“Manager…”
Startled, Yoon Ju looked at Do Jin with a disappointed face.
“Ah, ah… no, I mean, phew…”
After getting irritated, it seemed like Do Jin came to his senses, his face bewildered as he momentarily closed his mouth.
“I’m a bit busy right now, so I misspoke.”
Do Jin, who had been randomly moving his arm, touched the pile of documents on his desk. With a rustling sound, the papers fell to the floor all at once. Do Jin looked down at them with a devastated face.
“Ah… Ms. Yoon Ju, could you please clean this up?”
Assertively instructing Yoon Ju, Do Jin hastily left his seat, like a person who was caught doing something wrong. Yoon Ju began to pick up the papers, her face showing that she couldn’t comprehend his uncharacteristically agitated behavior.
After touring the last store, it was nearly time to finish work.
“It’s already this late.”
Ji Na murmured while checking her wristwatch.
“The director told me to go home right away… and we have the company car…”
Ji Na closed her lips with a momentarily worried look on her face. Just in case, Ji Na picked up her cellphone.
“Yes, director. It’s Ji Na. We’ve finished our work, but I’m calling to ask whether to return the company car.”
Upon hearing the director’s voice over the phone, Ji Na’s eyes widened slightly. As if it was unexpected, she glanced at Jin Woo while wearing a strange expression.
Jin Woo was looking at Ji Na with a warm gaze and a smile on his lips. He didn’t want to miss any of her various expressions.
“Yes, understood. I’ll see you tomorrow. Please take care.”
Having politely said goodbye and ended the call, Ji Na turned to Jin Woo and spoke with an excited face.
“We’ve been told to go home. We’ll return the company car tomorrow.”
Even after hearing it directly and voicing it out, it felt unreal. The image of the director, who had always spit out instructions to go home after returning to the office from outside work, faintly came to mind.
‘What’s going on?’
This was the first time this had happened since she joined the company. No, maybe since the company was founded.
Tomorrow, the sun might rise from the west. Regardless, Ji Na didn’t care from where the sun rose, as long as she could go home without stopping by the office.
“Sis, aren’t you hungry?”
Jin Woo, with his handsome eyebrows lowered, asked pitifully.
“Eh? No… I mean…”
Before she could finish her sentence, a rumbling sound was heard from Ji Na’s stomach.
“I think I’m a little hungry too.”
“Um… I don’t think it’s just a little.”
Jin Woo raised one eyebrow, pretending to be serious.
“No, my stomach always makes noises even when I’m just a little hungry.”
Embarrassed, she quickly covered her stomach with both hands, even though she knew she couldn’t cover up the noise.
“What do you want to eat?”
Jin Woo, with the corners of his mouth turning upwards, took Ji Na’s arm.
“Just grab anything.”
Caught off guard by the sudden contact, Ji Na tried to pull her arm away subtly.
“What do you want to eat?”
Ji Na asked, trying hard to hide her embarrassment.
“I want to drink. With you.”
His voice carried the hot temperature of summer, making Ji Na’s heart pound.
His voice made all her senses become sensitive in an instant.
“Drinking on a weekday evening before the sun has even set.”
A voice that sounded strange even to her own ears slipped out. She blushed up to her ears at the voice that was uncharacteristic of her.
“Let’s have both food and drinks. Then the sun will set.”
Jin Woo, speaking in a flirty tone, wrapped his arm around Ji Na’s shoulder and pulled her towards him. Just as a startled Ji Na raised her head, a skateboard quickly passed through the spot where she had been standing.
“Then it’s settled?”
Ji Na’s cheeks heated up like the warmth of summer. Jin Woo’s body scent stimulated Ji Na to the point her heart fluttered.
“…I want to eat something cool.”
Ji Na quickly escaped from Jin Woo’s embrace and walked briskly. She knew he had held her to prevent her from being hit by the skateboard, yet her heart continued to race.
“Let’s go together. Sis.”
His cool voice echoed from behind. Even that voice felt hotter to Ji Na than the burning sun.
“Section Chief…….”
Even though it was time to leave work, it seemed unusual for Do Jin to show no signs of leaving early. Unable to wait any longer, Yoon Ju approached Do Jin.
“Section Chief, aren’t you leaving?”
At Yoon Ju’s question, Do Jin, who appeared particularly tired today, belatedly raised his head. Dark circles hung heavily under his eyes.
“I have some work left.”
It was a statement unlike Do Jin, who usually left work early.
“You should leave first.”
His white pupils, visible over his adjusted glasses, were red and bloodshot.
“You look tired….”
“Hmm, I’m fine.”
Do Jin, who forced a smile, seemed somewhere tense. Yoon Ju could no longer say anything to the cold Do Jin. She awkwardly greeted him and left the office.
‘Is he very tired?’
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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