I want to kiss you. I want to match my lips with every part of your body. I want to check all the colors and sounds you have. I want to take you to a secret place where no other guys can approach, where only I can see you. I hope no one else has entered your life except for me.
But you won’t listen, will you?
“There’s nothing I can do as the team leader.”
Knowing his selfish nature well, Taejun chose a suitable compromise. That was all he could say.
Just stay as Han Soeun. That’s what I want.
Feeling like the conflict would drag on over something trivial, Taejun suggested dinner.
“I’m hungry. We should eat dinner, is that okay?”
“Director, I have something to say.”
However, Soeun still didn’t move.
Taejun’s steps also stopped again.
Watching from a few steps away, Soeun was trembling alone in this hot and humid space as if she were alone in winter. Yet, her gaze directed at him seemed to hint at a warm temperature.
As if hesitating whether to speak or not, she opened and closed her mouth like someone contemplating. Eventually, she finally uttered her voice.
“Director, I think I like you.”
A moment as if everything in the world had come to a standstill.
“I’ve only broken up with my ex-boyfriend for a few days, and I think you might reject me for saying this.”
Soeun gathered courage. It was a feeling that couldn’t be endured any longer.
She had to convey this agony to him.
I am also human.
When you change so drastically, I don’t know why my heart, which used to beat out of fear, now just beats without knowing why. Just because I failed in love once doesn’t mean all men look like mud or seaweed. I had to make it clear to him.
“I think my heart has become too weak.”
And she had to organize this agony. Soeun knew well that she should not be swayed anymore by this cold, indifferent, warm, and affectionate man.
“Moving to the new team wasn’t voluntary, but I know TF team members can voluntarily leave. I’m sorry, but I’ll quit the TF team. Now, I’ll focus only on my actual work.”
A deepening certainty.
If it continues like this, it will become an irreparable feeling.
Let’s organize it quickly. I won’t grow the wounds anymore.
“I’ll take care of it. I apologize to Director for having personal feelings.”
This time, let’s cut it off properly, early. I won’t waver anymore.
“I’ll send you the money for the lenses tomorrow, and although it may take a while for the vase, I’ll make sure to compensate you with money.”
How many times will I kick the blanket at home today? Can I go to work properly tomorrow?
What should I say when I go to pick up the glasses? Can I wear those glasses around?
As opaque as the future, everything in front of me quickly became blurred.
“I’ll take the bus. Thank you for today. Goodbye.”
Soeun finished speaking, bowed slightly, and turned away.
It’s okay. It was something that had to be said someday. Well done, Soeun.
Today is embarrassing, but tomorrow will be okay.
Although she continued to console herself internally, tears still leaped out of her.
Even when parting with Yang Hee-wook, tears didn’t fall, but now, a few days after a fleeting love, this happened.
Soeun, who failed in love once and lingered in unrequited love again.
I don’t hate you so much for being so lingering.
I don’t think you’re a fool. I know you did your best today.
I will always support you as you keep walking steadily.
Well done, Soeun.
It was an extremely hot day. The air was so stifling that breathing felt blocked even when standing still. The weather had gone crazy, and there was also a lack of sleep.
So, did I go crazy and see an illusion? Did I hear nonsense?
Throughout Soeun’s voice, Taejun felt no sense of reality. It wasn’t until she threw out her confession explosively and turned away that he suddenly came to his senses.
Approaching her with a firm step, Taejun immediately took Soeun’s hand. Her fragile body, as if it would collapse when the wind blew, turned around as he pulled her.
Taejun’s eyes, facing her, widened. Soeun’s eyes were sparkling like a window after rain. It was a moment when the delicate dew clinging to the edge of her eyes was about to trickle down. A woman who used to hold back her tears even when there were issues with her ex-boyfriend.
Even in a moment that felt as if his head had gone numb, her face was so beautiful that it angered him.
I will continue to make this woman cry for myself.
“Why like this…”
“…”
“Why do you make it so difficult?”
Unable to articulate properly, he opened his mouth after letting out a rough sigh.
“Why are you always so sincere?”
If only you were a little weaker. If only you were as twisted as me.
The woman, so pure and diligent that she could make him emotional every moment, who knew how to be polite and worked hard in whatever she was told to do, was too resented.
He shouldn’t reach out his hand.
It will be the beginning that predicts the end. Like the carefully stacked dominoes that collapse everything, even what has been guarded may be lost in vain. The closer you get, the more certain it is that there will be a sickening heart.
So, although she knew she shouldn’t reach out her hand.
Now he stood in a place he couldn’t stop.
“Are you going to talk and run away?”
Soeun, who didn’t understand his intentions for grabbing her, felt even more dazed than right after her confession.
It was the first time she had seen Kim Taejun, the director, look so desperate.
No matter what happened in my domain, even if a fire broke out in the company, he always shouted but acted calmly like an experienced firefighter. It was the first time she had seen the eyes of a man so shaken.
Appearing as if he were self-destructing, his expression, which seemed like a surrender to everything, was beautiful yet pitiful. Somehow, the thought that he, who had everything, was somehow unsuitable came to her.
She intended to turn away with a clean heart by presenting her embarrassed feelings, but now that she was held like this, her initially easy heart quickly weakened again.
Han Soeun, what are you going to do now?
As the strength increased in the hand that held her, the desire to be pulled away blindly grew. Soeun, unknowingly, grabbed his arm.
Moments of fear and worry crumbled in the hot air.
Taejun lowered his body and wrapped his arms around Soeun’s shoulders. In that large and comfortable embrace, which used to comfort her after parting with Yang Hee-wook and leaving the hotel, the pounding sound of her heart resounded like an earthquake. It was a definite acceptance of the heart rather than any words.
Soeun felt like she could melt away in that embrace like summer ice cream.
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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