At that introduction, Director Eom made a surprised expression, and Director Moon Seongcheol’s expression wrinkled.
Stepping forward, Director Eom approached Taehyuk and scrutinized him with an amazed expression.
“Is this the Choi Namgi I know?”
Jang Suho nodded in confirmation.
Director Eom took a step back, looking at Taehyuk with an admiring expression.
“Wow! Among those doing business in South Korea, there isn’t a person who hasn’t spent Choi Namgi’s money. I didn’t expect to see his grandson with my own eyes. You’re more famous than a celebrity in this business world. Hahaha.”
Laughing loudly, Director Eom patted Taehyuk on the arm with his hand.
Taehyuk never expected that he would be introduced in front of someone as Choi Namgi’s grandson.
“Director Moon, let’s have a meal together. I must pay for it.”
In response to Director Eom’s suggestion, Director Moon Seongcheol looked at Taehyuk with a chilly expression and replied.
“That won’t be necessary.”
Sensing the tense atmosphere, Director Eom asked Taehyuk in a low voice.
“Hey, do you have any misunderstandings with Director Moon?”
Taehyuk answered truthfully.
“I am the lover of Director Moon’s daughter.”
President Eom’s eyebrows gathered in the center, as if he had heard an incredible statement.
“If you are a celebrity, Director Moon’s daughter is a saint.”
Approaching Director Moon Seongcheol, President Eom patted him on the shoulder and said,
“It seems like I should leave you two alone today. Take it easy. By the way, don’t you run Taeyoung Construction without Choi Namgi’s money.”
Director Moon had no response other than nodding, without saying it would or wouldn’t be so.
President Eom extended his hand for a final handshake with Taehyuk.
“Nice meeting you.”
As Taehyuk never expected to hear such words here, he felt grateful and shook his hand.
President Eom rode the cart and left first, leaving three people at the golf course.
Director Moon Seongcheol took off his gloves and looked at Jang Suho.
“Don’t you need an explanation about this situation?”
He had been at ease because Jang Suho had been reporting that he was getting along well with his daughter.
However, today, like a stab in the back, he brought Choi Taehyuk.
“I asked Jang Suho to let me meet Director Moon first.”
“You didn’t tell me.”
Without any warmth, Director Moon Seongcheol cut off Taehyuk’s words.
There was no favor toward him; there was only enmity. It hadn’t even been five minutes since they met.
“If you have prejudices because of my grandfather…”
“All I wished for my daughter was to live an ordinary life like everyone else. Is that such a big desire?”
Interrupting Taehyuk’s words, Director Moon Seongcheol didn’t let him respond.
Taehyuk himself knew better than anyone that he had lived an extraordinary life.
“You were already an orphan the moment your parents passed away.”
And Director Moon Seongcheol seemed determined to point out things he didn’t know.
“Your grandfather became rich as a loan shark.”
“That’s no longer the case.”
He could say that one thing for sure.
Even though he didn’t know exactly what his grandfather was doing now, it wasn’t loan sharking.
“So, do you know why Choi Namgi stopped the easy money from the loan shark business?”
Director Moon Seongcheol, with an expression that couldn’t stand it, told Taehyuk a fact he hadn’t known until now.
“Your father died at the hands of the thugs your grandfather hired to collect money.”
“Director Moon!”
Jang Suho urgently intervened between Taehyuk and Director Moon Seongcheol.
“Enough.”
“Bring him here with your hands and then tell me to stop!”
Because of that, Jang Suho was receiving Director Moon Seongcheol’s scolding for the first time, but Taehyuk couldn’t hear anything anymore.
The bright and piercing blue sky seemed dizzyingly vivid.
It felt like his legs would give out, and he would collapse right there.
Hong Sik, wearing slippers, ran to the front door.
“Hyungnim, have you come?”
Seeing him walking into the garden with a light step, Hong Sik lowered his body to scrutinize his face.
“Hyungnim, why are you so down today? Did you have a fight with Teacher Moon, perhaps?”
“What about Madame Hwang?”
Taehyuk, without answering Hong Sik’s question, inquired about Madame Hwang’s well-being.
“She’s already gone to bed. Lately, she sleeps very early.”
Taehyuk moved toward the detached house.
Hong Sik followed him, reporting on the household chores that had taken place.
Taehyuk didn’t seem to be listening at all, but that was always the case.
Since Madame Hwang was already asleep, Taehyuk checked her condition without waking her up.
Hong Sik, speaking in a hushed voice, said, “She took her medicine and ate diligently according to the alarm.”
Taehyuk silently looked at Madame Hwang’s face for a moment and then left the room.
“What about Grandfather?”
“He’s in the study.”
Taehyuk walked toward the mansion, not the main gate.
“I’m going to sleep.”
At his announcement, Hong Sik made a puzzled expression, wondering what was going on.
When Taehyuk went to the study, Grandfather was checking the account books.
It was the most familiar sight he had seen throughout his life. Grandfather did this work every night before going to bed.
“Grandfather, do you prefer money over your only grandson?”
Hearing his voice, Choi Namgi raised his head and looked at Taehyuk over his reading glasses.
“Do you prefer this brat who comes and goes like water in a drought? He’s like a conscience-haired fellow.”
Looking at the harsh tone with which Grandfather scolded him, Taehyuk, who had been staring at him, turned and left.
Choi Namgi looked somewhat puzzled, but he didn’t ask what was wrong.
It had been too long since they exchanged such greetings between grandfather and grandson.
Thunk.
Entering his room and closing the door, Taehyuk collapsed on the floor as if everything had fallen apart.
Something hot rose in his throat, but he couldn’t bring himself to spit it out.
Rrrrrrrrrr Rrrrrrrrr
His phone rang.
It was probably Na Young. They hadn’t been in touch all day.
However, Taehyuk couldn’t bring himself to take out the phone and answer the call.
Tears flowed down his cheeks.
It was heartbreaking, so heartbreaking, and yet, so sorrowful.
Being born into this world.
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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