“It seems like Da Yul is having some alcohol today!”
Excited Mr. Seung Ho refilled my empty glass with soju.
“Yes, I think I need to drink a bit today.”
Since I hadn’t received a gift from Ji Seo Joon, I decided to give myself a gift after barely escaping from the hell of questioning.
After what happened with Ji Seo Joon, even when I drank, I had been holding back, but today it felt like it would be okay to let loose, just a bit.
Second glass, third glass.
Whether it was because the meat was delicious, the alcohol was going down smoothly.
“Ugh……”
As I put down the soju glass and chewed on the meat, Mr. Seung Ho attempted to refill my glass.
“Dad, that’s enough.”
Ji Seo Joon stepped in to stop Mr. Seung Ho.
“Why?”
“She shouldn’t drink too much.”
“Why not?”
The two men in front of me were squabbling over a bottle of soju.
“That’s right! Stop feeding her! Who’s going to clean up after her?”
“I’m only going to drink a little.”
“How many times have I fallen for that line!”
My mother grumbled as she snatched the soju bottle and placed it next to her.
“What on earth are you doing after drinking?”
At my mother’s reaction, Ji Seo Joon furrowed his brow. I didn’t even want to see that, so I turned my head and asked Mr. Seung Ho.
“Mr. Seung Ho, you’ll protect me no matter what happens, right?”
Mr. Seung Ho, who had been staring blankly at me due to my sudden question, chuckled.
“Of course. Of course. Definitely.”
As soon as Mr. Seung Ho’s words fell, I pushed and flattened the wrinkles on Ji Seo Joon’s forehead with my index finger.
“What are you doing!”
Ji Seo Joon slapped away my finger.
“What am I doing? I’m smoothing out your wrinkles.”
When I chuckled and laughed, my mother sighed heavily.
“Where am I supposed to send that… Ah, really.”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
Mrs. Yoon Hee asked at my mother’s words.
“I was thinking of sending that reckless girl for a blind date. Me.”
“A blind date?”
Excluding my mother, all five pairs of eyes widened.
“Who’s going to look at a blind date?”
“Will I look, will Mrs. Yoon Hee look?”
“Me? Am I going to look at a blind date?”
Until now, there was no talk of a blind date, was I getting old?
It was sad, interesting, and anyhow, a strange feeling arose.
“Is Da Yul going on a blind date? With who?”
Mrs. Yoon Hee asked with twinkling eyes.
“Why… you know the auntie at the supermarket in front, her nephew works at a good company but he hasn’t married yet, she asked if it’s okay to meet once.”
“Oh my! Oh my!”
Mrs. Yoon Hee was surprised like a young girl and hit the arm of the man next to her hard. The man rubbed his arm, which had been hit by Mrs. Yoon Hee, and raised his voice.
“No! What blind date are you talking about when we have Seo Joon!”
Mr. Seung Ho shouted, but the two ladies completely ignored him.
“Which company does he work for?”
“He’s in a bank.”
“Oh my. He’s got a solid job.”
“His looks are not bad either.”
“Is there a photo?”
“Wait a minute.”
My mother opened her thick phone case and started looking for a picture somewhere inside her phone.
“Look at this.”
“Oh my. He’s tall. Quite dependable.”
“Right?”
The two ladies were excited.
“Why don’t you ask for my opinion?”
My words dissipated into the air along with the sizzling pork belly grease.
“Da Yul, do you want to see it too?”
Mrs. Yoon Hee snatched the phone from my mother and handed it to me.
Well. I didn’t say I was going on a blind date, but I wanted to see his face.
As I reached out for the phone, my mother’s phone suddenly disappeared.
“Our Seo Joon is much better! Hmm? Isn’t his face too plain?”
Mr. Seung Ho snatched the phone in the middle. My father glanced from the side and nodded silently.
“You man!”
Mrs. Yoon Hee smacked Mr. Seung Ho’s arm again and snatched my mother’s phone to give it to me.
Well. He wasn’t bad.
He wasn’t a handsome type like Ji Seo Joon, but he was a really solid and reliablelooking young man, just like the adults said.
“He’s at a good age too. He’s 33 this year.”
“Oh my! A fouryear gap?”
“This year is a bit awkward because of the age… If things go well, they could get married next year….”
Me, getting married? With a single photo of a blind date candidate, I was getting married next year.
“I didn’t say I would meet him. What blind date? I’m going to have a love marriage!”
“What love marriage when you can’t even date!”
My mother hit the nail on the head.
“Just meet him once.”
My mother snatched the phone from me as she spoke.
I sneakily glanced at Ji Seo Joon, who was sitting next to me.
I couldn’t understand what he was thinking from his expression. Without realizing, I responded like this.
“Alright. I’ll think about it.”
As the pork belly was fully cooked, and everyone pitched in to clean up, the living room was quickly cleaned.
“I’ll be going now.”
“Why! You’ve come home after so long, you should sleep over.”
“I need to prepare for work tomorrow, so I need to leave.”
Mrs. Yoon Hee seemed dissatisfied with his words.
What a coldhearted guy.
I left the house with Ji Seo Joon’s family, carrying the food waste.
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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