Ye Seul nodded her head without making eye contact with Si Heon.
“Miss Ye Seul. Shall we call it a day?”
“Ah… Yes. I’ll tidy up.”
Ye Seul, as if regaining her senses, hurriedly reached behind her to take off her apron.
Ye Seul’s hand was caught by Si Heon.
“Huh?”
“I’ll help you.”
Si Heon was standing behind Ye Seul before she knew it.
Underneath the hair lifted up to wear a hat, her neck, as white and thin as an untouched snowfield, was exposed.
Si Heon tried to focus on his hand untying the knot, trying not to pay attention to it.
A sweet fragrance seemed to be wafting from Ye Seul.
Si Heon composed his expression, pretending to be calm.
The night Si Heon, who had no experience in love due to his grandfather’s interference and obstruction, shared a bed with Ye Seul was not an easy one.
He had proposed they share a bed, but he never actually touched Ye Seul.
He hadn’t slept with any woman for 7 years, but that didn’t make him want to hold her forcibly like an animal.
He wished she would be a little troubled because of him, just like the emotions Si Heon felt towards Ye Seul.
It also started from the intention of troubling Ye Seul, who had become a lover with Sebastian after giving up on her marital obligations.
‘Sharing a bed, waking up, eating the same things, looking at the same place is what makes a family. Just sharing that time makes you happy… Your father and I wanted to live like that.’
Perhaps the words his mother had told him a very long time ago came back to him when he thought of Ye Seul as his wife.
This is definitely not normal.
Ye Seul’s body heat, which he could feel every time their bodies touched, was slightly high and soft and squishy.
Although Si Heon spent each night embarrassingly, he liked the fact that he was with someone.
Just a wife on paper, but he wished she was real, was he going insane?
While Si Heon silently untied the knot, Ye Seul, who slightly lowered her head, felt an odd tension.
Her heartbeat had been too loud for a while.
She hunched her shoulders, worried that Si Heon might hear it.
It’s just taking off an apron…
Even the touch of Si Heon’s fingers grazing her back made the hairs on her skin react sensitively as if they were standing on end.
“Miss Ye Seul, your neck is red, you’re not feverish, are you?”
Si Heon’s cool back of the hand touched the back of her neck.
Feeling as if electricity was flowing down to her toes from her neck, she turned around in surprise.
Si Heon and Ye Seul’s eyes met. In Si Heon’s black pupils, a flustered Ye Seul was reflected.
Ye Seul’s face flushed as red as a ripe apple.
“You might have overdone it. You seem unwell.”
“No, it’s just a bit hot.”
It was an unlikely phrase in the cool kitchen temperature due to the dessert.
“Miss Ye Seul.”
Ye Seul backed away at the sight of Si Heon’s long, pale hand reaching out to her.
This man is just playing with Ye Seul…
He doesn’t properly trust or listen to explanations, and only causes trouble for Ye Seul…
Yet it was too nervewracking.
In this situation where all of her nerves were focused on Si Heon, she was merely flustered.
It was at the moment when Si Heon tried to grab Ye Seul’s arm.
“There’s a big problem!”
The kitchen door opened energetically, and Mr. Kim, a team member of Cee Du Core, stood panting.
“CEO! Head chef! It’s really a big problem! It’s an emergency.”
Mr. Kim, catching his breath, pushed the tablet in his hand forward.
Ju Young, who had changed her clothes, rushed in at the uproar.
Si Heon frowned at the tablet screen handed over by Mr. Kim.
“Ye Seul! What do we do? We…”
Upon seeing the screen, Ju Young became despondent and grabbed Ye Seul’s hand.
“Ju Young, calm down.”
Ye Seul stood next to Si Heon. Ye Seul’s eyes quivered as she covered her mouth with her hand.
Calm down, Ham Ye Seul.
This isn’t your first time dealing with something like this.
“CEO, what should we do?”
Mr. Kim looked at Si Heon with a distressed expression.
Si Heon furrowed his brows deeply.
The atmosphere in the kitchen was as gloomy as a funeral parlor.
The homepage of Petit Chocolat appeared on the tablet screen.
The advertisement for the presale of Christmas cakes was splendidly decorated as a banner.
So far, Petit Chocolat had sold mainly whole cakes for Christmas, but proudly displayed was a photo of Buche de Noel.
[Petit Chocolat’s challenge. The first Buche de Noel appearance]
What’s more, it was similar to the cake design that Cee Du Core would announce at midnight.
As if they knew about Cee Du Core’s design, the concepts overlapped.
“Ah… How could this happen…”
Ye Seul was speechless and sighed.
It was the Buche de Noel she had just completed and received high praise from Si Heon.
No matter how much Juliet likes similar things like soul mates, it was impossible to imitate to this extent.
The difference was only about using blueberries instead of strawberries.
“We could be accused of plagiarism.”
A look of perplexity was painted on Si Heon’s face.
The opening was scheduled for tomorrow.
It was a limited Christmas cake that was only open for reservations for three days starting tomorrow.
How did it leak when only a few people within the company had shared the design?
“This seems intentional, CEO.”
C2 had announced the unveiling of the Christmas cake design at midnight today.
It was a strategy to create a sense of mystery and pull marketing effects.
“Keep an eye on C2’s Chocolatier’s Christmas cake! Unveiling at 12 o’clock tonight.”
“Every year, C2’s Bûche de Noël, a soldout item in Paris, the home of chocolate.”
“Pay attention to C2 Korea’s unique design.”
The secret cake was attracting attention and was a hot topic in various media outlets.
Petit Chocolate took advantage of the fact that the design had not been revealed and made the first move.
“The information has been leaked.”
Si Heon’s forehead narrowed. Where did the design leak from?
“CEO…”
Ye Seul’s voice trembled slightly.
Everything they had prepared so far was gone in an instant.
Did Juliet do it on purpose?
She remembered a time when C2 released a chocolate cake with the same design as Juliet’s.
At that time, Juliet was upset and claimed that Ye Seul copied her design.
Even though Sebastian mediated fairly in the middle, she got angry because she didn’t accept the outcome.
And now it happened again.
This time, they couldn’t help but think that Juliet had copied the design.
“The ones who shared the design sketch are only C2 Korea team members, CEO, and this secretary.”
Could it have been the work of Seo Rin, who didn’t like Ye Seul?
Did he not care about the safety of the company?
“Who could it be?”
Ye Seul’s voice was drooping.
“Finding the culprit right now is not important.”
At Si Heon’s words, Ye Seul looked up at him with a puzzled look.
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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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