Even while speaking, there was a faint groan. Once again, it was because the smell of the sandwich made his stomach uncomfortable.
“Don’t you need to go to the hospital?”
“I’m fine.”
Junhwi managed to suppress his nausea and swallowed water.
“What’s wrong, Kwon Byeon. Why are you like this? Where doesn’t it feel good?”
Seeing Junhwi pushing the sandwich placed in front of him far away, Lawyer Yang Ju-yeon also expressed concern.
“You need to take care of your health. Have you been getting regular health check-ups, Lawyer Kwon? Did you skip them again because you’re busy?”
“Huh, it seems like I’m being treated like someone with a serious illness out of the blue.”
Junhwi immediately counterattacked, but inwardly, he felt embarrassed.
Indeed, lately, even if he stayed still, his back would feel dizzy, and his stomach would feel uncomfortable. There were many days when his head also hurt subtly.
Then, when he swallowed another sip of water, he felt nauseated again due to the strange smell of water.
Junhwi narrowly avoided the crisis and quickly walked to the bathroom.
“Whew…”
Grabbing the sink, he looked at himself in the mirror and felt extremely worn out. The face that had tossed and turned all night for the first time since marriage was filled with fatigue.
“Oh no.”
Moreover, there were pimples on his chin that hadn’t appeared even during adolescence. Junhwi clicked his tongue as he scrutinized his own face.
Could it be that, as the worries of Attorney Yang came true, a serious illness had developed?
When did these symptoms start? Junhwi began to ponder.
It was probably that day.
“Congratulations! It’s been six weeks. The shape of the baby’s home is very beautiful.”
The day when, even with the doctor’s congratulations at the OB-GYN, everything felt unbelievable.
“Oh, what should I do…”
Until he comforted Yeonwoo, who quietly sobbed, Junhwi was still feeling dazed.
“Shall we listen to the baby’s heartbeat?”
When the doctor operated the ultrasound machine on Yeonwoo’s belly, thump, thump, thump, thump, the rapid heartbeat filled the entire space.
It was like a drum resonating, and the powerful beats, sounding like thunder striking, deeply engraved in Junhwi’s mind.
“…”
From the depth of his chest, a warm sensation welled up. When the overwhelming warmth surged up to fill even his throat and finally choked it tight, a full-body shiver spread through Junhwi.
It was the first intense vibration he had ever felt since birth. This powerful pulsation, which seemed to cover the entire universe, was not just a mere dot of life pounding like a heartbeat but felt like a gigantic existence covering the entire cosmos.
No, it was the universe itself.
It was the moment when Junhwi and Yeonwoo’s world, which existed only for each other, began completely anew.
He didn’t want to miss this ecstatic feeling. Junhwi, calming Yeonwoo, subtly clenched his trembling fist.
After listening to the awe-inspiring first heartbeat of the baby, Junhwi began to take care of Yeonwoo in earnest.
From the moment they left the hospital, he was determined to carry Yeonwoo around, meticulously paying attention to every detail of what Yeonwoo saw, heard, and ate.
Therefore, for the evening meal that day, he chose a traditional Korean restaurant operated by a master chef. It was Junhwi’s determination to feed Yeonwoo something good for her body.
“But Attorney, why aren’t you eating much?”
Yeonwoo, who was deeply scooping up the rice from the stone pot with a spoon, asked.
“I am eating.”
However, contrary to his answer, Junhwi’s chopsticks did not move actively that day.
Since visiting the OB-GYN, his stomach had been uncomfortable and uneasy. Everything tasted bitter, and at first, he thought the food was wrong, but watching Yeonwoo eat well made him realize it wasn’t.
“You eat well.”
“Yeah, this yukjeon melts softly in the mouth. Attorney, try it!”
“Eat a lot. If you want more, order more. But… by the way.”
Junhwi, who had been suppressing the discomfort in his stomach, brought up a different topic.
“How about changing that title? Can’t we do something about it?”
“What?”
Ah, Yeonwoo’s cheeks turned red as she soon understood his hidden intention.
“Well, I’m fine with it as it is. How about ‘Attorney’?”
“If you like it that much, let’s name our child ‘Attorney.'”
“Oh, come on. Sometimes you don’t like ‘Oppa,’ and now you want it back the way it was.”
“That was before the child was born. If you don’t want to change, then I’ll register our child’s name as ‘Attorney Kwon.'”
Yeonwoo’s lips slightly pursed. However, in front of the serious Junhwi, she couldn’t keep avoiding and skirting around the issue.
Reluctantly, Yeonwoo, who had pretended to diligently scoop up sea urchin seaweed soup, lifted her head, holding her back straight.
“······Look.”
“What? I can’t hear you.”
Hmm, Yeonwoo cleared her throat and closed her eyes tightly, gathering courage once again.
“Yeo… look. Darling.”
Ugh, it’s embarrassing. Yeonwoo shivered as if she had swallowed a bowl of vinegar.
“Sounds good to hear.”
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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