Yeongin unintentionally blurted out words that had been lingering in her heart.
“Wasn’t it to escort Miss Baekhee?” Seonghyeok casually nodded.
“I escorted her.”
Yeongin made an effort to appear nonchalant, hiding her disappointment.
“Oh, Miss Baekhee’s house seems to be nearby.”
Otherwise, it would be impossible to escort her and come back already.
“Well, I don’t really know if Miss Baekhee’s house is close or not.”
“……?”
Yeongin raised her gaze slightly to look at him.
“I escorted you all the way to where you’re standing now.”
Seonghyeok approached Yeongin, who was two steps away from the entrance, and spoke.
“I was on my way to the car to talk to Jisang about the USI investment deal. I politely greeted you and sent you in here.”
As his finger pointed under her feet, Yeongin let out a small laugh.
Despite feeling uneasy about Seonghyeok’s words, she couldn’t deny that she was currently in a good mood. Imagining Baekhee’s expression made her feel relieved.
“Isn’t it more accurate to say you saw her off rather than escorted her?”
“Sure, let’s call it seeing her off.”
A subtle smile appeared on Seonghyeok’s face as he admitted it willingly.
“Did you think I went to escort Baekhee?”
“The team leader asked me to bring Miss Baekhee to the president, and since I didn’t see either of them…”
“Did you think I felt bad about escorting Baekhee?”
“Why would you feel bad?”
“You seemed really happy when you saw me earlier. Was that my imagination?”
“It’s a misunderstanding.”
“Sure, let’s call it a misunderstanding.”
Seonghyeok’s smile was pitiful, but Yeongin couldn’t afford to dwell on it now. Just the fact that he didn’t refuse was comforting.
“By the way, why did you come to the 5th team dinner?”
“I thought Jiseungchan might pull some tricks on you again.”
“Do you think I’m a fool who would fall for the same trick again?”
“I could use a different method.”
“So you came to be my knight in shining armor?”
“Yeah.”
“…….?”
Should life striving for consistency be praised?
Seonghyeok asked Yeongin, who was deeply engrossed in serious contemplation.
“They say men are black knights, and women are black roses, right?”
“That’s what they say.”
“Be my black rose today.”
“……?”
As Yeongin tilted her head, Seonghyeok shook the car keys and smiled slyly.
“I’m too drunk to drive. Can you take me home?”
Yeongin wrinkled her nose and glanced at him.
“Why do you keep bringing your car to the bar?”
“It was a sudden decision; I couldn’t just leave it. Besides, tell the truth. I didn’t get drunk. I just had a drink. Don’t you know my senior drinking capacity?”
Perhaps she didn’t know. After all, she had never seen Seonghyeok drunk before.
No matter how much he drank, except for a slightly sluggish gaze and behavior, he was the same as usual.
Still, it was clear that he wouldn’t get drunk after just a few beers.
“Just pretend not to know today.”
His confident, or rather shameless, request made Yeongin smile.
Yeah, let’s pretend not to know. Let’s do as he asks, pretending to lose.
Yeongin looked at the gentle smile the sarcastic man showed only to her and conveyed unspoken words in her mind.
The senior is drunk, and it seems I’m drunk on the senior.
I wanted to get so drunk that I could forget everything and be rude enough to become shameless. I wanted to discard insignificant emotions like reason and do as my heart desired. Unable to do so, it was tormenting and sad.
“Will you take me?”
As Yeongin silently nodded, a kind voice was heard.
“Yeongin.”
The gazes of Yeongin and Seonghyeok focused on one place. There stood Jinkyo.
“Oh? Senior, haven’t you left yet? I thought you had left because I didn’t see you.”
“I wouldn’t have gone without telling you. I met someone I know and was at a different table for a while.”
“Ah, I see.”
Jinkyo glanced briefly at Seonghyeok and then turned his eyes back to Yeongin. His lips curved gently.
“Yeongin, can you take me home?”
Yeongin’s pupils, taken aback, shook in all directions.
“Ah, senior. I’m currently…”
“You’re my manager. It hasn’t been a month since you promised to be my on-site manager. Taking me home is also your job.”
Jinkyo pressured Yeongin with a gentle yet firm tone.
If she had to choose between what she wanted to do and what she had to do, she naturally had to choose the latter. Realizing this, Yeongin bit her lower lip and turned to Seonghyeok.
“Sorry. I’ll call a taxi, so get in the taxi and go. I’ll bring the car.”
Contrary to the expected discomfort, Seonghyeok showed a very generous reaction.
“Why are you sorry? You’re just faithful to your duty.”
Of course, the gaze towards Jinkyo was icy. It was because she knew that Jinkyo was putting on an act right now.
“Safely take Actor Seo Jinkyo to his house and come back. I’ll wait here.”
Yeongin raised her rounded eyes and looked sideways.
“Don’t say that.”
“Come back.”
With a faint smile, Seonghyeok, who showed determination, turned his gaze back to Jinkyo.
“After the agreed period is over, there will never be a day like today when I see off Yeongin.”
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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