Although she was touched by his considerate gesture, she also worried.
Because of Sajun, who spent his time thinking about lunch when everyone else was busy working.
She hoped that he would give up the club that was making money on its own and return to normal economic activities.
[Sometimes, I order delivery food and eat it in the meeting room. Don’t you?]“Oh, uh.”
Answering with a bewildered heart, Taehee once again admired Sajun’s memory.
The saying that he remembers what he sees and hears in his mind is not a lie.
Although he said something similar a long time ago, it’s been so long that she doesn’t even remember. Still, he remembers it.
[I’ll have the lunchbox delivered to the office at lunchtime. After delivering the lunchbox, you come out.]“Why me?”
[So you can eat in front of me. You know Cafe Synergy right next to the company. Come to the outdoor terrace.]If her guess was correct, Sajun was probably already at that cafe.
But that’s one thing, and…
“Are you telling me to eat a hotel lunchbox at a cafe that does business?”
“Wow, you can rent a place at a cafe?”
[There’s nothing you can’t do with money other than the subway.]Taehee felt sincerity in Sajun’s words and burst into laughter.
“But, Kang Sajun, do you really have extra time?”
Considering he returned here after just three hours, she wondered.
[Taehee, I didn’t say anything, but I’m really busy.]He seemed cute, bragging about having no schedule except exercise in the morning.
At that moment, Sajun spoke seriously.
[Don’t come after leaving Chief Kang.]Suppressing her laughter, Taehee agreed and hung up the phone.
When she informed her colleagues with an enthusiastic face, cheers erupted.
Following Zeus Hotel Macarons, now it was a hotel lunchbox.
Now, the eyes of her colleagues looking at Taehee were sparkling with envy and anticipation.
The gaze was somewhat burdensome, so at the timing of where to put her eyes, the lunchbox arrived.
The impatient Chief Kang secretly opened the lid and exclaimed, “Wow, it’s a military lunchbox!”
After telling her colleagues to enjoy the meal, Taehee hurriedly left the office.
As expected, Sajun was already at the cafe.
Under the dazzling noon sun, he looked even more refined than in the morning.
Taehee quickly ran up and stood in front of Sajun.
Just by facing each other, just by meeting eyes, a warm feeling surged through Taehee’s chest, overflowing like hot water.
So Taehee smiled brightly.
It was a laugh that came out of happiness.
A gazebo was set up on the cafe terrace, and under it, Taehee ate the lunch that Sajun brought.
After finishing the meal, Sajun sucked on the iced coffee he offered with a straw.
Once again, Sajun watched Taehee eat with a pleased expression.
“But, is the lunchbox delivered to the department different from mine?”
Come to think of it, it was true. The visual of the lunchbox she ate and the lunchbox Chief Kang briefly opened looked different.
Abalones, octopus, salmon, eel, beef ribs, beef bulgogi, and 12 delightful side dishes.
Not only was there a variety in the number, but the food was also more diverse.
“Are you the same as those people?”
Sajun’s words indicated discrimination.
Those people are just ordinary, and you are something special to me.
Although she appreciated the sentiment, the method was too flashy.
She didn’t want to attract attention, so she had turned away at the station, but now she was causing a stir with a lunchbox.
However, she didn’t resent Sajun.
Honestly, she was happy.
Being taken care of for 13 years, it felt like repaying twice as much in a relationship.
Taehee chuckled softly.
Wondering where there might be a handsome, sophisticated, and capable toad like this.
As Taehee finished her coffee, Sajun offered her gum.
Even without it, her mouth felt stuffy.
Thinking that preparation is thorough, Taehee accepted the gum and chewed it after the coffee.
Watching Sajun carefully packing up the lunchbox and putting it back into the shopping bag, Taehee asked,
“But why did you suddenly come here?”
“I couldn’t see you on weekdays, so I thought I should at least see your face like this.”
It was a casual answer without much thought.
So Taehee turned her gaze silently beyond the terrace.
Rather than passively accepting, it would be better to proactively show some color.
Her answer, as if it were nothing, felt strangely stifling in her chest.
Sajun, who settled on a long bench, tapped her thigh.
Surely, he wasn’t telling her to lie down.
That “surely” soon became a reality.
“Come here and lie down.”
“You shouldn’t lie down right after eating.”
“Just lie down for a moment to take a break. What’s wrong with that?”
Under the large, mysterious potted plant next to a large pot of unknown origin, Sajun laughed brightly.
Sajun’s refreshing smile and the word “rest” blended together, sweetly seducing Taehee.
It should be okay to lie down for a moment.
Sajun gently grabbed Taehee’s wrist as she approached and laid her on his thighs.
To call it a pillow, Sajun’s thigh was firm and high, making it a bit uncomfortable.
There was a slight discomfort, but lying on Sajun’s legs made her feel relaxed.
Although the summer air was somewhat warm, a gentle breeze blew.
Lying in the shade, it was just the right temperature for Taehee.
So, it was indeed a real break.
A sweet rest that she had never experienced even once, so she didn’t know the sweetness of rest.
Sajun placed a napkin on Taehee’s mouth.
“Spit out the gum.”
With a relaxed mind and a languid body, Taehee obediently followed Sajun’s words.
The napkin with the spit-out gum was crumpled and shot into the nearby trash can, and then Sajun brought something to Taehee’s mouth again.
It was a vivid yellow candy. Why did he bring so many?
“Snack.”
The candy entered her mouth.
Instead of bringing other candies, such as grapes or strawberries that she usually enjoys, it was lemon flavor again.
As she sucked on the candy, the tangy lemon flavor vibrated in her mouth.
Hearing a rustling sound, she raised her gaze and saw Sajun putting a purple candy into his mouth.
Purple was undoubtedly grape.
“I want grapes too.”
At Taehee’s small grumbling, Sajun lowered his gaze.
Their gazes met vertically.
Unaware of the peculiarly boiling jet-black irises, Taehee playfully continued,
“Sajun, you know I like grapes. You eat the lemon flavor, and I eat the grape flavor…”
Taehee couldn’t finish her sentence.
Sajun’s black irises, gently smiling, were focusing on each other’s lips.
Their lips touched.
They were soft, warm, and plump lips.
A rich grape flavor surged into the open mouth.
Were grape candies ever this sweet?
Intoxicated by the sweet grape scent, Taehee found herself in a distant reverie.
Lunchbox delivery, a lunchtime date, beneath the sheltered terrace surrounded on all sides, Americano, gum, candy.
It felt like Sajun had prepared systematically for this kiss.
Especially the grape-flavored candy was too explicit.
But what if it was part of the plan?
The entwining flavors of grape and lemon inside the mouth, the kiss with Sajun, were so sweet.
Taehee reached out her arm and touched Sajun’s hair with her fingers.
It was a kiss like a languid afternoon break.
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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