“Thanks to the chairman, I was able to escape from that hell and go to college without worrying about money. As a person… I naturally thought I should repay. It’s not like I don’t have the ability, and it’s all thanks to the chairman that I was able to come this far.”
“…….”
“But, he did say that. If you really want to repay it that way, secure some shares in the company. Just make sure it’s not too noticeable. I think he’s been quite conscious of Chairman Baek since then.”
“…….”
“So when I asked you to protect me, I understood the meaning of it right away.”
After speaking, Tae Joon felt a little sorry for her. When you looked at it closely, even if it wasn’t necessarily marriage, it was his duty to protect her.
But what bothered him was that he had used the shares as an excuse to proceed with the marriage registration somewhat forcefully, which weighed on his conscience.
However, Tae Joon could say this:
At that time, he couldn’t see anything except Baek Seo Rin.
For the sake of the new life he would share with her, he would have done even more.
If he could turn back time, he would make the same choice again.
“I’m sorry. I kind of rushed into the marriage registration. But… I was really desperate. When I met you again, there was nothing visible.”
“…….”
Seo Rin remained silent. Her face was so inscrutable that he couldn’t tell what she was thinking at all.
So, he cautiously asked, “Do you regret this marriage?”
In response to that question, Seo Rin turned her dark gaze towards him as she drove and gave an unexpected answer in a clear voice.
“No. I don’t regret it.”
“Are you sincere?”
“Yeah. I realized it during the temporary shareholders’ meeting. What you can do. And that what you have is more than 8% of the shares.”
That’s right. The results Kang Tae Joon produced that day had a huge impact. Even now, the board members are avoiding her little by little.
What he has is not just 8% of the shares.
Kang Tae Joon himself was a nuclear weapon.
Seo Rin remembered very accurately how coolly Tae Joon had suppressed Chairman Baek’s arrogance that day, even with an attractive smile.
Even now, thinking about that day sent shivers down her spine.
So, there’s no reason to regret this marriage.
Moreover,
“They said it feels like the two who passed away brought us together?”
There was no way to escape this meticulously planned destiny.
As if they had reunited after 8 years as if they had met again, even if this meeting didn’t go as planned, they would meet again.
“Thank you for saying that.”
Tae Joon tightly held her hand on her lap.
Now, she felt a little less burdened by guilt.
Arriving in Seonsan, located near Seoul, Seo Rin climbed the familiar stairs and found Chairman Baek’s grave.
It felt strange to arrive at a place that she had thought she wouldn’t visit for a while.
Moreover, this time it wasn’t just one, but two.
Even though her father had already passed away, just seeing the three-letter name engraved on his gravestone made Seo Rin’s heart heavy.
“I… I’ve come. Dad…”
Her throat tightened as she called out to her deceased father.
“I… have also come, Chairman. I apologize for coming so late.”
Tae Joon poured whiskey into a small glass with a respectful and solemn heart. It was the only drink that Chairman Baek had liked during his lifetime.
Seo Rin watched as he lowered the glass and began to calm her trembling heart, she started bowing.
However, in that fleeting moment, overwhelming emotions flooded her heart.
People say, “Be good to your parents while they’re alive.” Seo Rin had never been shaken by such words, not even once.
But now, she understood. She understood why such words were passed down from one person’s lips to another’s.
It was only after her father’s passing that she truly reflected on her father’s pain.
It felt suffocating, and she couldn’t breathe properly.
During his lifetime, why had she resented him so much?
When you think about it, the person who reached out their hand numerous times was you.
However, Seo Rin had ignored those signals. After the accident, the indifference that returned at the moment when she needed her father’s touch the most was a profound wound for her.
But at that moment, she realized that all those times she thought of as indifference were also times when her father endured suffering just as much as she did.
“Chairman, I have officially registered my marriage with Seo Rin. You must have seen it from up above, but it was all my selfishness. But, Chairman, I… I love your daughter very much.”
Taehoon’s calm voice after the bow pierced through her heart.
“Even though it may seem like I’m lacking in many ways… I will truly love you with all my heart. And… I’ll make sure to fulfill Chairman’s final wishes.”
“…”
“Just as Chairman protected me, now I… I will protect Seo Rin.”
The bow was completed, but Seo Rin couldn’t lift her head as she remained prostrate.
“Sob… Sob…”
In the end, tears burst out. The sorrow that she had held back so much during her father’s funeral now overflowed.
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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