The Day I Quit Being a Wife (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 22
6 a.m.
It was the same time as when she had decided to get married.
What if she had said no?
“…It’s true that I was happy about it.”
When Hyuk Joo proposed marriage as though making a business offer, Eun Soo had genuinely been glad.
If he had rejected her—
If she herself had rejected him, her father would have pushed another suitor onto her.
It was fortunate that it was Moon Hyuk Joo.
Recalling the past, Eun Soo pushed herself up from the floor with her hands and walked to the kitchen. She took a bottle of water from the fridge and poured it into a glass.
But had it really been fortunate?
She only felt as if she’d briefly dreamed an empty dream.
Though countless hardships had followed, fairy tales that end with “they lived happily ever after” simply didn’t exist in reality.
“I guess it’s because I’m not the protagonist.”
Eun Soo spoke slowly, as if mocking herself.
Sometimes, she desperately wanted to grab Hyuk Joo and pour out all the confessions she’d held back—how she had come to love him. But she couldn’t.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
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After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
The extreme miscommunication is getting on my nerves now.
I wish he could actually say what he fully means for once
Hyuk Joo does not mess around. When dealing with someone like this you have to be direct!