The quiet office building hallway, where not even the sound of a cat’s cry could be heard, went completely dark.
The one waiting for permission and the one hesitating to give it.
Haejin’s small movements triggered the sensor lights. It illuminated the space between them, which had been dark. Taehong didn’t miss the opportunity and took advantage of the opening.
“Have you made up your mind?”
The time for contemplation wasn’t long. She hesitated only in delivering the answer that should be spoken. Instead of an answer, her eyelids blinked slowly.
If she refuses, will he just leave willingly? Well, he shook his head, knowing that he wouldn’t be so easily persuaded.
“I guess I could offer you a glass of water.”
Haejin couldn’t help but feel satisfied when she saw his visibly content expression.
“Please come up.”
When Haejin tried to pull the suitcase again, he grabbed the handle once more.
His fingertips brushing against hers were warm. Indeed, she needed to cool down her gradually warming heart with cold water, just as he said.
“Let me handle it for a moment.”
He reached out his hand to guide her. Haejin sighed quietly and took the lead.
Even the short path to her home felt tense with him. It felt like something was tickling the back of her head. How was her backside? She was too preoccupied with chaotic thoughts to care.
The 7th floor, where Haejin’s home was. Taehong had been wandering around since earlier. Of course, he had a reason to visit this old office building.
She understood, but it felt a bit bitter to expose her own floor. Finally, when they reached the end of the hallway in front of her door, Taehong stood close behind Haejin.
“If it’s a password, shield it.”
Aren’t you the person who should be shielded the most right now? However, Haejin turned around with a smile.
“It’s a fingerprint.”
When Haejin pressed her thumb, the door lock recognized the fingerprint and unlocked. Grinning, she looked at Taehong, then opened the door and entered.
“Too bad.”
After entering and hastily scanning her home, Haejin was relieved that she had tidied up before going on a business trip.
“Please come in.”
“Well, excuse me.”
As Haejin took off her shoes and entered first, Taehong followed her into the house, still with a guarded gaze.
The door clicked shut. He also looked around inside the house. This cramped house might be the first experience in his life.
“Have a seat.”
Haejin pointed to a small two-person table with her hand. Since there were no family members, it was a small table. However, when Taehong sat down, it seemed smaller than she thought.
“There really is no ramen. I’ll give you water.”
Saying that, she took a new bottle of water from the refrigerator and poured it into a glass. Taehong observed each of her actions without missing a beat.
He was the second person to enter this house. The first was Juntae. Come to think of it, Ms. Moon seems to be quite wealthy. The only difference was that Haejin brought Taehong by choice, unlike the others.
“Please enjoy.”
He placed a transparent water glass in front of Taehong. Haejin sat in front of him. Just in case, she also brought the remaining water bottle next to him.
“It must be nice to live alone.”
“Yes. Fortunately, there haven’t been any debt collectors coming to this office building.”
Even though he didn’t ask, Haejin wanted to talk. It’s strange how you want to talk to the person you can speak frankly to.
“If you didn’t have this house, where would you have lived?”
Perhaps the reason is because he can accept it without feeling too burdensome. At least, that’s how it is now.
She had never thought about such things. She was grateful to have this house. But if, by any chance, even this house had been taken by debt collectors.
“Would you have gone to a boarding house?”
“A boarding house. I should take care of this house.”
His casual remark made him put on a serious expression. It seemed like he was seriously considering that option, thinking about something beyond his dilated pupils.
Suddenly, that sight overlapped with Juntae’s. He had sat in that position before. He was the person who had attached a parachute and created a rank.
A rank, now that he thought about it, even when they had something, among them, they were of a lower rank. When they didn’t have anything like now, they were low because they didn’t have anything.
Taehong, sitting in this house, didn’t fit at all. He was high, and she was low.
That’s right. This office building is her reality. Moontae Hong should be thought of as just a superior, and she should only think of herself as a subordinate. We’re different ranks, so there’s no point in looking at a tree I can’t climb. But why does it hurt so much?
“Well, I’m very satisfied and happy with the current situation.”
Is that really the case?
“I don’t want to miss this satisfaction and happiness.”
He nodded as if he understood. No, he shouldn’t have nodded.
“Yes. It’s fortunate that Assistant Manager Jung is satisfied and happy as planned.”
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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