Creak, the sound from the old chair was ominous, but Tae In didn’t lift her buttocks.
The inside of the restaurant where the drinking game had begun, appeared through the open door.
Looking at the scene, surreal like a drama, she oddly found courage.
“There’s nothing I can’t do.”
She said out loud on purpose and took out her phone.
Among a few contacts, she stared at the name ‘Kang Nok Hyun’ at the very top.
When she had stolen Lee Kyung’s phone to make the call, it was easy, but now she didn’t understand why it was so hard.
It had been like this even before she lost her memory.
To make a call to Nok Hyun, she had to take at least five deep breaths and walked around restlessly like a dog needing to poop until he picked up.
Then, when Nok Hyun’s voice came with a sudden click, her heart seemed to stop.
When the night sky had deepened a shade further, Tae In pressed the call button.
Yeah, Tae In.
Not ‘hello,’ or ‘who is it,’ but ‘Tae In.’
Tae In only then realized. Her heart had been racing even before Nok Hyun picked up the call.
For some reason, hearing her own name made her flinch.
“Ah, um, yeah. It’s me.”
It was her first time calling him without a particular reason.
Tae In, placed in this unfamiliar situation, felt unnecessarily tense.
Is something wrong?
“……Nothing, really.”
Then, did you call because you missed me?
“No, it’s not particularly like that.”
Is that so?
“No, I think it is.”
Tae In murmured softly, as if it was okay for Nok Hyun not to hear.
No, she actually hoped he had heard.
If wanting to see and feel everything together, whether it’s watching something, eating something, or doing something, means that she misses him, then Tae In did indeed miss Nok Hyun.
And she did so very fervently.
“Even if I miss you, would you see me as a pathetic person who would abandon everything, work included, to run to you?”
A faint laughter was heard over the phone.
It wasn’t a joke.
The line went silent in no time.
Just when she thought he might hang up and was about to say something,
“What can I do? It seems like that pathetic person is your husband.”
The last voice she heard, was closer and clearer than the one from the phone.
Tae In turned her head in surprise. At the same time, the chair that had been ominously creaking wobbled. Losing her balance and about to fall backwards, Nok Hyun, who had been standing behind her, caught the chair and looked down at Tae In.
“It’s Kang Nok Hyun…”
In response to her mutterings as if talking to herself, Nok Hyun chuckled.
“Hello.”
Red fireworks exploded behind Nok Hyun.
Tae In looked on, as if engraving the sight which was more beautiful than any picture she had seen in her life.
It was a dramatic moment, as if she had lived for this moment.
The fireworks ended quicker than expected.
Due to Nok Hyun’s sudden appearance, Tae In couldn’t properly enjoy the fireworks and stared at her husband’s face in a daze.
Hee Won and Yeong Won said they were tired and moved to the accommodation that Tae In had previously booked.
Hee Won, who politely greeted Nok Hyun, winked at Tae In, telling her to have a good time.
It was too late to have a good time.
“Where are we going?”
“I’m also going to the accommodation.”
“Let’s go.”
Nok Hyun naturally opened the passenger side door and sat Tae In down.
“Tell me honestly, did you put a tracker on me? Where did you put it?”
Tae In grumbled, trying to hide her pleased feelings.
“If you know, it defeats the purpose.”
Despite feeling otherwise, Tae In stuck out her tongue at his carefree tone.
“……Did you come to see me?”
“Yes.”
“Just to see my face?”
Tae In asked, trying to gauge Nok Hyun’s intentions.
As if seeing through her intentions, Nok Hyun chuckled.
“That would be nice, but we have a promise.”
“A promise?”
“We said we would progress physical contact step by step.”
“No, that was if we were to progress, we would do it step by step. Not like it’s homework to do every day……”
“That’s how I understood it.”
Liar, he is too smart.
Tae In let out a deflated sigh, as if she was at her wits’ end.
“You’ve got to be kidding. You came all this way because of that? You, the representative?”
“I would risk my life for such a thing, that’s me.”
Tae In regretted choosing a lodging place so near.
It was because she arrived too quickly.
After checking in, Tae In was conscious of Nok Hyun’s mood.
“…Are you going to sleep before you leave?”
“That’s why I’m here?”
“Here?”
“Yeah.”
Due to her still precarious financial situation, she had no choice but to choose this lodging.
It wasn’t a place to sleep with Nok Hyun.
“Leaving the Gapyeong villa?”
“I returned it to Ji Eun Seok.”
“You returned it?”
“It was originally Ji Eun Seok’s villa.”
“…Ah.”
The villa was in Eun Seok’s name, but Nok Hyun was practically the owner.
But Nok Hyun blatantly lied.
“It’s too late to find another lodging.”
“…Can’t be helped. Use my room. I’ll sleep with Hee Won.”
As Tae In handed Nok Hyun the card key to the lodging and was about to head up the stairs, Nok Hyun grabbed the back of her head.
“Where are you going?”
“…”
“Couples should share the same lodging.”
“I can’t trust myself, that’s why.”
Tae In, her face flushed, reluctantly spilled her inner thoughts.
“Then trust me.”
Nok Hyun replied with a sly smile, then pressed the elevator button.
No, I trust you less than I trust myself.
Nok Hyun held Tae In’s hand and entered the elevator that had just opened.
“Were you going to walk up?”
“To sober up a bit.”
“In heels up to the 15th floor?”
Ah, it was the 15th floor.
Because Nok Hyun was next to her, she hadn’t heard what the lodging staff said properly.
They soon arrived at the 15th floor. Just in case Tae In might run away, Nok Hyun gestured her to enter first with the door of the guest room open.
Tae In had no choice but to enter.
“Go shower first, Tae In.”
Shower first?
Could that sound so suggestive?
“Me first…?”
Tae In, who was taking off her coat, turned her head and saw Nok Hyun.
Nok Hyun, who had been leaning back into the couch, slowly sat up.
As his suggestive gaze met hers, Tae In shrunk down as if she was the smallest being in the world.
“Should I shower first then?”
Why did the mere act of bathing keep making her think dirty thoughts?
Tae In, who had unknowingly imagined Nok Hyun naked, swallowed her saliva dryly and shook her head.
“No, no. I’ll shower first.”
Tae In went into the bathroom and locked the door.
That’s right, they say it’s better to be the first to take the blow.
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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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