Whoosh.
After handing over her wet clothes to the maid outside the room, Hyo Jin donned a white bathrobe and stood under the air shower.
Warm air seeped through her robe, gradually thawing her skin that had been chilled by the cold water.
“It will take about 30 minutes for the clothes to dry.”
Housekeeper Pyo, handing her a mug of hot water, offered her a menthol candy enclosed in a transparent case.
“Thank you.”
As Hyo Jin, who was sitting opposite, opened the transparent lid to take out the menthol candy.
“Give this to the young master. He must have been quite startled.”
“Huh?”
It wasn’t meant for me, but for the baby?
“And for the director, you know?”
“Huh? What?”
Ah, housekeeper Pyo, who usually seemed aloof, smiled gently, crinkling his eyes.
What? What is he talking about?
“How do you plan to live in this house from now on, without having any sense?”
Moreover, he snorted and lightly punched her shoulder.
“Ah!”
Why is he hitting someone? Especially when I’m already feeling weak from swallowing water!
“The young one was trembling like a willow tree, afraid of being scolded by his dad, how pitiful.”
Just a day hadn’t passed since she promised to listen to the teacher’s words, and now this happened.
“Ah, is that what you were talking about?”
Not to tell dad.
“That’s how it is in this line of work. Pretending not to know even when you know, not seeing even when you see, not hearing even when you hear. You have to become a ‘three monkeys’ to last as long as me.”
As if people were longlasting batteries.
“I can’t do that.”
I almost died from drowning, isn’t it the right sequence to ask if I’m okay first?
As if he had expected her to react that way, housekeeper Pyo pulled out a card with a sigh of regret from his finger.
“This is a gift from the head lady.”
What he extended onto the table was a premium gift card exclusive to the department store’s luxury brand.
“She said you should buy a nice outfit since you will be taking the young master to school from now on.”
I’d rather have a menthol candy. Then I wouldn’t feel so miserable.
“Isn’t this a bribe, not a gift?”
Ah, housekeeper Pyo looked away as if he felt hurt.
“Young people speak so harshly these days. When an adult gives you something, you should say thank you and accept it.”
But she continued to stare at him without flinching.
“Why do you gladly accept the card given by the director, but refuse the one given by the head lady?”
The housekeeper’s gaze, once sweet as honey, turned sour.
“You said it yourself, housekeeper Pyo. The card given by the director was not for me but for the young master.”
“……!”
“But the card given by the head lady is not for the young master but for me. It violates the ethics of an educator.”
“What? The ethics of an educator?”
Ha, really. Housekeeper Pyo burst into laughter as if he had heard something funny for the first time in a while.
“Hey, Teacher Bong. This is Sangrimwon.”
So what?
As Hyo Jin responded with a stare instead of words, the laughing housekeeper Pyo approached and lowered his voice.
“Do you know who we should fear the most now that we’re working here?”
Her finger pointed to Inwangsan, which was embracing the Blue House.
“The president? Not scary at all. A congressman? What’s so scary about them? They’re just working with the taxes I’ve paid. The person who pays my salary is the scariest. This is the place they come to as a last resort when they have problems.”
Just as forsaken humans seek god.
The prestigious law firm Noel!
In that place, a sanctuary of inviolability, the employer’s order was more powerful than law and ethics.
“Still, I don’t like it. The employment contract I signed with the director also states that there are no secrets.”
Saying this, one would assume that she was teaching for money, even though she didn’t have any interest in him.
“Hey, Teacher Bong! I’ve been at Sangrimwon since our director, Gyo Hwan, was even younger than Seung Yul. Let’s be honest, assuming that the director finds out you refused this, do you think you’ll be safe? You almost got the young master killed.”
“Who almost got killed…!”
“Fortunately, both are safe. The swimming instructor said the young master tried to save you and fell into the water with you. If something had happened to the young master, who do you think would be more at fault?”
Hyo Jin, who hadn’t known this, was speechless. Her mission and responsibility were to prioritize the child’s safety in any situation.
“Do you know how many home tutors have passed through Sangrimwon so far? The head lady doesn’t yet know that Seung Yul jumped into the water because of you. If she knew, she wouldn’t have given you this card, she would have kicked you out immediately!”
As if to say, “Now you understand,” housekeeper Pyo placed the card in Hyo Jin’s hand, who could not rebut anything.
“Think wisely. I won’t tell the head lady anything.”
Phew. Hyo Jin, who had changed into dry clothes from the styler, took a deep breath and knocked on Seung Yul’s room on the second floor.
Knock knock.
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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