A strong shock hit Seol Won as if she had been struck in the head.
Chae Ha had kept vigil during his mother’s last moments…? That Kwon Chae Ha?
The shocking news didn’t stop there.
Perhaps thinking it was now or never, President Shim poured out everything that had happened up to that point.
He said that he had always kept an eye on his mother’s condition, even in his busy schedule.
He celebrated his mother’s birthday every year while she was in the hospital for three years, and even after her passing, he observed the anniversary each year.
“Why… didn’t you tell me?”
As the obvious question returned, President Shim awkwardly pushed up his glasses.
“Young lady, we thought you would be uncomfortable if you knew. Look, aren’t you uncomfortable now?”
“…I…”
It wasn’t uncomfortable. At least, that’s how she felt at the moment.
But there was some truth in President Shim’s words.
The relationship between the two in the past was a strictly contractual one, with clear terms and conditions.
The most important term being Seol Won’s mother, it would have felt strange if she had known this truth back then.
“Now, shall we go upstairs? We need to check on the child.”
“Yes…”
“And this time, young lady, you have to keep this a secret. If he knows I told you this, he might get upset.”
He chuckled lightly, but President Shim’s expression looked somewhat out of sorts.
At this unexpected truth that she heard from him, Seol Won completely forgot what she was originally going to ask.
Instead, all that remained in that spot was a heart shaking like mad.
Towards Kwon Chae Ha, a man who was nothing more than a contractual husband.
“What? Manager Yoon! What did you just say?”
At Heo Young Ju’s scolding, it seemed like her ears would fall off, and Manager Yoon halfclosed his ears.
“Woo Ju has caught a cold.”
“What? A cold? Why?”
“Do you think I know?”
“How is he? Huh?”
“I don’t know. Vice President took a leave of absence, so I looked into why, and it turned out that the child was sick.”
“Sick… that child…”
Heo Young Ju’s hands and eyes shook together.
She then conveyed her decision to Manager Yoon in a trembling voice.
“Let’s go.”
“Yes.”
As if he had expected it, Manager Yoon readily agreed without any hesitation.
After all, it wasn’t his place to stop his boss.
However, what worried him was the reaction of a man who was just as difficult as his boss.
“What is it?”
That difficult man, Kwon Chae Ha, was frowning and exuding coldness from beyond the door screen.
Even though Heo Young Ju had pushed Manager Yoon into full view of the screen, Kwon Chae Ha seemed to already know who was behind him.
Having no choice, Manager Yoon made a gesture to Heo Young Ju.
He thought it might help to get the door opened if he openly expressed why they came.
However, as always, Heo Young Ju first yelled at him, and even more fiercely than usual.
“You don’t even open the door when your mother is here, huh?”
“…”
“Open it quickly!”
“…Ha.”
Finally, the door had opened.
However, Director Yoon and Heo Youngju couldn’t cross the threshold and had to face another barrier again.
Kwon Chae Ha looked down at his mother with an infinitely icy expression.
“Why did you come? I clearly told you not to come like this without any contact.”
As Chae Ha’s gaze turned towards Director Yoon, Yoon discreetly avoided it.
Heo Youngju’s reckless actions were beyond his ability to explain.
Just as expected, Heo Youngju began to rush towards the second floor as if to escape from her son.
“Mother!”
At Chae Ha’s shout from behind, Heo Youngju shouted back even louder.
“I didn’t come to see you! I came to see our baby!”
“……”
“……”
Left alone in his place, Director Yoon wiped the sweat trickling down his forehead and gave an awkward smile.
Our baby…..
At those words, Chae Ha couldn’t help but sigh softly.
Then he followed his mother up to the second floor.
Meanwhile, Min Seol Won, who was nursing Uju, felt her heart drop due to Heo Youngju’s sudden appearance.
But Heo Youngju, as if she didn’t care about Seol Won at all, rushed to the bed and fell onto it.
“Oh my! Our pretty baby! How much pain are you in, huh?”
“Ah, I…….”
“Oh my, look at this fever! What on earth have you done, becoming a mother!”
“Mother!”
When Heo Youngju felt the icy tone of Chae Ha’s voice from behind, she was startled and looked at the door.
Chae Ha, who had come up unnoticed, was demanding her to leave with his eyes.
With his excellent situational handling skills, Director Yoon didn’t even dare step foot in this room.
“Don’t be rude to my wife and get out now.”
“What? When did I ever act rudely? It’s because our baby is sick!”
“He’s much better now, so don’t make a scene and leave quickly.”
Chae Ha, who had approached Heo Youngju with large strides, tried to get her up.
Then it happened.
In the crisis of being kicked out, a ray of light came to Heo Youngju.
“Uh….”
“Ah, my baby! Our baby!”
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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