“Ah, this woman, really!”
“Let go of this! I said let go!”
The situation deteriorated rapidly.
Instead of taking the phone from the man, Seolwon found herself tightly held by the wrists.
She struggled with all her might to break free, but unfortunately, the inherent difference in physique and strength was insurmountable.
“Damn it!”
After spouting several profanities, the man finally threw the cigarette butt on the ground and spat on it.
His rough and menacing expression was filled with irritation.
“Miss, things are getting annoying.”
“Let go of my hand right now! I need to go! I have to go quickly…”
“……!”
At the sudden voice that settled in her ears, Seolwon’s body froze in surprise.
While the man firmly cornered her, he held the phone to her ear.
Naturally, the protagonist of the sharp voice emanating from it was Baeksara.
The woman who promised to save her mother.
“You…”
Suddenly, a surge of anger flooded Seolwon’s chest.
It was a huge wave of emotions that seemed to swallow even Seolwon herself.
With a trembling voice, Seolwon questioned her.
“How… what happened? Our mother… our mother…”
Please, let it not be true, let it be a misunderstanding.
But hope was brutally shattered.
[Oh, what a shame. That’s how it is. But what can I do about your mother’s destiny up to that point?]“To turn out like this… What? What are you talking about?”
[Just as you heard. She’s dead.]“De…ad?”
[Yes. Well, to be clear, didn’t she live on borrowed time, thanks to the parasite attached to her life that filled her remaining days? So don’t think too unfairly about it. Miss Min Seolwon.]Feeling as if she was talking to herself in the darkness, Seolwon blinked her eyes repeatedly.
Gradually, as if getting used to the light in the darkness, the form of the unfolding events began to take shape.
She had been deceived. She had been deceived by this devilish woman.
She genuinely believed that she could save her mother.
It was her mother who had been struggling with illness for decades.
Over the years, she had exhausted her father’s pension for treatments, trying everything that was possible.
If there was a valid treatment, whether it was surgery or medication, Seolwon would have known or at least tried it.
In despair, she hadn’t seen what was under her feet because she had been driven to the edge of the cliff.
The real danger was right next to her.
Blinded by despair, she failed to see what was right in front of her eyes.
In the face of such a tragic reality, there was only one thing Seolwon had to do.
However, before she could make that decision, a grim voice came through the receiver.
“[Miss Min Seolwon. If you’re thinking of coming back, it’s a mistake.]”
“…On what grounds do you have to say such things to me? I will go back right away!”
“Hmm. You probably haven’t forgotten already, have you? You fell under the embankment with your car yesterday afternoon. The police have already received the accident report, and the news has reached Chaeun-ga.”
Seolwon took a deep breath.
Such a fact wouldn’t deter her in the face of her mother’s death.
“It doesn’t matter. I’ll stop any excuses.”
“No. Min Seolwon, you can never come back here.”
As Baeksara uttered those words, Seolwon felt the grip of the man’s hand around her tighten.
It seemed like the conversation between them had already ended.
At the outset, it was clear they had no intention of treating her kindly, and Seolwon realized that at this moment.
“I told you. You’ve already become a dead person.”
“Hmph!”
In an instant, it became difficult to breathe.
The man’s large hand had covered Seolwon’s mouth.
In this situation, Baeksara’s voice, tinged with amusement, flowed into her ears as if she were watching and enjoying the situation.
“Listen well, Min Seolwon. Even if your mother is already dead, don’t you have to protect the life in your belly?”
Child… At the mention of that word, Seolwon involuntarily stopped squirming.
Right. In her belly, there was undoubtedly a precious life.
The danger she faced now was equivalent to the danger faced by the child.
Baeksara’s threat flew like an arrow through the receiver.
“I want to acknowledge you, but the man with you right now is uncontrollable. If I fool around, I might not be able to guarantee the safety of you and the child, Min Seolwon.”
“Ugh, ugh…”
Seolwon looked up at the man blocking her mouth with an anxious gaze.
He was more than just a simple errand runner; he exuded an air of danger.
It wouldn’t be surprising if something untoward happened right here and now.
“And think about it. How many people would despise you if you came back? Do you believe I orchestrated this alone? You know better than anyone how much Lady Heo desires to have a valuable son-in-law like you.”
Lady Heo…
At the mention of that name, something surged up within Seolwon once again.
Not only was it measuring a person’s worth, but it was also thrusting absurd standards onto an unborn child.
Where is the distinction between high and low?
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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