“Go back. I absolutely cannot approve of this marriage.”
Where did this stepbrother come from, who followed my sister unfairly in the same house?
“Come here.”
Hyo-jin took Hwang-sae, who was about to peck Soon-hye, to the other room and closed the door.
“Let go! You caused a stir saying you got money from the boss. Now you’re saying you want to get married? Do you know why Dad went back?”
Actually, before it became like this, Hwang-sae had already heard everything from Soon-hye, her grandmother.
Her mother forgave her, so don’t make it a big deal anymore.
But! Having observed her sister, who had been unjustly accused of causing the accident, suffering all along, Hwang-sae, who had witnessed it from the same house, couldn’t just let it go.
“Yeah. I wasn’t in good shape back then, right? I’m sorry.”
Now, Hyo-jin, who needs to reconcile the conflict, changed her tactics and turned to a clever persuasion strategy.
“Tell me honestly. Were you the one who confessed to the boss first?”
Hwang-sae, who knows Hyo-jin’s personality well, could understand without her saying it.
“But Dad caused the accident and got kicked out. Now, you say no, and you want to get married? Don’t you have any pride?”
Moreover, he’s older, and he has a child attached.
“Now that my sister is coming out like this, isn’t the boss going to find us more ridiculous and shamelessly suggest marriage like that?”
Leaving her younger brother and becoming a financial expert, marrying her sister was too submissive.
“You, are you doing business with marriage now? We love each other, what does that have to do with anything?”
“Saying naive things. Do you not know that relationships between men and women involve some push and pull? If you easily give in like that, the man gets bored. It’s not until you make him struggle a bit, pretending to resist while secretly hoping, that he finally crosses the line when you are on the verge of suffocation.”
Even if you have no experience in dating, that’s how it is. Do I, as the younger brother, have to coach her up to this point?
“Sis, I’m saying this as a man myself, never give in easily to a man. If you don’t take back the control that was taken away now, you’ll be stuck with the boss for the rest of your life after getting married.”
Even if Dad went back because of Exchange’s fault, Hwang-sae couldn’t just let it go as a substitute for her deceased father.
“I’ll take care of it from now on, so just leave it to me, sis.”
“Sorry, but that seems impossible.”
Why trust Hwang-sae with something like this, not even another person?
“Hey, hey! Hwang-sae!”
Ignoring Hyo-jin trying to stop her, Hwang-sae forcefully pushed the door open and went out.
“I will fill the empty seat left by Dad, please allow it.”
Behind Exchange, who was pleading with Soon-hye, Hwang-sae made a face.
“Fill the empty seat left by Dad? Well then, if there are problems in the future, just call the boss, right?”
“Hey, Hwang-sae.”
Did she plan to bully her sister after telling her to leave it to her father?
“You’re saying you’ll fill the empty seat left by Dad. What did my sister always say? When the boiler broke down in winter or when home appliances went out of order, she regretted it. If Dad were alive, we wouldn’t have worried about these things, she said.”
Such a father unfairly went away, so if there are such problems in the future, the boss should naturally take care of them.
“All right. I’ll take care of the household chores from now on.”
Worried that the sibling relationship might be damaged, Exchange neatly arranged things.
“Don’t tell me you’re calling a business to handle it after saying all this? Oh, you’re paying someone to do it, who can’t?”
Hwang-sae sneered, laughing mockingly.
“Handle it? Of course, I have to do it myself.”
“I was thinking about changing the doorbell to lights instead since grandma can’t hear well when customers come. You can start with that.”
“Hey, how am I supposed to do that?”
I’ve never even changed a light bulb with my own hands, let alone to someone I’ve never met.
“Oh, right. Grandma, didn’t you say we need to bury a new kimchi jar in the weekend farm?”
Hwang-sae looked at Soon-hye, the grandmother, with a sidelong glance, passing on Hyo-jin’s words.
“What kimchi jar are you talking about?”
It hasn’t been that long since we made kimchi.
“No, Grandma. I’ll do it.”
Exchange was prepared to bury not a kimchi jar, but bones if that’s what Soon-hye desired.
“Grandma, didn’t you say we need to replace the air conditioner filter?”
With a lot accumulated over time, Hwang-sae was in the mood for some remodeling.
“I’ll clean the air conditioner filter as well. Grandma. Well, is there anything else you need?”
Exchange asked like a professional, ready to handle whatever was necessary.
“Shouldn’t we repaint the place too? I asked the landlord to do it when I raised the deposit, but he said the tenant has to do it.”
“Oh, originally, the law says so.”
Speaking like a legal expert, Exchange explained the law and offered to do wallpapering and flooring as well.
“Dad…!”
This isn’t some kind of battle between the two.
“Why? I didn’t ask, she said she’d do it herself. Who told her to do it? I just asked if it had to be done, isn’t that right? I just asked.”
Hwang-sae boldly drew a line, saying it wasn’t her responsibility.
“Yes, it’s true. I haven’t done it yet, so wouldn’t I learn and do well if I tried?”
Exchange reassured Hyo-jin as if to say not to worry.
“Oh, when you change the light, don’t forget to take down the frog nest. If something happens and you get hurt, it’s only my sister who will suffer. She’s already eight years older than me.”
Snatching Exchange’s Achilles’ heel, Hwang-sae, who had finally revealed her desires, clenched her fists defiantly as she met Exchange’s eyes.
“Phew, Miss Bonghwang?”
As Exchange opened her mouth to counterattack, as if retaliating, Hwang-sae stared at her with a heavy voice.
“If you’re going to escort Grandma around in the future, you might need a car.”
“What? A car?”
Exchange ignited the flames of Hwang-sae’s capitalist desires.
Is she saying she’ll buy me a car now?
Seeing the burning desire in her eyes, Soon-hye, like pouring cold water, said, “It’s not necessary. What car? My legs are perfectly fine.”
Hyo-jin, who was watching from the side, also intervened, saying that it was absurd.
“No, I mean, Grandma, you don’t hear people out till the end.”
Hwang-sae, who had been blind to the car all this time, even brought up Exchange’s reverse gear.
“I have something special to ask of you.”
Seeing Soon-hye’s words as a good opportunity, Exchange looked at her, saying, “If you’re going to escort Grandma around, you might need a car.”
“What? A car?”
Why is she suddenly saying that?
Not knowing English, Exchange looked at Hyo-jin with a puzzled expression.
“You, isn’t it true? You’ve already gone to a hotel with her, traveled, and even kissed her?”
As if warning against the thought of putting on duck shoes, Soon-hye laid down her authority.
“Wow, really! The quiet cat climbed onto the stove first.”
Hwang-sae, too, was flabbergasted and gave Hyo-jin an up-and-down look.
You said there was nothing between us.
“I’m an old-fashioned person; I can never allow such things before marriage. Last time, when I showed up at the line, it was rumored that a girl who hadn’t gotten married, already has a 9-year-old child in the neighborhood.”
Now that the two are even getting married, it was evident that this would be accepted as a fact.
“Yes, I will keep that in mind.”
Exchange reluctantly made a promise not to touch even a single strand of hair until marriage, and only then could she obtain Soon-hye’s approval.
“Well then, I only trust Mr. Choi.”
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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