Leaving those meaningful words behind, Tae In entered the elevator. Se Ji remained motionless until the doors closed.
Tae In didn’t head straight back to her office but instead visited Nok Hyun’s company, hoping to have lunch together.
She was ready to just see his face if he was too busy.
Without an appointment, the employees recognized Tae In and made way for her.
“Did you have an appointment?”
A woman Tae In hadn’t seen before surveyed her face, not just as a simple visitor, but with a scrutinizing gaze.
The woman suited the pencil skirt well. Her thin shirt and skirt revealed her body contours unabashedly.
“No, I’m Nok Hyun Kang’s wife.”
“Oh, I didn’t recognize you.”
The woman stepped back only then. A subtle fragrance lingered.
Tae In nodded lightly and entered the executive office.
Nok Hyun, who was on the phone, noticed Tae In and looked surprised, then smiled brightly.
Tae In hesitated at that dazzling smile.
If I find him handsome, wouldn’t others too?
A bitter taste filled her mouth.
“Where’s Secretary Shim?”
“I demoted him. He was quitting anyway.”
That was expected. Min Kyu almost put Nok Hyun in danger with the drug case. If Nok Hyun had been implicated, it would have endangered not just him but the entire company.
Rather than firing him, Nok Hyun chose to keep him in the same company under surveillance, knowing he had a lot of information about the company and Nok Hyun.
“So she’ll be taking over for now?”
“No, only until Chief Jeong arrives.”
Jeong Yi Kyung was currently in charge of Tae In’s security. She was managing both protection and surveillance without interfering with work.
Then there was a knock. Nok Hyun answered, and the door opened.
The woman who had just seen Tae In placed tea and refreshments in front of her. As she leaned over, the deep neckline of her blouse revealed more than intended.
The woman, previously expressionless, smiled flirtatiously at Nok Hyun.
“Let me know if you need anything.”
Tae In frowned at the woman’s overt behavior.
“Have you had lunch?”
“Not yet.”
“Shall we eat together?”
“Sure, but…”
Tae In hesitated, sitting on the desk.
“But what?”
Nok Hyun approached, leaning his arms on the desk, looking down at Tae In at an intimately close distance.
Even though the scent was familiar, it felt unusually enticing, making her body tingle.
“She looked pretty. It bothered me a bit.”
Tae In murmured, almost as if checking Nok Hyun’s reaction.
Nok Hyun chuckled softly at her words without a subject.
“You worry about that too?”
He kissed her forehead and gently lifted her face with his hand to meet her eyes.
Tae In’s eyes fluttered nervously.
“…How can I not?”
Nok Hyun looked at Tae In and then casually removed his wristwatch.
He loosened his necktie, which was tightening around his neck, and kissed Tae In’s cheek, lips, and delicate neck multiple times.
Tae In leaned back, exhaling a hot breath. Nok Hyun persisted in kissing her, revealing his long-contained desire without a hint of hesitation.
“Do more.”
“More of what?”
“Jealousy.”
“You think I… I was jealous?”
Feeling the hot touch on her neck, Tae In gasped for air. Nok Hyun chuckled and then stretched out his arm to pick up the phone, his other arm still wrapped around Tae In’s slender shoulder.
“We’ll have lunch here, just bring the food in and don’t let anyone enter.”
After hanging up, Nok Hyun immediately captured Tae In’s lips. As if parched with thirst, he eagerly explored her, his hand sliding under her blouse, burning hot to the touch. Tae In shivered.
“I came to have lunch together…”
Tae In frowned slightly and muttered under her breath.
“Eat, I will too.”
His hand, stroking her thigh while lifting her skirt, felt provocatively warm. The air around them seemed to heat up.
Nok Hyun then lifted Tae In and laid her on the spacious sofa.
Tae In’s eyes widened. As she tried to create a gap between them, he gently gripped her hands and raised them above.
Suddenly defenseless, Tae In was engulfed by Nok Hyun, who showered her with kisses.
Then, a knock at the door.
Startled, Tae In pushed Nok Hyun away. Frowning, he stood up and covered her with the suit jacket hanging on the coat stand.
Her blouse had come undone, revealing her underwear beneath.
Clutching the jacket tightly, Tae In watched Nok Hyun’s back, or more precisely, the woman’s face visible through the door crack from earlier.
The woman, looking flustered, covered her mouth.
“Sorry, I was worried the food might get cold…”
“Yes, well. You can leave now.”
“Yes, yes. Sorry.”
Leaving the flustered woman behind, Nok Hyun closed the door. The click of the lock sounded unusually loud.
Carelessly placing the bag of food on the table, Nok Hyun approached Tae In.
Tae In, staring intently at him, wiped off the red lipstick from her mouth.
“You’ve got lipstick on.”
“I know.”
He knew?
“Such a fox.”
Tae In scoffed with a mix of complaint and secret pride.
“Shall we continue? I’m still hungry.”
Before Tae In could reply, Nok Hyun pressed his lips to her full ones. Overwhelmed by the intense sensation, Tae In involuntarily parted her lips.
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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