Dressed up as usual, Chaelin entered a building.
The building, constructed with a hanok feel, was often visited by LM Group family members for family events. Today, Hongseok suddenly suggested having a dinner, instructing everyone to attend without exception. Hongseok’s words were like a decree, so everyone started arriving at the Korean restaurant one by one.
When Chaelin arrived, everyone except Hongseok, Yeonju, and Inhyuk was already present.
“Why did Dad summon us all of a sudden?”
“Yeah, we don’t usually gather like this.”
“Could it be… he’s planning to transfer stocks publicly?”
At someone’s words, Chaelin blinked. Hongseok had mentioned giving shares as a gift if someone bore him a grandson before.
It was uncertain if Hongseok planned to give shares to both Jinwook and Inhyuk, or if he would give them only to Inhyuk.
Regardless of what others said, the eldest son of this house was Inhyuk. Moreover, he was the one who had the first grandson. If they were receiving shares, it was only natural for them to receive them first.
While Chaelin was eagerly anticipating, the door opened. Hongseok entered with an imposing presence, followed by Jinwook.
Jinwook conveyed to the employees not to let anyone in and closed the door. Inside the room, family members sat around a long table.
Hongseok took the seat at the head. Surveying the family members’ faces, he spoke.
“Thank you all for coming so promptly when I called.”
“No problem. If Father calls, we should go wherever.”
“Yeah. I heard Yeonju couldn’t make it due to poor health… and Inhyuk is nowhere to be seen.”
Chaelin stepped forward and spoke.
“Mr. Inhyuk will be a little late due to a business trip. He’ll arrive soon.”
Why does he have to be late at a time like this?
Feeling sorry inside, Chaelin sneakily sent a text to Inhyuk.
[Everyone has arrived. Can’t you come a bit faster? It seems Grandfather has something important to say.]As she sent the message and waited for his reply, Jinwook stood up and stood in front of the main seat.
Then, facing everyone, he spoke.
“I didn’t arrange this gathering; it’s your grandfather’s idea. I asked him to set up this meeting.”
His firm voice resonated throughout the room.
“And the reason is that I want to reveal the truth when everyone is gathered.”
Upon his words, all family members looked at Jinwook with bewildered faces.
“Nephew, what are you talking about? Revealing the truth?”
“No. What are you doing, gathering busy people all of a sudden?”
As the atmosphere became tense, Hongseok sternly said, “Quiet down and listen to Jinwook’s words.”
With that one remark, everyone closed their mouths and stared at Jinwook.
In a solemn atmosphere, Jinwook spoke.
“I received a tip that someone in our family attempted to harm my wife, Yeonju. It’s unbelievable.”
Everyone’s eyes widened in surprise, and among them, Chaelin looked the most bewildered.
Jinwook continued with a firm tone.
“That person has been paying my secretary for a long time, extracting information about Yeonju and me. They’ve been making various efforts to break our marital bond.”
“…”
“And as if that wasn’t enough, recently, they did something absolutely unforgivable.”
Jinwook, lips tightly sealed, raised his head and gazed at someone.
“How could that be possible?”
His icy gaze reached Chaelin directly.
Chaelin’s face turned pale with surprise, and Jinwook spoke with a boiling voice.
“After such a difficult time, when the child came to us like a miracle.”
“…”
“To me, it’s a child as precious as my own life.”
A voice filled with disdain trembled.
“How… How could you think of getting rid of that child?”
“!”
“As a person, how could you entertain such thoughts!”
In the midst of his anger-filled outburst, Chaelin’s complexion turned contemplative.
Others were also astonished, and Eran, finding it hard to accept, spoke with a face that seemed on the verge of collapse.
“Chaelin, is that true?”
In response to her question, Chaelin looked at Jinwook and said, “What on earth are you talking about? It seems like there’s some misunderstanding…”
“Stop pretending. Secretary Joo Minhee has already told everything.”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t know anyone named Joo Minhee.”
Chaelin spoke, wearing an expression of injustice.
“Don’t be fooled. This is a plot, a scheme concocted by the secretary.”
At his words, Jinwook let out a bitter smile.
“Is the situation not clear yet?”
A chilly gaze was fixed on Chaelin.
“Surely I wouldn’t have summoned all these busy people without any evidence.”
“!”
Jinwook took something out of his suit jacket. What he presented to his family was a pen-shaped recording device.
“This is a recording device from my secretary, Ms. Joo Minhee, and the content I’m going to play is a conversation between the secretary and Ms. Park Chaelin.”
Minhee habitually recorded conversations, fearing that Chaelin might change her statements regarding the contract later. She handed that recording device to Jinwook.
Jinwook pressed the button to play the recording file.
[…What is this?]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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