When Kwon Yool took a small box out of his pocket, Seo Yeon’s eyes widened as if they would spill over.
For a moment, Kwon Yool’s heart sank.
He wondered what he’d do if Seo Yeon felt burdened.
But he couldn’t back out of what he’d already prepared.
Since formally dating Seo Yeon, Kwon Yool had been closely watching his couple friends.
He specifically researched their ways of expressing love, celebrating anniversaries, and tips on date locations.
Then he discovered one commonality among multiple couples.
All of them, without exception, were wearing rings.
Before meeting Seo Yeon, Kwon Yool had never been interested in the opposite sex, so this was uncharted territory for him.
Therefore, he couldn’t resist directly asking a few friends about it.
About the meaning of the ring, the right time to buy it, and where to get it.
While designs and brands varied, he learned that couples usually got couple rings around the 100-day mark.
Kwon Yool grew anxious realizing this important fact so late.
Perhaps that was why.
For a while, he only looked at couples’ fingers.
Whenever he had time, he envisioned ring designs that would suit Seo Yeon.
Of course, nothing wouldn’t suit her.
Whatever the color or material, Seo Yeon could perfectly pull off any ring, making him want to buy all the rings in the world for her.
Still, as it was their first couple ring, he pondered over it repeatedly.
During his free time, Kwon Yool looked into brands, designs, and materials.
Once he narrowed down some options, the next issue was size.
He couldn’t directly ask Seo Yeon, nor could he eyeball it.
Whenever he met Seo Yeon, he began to compare his pinky finger to her ring finger.
Seo Yeon’s ring finger was much thinner than his pinky.
So thin and yet adorable, this hand led many employees.
The more he thought about it, the more fascinating and pride-inducing it was to have such a Seo Yeon.
Kwon Yool first measured his pinky’s circumference, then calculated the inner diameter and circumference for Seo Yeon’s ring.
Feeling somewhat confident it would fit, he quickly had a sandwich for dinner and rushed to the department store.
Because he wanted to give it to her on the day the exams ended.
“Yool, what’s this…”
Seo Yeon pointed at the red box with her eyes without touching it.
Then Kwon Yool smiled as if to indicate it wasn’t dangerous.
“It’s a couple ring. We haven’t been dating officially for long, but.”
When he firmly pressed a small button on the red box, two rings with small diamonds embedded on black velvet appeared.
He slowly took out one of the rings.
“It’s been well over 100 days since we met.”
As Kwon Yool uttered the word “100 days,” memories of time spent with Seo Yeon filled his chest.
“I want to proudly say you’re my girlfriend.”
Kwon Yool gently slid the ring onto Seo Yeon’s left ring finger.
Contrary to his concerns, the ring fit perfectly as if they’d gone to fit it together.
Seo Yeon alternately looked at the shining ring on her pale finger and Kwon Yool’s face.
Her expression was inscrutable.
Kwon Yool offered a forced calm smile, concerned about her reaction.
“Would you mind putting one on me, too?”
He indicated his own ring with a gesture.
Seo Yeon lifted the back of her left hand slightly and glanced at the sparkling ring, then lowered her gaze.
She then took Kwon Yool’s remaining ring.
“…I mean.”
Seo Yeon paused momentarily.
The shining ring had already reached just below Kwon Yool’s ring finger nail.
“I really like you, Yool.”
The ring fit perfectly, as if being sucked in.
“I’ll wear it well.”
Seo Yeon said, fiddling with the ringed finger of Kwon Yool.
“We really do look like a couple now.”
In fact, Kwon Yool had always been envious when seeing friends with couple rings.
Now that he’d put a ring on himself, he felt a stronger sense of bond than he’d thought, and an overflowing sense of satisfaction that they were together.
When he tried on the ring himself, he felt a stronger sense of connection than he’d expected, and a satisfaction flowed through him that they were together.
Kwon Yool looked down at their hands, neatly placed together on the white marble table, and smiled.
“Did you pick out the design yourself?”
“Yes. Do you not like it?”
“No, it’s really beautiful. I never knew couple rings could be so wonderful.”
At Seo Yeon’s admission that this was her first couple ring, Kwon Yool smiled as if he owned the world.
Truthfully, each step closer to Seo Yeon had made his heart flutter to the point of feeling heavy.
It wasn’t mere formal talk; her charm differed day by day.
The more he met Seo Yeon, the more refreshing she became, updating her charms multiple times a day.
For that reason, Kwon Yool had to make a ‘My Seo Yeon Room’ in his mind to manage it all.
During the countless challenges he faced while preparing for exams, he persevered by thinking of Seo Yeon.
There had been days when his studies weren’t going well, when he felt like running out just to see her.
But every time, it was Seo Yeon who kept him grounded.
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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