‘The weekend is finally coming to an end.’
It wasn’t until dusk, after a late lunch meeting, that they were able to step outside.
After several hours of struggle, Jae Ha managed to get approval from the vice chairman to do as he wished.
Therefore, although he was trying hard to appear indifferent, a happy expression unknowingly spread across his face.
“Thank you for today.”
“It’s good for both of us, what for. Are you going home?”
“Yes.”
He nodded towards him, eager to go home and rest.
And as he looked at the parked car in front of him, he had a moment of realization.
‘What to do. I can’t drive.’
The alcohol he had unknowingly consumed at the meal earlier came to mind.
The distance to the apartment wasn’t far. While he was considering calling a substitute driver, Jae Ha spoke first.
“A secretary will be here soon, you can ride with him.”
“No, it’s okay. My house is near. And if necessary, I can call someone.”
Jae Ha’s suggestion was welcome, but he remembered that the house he had visited before was quite far from the apartment where he was living.
‘It’s better not to bother the secretary and call someone.’
While he was touching his phone, thinking of calling a substitute, he lifted his head at the sound of approaching footsteps.
Before he knew it, Jae Ha had come closer.
He looked at me intently, as if he were looking at a child who might run off at any moment.
“……or, you can take a taxi.”
Jae Ha continued, grabbing my empty hand.
At his sudden action, the hand that was about to open the app froze.
No, perhaps the expression “clamped” would be more accurate.
Looking at my hand trapped in his large one, a feeling of surprise welled up first.
“I don’t like riding in a car driven by someone else, other than the secretary.”
“Huh? I’m the one who’s going to ride.”
‘He didn’t say we were going together, did he?’
I found myself laughing dryly at the situation that had already been established as if we were going together.
Was this man always this cunning?
“A couple is supposed to be one in mind and body. Of course, we should go together.”
“What…… Do you think that makes sense now?”
‘We’re not even a couple yet. We haven’t even had the ceremony.’
I could see the deep mischief in Jae Ha’s eyes that he met.
‘Is he teasing me?’
I glanced at him, feeling like I’d been fooled again.
As I tried to pull out my held hand, Jae Ha, who was still laughing, held it tightly and didn’t let go.
“This is why I don’t want to drink. Anyway, neither a taxi nor a substitute driver will do.”
“All I have to do now is press the call button. Our homes are in opposite directions, aren’t they?”
As I tried to click on the screen of the smartphone I was holding, Jae Ha lifted my hand high.
His playfulness was even more mischievous than usual today.
At first, I thought there wouldn’t be much excitement because it was a marriage for revenge.
Jae Ha kept making me conscious of that fact.
Even now, he was looking straight into my eyes, wanting to hear me say we should go together.
When I turned my head away from his direct gaze, I heard a grumbling voice.
“You’re so stubborn.”
I was taken aback by Jae Ha saying what I wanted to say, but I pretended not to know.
I was about to lower my hand, which he had lifted, to call a substitute.
“This is confiscated for a while.”
This time, he reached out and picked up the smartphone.
Seeing that there was no way to manage the situation, I eventually gave up and met Jae Ha’s gaze.
“You finally look at me.”
“Well, it’s because Mr. Jae Ha keeps being stubborn!”
Despite my flaring up, he spoke calmly with a smile still on his face.
“Didn’t you feel the strange gaze from a while ago?”
Startled by Jae Ha’s words about someone watching us, I wondered, ‘Who? Where on earth is this person?’
As I hurriedly looked around the parking lot, he who was watching me with an amused look, pulled my hand.
In a flash, I was pulled towards the direction he was leading and fell into Jae Ha’s arms.
“Not there, you should be looking at me.”
Jae Ha’s deep bass voice came from above my head.
He was so close that I couldn’t breathe properly.
While I was clinging to him, startled and blinking my eyes, Jae Ha lifted the corners of his mouth.
“Let’s cooperate to avoid misunderstandings with our elders.”
“How?”
I felt the breath at the tip of my nose and the touch on my waist that he had wrapped around, which made me numb.
I could feel my heartbeat pounding as heavily as my body was heated up.
“Well…”
He, with a mischievous smile, raised his free hand and cupped my cheek.
Tilting his head slightly, his gaze slowly moved towards my lips.
“How should we do it?”
That brief moment felt as long as if it were divided into dozens of pieces.
Almost touching, a dangerous distance.
Looking down at me, I unknowingly closed my eyes at the profound gaze of Jae Ha.
Thump, thump, thump.
It was swinging so violently that I thought my heart might explode.
It was that moment.
The sound of a car starting and leaving the parking lot made me slowly open my closed eyelids.
“He’s gone.”
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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