“What should I do? This is the perfect timing.”
Seorin bit her nails and paced back and forth in the living room.
Then the image of Yeojin smiling happily at the wedding flashed in her mind, and she pressed her lips with her upper teeth.
She precisely locked eyes with me at the wedding.
Especially, Yeojin’s face, which sent a pathetic look, remained unforgettable even after a day.
Or was it just that?
“I’ll leave first.”
Jihan stared at such Yeojin for a while and left the wedding venue first.
There was no typical question like, “Shall we go back together?”
The bewildering look in Jihan’s eyes as he looked at his former fiancée.
In those eyes, there were countless entangled emotions.
‘He cares. He cares so much!’
Even though I moved into Jihan’s house to live according to my plan, apart from briefly bumping into each other right after work, we didn’t have much contact.
Although the physical distance became closer, the emotional distance seemed to widen day by day.
With increasing thoughts, Seorin felt that the reason for her wish with Jihan had become Yeojin.
Irritated by the spreading thoughts, Seorin brushed her hair away with annoyance.
‘Am I concerned about Yeojin unni? After breaking off the engagement, have I developed feelings that weren’t there before?’
No, that can’t be. Then why?
With an anxious heart, Seorin bit her nails.
Focused on her thoughts, Seorin glanced at the laptop open on the table.
“I’m not doing anything wrong. I’m just protecting my own interests, right?”
On the internet page that Seorin was looking at, one website was open.
‘It can happen to anyone who faces my situation…!’
Yes, it’s all because of Jihan cornering me into this uncomfortable situation.
Seorin, as if firming her resolve, sat in the chair in front of the table.
Then, without hesitation, she picked up the phone placed on the table and made a call somewhere.
After a short signal, a voice of a stranger came through, and Seorin asked.
“Can you install it right away?”
In response to Seorin’s straightforward question, the other side continued with a long explanation.
Before listening to the entire explanation, Seorin interrupted and asked.
“I got it. I will install it at home. I don’t mind the cost, so please proceed quickly.”
Continuing her words, Seorin, seemingly remembering something suddenly, lowered her voice.
“And you have to come inconspicuously. It’s crucial.”
Jihan’s sharp gaze, glaring at me at the wedding venue, vividly came to mind.
Betrayal, anger, anxiety—all those emotions twisted his face.
“I hate this look. The look that despises me!”
“The price for merely having a momentary distraction before marriage is too harsh, you know!”
Jihan shouted at me with an angry voice.
However, he wouldn’t know why I held such deep hatred towards him.
‘Because I died in your hands and barely came back to life.’
Thinking back on the twists and turns leading up to today’s wedding, I let out a bitter smile. The wedding, as splendid as it was, with its intricate web of relationships, has come to an end. Lost in my thoughts for a moment, I was awakened by Jaeha’s voice.
“What are you thinking about so deeply?”
Turning my body, I noticed Jaeha, who had gone back to the lodging to fetch something, walking towards me.
“It reminded me of the past. What did you go to get?”
“Champagne. I thought we could drink it while looking at the sea.”
Jaeha gently shook the champagne glass in his hands and offered me one. The lights along the promenade sparkled brightly along the pitch-black night sea. Although it was late at night, we were the only two people on the beach.
“Anyway, I was reminded of alcohol. But why are there no people on the beach? It seems like it’s just us.”
“It’s late at night, so that’s why. There’s also a party at the pool today. I heard the DJ is a famous singer.”
Now that I thought about it, I had seen in the pamphlet that there was a bubble party. It made sense since it was a luxurious party hosted by the hotel.
Walking along the promenade with Jaeha, I dipped my feet into the seawater. The incoming tide was refreshing enough to make my feet tingle. Moreover, the salty sea breeze tickled my nose.
“It’s incredibly refreshing. Would you like to join, Jaeha?”
Asking him, I turned around, and Jaeha, who had approached without me noticing, was now standing right in front of me.
“Oh, um!”
Without realizing it, I attempted to step back, but he reached out with his large hand and wrapped his arm around my waist.
As Jaeha’s scent wafted over, he seemed closer than before.
“I was about to spill it again.”
“No, not today. I’ve already finished it. I drank it all.”
He turned the empty champagne glass upside down.
As we walked, sipping the champagne, I suddenly realized how close Jaeha was. His breath brushed against me as we talked, and the distance between us was so short.
“Jaeha, you can let go now. And have you seen the sea?”
Purposely trying to change the mood, I reached out, pointing towards the sea.
“It’s so beautiful, isn’t it?”
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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