It was at that moment that a knock sounded in the quiet room.
Knock knock.
“Come in.”
Yeong-seon responded as if she had been waiting.
The one who appeared was Director Kim.
Neatly dressed, he bowed respectfully and looked at Yeong-seon.
“I’m sorry for calling you abruptly when you must be busy with company matters. I wanted to see you because there’s something I’m curious about.”
At Yeong-seon’s words, Director Kim’s gaze swept over the table.
He saw the documents he had prepared quite some time ago lying there.
That alone gave him a guess as to what Yeong-seon was going to say.
Director Kim silently waited for Yeong-seon’s words.
“You went through a lot of trouble to prepare the requested documents, but I’ve only just properly looked at them now.”
“Is there anything else you’d like to instruct?”
“No, it’s not that…….”
Yeong-seon shook her head slowly as she quickly scanned the stack of papers.
The content she was curious about was clear in her mind, but it wasn’t easy to put it into words.
Her mouth felt awkwardly dry.
But she had to ask.
“There’s a part in the prepared documents that I don’t understand.”
“…….”
“In the content, you handwrote a note saying that our daughter-in-law always stayed alone without friends, but it doesn’t seem like a problem of sociability…….”
“…….”
“Can you explain what that means?”
Director Kim’s eyes carried a puzzled light.
It was an unexpected question.
Writing personal opinions by hand in the neatly typed documents was to indirectly inform about the shocking secret that the youngest daughter-in-law of the TK Group, as it turned out, was an adopted child with a story that couldn’t be explained in words.
The warmth-filled content mixed among the mechanically aligned letters was noticeable at a glance, even with a casual look at the documents.
Yet, without any particular comment, TK thought the mistress of the house was quite upset.
But now, to be curious about that part.
Director Kim gathered his thoughts, momentarily stunned, and pondered over Yeong-seon’s question.
Then he quickly combined the information he had set aside in his mind.
“The information available from the documents at that time was only simple content, so I inquired about people who were close to the youngest daughter-in-law. It wasn’t easy, but I managed to find a few people who gave quite surprising stories when I met them.”
Director Kim’s story carried significant meaning.
Yeong-seon listened attentively to his words, trying hard to hide her tense feelings.
“They said she was quite popular among her classmates at the start of each semester. In her first semester of middle school, it seems she had quite a few friends, but at some point, she started avoiding getting close to anyone.”
“Su-yeon did?”
Yeong-seon frowned at the incomprehensible words.
Even to that reaction, Director Kim calmly nodded.
“Yes. What’s even more incomprehensible is that after that, she often got hurt.”
“Hurt? Where?”
“That is…….”
Even Director Kim, who had been speaking calmly, couldn’t hide his troubled expression at that moment.
Here is the translation of the given passage:
This revelation made Yeong-seon’s heart even more uneasy.
Yeong-seon urged Director Kim with her eyes.
“The memories are old and not exact, but they said she always seemed uncomfortable.”
“…….”
“It wasn’t clear where she was hurt, as most injuries weren’t visible, but things like walking awkwardly or letting out a pained groan from a mere brush.”
“…….”
“At one point, she was seen limping to school. For a while, she walked around with a stark bruise on her neck.”
Yeong-seon gasped and covered her mouth with her hand.
The fact that she was limping was surprising enough, but having a bruise on her neck was beyond shocking.
“Who, who could have……!”
Yeong-seon couldn’t finish her sentence.
It was Director Kim who became troubled.
His lips moved silently before he managed to speak.
“It seems there was domestic violence.”
The following words were the most shocking so far.
Yeong-seon’s eyes fluttered in confusion.
Instinctively, she remembered an incident at the department store.
The rumor that Su-yeon was an adopted child of the Tae-shin Group was quietly spreading in social circles, so Hye-kyung, her mother-in-law, couldn’t have been unaware.
Yet, she showed no concern for Su-yeon’s well-being, only hastily caring for her own second daughter, which strangely connected to Director Kim’s words.
And wasn’t that all. The malicious gaze directed at Su-yeon throughout the meal seemed to lend even more weight to Director Kim’s words.
“Are you sure? Is there any evidence?”
Yeong-seon asked urgently.
Director Kim added as if he had been waiting.
“There’s no physical evidence, but based on the information I gathered, it’s a highly plausible guess. I met with about three people, and they consistently said that just by looking, it was evident she had no personal time, completely dedicated to her studies, and frequently appeared at school looking uncomfortable.”
“…….”
“After school, she was immediately taken to tutoring by a driver, and couldn’t go anywhere without the driver. Amidst all this, she often came to school looking uncomfortable, and there were many days she was sick. Even with high fever, she stubbornly stayed in class, as if something terrible would happen if she didn’t.”
“…….”
“Based solely on their words, it’s hard to assert, but in my opinion, it definitely seems like domestic violence.”
Yeong-seon was speechless, overwhelmed by the never-ending shock.
She couldn’t believe it.
What on earth had happened to that child?
As she struggled to recover from the shock, an unexpected knock sounded again in the bedroom.
The door opened, and it was the younger Mrs. Yeong-chun.
“Madam, sorry to interrupt, but the youngest daughter-in-law has arrived.”
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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