“There’s no other meaning. It’s exactly as I said.”
She stated the truth, looking him straight in the eye to clear up the misunderstanding.
But, for some reason, Jae Oh’s gaze did not waver.
Chae Yoon, seeing that he seemed to want a more definite answer, drove the point home.
“I have nothing to do with Assistant Manager Im.”
She stated it clearly so that there could be no room for misunderstanding, but why did he keep staring at her so intensely?
The direct gaze felt a bit burdensome, so Chae Yoon discreetly lowered her eyes.
Then, his voice rang out.
“You said it was true later on.”
A bitter feeling lingered at the corners of Chae Yoon’s mouth.
“I… said that because it seemed like you wanted to hear it at the time.”
Her gaze, which had been gently falling, met Jae Oh’s.
“No matter what I say, it won’t be heard by someone who has no intention of believing me.”
After finishing her statement, Chae Yoon slightly parted her lips then hardened her expression. Jae Oh’s eyes narrowed slightly at her sight.
The snide comment he had made at Chae Yoon, who was denying any relationship with Hyun Min, wasn’t because he didn’t trust her.
He had been especially sour because he was reminded of Woo Kyung Hee while looking at Chae Yoon, and Jae Oh hadn’t thought about how his behavior would look in Chae Yoon’s eyes. He wasn’t the type to care about how he appeared to others in the first place.
Jae Oh’s forehead creased. Despite hearing a firm denial from Chae Yoon that she wasn’t seeing Hyun Min, his mood did not improve, perhaps because an unexpected point had been raised.
Jae Oh exhaled in frustration and threw out his next question.
“So, what about you saying you have someone you like?”
Chae Yoon paused before she could ask what he meant.
“Yeah.”
While she could tell the truth about everything else, she couldn’t answer this question honestly. Because her feelings for Jae Oh were something she needed to sort out herself.
So, Chae Yoon answered nonchalantly.
“I said that just to get out of the situation.”
At Chae Yoon’s answer, Jae Oh’s eyes narrowed slightly.
In other words, the ‘divorce’ that Chae Yoon wanted to proceed with was purely her own will and had no other reason.
He felt suffocated, as if something was choking him. Jae Oh spoke without relaxing the creased lines on his forehead.
“Then, what’s the reason for wanting to be alone now?”
“I told you. You’ve established your position in the company…”
“Not that superficial reason.”
His eyes seemed to be telling her to speak her true feelings.
Sensing that she couldn’t avoid answering, Chae Yoon cautiously revealed her thoughts.
“I thought it was a waste of time.”
Chae Yoon, who could not properly look at Jae Oh, made direct eye contact with him.
“You are now, almost thirty, brother.”
“……”
“Until now, you’ve lived an unwanted married life because of work, but from now on, you have to think about your future too.”
At the word ‘future’, his sharp eyes flinched and reacted.
“What future.”
His pupils darkened as he spoke.
“Meet a woman you really like, date, and marry……”
It was a situation that hurt just by imagining. Therefore, the end of her voice slightly trembled, but Chae Yoon concealed it by forcing a smile.
“You need to quickly give a beautiful greatgrandchild to the grandfather.”
“I don’t want to.”
The look in his eyes was firm.
Chae Yoon knew that this was Jae Oh’s true feelings. So she couldn’t be with him anymore.
“I guess so. But I…… I want to.”
Upon hearing Chae Yoon’s words, Jae Oh’s eyes widened in surprise.
Chae Yoon saw the change in Jae Oh’s expression at her words, but she continued to speak.
“I also want to have a normal relationship like my friends, and if I really find someone I love…… I want to get married later, so I asked for a divorce.”
Jae Oh was quite shocked by Chae Yoon’s words and couldn’t continue speaking.
He had no idea that Chae Yoon was thinking like this. It was more accurate to say that he couldn’t have known. They hadn’t had a conversation like this.
Jae Oh was quite surprised, but he calmed his startled heart and was lost in thought.
Heavy silence continued.
Jae Oh, deep in thought, closed his eyes and did not move.
Chae Yoon thought the conversation was over, seeing that Jae Oh could not respond to her opinion.
“So……”
So she was about to wrap up the conversation when an unbelievable word came out.
“Do that with me.”
Chae Yoon’s eyes were wide open in surprise.
“What did you say?”
“The love you’re talking about, let’s do it together.”
Chae Yoon was so surprised that she lost her words for a moment.
Did he understand what he was saying right now?
“Are you serious?”
“Yes.”
In response to the fastest possible answer, Chae Yoon let out a sigh of absurdity.
Was this a problem that could be decided so simply and quickly?
Well, it was the same with marriage, why not with dating?
Chae Yoon, filled with bitterness, spoke in a somewhat drained voice.
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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