The English translation of the passage is as follows:
It was Do Jun’s voice, low and calm, yet with a hint of languor.
He had wrapped Hae Joo in his embrace and turned off the cell phone flashlight.
“……!”
Hae Joo felt the hair on her body stand on end.
She had forgotten that it was night, as if time had stopped.
She felt his breath on her nape. Her heightened senses sent a strange tension from her spine down to her toes.
“It seems like a blackout.”
Do Jun’s arms had delved deeper into her embrace.
There was no space left between the two, pressed closely together.
Suddenly, a concealed exclamation escaped from him.
His hurried breath disturbed Hae Joo’s nape as he responded.
“It’s been like this since I came.”
When Do Jun was not home, Hae Joo always slept with the lights on. Despite being an adult, she still feared the darkness where she couldn’t see even an inch ahead.
The painful memory of being trapped in a narrow bathroom was due to the despair of not escaping this darkness even in death.
“This is different from the promise you made with me.”
“I wish you wouldn’t lie in public.”
“What do you mean?”
“I hope you shiver every night because of me.”
“……!”
“I’m sorry to say, but lately I’m actually grateful for the blackouts.”
Hae Joo couldn’t deliberately cause a blackout.
However, beneath the fear she felt in the deep darkness, there was an expectation.
It was like an unspoken rule that Do Jun would appear before Hae Joo whenever there was a blackout.
“Wear a T-shirt at least.”
“It’s hot.”
“This is a bit much if you keep doing this.”
Do Jun looked down at the flustered Hae Joo, who had sat up.
Then he once again enveloped her small frame.
“I look forward to the next interview.”
“……!”
“I’m not sure if my patience will last until then.”
Having someone beside her was a very unfamiliar experience for Hae Joo.
It was different from when her dad used to hold her as a child.
Do Jun was not her dad.
He was an attractive man and husband who unwittingly made her act slyly.
Do Jun’s embrace that enveloped Hae Joo was as vast and dazzling as the sea. He held her small frame as if hiding a sun briefly in the night sky.
Now, even without light, it was alright.
Hae Joo, using the night as an excuse, raised her hands and wrapped them around his broad back.
She didn’t know how much time had passed.
When Hae Joo woke up with her side empty, it was already morning.
“I didn’t hear the alarm.”
These days, if she didn’t see Do Jun leaving for work, it was hard to meet him.
Hurrying down to the first floor, this time he was lighting up the kitchen.
“What are you doing there?”
“Making breakfast.”
“Because of the interview yesterday?”
“I thought it might be fun to do it straightforwardly.”
What Do Jun prepared was a simple meal of toasted bread with fried eggs. Although clumsy, it was appetizing in its own way.
“Let’s eat.”
As Hae Joo headed to the dining table, she noticed a large suitcase in the hallway.
Pointing at the suitcase while pulling out a chair for her, she asked.
“Where are you going?”
“If it goes well, I might go on a business trip to Hong Kong tonight.”
“How long will it take?”
“At least a month?”
“A whole month?”
“I think it’s better to acquire a global bank in Hong Kong than to set up a new overseas branch.”
Currently, Zino Group was operating a subsidiary, Zino Investment Banking.
Thanks to solid foundations in the domestic market, they were unshaken by any significant setbacks.
“Aren’t you expanding the business too much?”
“There’s also a way to grow it and then sell it.”
“……!”
Do Jun’s business acumen was astounding.
Even the securities market acknowledged his ability to lead trends.
“If it takes a month…….”
“A person will come today to install an auxiliary generator.”
“An auxiliary generator?”
“With new housing complexes being built, blackouts are becoming frequent.”
“Ah.”
“If we install an auxiliary generator, blackouts will decrease when you’re alone.”
Being sly wasn’t for just anyone.
For a timid Type A fox like Hae Joo, environmental influence couldn’t be ignored.
Last night, she slept with Do Jun in bed. Just overnight, the empty space beside her felt so vacant without him.
Asking him to stay would be troublesome, and letting him go coolly didn’t sit well with her constricted heart.
If you must go, then trample over me and leave.
“Take care on your trip.”
The English translation of the passage is as follows:
“Aren’t you upset?”
“We’re just a couple in name anyway.”
“That pattern will soon be etched into your bones, just wait.”
Do Jun’s prophetic words struck deep into Hae Joo’s heart.
Just then, Director Song arrived, and after hastily finishing his meal, Do Jun stood up.
“I’ll go ahead.”
Hae Joo hadn’t expected such a brief farewell to leave such a lasting impression.
Not being an ordinary couple, all Hae Joo could do was nod in response.
“What’s going on…”
Do Jun was an enigma.
Sometimes he seemed ready to pounce at any moment, yet other times, like last night, he exhibited extreme patience.
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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