“What, what are you doing?”
“You wanted to touch, didn’t you?”
“I mean, that was a mistake…!”
Tae Ha grabbed Si Hyun’s wrist and brought her hand towards his chest, whispering.
“Relax and make more ‘mistakes,’ then.”
Her face turned beet red, and she didn’t know what to do. Suddenly, a soft, stifled laughter came from above.
Tae Ha was laughing with narrowed eyes.
“It’s just a joke.”
He led Si Hyun to the sofa. Placing the bewildered Si Hyun on the sofa, he sat down beside her and offered his thigh instead of a pillow.
“Take a moment to lie down and rest your eyes. You look exhausted.”
Looking down at Si Hyun, Tae Ha wore a regretful expression.
“You didn’t sleep well last night because of me, did you?”
As soon as she heard his words, the fatigue she had momentarily forgotten rushed back. After all, they had practically stayed up half the night.
Watching Tae Ha pick up the documents on the table and start reading, Si Hyun asked cautiously.
“Um, aren’t you mad?”
“Why?”
“I mean, I didn’t tell people the truth about us.”
Tae Ha chuckled as if finding it amusing.
“What does that matter? What’s important is that you’re here, right beside me.”
Tae Ha gently stroked Si Hyun’s hair as it lay on his thigh, speaking softly.
“Just stay by my side like this. I won’t ask for anything more.”
[Star Icon]After resting for about thirty minutes with her head on Tae Ha’s lap, Si Hyun felt much more refreshed when she got up. Thanks to this, she energetically finished her morning work and went outside with Mi Ju to have lunch.
As usual, the sharp Mi Ju saw right through her.
“Why didn’t you tell the truth? Yesterday’s incident brought you two closer, didn’t it?”
By this point, it was getting strange that even “Coin’s younger sibling” didn’t realize it was Tae Ha. Thinking back to when she had talked about kissing Tae Ha with Mi Ju in tow, Si Hyun felt embarrassed.
“Mi Ju, did you see the atmosphere earlier? How should I tell her?”
“Well, she was completely clueless.”
“For now, I’ll keep my mouth shut and wait for the right moment to tell her the truth.”
“Then, it seems like I’m the only one who knows that you two are dating. If you ever need advice in the future, come to me. I’ll listen to everything.”
Instead of saying yes, Mi Ju winked and said, “Si Hyun, I’ll go in first. I still have to prepare for the afternoon meeting.”
“Sure, go ahead. I’ll bring coffee up later.”
After seeing Mi Ju off, Si Hyun headed to a nearby coffee shop alone. The line was quite long with office workers buying coffee after lunch.
“By the way, I saw that woman this morning.”
“Who?”
“The one from the commotion on the 3rd floor yesterday!”
Listening to the conversation of two women in front of her, Si Hyun almost couldn’t believe her ears. They were talking about her story, weren’t they?
Unaware that Si Hyun was right behind them, the two women continued.
“How was she? Pretty? They say she’s seven years older than him, even older than the department head.”
“Well, her face is pretty enough, but she doesn’t look that old. But her hands… they look really rough.”
“Her hands?”
“I was really surprised when I saw her press the elevator button. Her hands looked like those of a housewife or something.”
“Wait, they said they broke up, but could it be that they got back together?”
She could feel her face flushing. Si Hyun quietly exited the line.
Outside the coffee shop, Si Hyun glanced at her hand.
“……. ”
Si Hyun already had a complex about her hands. Since elementary school, she had been treated like a housemaid at home, and her once delicate hands had never returned. Even her boyfriend, Woo Jin, sometimes furrowed his brow when he looked at Si Hyun’s hands, so she couldn’t imagine what others might think.
Feeling dejected, Si Hyun returned to the company and was about to enter the elevator when she suddenly stepped back.
Of all people, Tae Ha was inside the elevator.
Tae Ha casually nodded towards Si Hyun, who hesitated.
“Please come in.”
As soon as the elevator doors closed, Tae Ha reached for Si Hyun’s hand as if he had been waiting.
“On your way back from lunch, huh? What did you have?”
“Buckwheat noodles.”
“You had something refreshing. How about having something warm for dinner later?”
His overly affectionate tone made her throat tighten for no apparent reason.
“You still look tired. I won’t throw a tantrum like a fool today, so leave work early and get a good rest.”
With a compassionate look, Tae Ha raised Si Hyun’s hand that he was holding and gently placed his lips on the back of her hand.
As his soft lips touched her hand, a sudden recollection of the earlier conversation came to her mind.
[“She had hands like an ahjumma who manages a household.”]Si Hyun unconsciously pulled her hand back and hid it behind her, startled. She didn’t want him to kiss her damaged hands. She didn’t want to show such flawed hands to the man she liked.
Seeing Tae Ha’s surprised expression, Si Hyun quickly came up with an excuse.
“Um, it’s hot today. My hands keep sweating.”
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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