Tae Yeon let out a short sigh and quickly covered her face with her small hand.
She was so embarrassed about misunderstanding Do Jun’s words that she wanted to hide in a mouse hole.
“I’m sorry for misunderstanding.”
“Hahaha. It’s okay.”
Do Jun looked sympathetically at Tae Yeon, who was still bowing her head.
Her small figure, just the right size to fit in his arms, caught his eye.
Looking at her, unable to raise her embarrassed face, Do Jun inadvertently blurted out.
“You’re cute.”
Tae Yeon slowly raised her face and looked up at Do Jun. This time, it was Do Jun who was taken aback.
“What did I just say?”
Tae Yeon also questioned, wondering if she heard correctly.
“You said… cute.”
“I did?”
“Yes.”
“Huh.”
This time, it was Do Jun who first rose from the sofa.
And as he aimlessly wandered the living room, he roughly brushed his bangs back with one hand.
Trying to find an excuse, Do Jun finally opened his mouth.
“Seeing Jin Tae Yeon being embarrassed, I must have said that without realizing.”
“Ah… yes.”
As Tae Yeon awkwardly smiled, Do Jun followed suit. Wanting to change the atmosphere, Tae Yeon also complimented him.
“Do Jun looks quite…”
“Quite?”
“Cute too.”
“……”
But it backfired. Seeing his forehead furrow slightly, Tae Yeon bit her lower lip and regretted her words.
Just then.
Tae Yeon’s phone on the table rang. Thinking it might be Hye Sook, she checked the caller ID, but it was Min Hyun.
Do Jun also noticed the caller at the same time and opened his mouth first.
“That man.”
“Not a man, a friend.”
“So, a male friend.”
Tae Yeon flipped her phone without answering the call and Do Jun moved closer to her. He picked up her phone and handed it to her.
“Answer it.”
“No, I don’t think I need to.”
When Do Jun extended the phone to her again and shook it, Tae Yeon had no choice but to take it.
“I’ll go quickly answer it and be right back.”
She intended to quickly answer the call in her room.
As Tae Yeon tried to rise from the sofa, Do Jun grabbed her hand and pulled her back.
“I said to answer it.”
“You did.”
“I need to let go for you to answer it.”
“I can answer it here.”
“What?”
Do Jun urged her by pointing to her phone with his chin.
“The call will end.”
“Even so……”
Hesitating, Tae Yeon made up her mind. There was no reason to hide her conversation with Min Hyun from Do Jun.
Tae Yeon’s finger firmly pressed the green answer button.
Tae Yeon, did you see the message I sent?
“Yes. I saw it.”
I can explain everything about that day.
Min Hyun kept saying sorry, then he began to explain the reason for his unexpected action.
A black sedan had been following me from the front of your company. I thought it was a coincidence, but it even entered the restaurant.
“Really.”
This was a part that even Tae Yeon didn’t know. When Tae Yeon, who was on the phone, glanced at Do Jun, he was playing dumb.
And there was a man at a secluded table staring at you as if he was glaring at you. I thought he might be your stalker, so I was trying to gauge his reaction.
“Ah, that man was……”
I know. It’s really fortunate that it was your husband. I want to apologize. To you, and to your brother too.
It was unclear if Do Jun could hear the conversation, his lips were upturned in a curve. Tae Yeon neatly wrapped up her conversation with Min Hyun and hung up the call.
“The black sedan that’s been following me from the company, was it you, Mr. Do Jun?”
“Yes.”
“Why did you do that? Did you suspect me of having a suspicious relationship with Min Hyun?”
“No, Ms. Jin Tae Yeon.”
Do Jun straightened his waist and explained the reason why he had to go to the restaurant that day.
“It was a time when I thought the person in the picture was Ms. Jin Tae Yeon, so naturally, I expected the paparazzi taking Ms. Jin Tae Yeon’s pictures to show up at the scene.”
Upon hearing this, Tae Yeon nodded her head, as his words made sense. However, there was one more question that was not answered.
“Then why were you staring at me so intensely? That would’ve looked even more suspicious.”
“Do you want to hear the honest answer?”
“Yes? Yes.”
“I was jealous. I think I’ve said this that day too.”
“Jealousy!”
“You don’t talk much or laugh well in front of me, but you looked comfortable in front of that man, and I was envious.”
That was too honest. Do Jun was also surprised at himself after saying those words.
He had never been envious of someone since he was born. Before he could even think of wanting something, it was already in his hands.
He couldn’t believe that he would utter the word ‘envy’.
Tae Yeon was also surprised at Do Jun’s words, and she couldn’t reply immediately.
“I hope the two of you don’t meet in the future.”
“I’ll do that. It would be troublesome if some strange rumor started, for both Mr. Do Jun and me.”
It was the day when Do Jun had the most conversations since he came to Korea. The clock hands had already passed midnight.
The wall of awkwardness between the two was slowly melting away into the night.
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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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