“…What?”
Baek Sara’s muttering was drowned out by the sound of the knife hitting the floor.
At the same time, a rough voice, unheard of until now from Baek Jaeyeong, burst out.
“What are you babbling about? What did I do to your wife?”
“You must have done such dirty things that you can’t even remember. Or maybe you’re shameless.”
Chaeha’s gaze, sharper than the knife on the floor, pierced Baek Jaeyeong.
With the sudden turn of events, the parents of both Baek Yeong and Chaeha alternately looked at them, puzzled.
Having come to discuss the marriage, the atmosphere became especially strange, and Chairman Baek and his wife’s eyes widened.
Once again, Chairman Baek showed signs of intervening, and Chaeha quickly blocked the gap.
“There’s no need to rush. I will explain everything slowly.”
“So, what… are you talking about? What did Sara and Jaeyeong do?”
Feeling uneasy in this unusual situation, Director Jin urged for an answer.
As declared, Chaeha began to reveal the details, kindly and in detail, in this perfect gathering of the offenders and their parents.
“Everyone knows the fact that my wife disappeared with a car on the breakwater five years ago. We all thought she was dead. I thought so too.”
“Well, yes. But why? In the end, she came back safely.”
Perhaps it was an instinctive parent’s premonition, but from Director Jin’s tone, there was already a sense of defending his child.
Chaeha, mercilessly and coldly, began to push the truth into them, ignoring their parental instincts.
“Since she wasn’t dead in the first place. Here, Baek Jaeyeong and Baek Sara made my wife a dead person, driving her away. Moreover, they used my mother-in-law’s life as an excuse.”
“…What? What are you talking about?”
“It’s exactly as I said. The two of them conspired to deceive my wife. They lied to me that they would save my mother-in-law to drive away my wife with a child. Of course, there was some fault on our side here.”
When Chaeha’s gaze briefly turned to Huh Yeongju, she hurriedly bowed her head.
As it was not important at the moment, Chaeha focused her gaze back on the Baek Yeong family.
“They pretended to disguise the accident. Everyone was deceived by that deception. They did threats, and even kidnapping and confinement. Thanks to them, my wife had to endure something unspeakably horrific while pregnant.”
“…What?”
For the first time since the incident, a deep anger appeared on Kwon Kangho’s face as he listened to the whole story.
Using someone’s life for such a deception, it was an unforgivable act.
“Is it true? Sara, Jaeyeong. Both of you, speak up.”
With a stern gaze, Kwon Kangho questioned the Baek siblings.
As the air momentarily became icy, Baek Sara inexplicably began to stutter.
“Oh my. Chairman, too~ Of course not! Do you believe that? Why would I deceive Min Seolwon? And do you not know that Baek Jaeyeong and I are not on good terms? How could we possibly scheme something together?”
“I agree. Baek Sara. I refuse to get involved with you!”
Baek Jaeyeong countered without yielding.
“I have nothing to say either, Kwon Chaeha. You seem to have mistakenly accused me of forcing you just because I mentioned your wife’s figure a little while ago. Even if you make a mistake, you’ve made a big mistake!”
A sardonic laugh flowed from Chaeha’s lips, blocking the siblings’ mouths.
In his eyes, suppressing his anger, there was an anger that seemed to tear them apart at any moment.
Baek Sara’s lips, watching that expression, unconsciously dried up.
Then suddenly, anger surged.
Min Seolwon, what did that woman say? Did she really cause such a trouble because of that woman?
“Hey! Shut up with your nonsense!”
Unexpectedly, it wasn’t Baek Sara who first vented her anger, but Chairman Baek.
With a voice full of rage, he slammed the table.
“Did you make such remarks after creating a place like this? I didn’t expect that from you! Kwon Chaeha!”
“I am only telling the truth.”
“The truth? Listening only to the exaggerated words your wife spreads and believing them like iron! Pathetic. Pathetic! How dare you disrespectfully gather adults…”
“Chairman Baek.”
With a coldly settled voice, Kwon Kangho stared at his friend coldly.
Heo Yeongju had already shrunk into a corner, as if trying to hide.
“Don’t interfere. Isn’t it unusual to hear this kind of thing? If it’s true, it’s a crime.”
“…”
The word ‘crime’ silenced Chairman Baek.
Director Jin also felt a chill down his spine, although he knew his daughter’s determination; he never expected it to go this far.
“Evidence? Do you have evidence!”
It was then. In the midst of everyone freezing, Baek Sara’s sharp voice echoed in the air.
Her distorted face was already out of control.
After waiting so long, the ripe apple had finally fallen, but it turned out to be a poisonous apple.
“S-Sara. Calm down. Sit down for now. We need to resolve the misunderstanding sitting down…”
“No! I’m leaving! Why do I have to go through this humiliation?”
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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