After the matchmaking, the wedding proceeded without significant difficulties. Initially, Aran opposed it, but as Hongseok accepted the marriage, she eventually changed her mind. Marriage life with Yeonju exceeded expectations. Yeonju diligently maintained her position, performing the roles of daughter-in-law and wife thoroughly. She never interfered with Jinwook’s work or made any demands. Other than supporting Mi-hyun’s hospital expenses, she asked for nothing else.
Thanks to this, Jinwook could focus on work even after marriage and eventually got a promotion. The only significant change from before marriage was that coming home after work felt pleasant. When Yeonju entered, the house, always dull, filled with fragrance, and the atmosphere changed. Upon entering the house, he felt stability and comfort.
Yeonju was always at home. Even on days when she came in late and was often already asleep, there were times she woke up to greet him.
“You’re home?”
Seeing Yeonju’s face, tension eased, and he felt relieved. The exhaustion he felt all day at work instantly disappeared.
Simultaneously, a burst of warmth surged, and his heart began to beat faster. From the moment their eyes met, the impulse to head to the bedroom arose.
He wanted to cradle her soft cheeks, swallow her lips deeply. He wanted to make her gasp for breath uncontrollably in his arms.
The uncontrollable attraction to Yeonju, like a boiling teenager, began from the first night.
Initially, it started as a duty to have a child, but the moment he embraced Yeonju, all other thoughts became powerless.
The sensation seemed to go beyond the senses, warming his body and even his head. Indescribable pleasure and ecstasy covered him, and he wished this night would never end.
It was a feeling he had never experienced before, and it was like a drug. He constantly wanted it, and he felt uneasy without it in his arms.
Since the act had to be performed incessantly, it was sweet enough to be unbreakable. He truly believed that there could be no more perfect marriage than this.
However, cracks gradually appeared in their content marriage life.
It was when Yeonju discovered that getting pregnant was difficult.
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
He was angry. It infuriated him that she had hidden such a fact from him, her husband.
If someone else had known about this fact before him… just thinking about it was horrifying.
“I’m sorry.”
Yeonju said weakly.
She seemed to have already accepted it to some extent, even preparing for the end of their marriage. Her expression only fueled his anger.
Jinwook didn’t want it to end. He had never considered living in a house without Yeonju.
He didn’t want to lose that tranquility and warmth. Even if they couldn’t have a child, he still wanted to be with her.
However, he didn’t know how the situation would change once it became known in the household.
I had to find a way, by any means necessary if needed.
“I’ll try to find a solution, so just continue as usual.”
“You just need to stay as you are now. Don’t think about anything, just hold your position.”
I urged Yeonju repeatedly, hoping she wouldn’t harbor any other feelings, emphasizing it strongly.
“All I ask of you is that.”
Indeed, that was all.
All I needed was for Yeonju to be by my side.
And I thought Yeonju felt the same way.
I arrogantly assumed she would always be in her usual place.
Being preoccupied with the immediate problem at hand, I didn’t notice Yeonju withering away.
Somewhere along the line, I failed to realize that she hadn’t even given a small smile.
That excessive arrogance and indifference eventually pushed Yeonju to the edge.
“I might have become someone you don’t need anymore… and now, I don’t need you either.”
Yeonju said with unwavering eyes.
As if when we promised to get married.
“Let’s end it here.”
“…”
“Let’s get a divorce.”
Yeonju said there was no need for her to be by my side anymore.
She said she had never been happy in this house.
For her, the world changed when she entered the house,
and now that she had become a part of my life,
she wanted to leave.
“I don’t want to divorce you.”
So I held onto her.
“You’re my wife.”
“You can’t leave this house.”
I told her she must never leave my side.
Until then, I thought I could change Yeonju’s mind. I believed she would always look at me from the same place.
But in the end, Yeonju disappeared.
Leaving behind a few sheets of absurd papers.
Jinwook, finishing his recollection, looked at the papers scattered on the floor. He picked up the paper titled “Agreement for Divorce.”
As Jinwook’s eyes looked at the document, they turned dark.
Divorce.
It was something that should never happen.
Whether this tearing pain was an obsession, sympathy, or love, he couldn’t tell.
One thing was certain—Yeonju was the person who should be by his side.
He couldn’t imagine anyone else besides Yeonju.
So now, he had only one thing to do.
Early in the morning.
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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