“…Huh?”
Ina asked with a startled look.
“It feels like that guy might wait till morning, so it’s better if we leave together.”
“Uh? Oh…”
Juwon’s reasoning made sense, but Ina’s face showed her utter surprise.
She had never planned on Juwon staying over at her place.
“Um… but, that, um…”
Seeing Ina’s confusion, Juwon, fully understanding her feelings, gently said,
“I know. It’s very sudden and you’re flustered. But the situation is a bit unique right now, and if I leave, that guy might do something to you.”
“Yeah. I know… that you’re worried about me.”
“It wasn’t planned, but you don’t have to think too hard about it. You used to come over to my place when we were young and stay over a lot. Just think of it as the other way around this time. Like when we were kids.”
Ina, touching her cheek, replied to Juwon’s kind words.
“No, it’s not that I’m thinking too seriously… It’s just so sudden. And well, we’re friends… You can come over and stay. Plus, like you said, the situation is special right now…”
“Yeah. That’s how you should think about it.”
‘And besides, I’d have to pay for a taxi again, so I’d feel bad.’
Ina muttered to herself and removed her hand from her cheek.
“I’ll sleep on the sofa, so don’t worry too much. If I wake up and he’s gone, I’ll leave on my own.”
Ina then suddenly waved her hand in alarm.
“Uh? No, why sleep on the sofa when there’s a room? You can sleep in the small room. And have something to eat in the morning, too. I can’t just send away someone who’s been helping me like that.”
Juwon nodded with a smile.
“Alright. Then, could you lend me a toothbrush? I need to wash up a bit.”
“Ah. There are toothbrushes in the bathroom cabinet. You can take one from there. And just wait a moment.”
Ina went into the small room and opened the top drawer.
She took out a black long-sleeve shirt and sweatpants for men and brought them to the living room.
“You can wear these. They belonged to Youngmin, my cousin who sometimes stays over. They should fit you.”
“Youngmin?”
Juwon squinted his eyes and asked.
“Yeah. He’s my cousin. He comes over to stay sometimes. It should fit you roughly.”
Juwon silently looked at the clothes and then took them.
“Alright. Thanks. I’ll go wash up first.”
“Okay.”
After Juwon entered the bathroom, Ina went back to the balcony and looked down.
Junghoon’s car was still parked in the same spot.
Unable to fathom his thoughts, Ina glared at the car and sighed, turning away.
As she turned to look at the bathroom, a strange feeling came over her.
He was a friend, but after all, she had brought a man to her house, and now he was in her bathroom washing up. It felt oddly peculiar.
Shaking her head as if to clear her thoughts, Ina went into her room.
After changing into simple clothes, she went to the kitchen and opened the fridge.
Thinking about what to prepare for breakfast, she heard the bathroom door open.
Turning around, she saw Juwon coming out, drying his hair with a towel.
As he dried his hair, Juwon looked at Ina standing in the kitchen.
Ina looked back silently.
Droplets of water rolled down Juwon’s wet bangs, over his forehead, past his prominent nose, and slipped into his full lips.
“…….”
As her gaze lowered involuntarily, Ina saw Juwon wearing Youngmin’s clothes.
Since Juwon was significantly larger in both body and height than Youngmin, the black t-shirt tightly hugged his frame.
This revealed his impressive chest muscles and strong arms.
The training pants were also tight on Juwon, exposing his solid thighs.
Ina’s assumption that they would roughly fit him was a big miscalculation, as Juwon’s body clearly demonstrated.
And Ina, watching him, unwittingly swallowed hard.
But the gulp sounded so loud in the silence that her face instantly turned red.
Feeling embarrassed, Ina quickly turned her head and closed the fridge.
“How about toast for breakfast tomorrow?”
Though she seemed to be asking herself, facing the fridge, Juwon looked at her curiously and then replied, “Yeah.”
“So, I’m going to wash up and sleep too. You can sleep in that small room. I’ve laid out a blanket, so just use that.”
“Okay. Got it.”
“Then, good night.”
Ina said and quickly passed by Juwon into the bathroom.
Juwon watched the bathroom door for a moment before entering the room Ina had pointed out.
A cute patterned comforter was laid out on a thick mattress.
Lying on the mattress and staring at the ceiling, he heard the bathroom door open after a while.
Then the living room lights went out, and the sound of a door closing followed.
Juwon, in the silent darkness, tried to sleep but strangely couldn’t fall asleep.
Despite turning over and closing his eyes, sleep didn’t seem to come easily.
So, he just lay there, eyes closed, smelling the faint scent of fabric softener from the blanket.
Ina was also having trouble sleeping.
The feeling of lying in the same house as Juwon was too new, and the image of Juwon’s physique she had seen earlier kept replaying in her mind.
“Ah, what’s wrong with me? Am I a pervert?”
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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