Since he couldn’t take his grandmother to meet that prosecutor.
Looking at Bang Mi-hee, who was leaning back with her eyes closed in the back seat through the rearview mirror, Exchange searched for the nearest rest area using the navigation.
“Where are we?”
“Where are you going?”
Oh, I didn’t expect that.
Bang Mi-hee, whom he thought had fallen asleep, opened her eyes wide and glared at him.
“You didn’t sleep? Please wait in the car; I have somewhere to go briefly. Come in with Manager Nam.”
“I don’t want to. I won’t go!”
“Grandma…! Why on earth are you like this?”
She’s not a seven-year-old child.
Mrs. Bang Mi-hee, without Exchange noticing, got out of the car that had emergency parking on the highway shoulder, making Exchange even more bewildered.
“Grandma, where are you going?”
The nobleman, already not in his right mind, was dangerously unpredictable.
“Hurry up and get in.”
Exchange tightened his eyes and put on an annoyed expression.
Even his son Yul had never acted this rotten.
“Buy me some food. I’m hungry.”
“Grandma…!”
Exchange, who wanted to turn away from reality, closed his eyes tightly.
Now that he thought about it, Mrs. Bong probably wanted to see him from the beginning, using the excuse that she missed him, but it was clear that she wanted to get out and feel the breeze, not stay cooped up at home every day.
Buy this, buy that.
Mrs. Bang Mi-hee ate sweet and sour noodles and whole potatoes as snacks, and after picking up a giant cotton candy for dessert, she contentedly stuck to Exchange’s side.
“Grandma. Why are you so happy to come outside?”
It was just a rest area, but Exchange couldn’t help but laugh at her excited expression, as if she had come for sightseeing.
“I’m also very happy to come out with you, Grandma. Eating something delicious together.”
When the doctor said there was no car when leaving the hospital, he was disappointed, but as he mindlessly followed her, the lingering sense of loss had evaporated.
“Now it looks like spring is coming.”
He thought it would never come.
As if to mock his thoughts, the magnolia tree planted on the rest area wall was slowly spreading its buds, revealing a bit of a closed gap.
“Exchange, be more careful when spring comes.”
“What? What do you mean?”
Mrs. Bang Mi-hee, who looked at Exchange with eyes that clearly revealed the traces of the years, opened her mouth.
“When the flowers bloom, you smell their fragrance, and bugs gather.”
Even with an incomplete mind, Exchange’s heart was gradually colored with warmth as he felt the worried gaze of his grandmother.
“Yes, I’ll be careful.”
You don’t have to remember anything. I’ll uncover everything.
“Instead, you and Seung-yul have to live healthy by my side for a long, long time. Got it?”
Until I can show you Kang Jae-ik being punished and falling.
That afternoon. Prosecutor Lee Sung-min, who received a call from Manager Nam saying that the president wanted to meet him in person, drove to the hotel as the meeting place.
I felt subtly triumphant that Choi Gyo-ho wanted to meet me first.
[Dash]Are you crazy? What if Choi Gyo-ho calls me while I’m meeting with the president?
Hanna’s sharp voice echoed in the car through the Bluetooth speaker connected to the phone.
“I didn’t expect you to show up there. Didn’t he tell you to call him right after he’s done? I’m curious why Bong Hyo-jin called.”
[Dash]Well, that’s true.Why did Choi Gyo-ho appear at that moment! Hanna was worried that he might suspect her of secretly dating the prosecutor without trusting her.
Dad used the excuse of work to somehow make me his man, but how can I provide such an excuse?
The man who hung up the phone as if it were tasteless finally arrived at the hotel where he was supposed to meet Exchange.
“Please come in.”
The employee who had been waiting guided him to the VIP-exclusive elevator and then to the private room.
“The president will be arriving shortly.”
Sitting in the designated seat, the man squeezed and released the hand clenched on his thigh due to tension.
Although the sunlight coming in through the window was dazzling, the room felt cold with the spring-like chill.
“Have you been waiting long?”
Exchange, who appeared in a black suit, exuded a powerful presence with just his low voice.
Even a man who had dealt with powerful criminals in the detective department for several years felt his shoulders involuntarily hunch as he met Exchange’s intense gaze.
“I’m Lee Sung-min.”
The man, whose reason for meeting him was unknown, greeted formally and couldn’t take his eyes off Exchange, who was observing him.
“Do you happen to know if Kang Hanna is aware of today, meeting me?”
Seated Exchange cut to the chase without wasting time on unnecessary introductions.
“No, I don’t know.”
“The way you answer as if you’ve been waiting, it seems like you already know.”
…!
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.”
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
