It was Director Kim from the CS department next door. The three exchanged greetings with smiles lingering on their faces.
Director Kim was well-known for being cheerful and lively. Since they had worked together for a few months when the TF team was formed for the previous new business preparation, it was impossible to ignore each other.
“Hearing the laughter of the ladies makes it feel like spring is really here.”
Director Kim, standing next to her, lightly nudged Deputy Yoo with her elbow, prompting a response.
“Yeah, it does.”
Deputy Yoo, who was naturally quiet, had a completely different personality from Director Kim. He was always quiet, and there was no laughter in him.
“I think we chose the wrong department. Probably.”
Starting with the need to be satisfied with work before satisfying customers, Director Kim’s chatter began.
The three, locking eyes with each other, silently stared at the elevator’s number panel. Their only thought was to get on the elevator as quickly as possible.
“But where is everyone going? If you have time, how about a drink after a long time?”
Director Kim, who was thought to be just talkative, suddenly asked without noticing the situation.
“I have a prior arrangement with my boyfriend.”
As if waiting, Jihye quickly answered.
“As you can see…”
Jina awkwardly smiled and embraced her protruding belly.
“What about you, Yoonju?”
“Uh…”
Suddenly inundated with gazes and questions, Yoonju was momentarily flustered.
“Yoonju, um.”
Jina, trying to speak instead to shield Yoonju, groaned.
“Why are you doing this to yourself?”
Jihye asked, surprised.
“It’s okay. It seems like it’s kicking.”
Jina, who had been quietly sighing, suddenly groaned again, clutching her belly.
“Oh.”
“Did labor pains start?”
With noticeable panic, Jihye fidgeted, her face turning pale. As Jina breathed heavily, the people around started to murmur about the seriousness of the situation.
“Should we call the hospital? Or 119?”
In the midst of chaos, Deputy Yoo approached, put down his bag, and went to Jina.
“Director, take a deep breath. Have you learned Lamaze breathing? If mom is surprised, the baby in her belly gets surprised too.”
Jina, who was sweating coldly, nodded reluctantly and followed Deputy Yoo’s breathing. The sudden pain seemed to subside a bit.
“Instead of calling 119, it’s much better to call a taxi and go to an obstetrics emergency room.”
With calm words from Deputy Yoo, Yoonju quickly called a taxi.
“Also, call the guardian to inform them of the situation.”
Quickly grabbing her phone, Jihye made a call to the vice chairman’s office.
“Yes. I’m going to inform Vice Chairman that it seems like labor pains have started.”
After a while, the emergency exit opened, and Jinwoo appeared.
“What happened?”
Rushing down the stairs in a hurry, Jinwoo looked slightly disheveled compared to usual.
“My stomach hurts, so I think I should go to the hospital.”
Following Deputy Yoo, Jina, who was breathing steadily, explained to Jinwoo. Jinwoo, expressing gratitude to the people around him, supported Jina.
“Thank you for helping my wife.”
Jinwoo and Jina, who had boarded the elevator that arrived on time, disappeared beyond the closing elevator doors.
“Oh, what a fuss.”
Relieved, Jihye sighed.
“Deputy Yoo, are you the baby’s father? You guided us so calmly.”
“Yeah, Deputy Yoo. You didn’t know he was a dad?”
Even the familiar Director Kim, not knowing this fact, asked Deputy Yoo.
As if a wave had swept through, the corridor fell silent. Deputy Yoo, who had adjusted his slightly disheveled appearance, did not respond. Instead, he only pressed the elevator button.
“You don’t have to be so secretive, Deputy Yoo. Is it a strategy of mystique?”
Embarrassed, Director Kim tried to alleviate the awkwardness by laughing.
“Well, I happened to learn a little.”
Deputy Yoo replied somewhat unkindly.
“Even someone like me who isn’t married should learn a bit.”
Director Kim grinned at Deputy Yoo. Just as the arrived elevator opened, Deputy Yoo used his arm to hold the door so that Jihye and Yoonju could board first.
“How about having a drink together today?”
“I have to go in early.”
Deputy Yoo cleanly rejected Director Kim’s temptation.
“Deputy Yoo seems a bit cold, so it drains my energy even more.”
While saying that, Director Kim didn’t give up, pulling out her phone with a determined face.
“Somebody must be someone who doesn’t want to go home early…”
Pressing the call button, the phone of someone inside the elevator rang. People looked at each other, muttering. In the end, Deputy Yoo took out the ringing phone from his pocket. With a face that didn’t change, he answered the call.
“I’ll go home right away.”
The call ended immediately.
“Yeah. Today’s not the day.”
Somewhere dejected, Director Kim sighed deeply.
People who had exited the elevator poured into the lobby. Those who had suffered all day at work quickly left the company.
“Oh, Yoonju, be careful.”
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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