With nimble movements, Kim exchanged messages. Even in the process, the corners of his mouth were distinctly different from usual.
“Is something good happening?”
Junghyuk asked. It was only then that the now-conscious Kim quickly stashed his phone back in his pocket, wearing a embarrassed expression.
“Well, that’s…”
“Let me guess. Your wife told you to buy something delicious again, Kim? You must have a lot of things you want to eat.”
Instead of the hesitant Kim, Min, the team leader, answered.
“Wife? Kim, were you married?”
Junghyuk raised an eyebrow. He had heard some time ago that Kim was unmarried. As Kim blushed like a shy teenage boy, Min, once again, answered on his behalf.
“His wife? Kim got married a few days ago without even having a wedding ceremony.”
Junghyuk nodded lightly.
“A small wedding… something like that? Well, the formality doesn’t matter. By the way, it seems your wife has a good appetite.”
“It’s inevitable. Because it’s for two people.”
This time, Manager Min added and laughed heartily.
“Two portions?”
“Director too. Don’t you know there’s a baby in your stomach? So we hurriedly submitted a marriage report and postponed the meal until after the cold childbirth. So, what would you like to eat today, Director?”
“Well… I want jokbal (pig trotters) and makguksu (buckwheat noodles). I never touched jokbal, but my taste changed after getting pregnant.”
Driver Kim spoke shyly. Recognizing the reminiscing expression on Manager Min’s face, he also joined in the conversation.
“My wife was like that too. Before pregnancy, she never touched anything, but why does she suddenly want that expensive king crab after getting pregnant?”
Kim smacked his lips.
“King crab, huh? I should thank my wife.”
“Don’t talk. At first, I didn’t spare anything, but when I started eating one king crab a day, it became unbearable. I used the cash service I received at our first child’s first birthday party to pay it all off. Jokbal is nothing compared to that.”
Listening to their conversation, Junghyuk suddenly remembered something he had seen in Dajeong’s diary.
Yoo Dajeong cried because she wanted to eat peaches when Yoo Siwoo was in her belly. Even if that’s true, it might be a slightly exaggerated story. She must have wanted to eat it enough to cry.
If such a thing happens again, he might offer not only king crab but also a whole cow…
No, wait.
While listening to their conversation with his ears, Junghyuk suddenly had a doubt in his mind.
“Manager Min, do women’s tastes change when they are pregnant? Like eating things they didn’t eat before…”
When Junghyuk asked, Manager Min slightly turned his body toward the back seat.
“I can’t say that for sure, but looking around, it seems like most women do. Who doesn’t say that? They say it’s not what the mom eats but what the baby eats. When women can’t eat what they want during pregnancy, it stays with them for life.”
Junghyuk remembered Dajeong purchasing mangosteen at the department store not long ago.
A woman who didn’t even touch a bottle of water from the hotel refrigerator because it was expensive bought a whole box of fruit at the department store, saying she would eat it. It was unusual behavior for the usual Yoo Dajeong. Even at that time, he thought it was a bit strange, and thinking about it again, it seemed unnatural.
Lately, he had been concerned about her sleeping while talking on the phone. Now that he thought about it, she seemed to have gained some weight, not as if she had been worried.
Perhaps…
Junghyuk, who had been gazing into the air, suddenly brightened his eyes and turned his gaze outside the car window.
“Yoo Dajeong, looks pretty.”
With an out-of-place mutter, while Manager Min and Driver Kim exchanged glances, Junghyuk felt a vibration and took out his phone from his pocket.
Looking at the caller ID on the screen, he grinned.
“Why?”
『This guy. Grandma called, and you ask why! Come by.』
“Annoying. Do it over the phone.”
Muttering so, Junghyuk suddenly remembered something and immediately changed his attitude.
“No, I got it. I’ll go right now.”
Upon entering the mansion, the playground he had seen a few days ago remained abandoned in the garden. The elderly man’s obsession with his great-grandson was clearly evident.
“What’s this nonsense?”
Chairman Park squinted his eyes, questioning as if suspecting something. Whenever he wanted to make a fuss, he would run without any ceremony, and it seemed like he was suspicious because of that.
Junghyuk touched his earlobe with a troubled expression.
“Grandma’s been here for a long time.”
“If I tell you to come, should you come without a word?”
“No, Grandma seems to dislike me these days, so I came to do something nice. We finished talking with Vice Chairman Oh Hyunki about taking over Hansong Logistics.”
At that point, Chairman Park squinted the ends of his eyebrows. Although he was pleased to have made a substantial deal, Park Chairman was the one who most favorably regarded his grandson’s recent actions.
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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