“I love you.”
At the calm declaration from Sajun, the freshly bitten rice cake stuck in his throat.
Kuhuk, cough. Sajun gently patted Taehui’s back as she coughed.
Even when she didn’t stop, his long fingers, effortlessly, offered a glass of water.
Whether it was giving medicine or giving water, who knows.
After drinking water and the cough subsided, Taehui finally spoke.
“You’re not saying that as a joke, right?”
Just like a frog that dies when hit by a stone thrown without thinking, to be honest, his heart almost stopped.
In such an atmosphere and unexpectedly, at this moment, it seemed impossible for that word to be sincere.
Too shocked, he almost revealed his emotions on his face.
This impure feeling towards Kang Sajun.
Whether it’s a lie or the truth, the words “I love you” were sweet enough to almost pull his mind out.
If this was said with the intention of aiming for something like this, Kang Sajun was undoubtedly not a novice in love but a love master Casanova.
“No, it must be strictly forbidden from now on. Got it?”
“I don’t like it.”
Seeing Taehui’s fresh rejection, Sajun smiled amusedly.
Through her cute rounded nostrils, it felt like a fresh breath was coming out.
Is this also a perversion?
When poking her, Min Taehui, who gets irritated, looks beautiful in a different way.
“Why! Why don’t you like it?”
“Saying let’s have a love where you give medicine and I take it. That’s what you said, didn’t you?”
“…….”
“Ask your grandpa or Min Seontae if they would still have a colorful life like now if they confess their love like me.”
At Sajun’s sharp comment, Taehui became a honeyed mute.
Unlike himself, who is swept away by emotions at the slightest provocation, Sajun was always rational.
Come to think of it, their personalities were always opposite.
To others, he seemed rational, but to Sajun, who acted on his own, he always seemed rational and calm.
Just like now.
Anticipating Taehui’s silence, Sajun opened his mouth as if to remind her.
“Min Taehui, then let’s do anything.”
“…….”
“Even adults deceive each other and make it look real.”
What Sajun wanted to remind Taehui of was the essential purpose of a contract relationship.
To deceive Seontae, make him kneel, deceive Sajun’s grandfather, and prevent him from seeing opponents.
“If you don’t have the confidence to take out a gallbladder, you don’t have to do it.”
Sajun’s hand holding a white napkin approached Taehui’s mouth.
“I’ll wipe your mouth like this, say ‘I love you,’ and put all my effort into it.”
The hand wiping the lips slowly and gently was so affectionate that it couldn’t be easily rejected.
“Just stay by my side.”
The hand that put down the napkin after wiping the lips approached again like a slow-motion.
Smooth and long fingers, neatly trimmed fingernails, tender touch.
Approaching like a trance, he stuck the sideburn that flowed down his cheek into his ear and then moved away again.
“Min Taehui, because it’s me who’s desperate.”
The sensations that made her laugh to the point of cringing became limp.
“I’ll really do well.”
If this isn’t the technique of temptation, what is it?
“Even after a hundred days, you’ll still want to continue dating me.”
With Sajun’s completely changed appearance, Taehui’s throat tightened, and she couldn’t speak.
She thought it was just a casual remark, but who would have known it would really change like this.
Her heart was shaking to the point of almost collapsing from a simple word, gaze, and gesture.
I might actually be able to leave in a hundred days at this rate.
Feeling a sense of self-pity in the suddenly determined decision, Taehui put a piece of rice cake in her mouth.
Although it was the tteokbokki she had been craving, it strangely didn’t taste as good.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
Taehui quietly stared at the rain-smeared front windshield.
The evening sky seemed strangely dark.
After leaving the tteokbokki restaurant and getting into the car, raindrops began to fall one by one.
As the car gained speed, the rain-soaked scenery became blurry, like watercolor spreading.
‘I love you.’
‘Just stay by my side.’
‘I’ll really do well.’
Sajun’s words at the tteokbokki restaurant were turning into rain and seeping into Taehui’s mind.
Why did I agree to a contract relationship?
There was affection for Kang Sajun, but it was also because of resentment towards Min Seontae.
Although he suggested a relationship where he would give medicine, in reality, he thought not much would change.
A slight change in their relationship, slightly crossing the line in front of adults, nothing more and nothing less.
After all, it was a contract relationship. Since Sajun had no feelings for her, and there was no reason for their relationship to change when they were alone.
Unless Sajun covered himself.
Of course, he seemed somewhat awakened after their first kiss, but he wasn’t the type to aggressively pursue Sajun.
He acted independently like a beast that didn’t communicate with others, yet he was more rational and elegant than anyone when it came to himself.
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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