“This house has seven rooms, but you’re going back to the house you rent.”
Taeseok growled.
Yeoreum responded with a triumphant expression.
“Yeah, I have to go back. Of course. It’s my home.”
Taeseok glared sharply, but internally, he was taken aback.
“Rent. Why didn’t I think about it earlier?”
At some point, he vaguely remembered asking whose name the house was under. Because it was a house his parents had secured for him, he casually passed over the details.
Taeseok loosened his expression and sighed.
“Now that I know, there’s no need for me to pay rent anymore. Let’s focus on resolving the housing issue.”
He would persuade Yeoreum to get married somehow. The issue now was the house. Under no circumstances could Seo Taeseok, the man who loved her under this sky, allow the woman to live paying rent.
“It would be better for you to come into this house. In a hurry.”
“Are you suggesting we live together? No way!”
I don’t understand why there are so many things I don’t like now. It didn’t seem like this before.
“If you don’t like it, I could buy that house and move in.”
Taeseok replied seriously.
“But wouldn’t it be a bit uncomfortable? The rooms in that house are smaller than our bathroom. But if you really need that house, I’ll secure the space for my dressing room first…”
Yeoreum raised her head with a determined expression.
“There’s no such space. You won’t be coming here, oppa.”
“Being stubborn. How cute.”
“I absolutely hate it!”
Yeoreum quickly grabbed her bag and fled to the entrance. Taeseok, lightly smiling, checked his wristwatch. In any case, he couldn’t hold onto her any longer.
“You’re going to meet Hong Minwoo in the elevator.”
Taeseok said to Yeoreum’s back as she struggled to put on her shoes. As soon as he spoke, the entrance door opened, revealing Director Hong.
“Oh! There’s Yeoreum. Hi. Taeseok, let’s go. We’ll be late. For the interview.”
“Senior. Why is my brother like that? He’s really hopeless as my lover. Especially today!”
Yeoreum, as if telling Taeseok to listen, shouted loudly and hurriedly left. “Why is Yeoreum like that?” Hong Director asked, and Taeseok replied, “She’s cute.”
Know what to say in the interview today and don’t scratch your belly like that.
Everything should be revealed.
It became more enjoyable as he simulated a hundred situations that Yeoreum would hate. Director Hong looked at that expression and burst into laughter.
“Hey… I don’t know what it is, but don’t think about it at all.”
“Yeah. Director Hong… No, Director Hong. Sorry. The title is still awkward.”
As the company restructured, Director Hong was promoted to a director. Recognizing Taeseok’s efforts, not only as his manager but also in handling new manager training, marketing, and promotion, he received the promotion.
“Hmm. It feels awkward for me too. Director.”
“He has now taken on more important tasks, and it was the time to pass the position of Taeseok’s manager to a junior. Despite lingering bittersweet emotions, since the handover was almost complete, today was practically the last schedule.
“We finally have him! The one who becomes a hot topic just by breathing! Hello, Seo Taeseok!”
The reporter greeted brightly.
“I’m Seo Taeseok. It feels like it’s been a while since I had an interview. Nice to meet you.”
Dressed casually in neat slacks and a shirt, Taeseok exuded a comfortable yet gentle charm. As he greeted with his affectionate voice, the reporter’s heart fluttered inexplicably.
He was an affectionate man. However, he wasn’t just affectionate; his fatal masculinity was showcased in his well-defined abdominal muscles and chest. The shoulders and biceps filling the shirt seemed distant from affection.
“Hey, look at Taeseok’s body. He’s sexy even with all his clothes on.”
Someone among the camera crew murmured.
Although there was no need for an interview since the drama had ended, and there were no plans for future projects, he was occasionally exposing himself to the press to stabilize the reorganized Season Entertainment. In addition to interviews, there were also photo shoots and ad shoots scheduled.
After sending Ji Hyunjeong to jail, he was doing his best to protect the company.
“How have you been since the drama ended?”
The reporter asked.
…Preparing for a forced marriage.
Taeseok swallowed his inner thoughts and scanned the audience while suppressing them.
The sparkling eyes of the reporter, ten cameras, over fifty staff members, the youngest manager who now follows Taeseok around, and even Director Hong who was glaring—no, Director Hong—were all captured in his eyes.
As expected, I shouldn’t have an accident.
“I’m taking some time to recharge. I exercise, read books, and such.”
He replied with a slightly dissatisfied answer while smiling kindly.
“Do you have any books you would recommend?”
“I like classical literature. It always feels different every time I read it.”
Light questions received light answers. However, Director Hong was captured by a strange tension. It was probably because Taeseok’s gaze before leaving wasn’t ordinary.
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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