Jiiing-.
On this deep night, where the thick curtain of darkness descends, the noise that disturbs the light sleep makes Yuin’s eyes twitch.
Her eyelids slowly open, and her tired pupils grope around, disturbed by the intrusion of sleep.
The dark room brightens momentarily with the light from the cellphone screen.
[Nam Yuin. Hey, Director is waiting in front of the apartment entrance…]Reading her sister’s message displayed on the preview, Yuin, without a hint of energy, read it and tossed the cellphone under the bed onto the rug.
Yuin, wiping her eyes with the back of her hand, breathed out a wet breath and sighed with a hint of lament.
“Why on earth should I do something about this…”
How many times has Yuin received such messages from Yujin? How long can Gyeyeon endure this waiting without any certainty of when she will return?
Whenever Yuin appeared unexpectedly, waiting for hours, ignoring all contact attempts and pretending not to know anything, Gyeyeon never knew how to give up.
Moreover, since the scandal involving Yujin, she inexplicably transformed, representing Gyeyeon’s position, persistently knocking on the closed heart.
‘I already sent a rebuttal article. Did you confirm it? Kim Seonyoung did that crazy thing on her own. There was really no situation for you to misunderstand.’
‘…’
‘How about listening to Director’s side once? No, if you don’t want to, there’s nothing we can do… But that person has become completely unbearable lately, haven’t they?’
Watching Yuin’s consistent lack of response, Yujin, while laying out her story, failed in persuasion. Then, with meaningful words, she said:
‘Yuin. Is it okay not to see the director like this? It’s true that he hid things and did something wrong to you, but still, I hope you don’t leave any room for regrets.’
Regret? Room? What is all that about? Gyeyeon ruined the relationship they both created.
Even though they agreed to tell everything. Even though they promised to tell each other. It was that man who broke the promise and created this situation.
Even at that dawn when her insides were burning, or when she felt helpless while watching the news that exploded like a thunderbolt.
If she had told everything when there was still a chance to reverse things. If he had come to her, it wouldn’t have come to this.
“…Ha.”
With a frustrated sigh, Yuin, who had been covering her face with her hands, raised her head.
She opened the window on the desk, thoroughly scanned the area around the entrance with only the streetlight, and easily found the man in a crumpled dress shirt.
Gyeyeon, standing alone in the gray smoke, waiting for the lonely dawn, was eerily standing where Yuin said.
“Why are you doing this again.”
Seeing the lonely and pitiful silhouette, all the strength drained from her body.
Leaning slightly against the window sill, Yuin looked at the man with her face buried in her crossed arms.
Yuin was shaking sincerely, without distinguishing between front and back. She felt that way every time she encountered Gyeyeon like this.
“Let’s go home and rest… ”
The heart, which had turned upside down, uncomfortably echoed with a thump, adding to the uneasy pulsation.
The man who used to sit on the dazzling throne, holding the dominant background on his shoulders, now looked pitiful and forlorn as he stood alone below.
Regardless of the reasons for making her feel foolish and betrayed, Yuin didn’t care. She just wanted to go down immediately, hug him, and forget about everything.
However, even as she considered it, she forcefully suppressed the emotions that had already spread out.
“…….”
Yuin, who had no courage to face Gyeyeon again, who could not bear to be hurt again, didn’t dare to look at him.
If this is one of the love forms that people desire and wish for, she didn’t want to do it again out of fear.
So, she had to console herself and calm her painful heart by just watching him from afar like this.
Shuaaa-.
Yuin, who had fallen asleep crouched under the window, woke up with a start at the distinctive rhythm of the cool, pouring rain.
“Ah, rain…!”
Without properly seeing the raindrops jumping and leaping through the window frame, Yuin hastily moved around in front of the entrance.
Fortunately, Gyeyeon was already gone.
“Haah. It startled me.”
If he was still waiting, she would have gone down to give him the umbrella without hesitation.
And if she had faced those piercing black eyes and that stiff face staring at her once again.
Imagining that scenario, Yuin forcefully pressed her stiff eyelids with both fists.
Leaving behind any weak thoughts, Yuin, whose uncomfortable sleep made her arm joints creak, closed the window.
Thud! The abrupt sound of disconnection cut off the lingering resonance toward Gyeyeon.
In the afternoon, there was a promise with Ji-han.
Ji-han, seemingly not wanting to create a situation where Yuin would go back into her cave, frequently contacted her, offering comfort dolls.
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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