“You worked late today, huh?”
Instead of answering Yul Li’s question, I silently stared at the large hand overlapping my own. His intention was to help, but it was rather awkward.
“Why are you here at this time?”
She didn’t mean to sound sharp, but the unfamiliar touch wrapping her hand made her tone anxious. She didn’t understand why she kept stumbling in front of this man.
Fortunately, Je Ho, who didn’t seem to take it badly, released her hand and casually looked at his wristwatch.
“It’s exactly 8:27 PM.”
Although she didn’t ask the time, he checked it first. He then opened his mouth to continue the conversation…
Ring, ring, ring. Her cell phone rang, likely a call from Hyun Kyung. As she reached to open her bag and pull out her phone, she noticed Je Ho pressing the call button.
“Uh, senior, I just arrived at the office.”
[Already? Oh, how should I apologize for this?]
Director Kim’s languid voice flowed from the cell phone.
“That’s okay. We’ll see it tomorrow.”
[Thanks.]
Je Ho looked at Yul Li as if to say ‘do you understand now?’ and pressed the call end button.
“Looks like we got our answer.”
“That seems to be the case.”
Yul Li calmly replied, identifying her fingerprint on the pad. With a delightful ding, the office door locked, and she bowed her head to him in greeting before heading towards the elevator.
“Aren’t you going to answer my question?”
He followed her and asked.
Confused by his words, Yul Li slowed down her pace.
“I clearly asked…”
As Je Ho paused his words, Yul Li turned around as if under a spell.
“‘You worked late today, huh?’…”
Seeing his questioning expression, Je Ho leaned down to meet her eye level.
For a moment, her heart dropped and everything turned white. Startled, she backed away, but due to the narrow corridor, she immediately hit the wall. Je Ho leaned against the wall, his gaze fixated on Yul Li.
“I asked if you usually work late. According to your senior, you usually leave work on time.”
“I only worked late today.”
Even though they were close enough that a little movement would cause them to touch, Yul Li stayed still. She didn’t want to run away any more than she already had, but it was hard to face Je Ho’s intense gaze calmly. Her face kept flushing and she had to lower her gaze.
“I usually leave work on time. I had to catch up on work because I took the day off yesterday.”
“Isn’t it dangerous to work alone?”
He asked in a whisper, with a sweet tone. It was a genuine concern for her. Yul Li, hiding her swirling emotions, responded brusquely.
“What’s dangerous about it.”
At her words, Je Ho slowly looked around. In search of cheap rent, Bauhaus was located in a rundown, fivestory building a bit far from the city center.
“Anyone can enter and exit the building. Despite being a design office, the door doesn’t even close properly… Hmm, should we start by changing the office location?”
His statement was more like talking to himself. He spoke as if it was already his company. When he met Yul Li’s curious gaze, he narrowed his eyes and asked.
“You haven’t had dinner yet, right? If you don’t have any plans, shall we have dinner together?”
“I already have plans…”
As Yul Li began to refuse, ding, the elevator doors opened. At the same time, Hyun Kyung came out with a bright face.
“Yul Li!”
Before she could react, Hyun Kyung stretched out her arms and hugged Yul Li. Then she comforted Yul Li’s back with a babyish voice as if talking to a child.
“My baby, are you hungry? This sister will buy you something delicious.”
“Stop it.”
As Yul Li pushed herself out of the embrace, Hyun Kyung looked puzzled. Then she noticed Je Ho standing behind and cocked her head.
“New here? I know all the staff faces here…….”
Upon hearing this, Je Ho revealed himself under the bright lighting in the dark hallway.
“Nice to meet you. My name is Kwon Je Ho.”
Kwon Je Ho…… Whoa! Yul Li’s first love?
Hyun Kyung’s eyes bulged out in shock. As Hyun Kyung opened her mouth but could say nothing, Yul Li quickly hooked her arm into Hyun Kyung’s.
“I should get going now.”
Rather than awkwardly waiting for the elevator, he had intended to descend the stairs. But before he could even take a step, Hyun Kyung created a headache. She gently shrugged off Yul Li’s arm and asked Je Ho.
“Have you had dinner yet?”
“Not yet.”
“How about dining with us?”
Upon hearing Hyun Kyung’s suggestion, Yul Li almost jumped out of her skin. Yul Li caught Hyun Kyung’s gaze and sent a look that told her not to do so. Yet, Hyun Kyung just smirked and turned her gaze back to Je Ho.
“Do you like paella? Let’s go together.”
No, that’s not the point!
Yul Li glared at the foolhardy Hyun Kyung. Oh, if she could, she would have loved to smack her right then.
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Ding―.
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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