He thought about giving Soeun a gift and stopped by the department store. While there, he unexpectedly encountered Yang Heewook and Choi Hyunji. Although he knew that Yang Heewook was a similar guy, meeting him face to face again made him irritated. After leaving the department store, Taejoon headed to meet Soeun. He called her with a tinge of jealous resentment. He was anxious, wondering if something had happened, or if she refused to come out due to stomach discomfort. With the jealousy of wanting to embrace her immediately, he suggested casually watching a movie, pretending to be indifferent. He was relieved when she accepted his proposal, not knowing how fortunate he was.
When he’s holding her, there’s a sense of relief as if she belongs to him, but when they are apart, he becomes anxious frequently. No, every moment except when their bodies touch is uneasy. Even when he finally embraced her, she seems like she could leave abruptly at any moment. Even now, unseen by the eyes.
As he stood up from the chair and started to walk toward the restroom, a woman approached and spoke.
“Excuse me… Are you an actor by any chance?”
“No.”
Taejoon replied coldly, true to his original personality without any pretense.
Nevertheless, the woman didn’t leave and continued with her questions.
“Then are you preparing to become an actor?”
Taejoon didn’t bother to respond at all. He had no intention of granting recognition to someone he didn’t know.
“No, I’m not a strange person. I’m from an entertainment management agency. Your mask is so nice. Excuse me, but how old are you?”
The woman handed him her business card and asked another question. Glancing at the business card, Taejoon recognized it as an entertainment planning agency he had heard of once or twice. Meanwhile, he saw Soeun coming out of the restroom.
Taejoon approached Soeun but stopped abruptly, changed his mind, put on a smile, and asked the woman.
“How old do I look?”
“Are you in your mid-20s? About twenty-six?”
Soeun, who had been coming closer, hesitated to see Taejoon’s sudden change. There was hardly any change in her expression. On the contrary, Taejoon’s face, which had been smiling, relaxed. When Soeun, who had been hesitating, hid herself in a corner, Taejoon didn’t even properly greet the woman and walked briskly toward Soeun.
“Why are you there?”
“Uh…”
When Taejoon called Soeun and followed her, she raised her head with a bewildered expression.
“Did you finish talking?”
“Why are you hiding?”
“I thought… I met someone strange.”
Soeun replied with eyes full of confusion.
Taejoon’s heart, which had considered provoking jealousy with a playful spirit, cooled down firmly.
“Miss Han Soeun doesn’t get jealous?”
“What?”
“…”
“Why would I? Why.”
Soeun answered without blinking. Honestly, it wasn’t a perfect sincerity. She didn’t want to be caught avoiding someone she knew because she didn’t want Taejoon to know about her feelings. On the other hand, she was curious about who the woman was, chatting with such clear eyes. However, before Soeun’s jealousy could deepen, she turned her head. The patience cultivated during her relationship with Heewook made Soeun strong. She had the ability to close off annoying emotions.
As if Taejoon was disappointed by Soeun’s answer, he sighed heavily and said.
“I do it, you know.”
“…”
“Miss Han Soeun should try it too.”
Soeun found it intriguing that he, who was demanding annoying jealousy, was so honest in expressing emotions.
Even after taking on the ring AS (After Service), Hyunji remained sullen. Heewook also couldn’t resolve the anger. In the end, Heewook and Hyunji couldn’t reconcile and broke up.
As midnight approached and he didn’t receive any messages from Hyunji, Heewook became even more upset.
“If your dad chips in 2 billion won for the house, will you agree? I haven’t even received 2 billion won yet, but I spent 5.5 billion won, no, 60 million won on your proposal.
He didn’t even get my mom a 5 million won bag.
I felt like I was going to die because it was such a waste of money.
The face of Director Kim Taejoon, who was happily choosing a ring today, came to mind, and I became even more upset.
Heewook took out a bottle of soju that was stuck in the corner of the refrigerator. Without even thinking about getting some side dishes, he poured soju into his empty stomach. The alcohol hit him.
As a warm sensation spread through his body, he thought of Han Soeun.
Oddly, on the day they broke up, the unpleasant scene where Kim Taejoon hugged Han Soeun in front of the hotel came to mind again. And the smile of Kim Taejoon, who was choosing a ring today, overlapped with that memory.
Kim Taejoon’s woman can’t be Han Soeun. They didn’t break up because of that incident, and they wouldn’t be dating now.
Imagining Han Soeun beside Kim Taejoon, I felt inexplicably sorry for her.
If I knew we would break up like this, I should have tried it at least once.
‘Why didn’t I do it?’
There was plenty of time.
She was a woman with delicate skin. If he asked her, it seemed like the mark would be engraved on her white skin forever. Not touching, not touching even a single hair, fearing that touching it would blind him to the next desire. He had to make her have an abortion, but what if Han Soeun got pregnant in the meantime?
Now that it has come to this, everything seemed regrettable.
Sighing deeply, drinking the alcohol, Malhee came out to the kitchen.
Since Hyunji informed her about virtual currency information, Malhee had been spending exciting times. As Hyunji said, it seemed like the coin would hit 20 million won soon. It was a world that operated 24 hours a day without a start or finish, so her health was at risk, but no one knew it yet.
Looking at the coin curve all the time, Malhee, who came out for a moment to drink water, gave Heewook a nag.
“Why are you drinking alone? Without any side dishes.”
Even though she scolded, she was still a lovely son.
Malhee took out kimchi from the refrigerator and asked Heewook.
“Son, why are you so sulky? Do you have any worries?”
“Mom.”
Heewook, who sighed deeply, answered with a choked voice.
“I think I still have lingering feelings for Han Soeun.”
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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