Taejo received Manager Song’s call while on the way to an external meeting location.
“Boss, Oh Ye-ri is at the location where Se-gyeong is shooting today. They’re not working together due to different filming teams, but it bothers me, considering her previous visit to the company and the content of the interview with Oh Ye-ri.”
Worry filled Manager Song’s voice from the other side of the phone. Upon asking the person in charge, it was revealed that Oh Ye-ri’s shooting was suddenly scheduled according to higher-ups’ instructions.
Is Chairman Oh exerting effort for his daughter?
The fact that the two would be filming at the same place on the same day was just too coincidental.
Even though he knew that Manager Song and the new manager were together, he felt uneasy. The expression on Oh Ye-ri’s face from the last visit to the company came back to him, making him more anxious.
“For now, please keep an eye on things there, Manager Song. Try to prevent the two from meeting directly. I’ll head over as soon as the meeting is done.”
After hanging up the phone, Taejo anxiously checked the time and headed to the agreed-upon location.
He had been promised immediate notification if anything happened, but fortunately, Manager Song didn’t contact him until the meeting was over.
Instead, Manager Song occasionally sent pictures of Se-gyeong, as if to inform him that the shooting was going smoothly.
Se-gyeong, wearing a blush-colored chiffon dress and a crown, looked beautiful like a scene from a masterpiece. The excitement of having a child could be felt in her wide smile with her hand on her belly.
With the mention that the afternoon shoot was still pending, Taejo, as soon as the meeting concluded, drove straight to the hotel where Se-gyeong was staying.
Despite being in the same building, an inexplicable anxiety gnawed at his nerves. Riding the elevator, he asked Manager Song about Se-gyeong’s location.
She was on the rooftop by the swimming pool. It seemed that being in the same space as Oh Ye-ri made her uneasy, and she wanted to finish the shoot quickly.
Having ascended to the top floor of the hotel, he walked toward the swimming pool. While doing so, he encountered Manager Song, who was on the phone in the corridor.
“Where is Se-gyeong?”
“She’s inside with the new manager.”
Taejo ended the call and stood at the entrance to the pool. Se-gyeong’s voice and someone else’s scream were heard in succession, just as the dim corridor began to reveal a view of the blue sky.
“Ack! Se-gyeong!”
As if that sound were a signal, Taejo urgently leaped into the water inside. What caught his eyes in that hurried moment was Se-gyeong, immersed in the water.
“Boss!”
Without even thinking, his body moved first.
As Se-gyeong’s body sank underwater, he immediately threw himself into the pool. Se-gyeong, with tightly closed eyes, clung to her belly, crouching deeply in the water.
Approaching her, he acted instinctively.
“Yoon Se-gyeong. Se-gyeong, look at me for a moment.”
Even at Taejo’s call, Se-gyeong couldn’t fully gather herself. He tightly embraced Se-gyeong’s body covered in a towel. The sensation of the damp, cool body drying off was not only dreadful but also eerie.
“Taejo, sir…”
When she finally opened her eyes with difficulty and called his name, Taejo felt a sigh of relief internally. However, when she buried herself in his embrace again, complaining of abdominal pain, it felt like his heart was being thrown to the ground.
And the moment someone mentioned that Se-gyeong was bleeding.
When he saw the long trail of blood between her legs, Taejo felt as if his own blood was draining away.
After that, he couldn’t recall how he moved, driven by some instinct. Manager Song urgently said something beside him, and Taejo carried Se-gyeong and left the hotel.
When they arrived at the hospital emergency room, Se-gyeong’s clothes were soaked in blood. Taejo’s clothes, who had been carrying her, were the same.
The time waiting for the results of the examination felt like an eternity.
The traces of blood that had moistened my clothes seemed as if the life had drained away. “Ha…”
Even now, when recalling that moment, his fingertips trembled slightly.
Taejo clenched and unclenched his fist repeatedly.
“Nothing will happen.”
Neither to Se-gyeong nor to our child.
Taejo, who wiped his dry face repeatedly, stood up from his seat.
The ice in the transparent glass tinkled. Leaning on the sofa, Yeori picked up the remote control and changed the channel.
Just then, news of Se-gyeong’s accident was heard on the entertainment news program.
[This afternoon, an accident occurred where Yoon Se-gyeong, who was filming at a swimming pool in Seoul, fell into the water. According to the staff on-site, Yoon Se-gyeong was bleeding and was transferred to a nearby university hospital. Currently, Yoon Se-gyeong, who is pregnant, is reported to be in a stable condition without clear details revealed by the agency…]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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