Desperate for a Catch (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 65
Chairman Jo’s private residence in Hannam-dong was known as the most expensive house in the entire country.
Haerakwon. Passed down from the previous chairman to the present, this place was truly the exclusive domain of only the undisputed head of Jangkyung Group.
In the kitchen of that house, Madam Jin Joo was preparing cold noodles.
It was because Chairman Jo, who lately had no appetite at all, had returned from a business trip and immediately asked for spicy mixed noodles.
Jung Suk sharply tapped the dining table twice with her hand, sounding annoyed.
“Oh dear, didn’t I already tell you it’s not spicy enough? You still don’t understand Chairman’s taste? Make it much spicier! Add more hot peppers! Okay?”
Without a word, Madam Jin Joo took out a few more peppers.
The secret to her longevity here—long enough to raise a fully grown son—was her tight-lipped discretion.
The things she had seen and heard over the years could not be counted even if one stayed awake talking for two full days.
Madam had been drifting in and out of her mind, and with Chairman Kim Young Ha—the then-head of the family—about to pass away soon due to chronic illness, the household fell into utter chaos almost overnight.
That summer, noisy day after day, the leadership of the family ultimately changed hands.
The position of Jangkyung’s head had originally belonged to Madam. She was the late Chairman Kim’s only daughter, and since he loved her more than anyone, everyone assumed she would naturally inherit the role.
But, for some reason, Jo—the son-in-law who had entered the family as Executive Director Jo—ascended to chairman instead.
Rumors spread among the entire household that summer: a man who had once been merely a team leader at a rival company had sold corporate secrets to seize the position of Executive Director in Jangkyung’s Strategic Planning Office, married the chairman’s daughter, and now even claimed the top seat of Jangkyung Group.
Chairman Jo—or rather, Executive Director Jo at the time—was a fiercely ambitious, domineering tyrant who spared nothing when it came to his own interests.
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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