The 49th anniversary of his wife was tomorrow.
Joo-hwan couldn’t afford to miss the day, unsure if it would be his last chance.
He had to attend somehow, explain the situation to his son-in-law and daughter, and ask for their help. Ever since he received news that his status had changed from a witness to a defendant, he had been in constant turmoil.
“No matter what, that’s enough! How can they plan the 49th anniversary among themselves without saying a word to me, the so-called husband of Eom Hye-yeon!”
Joo-hwan clenched his fist and downed his drink.
As the prosecutor’s investigation began, he was also dismissed from the position of the sports team president. Hearing that a disciplinary committee would be convened separately, he felt despair.
In the end, he was on the verge of being fired.
If there were no crimes committed, the time would reveal all the illegalities he had committed once a formal investigation took place.
“How can I live in a prison-like place?”
He had no intention of living in such a place.
It wasn’t so much the worry about the money he had saved, which wasn’t much, but rather the lack of luxury. If he had plenty of money, he could hire a defense attorney and spend his time comfortably, but Joo-hwan didn’t have that luxury.
He spent money extravagantly. He thought he wouldn’t have to worry about his old age because of Eun-su. However, he didn’t expect Eun-su to turn away from him like this.
“Where is the child who disregards their parents?”
Joo-hwan raised his shoulders with determination.
Thinking of his mother who suffered while lying in bed, he couldn’t help but resent the son-in-law who disregarded his healthy father.
“Who do you think is providing for your luxurious life?”
The more he thought about it, the more frustrated he became.
‘Isn’t it a matter of making reasons? If Chairman Oh Joo-hwan has to survive, Eun-su has to sacrifice a bit. And if Eun-su becomes like that, will I just stand still?’
The words of Moon Young-ran echoed in his ears.
She said that money embezzled by him had flowed into an account in Eun-su’s name. Joo-hwan didn’t know about it.
So, when he heard the story, he blinked, not understanding it. However, Moon Young-ran showed a clear evidence by showing the transaction history.
Had he mistakenly put money into Eun-su’s account?
In the end, Joo-hwan even reached such thoughts. Unintentionally, he might have done such a thing.
“That’s right. If Eun-su is at fault, will Moon Seo-bang just stand by?”
Joo-hwan decided that he would mention Eun-su’s name during the next investigation and claim it was something he requested.
After that, things would somehow work out.
Thinking so, Joo-hwan took another sip of his drink.
Just as he picked up a snack to eat, he heard the sound of the front door opening. Joo-hwan combed his hair and looked up with an unpleasant face.
“What are you doing, just sitting here and idling the time away?”
Ko Joo-kyung sighed deeply and put down the shopping bags she was holding.
“What on earth did you buy so much?”
Joo-hwan’s lips twisted as he looked at the things she had bought.
Standing up from his seat, Joo-hwan walked towards Joo-kyung.
Sitting on the floor, he took out items from the shopping bag one by one, muttering to himself.
“How much is all of this? How many unopened swimsuits are there? And this skirt, I can’t wear one every day for a year, but you bought another one. What’s this again?”
Pulling out some mesh underwear that looked like a net, Joo-hwan tossed it onto the floor. He shivered, thinking that a person of his age shouldn’t be wearing such things.
“Why are you throwing away things someone else bought?”
“Did you buy that thinking you’d wear it?”
“Then did you buy it to throw it away?”
Holding the mesh underwear tightly to her chest, Joo-kyung glanced at Joo-hwan.
She neatly packed the clothes Joo-hwan had taken out on the floor back into the shopping bag. They were things to wear when she went to Thailand.
Joo-kyung planned to spend her comfortable retirement lying on a beach with a faint blue sea and scorching sun.
Of course, next to her would be a solid lover she had been meeting for a few months, not an old anchovy-like Joo-hwan.
“That man who greeted you at the restaurant that time.”
“…Me, a man?”
Joo-kyung was embarrassed when Joo-hwan suddenly brought up her lover.
They had met by chance at a restaurant and exchanged greetings, pretending to be distant relatives. The conversation got a bit mixed up, but it was a conversation that lasted less than a few minutes.
Joo-hwan thought she had naturally forgotten about it, but when he suddenly mentioned it, Joo-kyung couldn’t help but be embarrassed.
“He said he was a financial planner, right?”
“Uh, yes.”
“If you work in such a job, you’d be hanging out with rich people.”
“Probably.”
Not knowing what Joo-hwan was getting at, Joo-kyung cautiously rolled her eyes.
“Do you happen to know a good lawyer? A reasonably priced one who does a good job.”
“Where can you find such a lawyer? You have to pay a lot for good work.”
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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