“I don’t like it. I’ve been away from you for how many hours now.”

Even at this moment, the expression insisting they should stay close was resolute.

“How long were we apart… Oppa, stop it, eek!”

Unable to place her large figure on her lap, Chae Yun eventually ended up sitting on his firm thigh, held in his hands.

“Why are you looking at Secretary Kim like that?”

Jaeo, who was ignoring her, continued to review the documents while embracing Chae Yun.

Chae Yun, feeling uneasy in this strange position, raised her shy eyes and stared at Jaeo.

He, unlike me, looked at the documents with a calm face.

Seeing that, I felt like I was the only one bothered. With her lips firmly pressed, Chae Yun lowered her eyes to the documents she brought.

I also wanted to react casually like Jaeo, but I couldn’t understand why my heart wouldn’t calm down.

It seemed like I needed to liven up the atmosphere with a conversation. Chae Yun moved her lips.
“But isn’t there an issue with TK Tower?”

Jaeo’s eyes, scanning through the documents Chae Yun had written, turned towards her.

Though she felt the gaze, Chae Yun continued looking at the papers.

“It’s been noisy since this morning, and it’s bothering me. It hasn’t been long since Oppa took charge of that project.”

She was worried that it might tarnish Jaeo’s career.

“If it’s related to the assault controversy, it seems quite serious…”

With a vague ending, Chae Yun finally raised her eyes to look at Jaeo.

Perhaps due to the change of topic, it seemed she could meet his eyes more casually than before. She was somewhat concerned about the assault article.

“Is there a problem?”

Looking at Jaeo with a worried expression, the documents he was holding suddenly fell onto the table.

At the moment when Chae Yun’s eyes slightly widened, a large hand covered Chae Yun’s cheek.

Their lips met.

The sudden intertwining breaths were strange, but as he moved very sincerely, Chae Yun closed her eyes and responded to his movements.

The lips that were moving pleasantly finally parted.

Descending down the slender neck, the lips touched the hollow near the collarbone, and Chae Yun’s lips felt a tingling sensation.

“Why are you suddenly doing this?”

“Because you’re worried about something unnecessary.”

His rough voice, low-toned, was pleasant to hear.

The sensation of the lips touching and parting was even more enjoyable, so Chae Yun softly caressed the firm arms holding her, responding.

“Why is that unnecessary? It’s Oppa’s work.”

Jaeo’s lips stretched.

“That’s not my job.”

A puzzled light passed through Chae Yun’s eyes.

Jaeo, being the chief executive officer, saying it’s not his job.

Just as she wondered what this meant, a knock sound suddenly echoed.

“Sir, may I come in?”

Hearing Woojong’s voice, Chae Yun’s body jumped.

Hastily getting out of his embrace, Chae Yun unknowingly sat on the one-person sofa and straightened her appearance.

A smile appeared on Jaeo’s lips.

It would look even stranger for her to sit there alone.

Finding it cute that she didn’t even think about it, he kept his eyes on her, and as Woojong approached, he said,

“Vice Chairman, there’s a call for you.”

For some reason, Chae Yun, who was searching through the documents, reacted to it.

What Woojong handed to Jaeo was Woojong’s phone.

There’s an internal line and Jaeo’s personal phone; why did Jungwoong specifically call Woojong? Curious, Chae Yun looked at Jaeo, and Jaeo, meeting her gaze, answered the call.

[Dash] Yes.

Hearing Jaeo’s voice through the receiver, Jungwoong breathed a sigh of relief.

Jungwoong wiped the cold sweat off his forehead with his hand and said,

“Come up here right now.”

[Dash] I’m a bit busy right now.

This guy never easily agreed as if he understood everything at once.

Upon Jaeo’s refusal, Jungwoong’s molars pressed against each other with a distant clenching sound.
As much as he wanted to say it was over, Jungwoong needed Jaeo now.

“Because of the article today, I have something to say. Come up. Quickly.”

The tone was a bit different from the usual commanding tone.

[Dash] Yes.

Thanks to that, he got an answer he understood. Although it sounded like he was annoyed to death, Jungwoong, satisfied with just this, hung up the phone and sighed deeply.

A few minutes ago.

So, right after formally expressing their stance as ordered by Jungwoong, contact came from Iyun Construction.

[Dash] I never expected the Vice Chairman to come out like this.

“I never expected the CEO to come out like this. The story was over then. Why is he suddenly doing this?”

[Dash] The more I think about it, the more unfair and angry I feel. We were fairly selected in the construction bid, but suddenly, they said they needed to change the construction company. When we refused and said we couldn’t follow that, they threatened us with assault and property damage.

“If you’re going to do that, talk to me before releasing such an article…”

[Dash] Would you have listened even if I contacted you first? You would have just passed it on to Chairman Kwon.

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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