After Kang Yi-hyun entered the dimensional rift, Lud crouched down in the alley.
“Ah, really. Why do I even have to do this?”
Lud sighed deeply, resting his chin on his knees. In truth, he had no specific place to visit, but it was more comfortable to enter the guild at a different time than Kang Yi-hyun.
[It’s already been a week since you joined the guild. How do you feel? asks the Lord of Chaos.]“It’s more comfortable than before, but people are still annoying. The PR department says they handle it, but being filmed still irritates me.”
Above all, having to maintain the Lud avatar was a bit of a hassle. The Lud avatar required a high concentration of mental energy.
‘Persona,’ a high-class illusionist skill, was one of the top skills an illusionist could obtain. Originally meant to change one’s personality or character to others, Narie had completely remodeled the skill to create an avatar that could change appearance.
It required a substantial amount of mental energy. Because of this, clearing a 3rd-grade gate was the maximum he could do with the Lud avatar.
“But there are good points too. I get my salary on time, there are incentives for good performance, and I can sell the items I’ve collected.”
Narie felt like he finally understood why everyone was so desperate to land a job. Although there was a commission for selling high-grade items… the guild took care of the taxes, which made it worth it.
Whenever he felt a bit uneasy, looking at the cash filled in his inventory always comforted him.
‘The guild manager’s face when I dumped all the items I had collected was priceless.’
When the guild sold the items, the National Tax Service would be notified of what was sold. Naturally, the guild’s stock prices skyrocketed immediately after they sold Narie’s boss mob items.
“And the company restaurant and café coffee are good too.”
[So the problem is your colleagues, then? queries the Lord of Chaos.]“That’s right. Anyway, speaking of which, I should go now. It’s a headache if we run into each other again.”
Confirming there was no one around, Lud opened a dimensional rift. The lobby of the guild was visible through the portal. Tsk, Lud clicked his tongue and walked through.
The luxury classical music, gleaming marble floors, and light-reflecting chandeliers were striking.
“Luckily, there aren’t many people around.”
In the middle of the lobby, a few passing employees glanced at Lud’s sudden appearance but, used to it by now, simply nodded and passed by.
[Hurry up and get to the office before he shows up, urges the Lord of Chaos!]“No, wait a minute.”
Unable to resist the temptation of an Americano for a thousand won, Lud stopped at the company café. Even convenience store coffee was more expensive than that.
“Welcome~”
Responding to the barista’s friendly greeting, Lud nodded and looked at the menu above. After a moment of thought, he took out cash from a worn wallet with a rabbit character on it.
“One iced Americano and one iced oat latte, please.”
[Why are you buying two? the Lord of Chaos looks at you with clouded eyes.]“…….”
[Who are you buying it for? the Lord of Chaos looks at you suspiciously!]“I should apologize. He seemed upset.”
“Eh?”
“Oh, no, nothing. Please, just charge it. Ah, and… could you put it on a tray?”
“Sure, just a moment, please!”
The employee quickly caught on that Lud was talking to the Lord of Chaos and resumed his service smile. Lud’s ears turned slightly red.
Anyway, since the Lord of Chaos had contracted with only a handful of people in South Korea, it often seemed like he was talking to himself to ordinary people.
‘I should take care of my partner. He seemed really upset. If he feels worse, it’ll bother me too.’
Lud sighed deeply. As he took out his card, the employee turned around to grind the coffee beans. Watching the coffee being prepared with quick hands, Lud scratched his head, annoyed.
It was all because of that guy.
A week after joining the Sungjeon Guild, Kang Yi-hyun had immediately changed his partner following Lud’s joining.
Initially, the partnership system felt awkward, but Lud found it quite nice not having to deal with everything alone.
Despite switching roles from leading to supporting Lud’s actions, Kang Yi-hyun didn’t show a single complaint and did well.
Both inside and outside the guild, people seemed quite satisfied with the partnership of the first and second rankers. Anyway, everything seemed to be going smoothly until…
“Hey, number one. You’ve arrived?”
A mocking voice came from behind the corridor near the lounge. Turning around, Lud saw a middle-aged man with white hair slicked back and horn-rimmed glasses waving his hand.
“Still going around separately from our young master? He seemed quite upset.”
Lud inwardly sighed. A black indirect message floated above him.
[Wherever you go, human relationships are always a problem, shrugs the Lord of Chaos.]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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