The moment Kyung Hee left the president’s office.
Ja Oh, who had entered Ji Pil’s office on his own accord, encountered a startled grandfather at my sight.
His sharp eyes narrowed slightly, wondering why he was so surprised to see someone he wasn’t supposed to see.
Ja Oh, who was looking at Ji Pil, shifted his gaze to what he was holding in his hand.
It was obviously a bundle of photographs, and at the end of Ja Oh’s gaze, which saw him hastily put it into the envelope as soon as I looked at it, turned sharp.
‘What’s this.’
It felt like he was hurriedly hiding something.
And so, an unprecedented interest arose in the moment Ji Pil asked.
“Why are you here without even contacting?”
Ja Oh’s reason for coming here was due to Chae Yoon’s issue. To be precise, he came to consult with Ji Pil, saying that something had happened with Chae Yoon……
Seeing Kyung Hee before entering, the startled grandfather at my sight, and even the photos that such a grandfather was hurriedly hiding, he had a bad feeling that something didn’t feel right.
Ja Oh, who slightly furrowed his thick eyebrows, sat down on the sofa and replied.
“I came because I have something to say, is there anything going on?”
Then, as he looked at the photo envelope that Ji Pil had put aside, a fake cough echoed from Ji Pil’s throat.
“Hem. What do you have to say?”
It was a clear change of topic, suggesting not to be interested.
Ja Oh withdrew his gaze from the direction of the photos and voiced his purpose of visiting here.
“Song Chae Yoon is getting divorced.”
Ji Pil’s eyes widened in surprise.
“What?! What did she say she’s going to do?”
Seeing the grandfather exclaim in surprise, it seemed that he had the same feelings as me, so my tense eyes relaxed considerably. Ja Oh added in a nonchalant tone.
“She said she had been thinking about it for quite some time……”
His usually calm tone wavered for a moment.
Of course, when he heard it, and the more he thought about it, the more he disliked what was said.
It was because when they got married, it was Chae Yoon who asked about whether they would get divorced.
[We get married out of necessity, so I think we should get divorced when our dad’s company is no longer needed.]It was a nuance of words suggesting that Chae Yoon herself wouldn’t break this marriage unless I brought up divorce first.
Because of that statement, he hadn’t even thought about divorce once, but thinking that the party who had said so had been by my side with the thought of divorce in mind for a long time, he felt betrayed and couldn’t concentrate on his work.
The wrinkles on his furrowed forehead deepened further.
Ja Oh, who had even furrowed his thick eyebrows, stared straight at Ji Pil, who was surprised at his words.
“What are you going to do?”
When the straightforward question followed, Ji Pil, who was dumbfounded and just blinking his eyes in surprise, regained his senses.
Ji Pil, while pouring the tea in front of him to soothe his startled mind, asked back.
“Did she say why she wants to divorce?”
“She says now that she’s graduated from college and has a job, she wants to live on her own.”
After finishing his words, Ja Oh moved his eyes to meticulously scrutinize Ji Pil’s expression.
It was to read Ji Pil’s reaction, but for some reason, the grandfather, who he thought would say that divorce is not allowed as soon as he heard those words, did not immediately give an answer.
“……Did she say anything else besides that?”
And such a question on top of that.
His wideopen eyes narrowed sharply.
‘No matter how I look at it……’
Convinced that there was something, Ja Oh asked bluntly.
“Tell me. What is it.”
“What is what.”
“You’re hiding something from me.”
Ja Oh, who had easily figured out that what Ji Pil was holding was a photograph, blatantly stared at the place where the photograph was.
Despite Ja Oh subtly indicating that he was fully aware and wanted Ji Pil to show him that photograph quickly, Ji Pil couldn’t readily show him the picture.
“Shall I go and see it?”
Ja Oh, who had finished speaking, stood up from his seat.
At the undeterred action of his grandson, Ji Pil sighed deeply and handed Ja Oh the photo envelope he had kept beside him.
Finally able to confirm what he was curious about, Ja Oh quickly pulled out the photograph from the envelope.
And the moment he looked at the photograph, he froze on the spot.
The person captured in the square frame was Chae Yoon. This in itself was not a problem, but the presence of the man with Chae Yoon touched his nerves.
Furthermore, the two people in the photograph looked like a tender pair to anyone who saw it, and Ja Oh had no idea how to interpret this.
Ji Pil’s voice flowed into his ears.
“I was dubious when I first saw it, but seeing her asking you for a divorce, it seems like she really does like him.”
The eyes that had frozen looking at the photograph responded at the mention of ‘a person she likes.’
Feeling Ja Oh’s gaze on him, Ji Pil continued his words.
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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