“Why do you think Ha Joon didn’t ask me to date him? I’ve been curious about it all this time. But today, I realized there was a reason.”
“….”
“We’re so different in status, how could we have dated? He probably just wanted to play with me for a while and then throw me away.”
Just like Min Cheol did.
Her previously closed eyes trembled, and soon the tears she’d been holding back fell onto the table.
“Do you know how pathetic I was today, Da Eun? I couldn’t even look properly at the person standing right next to me at the awards ceremony, let alone talk to him.”
Da Eun, who had been silently listening to Su Ah’s words, opened her mouth.
“Ha Joon didn’t tell you not to look at him or talk to him.”
“Yes, he didn’t… but….”
“Weren’t you just scared and avoiding him of your own accord, regardless of his intentions?”
Geez, such a heartless girl.
“Yes! You’re right! Completely right! You’re a perfect judge!”
She had hoped that Da Eun would take her side, but for some reason, it felt like Da Eun was siding with Ha Joon, which hurt her.
“Do you want me to cry along with you? At times like this, I have to be objective. You’re about to let a good person slip away.”
A good person…
At the mention of a good person, Su Ah’s eyes wavered.
“Lee Su Ah! What on earth are you worried about? Can’t you just ignore everything else and only see Ha Joon?”
At Da Eun’s words, Su Ah shook her head.
“Min Cheol’s mother used to say this. How important it is to be with someone who’s on the same level as you.”
“….”
“Da Eun, I don’t want to get hurt like that again, and I don’t want to set foot in that world ever again.”
“….”
Knowing better than anyone how much Su Ah suffered because of Min Cheol, Da Eun couldn’t say anything more.
“I just want to have a normal relationship. Meet someone normally, date normally, love normally. A regular relationship that suits me.”
“So, haven’t you had a normal relationship so far?”
So far…
Indeed. Thinking about it, it had been very normal.
Having casual phone conversations,
Coming to see her in front of her house even for a short time,
Showing a bright face, even at simple meals.
Despite trying not to recall, Ha Joon’s face kept coming to mind and the tears that had stopped started to well up again.
“Did you talk to Ha Joon about it?”
“No, I won’t. I don’t want to waver anymore.”
“Still, you should give him a chance to explain. If you end it like this because of your trauma, you’re giving Ha Joon the same kind of wound.”
“Yes, I know. But I need time too. Time to accept and sort out this situation.”
Su Ah, who had been fiddling with the beer in her hand, soon fell into deep thought.
How much time would have to pass before she could face him, listen to his story?
How much time would have to pass…
The next morning.
The morning she wished wouldn’t come had arrived.
Although she had been ready to go to work for a long time, Su Ah’s body, glued to the sofa, didn’t know how to get up.
“Hey! Are you not going to work? Get up quickly!”
Da Eun’s sharp voice rang out.
“Geez, I’m already depressed, why are you not going home and getting angry first thing in the morning?”
At the end of her words, the ends of Su Ah’s eyebrows drooped.
“How can I go home when I know you’re like this? I’ll go after I see you go to work. If you’re not going to work, get up quickly.”
“I have to go to work. I should. But what if I run into him? I don’t even know what face to make.”
“Can you really plan that in advance? You’ll only know when you face it directly. You’re not going to give up on joining the company, are you?”
“Of course not! I’ve worked so hard to get in.”
“Then stop sitting there so pitifully and get up quickly. You’re going to be late on your first day.”
“Ah! You coldhearted person. You don’t even consider other people’s pain!”
Su Ah, seemingly resigned, started to head towards the entrance, but she didn’t forget to shoot a resentful glance.
Su Ah, with heavy footsteps as if being dragged to a slaughterhouse, entered the main building of Hyun Sung Group.
‘Please don’t run into him. Please.’
“Ouch!”
While looking around in fear of bumping into Ha Joon, she didn’t see the person in front of her and bumped her forehead.
“I’m sorry. I wasn’t looking ahead. I’m sorry.”
Without even checking who the person in front of her was, Su Ah quickly bowed her head and repeatedly apologized.
“Are you okay, Su Ah?”
At a somewhat familiar voice, Su Ah slowly lifted her head.
“Huh? Deputy Kim.”
It was Deputy Kim Min Joon, with whom she had exchanged greetings yesterday.
“I’m sorry. I wasn’t looking ahead.”
“It’s okay. That’s how the first day usually is. There must be a lot of new things around here.”
No, it’s not new, it’s scary.
Su Ah muttered words she couldn’t quite voice out loud.
“I thought you might have trouble finding the marketing team, so I came to meet you. Let’s go up together.”
“Yes, thank you.”
Su Ah followed Min Joon while not letting her guard down.
The marketing team office they arrived at.
“Hello. I’m Lee Su Ah, starting from today, I will be working in the marketing team. I look forward to working with you.”
Su Ah made her first greeting with a very tense look.
“Nice to meet you.”
“Welcome.”
As she exchanged brief greetings with the team members who welcomed her, Min Joon’s voice rang out again.
“The team leader is away due to a morning meeting, so you’ll probably go to greet the vice president when they return.”
“What? The, the vice president?”
Su Ah’s eyes widened as if they were about to pop out.
“Yes. New employees are supposed to greet the vice president on their first day at work. It’s just a greeting, so you don’t need to be too nervous.”
“Oh. I see. I should greet him.”
As she spoke, her face was full of embarrassment.
She had worked so hard not to be caught all morning.
And she had to go find him herself.
Unable to overcome gravity, Su Ah’s eyebrows and the corners of her mouth dropped to the floor in an instant.
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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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