“Do you not remember?”
Despite the slightly sharp tone, Seol Won did not flinch.
She shook her head from side to side, emphasizing her point.
“Yes, I do not remember you. You are not in my memory.”
Chae Ha instinctively realized that she was pretending not to remember.
Yet, he couldn’t back down easily, having found Min Seol Won.
Chae Ha blocked her way as she tried to leave.
“To say that is not respectful to a husband who has been missing for 5 years.”
“……”
The word ‘husband’ caused a slight tremor in Seol Won’s eyes.
Yes, Min Seol Won, she was always his wife in Kwon Chae Ha’s heart.
He had always kept his cool outwardly as if he was going insane, but that fact had never changed for the past 5 years.
He took another step towards Seol Won.
This time, leaning his head down, whispering into her ear.
“Do you claim to have no memory?”
He saw Seol Won’s earlobe turning red with tension.
That minor physical change had all of Chae Ha’s senses on edge.
“Shall we see if your body also doesn’t remember me? And.”
Blowing hot breath close to her ear, Chae Ha glanced downwards.
As he tightly gripped Seol Won’s hand and met her roundeyed gaze, his passion rose even more.
“This child you are carrying, whose child is it?”
“……Please move aside.”
She pushed Chae Ha’s sturdy body with a hand filled with difficulty.
The familiar floral scent from her fingertips made his head spin in an instant.
An insatiable thirst. A wild instinct.
He felt like he would die if he didn’t pull this woman into his arms right then and there.
Then it happened.
The bewildered child who had been looking at him, suddenly rushed to the other side.
Crying out a surprising word.
“Daddy!”
Kwon Chae Ha’s firm knees finally wavered and buckled.
As she brushed past him following the running child, Seol Won whispered softly.
“I don’t know who you are.”
“……”
“I am not your wife, and that child is not yours.”
She was asking him to believe such unbelievable words.
There was no more restraint. Chae Ha grabbed Seol Won’s thin arm as she tried to walk past him carelessly.
“Min Seol Won.”
“Let go of my arm.”
“……!”
Suddenly, the man the child had just called daddy stood before them.
As the man, with an enraged expression, tried to grab Chae Ha’s arm, Seol Won twisted her own arm free.
“I am okay, Mr. Jae Yoon.”
“Who are you, sir? Who dares to suddenly……”
“Who are you to be asking that?”
Chae Ha, having completely lost his patience, glared fiercely at the man.
He seemed to be about their age.
Although a little shorter than Chae Ha, he had slightly tanned skin and possessed a sturdy physique that anyone could see.
The man with warm eyes filled with passion, a stark contrast to Chae Ha’s dry gaze.
“I am….”
“I’m the child’s father.”
The answer to Chae Ha’s question came from Seol Won.
Soon, she looked at a man named Jae Yoon, who she saw for the first time, with unfamiliar yet affectionate eyes.
“I think you have mistaken the person.”
“Seol Won?”
“Let’s go. Let’s go, Woo Joo.”
“Yes, mom.”
The child named Woo Joo, sensing the unusual atmosphere, tilted his head and firmly held onto his mother’s hand and the hand of the man named Jae Yoon.
For some reason, the feeling of that hand gripping his heart made a moan rise from the depths of Chae Ha’s throat.
“Min Seol Won!”
This time there was no answer.
Instead, Jae Yoon’s words heavily pressed down on Chae Ha as if to protect the back of the retreating hat.
“I know who you are. But Seol Won really doesn’t remember. As you can see, she’s doing well here. So please don’t confuse her and just leave.”
“You know who I am? Knowing that…!”
“I’ll explain everything later. Right now, I’m asking you to leave so the child doesn’t get scared. Here, my business card.”
The man extended his business card with a very polite but firm hand gesture.
Then, as if he had said all he needed to say, he ran towards the retreating hat.
Under the dimming sunset, the shadows of those three looked just like a happy family.
Chae Ha, felt like he was going to lose his mind.
“Damn it!”
Striking the steering wheel as if to break it, Chae Ha spewed curses he had never used before.
The expressions of the three people he had just met on the island would not leave his eyes.
Seol Won’s insensitive eyes, the strange eyes of the child looking up at me, Jae Yoon’s awkward eyes….
“What? Seol Won? Dad?”
The more he thought about it, the more upset he became, and Chae Ha bit his lip several times.
The moment he looked into the child’s eyes, he instinctively knew.
That this child was Min Seol Won and his own child.
But that child called another man dad.
The taste of blood in his mouth, was nothing compared to the blood flowing from his heart.
Instead of burying his head as he struck the steering wheel, Chae Ha slowly looked up at the mirror.
The fiery eyes reflected in it, were full of determination to never give up what was rightfully his.
“Min Seol Won….”
Chae Ha softly called out that name, which he no longer needed to suppress in his heart.
As if she were right in front of him.
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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