The sunlight seeping through the curtains gently roused Eun Ji Yeon from sleep.
“Mmm… What time is it now?”
Checking the clock, she saw it was just past 7 AM.
She wiggled her toes, debating whether to get up or sleep a little longer.
Though she typically started her days early even on weekends, the warmth of Lee Kang Hyun’s embrace was too comforting, and she felt tempted to indulge in laziness just this once.
Yet, the desire to look pretty when Kang Hyun woke up eventually won over.
Carefully, Ji Yeon lifted his arm from her chest and slipped out of his embrace.
‘My boyfriend, but he’s really handsome.’
She admired Kang Hyun’s face, even in sleep it was beautiful.
Was he tired, or perhaps dreaming? His slightly furrowed brow even in sleep stirred sympathy in her.
Considering he had been sleeping only three to four hours a day since the project started, she wished to let him sleep in today.
Tiptoeing, she crept quietly to the shower to avoid waking him.
Catching sight of her slightly swollen lips in the mirror brought a flush of embarrassment.
Standing under the running shower, she suddenly remembered last night, and her face heated up.
“Do you want to eat cake?”
‘Ah! I can’t believe I’m saying such embarrassing things in my life!’
She couldn’t say it out loud and instead flailed her arms to suppress her embarrassment.
‘But why does it feel like I keep seducing Kang Hyun? Luckily, he seems to fall for it every time…’
The body wash Kang Hyun gave her exuded his refreshing scent.
Feeling as though she was still in his arms, a rosy blush spread across Ji Yeon’s cheeks.
Kang Hyun last night had been so tender and sweet.
It was sweet and fragrant.
Like petals in full bloom or fruit so ripe that honey dripped from it…
Lost in the sweetness of kisses, she opened her eyes slightly to find herself sitting on Kang Hyun’s lap, her arms wrapped around his neck.
As his face lowered again, she instinctively closed her eyes, clinging to him as he delved deeply, swimming through her breaths.
Had she forgotten how to breathe?
Ji Yeon’s breathing quickened.
But she wasn’t the only one.
Kang Hyun too was catching his breath, disheveled and panting.
“You’re sweet, Eun Ji Yeon. Too sweet… That’s why I can’t let go.”
Whispering so, Kang Hyun cradled her face in his hands and gazed at her intensely.
His eyes seemed to burn brightly, then deepened and suddenly softened.
Up close, Kang Hyun’s irises were like lustrous jewels.
A softness that outshone others.
An unfathomable beauty resided within his eyes.
“There’s a beautiful universe in your eyes.”
Intoxicated by their kiss and in a daze, Ji Yeon murmured without realizing, and he responded with a smile, kissing her eyelids.
“In your eyes, there is me.”
Then, Kang Hyun proceeded to place butterfly kisses on her forehead, cheeks, and chin.
“Thank you for keeping me in your eyes.”
Eun Ji Yeon’s arms prickled with goosebumps at his husky voice.
After another butterfly kiss on her lips, Kang Hyun looked straight at her and said,
“Don’t let anyone else into these eyes. No playing around…”
She seemed to recall the teasing she had done with Chung Shik during the day.
It was nothing serious, but she found herself pleased by the sight of his jealousy.
Without giving her a chance to escape, Kang Hyun lifted her into his arms, laid her down on the sofa, and continued to kiss her, deepening the embrace.
Swept away by the more profound kiss, Ji Yeon clung to him even tighter.
When it became hard to breathe and she unknowingly pushed Kang Hyun away slightly, he gasped for breath and pulled away from her.
“Kang Hyun…”
Her voice trembled as she called out his name.
“Don’t worry. It doesn’t have to be now.”
“I’m… sorry.”
Ji Yeon couldn’t bring herself to look up, embarrassed.
Her moments with Kang Hyun, their kisses, and the time spent together were overwhelmingly blissful, but paradoxically, for some unknown reason, her body tensed up with anxiety.
Sensitive Kang Hyun couldn’t miss that.
“We have plenty of time ahead of us. I can wait until you’re ready to open up with all your heart. Just come to me little by little like now.”
He whispered gently, burying his face in her nape.
“Just don’t run away from me.”
“Yes, I won’t. Thank you.”
Ji Yeon embraced him in return.
She sighed softly as she burrowed into the warmth of his embrace, more comforting than ever before.
She was perplexed by her body’s reaction, which she didn’t understand herself, and it saddened her.
Although she had been married, she had never really dated, and even though she had spent nights with her husband, she had never made love. She didn’t understand why she reacted this way, how to handle it.
Unbeknownst to her, Ji Yeon’s subconscious was causing her body to tense up and become anxious, a reaction to the unprepared nights with Cha Min Woo, which she remembered only as trying times.
She was unaware of this, couldn’t have known.
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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