Chairman Kwon knew all this but never raised an issue until today. Taking a step back, he was just watching. Then, today, he promptly executed the overseas assignment upon Jeho’s words.
That means…
A dark shadow fell on Jeho’s pensive face.
As each puzzle piece found its place, the unwanted conclusion drew near. When the truth, which he hoped wouldn’t be true, was revealed, what should he do?
At that moment, a gentle sensation was felt on his back. Yuli embraced him from behind, and the pressure that had weighed him down, like a lie, disappeared like smoke. Just because she hugged him.
As Jeho turned around slowly, her eyes with a gleam of mischief came into view.
“…I find myself in your debt again.”
He forcibly suppressed the laughter about to burst out at the mention of being in debt. Despite holding back the desire to keep her by his side even if he had to drag her, the fact that he was in debt again made him endure. However, Jeho, hiding his true feelings, spoke in a dry tone.
“The price of putting you to sleep, I’ll handle everything, so I can’t say I’m in debt.”
“How are you going to handle everything?”
Yuli’s eyes sparkled with curiosity.
“Are you really asking because you don’t know, or are you pretending not to know even though you do?”
In response to his words, Yuli’s eyes widened like crescent moons.
“Then, should we order same-day delivery on the seafood market app? I’ll make shrimp tempura and seafood pancakes like last time.”
“Ha.”
In the end, the laughter that Jeho had suppressed burst out from his lips. Unable to stay still because she was cute and lovely, pretending not to know when she did, he lifted her onto the Irish table, wanting to take her to the bedroom as it was.
“Today, please don’t do anything. Just stay here. I’ll do everything.”
Jeho, holding Yuli’s hand, which deliberately caused wounds to stimulate Minwoo, enveloped it with both hands. The edge of the bandage was stained red. Although he promised not to let her get hurt again, he hurt her like this every time. Feeling like it was all his fault, Jeho’s heart ached.
“With these hands, what kind of dish can I make?”
“I’m fine now…”
“I’m not okay. Got it? Just stay here without moving.”
When the notification sound indicated that the coffee was ready, Jeho gently stroked Yuli’s head before turning to get the coffee.
Yuli looked at Jeho as he poured the coffee. Today, his broad shoulders looked even wider. Every time he moved, the smooth muscles under his shirt, stained red, were revealed. It reminded her of the sensation when she leaned her face against his back.
Suppressing her feelings, Jeho was visibly pained. “What kind of dish can you make with these hands?” he said.
“I’m fine now…”
“I’m not okay. Got it? Just stay here without moving.”
When the notification sound indicated that the coffee was ready, Jeho gently stroked Yuli’s head before turning to get the coffee.
Yuli looked at Jeho as he
“Let’s go to bed.”
At her words, Jeho squinted his eyes. It was unclear whether she meant she wanted to lie down because she was tired or she wanted to share love. She rarely took the initiative… When there was no immediate response from him, Yuli tiptoed and placed her arms around his neck.
“Earlier, an unwanted guest came in, and we stopped in the middle. Now there’s no one to disturb us.”
Even though she pointed it out, Jeho simply stared at her in silence. He didn’t hug her with both arms down. In the end, Yuli couldn’t help but say what was on her mind.
“What I said earlier wasn’t just words. I couldn’t see you all day yesterday, but I wanted to see you as if it had been a year. Jeho oppa, didn’t you miss me?”
As she called him Jeho oppa, there was a momentary pressure on his jaw. Yuli gently curved her eyes into crescent shapes and covered Jeho’s cheek with both hands. Then, she softly pressed her lips.
Until now, she had avoided love, but now she wanted to accept everything wholeheartedly. She wanted to gather courage and confront everything. Body, mind, everything.
“Damn it.”
As she shyly pressed her lips and approached deeply, a short curse flowed from Jeho’s lips. Unable to endure any longer, he raised his arms and pulled her in tightly.
“It’s all your fault. I was determined to hold back at least today.”
Jeho put his hands under her waist and knees, lifted Yuli, and stepped decisively toward the bedroom. There was no room for leisure in the movement towards the bedroom, and it was the same on the bed. The moment he laid her on the bed, he pressed his lips forcefully. The suppressed emotions were exploding uncontrollably.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Now you don’t have to come. I’m in much better condition.”
At the doctor’s words, Shindahee put on the sunglasses she had taken off. It was still hazy, but there were still bruises around her eyes, so she needed to cover them.
“You were really lucky. If you had moved a little more to the side, you could have gone blind.”
“Well, if I were really lucky, I wouldn’t have tumbled down the stairs.”
At her rebuttal, the kind-hearted doctor looked somewhat bewildered. Shindahee stood up, bowed politely to the doctor.
“Thank you for everything.”
A bitter smile appeared on her lips as she left the diagnosis room.
Lucky? It’s closer to being unlucky…
If she were lucky, she wouldn’t have had her long-time boyfriend taken away by Chae Yuri, and she wouldn’t have been involved with the trash named Kwon Minwoo.
Shindahee bit her lower lip, recalling the day Minwoo came to find her. Perhaps because he was drunk, Minwoo seemed to completely mistake her for Yuli. He held her and called out Yuli’s name all night.
“Yuli, I love you. Please don’t leave. Yuli, X! Don’t go!”
“Piece of trash.”
Dahee couldn’t bear it any longer and spat out curses.
“Crazy bastard! You couldn’t even make a sound in front of Chae Yulli, but you swung your fist at me. You poured all the frustration you couldn’t release to Yulli onto me.
Although covered with sunglasses, there were still clear bruises on her face. It wasn’t just on her face; traces of that day’s assault remained all over her body. Ironically, the mental pain was more agonizing than the physical.
Being the same woman, some were thoroughly protected, while others were exposed to danger unarmed. It was never fair.
Whether it was Cha Yuri or Chae Yulli, it made her angry that the two sisters joined forces and threw her into a life crisis.
One of them should experience the pain she went through. Now, Chae Yulli, who had thoroughly beaten Minwoo instead of Cha Yoori, who had stolen her boyfriend, looked even more detestable.
Feeling like this, it seemed impossible to start a new life anywhere on Earth.
Someone should shed tears; that’s when the world becomes fair.
Shindahee, who had left the hospital, stopped for a moment and looked up at the sky. The red sunset, like her pent-up feelings of resentment, was burning the blue sky.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
Jeho, who was looking down at the sleeping Yulli, cautiously left the bedroom. The outside world seen through the living room window was gradually tinted red by the sunset.
Ring—
At that moment, the phone in his hand began to ring.
“Yes, I’m here.”
Jeho pressed the answer button and answered with a subdued voice. There was no need to confirm who the caller was. A foreboding was signaling.
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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