So, excluding when a secretary drove, Jaeha always drove himself.
“I can’t ride in a car driven by someone else.”
“But considering the situation today.”
Due to a traumatic experience from childhood, I felt a poignant emotion.
Knowing that, I couldn’t bear to see him take a taxi.
It would be uncomfortable and unsettling for him throughout the journey.
“In that case, Mr. Jaeha, you can ride in my car.”
Jaeha looked up at me.
It was an unexpected statement, and his eyes looking at me widened.
After contemplating for a moment, he looked at me in my casual attire and asked, “Are you going to meet Cha Seorin?”
“I still have some time until the appointment. They said the car maintenance will be finished within an hour.”
I checked my wristwatch.
Roughly within an hour, it seemed like I could make it to the appointment on time.
“It was said to take about that long.”
“Then you can ride in Jaeha’s car, or you can take a taxi if you prefer.”
Upon hearing my words, Jaeha’s face relaxed noticeably.
Suddenly, Jaeha reached out and pulled me towards him.
Without any chance to avoid it, I found myself embraced in Jaeha’s arms.
Unlike me, who blushed in embarrassment, Jaeha’s face showed a calm expression.
“Is it okay?”
“…Yes?”
As he held me close, our eyes met.
Between the slightly narrowed eyes, deep pupils seemed to draw me in.
Perhaps it was due to the suit I wore for the meeting.
Today, Jaeha’s gaze felt sensual as he looked at me.
“Are you sure it’s okay for me to drive? It might be uncomfortable for you to drive another car.”
My gaze lingered on the rising and falling Adam’s apple with each word.
Staring blankly at Jaeha, I suddenly snapped to attention at the voice that reached my ears.
“It’s okay. Recently, I’ve ridden in a car more often than in my own car. Besides, who else would be considerate like this?”
I brightened the atmosphere with a light-hearted answer.
In response to my playful words, Jaeha laughed, stretching his lips wider.
“Oh, beautiful. Truly.”
A sweet voice brushed against my ear.
If only he knew that he looked more beautiful smiling at me right now, would he acknowledge it?
Unable to endure any longer, Jaeha reached out and cupped my face.
Before I could evade, his lips approached and then withdrew.
“Be careful and come back. See you in the evening.”
One hour later, the repair was supposed to be completed.
However, Jaeha’s secretary urgently contacted me, saying that it might be further delayed due to the company’s circumstances.
Thanks to that, I had no choice but to take a taxi.
While driving, I heard the taxi driver muttering to himself.
“Ah, the road is finally open.”
“Huh? What happened?”
“Well, there was a ridiculous traffic jam just ahead. There was a crash right in front, and the cars were piling up like crazy. It hasn’t been long since this congestion zone was cleared, miss.”
Looking at me through the rearview mirror, the driver continued to speak cheerfully.
Listening absentmindedly, I perked up my ears when he mentioned a car accident.
“Really? This place doesn’t seem like somewhere an accident would happen.”
“That’s what was strange about it. A high-end sedan turned on its hazard lights and tried to stop on the shoulder. But seeing that it didn’t slow down at all, it seemed like there was a problem with the brakes. However, there was a child in front, and in an attempt to avoid the child, the car crashed into the wall.”
The driver enthusiastically started talking about the accident.
At first, I thought it was just a minor fender bender.
But the way the taxi driver described the accident sounded quite serious.
“I stopped for a moment to go to the convenience store, and before I knew it, I found myself witnessing the accident up close.”
“Is the driver okay? Seems like there was an issue with the brakes.”
“He was a young man. He was immediately moved to the ambulance; I don’t know more than that.”
“…….”
The car accident story felt uncomfortably close to home.
Naturally, thoughts of my parents and grandfather’s car accidents came to mind.
Perhaps too absorbed in the news of the nearby accident, an inexplicable tension crept in.
Passing by the scene of the accident, my heart gradually raced.
“Why am I like this? Why am I so tense…”
Along with anxiety, an intense thirst surged within me.
“I wonder if Jaeha is doing well? It seems like there was a significant jam ahead.”
Trying to dispel negative thoughts, I forced myself to look out the window.
Suddenly, my phone started ringing.
I raised an eyebrow at the unfamiliar number on the screen. I wondered who could be calling on an early weekend morning.
I absentmindedly answered the phone and brought it to my ear.
“Hello.”
But soon, the urgent voice on the other end made me drop the phone.
[Dash] Is this the guardian of patient Seo Jaeha? This is the emergency room.The inexplicable anxiety that had rushed in suddenly became a harsh reality.
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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