Dan Woo’s gaze turned frosty. Sun Ho Woo’s words meant that he intended to harm his mother.
He couldn’t tell whether that meant making his mother a criminal, or it signified death.
Either way, both interpretations were the worst.
He added more, tapping the proposal that Sun Ho Woo extended.
“If you want this, you’ll have to clear mother’s disgrace yourself. If you do that, I might consider it.”
“Woo Dan Woo.”
“Did you think I’d sign right away? I can’t understand why you wouldn’t like a profitable deal when you see one. …… I’ll wait for your contact.”
Dan Woo hinted at his intention to buy time before Sun Ho Woo pushed his mother into the role of a criminal.
It would be nice if he could bring his mother back without any disgrace, but Sun Ho Woo would need someone to pin his decadelong corruption on, and he was not someone who would give up billions in slush funds.
Knowing his true intentions, he couldn’t accept that proposal.
Sun Ho Woo’s gaze settled without a flicker.
With an inscrutable gaze, he watched Dan Woo, nodding his head as if to say he could go.
He intended to take what he wanted by exploiting the other’s weakness, as he had done so far without needing to listen to Dan Woo’s words.
As Dan Woo stepped out of the entrance, Butler Jang saw him off. He bowed politely.
“Take care, young master.”
“……”
Dan Woo mulled over the words Butler Jang had said when he had snuck into this house last time to see his father.
‘Young master, you seem to have disappeared. Somehow, I think you’ll return to Korea. …… After I deliver the chairman’s wishes, I too want to rest.’
“Let’s exchange mother for Eagles,” he said.
Dan Woo closed his mouth tightly after that statement. Even though he knew Tae Yoon was listening, he didn’t say anything else.
After a while, Dan Woo’s voice scattered inside the car.
“I’ll go workout. Don’t dismiss Sun Hu. …… And I had some business with Woo Jung Hyun.”
“Woo Jung Hyun?”
Dan Woo spilled what had happened with Jung Hyun at the Sea Pine family’s place.
He had intended to see Ji An originally. He felt that seeing her would soothe his dejected heart.
But today, he couldn’t do that.
The truth about J’s death had made his heart so tragically torn, he couldn’t recover.
‘You’re the one who killed him.’
The voice of Woo Jung Hyun echoed in his ears.
To receive consolation from Ji An, who didn’t know about J’s death, would have been a selfish act.
When Dan Woo entered the fitness room, trainer Kang Sun Hu bowed.
Sun Hu’s greeting looked casual like a neighborhood tough, but he bowed with his muscular body as respectfully as possible.
“Let’s start by loosening up the body.”
Dan Woo’s residence, Beren House, Building 105, First floor.
The living room of the house where Sun Hu lived was remodeled into a fitness room. It was equipped with a ring for martial arts, a treadmill, a highpull machine, and other fitness equipment.
After completing his basic physical training, Dan Woo looked out the window and slowly closed his eyes.
Tae Yoon had advised him to tell Ji An about his situation. Dan Woo’s thoughts were not much different.
Since his birth, he had been different from others, an illegitimate child of a wealthy family, treated like a pariah and expelled to America, while his mother was kept in confinement.
Even conceding the wealthy family and illegitimate child part, it was an overstepping situation and, no matter how glamorously it was packaged, it was a miserable story.
Dan Woo planned to take his revenge on Sun Ho Woo.
If Ji An were just a fleeting relationship, it wouldn’t matter, but she was someone he wanted to keep by his side for a long, long time.
Then, shouldn’t he tell her about his past and what would happen in the future?
Seeing Sun Ho Woo’s greed for the Eagles, it seemed that he would still threaten those around him.
If he couldn’t cut ties with Sea Pine, he, his mother, and Ji An, who would be by his side, would continue to be threatened.
It would be good if there were no issues with being an illegitimate child or revenge, but that was something irreversible.
Sun Hu approached when it looked like Dan Woo had no plans for the next workout.
“Let’s start the pulldown. Today we’ll start with a medium grip.”
Only then did Dan Woo rise.
He grabbed the grip wider than his shoulders and pulled it down. The muscles wrapped around his triangular shoulders were filled with strength and his latissimus dorsi muscles tightened.
Dan Woo tortured his body as if he would die when suppressed by despair.
Even when he found out his mother was still alive in America, he tormented himself, venting his frustration.
Sun Hu shook his head at the sight of the exhausted, collapsed Dan Woo. Even he, who normally didn’t tire easily, was worn out after a few rounds of sparring with Dan Woo.
Tae Yoon, who received Sun Hu’s call, pointed to Dan Woo, asleep, worn out on the fighting ring.
“Is he asleep?”
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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