“Well, it wouldn’t be bad to try going that way if she steps down from management this time. She’s such a distinguished person.”
They were joking about Seo Rin. It seemed they spoke without restraint, thinking that she would soon step down from management. But strangely, such disparaging comments about her twisted President Baek’s mood.
“Watch your mouths. Even if Executive Director Baek steps down, she’ll always be a part of the Baek family!”
At President Baek’s firm reprimand, the atmosphere, which had been high, suddenly cooled.
Among them, the most embarrassed one was Director Kim.
Though he had not interjected a single word into the conversation just a moment ago, if word of his meeting with Executive Director Baek yesterday reached President Baek’s ears, he might have had to deal with a rage even greater than what they were experiencing now.
He had done something reckless. It seemed he had lost sight of what mattered, thinking that he had only two years left until his mandatory retirement.
But what good would regret do? The milk was already spilled. Truly, he was sitting on a bed of thorns.
That was when Seo Rin entered. Her appearance was dazzling, instantly attracting all eyes, but there was something restrained at the end of her brilliance that gave her a weighty presence.
President Baek, whose mind was filled with numerous thoughts, fixed his gaze on Seo Rin.
What if Seo Rin had been his daughter, not the daughter of the late Chairman Baek?
He would have been proud.
If she shared his intentions and supported him, she would have been a daughter he would not have traded for ten sons.
However, as life often flows in unwanted directions, she might have become a poison, just as the late Chairman Baek’s blood had been.
“Now, we will start the temporary shareholders’ meeting of Sungwon Group.”
Only when he heard the host’s booming voice did President Baek take his eyes off Seo Rin.
Had so much time already passed?
But there was a problem. The seat for The MG was still empty. It would be fortunate if they arrived before the voting on the agenda began, but if they were any later, it would be impossible to turn back time.
President Baek checked his wristwatch. He then called the secretary general and instructed him to delay the vote on the agenda as much as possible until The MG arrived. The host, upon receiving the note, cleared his throat and changed his words.
“Ah, I apologize. It seems that there are many who have not yet arrived, so we will wait another 10 minutes and then start again.”
With that, he had bought himself 10 minutes. Could The MG really arrive on time?
If The MG held 8% of the shares, it would be game over. That was why President Baek could never give up on The MG.
But strangely, Seo Rin did not object to the shareholders’ meeting being delayed by 10 minutes. She must have known that he was intentionally delaying it.
President Baek studied Seo Rin’s expression. However, he could not read any emotions from her usual demeanor.
Despite being cornered, he couldn’t understand her confident attitude.
Just then, the secretary general approached him with a changed complexion and handed him a tablet.
“Sir, I think you need to check this.”
“Now?”
His brows furrowed involuntarily at the urgency.
“Yes, you really need to…”
“I got it. Leave it.”
When the secretary general withdrew, he turned his attention to the tablet. There was an email. It was an email stating that they had found out the identity of the man Seo Rin was meeting.
He unknowingly clicked on the attached file out of curiosity.
Suddenly, the door opened, revealing someone. All eyes turned in that direction at once, and President Baek also looked up.
It was So Dam. She stood in the opened door, looking as fierce as she had a few days ago.
Finally, The MG had arrived.
But his momentary relief at seeing So Dam was shortlived, as the person following her caused President Baek’s breath to catch in his place.
An unbelievable event was happening.
The man, sitting in The MG’s seat, met the shocked eyes of President Baek and slightly lifted the corners of his mouth.
The representative of The MG, James Kang.
The information he had not managed to read from the tablet he was gripping tightly disappeared along with the blackout screen.
But he didn’t need to read that information.
Because the man who had unabashedly shown affectionate actions with Seo Rin in the photo was now sitting in front of him, unbelievably real.
“Thank you for delaying the time until I arrived.”
Displaying a visual even more surreal than in the photo,
“Well, shall we begin?”
And with an even more imposing demeanor.
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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