“Umm.”
As she tossed in her sleep, a comforting touch and warm body temperature were transmitted to her back. Yuli woke up, lifting her heavy eyelids.
The faint blue energy of dawn seeped into the room. She couldn’t remember exactly, but it felt like she had momentarily fainted or fallen asleep.
“Sleep a bit more. It’s still early.”
At that moment, a suppressed, sinking voice reached her ears. Instead of opening her eyes, Yuli let out a short sigh. Waking up in his arms now would be the last time. Thinking so, she couldn’t fall back asleep.
In the warm and languid feeling, she wanted to enjoy a bit more of the happiness that made her smile. Even if it was a fake performance, it didn’t matter. Her heart felt strangely good.
Yuli wondered if she might be like a bee, unknowingly getting wings wet with honey, continuously licking the honey of life. Eventually, she might not be able to escape and die inside the honey jar.
Even knowing that, she couldn’t easily brush off the temptation.
When the sun rises and the day brightens, she will completely push him out of her heart. But just for a moment, could she extend the futile dream?
Whether she realized that Yuli hadn’t fallen asleep again or not, Jeho, half sitting up, whispered in her ear.
“I didn’t get to say this earlier… Your watch looked really good on you.”
“…Ah.”
After hesitating for a moment, Yuli calmly spoke.
“Since today is the last day. I thought I should show you the watch while I still can before giving it back.”
Instead of expressing gratitude, Jeho turned her towards him. Their gaze gradually intensified.
“Can I ask for one favor?”
As he gently swept Yuli’s hair, he asked.
“Don’t return the watch; keep it as it is. You don’t have to wear it, just keep it.”
“Well…”
Yuli, who was about to refuse, hesitated for a moment.
If she refused outright, would it seem too cold?
It was a bit burdensome, but it was the first gift she received from him, and it would be the last. She thought she could just keep it for a while and quietly return it later.
“I’ll do that.”
“Thank you.”
Instead of refusing, when she accepted, Jeho smiled softly and sealed her lips with his.
Starting with the sweet sensation of their lips, it soon moved to other places. Although it was as intense as the passionate night before, he handled her delicately, like a fragile glass doll. Slow but vigorous, gentle yet powerful…
“Yuli.”
As she was immersed in acute pleasure and joy, he whispered to her, “If for any reason you want to come back, come back anytime.”
A fading voice sank into her fading consciousness.
“I’ll wait… I love you.”
Did he really say it like this?
Or did she hear hallucinations in her confused mind?
When she opened her eyes again, she was alone in the bed.
“……Umm.”
Struggling to sit up, Yuli looked around with half-closed eyes.
There was no trace of him anywhere. Unless he went out for his usual morning exercise, he deliberately avoided her, that was clear. Awkwardly facing each other before parting might be better than what happened.
“Ah.”
As Yuli stepped onto the floor, she sank down, sitting on a stone. Perhaps it was too much, her legs wouldn’t support her.
He said he wouldn’t consider her circumstances, and last night, he indeed didn’t. Apart from the relationship they concluded in the early hours of dawn, there was no consideration for her. So, had he always accommodated her until now?
“Hoo.”
Yuli sighed deeply, tilting her head towards the ceiling.
Even though she decided to forget completely, thinking of that man as soon as she opened her eyes… Pull yourself together, Chae Yuli!
It’s only the first day after the breakup; you shouldn’t weaken so soon, right? forcibly standing up from the bed, Yuli dragged her heavy body to the bathroom.
As much as she wanted to soak her bunched muscles in the bathtub and relax, there was no time for that. She had to finish preparing before he came back.
Entering the shower booth and turning on the hot water, the bathroom was instantly filled with white steam.
“Heuk.”
At the same time, the tears she had endured all night burst out. Yuli quickly directed her head towards the pouring water. Thanks to that, she couldn’t distinguish whether it was tears or the stream of water wetting her face.
“……Heug.”
Until the sobbing subsided…
Yuli stood under the shower for a long time.
“Damn it! Eat something like this? Hey, do they think I’m a pig?”
Minwoo glared at the unidentified food on the table, wrinkling his face. However, the local guide, who didn’t understand Korean, only pretended to encourage him to eat and then left the room.
“For goodness’ sake, there’s no interpreter. What do they want me to do?”
Despite gestures and kicks, communication was not smooth. It was a situation where finding an interpreter was not easy.
Thanks to the forged passport, they had managed to leave the country safely. In fact, comfort couldn’t be found in this escapee’s life. Passing through various countries and borders, the situation worsened dramatically.
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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