and I care about you!”
“Dahee doesn’t matter.”
“Hey, Kang Seungwon.”
“We broke up.”
Hyeju replied with a bewildered face.
“We broke up?”
“Yes, we did.”
Silence filled the air.
Hyeju knew that the relationship between Dahee and Seungwon wasn’t going smoothly, but she didn’t expect them to break up.
“So that’s why Dahee looked upset.”
Now she finally understood the complicated situation that had been deteriorating for Seungwon.
“Aren’t you going to ask why we broke up?”
Seungwon looked at Hyeju with a subdued gaze.
“There must have been a reason for the breakup. You two should sort out your own affairs.”
To be honest, I was curious too.
However, Hyeju didn’t want to hear it. She felt anxious. She felt like Seungwon’s desperate face, which she had never seen before, would mention my name as the reason for the breakup.
Just like Dahee, she would blame me.
“It was you too, Hyeju.”
And that anxiety became a reality.
“Come to think of it… It was you. It’s ironic to say it now….”
“It’s not ironic at all. Kang Seungwon.”
Hyeju felt like her heart was about to burst.
Now, why?
When she desperately wanted to hear it, she looked elsewhere, but now, why on earth?
“What do you want from me now?”
Hyeju glared at Seungwon with teary eyes.
She had secretly loved him for almost ten years. Thinking about it made her smile, seeing him made her heart flutter, and being together made her happy. Missing the timing to confess a couple of times, she settled by his side as a friend, thinking that it was fine like this.
Love left neglected like dusty bookshelves, growing, aging, and wearing out. It wasn’t bad as it was. Her heart, which used to beat so fast, became comfortable, and she actually liked it.
After finding out that Seungwon was dating Dahee, she made constant efforts to suppress her feelings. Like a habit, she tried to hold back her gaze toward him and be indifferent to his news.
There were days when she shed tears and nights when she tossed and turned.
After enduring such days for a while, she finally managed to forget him.
Now, she could finally say that she was okay.
But why are you talking nonsense like this?
“Come to think of it, it was me? Why are you saying something that doesn’t even sound believable so confidently?”
“You know my personality too. I didn’t know I could be this foolish….”
“Do you never think that your conclusion might be wrong? Can you be so sure that this conclusion, as foolish as it is, is the correct one?”
Seungwon lowered his head, looking at Hyeju, who was spreading her sharp criticism in an uncharacteristic manner.
He tried to endure it, but his eyes kept welling up.
“I’m sorry….”
He felt sorry as if it were a habit.
As a late realization of love, he became a sinner in everyone’s eyes and could only repeat apologies.
“Let’s consider today’s events as if they didn’t happen.”
Bang!
Hyeju opened the door and left first.
Seungwon sat down on the emergency stairs and cried. When he realized who the woman who left hair on his shoulder was, it became even harder to breathe.
“Crazy bastard. Even if I have to endure insults, you’re a cheap bastard.”
Since when had life been so burdensome?
He wasn’t even a child, yet tears flowed so easily.
Knock, knock.
Juwon tapped the table.
“What are you doing?”
Hyeju, who was absentmindedly moving her chopsticks, snapped back to reality.
“Oh, sorry, I was lost in thought for a moment.”
“Why are you lost in thought like that? Are you just wasting away in front of a plate of food?”
Goodness gracious, she was lost in thought while staring blankly at a plate of food.
Hyeju, who had committed an unforgettable incident that would never happen again in her life, awkwardly scratched her head, feeling embarrassed.
“I’m sorry. Something strange happened today, so I was lost in thought.”
Seungwon’s words from earlier echoed in Hyeju’s mind.
“It was you too, Hyeju.”
His feelings, which she couldn’t even imagine, struck her like a truck.
At first, she didn’t understand what he meant, and later, she thought it was a joke. It was surprising, bewildering, and honestly, it made her feel resentful.
If you want to have such a conversation, do it when I really need it. Why say such things now when nothing can change?
Hyeju felt excited and happy just thinking about Juwon. When she decided to date Seungwon’s older brother, she thought it was fortunate that her hidden crush wasn’t revealed to Seungwon.
Just like the beginning, if she quietly accepted it on her own, it would end there. There would be no obstacles.
But later, her feelings were unexpectedly exposed, and she started worrying, even about Seungwon’s feelings that she didn’t really want to know. Liking a friend’s older brother and liking the older brother of someone who likes her were different issues.
It became even more uncomfortable when she looked at it from a distance. And Hyeju didn’t want to hide such feelings from Juwon.
“I met Seungwon.”
After taking a deep breath, Hyeju opened her mouth.
“Well… um, please don’t be surprised for now and listen. It might sound absurd, but I think you should know, oppa.”
In reality, she had contemplated for a long time before speaking. She knew how foolish it was to bring up the past when they had just become a couple.
Moreover, since they were siblings, it couldn’t be a more delicate issue. But Hyeju believed that Juwon would eventually find out about this problem. If it was a problem that would be revealed anyway, it was cleaner to confess it in her own words.
Thump, thump. Her heart pounded like a drum. It was strange why she was so nervous when she hadn’t done anything wrong. Since stalling would make it even more difficult to speak, Hyeju blurted it out, keeping her gaze fixed on the floor.
“Seungwon likes me.”
She bowed her head and couldn’t bring herself to observe Juwon’s reaction. However, the chilling silence on the desk felt vividly present.
Hyeju tightly clenched her sweaty hands and spoke as if confessing a crime.
“I knew that I had a crush on him for a long time… sigh, I don’t understand why he’s bringing up unnecessary things and shaking people up.”
There was a long silence.
No reaction at all, as if he didn’t say anything and just left. Hyeju slowly lifted her gaze, dropping her eyes.
Juwon was staring at Hyeju with his arms crossed.
But his gaze was extremely cold.
“Shaken?”
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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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