Ji Ho, with the corners of his mouth lifted into a pleasant smile, pulled out his phone.
He touched the screen a few times with his fingertips and then brought it to his ear.
Then, Lee Soo’s phone started to vibrate.
Ji Ho nodded lightly in the direction of the sound.
“You have a call.”
“Hmm.”
Seeing Ji Ho’s name on the screen of the phone she was holding, Lee Soo looked at Ji Ho with a bewildered face.
Seeing her questioning gaze, Ji Ho grinned and said,
“Just answer the call.”
Even though it seemed a ridiculous situation, overwhelmed by Ji Ho’s soft gaze, Lee Soo brought the phone to her ear.
“…Hello.”
“It’s me, Ji Ho.”
Seeing Ji Ho talking calmly, as if he was really on a call right next to her, Lee Soo nodded her head.
Ji Ho twisted his upper body towards Lee Soo, stretched out his arm, and placed it over the backrest of the bench where Lee Soo was sitting.
Surprised by his sudden action, Lee Soo unintentionally flinched her shoulder.
It was because she felt like Ji Ho was wrapping her shoulder.
“Sorry for contacting you late.”
Ji Ho said, staring at Lee Soo from an uncomfortably close distance.
Could it have been a misunderstanding that her heart fluttered in relief at Lee Soo’s words, waiting for his call?
What about the corners of her mouth lifting at his words?
She no longer didn’t know why he said he would return the umbrella.
‘He did it for this. He wanted to hear that I had been waiting for him from my mouth.’
During the silence, Lee Soo saw her face reflected in Ji Ho’s eyes.
Feeling her heart throb for a moment, she closed her eyes tightly.
‘It’s because of the alcohol.’
Lee Soo swallowed her dry saliva and slowly moved her lips.
“What are you doing now?”
“I’m calling, right? You said you were waiting.”
At his cheeky response, Lee Soo let out an amazed laugh.
So he called because she had been waiting.
As Lee Soo finished her short laughter, she rolled her eyes.
“You should have done it earlier. It was hard carrying around the umbrella for a few days.”
Ji Ho just looked at Lee Soo as if asking her to continue.
“I thought you had forgotten because you didn’t contact me. I clearly heard that you would contact me, I thought I heard wrong, and it wasn’t a request to return it, so I thought I misunderstood. So for a few days…”
Lee Soo paused, trailing off her words.
She wondered why she was talking about this to a man who wouldn’t even be curious about how she felt over the past few days.
A man who said he would contact her and waited for her to do so.
Was he saying that it was bothersome to contact her?
Is it fortunate that she was waiting?
Whether it was because of the alcohol, her thoughts moved sluggishly.
So Lee Soo decided to only say the conclusion.
“Anyway, I didn’t bring an umbrella today because I didn’t expect to meet you. I put it in the locker at the medical school, so if you want, I can bring it now.”
Ji Ho heard that as if she was saying that she had put the umbrella in the locker, that she would no longer wait for his contact.
She had been waiting, but she couldn’t go for a few days.
Ji Ho, who had been silent, asked in a low voice.
“Didn’t you want to contact me first?”
Lee Soo affirmed with silence.
“So you wouldn’t give the umbrella if I didn’t contact you.”
Ji Ho said, chuckling.
Even though he knew that wasn’t her intention, he was curious about Lee Soo’s reaction.
“You intended to take the umbrella?”
Lee Soo flared up, with resentment in her eyes.
Even though she did nothing but wait for Ji Ho’s call, it wasn’t that she wouldn’t give it.
Recalling the days she had been anxiously waiting, she suddenly felt choked up.
“That’s right. I absolutely would.”
Ji Ho smiled loosely and propped his face up on his arm resting on the bench.
Then the distance between them became even closer.
Possibly due to the influence of alcohol, Lee Soo didn’t guard herself.
“I see. Wait here. I’ll bring it now.”
From Luna Garden to the medical school, it was a distance that could be covered and returned in 20 minutes.
Lee Soo thought it was rather a good thing.
She didn’t know when she would meet Ji Ho again, and she didn’t want to keep worrying about it.
It was supposed to be over cleanly when she returned it when she met like this.
When Lee Soo suddenly rose from her seat, laughter burst out of Ji Ho’s mouth.
You’re impatient.
Ji Ho reached out and grabbed Lee Soo’s wrist.
You want to give it quickly and finish it.
Then I have no choice but to keep making her worry.
“End the call here.”
Ji Ho stood up from his seat, lowering his hand that held the phone.
Lee Soo also ended the call and looked up at Ji Ho.
“You said you would take it. Why not now when I’m offering it?”
“Not now.”
He decided to accept it slowly.
“It’s not even raining, and I have to carry it.”
Ji Ho looked at Lee Soo with a tender gaze.
Her hair fluttering in the night breeze, skin clear as glass, a distinct intellectual and neat atmosphere.
A face sometimes serious, sometimes refreshingly charming, sometimes surprisingly bright.
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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