It wasn’t forgivable that Kim Taejoon went crazy for Soeun and caused harm to her.
Heewook clenched his teeth tightly and balled his fists.
Time passed, and it was Thursday.
It was the day for a disaster response drill at the company. The annual event started at 9:30 AM and ended at 10 AM, so the actual work started at 10:30 AM. Although the team leader, who was sincere about disaster drills, told everyone to behave as if they were doing real work until 9:30 AM, there was no one working except for Jang Eunpyo. Soeun, while looking at travel photos and humorous posts, remembered that she hadn’t opened her personal email for a long time and accessed her personal email account.
Since it was the first time accessing it in two weeks, there were quite a few emails piled up. Over 50 emails, and almost all of them were spam. In between, one personal email caught her eye.
The email subject made Soeun’s heart race. Although she felt a bit uneasy about how he could have known her personal email address, she couldn’t resist opening it with a subject like this. Soeun clicked on the subject. However, the content inside was different from what Soeun had imagined.
The sender of the email was not Taejoon. It was Yang Heewook impersonating Kim Taejoon. Soeun refrained from mentioning Taejoon’s name in the email, fearing that Soeun might not open the email.
“Soeun, it’s me, Heewook.
Father has passed away. Last Sunday.
Exactly on Sunday morning, right after I went to Kim Taejoon’s apartment to meet him, Father passed away.
Something is strange at our house now. Since the day I went to see you, our house has collapsed, and we have incurred a debt of 22 billion won. Then, the day after Mother went to your house, our father had an accident. And finally, he passed away.
Kim Taejoon deliberately separated me and Choi Hyeonji to take you away from me, ruined our house by assigning people to me, killed our father to warn me, and even went to the United States to push for the merger of our company to revoke my lawyer qualification.
I went to find Kim Taejoon last Sunday to investigate the matter, and even though I didn’t contact him, Kim Taejoon immediately appeared. Kim Taejoon had people watching me. And on that day, he even said he would tear me apart and kill me. It’s hard to believe, but it’s true.
A person who, when harboring resentment, is a terrifying person who will repay tenfold or twentyfold. He’s a very dangerous man, Soeun. Be careful around you. Maybe he’s also watching you. Don’t trust that person.”
Soeun’s eyes turned red after checking the email. Heewook’s father had passed away. That was last Sunday morning.
Soeun didn’t believe Heewook’s words. But even if everything written in this email was false, the fact that her father had passed away would still be real.
Soeun recalled the events of last Sunday morning. Taejoon, who said he had come after exercising, wasn’t sweaty as usual and was neatly dressed. Now that she thought about it, it seemed like he hadn’t come after jogging. And there was a moment when he came home, and his expression stiffened briefly.
Did he confirm the death of Heewook’s father at that time?
Soeun didn’t think it was a big deal to receive such news.
‘Anyone can receive news like this.’
While praising him in her mind, another memory suddenly flashed. Taejoon, who lightly laughed, saying, “How would you kill a person?” She also remembered him confidently saying that there would be no more contact from Heewook. He seemed arrogant, as if holding Heewook’s freedom in his hands.
The fire alarm went off, and the disaster response drill began. Soeun quickly turned off her computer and followed the others. The first-floor employees were relatively calm compared to the others, but Soeun felt disoriented due to the shock of reading Heewook’s email. Although they had parted ways long ago, the sudden news that someone she had briefly known had passed away was shocking in itself.
Before she knew it, the people in front of her disappeared, and Soeun found herself alone. Absentmindedly moving, she ended up going to the basement.
“Where are you going?”
Someone called Soeun from behind. Soeun’s body leaned as she turned away from the grip of the person who pulled her. She nestled into his arms. It was Taejoon, whom she hadn’t seen often due to external schedules.
A cheerful laughter echoed gently from within his embrace.
“It’s an evacuation drill. Why are you going to the basement?”
Taejoon, who stood Soeun upright, teased her with a sunshine-like smile.
“Some people just don’t listen, huh?”
“…….”
“Han Soeun, the team leader, needs some special training.”
Anyway, meeting like this during dull work hours made him seem genuinely pleased.
Soeun didn’t laugh along with Taejoon but remained stiff, then quietly parted her lips.
“……Heewook’s father passed away.”
The joyful expression that was full of laughter immediately sank. His lips slightly parted.
“Oh.”
“Did you know?”
“How did you know, Soeunssi?”
Although Soeun asked first, he replied without hesitation.
“Heewook called. …On a different number.”
Why did she end up lying?
Perhaps she thought that if she told the truth, he might look into her email. Subconsciously?
His gaze sharpened.
“You shouldn’t answer any calls.”
“…I’m looking for my father. He’s supposed to be in the Philippines, but we lost contact a long time ago. So, I told the Philippine Embassy to contact me if they find my father. That’s why I pick up calls even from unsaved numbers.”
Soeun gave a plausible excuse. His night-colored pupils emitted a more ambiguous light. It was an expression that revealed nothing about what he might be thinking.
Soeun cautiously threw a rude question.
“By any chance, is Heewook’s father’s death related to Director?”
“No. Not at all.”
“…….”
“It’s true. I don’t do such things.”
Perhaps her response was awkward, as he fortified his gaze once again at her brief answer.
Soeun nodded quietly.
She believed him. Absolutely.
Soeun knew well that the one she had to trust was not Heewook but Kim Taejoon.
However, she couldn’t understand why she felt uneasy. It seemed like he was still hiding something.
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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