Oh Juhwan lay in the hospital bed, fiddling with his phone.
The information center said Eunsu’s phone number couldn’t be found.
“In this day and age, living without a mobile phone is absurd. Did you register it under your husband Moon’s name?”
Rolling his thin eyes in various directions, he almost threw the innocent phone on the floor but refrained from doing so.
He realized this was a hospital room. Besides, if the phone malfunctioned in this situation, it would be his loss.
“I said I wanted to have a son!”
He thought that if he had a son, his situation wouldn’t be like this.
“My only daughter is useless, completely useless!”
Juhwan got irritated with his life, where he complained of pain without any injury. But with the ongoing prosecution investigation and uncertainty about his fate, he had no choice but to stay in the hospital.
Yearning for a cigarette, Juhwan picked up the cigarette case placed on the shelf after getting up from the bed.
“Oh!”
The cigarette case was empty. To go to the convenience store, he had to go down to the first floor. When he thought about going down with a dangling IV pole and the inconvenience of it, he already felt annoyed. However, he had no intention of giving up smoking.
Dragging the IV pole with the saline bag, Juhwan was about to leave the room when a neatly dressed man in a suit entered.
Could it be the son that the patient in the next bed, who had fallen yesterday, was bragging about?
As the man passed by with a straightened back, Juhwan was about to pass by when he heard, “Is this Mr. Oh Juhwan?”
The long-unheard term ‘Mr. Oh’ made Juhwan straighten his shoulders.
At the same time, he turned his head as if boasting about who he was, scanning the entire hospital room. However, those engrossed in the news on TV had no interest, fixating their gazes on the screen.
Feeling awkward with the gathered attention, Juhwan cleared his throat briefly.
“I am Oh Juhwan, but who are you?”
“I’d like to talk outside for a moment.”
Juhwan’s narrowed eyes at the person who didn’t readily reveal his identity.
The man neither looked shabby nor gave a bad impression. Thoughts arose that he might be someone sent by Hyukjoo.
“Well, then. Still, I’m a craftsman by trade. There’s no way Moon would just leave me be.”
With a satisfied heart, Juhwan put on a pleased expression and pushed the IV pole.
“Let’s go.”
Leading the way out of the hospital room, Juhwan was followed by the man.
As soon as they got on the elevator and descended to the first floor, Juhwan casually let out his words.
“I want to smoke a cigarette.”
“I’ll buy it for you.”
“With this.”
Juhwan showed the cigarette case he was squeezing in his hand. Watching the man’s back walking towards the convenience store, Juhwan lifted his chin.
“There you go, even though I’m the son-in-law of the prestigious Myungjin Group.”
Thinking of the lawyer fees he complained about and the urgent need to tighten his belt, Juhwan chuckled.
Determined to have a conversation with the man Hyukjoo sent and to request an immediate move from the hospital room to a private one, Juhwan thought it would be good to test the waters on how to proceed with appointing a lawyer.
A little later, the man who had come out of the convenience store politely extended a cigarette with both hands.
“Thank you.”
“Not at all. Shall we step outside for a moment?”
“Sure.”
Juhwan walked deliberately slowly.
Once outside, he put the cigarette in his mouth and extended his chin towards the man, signaling for him to light it.
“The smoking room is over there.”
With a firm voice, Juhwan let out a wry laugh.
Although the man who came knowing who he was indicated the smoking room without flexibility, Juhwan found it cute, looked at him once, and put the cigarette back in his pocket.
“What’s the matter that brings you here?”
“I came to see if you’re in good health.”
“Checking if I can’t walk because my back is broken?”
Juhwan asked intentionally disrespectfully, but the man showed no change in expression.
“I saw with my own eyes, and it seems like you’re in good health.”
“What?”
“I heard you can’t walk.”
“Who spewed that nonsense?”
“When I asked the doctor, he said so because you said you were in pain. But you seem fine, whether your son-in-law comes or talks to your daughter directly.”
“Do that, then. If you’re looking for me, tell my daughter Eunsoo. She’s at the hospital too.”
“Mr. Oh Juhwan should do that.”
“Mr. Oh?”
Earlier, he was called the boss, and now Mr. Oh Juhwan.
Thinking he might have exposed himself outside, Juhwan glared at the man.
It seemed that an apology would be accepted with understanding if he bowed his head. However, the man was openly smiling as if he intended to scratch his insides.
Juhwan’s anger boiled at the thought that Hyukjoo’s order was undoubtedly behind this.
“Now that I’ve seen that you walk well with both legs and your back is straight, it’s time to start the investigation.”
“Investigation?”
“I should have introduced myself earlier. I’m Jo Sung-han.”
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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