The Grand Temptation (Completed Main Story) - Side Story 1
“Yuli, what should we have for lunch?”
Jin Man asked, pressing the computer’s sleep mode button. Ever since hearing the news of her pregnancy, coworkers always gave Yuli first pick of the menu.
“As long as it’s not fried food, I’m fine with anything.”
“How about we go get spicy pork over rice?”
“Sure. If Sun Young agrees, let’s go get that.”
While Jin Man was calling Sun Young, who was out on an errand, Yuli grabbed her wallet and got up from her seat.
Jae Ho had been on a business trip to Jeju Island with Manager Kim since the day before yesterday and would return Saturday. At first, he had hesitated about going, but since Yuli hadn’t started experiencing morning sickness even at five weeks pregnant, she convinced him not to worry.
Aside from foods with strong oil smells, there were no issues at all. Mi Yeon Lee had said it was because Yuli took after her mother—apparently, when So Yeon was pregnant with Yuli, she hadn’t experienced any morning sickness either.
[Even so, she had tons of cravings—suddenly wanting Pyongyang cold noodles from Euljiro in the middle of the night, or craving that famous braised chicken from Incheon. She made all sorts of demands.]
Mi Yeon had said this over the phone a few days ago. Seeming lost in old memories, she continued in a bittersweet tone.
[Even though your father was always so stoic, whenever your aunt wanted something, he’d get it for her without a word. I guess that was his way of showing love, in his own way. It’s just a shame your aunt passed away without ever hearing him say it outright.]
Having learned that the only person Hyeong Sik had ever truly loved was So Yeon, Mi Yeon’s resentment toward him had softened somewhat. She no longer treated him with the icy coldness she once did—like a biting winter wind.
Could it be because of the life growing inside her own womb?
Lately, Yuli had been thinking more and more about her late mother.
When Mom was carrying me, did she feel this way too?
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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