Do Jun’s heart began to race.
Though restrained by his massive physique, his soul was already crying out.
The madman Hae Joo referred to was undoubtedly himself.
A feeling of goosebumps swept over his body.
Of course, he thought Hae Joo wouldn’t know, but she knew about the madness Do Jun had committed.
“Do you know that man’s name?”
Hae Joo laughed with her eyes closed.
Squirming, she raised her head and looked at Do Jun faintly.
Her clear and transparent eyes radiated a quiet light in front of him.
Now, Hae Joo was within reach if he just reached out.
“Madman.”
“…!”
“That’s the man’s name. That’s all I know.”
“….”
“I felt like I was the only fool, so I pretended to be a bit pretentious.”
“What does that mean…”
“Why would I have a man? I only heard about him because my sister told me.”
At the time, Do Jun was consumed with protecting Hae Joo, even though he was called a goodfornothing or a madman.
Even if he didn’t do this, he felt like she would really die.
“So that was it.”
When he heard that Hae Joo had left, he thought he would never see her again.
Even if he comforted himself saying it was for the better, it was impossible to forget Hae Joo.
The more he struggled, the more he missed her.
In retrospect, he regretted not confessing. On the one hand, he prayed for her to stay alive.
“Do Jun, you must have had a good time. You’ve been in love.”
After a few glasses of champagne, Hae Joo started to doze off. She looked small and fragile.
Do Jun, who had put down his glass, quietly stood up. He held Hae Joo’s head and carefully leaned her against the sofa.
“I’ve always… been in love.”
The sound of her shallow breath tickled Do Jun’s ear. Just looking at her, her face flush on her pale skin, felt like he had obtained everything.
Hae Joo didn’t hear Do Jun’s mutterings.
She fell into a deep sleep, perhaps the day’s outing had been hard.
“I know it’s a foolish question, but I want to ask again.”
“….”
“If that madman had appeared before you at that time, could you have liked him?”
It was a question with no answer.
He resignedly poured the remaining champagne and sipped it.
As he was about to get up and clean up, Hae Joo turned in her sleep.
She seemed to be sleep talking.
“If I had confessed…..”
How desperate must she have been at the time to regard a madman, whose face she didn’t even know, as a hero.
No one protected Hae Joo. The socalled family members exploited and threatened her, driving her to the edge of a cliff.
Only that madman ran wild for her.
Thanks to the accident Do Jun caused, even the settlement money President Park gave him was hard.
It didn’t matter if he was cursed at all, as long as Hae Joo was safe.
“Let’s not break up, Hae Joo.”
It was desperate.
He had prayed and prayed again that he would never be apart from Hae Joo again.
A year later, divorce was something that did not exist for Do Jun.
Although a difficult challenge was expected, it was nothing compared to what he had been waiting for while grinding his bones.
“I’ll lay you down in the room.”
Do Jun held Hae Joo with ease.
When she felt her body rise, she flapped as if surprised. The more she did, the more he pulled her into his arms.
He climbed the stairs slower than ever before.
So as not to scare Hae Joo, he wished this time would go a bit slower.
However, he soon faced the closed door. After pulling the doorknob and walking to the bed, he slowly bent over.
“Sleep well.”
Just past three in the afternoon. It was time for Do Jun to leave the room, thinking about resting for tomorrow’s work.
Hae Joo, who just woke up, asked in a languid voice.
“Why did it take three years?”
“Hmm?”
“Do Jun, you said you waited for three years. I’m wondering why specifically three years.”
It was a question Do Jun did not want to answer.
Because he did not mind being dirty to get to his current position.
Even now, there were many packs that were eager to tear him apart. If he relaxed a bit, the success he had built so far could have evaporated overnight.
“I wanted to be someone you wouldn’t be ashamed of.”
There was a time when he was ahead of his fist in order to protect Hae Joo. Because he didn’t know what to do other than that, he had painted on the face of President Park, his father.
The only talent he had was about money.
He had been trading stocks from time to time, but President Park was furious, saying it was gambling.
Because of this, in his ignorant days, he condemned himself as a shameful talent.
“Hmm?”
Hae Joo, who was intoxicated, was half asleep.
It didn’t seem like she understood Do Jun’s answer, but she continued her remaining words.
“I wanted to appear in front of you with confidence. That’s all.”
These days, the rumors about him, the son of a loan shark, were subtly circulating. He was certain that if it were not for his current success, he would not have been able to help Hae Joo.
“Go to sleep now.”
Do Jun, who closed the door for her, lay down on the sofa on the first floor.
While looking at the leaves of the garden shaking in the wind, the phone rang.
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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